The enemy comp was kinda gross.
Shen camped Top lane and got
Mordekaiser more ahead as Morde was thumping
Yasuo from the get go, which is apparently as it does go (55% in favor of Mordekaiser in Top lane per LoLalytics, assuming I'm reading that right).
A fed Mordekaiser + Shen ulitmate + Karma shielding was just gross. Felt like
Yuumi of old on something like
Garen. And with Mordekaiser taking up all our attention Jhin was pretty much free to dump damage into us from relative safety.
We ended up winning the game, but it was literally because the
LeBlanc who already had us in her backpack strapped on the "I'm winning this **** game attitude", walked into their jungle and deleted
Karma from out of a bush after which the Karma disconnected.
Before that it honestly felt pretty hopeless. I was doing everything I could to engage, CC, and zone as much as possible as a reasonably fed
Zac and I am pretty sure I was doing negative damage to the Mordekaiser and he was just melting me with his passive,
Darkness Rise, and
Riftmaker.
If I could have changed one thing about my build I would have bought
Bramble Vest before completing
Abyssal Mask because in Mid game
Jhin was tearing me up since I was itemized so heavily into magic resistance.
Needless to say we honored the heck out of Leblanc post game.
I love blowing people up with Leblanc. I think I'm going to play Leblanc in my next game because of this.
It's cool that you reflect on the different items you could've bought. I definitely mindlessly buy my items instead of taking an adaptive mindset.
The
Itemization can be weird, sometimes you are taking mostly one type of damage (say you are mostly ganking mages) so you itemize against them and then Mid game rolls around and suddenly you are in fights or skirmishes with the ADC involved and now you are getting railed by physical damage. Having foresight around what items you will need when can be helpful.