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Fewest Deaths

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I don’t know how this Ezreal game happened.  I got an early kill which turned into one Doran’s blade.  I ended up having three of them with phage and a vampiric scepter.  I told myself that I’d go back to buy at 2550 to get my Bloodthirster.  At 4250 gold I went back to base.  I can only remember recalling once or twice in this whole game.  I had crazy shopping sprees when I did go back!

I left base with Bloodthirster, Phage, and Zeal.  Next trip back to base I had Trinity Force and double pot.  Next trip back I had Guardian Angel.  After I died with GA I bought Last Whisper.  I felt pretty stacked by that point.  Kha’Zix had a number of kills late, but lost his lane hard.  He was defending at the inhibitor turret, which always makes our jungle fun.  The enemy Rengar lived in top lane, wanted to fight Kha’Zix I guess.

I abused my Trinity Force proc for a triple kill on Ahri, then I was chasing Corki for the quad and RAN OUT OF MANA!  It was super aggravating.  Also, I pegged him with my Q and an auto attack over a wall, bringing him down to less than 100 life.  I couldn’t finish him.  By the time I had mana to E closer he had jumped the wall to his base.  Being the idiot that I am I chased him over the wall to fight a full health Blitz and Ahri.  I may have lost that battle.

It was a fun game, the only disagreement on my team was when Lee wanted to push bot because we had bot inhib.  I told him that bot would push itself and we could take Baron when they went to defend it.  Instead, someone on the other team got caught out, we took that opportunity to just take towers top for free.

So we’re moving through the jungle to top lane and Rengar jumps me.  Now, understand that at this point I’m done getting kills and I’m done dying, so my record of 16-5 stands.  Rengar was probably 1-11 at that point.  I burst him down to just above 100 hit points, but knowing that he used his ult to get to me, I know he doesn’t have it up.  So instead of killing him I just walk around with him.  Me, Soraka, Lux, and Rengar, hanging out in the enemy jungle.  I wanted Soraka to get the kill, but her Q’s were doing so little damage to him that he could have used life steal to sustain off me while she tried.  Lux eventually ended his spawn with a Q and we continued on our merry way.  Lux and Soraka were sitting in the same room and told me how hard they were laughing at that while it happened.  It was quite a gem.  Then the enemy Nexus blew up.

Poor Swain

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We had put together a five man team and had played quite a bit together.  We re-united to play a blind pick normal, and I offered to play LeBlanc mid.  By “offered” I mean I said I was playing LeBlanc and I locked in.  I mentioned to someone on my friend’s list that I was going Soul Stealer LeBlanc, so this game was going to get very interesting.

Swain was mid.  Now Swain is actually a good counter to LeBlanc.  His ability to heal himself up in lane before my burst is something I was afraid of.  Also, the base damage on his three abilities could be devastating for a squishy like LeBlanc.  He was also using a custom skin, so his root looked different, something that caught me off-guard at level 2.  Well, caught me off for a second while I was rooted, then I first-blooded Swain.  If LeBlanc gets within melee range at level 2 and ignites you, it’s probably best to get under your turret as quickly as possible.

When Shyvana showed up to avenge the poor first-blood Swain, Dan actually warned me over Skype and I said, “Oh look!  Second blood!”  I didn’t get the kill on Shyvana, but I did get my Soul Stealer and about 10 stacks before the game ended.

By the end of the game I was checking with tab to see which players on the other team were still worth gold.  0-X Shyvana, 0-X Nunu, I needed to kill Kog or Swain.  I felt like I had killed Swain enough, but you can never kill Kog enough, right?  My first trip bot was actually a double kill, but mostly thanks to Iggie.  Kog and Nunu were just going to walk away from me if it wasn’t for a well-timed Sivir ultimate.  I even told them “They’re gonna get away from us!” and Sivir popped ulti and let me close the gap.  Three spells on Kog and two on Nunu sealed the deal.

Forgot to Farm

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Sometimes I really suck at this game.  The picture below shows some evidence of that.  The mistake that I made was one that I’ve seen becoming more and more prevalent among Ezreal players; I thought that because I was Ezreal and had a couple kills in bottom lane that I was king.  It turns out that if you forget to farm your items you don’t do any damage.

I was down to 5 kills and 6 deaths, a negative record, but I was getting behind on farm, so I dropped the chasing, the team fighting, the scouting and went to work.  I shoved top until I had 5 people from the other team coming after me.  Then I ran bottom and did the same.  I took a tower, then continued to shove and the whole other team showed up to fight.  I would just kite and run.  I’m Ezreal, I have two blinks and Trinity Force.  If I can just get out of the Ashe permaslow I’ll be fine.

Once I had items the whole game changed.  I had enough lifesteal to fight the fed Riven from top lane.  Luckily, I also had enough mobility to keep her from getting away.  I fought my way back into this game and it felt great.  I can’t blame Forrest because he was rusty and Riven is a joke.  I’m just glad that we turned it around and won it.  The enemy team actually surrendered but not before my old lady-friend yelled “Legendary!”

Return of Kolin

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Many moons ago I played with a terrible Twitch who sucked every game.  He was so bad that to this day Czarni and I joke about playing as Twitch just to troll.  The memory was scarring, endlessly leaving an ingrained fear of Twitch and Kolin.

George invites me to play a game with him.  His friend wants to know how long until I’ll be online.  I get on, and here is Grassroots.  Odd, that name looks familiar.  Panic.  Kolin is Grassroots.  Grassroots is Kolin.  I’d better bring my A-game or we are going to lose HARD.  Nunu said, “That is my worst game ever.”

 

Smoke and Mirrors

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Jake and I messed up in the previous game.  We wanted to trade and swap mid for bot, LeBlanc for Pantheon.  Somehow we both forgot.  When the game was pretty much decided as a loss the other team’s mid started talking smack and I told him that I was supposed to be mid and would have destroyed him.  It was extremely aggravating to have someone that obnoxious and rude talk about how our mid was a “rook”.  I felt bad for Jake because I had forgotten to trade.  The next game would be different.

Get right back into queue, queue pops almost immediately.  We ban the same people, the enemy bans the same people.  This is starting to look like a rematch!  We pick up our jungle Skarner, same as last game, but this time the other team goes Ezreal and Olaf for their first two picks.  I’m second pick, so I grab LeBlanc and lock in.  I’m ready to get my revenge against this Veigar!  However, instead of picking Veigar like a man, he proceeds to cycle through LeBlanc counters; Zilean, Ryze, Veigar, Vladimir.  He stops on Ryze and locks.  Ok, game on, Ryze.

We get into the loading screen and it’s not even the same team!  All that hate and angst and plotting for nothing!  I apologized to the other team as soon as I got into the game, because I thought they were someone else, and they politely replied that they were someone else.  My team told me not to apologize, but they didn’t know what was coming.

I achieved first blood on Ryze while my team pressured the enemy blue buff.  I also picked up a very early second kill against him.  And a third.  Their jungle Olaf was a very strong counter ganker.  I made a huge mistake in waiting for my W to come up to jump a wall and died quickly to Olaf.

3-1 start wasn’t bad.  7-2 after that, so I picked up a soul stealer and went to work.  I would pick on Ryze any time he got blue, trying to always keep him behind in creep score and roaming whenever I got ahead.  When I got to 19 stacks on my soul stealer I was in a frenzy; I NEEDED that 20th stack!  That elusive final stack to reduce my cooldowns and cap out my AP!  It made me super greedy!

When I finished my build, chased down that elusive 20th stack, and was blessed by Baron Nashor, my Ability Power reached an all-time ranked high of 938!  A LeBlanc with DFG and 938 AP?  I could kill anyone on the other team before they got a chance to move.  My unofficial quadra kill at the end of the game started with a blink over the wall to snag Taric.  With Taric down we sieged the turret.  I finished off Ryze, Olaf, and Vladimir in that team fight and the other team promptly surrendered.