I'm almost at level 10.
I play 2-4 games a night. I've been having dreams about this stupid game and have started reading some of the strategy sites and printing out "best of" builds.
Damn you LoL, I have Deus Ex and Batman:AC waiting to be played!
Welcome to the club! We've all here have had those dreams of still playing. Some will admit it and some won't LoL is a great game because like all good strategy games it seems simple on the surface. And it is. It can be picked up by a 10 year old and they can play the game while doing OK. However, it can be a difficult game to master with many levels of complexity to it. Just like chess in a way but with teams. Teams are both what the game even more fun and more frustrating. I've met quite a few good people and players I would never have known by playing this game. Many of which are on this forum but not all.
I still think we need to try TG's zombie team idea. It sounds quite irritating.
Yep, we just need to get some practice in together trying it. I tried it once with Thayorn + Fenix + my friend Kaigemercer on a team. We even got the random fifth player to join in as he picked Kog. Still, none of us were playing well and we got crushed way too soon that game. I hadn't played Zilean in awhile and he's a difficult champ to play well. Hopefully we can try it again.
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As far as this game goes, I saw Guardsman Bob last night streaming get majorly trolled for a game. This is a rank 1900+ elo player and he ran into a pure troll during a ranked game. Basically one person on his team wanted Karthus banned. The captain didn't ban him. So he starts raging about how OP Karth is. He picks Vlad and says he is going mid. The team lets him. First thing Vlad does is start to die on purpose by just standing there next to karthus. Everyone on Vlad's team is like WTF?
Vlad says, "Look Karth is OP and I said to ban him so he didn't get picked. But he did. Now I'm not going to waste 35 minutes or more in a game to only lose at the end because I know we will. Karthus is OP. So I making sure we lose as fast as possible."
Well he used most of those words and a few more colorful ones. So basically vlad kept rolling up middle and stopping next to Karthus to feed him on purpose. They ended up surrendering at 20 minutes because by then there was nothing their team could do against a karth with 20+ kills already. Why the vlad didn't queue dodge because he doesn't like facing karthus I have no answer for. Beyond being a pure troll. Hope the guy gets banned for that crap.
So trolls still exist in higher elo even if they may be rarer. But those same players are in bigger abundance in lower elo.
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Speaking of lower Elo, I did get a couple of ranked duo games with strife in the other day. With him as Sona and me as Graves we were owning bottom lane. What's funny is the first game we went up against a team that was just bad all around. Every single player they had was just bad. I'm not calling the out as purposeful trolls or anything. They weren't that I could tell. They were just legitimately unskilled. Strife and I were grouped with 3 other actually decent players. As a whole we destroyed that other team utterly. They surrendered at 25 minutes when we had something like 40 kills to their 3. We had an inhib of theirs down and just got baron. Pretty easy win for Strife and myself.
So we queue up again a few minutes later after a short break. During champ selection I noticed one of the players on our team was one of the players that was on the other team. The only reason that I noticed it was because he said he wanted to go Yorick but wanted to jungle this time. Last game he played against us he was Yorick solo top lane and got dominated by our Shyvana. How a Yorick loses to a Shyvana in top lane I will never know. He claims he was ganked but that wasn't the case because in the previous game Strife and I were owning bottom so badly that the jungle had to cover bottom lane almost all the time. Strife and I were talking over vent that this game would probably be a bad one since our last pick was Yorick from the previous game.
So what was the outcome for the second game? We won, but that Yorick was AWFUL! Pure trash despite all the talking he did about how we were going to win because he was jungle this time. If our mid lane was dominating and our top lane wasn't holding their own then that came would have had a different outcome. That Yorick was 2/7/2 at one point during that game. Everyone else on our team was positive score. Our Annie in mid lane was at 10/1/7 when our Yorick was 2/7/2. I was 5/3/5 (because they kept coming to gank me bottom). Speaking of which, what kind of idiots at level 2 all flash into my tower just to make sure they kill me? I was near full life and the other teams jungle fiddle, and their bottom lane of nunu and trist all tower dive me at level 2 just to kill me. Nunu died for it as well and Fiddle almost did. Fiddle was dumb though and hung around our jungle trying to counter and he almost killed yorick. But I got back in time to blast him in the face for a kill.
Yorick ended up 8/8/10 I think for the game. Which doesn't look like a bad score, but he was carried in those team fights majorly. That was the worst score on our team as well. He was plain bad and just like to blame his incompetence upon others while trash talking constantly. That's why the game can get frustrating as well as being fun.