Friday, June 29, 2018

Tales of a Bronze Bastard XXI

Current Rank - Silver V TP 92

The dreaded "promotion game."  I'm last pick.  Hope I can run Sylvanus supp.  Oh god.  I get left to my worst role.  I'm mid against Agni.  I decide to pick Vulcan, but I'm not confident about it.

Well, as it turns out Vulcan is a great counter to Agni.  I'm able to use my 1 all during the laning phase to position myself out of his reach.  I keep popping him with my 3 and using my cannon to control space.  I defend my tower well.  I keep two wards out on either side and I have vision and I don't get ganked.

I take his tower before he gets mine.  I am crushing it.  I am really feeling where to drop his ult. I end up running roughsod on this game and beating a gold leaderboard Agni during laning phase and at top damage.  I ended up going 12-7-10 with 58K player damage and 19 wards placed.

This was a really close game.  It went 45 minutes deep and had prolonged sieges of phoenix on both sides, and I was arguably the superstar of my team from last-pick in my worst role.  I crush with my ult in teamfights late-game. I'd like to say it feels bad man, but at the same time it was a well-fought game where just a couple things went the other team's way and they ended up with the W. 

Maybe I'll get that promotion soon, but it won't be tonight.  The big lesson I learn here is to start trusting my instinct.  I was trying to come up with a counter to Agni, and I thought Vulcan's ability to hunker down, hop around, and control the location of the fight would make a difference.  It did.  If I can't get a win, I can at least learn something.

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