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Jungle…

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Jungle… is a role that I never play.  When the rest of my team locked, I comically tried to encourage our Kitty Cat Rengar to fill that role.  He went off about feeders and idiots and people who don’t listen or something like that, and so I blocked him out and tried to find someone to jungle with.

Allow me to make a comprehensive list of the people I feel comfortable with in the jungle.  Ok, now that that’s all done, let’s take a look at what happened.

I camped top.  Garen v. Rengar turned out to be in Garen’s favor.  Garen pointed out the fun fact that if you swap the syllables in the name “Garen” you get “ren-Gar”.  HA!

I stacked a lot of armor and was able to disrupt their team.  With the combination of a guaranteed Kayle ult and that Guardian Angel, I was really a mobile stun machine with 32% lifesteal.  End result?  I won by 35 gold.

Surrender

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I had just lost the game for my team in the previous match.  I was camped top by the enemy jungler.  I felt completely helpless.  The only person who was doing well was v1ruz, who was mid as Katarina.  We surrendered right at 20 minutes.  Next game, while in queue I complain and say “Let me take mid so I can at least abuse someone” and my team listens.  They let me take Mordekaiser mid.  Support Zyra with Ezreal in bot lane.  Solo top Renekton, and Shen in the jungle.  I notice that when we have 6 kills the other team has 14, and I have 4 of our 6.  Surrender vote comes, I vote no immediately, but hunterofthetiki asks me “are we surrendering?” and I tell him no.  Vote fails 3-2.  It continues to do so time and time again.  I start to panic because my team is losing all of their lanes.  I order everyone to come mid.  I know we can win a team fight, we just have to get Graves.  The enemy Graves is pretty big by this point, but if we can get him on our team, we can win this game.

Our mid pressure is insane.  My wave-clear by this point is immense, and the last time Blitz hooked me I walked away with a double kill.  And I’m twice as nasty now as I was then.  Blitz is literally looking at my like I’m a tank, he won’t touch me, just tries to look past me.  We get up to their turret and our Renekton takes a bit of poke (I think she got grabbed and then had to dash out, but almost died in the process).  Without any warning v1ruz splits to run top, I’m assuming to farm.  The other team kills Shen, kills Ezzy, then gets Baron for free.  We can’t even contest it.  New game-plan: wait for Baron buff to expire.

We do our best to keep defense up in every lane as the enemy closes down the cushion in every lane.  They are running up bot lane, taking towers and minions, no prisoners.  I ping Graves and say “just commit on Graves.”  I see Empra dash through the enemy team, getting to Graves.  I get the chance to drop a full combo on him, and instantly Graves is fighting on our team.  Our whole team is shocked.  We just stood up to a Baron buffed team, who has a double-digit kill lead on us, and we won the team fight?  What’s happening?

That was the turning point in this game.  By the end of the match we catch them out in their own jungle.  They know that we are there, but they are moving as 5 as well, and thought they would be OK.  I initially thought I started with R on Graves.  However, I must have been CC’d.  He definitely didn’t get ulted.  My health started to drop extremely low.  I unload the rest of my combo on him, see him drop to 1/6, and I’m in a panic.  I need his health to run out before mine does.  Then I realize my R is off cooldown.  I take this fine opportunity to press R on Graves.  He instantly dies, and my health starts to sky rocket.  This Graves tanked their team while I chased after.  I could taste the victory, just around the corner.  Chasing Kat and Blitz into the base, Kat is just a step ahead, and ZING!  Dies to Ezreal ultimate!  Blitz just decides to stick around and see what I’ll do to him.  Standing between the two Nexus turrets I blow up Blitz, then turn to finish off the base.

The Victory tag was surreal.  Chat was spammed with people complaining about what I had just done.  I hope this picture of the score screen captures what I really did.

LeBlanc Lane part 2

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I’ve never been a fan of Ahri.  She left a bitter taste in my mouth when she was released.  She came out the same week that Riot refunded the dodge runes, so everyone who had been playing the game had enough IP to buy her.  Every game I got into would be Ahri vs Ahri in mid, and my Ahri would lose every time.  This was the lowest point in my League of Legends career.  I normally solo mid.  That’s my role in life.  Judging aggro, damage, ratios, distances, I love it.  Ahri would take mid.  Every.  Game.  I lost ten games straight.  Ten in a row.  I had to play bot games to get my first win of the day bonus!  I have been bitter towards Ahri ever since.  I know it’s not her fault (or is it?!) but I can still blame the crap out of her.  So here’s what happens.

I’ve never felt like Ahri brings anything to the table aside from a mage with a triple blink ult.  If you want to blink around with your ultimate, pick Kassadin.  If you want a line snare, take Morgana.  If you want someone with AP ratios as low as Ahri’s then you’d need to pick Swain.  Ahri can be out-classed in so many ways.  LeBlanc out-classes Ahri with flat damage.  LeBlanc’s AP ratio’s are higher than Ahri’s (despite Ahri’s ultimate having a 1.05 AP ratio if it hits the same target with all three jumps) so if you are building for late game you can get more burst.  However, LeBlanc allows you to have multiple dashes (on a much shorter cooldown) and multiple snares (if cloned with the ult).  That snare is also a 1.0 AP ratio, as opposed to Ahri’s single charm that is a 0.35 AP ratio.  If you use LeBlanc’s ultimate to clone her chain then it actually becomes a hypothetical 1.4 AP ratio, but that’s not nice to think about.  That makes the 1.3 AP ratio on Malzahar ult feel weak, doesn’t it?

SEO Strategies

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Why Not Akali?

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After we were finished playing our Tuesday Night Ranked 5’s we decided to try one more game in the blind pick queue.  We had an interesting team comp, but it was highly effective as a team unit.

Yorick is rated one of the most obnoxious laners in the game.  I already knew that going into this game, and tried to make the most of it.  After we tower dove Yorick to give me my second kill, the tower executed me, leaving me at 2-3.  After we grouped to ace them and then force a baron fight they promptly surrendered, but not before an aged-woman’s voice yelled “Legendary!”