Tales of a Bronze Bastard IV

Takes of a Bronze Bastard

Sitting at 70 TP in Bronze IV.  Let's see how this goes.  Sigh.  My forays into casual today were not much more successful than my ranked yesterday.  So I figured, why not?  A couple games to end the sunday.

I decide to do something I haven't done in weeks, go for a ranked joust.  I'm silver IV here, so we'll have to see how it goes.  We draft Anubis, Cu Chulainn (me), and Chiron against Ares, Hades and Hou Yi.  AOE RIP. 

I warned everyone to buy beads.  The other two guys did and were fine.  I didn't, and died 6 times before level 12. fml, RIP.  We actually played well enough to beat the other team, we were just behind.  The chiron was not good, but those early deaths on my part really complicated things and I couldn't carry him. 

Let's see if I can get my way back into Bronze III.  Sigh.  2-3 solid wins should do it.  Come on, bro.  Do this! 

Queue pops and I'm 3rd elo.  #1 calls ADC. #2 takes Cu Chu.  He's got the diamond skin, so maybe there's hope.  Adc is Freya and mid is Anhur.  The enemy team will be confused, lol.  I go Ganesha.  Looks like I'm going against Apollo and Artio.  Unless they're also doing a non-traditional start.  Idk about these non-trad starts in ranked.

Well, they Freya ADC and I got pushed early on.  There was no help from the jungle, Thanatos was all about farming and staying on the left side of the map.  Quite frustrating.  I even made multiple calls to have him come over.  Oh well.  We eventually won the lane, but it was a hard fought battle and required a few of my deaths.

I go Traveler shoes because i'm just used to the movement speed and want it.  Since we were getting pushed, I decided to skip Thebes and go straight with Sovereignty.   It works. I throw on Pestilence after that, for Artio.  We ultimately win lane and I start pushing over to mid right along with the enemy Artio.  Anhur and I are able to take Mid tower.  Solo rocked his side.  We pushed through the mid T2 tower, then each of the sides.  A true game of attrition, but we get ahead so I play aggressive with Void stone and ethereal staff.  the tower falls.  Finally, a win for the Bronze Bastard.