You know what really sucks? When you go into a game and you look at the team comp and you know that your team should crush the other team. But they suck and don't.
My one game last night was: Morg (me), Ashe, Annie, Malphite, and Xin. I forget the other team but they were mostly squishies with little CC. Our team was obviously stacked with it. Our team did well during the laning phase and we were leading in towers at first. But then a complete lack of being able to properly focus caused us to start losing team fights.
Also, if you haven't discovered it yet, smart cast is awesome (force spell cast on cursor location). Works really well for skill shots like Morg's binding. Instead of having to hit Q then aim and click, you just point your cursor and hit SHIFT+Q (or the hotkey assignment if you do it that way). It can eliminate that giveaway pause where your hero is moving as you line up your shot and then stops just as you get ready to fire it, signaling to the enemy champ it's time to juke out of the way. It also helps cast spells a TON faster, so you can get your combos off very quickly since you don't have to do the extra click for placement/aim.
I've made smart cast my default buttons and shift+btn my normal aim, it's awesome.
I had my greatest game of the past 3 months last night. Ranked solo we were actually chatting one person offered to jungle Irelia, I said I could tank and we ended up with Malzahar, Annie (pro), Irelia, Singed (me), Sivir. Decent CC, AD and AP dmg, a jungle and a tank, a solid team.
I started the game by ganking their Amumu at blue for first blood, Annie followed it up with a level 3 kill of Nidalee (bad nidalee), at level 7 our mid Sivir took out their tower and by that time Malzarah's and my harrass had forced Morgana and Mundo back to base a total of 3 times.
Sounds great right? Except that at level 2 our Irelia disconnected and never came back. We went into a 3 lane, massive ward buying / tower pushing / ganking spree and when I hit 14 they had only 1 non-base tower left and we led in kills 21-16. We then lost our first teamfight and I thought it was over, but we chatted, assigned target priorities (ignore mundo, who kept targeting Malzahar, chasing him all over the map) and proceeded to win a fight, take the last non-base tower, baron and buy more wards. From there it took a lot of kiting but we eventually got 1 inhibitor then two and won the game. BOO-YAH!
I was 4/3/15 as singed, Annie carried going 16/10/?, Sivir had positive K/D with 6 towers taken down and we didn't lose a teamfight after that. Oh yeah, here's a pro-tip free of charge: Don't chase Singed =) you won't catch him and if you do you're going to eat a lot of poison on the way. That was one hell of a team and I quit playing because I knew any further games would be a letdown.
1 leaver > 2 bad players.
Pro tip 2: Black shield is annoying but very short now, if you make enough good shots early Morg will get twitchy and you can start getting her to use it via feinting =)