Basically a note for myself. Or YMV.

The ranked season kicked off in 2016 on January 2016. Riot warned everyone that the would probably end up lower than the did last year. Okay fine, everyone ends up lower. Good to know where to set the bar.

Placements were brutal. I went 3-7 and 2-8 on two different accounts respectively.

I'm sure there were any number of reasons for this. I've touched on some of my thoughts around this in previous posts so I'm not going to go over them again here.

Suffice to say I didn't feel like things smoothed out until late February. So I'm... Read More

If by perchance you've been following my ranked thread you'll notice it looks like I'm on the wrong end of a blood bath.

The only time I manage to eek out a win is pretty much when my entire team does well or at a minimum two people on our team pub stomp.

Feels bad.

I'm not sure what all the dynamics are here. I haven't taken a break. I was climbing steadily in pre-season. Then ranked resets and WTF. I go 2-8 in placements on my main and 3-7 on my alt account. IIRC correctly only 1 of the games was competitive . My team either stomped or lost. From the record you can... Read More

It has been a bit since I posted anything and I've a got a few ideas floating around so I'm going to try to write them down.

Ranked

I've noticed I have a tendency to steer clear of ranked if I care about how many LP I have. If I can get that out of my head I can play and just try to do my best come what may.

I've managed to rack up a 5 game win streak, some of which were hard fought, and I am pleased with those successes. Hoping to make it into the promotional series soon and make a go at Silver 4.

Zac

I've been getting some good mileage out of Zac since... Read More