Bronze Bastard II

I'm currently sitting with 16 TP in Bronze III.  playing a few recent games resulted in some significant lost ground.  The last game I got solo, but the other team banned Nike.  wtf.  My favorite solo laner who never gets banned, banned.  She has the highest winrate at low levels, I guess other people are finally clued into this and banning her.  All that headway I made getting her to Platinum leaderboard level was wasted.  I haven't found another god solo that I can just go to every time.  I try to counterpick the opponent's solo, but they so rarely take a solo early unless its Cu Chulain, and Nike was my best counter to Cu Chu.

Game I
it took 7 minutes to pop a queue on this sunday afternoon.  I'm last ELO.  I may have a chance to not be horrible and get carried.  Ok so they have Da Ji, Discordia, Freya, and Chaac.  Who do i get to support this crew?  Thank god, someone dropped from the game and we are reset.  Picking 4th ELO, i'm taking my gold leaderboard Nike solo. i'm up against wht I can only assume is arachne or ymir.  will be interesting.

Wow, ganesha shows up in solo. the elephant proved to be a more challenging lane opponent that I'd anticipated. He was interrupting my abilities a lot with his 2.  I had to play patient, and not make mistakes.  I got a couple of solid ganks from our Ao Kuang jungle early, and that made a real difference in me getting the upperhand of an essential stalemate.  I got reinforced boots to take the edge off some of his CC threat.

I observed that this Ganesha was pretty aggressive and happy to blow his kit on every engage. This allowed me to delay using my own skills. I'd just watch for his 2 to fire, then I knew I was free to blow through any of my combos I wanted.  At level 10 I pushed his tower almost fully down. Ihat was pretty much the end of this solo lane encounter.  Ganesha started rotating.  I continued to push left tower until went down, then I started rotating.  Given my farm and early gear, I had the levels to really harrass the enemy mid, who had done well himself.   I was able to take his tower, transferring my advantage to the mid lane. 

good teamwork, good attention by everyone, good calls, good warding = win.


Game II - 31 TP
I'm 4th elo.  The whole crew but me calls pref, and solo is open.  No one overlapped.  I hope this is a good omen.  I'm getting 4th pick solo, and of course i'm going my girl nike.  The opposite team has Cerberus 2nd pick, so i see him being a solo laner and not a guardian.  But healing isn't necessarily my thing with Nike, so I have no problem sticking with my girl.  Cerberus won't hurt me. The 4th pick on the other team takes Odin.  Its not clear if he'll be a jungle or solo.  At any rate, Nike is my god so I'm better going with who I know than anyone else.  And shit, someone left the group.  Again.  Well, last time this happened we got a win.  Maybe we will this time, too.

OK, I'm last ELO again.  I will prob be going supp.  The solo goes with Artio.  I'm going to play a warrior supp.  Amaterasu comes to mind, of course.  I play a lot of Chaac.  The enemy team has an apparent Sylvanus in duo.  They look to have a Solobek.  and a  Hachiman.  Gonna be a duo lane of heavy sustain.  That's good for Ama.  The other team has a 6-star Thanatos.  aye aye aye

My internet suddenly goes to shit.  I die 4 times to horrible lag spikes.  I get way behind.  We surrender.  It sucks, we could have killed this team.