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My First Twitch Win

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Earlier, you heard my wonderful story about playing as Twitch and doing really well and then losing the game. Well, not this time! This game I got big. Don’t take that out of context, I was a monster. Last time I was 4.8k gold ahead of second place. This time I was a whopping 6.8k ahead of second place on my team and 7.3k gold ahead of anyone on the enemy team. I was a League of Legends R.O.U.S.!

But it gets better. We had two double kills in bot lane, but not us killing them, but the enemy getting double kills on us. This is a sad thing. The first time we had both of the enemy champs down to one hit. It was really sad to think that I had used Ignite on Lulu, only to see her walk away without any damage ticking on her. Sadness. The second double kill for them was an Amumu gank. It was really bad for us, really great for them. We weren’t even close.

However, we had a trusty late-game comp of Twitch, Nunu, and Morgana. Morgana locks them down with an ult and gives me a spell shield. Nunu uses Blood Boil on me and slows the enemy team with his ultimate. Twitch does some crazy damage. Despite losing bot lane (I think it’s fair to say that) I was ahead by more than 30 CS in the laning phase. I was behind, but I was not behind, especially with a Blood Boil.

Now the most humorous part of this game was Steve’s champion pick. He picked up Akali. Why? To take my CS and my kills. Period. For real! He told us on Skype and we just laughed about it.

A team fight breaks out mid. I call out for Blood Boil, and the second it hits me I see the most wonderful sight: a Volibear charging the enemy team’s carry. Voli Flashes and pops someone back to us. I see Lulu melting and notice a Black Shield on me from Morgana. I turn on my ultimate and start laying waste to the enemy team as a whole. I get the last hit on Lulu and then turn my attention to Swain. The fewer Swains in the world, the better. I’ve already seen Swain Gretzky, Bruce Swain, and probably more. Swain melts to the tune of a double kill. I get the last hit on Ezreal, triple kill. Amumu decides to be a hero and I shoot him down. The last member, the final piece to this story is Mundo. Fleeing like the Madman of Zaun that he is, I use Flash to get inside range. My auto takes him critically low and I’m certain that I won’t get to attack before he’s down. However, thanks to Blood Boil, my movement and attack speed are ridiculous. I keep up with Mundo and get the last auto in. I see the kill call out and I wait for the glorious announcement…

PENTA KILL!

After hundreds of games as Ezreal, Corki, and Tristana, I get only my second Penta kill as an ADC and it’s with the ADC I probably have the least amount of experience with. Oh, the irony!

I was so ecstatic in the moment that all I could do was laugh. I went to push and actually held TAB to see who was up on the enemy team. We ended up tanking towers to get to their inhib.

That wasn’t the end of the game, but it didn’t get much prettier. I caught Amumu walking out to protect their tier two turret in top lane so I just started auto attacking him. He used Flash to get away from me, so I hit E, and he didn’t die. Well, not right then. He let the poison tick down on him and finish him off. I heard Jack say, “Oh, that’s just the worst, when you get away but still die. Poor Amumu.” Then something about hating Amumu.

Eventually I was standing just off their fountain just shooting whoever wanted to walk far enough down towards me. At this point I was life-stealing off their team faster than they could hurt me. Here’s the final damage:

The Scimitar saved my bacon so hard after I got caught later in the game. I didn’t have it yet, but if I would have gotten another chance to go back and buy it would have been my next purchase guaranteed. Mummy ult was just too deadly. If I got caught in it when I didn’t have assistance from Morgana then I was one sad rodent.

I can still hear it now… PENTA KILL!

AHGL vs Curse

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This game started with one of the funnest level one fights I had ever seen. We could see Karthus checking the river bushes just north of Dragon, so I missed Sona walking out to scout the river. Dan started freaking out and I realized why. We were a team full of crowd control and we just were given a tasty treat. All I have to do is land this snare and we’ll have ourselves a tasty kill! Oops. I missed a target that didn’t know I was aiming for her. Sadly, that wasn’t my worst play of the game.

We ended up snaring a number of members of the enemy team, but never could commit hard enough to get the elusive First Blood! We wandered back to lane. Laning phase was rather calm as can be expected from a game against an unknown enemy team. Well, calm almost everywhere. Top was busy building his lead. Elise started to snowball out of control against Vlad. It got to the point that Karthus and Vladimir actually traded lanes so Vlad could avoid the Elise! This is probably why poor Karthus had so many deaths. He was really willing to sacrifice for his team.

Let me put into perspective for you how far ahead Elise was. We caught the enemy Sona when we were trying to get Dragon. A couple pokes and my snare dropped her to about half health. Then she died. Just like that. One second she was there at half health. The next second the call-out for her death was rolling up the side of the screen. Elise had taken her from half health to completely dead in one shot.

After Dragon we sieged mid lane again. We had four ranged champions who were able to hit the tower while throwing out extremely long-ranged poke. We burnt through the tier-two turret and kept the pressure up. This is the part of the game when the enemy’s resolve begins to fail. It’s too much to stand under your turret and dodge five different skill-shot Q abilities. A team can only stand so much. Poor Curse threw in the towel at 24 minutes, but not before our Caitlyn was legendary.

Good Start

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Season Three preseason is in full swing, so when Thursday rolled around we were ready to get some Ranked games played.

I felt like this was really the first time our team bothered to counter-pick a lane. When the enemy team first-picked Malphite we decided to run a Vayne top. This isn’t a champion that Dan has extensive experience with, but we figured it would be better to have a ranged dps late game.

When we were banning I remembered having a Caitlyn in bottom lane that just destroyed the kill lane that we normally use. I honestly thought about banning her out. Her range is very strong and her net really breaks a melee Mantheon as he tries to run at her. However, I didn’t ban her, because what are the chances the other team is going to pick Caitlyn?

It wasn’t until they had picked their whole team that I realized I was going to be matched against Zed in mid lane. This should be interesting. Glad I watched the spotlight and saw when Phreak took Veigar down from 100 to 0 before Veigar could react. Veigar has an AoE stun while LeBlanc has a silence. Luckily, I never really got to see Zed in action because the game was only 61 minutes long.

I got first blood on Zed and then his game plan was to try to last hit with his ninja star ability. This was fine because it kept him back far enough to be safe from my harass, but there were a couple flaws with his game plan. His shuriken was dealing minimal damage because he didn’t seem to be maxing it first, and it would push the wave. So he was missing CS, and zoning himself by pushing the creeps to my side of the lane. Every now and then I would just push him away from creeps and call MIA. More than half the time I was standing in mid lane I was by myself. This let me get WAY ahead in creep kills and experience. When the lane finally started to push (because Zed had been gone for so long) I killed him from about half health under his turret.

When I went back to get my Soul Stealer the enemy jungler showed up and pushed mid lane! Not to my turret, he just pushed it out a little bit so my creeps caught it and started to lose, meaning I’d be able to freeze the lane again! I guess he didn’t realize that I was level nine and Zed was just hitting level six because I had the zoned Zed with lane control. Maybe Zed thought that he was doing his team mates a favor by keeping me in mid so I wasn’t roaming, I was just last-hitting. However, with the best late game ADC in the top lane, and a kill lane setup in the bottom lane, I knew we would have a smooth early, mid, and late game regardless of how well I did in mid. I just got to farm!

After I bought Soul Stealer I shot off to a 15-0 start in this game. For whatever reason saying 15-0 start sounds better than saying 23-2. I think if someone went 8-2 I would still say that’s a good game, but finishing 8-2 after starting 15-0 just didn’t feel as good.

In all reality I should have died 10 times in that game. However, I was six item and had 5k gold, so I sold some items to get other items to even my build out. With 20 stacks and Athene’s Grail my cooldown reduction was looking really good. Zhonyas let me ignore more of Amumu’s and Malphite’s damage. This is actually the item that kept me alive the most. I made big mistakes around Amumu that let him catch me out away from my team. He would Flash into a bandage toss and then ult immediately, even if he only caught me. Once I had control of my character I would pop my Zhonyas and assess my options. Normally I would be able to clone my blink with my ult or I would have my Flash up. In a 61 minute game I never took damage from a Malphite ult. I almost felt sorry for the poor guy.

The game was won in a Baron fight. Pantheon jumped into the middle of the enemy team, Lux gave us some vision with her spells, and we picked them off one by one, never giving them a chance to combo multiple members of our team. Our only casualty was Pantheon who knew he was jumping to his death. We won the fight and immediately ran to the enemy base and finished it off. The best way to combat griefing in league of legends is going to be to get a title defects attorney to help you in your ranked matches

So far my average stats for Season Three look like 23 kills, 2 deaths, 11 assists and 363 cs per game. That is what I would consider to be a good start.

Gold difference at the end of the game: 94.9k vs 76.8k

Special Request: LAN Edition

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We tried to get a five-man LAN going this Friday and it almost worked out. Choppes couldn’t come, so we only had four guys there. Choppes did play with us, he just wasn’t there to enjoy the pizza.

After a couple losses in a row our team needed a win. We had managed to win two custom games, but those don’t carry the same weight as an old-fashioned normal game. I said that I wanted mid. Those present at the LAN suggested that I play as LeBlanc. The only problem I have with playing LeBlanc is that it’s a Blind Pick game, so the enemy doesn’t get to see who I’m going to be playing as, which doesn’t make it very fair.

I think I’ve beaten Swain in mid before. I think if I was Swain I would know how to beat LeBlanc. It would be a lot like Brand; the base damage on abilities would be enough to kill a LeBlanc. I think the secret would be to smart-cast the full combo before LeBlanc could get her silence off and then stay in your ult. Make sure not to fall behind before level six. If needed I’d take extra points into my Torment so that if I needed to I would have guaranteed damage and bonus damage on my ignite if LeBlanc committed early.

Laning against Swain wasn’t fun. Not because of anything Swain did, but because of his silly horse companion. Hecarim literally ganked me six times before I had a kill. I was starting to get desperate! I hadn’t gone back at all, so I was looking fancy in my boots. I was right on the brink of killing Swain. Just as I’m committing to finish him off Hecarim shows up. My team was blue side, so I run slightly up towards the enemy wraiths as Swain retreats with almost no health. Hecarim comes through lane and chases me towards his jungle. I look back and see Swain standing in lane with almost no life left. The only thing standing between him and me and this stupid centaur. I step back towards mid and W to get closer. From there I immediately flash back into lane and inside turret range to get one final Q off on Swain. Hecarim has turned to chase me under the turret so I activate the second charge of my W and blink back out to safety. Swain doesn’t die. I still need to watch the replay to see how low he was. I’m sure his health reached single digits at that point.

When I finally did kill Swain his horse was there to clean me up. I didn’t mind. I was level seven and Swain was only five. I was also almost double Swain’s CS and the enemy Hecarim had spent so much time chasing me and ganking me that he was behind by quite a bit as well.

Now, the attendees at this LAN had joked about playing LeBlanc, but not just any LeBlanc, they specifically said “Soul Stealer LeBlanc” which is a really scary build. However, the first time I was back at base I had about 2000 gold. I grabbed Soul Stealer and finished my boots and marched back to lane. I was a poor and innocent 1-1-0 LeBlanc. However, Shen started handing me blue buffs, and I took Swain’s every time he was gifted one.

I started making some plays with my measly 20 AP and 29 flat magic penetration. I killed mid and swung top. We picked up the Cho’Gath and then killed Hecarim, putting me up to five stacks. I went back mid, killed Swain again and rotated bottom. Bottom definitely wasn’t losing, but they aren’t as comfortable with the Lux and Pantheon combo when Jeff is playing as Panth. It’s still effective, it still works, it’s just not as well-oiled as with their roles swapped. I show up and we murder bottom so hard. Before I leave I’m sitting on 14 stacks. Another trip to bottom after taking Swain’s blue (not from the jungle, but from him) puts me at 20 stacks. I recall just as the game is nearing the 20 minute mark.

Deathcap. 500 AP before the 20 minute mark. I’m a walking insta-gib. Anyone I see I can rip to pieces. We move to invade the enemy jungle after we had all healed and grouped. We have a ward in the bush near wraiths and so I loop past that, waiting for anyone to walk out of their base. Lux sneaks in to stand next to me. Darius is just below and Shen is Shen. The enemy team decides to camp this bush that we have a ward in and wait for someone to walk by. Instead they see a Pantheon circle open with them in the exact center. As Pantheon starts to man-drop on the enemy I see Blitz walking into the team fight. I blow him up to keep him from having an impact on the fight. With him getting obliterated his team knows where I am but it’s too late. We have them totally surrounded. Between Lux and me we have too much crowd control. They can’t get back to their base, but Mantheon, Shen, and Down-right Darius are closing in on them from the left. We pick them off with surprising burst one after another. Cho was the only survivor, but he jumped onto the same surrender band-wagon that the rest of the enemy team was already on.

Dan’s number one complaint: People died before he could come down with his slam dunk.

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My First Twitch Win

AHGL vs Curse

Good Start

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