Thanks for the advice. Sadly I usually get over-ruled in PUGs and am forced top. I'll try to call out jungle earlier. However if I do end up solo-top, do you still think I should go glacial shroud and Homeguards?
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Gilgamel
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Especially go homeguards if you're top, because you should have tp. Homeguard/TP is really strong on rammus. Glacial is good against ADs but obviously not when against an AP top. I'm no rammus top expert though, so if you're gonna take him top go find a guide on youtube or something, I know he has a few favorable matchups.
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What a night to play League.
(Just random thoughts & recap of my night, also get back on 1st page)
Squeezed in 5 games last night and went 3-2, but just wow. Of the 5 games, I had atrocious bot lanes 4 of 5 times. All the games I won I was able to carry. Had 1 loss where we had 3 inhibs down and couldn't seal the deal too. (Nasus late game, gg)
But before elaborating on the games, a quick shoutout to the awesome League Point system. A few days ago I got promoted to Gold IV. Since then it's been basically 50% win rate, always W>L>W>L>W>L etc. I get 2 losses in a row a couple different times and I'm demoted back to Gold V. This demotion happened after my 1st game of the night since it was a loss and my game before that was a loss lol. So started off the night getting demoted.
What's annoying is I was promoted with 12 games above .500 and I got demoted at 9 games above .500. I'm now at 11 games above and won't get promoted unless I'm 13 or 14 games above .500. (depending if I win my next game and go 2-0 or 2-1 in promos). I admit my MMR is low. It's like high Silver I or low Gold V. My team MMR is hovering around 1400 and I'm usually with other Silvers/Golds. Clearly I should probably be Gold V at best since I rarely get matched with Gold IV and above. It's just stupid to get promoted and then demoted so quickly. It's always annoyed the shit out of me. The ranking system doesn't mean much anyway but It is seriously a mind-fuck getting demoted. Especially if I play a decent game....
Aside from 1 game where I went 14/14/9, my KDA's were respectable otherwise. I honestly thought I was playing with Bronze and matchmaking was broken. I hate when the frustration gets to me and I end up getting all sarcastic/mad in chat. That never helps. I am usually good enough to turn off my anger for the next game though.
I did win my lane in every game. The first game was fun, even though it resulted in a loss (and demotion). Was Diana vs Lux (no new skin, wtf?). This wasn't just any Lux. It was the infinite laugh cocky lux player.
Quick 30 sec Highlight of the annoyance:Twitch
People like that don't deserve wins, especially when they feed and still laugh. I teed off with 4 quick kills against her. I ended the game 10/6/4 and she was 5/9/11. Of course my bot lane went combined 7/13/18 vs 19/8/24. Couldn't carry that one unfortunately.
Next game started almost the same, just without the laugh:Twitch
So many bad players. I seriously started to question matchmaking by now. The Zed was horrendous. It didn't even matter though becuase this was the one game where my bot lane actually won making it an easy win. I ended 8/8/9 but like 3 of the deaths were at the very end when I was 1v5'ing in the enemy base. We had all inhibs down and my team was doing baron/dragon and didn't want to end it right away. Kinda dumb. I started to get ragey when I my team wouldn't end it. Eventually it worked out I guess. Still aggravates me when teams don't end games, too easy to fuck up and have the enemy wipe you and win (see next game).
Next game as Diana again, really sad loss because we had all 3 inhibs and both nexus turrets down at one point. I fucked up too many times and didn't carry. We died multiple times making a final push (with Baron) and couldn't seal the deal. Late game Nasus would 1 shot my ADC, but that didn't matter as much as my 14 deaths. With 3 Inhibs down we had to end it and we didn't.
My last 2 games were rofl fests. Like wow. And it's why I love this game. Played Volibear Top then Jungle and hard carried both games.
The 1st Volibear game I was top vs a terrible Shen. He was pathetic and fed me well. However, my bot lane was losing hardcore too. When I was lvl 6 the Shen was lvl 3 with 5 cs. I ended 14/4/10 (24/28 kill participation). My bot lane was combined 7/14/20 vs 15/10/20. However, they started the game at like 0/6/0.
It took a while to pull the game in our favor, but here's the team fight it happened (sound was muted for this game, sorry):Twitch
And the final game was Voli Jungle where champion select started off on the wrong foot. Ryze was picked on my team and immediately someone says we lose. I comforted them but saying I'll carry. Normally I dont get cocky like that but it actually worked out. Went 10/5/15 and we won. It definitely started off bad, like the other games, until I got some farm under me. My bot lane got destroyed again. The Nami on my team whom said "we lose" in champion select had 3 quick deaths to feed enemy ADC. Normally I don't camp bad lanes but they were all pretty bad, so I camped bot anyway. Only my mid laner was holding his own. Ryze did start off 0/5/0 but ended the game 10/7/12. I ended up tanking 44k damage with only 5 deahts. Nearly 9K dmg per life. It was a good comeback victory.
This final highlight is of the exact moment my team took the lead (kills & gold):Twitch
It's not spectacular play by any means except it did give Ryze his 1st kills of the game (23mins in, lol). It was an easily predicted gank to counter and then I zoned off 2 players and absorbed 2 ultimates, leading to a won fight.
And that's my story of last night. 4 of 5 horrendous bot lanes. 3 of 5 games carried. Gold rank @ Silver MMR ftw.
(Just random thoughts & recap of my night, also get back on 1st page)
Squeezed in 5 games last night and went 3-2, but just wow. Of the 5 games, I had atrocious bot lanes 4 of 5 times. All the games I won I was able to carry. Had 1 loss where we had 3 inhibs down and couldn't seal the deal too. (Nasus late game, gg)
But before elaborating on the games, a quick shoutout to the awesome League Point system. A few days ago I got promoted to Gold IV. Since then it's been basically 50% win rate, always W>L>W>L>W>L etc. I get 2 losses in a row a couple different times and I'm demoted back to Gold V. This demotion happened after my 1st game of the night since it was a loss and my game before that was a loss lol. So started off the night getting demoted.
What's annoying is I was promoted with 12 games above .500 and I got demoted at 9 games above .500. I'm now at 11 games above and won't get promoted unless I'm 13 or 14 games above .500. (depending if I win my next game and go 2-0 or 2-1 in promos). I admit my MMR is low. It's like high Silver I or low Gold V. My team MMR is hovering around 1400 and I'm usually with other Silvers/Golds. Clearly I should probably be Gold V at best since I rarely get matched with Gold IV and above. It's just stupid to get promoted and then demoted so quickly. It's always annoyed the shit out of me. The ranking system doesn't mean much anyway but It is seriously a mind-fuck getting demoted. Especially if I play a decent game....
Aside from 1 game where I went 14/14/9, my KDA's were respectable otherwise. I honestly thought I was playing with Bronze and matchmaking was broken. I hate when the frustration gets to me and I end up getting all sarcastic/mad in chat. That never helps. I am usually good enough to turn off my anger for the next game though.
I did win my lane in every game. The first game was fun, even though it resulted in a loss (and demotion). Was Diana vs Lux (no new skin, wtf?). This wasn't just any Lux. It was the infinite laugh cocky lux player.
Quick 30 sec Highlight of the annoyance:Twitch
People like that don't deserve wins, especially when they feed and still laugh. I teed off with 4 quick kills against her. I ended the game 10/6/4 and she was 5/9/11. Of course my bot lane went combined 7/13/18 vs 19/8/24. Couldn't carry that one unfortunately.
Next game started almost the same, just without the laugh:Twitch
So many bad players. I seriously started to question matchmaking by now. The Zed was horrendous. It didn't even matter though becuase this was the one game where my bot lane actually won making it an easy win. I ended 8/8/9 but like 3 of the deaths were at the very end when I was 1v5'ing in the enemy base. We had all inhibs down and my team was doing baron/dragon and didn't want to end it right away. Kinda dumb. I started to get ragey when I my team wouldn't end it. Eventually it worked out I guess. Still aggravates me when teams don't end games, too easy to fuck up and have the enemy wipe you and win (see next game).
Next game as Diana again, really sad loss because we had all 3 inhibs and both nexus turrets down at one point. I fucked up too many times and didn't carry. We died multiple times making a final push (with Baron) and couldn't seal the deal. Late game Nasus would 1 shot my ADC, but that didn't matter as much as my 14 deaths. With 3 Inhibs down we had to end it and we didn't.
My last 2 games were rofl fests. Like wow. And it's why I love this game. Played Volibear Top then Jungle and hard carried both games.
The 1st Volibear game I was top vs a terrible Shen. He was pathetic and fed me well. However, my bot lane was losing hardcore too. When I was lvl 6 the Shen was lvl 3 with 5 cs. I ended 14/4/10 (24/28 kill participation). My bot lane was combined 7/14/20 vs 15/10/20. However, they started the game at like 0/6/0.
It took a while to pull the game in our favor, but here's the team fight it happened (sound was muted for this game, sorry):Twitch
And the final game was Voli Jungle where champion select started off on the wrong foot. Ryze was picked on my team and immediately someone says we lose. I comforted them but saying I'll carry. Normally I dont get cocky like that but it actually worked out. Went 10/5/15 and we won. It definitely started off bad, like the other games, until I got some farm under me. My bot lane got destroyed again. The Nami on my team whom said "we lose" in champion select had 3 quick deaths to feed enemy ADC. Normally I don't camp bad lanes but they were all pretty bad, so I camped bot anyway. Only my mid laner was holding his own. Ryze did start off 0/5/0 but ended the game 10/7/12. I ended up tanking 44k damage with only 5 deahts. Nearly 9K dmg per life. It was a good comeback victory.
This final highlight is of the exact moment my team took the lead (kills & gold):Twitch
It's not spectacular play by any means except it did give Ryze his 1st kills of the game (23mins in, lol). It was an easily predicted gank to counter and then I zoned off 2 players and absorbed 2 ultimates, leading to a won fight.
And that's my story of last night. 4 of 5 horrendous bot lanes. 3 of 5 games carried. Gold rank @ Silver MMR ftw.
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Man I am losing faith in this genre as a whole. I played Heroes for two weeks and it feels like a bad version of LOL, but since coming back to LOL I am just as frustrated with the experience. The only way I can consistently win is playing initiators, with a big fucking neon sign saying "FIGHT NOW RETARDS" in order to herd the idiots to the proper place. I play Lee or Gragas or Nid and it does not matter how goo my score is or how fed I get lanes, we lose because people will not group/focus targets/position properly. I feel like I have the first 12 minutes completely on lockdown as far as securing an advantage for my team as long as my bot lane isn't Gump'in it up, but after that it's completely a crapshoot as to whether they take advantage of it or not. I just do not get the basic, inherent dumbfuckery in the playerbase, overstaying constantly, ignoring MIA pings, shoving side lanes by themselves 35 minutes in, it's an exercise in futility.
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Yup and things can be failing badly in other lanes without you realizing it so when you face the champs from those lanes you just get drowned like a baby duckling without any feel for why you did so badly. Honestly its one reason I tend to play a lot of aram bit easier to see everything that is going on and have more consistent impact for helping your team.
I have a hard time getting up the will to play the game these days. I love playing, I love watching, but physically pressing play and getting into a game is just exhausting. Will I get a lane I want to play. Will I get stuck with shit heads. Etc. It just makes me not want to play sometimes.
I just wish I could queue up for ranked like team builder but just choose the position I want to play. Then have a pick and ban phase and choose your champ for that role.
Team builder has a rating system in place. If that's what you want, why not just play Team Builder?
75% of team builder games people just fuck around and dont really care, not that I blame them, doesnt really matter if you win or lose. Lots of people are just experimenting or practicing.
Plus its blind pick.
If you look at high challenger players thats basically how they get to play. Always getting the same role but its just that they recognize it and give each other their lanes.
Plus its blind pick.
If you look at high challenger players thats basically how they get to play. Always getting the same role but its just that they recognize it and give each other their lanes.
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They are still supposedly working on the ranked version of team builder. I'll play a shitton more when that comes out. As it is, I want to do ranked (for, y'know, rankings and rewards) but I don't like the minigame of "wtf lane/role/champ do I get to play with this group of 4 strangers?"
I they are smart they'll allow you to pick secondary roles so if you can't get top after a few minutes you'll start looking for jungle.
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Fantasy LCS Summer Split is up.
8 Teams max here:http://fantasy.lolesports.com/share/...Zc0U2BhF5sTM22
Draft: Wednesday, May 27th @ 9:30 PM EST
Moved the time slightly later to hopefully help some of the no-shows we had before.
Note, 1st day of LCS is Thursday, May 28th.
I'm intentionally avoiding drafting during the holiday weekend, I can be around Fri/Sat though if there's a good majority that prefer to draft during the holiday weekend.
8 Teams max here:http://fantasy.lolesports.com/share/...Zc0U2BhF5sTM22
Draft: Wednesday, May 27th @ 9:30 PM EST
Moved the time slightly later to hopefully help some of the no-shows we had before.
Note, 1st day of LCS is Thursday, May 28th.
I'm intentionally avoiding drafting during the holiday weekend, I can be around Fri/Sat though if there's a good majority that prefer to draft during the holiday weekend.
