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 Foray into ranked for the first time in a few months

I decided to play a late-night ranked after an awesome first normal game for the day. I queue up only to find a duo queue ready to troll the hell of us out. The Wukong was basically screaming that "Nunu = support only, he sucks everywhere else" when my later-to-be lane partner wanted to play Nunu top initially. (Oh the joy of seeing those boisterous outbursts...) I was thinking about dodging, but I decided to give it a go.

Game starts, and it pretty much went downhill from there. Mid kept giving kills to the enemy Akali, who got very ahead as a result, and kept QQing. Top kept QQing by saying that our jungler didn't gank enough. It was simply terrible. For me, I kept my composure, and simply focused on my lane, nothing else. I warned them several times that if they kept up their negative attitude, they were the ones that was going to lose the game for us. They thought I was crazy after I said that.

The duo queue decides to jump ship at the 20 minute mark, forcing me and my other 2 teammates into a 3v5 situation. And it looked like it would be over. We defended as best as we could, but we watched as our inhib towers and inhibs got demolished one by one. I basically told them then that we were not going to surrender, we were going to fight this to the end, and we were going to do everything we could to make this inevitable victory for the opposing team a hard-earned one. They were willing to help me hold the enemy team off as long as possible.

Teamfights broke out beneath our Nexus towers, and the enemy team was screwing around to the point where we were able to push them back. I was able to get MASSIVE amounts of farm afterwards (from the waves of minions flooding into our base), and start getting the rest of my core items. This would prove crucial. Holding down the base for 10+ minutes and having teamfights in our favor proved to be a huge morale boost for us three.

In a critical teamfight at our base around the 27-minute mark, Akali tries to jump me, but I was ready. DPSed her down quickly for the first kill. Then I started to unload everything I got onto nearby enemies. Double kill. Triple kill. Quadra kill. Then Ezreal was left, and he had nowhere to run. My team's XZ was there locking him down, with me right behind in an attempt to get a penta kill + ace.

Then I see "ace" and realized XZ accidentally stole my penta kill. He felt really bad afterwards, but I didn't give a damn at that point. What mattered was that we caught the enemy team with their pants down in a teamfight that they were supposed to win, and we managed to survive to fight another day.

Later on, we got wiped in a teamfight, with the enemy Ezreal picking up his own penta kill at the end. ;_;

But to be honest, after practicing and understanding my AD carries + other champs for so long in normals, and expanding my knowledge about LoL mechanics during my ranked "hiatus", I saw how much I improved compared to last time. And notably, our team had a good chance at winning. It was very unfortunate that the duo queue simply decided to troll us and then ragequit afterwards. But you know what, fk this. I'm going to climb the ladder no matter what it takes. Getting to gold before S2 ends will be a long way to go, but I'm willing to do whatever I can to secure it.