Tales of a Bronze Bastard LIX

Current Rank: Silver II - 3 TP

OK, my first game in Silver II.  Sigh.  Friday night ranked, let's see what happens.  I'm 4th pick, so this should be a nice fill-in-the-gap-and-not-worry mode.  The enemy team first-picks Merc, and we get a top-pick Janus.  Second pick on our team goes Nemesis, while 3rd goes....nowhere.  Bank time expires.  As angry as it makes me to go back to queue for 9 more minutes, I'd ultimately rather not play with someone who is so childish and limited that they won't play if they don't get the role they want.  A selfish player that can't play multiple roles isn't worth having on your team, it could only be trouble. 

So I've got 5 minutes to kill, so I'll watch Weak3n and the boys probably beat CLG. I feel like I got robbed by CLG this season.  I bought their badge like 3 weeks into the Spring split when it looked like they were going to be hot.  I think they've literally lost every game since.  Or at least, its gotta be close.  Anyway, that's the kind of babble you get from me when we get a lobby-dodger and there's some SPL on. 

I come into the second attempt as last pick.  If I thought 4th was no pressure, last is definitely not.  Our third pick is setting off my troll alarm.  He's playing solo.  Hopefully he's not horrible.  Sigh, at least it will be a game.  I end up getting Sylvanus, going with Hachiman against Hou Yi and Kuzenbo.  Let's do this.

The mid lane loses both towers before 11 minute.  But the story of this game is easy: Mercury runs this game, pure and simple.  He's level 20 when our solo is level 16.  I'm 12.  We get crushed hard.  Mid lane gets destroyed and that's basically it.  Mercury and Sol feast.

Game 2
Current Rank: Silver II - 0 TP

One more try.  I decide to get nuts and take Merc from 2nd pick.  Hope it works. I have played a lot of Merc, but not recently.  This could be bad.  I'll do my Weak3n start, Assassin's blessing with T1 Katana.

I DC on loading screen.  The team pauses.  This is great...except for the fact that our top-pick Erlang lags out and DCs about 1.5 minutes later.  We are down 4v5, so I move into solo lane and try to hold on.  Our Medusa secures first blood.  I manage to hold my own against Cu Chu.  I start to bloom ideas of hope that we could win a 4v5, but I'm missing my moves and getting crushed. 

Then, Erlang comes back!  I feel good about our chances, despite the fact that Cherno is ulting everywhere and crushing us.  Now, I think he's going to 1v5 us.  Then, one of the enemies DCs, so we now have a 5v4 advantage.  Cherno continues to make it interesting for a very long while, but eventually I get my feel for Merc back and hit my stuff.  Then, we just crush them.  It isn't fair, but I'll take a win.