Sunday, April 15, 2018

Tales of a Bronze Bastard IX

current TP: 96 Bronze IV

I've been on a roll.  Is new matchmaking helping?  Is my studying paying off? Am I just better at roles than solo?  I guess we'll find out soon enough.

7+ minute queue pop.  I'm last pick again.  I hope I can hold on, a promotion game is in my sight.  2nd pick wants to support.  4th will ADC.  1st ELO shows Janus and then goes Nox. We have a Ravana (gold leaderboard) jungle. Looking like I'll be solo.  I decide to pick Camazotz, who is ranking high on a lot of tier lists and doing well in the SPL.  It also just happens to work really well since we have a warrior jungle.

Well, this team sucks.  The duo gets crushed.  The Ravana jungle just dicks around getting farm and never ganks.  The enemy Da Ji jungle is an ever-present force in all lanes, which makes our farmer Ravana even more painful.  The duo lane gets rolled over like a wave.  The events elsewhere on the map are very disheartening,  but I actually hold my own really well and push tower.  I take the advantage over an aggressive Chang'e. This Cama in solo thing is real, and I'm doing it well.

Unfortunately, the rest of the board is not faring well.  We degrade into a lot of internal BM-ing.  Eventually, the enemy jungle realizes that Ravanna is just farming and not ganking or even helping at all in lane.  Thanatos takes turns 2v-ing every lane until each of our T1 and most of our T2 towers fall. This pitiful team surrenders.  Such is the life of the bronze bastard in the solo lane.

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