Tales of a Bronze Bastard LVIII

Current Rank: Silver V - 93 TP

OK.  I'm last pick.  This has to be a good sign. I'll take what I can get, and let's do this. 

I am taking Sylvanus with an Artemis, into Cherno and Bacchus. The other team has Cherno and Pele, but we have a Plat SWK with Gold Ne Zha, so maybe we can balance it out.   (I'm still Gold Sylvanus)

We start off solid, but the Chaac on the enemy team rolls over our supposed Plat SWK.  We get beat hard early, but we fight back strong and take over.  I give lots of helpful advice without BM-ing, and our team responds and we play well.  We have 2 phoenixes down by the 30 minute mark.  An ill-advised fight for FG, that I advise against trying, ends up costing us the game. 

Frustrating, I shape a subpar team up with great leadership, only to have them quit following my lead at the end.  And the enemy team crushes our Titan.  At this point in the game, one mistake is fatal. Overall, though, this was a good game.  No one was a dick, we rallied, it was competitive.  Good Game.

Game II -85 TP

OK, I've been playing catch-up the last few games.  My goal for this game: get ahead.  I'm just going to get a god that can get ahead.  Well, I'm first pick.  So here's my chance. We ban out Baron, Cherno, He Bo, and Freya.  I take Erlang for solo.  Here's my chance to get ahead.  The 2nd pick BMs the 3rd pick by calling him a noob, so I tell them not to worry about it and hope for a better game. Hopefully this defuses some tension.  The enemy team has 1 second of bank time after the 3rd pick.  I feel a lobby leave coming on. Second round of bans is Artemis, Geb, Athena, Pele. 

I'm going to use a trick I picked up yesterday from an enemy Erlang I played, skipping a starter item and working towards a Berserker's shield rush: shield T1, TP, Health chalice. I get the shield at 2 minutes and score an early kill.  I handle the lane and am able to go get full boots and TP back at 6 mins.  Really good use of time, here. I push tower, and eventually Thanatos just gives up and leaves.  I take T1 tower.  I keep pushing T2, and make a couple of guest appearances in the mid lane.

As I'm prepping to take the T2 tower, the enemy team just ups and surrenders.  Feels good, man.  The Bronze Bastard gets promoted to...Silver II.   #Grindy