Tales of a Bronze Bastard LXV

Current Rank: Silver II - 18 TP This is my 65th blog of playing Ranked Conquest games in Smite during Season 5. I qualified as a Bronze IV in Spring. I made it as a Bronze II in Summer split qualifiers, before getting into Silver V briefly towards the end. I qualified into Silver V for Fall, and have climbed to Silver II. Let's see what happens. I take Baron Samedi into Zhong Kui, solo. Let's do this. Well what do you know? Just when I thought I'd seen it all, they are pulling out Anubis solo in ranked. OK. I have a feeling I will own him. I take Magi's Blessing and he takes Warrior's, so I've already got a leg up. I start with T1 Boots because I think the early power spike will help me, and because it gives me the advantage with my 3, which in can turn can really help my zoning. The plan works as expected, since he starts with Bancroft's. This does make it hard for me to kill him, but I am able to still control the lane very easily with my maneuverability. I can dodge his 2 no problem, and can hit my 3 reliably. I find out early that he plans to save his ult in response to mine, so I only pull the ult out when I'm under tower. I survive twice, just because of this positioning and the potions I pop. I go back for my full Blue boots, so I really start spiking on this guy. Our Ao Kuang jungle is doing a great job of getting my blue down, and gives me a couple key ganks. My tower takes longer to come down, but I serve the purpose of controling solo and keeping Anubis from being a factor anywhere else. I rotate a couple of times and make big impacts in the mid lane with my ult. As my build develops, I go from controlling solo to just scaring Anubis off. I build Pestilence, Void Stone, Spear of the Magus, Soul Reaver, and top it off with Tahuti. Anubis now runs away from me at first sight. Our team communicates and plays well, with the enemy team surrendering at the 29-minute mark with all 3 phoenixes still up. I can't say I blame them, we were punishing them pretty much the whole game. I go 1-0-8 without doing much damage, but you can't argue with my complete control of the solo lane. Game II: Silver I - 29 TP Our top pick takes Tyr in response to the enemy Pele. I am 2nd pick and take Athena. I have mixed results with her, but the meta says she's good. My goal on this game is to just pay attention to the minimap and ward, a lot. It will be Jing Wei and I against Ares and Hachiman. We start off in a very back-and-forth battle. We start off pretty well, but get severely outplayed in the late game. Another loss.