Actually, we had first pick, the title is a lie. I first-picked Corki. Why? Because I wanted to play Corki. Also, I had been really selfish in the past about not wanting to be first pick just to get countered. I picked Corki, locked in, and the other team IMMEDIATELY locked in Blitzcrank. Well, they mean business! We had already planned on playing Soraka, but what we did not expect was ADC Teemo.
Now it may look like I had almost double Teemo’s farm, but that started right from level one. We were blue side and the enemy invaded our Ancient Golem. We took their blue buff and I shoved bot as hard as I could. We cleared a full wave and pushed it right into turret. The turret cleared it. Still no Teemo or Blitz. When I hit 100 CS Teemo had 50. I had double Doran’s Blades and Phage and he had a dagger and an amp tome. I told Soraka “The next time you see Teemo just run at him.” Soraka and I were in lane, Teemo came out of hiding and Soraka just ran at him. He blew blinding dart on Soraka. I valkryed in and just destroyed him. I know, impressive, right? 134 AD beating 72 AD. Really it’s his fault! He was being really clever with mushrooms in the bushes. They pink warded bottom bush three times in laning phase. I had unlimited mana from a Soraka and therefore endless Qs to throw into the bush. Even without a ward in there I could both see them and harass them. I guess the 0-11 Blitz speaks volumes about how bot lane went.
Our biggest problem was the raid boss on the other team. Volibear got so big so fast that I was scared we would never be able to kill him. In order for Volibear to die he had to basically sacrifice himself to us fighting 1v5. I remember when I had five items and I fought Voli 2v1 with Soraka he still almost killed me. I had to refer to him as “Raid Boss” in all-chat because there were times that he would accidentally wander into all five of us and just drop to all fours and run away.
The winning factor in this game was Morgana and Hecarim. There was actually a late-game fight where Blitz grabbed Morgana in our jungle and they bursted her to almost death. She still had enough time to press R and activate Zhonya’s Hourglass. Meanwhile, Morgana’s team is closing in. One second passes. Another second passes. Health bars start to melt. Hecarim ulting in onto a team just after they get out of Morgana stun is NASTY. Hecarim’s W was making him unkillable in team fights. With him standing right next to Morgana she wasn’t going to die any time soon. He tanked all the damage and we cleaned up that fight. Soraka blew literally everything to save that Morgana. I didn’t realize this and spent my health pool foolishly.
This game started rough but ended well. It was one of those rare games when my whole team is positive KD and the enemy team is negative.
