After playing League of Legends for over two years and
accumulating
over a thousand normal games, I finally entered ranked play. In my own,
totally objective, assessment, I am skilled enough for Gold. My
placement matches disagreed, and threw me into Bronze II. More recently
after failing to climb out of Bronze I, the ladder was reset and I found
myself placed lower still, all the down way at the bottom of Bronze V.
The Ranked matches I've played so far have clearly marked me as a Bronze
player. This is the
story of my attempt to prove them wrong. This is Going for the Gold.
Not done yet, I tried some duo queue games with Scott (IMLRG). First, we had Fizz (Scott), Mordekaiser (me), Rengar (jungle), Caitlyn (ADC), and Morgana (support). Our opponents were playing Karthus (mid), Gangplank (top), Udyr (jungle), Ezreal (ADC), and Xerath (support). I was able to bully Gangplank top, but he did a good job of farming as I whittled his outer turret down. Scott got first blood on Karthus, but then fell behind after Rengar went in and fed Karthus two kills. Karthus snowballed. Xerath snowballed. Gangplank lost his turret, roamed, and snowballed. In the end, I went 4/7/3 and we lost heavily.
Wanting to take another shot, we tried again, this time with Karthus (me), Jayce (top), Kha'Zix (jungle), Caitlyn (ADC), and Braum (Scott). We were up against Morgana (mid), Gnar (top), Shaco (jungle), Corki (ADC), and Taric (support). I started off farming well, but Jayce fed hard (and whined about Shaco camping him, even though Shaco only actually ganked him once, the same number of times as he ganked me) and bot collapsed with Corki and Shaco getting fed. My teammates were all getting destroyed, and I couldn't keep up against an entire team. I was 2/2 for a while, but I tried to save objectives and died some more times, with a final score of 2/5/3. Team score was 8 to 38. It was a very, very one-sided match.
Being a glutton for punishment, I tried one more time. We had Ziggs (mid), Dr. Mundo (top), Master Yi (jungle), Kayle (me), and Braum (Scott) against Ahri (mid), Nasus (top), Xin Zhao (jungle), Sivir (ADC), and Thresh (support). I got fed, but so did the other team. This actually made things pretty close for a while. Eventually I got full build, but found it hard to keep picking up kills without dying, because only Scott ever actually bothered to help me. Seeing an opening, I wanted to push mid while our opponents were down. The other four players all went for Baron. I said, "Fine, I'll recall and enchant my boots, then we'll push mid." They decided it would be better to push mid without me. They all died and left me alone to defend our base against all five opponents, which I could not do. I went 16/9/12, but couldn't solo five people (three of them being fed themselves). This takes me down to 47 LP. I'm done. Stuck in Bronze at the end of another season.
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