2011-01-27, 04:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-27, 07:36 AM by ElectricSix.)
[spoiler=Since I keep writing huge walls of text, I'm just spoilering them from now on]Well I ended up playing two games a short while ago. The first one, oh god was it terrible. I didn't suspect that we had 3 new players, and they had chosen Annie, Master Yi, and Warwick. All reasonable choices for damage dealing and carrying, and all played by total newbies, not that I knew that at the time. That left me and one other person, and since we had some decent damage dealers, I figured I'd go Cho'Gath to get some more tanking experience in. The other person with some experience picked Amummu. Which would have been fine had our team not fed the opposing team like a sunday buffet. I can't say I was any better because I kept trying to keep the carries alive . . . only to discover to my horror just how terrible they were at it. No boots, no good or even decent items, and no kills. Amummu and I, the two tanks, managed a total of 4 kills against Ashe, Dr Mundo, Rammus, Mordekaiser, and Poppy. <.< By the time I thought about stacking damage to even somewhat get a few more kills in to try and get back into things, it was far far too late. We ended up at somewhere close to or at 50 deaths by the end. It was simply awful in all respects. I'll note I accounted for a solid 9 or 10 or those deaths btw, so I wasn't exactly helping, but yeah . . . it was a very very bad match and there wasn't much to be done about it.
The second game, I ended up getting Master Yi, along with Mordekaiser, Pantheon, Hermdinger, and Udyr. Now I had a pretty bad start with Yi. Not terrible, but no kills for quite a while and around 2-3 deaths. The other team had a Master Yi, Mordekaiser, Hermdinger, Nunu and Gangplank. The Pantheon on our side fed them Yi, Mordekaiser, and Gangplank quite well. He had around 19 deaths by the end of the match, 1 kill, and couple of assists. Now with just that, we were struggling, but hanging on. Then around the midpoint of the game, our Mordekaiser left/dced. But it wasn't all lost at that point. I was getting in some solid kills, and finally building my DPS items. I even ganked the opposing Yi who was a Lifesteal build with some help, but the problem with Pantheon was that no matter what was going on, he always went off and did his own thing. We'd be defending the base, he'd be off farming creeps or hitting towers. Now that's not a terrible thing . . . except he never listened to anyone. At one point, we were still holding on, albeit barely, and he was the only one up, and he was off in the top lane farming while Master Yi and Hermdinger killed our middle turret and inhibitor. After that, it was just game over. I kept on defending, no matter how many times I died, and I killed Yi, I killed Nunu, I killed as many people as I could, but Master Yi is fragile, and I couldn't do it alone. Not that I was alone, the Hermdiner was competent, and the Udyr was really good, so even at 5 vs 3, we were holding them off for quite a while. It's especially funny when Mordekaiser starts running away from both Udyr and Master Yi because he knows his time is at an end. Or the other Master Yi running from me because he knew if I crited even a few times, he was dead, lifesteal or not. It was a happy loss, I played well, carried as best as I could, and overall I think it was one of my better games. With one more person, or even just having Panth listen to us, we would have won it I think. Or at least made it super close.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Part 2 since I still couldn't get to sleep]So I was wide awake after my two losses, and decided I'd keep at it a few more times hoping I'd win once at some point. First game after the previous two, I did pretty well. Ended up at 8/3/1 or 8/5/1 or somewhere around there. Had a good team who knew what they were doing, and while the other team was decent, we were able to push/single kill them enough times to take the game.
Second game, there's already a Yi, a MF, a Panth, and a Heimdinger. So I decide to work on my Cho'gath game some more and be a tank. Not sure if Panth was going tank as well, but that's what I went. Their side had almost all Physical so I had a pretty easy time with things. I did a minor screwup at start and bought what I would have if I was playing Yi, but in the end it was hardly a problem at all. I also forgot to upgrade my boots, so I ran around with clean boots the entire game. Again, didn't really need anything more than that because I omnomomed quite a few to death, and assisted Yi, MF, and Panth quite a few times as well. My score wasn't crazy, but I hardly died, and when I did, it was to keep the carries alive. The game lasted a while due to some back and forthing on the base doorstep, but eventually we prevailed. Anyway, the MF and Yi had a lot of fun with the three of us, and we decided to play another game together.
Third game, we each kept the same, and got a Sion and a Fiddlesticks. We were going against as Gangplank, Panth, Tristana, Corki, and Akali. I died once early game pushing too hard, and once later on saving Fiddlesticks, but I got in three kills, two of which were omnomnoms.
Of course it would have been more, but we pretty well steamrolled this team. The Yi and MF did okay, nothing spectacular, but competency is a blessing in any normal game of LoL so even if they made a few mistakes, they never fed the other team or anything. And our Sion kicked ass. He ganked quite a few times, and surprised tower dove a couple of times as well. Eventually Yi, MF, and Sion pushed top tower, and I pushed bottom, and Fiddle came and joined me, but bye the time I reached the base turret, the other team had decided to surrender. So after my earlier losses, these wins were a nice surprise. Though I really didn't mind that 2nd loss earlier since it was just one of those number games that had us lose and not due to any lack of skill or trying on my part. I'm hoping to get a ranged character next. I'm not a big fan of AP Carries, but I do need to branch out of DPS since I already have Yi. Guess I'll wait a see a while yet if I can at all help it since I still feel I can do better as both Cho and as Yi. [/spoiler]
The second game, I ended up getting Master Yi, along with Mordekaiser, Pantheon, Hermdinger, and Udyr. Now I had a pretty bad start with Yi. Not terrible, but no kills for quite a while and around 2-3 deaths. The other team had a Master Yi, Mordekaiser, Hermdinger, Nunu and Gangplank. The Pantheon on our side fed them Yi, Mordekaiser, and Gangplank quite well. He had around 19 deaths by the end of the match, 1 kill, and couple of assists. Now with just that, we were struggling, but hanging on. Then around the midpoint of the game, our Mordekaiser left/dced. But it wasn't all lost at that point. I was getting in some solid kills, and finally building my DPS items. I even ganked the opposing Yi who was a Lifesteal build with some help, but the problem with Pantheon was that no matter what was going on, he always went off and did his own thing. We'd be defending the base, he'd be off farming creeps or hitting towers. Now that's not a terrible thing . . . except he never listened to anyone. At one point, we were still holding on, albeit barely, and he was the only one up, and he was off in the top lane farming while Master Yi and Hermdinger killed our middle turret and inhibitor. After that, it was just game over. I kept on defending, no matter how many times I died, and I killed Yi, I killed Nunu, I killed as many people as I could, but Master Yi is fragile, and I couldn't do it alone. Not that I was alone, the Hermdiner was competent, and the Udyr was really good, so even at 5 vs 3, we were holding them off for quite a while. It's especially funny when Mordekaiser starts running away from both Udyr and Master Yi because he knows his time is at an end. Or the other Master Yi running from me because he knew if I crited even a few times, he was dead, lifesteal or not. It was a happy loss, I played well, carried as best as I could, and overall I think it was one of my better games. With one more person, or even just having Panth listen to us, we would have won it I think. Or at least made it super close.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Part 2 since I still couldn't get to sleep]So I was wide awake after my two losses, and decided I'd keep at it a few more times hoping I'd win once at some point. First game after the previous two, I did pretty well. Ended up at 8/3/1 or 8/5/1 or somewhere around there. Had a good team who knew what they were doing, and while the other team was decent, we were able to push/single kill them enough times to take the game.
Second game, there's already a Yi, a MF, a Panth, and a Heimdinger. So I decide to work on my Cho'gath game some more and be a tank. Not sure if Panth was going tank as well, but that's what I went. Their side had almost all Physical so I had a pretty easy time with things. I did a minor screwup at start and bought what I would have if I was playing Yi, but in the end it was hardly a problem at all. I also forgot to upgrade my boots, so I ran around with clean boots the entire game. Again, didn't really need anything more than that because I omnomomed quite a few to death, and assisted Yi, MF, and Panth quite a few times as well. My score wasn't crazy, but I hardly died, and when I did, it was to keep the carries alive. The game lasted a while due to some back and forthing on the base doorstep, but eventually we prevailed. Anyway, the MF and Yi had a lot of fun with the three of us, and we decided to play another game together.
Third game, we each kept the same, and got a Sion and a Fiddlesticks. We were going against as Gangplank, Panth, Tristana, Corki, and Akali. I died once early game pushing too hard, and once later on saving Fiddlesticks, but I got in three kills, two of which were omnomnoms.
Of course it would have been more, but we pretty well steamrolled this team. The Yi and MF did okay, nothing spectacular, but competency is a blessing in any normal game of LoL so even if they made a few mistakes, they never fed the other team or anything. And our Sion kicked ass. He ganked quite a few times, and surprised tower dove a couple of times as well. Eventually Yi, MF, and Sion pushed top tower, and I pushed bottom, and Fiddle came and joined me, but bye the time I reached the base turret, the other team had decided to surrender. So after my earlier losses, these wins were a nice surprise. Though I really didn't mind that 2nd loss earlier since it was just one of those number games that had us lose and not due to any lack of skill or trying on my part. I'm hoping to get a ranged character next. I'm not a big fan of AP Carries, but I do need to branch out of DPS since I already have Yi. Guess I'll wait a see a while yet if I can at all help it since I still feel I can do better as both Cho and as Yi. [/spoiler]