League Of Legends

I feel you guys about Solo Queue, but I've been playing it so long now, it's just become entertaining being able to witness the trolling and the sheer tomfoolery that solo queue can produce. I go into every game telling myself "have to carry, have to carry"... because if I don't, guaranteed I'll lose. I definitely have those feeder games... some really bad ones, too, but I tend to carry more often than not. I rarely rage or make sarcastic quips but sometimes when I have been up too late and am more tired than awake I'll dive into a raging mess.

I started yesterday having to win 1 more game to finally get promoted back to Silver I. This was my 4th attempt at doing so. The previous 3 attempts I always went 1W-2L. It seems I kept getting so close and then would always get stuck with uncarriable games. I had even dropped down to Silver III for a day and had to work back up to Silver II. Somehow I breezed through that promotion series as I went on a 6 game winning streak and was just dominating bot lane. I main ADC, in particular I only play Miss Fortune. When I am in a promotion series I will refuse to play anything else.

My record is something like: 205 W - 145 L with Miss Fortune for Season 3.

So last night was my 4th attempt at getting back to Silver I. My promotion series was at 1W-1L. I had to win the next game no matter what. I can absolutely say that I carried the game to victory. I went 9-4-10 in a 30min game. I was 7-0 during laning phase. I annihilated their ADC but their Mid & Top were fed. A lot of games I will talk very little, but I had to take control and for this game I gave orders constantly. My team was feeding almost everywhere. I knew we had to group up and start putting on the pressure. At first my team was doubtful and I could tell they didn't think we had a snowball's chance in hell to win this game, but we had a few good team fights in mid lane. I was able to get off a couple good ults that hit the majority of the enemy team, I was so fed that my ult got most of the enemy team to 50% or less health. Once that happened my team cleaned up and their confidence grew. It was satisfying to hear the enemy acknowledge my play, several of them said "GG MF". It was the most satisfying victory as it got me that promotion, finally.

I would say the key was that I abandoned my bot lane earlier than I normally would because it was getting to the point that it would be an unwinnable game if we didn't begin grouping up. It took a lot of coercing to get my team to converge at mid lane, but once they saw we could win fights, it got easier. Sometimes winning games means not having tunnel vision and trying to think of alternate ways to win, you also need the confidence that you can carry. I knew I was fed enough that with the rest of my team as fodder I could easily melt the enemy team. It just took some convincing for my team to see that.



So after that game, I lose my next 2 games - I even had 1 game where I fed badly, went 4-13-13. It was a troll game. I was the captain and called adc first but last pick does the usual "2k Elo smurf that only adc's".. I hate liars so I tell him I'm going adc and he - of course - replies "ok 2 ADC then". If this happened during my promotion series perhaps I would have wavered and playing something else, but in this case I didn't much care. I couldn't get demoted now and I won't lose any LP (already at 0). So we have 2 ADC bot lane and it just didn't go well. Probably could have won, I could have played better for sure, just one of those games where you need to forget it and move on. So I lose the next game too, went top-lane as Vi. Vi is not great for top lane but I actually won my lane vs Nidalee. I couldn't carry it though. Vi is very strong but is stronger as a jungler where she can influence more of the lanes. Ended up 7-7-3, which isn't great for sure, deaths always tend to rack up when you're on the losing side.

Next 3 games I get back to the winning ways. I even had the pleasure of being carried for one. Went 3-10-15 as Vi Jungle. 10 deaths is absolutely terrible for sure. I was able to annihilate the enemy ADC though, which let my team secure a victory. I would initiate and down their adc but it usually meant my demise. Could have played better, I guess that's why I try to ADC more than not

Last game of the night was one where I went Top-lane Kha Zix and carried hard along with our mid laner. Went 19-4-12 and my mid lane was Ahri that went 17-3-17... Our ADC did respectable though, problem was we lost *every* team fight, we had Baron stolen from us, we just could not win a 5v5 *at all*. The enemy team had a Singed (I went against Singed in top lane). Kha Zix is good at countering Singed as there is no way he can harass a Kha Zix or out-farm him. Singed players love to push, push, push... Kha Zix is perhaps the best wave clearer in game. Winning the lane was easy but Singed managed to get fed eventually and wreaked havoc on my team. Ahri and myself did a fine job surviving, we combined for 7 deaths, rest of my team combined for 29.

I absolutely believed we could lose the game even though our top/mid were fed to fuck but eventually I abandoned my team and started split pushing. Kha Zix can't be ganked and I could kill any of the enemy 1v1, so I was fine drawing attention. The enemy team fragmented, we picked them off, finally took the first inhib of the game at 40mins in and from there we easily did baron (which didn't get stolen this time) and were able to push for a win.




I guess the morale of the story is some games will be unwinnable, some games you'll feed, but if you want your best chance at winning, get yourself fed and make good decisions. Nobody will listen to someone they deem as "feeding", so first you need to have a decent score, than you can control your team. In 1 instance I required my team to group up as 5 to win, in another case it required a split push strat to win. If I lost my lane or fed in either game my team would not have listened, would not have had confidence, and we would have lost.

I rarely duo but always open to ranked duo if of similar rating, IGN: so Ravishing

Pick Order > Calling, but there is no rule and in champ select players will always use the one that supports them most. What gets me is when I call first & pick first and someone still bitches about itNormally its when a duo wants to control champ select and have their free choice at picks -- fuck duos that only go bot lane, they always end up feeding.

The issue is RARELY that a person"Cannot"play another role but more or less the role they pick (top / mid / jungle) is able to carry a team. Solo queueing as a support is all great if you like being at the whim of 4 people but terrible if you intend to carry games.

The issue comes in Silver league because people think that they are better at the role they requested than the rest of the team or another person that requested the role. Nearly everyone lands in silver, even the people who really really suck at blind pick land in silver. They don't understand mechanics, they don't understand team comp, what they do understand is that calling a lane is pretty typical and that they can "trump" someone calling a lane by calling position. This doesn't mean they are ANY good at the lane they requested, it does mean that you now soured the mood in your game by being a douche.