Current Rank: Silver II - 20 TP
I'm top ELO. Oy vay. I ban Freya and Pele, the enemy bans Merc and Cherno. The enemy takes Freya 1st, and I respond with an Artio flex pick. The final team comp is my team: Baka, Ullr, Athena, Anubis, Artio. The enemy team is Freya, Hachi, Thor, Bellona, The Morrigan.
I am flexing into solo against Bellona. Aight, let's do this.
Bellona and I stalemate during the first few minutes. She started Warrior's Blessing and then went into Ninja tabi, so I go use my first back to finish CD Boots and then TP back. I gain a bit of pressure, but she takes it back. After another long back and forth, I go back for T2 Breastplate of Valor. Once I finish breastplate, Bellona doesn't win a fight against me. I can't kill her either, but she can't kill me and can't leave lane. I do get ganked by 3, and with that one death the tower falls.
This was a really closely matched game. One small thing was going to flip the scales. I felt like we could beat this team. Once I got into a few team fights, we were just owning the opponents. Artio solo is a beast, she levels up fast and becomes a nightmare to deal with. I have so many options available to me and I haven't hit a really bad matchup yet. I am sure there are some bad ones for her, but I've handled myself against Warriors, Guardians, and Mages as her, at this point.
I positively reinforce this team, even though Baka is regularly flaming Ullr for not playing well and saying Ullr is trolling. Knowing that I was top ELO and only Silver II, my guess is that Ullr is a newer player. I use positive comments to try and keep the group focused. I tell them I think we are a better team. I tell them to group up. I tell them when something is behind them. I place 12 wards, top on the team. I make FG calls and then vocalize it in the voice chat for emphasis. I have to argue with another person who was calling to attack middle lane. I explained my reasoning, and everyone came and helped me. And we got FG and crushed the middle tower and phoenix.
Another hard fought bit later, we were going for a second FG and I saw Morrigan coming in. I call to retreat and cancel the FG, thinking she will try to steal it. She's the only one on the other team that is even alive. No one pulls back. She comes out of invis, ults, and steals FG. I sigh into the mic, but I start stunning and crippling people and we actually kill 3 of them quickly, and chase the other two down. I am a beast right now, nothing can stand up to me.
This is one of the funnest, most competitive games I've had in a while. The one thing that swung this game, was my positive play and focus. I didn't let BM got me down, I put GM out there to drown out the noise. I finish 3-4-26. We win in glorious fashion with a decide, a phoenix rush, and a Titan pull that involved killing 2 more that had re-spawned. The final game was 44-48, and epic battle worthy of gods!
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