you bait it out. Ori vs Fizz is a bit of a scary matchup, but Ori actually has the advantage. just poke him with your auto attacks whenever he tries to farm and get ahead that way. of course there will be moments where you won’t be able to kill him because he has his troll pole up, but that’s just part of the champion that you have to account for when you’re fighting him.
That awkward feeling when you’re in Bronze V… and you’re not getting bronze enemies o.O
WTF, I thought there’d be noobs? Where are the noobs??
Seriously though, we have yet to face an actual bronze team. We can win if it’s a mix of silver and gold (even though the games are nerve-wrecking), but we get rekt by everything that’s higher.
I can’t afford to play anything other than Xerath, even if it’s against assassins…
We got 2 more wins, so now we’re 3/10 with 50 points. If we’re not jumping straight to B1 after this torture, I’m flipping tables…
PS: After facing a gold 5 ahri for the third time, I’m seriously losing faith in the matchmaking…
remember the “team” in team. even if they’re gold in solo queue, they might not be able to play well as a team, so they got into bronze. my team ended up in silver last season and we rarely faced any enemy teams that were below plat on average, you’ll just have to get used to it if you want to play ranked 5s
might as well start a new team and hope for better placements ;p. One of the best placements I did with 5’s was gold 3 and plat 2 :p.
Oh did I mention I also have a diamond icon and border for 5v5 team ranks from the last season? 
I think I just had the best ARAM comp ever.
I felt so bad, but as soon as all those circles went green, we got an ace.
Soo. I played a game the other day against a yasuo; who admittedly kicked my ass in lane and made me not a very happy player. I shrugged it off at the time, but one of my friends just recently told me to go back and look at his name.
Apparently I was laning against Imaqtpie.
RIP son… RIP
I had a NORMAL game vs one of my challanger friends from a pro team. And I knew its gg as soon as I saw the loading screen. It’s just like that. But I never give up early and try my best anyways because I know ranks are just ranks and experiecnce and skill is what matters here. Managed to grab a few kills on him but then he won the late game… welp
Just tried Sona mid for teh lulz, I was suprised when I started poking I did more dmg than expected. And also farming… I was ahead with like 20 cs in the beggining and also managed to constantly poke Nidalee. I tought Im screwed when I saw her in the loading screen.
Turned out I was the one raping her lolol.
This is one of the examples that Counter picks and meta picks are nothing when you have the mechanics :p.
Oh god, the Auto is soooo slow. GO FASTER! AAAHHHH MY CS! NOOOO!
Nidalee was on the last free rotation though, right? They might have been new to the champ, or at least, the Nidalee changes.
Ignoring that last bit, I had some fun with Urgot on ARAM. He’s a champ I used to play a lot waaaay back in season 2, but to do anything worthwhile he or his enemy has to be out of position. The rift really becomes a waiting game as him, so ARAM is a welcome home~
I also decided to try out a bit of Yorick Jungle. Poppy is fun and all, but you really need pre-6 ganks right now. Some people don’t like playing as him, but I think Yorick is really fun… Then again, I play Orianna… They have a similar thing going on with Yorick’s W and Orianna’s Q>W.
The first time I tried it out, I had a very strange team comp.
I seem to have forgot to not die, but I wasn’t bad at the rest. Got the Katarina/Kalista botlane some kills early on. Azir had some trouble, but Nocture flew in and carried him to safety.
My most recent one didn’t go very well. Our top lane Nidalee kept disconnecting for the first ~15 minutes, so I got some free farm. Naut got a bunch of towers unfortunately, but camping the lane helped Nid out a bit. Unfortunately most of the enemy team were silver or gold, and the Silver 1 Syndra destroyed our level 20 something Morgana. Then Graves started to flame Morgana and Nidalee for feeding, even though at the time both me and him had 8 kills… More than the enemy.
Multiple rage quits later, and some “great, one guy is gone. We can’t contest drag” led to us surrendering. T_T
I got to say a Yorick pun though, so all is well.
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Remember when I said this?
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Then again, we didn’t have to go through promos.
Our last two opponent teams actually felt like bronze for a change. I guess we got lucky, so I’m expecting to get beaten to a pulp by some plats for the next few games ^^’
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Yo, if I can borrow a 30 lvl account on EUW, I think ill be able to make your win ratio go up :p.
I remember you asking me if I want to play, and I do, but the leveling is just toooooo boring uhhh. I think ill be able to borrow one from my friends.
That 69 win/lose tho ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
Well, thanks. But you really don’t need to go that far and it’s not like we’re in a hurry to climb the ranks. We don’t exactly want to get carried, either. It’s just frustrating that the difficulty doesn’t match our rank, that’s all…
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Classic Rito, also lold on the gankplank bugfix with a note saying “weird bugs, man”.
They added so much stuff on the PBE.
5.5 is pretty good too. Gonna have to see what the flames look like on the updated WW skin~ Also gonna try LE out on Annie; sounds like it’d work in theory. Roaming support, spamming E and W, and dealing nice aoe. Oh man, imagine it combo’d with a Tibbers stun!
Yeah like that useless “champion mastery” thingie. I understand they want to add something fun for players and stuff. But this still wont show others how well you play the champion anyways.
If you can gain points, and lose them, then thats fine. Otherwise its shit. Someone can grind they way with for example only rengar and then be seen as a pro rengar player… I dont like that. Balance rito balance
The intention isn’t to show who is pro and who isn’t. It shouldn’t matter anyway. If you know that someone is good on a champ, you will rely on them and expect lots from them. If you know they are bad, you will be quick to blame or criticize them. Nothing good comes from such knowledge apart from the self-satisfaction of knowing that you have the knowledge.
It’s just a system to show off your favorite champs. I like Orianna, so I’ll be happy to show off my medal to the team. The banner will be nice, and maybe one day we’ll get things like recolors and profile icons~
There are some other benefits too.
For one, it gives a sense of achievement. After hitting level 30 the only progress you get is going up ranks. What if you are stuck in a rank? You’ll get frustrated and either stop playing for a while, or play negatively. This gives an incentive to keep playing, and a nice feeling when you hit a milestone.
Another thing is that it can give false satisfaction to teammates. Sure these badges don’t mean much, but if I’m whipping out my tier 5 Jungle Yorick, people won’t call troll pick as much.
Besides, that guy who had 500 games on a Rengar can probably be trusted with that role, as apposed to the tier 1 Riven over there.
I understand what youre saying, the sense of achievement and showing off your best/fav champs is a thing.
I like the idea as it is, but not how its made xD if that makes sense to you.
Example you can play mechanically better as a player who knows its limits of a certain champion, but there may be also bad games that will lead you to be only 1 tier rank. It was the same when the borders came out. Everyone could see them and that brought up toxicity. (even tho this master stuff will be only displayed to your teammates)
But maybe it will be fun, who knows ;d.
On a side note: I have decided to buy CDR runes, I had approximetaly about 4k and still wasnt enough to complete what I wanted to do.
I have decided to go BoxBox’s riven style. Riven was one of my fav champs ever since s2 and I like her a lot. And once I get the runes done, ill be practicing some experimental builds with 40% cdr and lifesteal and bam im gonna climb up some ranks if possible :p.
(not sure if I said this already, but I have the famous 600$ skin for her - championship riven, even tho i paid only 10 dolars when it came out :p)
I’m not sure what you are saying here…
As long as you play a champ, you will slowly rise in ranks. If you play well, you will rise faster. You wouldn’t get stuck in a tier from bad games. You’re always progressing.
This isn’t taking the role of actual rankings. It’s just a fun little feature.
If someone is gold, you expect them to play as a gold. Ditto for every other rank.
If someone has a tier 5 Katarina, but they are bronze, you have to think “how did they play enough games to get tier 5 without going up to Silver?” They are either really bad on that champion despite having played a bunch of games, or they are good on that champ, but they are trying to expand their champion pool, so they lose a lot of games on other champs.
Either way, they are a bronze. The little badge thingy doesn’t make a difference. Just because they play a champ a lot, doesn’t mean they’ll have good map awareness, or wave mechanics, or objective control. They might not even be aware of if they’ll win a trade or not before going into it.
When I came back and realized only teammates can see borders… It’s mildly irritating T_T
Yeah, I need CDR runes for Riven. I enjoy playing her, but that early wolves grab is painful without CDR. Especially after going for long sword instead of dorans.
I haven’t watched a BoxBox game since the new rift update. Does he still grab a camp, tp top, and go for the all in against the nice matchups? It’d be nice to see how he deals with the camps, although the jungle creep nerfs will probably be enough anyway.
My Riven games never last long enough for me to even pick up a BT. I either win lane, get the hydra and a brut item, and go for inhibs, or I lose lane and have no gold whatsoever… Depends if the other player can actually play or not~
I could have got that on release, but I hadn’t been playing for long, so I wasn’t sure if I wanted it or not. Honestly though, she has enough good skins without it. I think she has the best splash arts in the game. All of the skins are really nice, but I usually just stick to either the default or the bunny (which really needs a VU or a re-balance.)
I just tried out Ludens on Annie, and it’s actually really nice. I think I prefer it over DFG. It’s more readily available, doesn’t require targeting at short range, and is multi-target. W is devastating when you deal an extra 100+ damage to up-to 4 people.
