Sunday, May 6, 2012
No replays yet!
I need to update the recorder. I haven't been able to get any replays, the client kept crashing. :( Soon!
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Cassiopeia - Hide yo women. Dissection #3
Teams!
Mine: Corki/Janna Bot, Nid Top, Heca Jungle and Cass(me) Mid
Enemy: Xerath Mid, Udyr Jungle, Riven Top, Soraka and Vayne Bot.
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Usual start. We head down to protect jungle, and leash then head to lane. Early game Xerath has me on range alone so I play it safe and attempt to farm as he pops me every now and again.
3:00 - Terrible 5 CS to Xeraths 12. I'm pushed to tower just farming where I can while I wait for the jungler to get ready, but sadly I am nearly out of mana so no real good gank available yet. I get pushed to tower again. Hecarim comes to gank, Xerath burns flash and I push out to the middle a bit.
6:00 - My farm is increasing. 21 to 29 now. I'm still sorely low on mana however. I once again get pushed back as Xerath goes turret mode. He hits me, then ults me for the stun at my tower, then again at my tower. Luckily I am able to move back a bit and he cannot hit me a third time.
Heca wants to gank yet again but I am still low on mana. The enemy jungle has taken our blue at this point so I try to wait for mana to come up for the gank but Hecarim goes early. Xerath makes a mistake and goes for the jungler but can't do anything.
8:15ish first blood for the enemy team. Vayne scores the kill on Janna. I finally back at 8:30
9:00 - 31 CS to Xeraths 48. I now have 2 doran rings and boots. Xerath is MIA and hits top with Riven and Udyr. They run towards our tower/jungle. Hecarim heads up to help. Nid takes out Udyr and Xerath gets Nid and Hecarim, but tower aggro gives Hecarim the riven kill.
I push my lane and hit top and take out Riven. In hindsight I should have gone up so much sooner. I return to lane, we start to try to make a dragon happen but we can't. We do however get the perk of finding Udyr in our jungle and slaughtering him.
15:30 - I'm at 68 CS to Xeraths 69. I'm also 1/0/1, Xerath is 1/2/1. Gold advantage to me. I'm level 10 and have blue buff. Cass is very scary at this point in the game. I still have two dorans and now sorc shoes.
We head down to dragon to engage on Vayne and Xerath. I finish up Vayne while Corki finished Xerath. I hit lane and proceed to take wraiths and farm more. At 16:40 I decide to try to solo Xerath. I flash in, poison and then ult as he stuns me and he gets away with little health.
Udyr shows in the jungle at our red with Heca taking it currently so I hoof it back up to help and I take out Udyr as Xerath takes me out. Riven shows and cleans up the rest. :(
18:45 - 90 cs to Xeraths 76. I'm quite bit ahead. I'm also at 3/1/2, Xerath is 2/4/2.
I make a mistake here, Riven and Udyr are engage our nid and hecarim at the enemy blue. I go to help and ult Udyr, sadly I should have let Heca die. Xerath came into play and the three of them destroyed us pretty well. I nearly got out, but not enough.
This is my second and last death.
25:15 - Team fight bot happens and we clean up 3 kills. 119 CS to 112 CS. 4/2/5 to 3/5/5. Still in the lead.
29:40 - Dragon time. We close in as a team on dragon, the enemy team is already there. I ult Udyr, he goes down first. I proceed to get killing blows on Xerath and assist with Riven. We proceed to take dragon and push mid.
31:00 - 6/2/7, 128 CS. Xerath is 3/6/5 with 116 CS. Shortly after a few more kills the enemy surrenders and we win. Overall a successful Cass game for me. I give myself a B+ with this one. I did well.
Mine: Corki/Janna Bot, Nid Top, Heca Jungle and Cass(me) Mid
Enemy: Xerath Mid, Udyr Jungle, Riven Top, Soraka and Vayne Bot.
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Usual start. We head down to protect jungle, and leash then head to lane. Early game Xerath has me on range alone so I play it safe and attempt to farm as he pops me every now and again.
3:00 - Terrible 5 CS to Xeraths 12. I'm pushed to tower just farming where I can while I wait for the jungler to get ready, but sadly I am nearly out of mana so no real good gank available yet. I get pushed to tower again. Hecarim comes to gank, Xerath burns flash and I push out to the middle a bit.
6:00 - My farm is increasing. 21 to 29 now. I'm still sorely low on mana however. I once again get pushed back as Xerath goes turret mode. He hits me, then ults me for the stun at my tower, then again at my tower. Luckily I am able to move back a bit and he cannot hit me a third time.
Heca wants to gank yet again but I am still low on mana. The enemy jungle has taken our blue at this point so I try to wait for mana to come up for the gank but Hecarim goes early. Xerath makes a mistake and goes for the jungler but can't do anything.
8:15ish first blood for the enemy team. Vayne scores the kill on Janna. I finally back at 8:30
9:00 - 31 CS to Xeraths 48. I now have 2 doran rings and boots. Xerath is MIA and hits top with Riven and Udyr. They run towards our tower/jungle. Hecarim heads up to help. Nid takes out Udyr and Xerath gets Nid and Hecarim, but tower aggro gives Hecarim the riven kill.
I push my lane and hit top and take out Riven. In hindsight I should have gone up so much sooner. I return to lane, we start to try to make a dragon happen but we can't. We do however get the perk of finding Udyr in our jungle and slaughtering him.
15:30 - I'm at 68 CS to Xeraths 69. I'm also 1/0/1, Xerath is 1/2/1. Gold advantage to me. I'm level 10 and have blue buff. Cass is very scary at this point in the game. I still have two dorans and now sorc shoes.
We head down to dragon to engage on Vayne and Xerath. I finish up Vayne while Corki finished Xerath. I hit lane and proceed to take wraiths and farm more. At 16:40 I decide to try to solo Xerath. I flash in, poison and then ult as he stuns me and he gets away with little health.
Udyr shows in the jungle at our red with Heca taking it currently so I hoof it back up to help and I take out Udyr as Xerath takes me out. Riven shows and cleans up the rest. :(
18:45 - 90 cs to Xeraths 76. I'm quite bit ahead. I'm also at 3/1/2, Xerath is 2/4/2.
I make a mistake here, Riven and Udyr are engage our nid and hecarim at the enemy blue. I go to help and ult Udyr, sadly I should have let Heca die. Xerath came into play and the three of them destroyed us pretty well. I nearly got out, but not enough.
This is my second and last death.
25:15 - Team fight bot happens and we clean up 3 kills. 119 CS to 112 CS. 4/2/5 to 3/5/5. Still in the lead.
29:40 - Dragon time. We close in as a team on dragon, the enemy team is already there. I ult Udyr, he goes down first. I proceed to get killing blows on Xerath and assist with Riven. We proceed to take dragon and push mid.
31:00 - 6/2/7, 128 CS. Xerath is 3/6/5 with 116 CS. Shortly after a few more kills the enemy surrenders and we win. Overall a successful Cass game for me. I give myself a B+ with this one. I did well.
Udyr - The Junglers Jungler: Dissection #2
Teams: My Side - Udyr Jungle(Me), TF Mid, Singed Top and Graves/Kayle bot
Enemy Team: Fiora Jungle, Riven Top, Cait/Singed bot and Ziggs mid.
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Pretty average start, I go boots+pots and head up to Wolves/Blue. My team leashes pretty well. So here I sit, getting my farm on. Singed is pushing top pretty well, our bottom is freezing the lane out decent enough. TF is a hair over extended in mid but doable.
3:00 - 12 CS and level 3. I hit level 4 and head top for a gank. The enemy Fiora comes in right behind me, the enemy Riven is pushed close to our tower and singed is very low, he drops poison and runs. Bear stance go! I run in and stun Riven mid poison and we get the kill as she runs away... into the poison trail. There's a problem still.
Singe is very low Fiora has about double my health and I'm down to about 250HP to Fioras 515. We both have double buffs so I shift bear and run down river. Now, in hindsight the enemy Ziggs in mid really could have just run up and two shot me but TF has him pretty occupied. Fiora backs off and I live! I run around the far side to our wraiths and vamp up what I can with turtle and head to gank mid. TF goes all aggressive with yellow card and Ziggs flashes away. I head back into my jungle at this point seeing that I am still low and Ziggs, and Fiora are now in mid I B to heal and buy merc boots/ward.
6:30 - 24 CS vs Fiora's 18. 1v0 Kills so far for the team. We're doing alright but it's early. I head to ward/gank bot. Lane is pretty pushed in the wrong direction but I give it a go with Kayle going very low and our AD in good shape. Kayle flashes over me, and I'm in Phoenix. I shift to Bear and stun the enemy Singed he flashes out, so a decent gank. I burnt a summoner and no one died on our side.
Really though. Who doesn't like to make Singe run away AND flash to get away from you? +1. So I go into the bushes and walk into a Cait trap. I'm good. I should have expected it. I go around tri-bush and attempt to gank but in reality I should have just kept killing creeps but I stay to long and waste time.
I feed my mid blue as our tower is nearly dead but we get there in time to safe it and Fiora and Ziggs back off.
I once again decide badly. Top is nearly gone and requested help but I went bot to attempt a gank and I did nothing but waste even more time. I eventually leave and grab golems then base.
11:20 - 43 CS to Firoas 30. 2v1 so far for team kills. I buy wardsx3 and cloth armor. I head bot as our bot lane completely dies but takes Riven down. I head in to farm and Cait and Singe show up. I'm Udyr. I don't care about anything so I keep farming. Kayle comes in behind me with graves not to far behind.
Singed tries to engage and I bear stance, and stun him while Graves and Kayle completely obliterate him. TF pots in and we take tower while I chase Cait but she gets away so we back off and take the enemy blue.
I smite it just as cait and singed move in, it's Udyr, Graves and Kayle by blue however, so I smite steal as Kayle gets flipped. I go in and bear Singed and then we back off. In hindsight I should have stuck on him and we could have gotten him easily and still escaped, he had nearly no health left. I back and Ziggs shows and takes out Kayle.
18:00 - 64 CS to 43 CS. Fiora is however 3/1/1 while I am 0/1/2 overall team kills however are 9 to 6. We're still in the lead however the gold difference is most likely in Fioras favor.
Riven is top solo, so Graves, TF and I chase her out of lane and kill her then start to beat on the tower. Fiora appears out of the enemy jungle as graves has backed off, so it's just me and TF. Fiora also has red buff. I pop turtle as TF throws a gold card and stuns her on the tower and throws more cards chunking her down half way. I go back to the tower and then as the enemy singed shows I bail but end up getting flipped. There are now 4 of us top vs their 3. Our singe shows and lays down his own poison trail - now it's a 5v5 top. We go in at their tower with our creep wave.
The enemy singe goes down first and we take the tower out as I get ulted on by Fiora. Bad move, I bear into her and she drops. Ziggs ults on top of us and takes out our graves as we switch onto Ziggs - He gets chunked quickly and Rive shows. She gets flipped and stunned as again the 4 of us go in. She ults and takes out our TF. Now 3v1. I'm very low, I'm under 200 HP but I decide to go in and stun as Riven kills me and gets the double. Luckily Kayle and Singe clean up
21:00 0 69 CS to 51 CS. I'm now 1/2/4 to Fiora's 3/2/2. My gold is slowly catching up to her. I do notice however at 21 minutes in I am woefully under farmed. I should be farming any and every chance I get if my team doesn't need me. We have a tank so me missing for a couple scrims wouldn't be a horrible thing but live and learn.
Next team fight, Kayle, Graves, TF and I are mid as the enemy Singe, Fiora, Ziggs and Riven take out our first mid tower. As they start to back I run in with bear and flash onto Ziggs. I pop Phoenix as the enemy team starts to run into our singes poison trail. Kayle ults me as I get chased. They are to busy focusing on me and Fiora gets taken out by singe and that poison. Riven goes onto to Kayle as I bear and catch up and stun. I back as Ziggs ends up taking out our Singed with Riven.
Out pops Cait! She ults on me and I live. She AA's me and I live, TF pops in and stuns her as she runs. I believe I did the right thing at this point, I backed and didn't give them any gold. Everyone backs off and I decided to go down and farm bot and attempt to tower push.
Right as I get to the tower Ziggs, Singe and Cait show up. They start in on me chasing. I keep alternating bear and turtle as I run and turn up river as my team comes to meet me. I turn around and go in on Cait, she drops. and we keep chasing.
TF ults in front of the group as they run to stun, Kayle goes the long way. The enemy singe gets flipped and starts to run and drops in the bush. Ziggs dies under his tower just as Fiora shows up and pops ult onto me. She gets stunned at tower as I start taking tower aggro but live and we drop her. Let tower reset and start to burn it.
25:15 - 78 CS to 66 CS. Fiora is now 3/4/2 and I am 1/2/7. I'm ahead in gold at this point easy. We bush it to back and Riven shows. She rushes into it to kill us, but gets dropped. She ends up taking singe with her, but 1v1 trade, we're good. I stick around to late and should have backed but I clear the wave as cait shows and ults graves and drops him.
I head up mid and run into Singe, Ziggs and Cait. They can't do too much to me, I'm pretty tanky at this point but still I wait for my team to enclose on them at our tower in mid. Singe goes in while Cait leaves the group to attack the tower. We rush mid as Ziggs gets flipped and and the enemy team flashes/runs.
TF once again ults ahead of the group as singe catches up to flip them. We take out Cait and Ziggs as FIora takes TF down. I'm taking tower hits and back wisely up but not enough as Riven comes out and crushes me with Fiora and Singe.
30:00 - We baron and it's 78 CS Still to Fioras 73. I'm 1/3/8. Fiora is 5/4/4. With baron we clear jungle and go in on the group as we find them by wraiths. Riven stupidly goes in solo and we take her down, followed by Fiora. I charge ahead into the group running and go after Singed, Ziggs and Fiora. The enemy retreats to tower and we get a good flip on singe and stun and take him out.
With baron we take both mid towers and a top tower. Teamfight! TF Falls first, then Kayle and our Singed. I should have stayed with graves to help, but sadly I don't. Graves takes out Riven, Singe and Ziggs as I run away. Fiora lives with 350 health. If I stuck around I could have assisted and he could have gotten a quadra. I'm a wuss. :(
39:00 - 94 CS to 107 CS. I'm still way behind however I am now 1/4/11. Fiora is 6/5/8 with a finished IE, Phage and Zeal. I have Wits End, Frozen Mallet, Cloth and Chain armor. We head to baron and play cat and mouse.
We find a bunny Riven in the bush and collapse onto her, Ziggs and Cait try to help her but we end up taking her down completely. We chase a bit and fall onto their singed and Fiora and take them out. We head back to Baron to take an easy kill. We push mid immediately to the first inhib.
40:40 - Inhib goes down, I am still at 94 CS but now 1/4/14 to Fioras 107 and 6/6/8. We go in after inhib and take down Cait but I die in the process. The team takes top turret and inhib down.
We move onto Nexus towers and proceed to destroy the inhib and that's game.
Overall? I did alright. I was a tank for the team more than damage but with our TF and Graves we had plenty of overall DPS. I give this game a solid C+.
Enemy Team: Fiora Jungle, Riven Top, Cait/Singed bot and Ziggs mid.
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Pretty average start, I go boots+pots and head up to Wolves/Blue. My team leashes pretty well. So here I sit, getting my farm on. Singed is pushing top pretty well, our bottom is freezing the lane out decent enough. TF is a hair over extended in mid but doable.
3:00 - 12 CS and level 3. I hit level 4 and head top for a gank. The enemy Fiora comes in right behind me, the enemy Riven is pushed close to our tower and singed is very low, he drops poison and runs. Bear stance go! I run in and stun Riven mid poison and we get the kill as she runs away... into the poison trail. There's a problem still.
Singe is very low Fiora has about double my health and I'm down to about 250HP to Fioras 515. We both have double buffs so I shift bear and run down river. Now, in hindsight the enemy Ziggs in mid really could have just run up and two shot me but TF has him pretty occupied. Fiora backs off and I live! I run around the far side to our wraiths and vamp up what I can with turtle and head to gank mid. TF goes all aggressive with yellow card and Ziggs flashes away. I head back into my jungle at this point seeing that I am still low and Ziggs, and Fiora are now in mid I B to heal and buy merc boots/ward.
6:30 - 24 CS vs Fiora's 18. 1v0 Kills so far for the team. We're doing alright but it's early. I head to ward/gank bot. Lane is pretty pushed in the wrong direction but I give it a go with Kayle going very low and our AD in good shape. Kayle flashes over me, and I'm in Phoenix. I shift to Bear and stun the enemy Singed he flashes out, so a decent gank. I burnt a summoner and no one died on our side.
Really though. Who doesn't like to make Singe run away AND flash to get away from you? +1. So I go into the bushes and walk into a Cait trap. I'm good. I should have expected it. I go around tri-bush and attempt to gank but in reality I should have just kept killing creeps but I stay to long and waste time.
I feed my mid blue as our tower is nearly dead but we get there in time to safe it and Fiora and Ziggs back off.
I once again decide badly. Top is nearly gone and requested help but I went bot to attempt a gank and I did nothing but waste even more time. I eventually leave and grab golems then base.
11:20 - 43 CS to Firoas 30. 2v1 so far for team kills. I buy wardsx3 and cloth armor. I head bot as our bot lane completely dies but takes Riven down. I head in to farm and Cait and Singe show up. I'm Udyr. I don't care about anything so I keep farming. Kayle comes in behind me with graves not to far behind.
Singed tries to engage and I bear stance, and stun him while Graves and Kayle completely obliterate him. TF pots in and we take tower while I chase Cait but she gets away so we back off and take the enemy blue.
I smite it just as cait and singed move in, it's Udyr, Graves and Kayle by blue however, so I smite steal as Kayle gets flipped. I go in and bear Singed and then we back off. In hindsight I should have stuck on him and we could have gotten him easily and still escaped, he had nearly no health left. I back and Ziggs shows and takes out Kayle.
18:00 - 64 CS to 43 CS. Fiora is however 3/1/1 while I am 0/1/2 overall team kills however are 9 to 6. We're still in the lead however the gold difference is most likely in Fioras favor.
Riven is top solo, so Graves, TF and I chase her out of lane and kill her then start to beat on the tower. Fiora appears out of the enemy jungle as graves has backed off, so it's just me and TF. Fiora also has red buff. I pop turtle as TF throws a gold card and stuns her on the tower and throws more cards chunking her down half way. I go back to the tower and then as the enemy singed shows I bail but end up getting flipped. There are now 4 of us top vs their 3. Our singe shows and lays down his own poison trail - now it's a 5v5 top. We go in at their tower with our creep wave.
The enemy singe goes down first and we take the tower out as I get ulted on by Fiora. Bad move, I bear into her and she drops. Ziggs ults on top of us and takes out our graves as we switch onto Ziggs - He gets chunked quickly and Rive shows. She gets flipped and stunned as again the 4 of us go in. She ults and takes out our TF. Now 3v1. I'm very low, I'm under 200 HP but I decide to go in and stun as Riven kills me and gets the double. Luckily Kayle and Singe clean up
21:00 0 69 CS to 51 CS. I'm now 1/2/4 to Fiora's 3/2/2. My gold is slowly catching up to her. I do notice however at 21 minutes in I am woefully under farmed. I should be farming any and every chance I get if my team doesn't need me. We have a tank so me missing for a couple scrims wouldn't be a horrible thing but live and learn.
Next team fight, Kayle, Graves, TF and I are mid as the enemy Singe, Fiora, Ziggs and Riven take out our first mid tower. As they start to back I run in with bear and flash onto Ziggs. I pop Phoenix as the enemy team starts to run into our singes poison trail. Kayle ults me as I get chased. They are to busy focusing on me and Fiora gets taken out by singe and that poison. Riven goes onto to Kayle as I bear and catch up and stun. I back as Ziggs ends up taking out our Singed with Riven.
Out pops Cait! She ults on me and I live. She AA's me and I live, TF pops in and stuns her as she runs. I believe I did the right thing at this point, I backed and didn't give them any gold. Everyone backs off and I decided to go down and farm bot and attempt to tower push.
Right as I get to the tower Ziggs, Singe and Cait show up. They start in on me chasing. I keep alternating bear and turtle as I run and turn up river as my team comes to meet me. I turn around and go in on Cait, she drops. and we keep chasing.
TF ults in front of the group as they run to stun, Kayle goes the long way. The enemy singe gets flipped and starts to run and drops in the bush. Ziggs dies under his tower just as Fiora shows up and pops ult onto me. She gets stunned at tower as I start taking tower aggro but live and we drop her. Let tower reset and start to burn it.
25:15 - 78 CS to 66 CS. Fiora is now 3/4/2 and I am 1/2/7. I'm ahead in gold at this point easy. We bush it to back and Riven shows. She rushes into it to kill us, but gets dropped. She ends up taking singe with her, but 1v1 trade, we're good. I stick around to late and should have backed but I clear the wave as cait shows and ults graves and drops him.
I head up mid and run into Singe, Ziggs and Cait. They can't do too much to me, I'm pretty tanky at this point but still I wait for my team to enclose on them at our tower in mid. Singe goes in while Cait leaves the group to attack the tower. We rush mid as Ziggs gets flipped and and the enemy team flashes/runs.
TF once again ults ahead of the group as singe catches up to flip them. We take out Cait and Ziggs as FIora takes TF down. I'm taking tower hits and back wisely up but not enough as Riven comes out and crushes me with Fiora and Singe.
30:00 - We baron and it's 78 CS Still to Fioras 73. I'm 1/3/8. Fiora is 5/4/4. With baron we clear jungle and go in on the group as we find them by wraiths. Riven stupidly goes in solo and we take her down, followed by Fiora. I charge ahead into the group running and go after Singed, Ziggs and Fiora. The enemy retreats to tower and we get a good flip on singe and stun and take him out.
With baron we take both mid towers and a top tower. Teamfight! TF Falls first, then Kayle and our Singed. I should have stayed with graves to help, but sadly I don't. Graves takes out Riven, Singe and Ziggs as I run away. Fiora lives with 350 health. If I stuck around I could have assisted and he could have gotten a quadra. I'm a wuss. :(
39:00 - 94 CS to 107 CS. I'm still way behind however I am now 1/4/11. Fiora is 6/5/8 with a finished IE, Phage and Zeal. I have Wits End, Frozen Mallet, Cloth and Chain armor. We head to baron and play cat and mouse.
We find a bunny Riven in the bush and collapse onto her, Ziggs and Cait try to help her but we end up taking her down completely. We chase a bit and fall onto their singed and Fiora and take them out. We head back to Baron to take an easy kill. We push mid immediately to the first inhib.
40:40 - Inhib goes down, I am still at 94 CS but now 1/4/14 to Fioras 107 and 6/6/8. We go in after inhib and take down Cait but I die in the process. The team takes top turret and inhib down.
We move onto Nexus towers and proceed to destroy the inhib and that's game.
Overall? I did alright. I was a tank for the team more than damage but with our TF and Graves we had plenty of overall DPS. I give this game a solid C+.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Dissection #1 - Vlad Mid
So here is my first attempt at a dissection of the game I played.
I was Mid Vlad I started boots +3 our team consisted of AD Sion top, Twitch and Morgana bot and Shen in the jangle. In hindsight I probably should have let Morgana mid and I should have gone bot, it would have been better I believe.
I started the game off wandering aimlessly around blue incase of invade, then moved to mid. In my lane I had an Ahri. Ahri just has superior poke to my Vlad and I shouldn't have been so aggressive. Ontop of all that my Twitch wasn't a super help. He was there stealth watching as I engaged..and stayed stealth then attacked a minion as I died. I picked up a ward and went to help top out since he had B'd.
My next mistake was early at level 2 - I didn't take pool. With a champ like Ahri I should have pooled at 2. Also at 4 minutes, I had a whopping one CS from dealing with her range. Sion attempted a gank and if I had pool we would have been successful, though I backed off when Ahri had little to no health left.
And because of the range again, Ahri killed me a second time at my tower and this is within the first six minutes of the game. At this point Ahri has 3 kills already, no deaths. Top lane Urgot against our Sion has one kill.
At the 7 minute mark it's 2 kills to their 5. I have 13 CS to Ahri's 25. So my farm was horrible, I was too worried about that range. My items still consist of a potion and starting boots. Ahri dives me at tower and takes enough damage to die with another tower hit, or a shot from me. I'm low, but if I had killed her the gold gained from her spree would have far outweighed my death. In hindsight, I should have gone for it rather than backed.
10 minutes in 48 CS to my 23. Shen decides to gank my lane as he had been babysitting our top and we finally get Ahri dead and I get the credit so I gained 366 gold ontop of the 150 for the kill. Not bad. I back to buy. At this point in the game I have merc boots, a tome and wards. Ahri however has a needlessly large rod, boots 1, Sapphire Crystal and a Dorans Ring. One Q from Ahri and I'm losing a 5th of my life.
13 minutes in and it's 64 to 36. Shen comes to gank, and I was completely oblivious. Ahri did entirely to much damage as well as the tower to shen. If I had noticed I could have assisted in the gank quicker and been less costly.
15 minutes - 44 to 64 CS. I'm catching up - Finally. I back to the base and pick up a revolver and.. more wards! I'm warding both sides of my lane to be safe. Lane swap and Akali comes into my lane then leaves to only come back into the lane. I push to tower and back off. Akali is autoattacking minions. I really should have gone in to harass, but I stayed back. Played it a bit to safe. As before, Shen comes up mid and I miss him and Sion going down. I ult as he dies, and back off to get away from this 3 man gank of the enemy Shen, Akali and Ahri.
20 minutes - I have 65 CS, Merc Treads, WOTA and more wards. Ahri has 90 CS, Dorans, Crystal, Rod, Blasting Wand and still level 1 boots. She's going early DC. Overall score is 7-15 kills. Enemy team is definitely ahead. My mid tower is still standing, but top is gone. Urgot attemps to gank me with Ahri and Talon from my bush and switches me. I pool, I dodge Ahri's charm and run to tower. I get a good ult toss on all three, and with the tower and ult I take down Ahri. Worth it.
At the 22 minute mark I head bot, our tower is almost gone and 3 people are on it. Smart thing to do would have to head to the last standing tower bot as it was about to fall but no, I engage and pool. I use my only escape and I die very quickly. If I had gotten my ult off, possibly could have taken one with me but 2 kills+tower(as they killed a team mate) was worth far more than a single kill. So grade F on that choice there.
25 Minutes: It's actually slowly getting better at this point. Our team is out lasting their team (Urgot, Ahri, Shen, Talon and Akali). I have 87 CS to Ahri's 101. However I am 2/3/1 and Ahri is 6/3/1. She has entirely more gold than I do by a substantial amount not to mention the dragons and now 2 towers we've lost. Our team is on the defensive by my tower. Shen, Twitch and I. The enemy Shen, Akali and Ahri dive us. I pool, and slow. Shen taunts and twitch starts to rip through them. They burn flash and ults as I ult onto them. Ahri takes out twitch and ults away. Our morgana comes up from behind as Shen is still going in. Talon pops up from the bush and obliterates me and almost Shen as well. So that trade was worth nothing, we lost two people. We should not have chased.
30 minutes into game. I finally buy more items. Merc Treads, Giants Belt, Wota and tome. 112 CS to Ahri's 127. I'm 2/4/1 to Ahri 7/3/4. Still pretty bad actually. 8-23 kill wise overall. The other team is way more fed however, we still are trying!
We end up catching Urgot going into our top jungle and we swarm in on him take him out pretty quickly. I go back to farm mid, and I notice Shen top with Akali. Shen taunts and Akali is taken low as I run up to help, so do Ahri and the Enemy Shen. Akali is low so I drop ult on all three people still at full mostly. My ult finally hits and Akali goes down, still two on two now. I'm taken low by Ahri so I pool as shen is still focused on her and Ahri and I go down at the same time. Urgot shows and shen bolts for it.
I do believe this is the turning point, it's 35 minutes into game. I have a Rylai's, Wota,Boots and a health gem. 126 CS to Ahri's 148. Ahri is now 8/4/4 while I am 3/5/3. Ahri still has more gold, and items to proove it. Rod of Ages, DC, Blasting Wand and Sorc shoes. It is now 13-24. We are starting to push and this starts end game, as we begin to win most fights. We head mid and a team fight breaks out.
We ace them, we lose Shen and myself. Our team pushes 3 mid towers and the mid inhib before we back off to dragon. We are now 18-27 at 38 minutes. We show up at baron and go in as they kill him. Once more, we ace the team. We lose Twitch and myself again. We push down both nexus turrets and take the nexus down to about 1/5th of health. Sion pushes bot, however if he had pushed with mid the game would be over, but it continues.
45 Minutes: We pushed all top towers and inhib down. No towers, or inhibs left for the enemy team. My current build is Randuin's Omen, WOTA, Merc and Rylai's. I decide to iniate with a pool and then Shen ults into me. We go on the team. Urgot falls first, then Akali, Twitch and Myself along with Sion. Morgana and Shen clean up however and proceed to push them back and end the game.
What should I have done better? Everything. I needed to CS more. I needed to take skills based on the champion in my lane. I need better map awareness and I need to stop wimping out when I should be able to get a kill and have it be worth it even if I do die in the process. I do not mid often so this is a pretty bad showing from me. I do get better however!
Well, this is the first one of many. Next will be Monday! Hope you enjoyed, or didn't enjoy.
I was Mid Vlad I started boots +3 our team consisted of AD Sion top, Twitch and Morgana bot and Shen in the jangle. In hindsight I probably should have let Morgana mid and I should have gone bot, it would have been better I believe.
I started the game off wandering aimlessly around blue incase of invade, then moved to mid. In my lane I had an Ahri. Ahri just has superior poke to my Vlad and I shouldn't have been so aggressive. Ontop of all that my Twitch wasn't a super help. He was there stealth watching as I engaged..and stayed stealth then attacked a minion as I died. I picked up a ward and went to help top out since he had B'd.
My next mistake was early at level 2 - I didn't take pool. With a champ like Ahri I should have pooled at 2. Also at 4 minutes, I had a whopping one CS from dealing with her range. Sion attempted a gank and if I had pool we would have been successful, though I backed off when Ahri had little to no health left.
And because of the range again, Ahri killed me a second time at my tower and this is within the first six minutes of the game. At this point Ahri has 3 kills already, no deaths. Top lane Urgot against our Sion has one kill.
At the 7 minute mark it's 2 kills to their 5. I have 13 CS to Ahri's 25. So my farm was horrible, I was too worried about that range. My items still consist of a potion and starting boots. Ahri dives me at tower and takes enough damage to die with another tower hit, or a shot from me. I'm low, but if I had killed her the gold gained from her spree would have far outweighed my death. In hindsight, I should have gone for it rather than backed.
10 minutes in 48 CS to my 23. Shen decides to gank my lane as he had been babysitting our top and we finally get Ahri dead and I get the credit so I gained 366 gold ontop of the 150 for the kill. Not bad. I back to buy. At this point in the game I have merc boots, a tome and wards. Ahri however has a needlessly large rod, boots 1, Sapphire Crystal and a Dorans Ring. One Q from Ahri and I'm losing a 5th of my life.
13 minutes in and it's 64 to 36. Shen comes to gank, and I was completely oblivious. Ahri did entirely to much damage as well as the tower to shen. If I had noticed I could have assisted in the gank quicker and been less costly.
15 minutes - 44 to 64 CS. I'm catching up - Finally. I back to the base and pick up a revolver and.. more wards! I'm warding both sides of my lane to be safe. Lane swap and Akali comes into my lane then leaves to only come back into the lane. I push to tower and back off. Akali is autoattacking minions. I really should have gone in to harass, but I stayed back. Played it a bit to safe. As before, Shen comes up mid and I miss him and Sion going down. I ult as he dies, and back off to get away from this 3 man gank of the enemy Shen, Akali and Ahri.
20 minutes - I have 65 CS, Merc Treads, WOTA and more wards. Ahri has 90 CS, Dorans, Crystal, Rod, Blasting Wand and still level 1 boots. She's going early DC. Overall score is 7-15 kills. Enemy team is definitely ahead. My mid tower is still standing, but top is gone. Urgot attemps to gank me with Ahri and Talon from my bush and switches me. I pool, I dodge Ahri's charm and run to tower. I get a good ult toss on all three, and with the tower and ult I take down Ahri. Worth it.
At the 22 minute mark I head bot, our tower is almost gone and 3 people are on it. Smart thing to do would have to head to the last standing tower bot as it was about to fall but no, I engage and pool. I use my only escape and I die very quickly. If I had gotten my ult off, possibly could have taken one with me but 2 kills+tower(as they killed a team mate) was worth far more than a single kill. So grade F on that choice there.
25 Minutes: It's actually slowly getting better at this point. Our team is out lasting their team (Urgot, Ahri, Shen, Talon and Akali). I have 87 CS to Ahri's 101. However I am 2/3/1 and Ahri is 6/3/1. She has entirely more gold than I do by a substantial amount not to mention the dragons and now 2 towers we've lost. Our team is on the defensive by my tower. Shen, Twitch and I. The enemy Shen, Akali and Ahri dive us. I pool, and slow. Shen taunts and twitch starts to rip through them. They burn flash and ults as I ult onto them. Ahri takes out twitch and ults away. Our morgana comes up from behind as Shen is still going in. Talon pops up from the bush and obliterates me and almost Shen as well. So that trade was worth nothing, we lost two people. We should not have chased.
30 minutes into game. I finally buy more items. Merc Treads, Giants Belt, Wota and tome. 112 CS to Ahri's 127. I'm 2/4/1 to Ahri 7/3/4. Still pretty bad actually. 8-23 kill wise overall. The other team is way more fed however, we still are trying!
We end up catching Urgot going into our top jungle and we swarm in on him take him out pretty quickly. I go back to farm mid, and I notice Shen top with Akali. Shen taunts and Akali is taken low as I run up to help, so do Ahri and the Enemy Shen. Akali is low so I drop ult on all three people still at full mostly. My ult finally hits and Akali goes down, still two on two now. I'm taken low by Ahri so I pool as shen is still focused on her and Ahri and I go down at the same time. Urgot shows and shen bolts for it.
I do believe this is the turning point, it's 35 minutes into game. I have a Rylai's, Wota,Boots and a health gem. 126 CS to Ahri's 148. Ahri is now 8/4/4 while I am 3/5/3. Ahri still has more gold, and items to proove it. Rod of Ages, DC, Blasting Wand and Sorc shoes. It is now 13-24. We are starting to push and this starts end game, as we begin to win most fights. We head mid and a team fight breaks out.
We ace them, we lose Shen and myself. Our team pushes 3 mid towers and the mid inhib before we back off to dragon. We are now 18-27 at 38 minutes. We show up at baron and go in as they kill him. Once more, we ace the team. We lose Twitch and myself again. We push down both nexus turrets and take the nexus down to about 1/5th of health. Sion pushes bot, however if he had pushed with mid the game would be over, but it continues.
Dawn of the Final Day
42 minutes into game: 23-29. We have to back off as they all pop up. We buy items, and farm some more.45 Minutes: We pushed all top towers and inhib down. No towers, or inhibs left for the enemy team. My current build is Randuin's Omen, WOTA, Merc and Rylai's. I decide to iniate with a pool and then Shen ults into me. We go on the team. Urgot falls first, then Akali, Twitch and Myself along with Sion. Morgana and Shen clean up however and proceed to push them back and end the game.
What should I have done better? Everything. I needed to CS more. I needed to take skills based on the champion in my lane. I need better map awareness and I need to stop wimping out when I should be able to get a kill and have it be worth it even if I do die in the process. I do not mid often so this is a pretty bad showing from me. I do get better however!
Well, this is the first one of many. Next will be Monday! Hope you enjoyed, or didn't enjoy.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
A thought I had
So I was thinking of a way to keep the blogging rolling, to keep me writing actively to get back into this habit and I had a thought. What if like so many others before me I disect LoL replays? Could work, right? The big difference is it will be of my games, not others and I will attempt to point out my own mistakes and be my own critic.
I figured that:
Now here's my disclaimer - I am not a pro player(Shocker, I know). I am a very average player that works quite a bit but does enjoy game time. I won't promise the games will alway be exciting but I do promise to be pretty blunt and honest with my own gameplay.
I will gladly accept critiques and comments from any community, and I will even post this on reddit and probably get dogged just a bit. I think it'll be fun.
I figured that:
- It will improve my game, as it direly needs improving.
- I will get content out of it, and eventually if I ever get readers, who knows. It might work out.
Now here's my disclaimer - I am not a pro player(Shocker, I know). I am a very average player that works quite a bit but does enjoy game time. I won't promise the games will alway be exciting but I do promise to be pretty blunt and honest with my own gameplay.
I will gladly accept critiques and comments from any community, and I will even post this on reddit and probably get dogged just a bit. I think it'll be fun.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
So here we are.
Hey,
It's been awhile now. I haven't tried to write seriously or keep a blog in a number of years. I think I will make this one more gaming focused. Keep it a bit separate from outside life, and based of the name of it I do think it will be League of Legends related.
BOT OR AFK
So I jungle. It is my preferred role in the game. I will also Mid,Top, or Bot but what do I like to do? Jungle. It's more fun, it's not as passive as mid or top and I can control the pace. I'm in the back of all the other lanes head wondering where I am, when I'll attempt a gank. All I need do is show up and the play changes, the style change and they back off from my team mate. It's when they don't back off that I have to believe there is an enemy jungler around. I also must employ DP.
What is DP? Dude potential. (I cannot take credit for this, I give credit to Riot games.) What is Dude Potential? I'm glad you asked. You see we have 5 people on a team. You see one top, two bot, and no mid, or jungle. That means in the bush that's ahead of you there is DP2. The potential for 2 dudes to jump out and gank you senseless.
That has to be in the back of everyones mind. Map awareness is key.
How do I do it? I don't. I fail a lot still. New still more or less to the PVP side, but I read a lot and watch a good number of videos and steams. I'm learning! I hope to chronicle my learning experience with this blog. General insights, funny things and the like. For now, I think I'll leave it with this.
Thanks! GLHF Folks.
It's been awhile now. I haven't tried to write seriously or keep a blog in a number of years. I think I will make this one more gaming focused. Keep it a bit separate from outside life, and based of the name of it I do think it will be League of Legends related.
BOT OR AFK
So I jungle. It is my preferred role in the game. I will also Mid,Top, or Bot but what do I like to do? Jungle. It's more fun, it's not as passive as mid or top and I can control the pace. I'm in the back of all the other lanes head wondering where I am, when I'll attempt a gank. All I need do is show up and the play changes, the style change and they back off from my team mate. It's when they don't back off that I have to believe there is an enemy jungler around. I also must employ DP.
What is DP? Dude potential. (I cannot take credit for this, I give credit to Riot games.) What is Dude Potential? I'm glad you asked. You see we have 5 people on a team. You see one top, two bot, and no mid, or jungle. That means in the bush that's ahead of you there is DP2. The potential for 2 dudes to jump out and gank you senseless.
That has to be in the back of everyones mind. Map awareness is key.
How do I do it? I don't. I fail a lot still. New still more or less to the PVP side, but I read a lot and watch a good number of videos and steams. I'm learning! I hope to chronicle my learning experience with this blog. General insights, funny things and the like. For now, I think I'll leave it with this.
Thanks! GLHF Folks.
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