2011-04-02, 09:45 AM
I think my reaction times are passable. For example, I'm pretty solid about stopping channeled ults when I play Rammus. I have decision making issues. I don't know where to position myself beyond "toward the front" or "toward the back", especially when it's a team fight in the jungle or river and with that come some bad decisions regarding picking smaller fights around dragon and situations like that.
I flake on my targeting in team fights. Other than "kill the squishiest or most powerful champ" first, I don't know how to follow up. Or in the case of my game with Kaj, what to do when there are no squishy champs. I know some of that is a moot point when the rest of my team is flummoxing around and targeting no one in particular.
I still encounter a lot of matchups where I simply don't have the experience to know what to do. I kinda thought Corki v. Jax would end poorly, and I was right. It almost immediately got to the point where I was a captive. If he hit me once, at any later point in his choosing he could tower dive and kill me. Luckily he left lane after a while since their Lee Sin stopped jungling and came top. But the damage was done and my farm sucked. In some games, the problem of "if they want to kill me, they will" spirals out of control very fast, or was caused by another teammate doing poorly. And I really don't know what to do about that (surrender?). I've had some terrible problems as Rammus against Veigar, and that's only happened in 2 or 3 games. In the worst case, Veigar was lightly fed by my teammates in lane, but that was enough for him to mess us up in some mid-game team fights. Stupid Event Horizon. Even if me and my teammates weren't getting caught in it, it covers enough area to ruin our day completely just by zoning us away from some of our team. Then late game, even with FoN, Mercs and I think Aegis, maybe even another negatron working toward QSS, Veigar was at the point where he could do 2000 damage in a burst to me. That was the worst case Veigar. Best case I just lose the ability to initiate because I can't work around that cage or I'm suddenly in it and some team fights get lost because of it.
Speaking of initiating, I'm bad at that too. I'm not sure how or when (let's say with Rammus) to do it. I know to punish the enemy when one or two champs overextend, but I don't know how to start a fight when my team is at the advantage and no one has a better means of initiating. I'm also very hit and miss on when it becomes time to run, when I've started running but should have stayed, and when I should never have fired a single shot and gotten my ass out.
These are just a few things that come to mind.
In better news:
[video=youtube;Zq8zDrvW7xU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq8zDrvW7xU[/video]
I flake on my targeting in team fights. Other than "kill the squishiest or most powerful champ" first, I don't know how to follow up. Or in the case of my game with Kaj, what to do when there are no squishy champs. I know some of that is a moot point when the rest of my team is flummoxing around and targeting no one in particular.
I still encounter a lot of matchups where I simply don't have the experience to know what to do. I kinda thought Corki v. Jax would end poorly, and I was right. It almost immediately got to the point where I was a captive. If he hit me once, at any later point in his choosing he could tower dive and kill me. Luckily he left lane after a while since their Lee Sin stopped jungling and came top. But the damage was done and my farm sucked. In some games, the problem of "if they want to kill me, they will" spirals out of control very fast, or was caused by another teammate doing poorly. And I really don't know what to do about that (surrender?). I've had some terrible problems as Rammus against Veigar, and that's only happened in 2 or 3 games. In the worst case, Veigar was lightly fed by my teammates in lane, but that was enough for him to mess us up in some mid-game team fights. Stupid Event Horizon. Even if me and my teammates weren't getting caught in it, it covers enough area to ruin our day completely just by zoning us away from some of our team. Then late game, even with FoN, Mercs and I think Aegis, maybe even another negatron working toward QSS, Veigar was at the point where he could do 2000 damage in a burst to me. That was the worst case Veigar. Best case I just lose the ability to initiate because I can't work around that cage or I'm suddenly in it and some team fights get lost because of it.
Speaking of initiating, I'm bad at that too. I'm not sure how or when (let's say with Rammus) to do it. I know to punish the enemy when one or two champs overextend, but I don't know how to start a fight when my team is at the advantage and no one has a better means of initiating. I'm also very hit and miss on when it becomes time to run, when I've started running but should have stayed, and when I should never have fired a single shot and gotten my ass out.
These are just a few things that come to mind.
In better news:
[video=youtube;Zq8zDrvW7xU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq8zDrvW7xU[/video]