Sorry, GG. <3
I feel bad for it. I empathize with Golden Guardians and the compassionate part of me is rooting for them, but like...I can just tell that I'm already rooting for TSM less than five minutes in.
Sorry, GG. <3
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100 Thieves versus Immortals, well...100 Thieves earned my love and admiration in their very first game.
I've been rooting for them since the beginning and I especially loved their win against Team Liquid yesterday and felt they smashed that game at every opportunity--they won in draft, they won in play, they just won. But I came home to a baron fight with a missed protobelt attempted steal which 100 Thieves needed to not just lose, and since it missed, they lost. I didn't see their draft, but while I could tell there were loosely equivalent matchups in most of the map, in NA, Aphelios > Senna (even if this plus MF is the Xayah, Kai'sa, Sivir of 2020 where all of them are considered S-tier), and in toplane, I believe Cho'gath usually smashes Gangplank, so I could tell that 100 Thieves had a slightly weaker draft today and it'd require them to have played better the whole game to win. And while I don't know how they didn't play worse since I didn't see it, obviously, they didn't play better. From the brief highlights they showed at the end, it seems that in the skill-based matchups, they lost, and in the matchups they had the disadvantage in, they got smashed in. So that's disappointing overall. Oh well. It's not like Immortals are a team I don't want to see win and it's not like Immortals are a bad team. I have no doubts they earned that win and I can't be too terribly upset about it because I know they're good, I don't want them to lose, I understand more or less why they won even if I didn't see the match, with them being good, having a good draft, and just presumably playing better on the day, compared to 100 Thieves. It's just disappointing because as I mentioned... ...I really want 100 Thieves to win, dangit. In GG versus TSM, this is more or less a match that is between two of the teams that are like Immortals--I don't want either of them to lose, but I'm also not rooting for them unless they're up against someone I do want to lose. I think both teams are good. For that matter, all of the matches this day except for the 100 Thieves versus Immortals, are of a mirrored composition on both sides. In Golden Guardians versus TSM, nothing against either team, both are good, but I'm not really rooting for either or anti-rooting for either in wanting them to lose. In Dignitas versus Cloud 9, whoever wins, I still lose because I want both of them to win and I don't want either of them to lose and both teams are absurdly good. I think that, overall, for the sake of Dignitas, I need them to win more, because C9 can take a loss and still win big, whereas Dignitas has had a dangerously high number of losses so if they lose again...they may not recover from that downward spiral and I don't want such a good team with the potential they've shown to take that plummet. But, I do want them to both win and it'll still suck to see one of them lose, no matter what. Forced to choose, like I said, I think Dignitas need the win more than C9 do so I'll root for Dignitas over Cloud9 but I don't really want Cloud9 to lose. In Flyquest versus Evil Geniuses, I want both teams to lose, so whoever loses, I still win, but also whoever wins, I still lose because that's them having a win I don't want them to have. I said in a prior blog the rankings of the three teams I wanted to lose. I believe it was Flyquest > Evil Geniuses > TL which would mean of the two, the lesser of two evils would be Flyquest winning? But, anyway. GG versus TSM is starting so going to post this blog now. Like I said: not really invested in any results, but still gonna watch anyway. I suppose I may root for GG just so that they're less bottom of the barrel? They were one of my top six teams last year, after all. Even though I really really want to talk about a ton of stuff.
Like...League matches. I absolutely loved to see both CLG and ESPECIALLY 100 Thieves take down Evil Geniuses and ESPECIALLY take down Team Liquid, but I was obviously disappointed Dignitas couldn't do the same to TSM (who, while I have nothing against them, are just...not as easy to root for as Dignitas is). At the time of the match, my thought was, "Same as last time, unforced error after uncharacteristic unforced error", but when reflecting on it from memory later I thought that might've been too harsh a criticism, that they took many fights they won but didn't win hard enough, took many fights they won but almost didn't, took many fights they only barely lost, took many fights they lost but didn't hard-lose in, and at every stage were trading blow for blow. You know, the thing I praised Clutch for even in their losses--taking coinflip 50/50s that they happened to lose, but with one of their missed skillshots connecting, or with one enemy skillshot missing, they would've won in. Which is still something you can criticize them for, but constructively so, with hope of improvement. Tighten up plays, setup, macro, whatever, the little things they did wrong, so that they don't have that sort of mistake. I also played a lot of league games recently, most of them somewhat tilting, but just before this blog finished an absolutely awesome game where while my support managed to carry pretty handedly, I was right up there with my support, with the least deaths in the game, highest number of assists by far in the game, as a consequence the player with the best K/D/A in the game, and second in just about every single stat you want to be second in, with only said support as beating me out. I needed that especially following the multiple teammates in a single game "report Ashe" game even though, hey, surprise, I was midlane, my opponent was equally worthless to me, I didn't die to my opponent, I had the least deaths on my team, and that loss was by the stats painfully obviously not mid difference because the enemy midlaner did nothing that game so while I myself may have done nothing it was basically a 4v4 which my team lost and that aint on me. But I digress. Point being. I've a lot I want to talk about but I'm not talking about most of it. And the reason why is the same that I'm not making much of one today; it was more or less, "I am addicted to watching League".
I did write out content for a blog. But I am really, really tired. Why? ...That's why.
Reaching out here because I'm kinda desperate for this. I play on the Oceania server but I don't know enough people to get a five-man premade going. It doesn't need to be a PvP game. It can be a bloody beginner bot game, PvE. The requirement is just having five people as a premade squad, and winning. But I need help because apparently nobody plays on Oceania anymore so am desperately reaching out on every possible avenue I can think of. What's so important about it? Because I am obsessed with completing my quests, dangit. This quest has one, and ONLY one, way to complete it. You know the last time this happened? I PLAYED THREE BLOODY GAMES OF RANKED IN SPITE OF AVOIDING RANKED GAMES LIKE THE PLAGUE THAT THEY ARE. To complete it. I PLAYED A BLOODY GAME OF GAREN TAINTING MY RECORD. To complete it. (Tho that did give an interesting piece of info, that being, you can stack the manamune on manaless champions since I was stacking it on Garen.) I have not failed a quest so much as once so far. Literally every single quest in the last year. Every single quest since the time I started to play League of Legends. I have gotten. By pure sheer perseverance. But I can't get this one solo. I can't get this one on my own, and the people who I used to be able to get it with, aren't playing anymore or play so infrequently that I cannot reliably coordinate with them. I'm desperate. I'm RBree2 on Oceania. This is for League of Legends. I really want to coordinate a time where we can get this quest completed. And I've got 25 weeks to do it. Basically almost half a year. That doesn't sound so time sensitive, but given how much I've struggled so far for finding help...I am treating it as if it were one week because if I don't get help within a week I am probably never getting it. Given that most of my readers of this blog read it on a monthly rather than daily or even weekly basis, probably means that this blog is a waste but like I said...I AM DESPERATE DANGIT. I really want the award dangit. Let me have it. I did a little bit, but not nearly as much as I need to be doing.
I also did a bunch of League and TFT today. New week, new quests. New patch technically, but nothing really impacted me there. I need to grind out the physical/true damage one as well as play 11 more games in the next week. Should be doable. In League, I played an intermediate bot game just as a warmup for fun, and built the support item yet went into my full adc build otherwise--muramana (and I actually got it transformed!), iceborn gauntlet, frozen heart, had enough gold for an abyssal mask, but we ended it there. Felt good, but it's a botgame-specific build--something which only works if you're farming kills and towers. (Because those are the two things which proc the gold from the support item, natch.) I then went on to play a couple of actual real games. The first, I was assigned adc...but my "support" didn't take a support item (and built incompetently for that matter), our toplaner dc'd, and our jungler later joined the toplaner in dc'ing, leaving us in a 3v5 that due to my "support" was essentially a 2v5. (I ended up buying a spectral sickle because I thought, "hey, my support's not building the support, I may as well try and switch the items", told them as much, pinged it, encouraged them to farm...and then they didn't.) Understandably, we lost that game. Hilariously enough, in my next game...I ended up facing that very same "support" player, in the same role, with the same ineffectual build. Was also the adc that game, but since I had an actual support and the enemy team really didn't...well, we ended up winning that game, suffice to say. I did end up with a few deaths, mostly from my fault though in going for kills in like 2v3 situations to give too much disrespect to the enemy 'support'. They were incompetent, sure, yeah, but when playing a champion designed to scale, even with atrocious items and not doing their role, they didn't deal absolutely zero damage and their ult could and did help to save their teammates, and my lack of concern about these did net me some deaths that were easily avoidable if I had treated the enemy support as a champion. My bad, but oh well, we still won anyway and quite handedly. Anyway, was fun, but I've got a kitty to feed and then bed to go to. Very much not a successful overall catchup, but I did close the gap somewhat between things I need to do and things which I've done.
Granted. Said gap grows every day I don't do the catchup. Butstill. Work is work, and I think I'm closing it faster than it's growing. Pro League games today...didn't exactly go the way I wanted them to. I think that of the three teams that I hate to see win, Flyquest is the one which I least mind seeing win (basically, I most want Team Liquid to lose, so much so that in a TL versus Evil Geniuses game I'd root for Evil Geniuses, but I want Evil Geniuses to lose, so much so, that in an EG versus Flyquest match, I'd root for Flyquest, but I want Flyquest to lose against all other times), but of the three teams I'm rooting for right now (Dignitas, Cloud9, and 100 Thieves), Dignitas is the team I am most rooting for. And while I think that their draft wasn't bad, they just...made uncharacteristic errors. Things they normally don't mess up, they were messing up on. Credit where credit's due; Flyquest did pull maneuvers which gave them the edge--but when I was watching that game, it didn't feel like Flyquest was winning the game, so much as it felt like Dignitas was losing the game. And that's just...that's not what they normally do; they normally do much much better. I needed to play multiple games of TFT in order to stave off my disappointment there. I did get to play some League as well, myself. I actually set out thinking I wanted to play a game of support Ashe--but as a coward, I queued up as bot primary supp secondary because I was going to try out a new support Ashe build and didn't want my teammates to flame me because I'm not a skilled support player yet in part due to lack of practice in part due to the fear of teammates flaming my lack of skill in the role. (Vicious cycle, that.) I won none of my adc games, though surprisingly, not through fault of my own--one was a remake due to our toplaner dcing at the beginning. Another game, we won lane, but because the enemy team had Tryndamere (who's basically impossible to kill unless you either burst him down or stun him while his ult's down), Volibear (who took tanky runes and might've been building into a hybrid tank), Gragas (who while building AP items had tank runes so he was a beefy boi who also dealt damage in spite of his chunky healthbar), and Karma (who has both shielding and healing), and my lane was the closest we had to a winning one and I'm not good enough to 2v5 that type of team, we lost. And the third, there were two problems. First, our entire team minus myself was AP so the enemy team can and did begin to stack MR items. (And given my choice in build is partially magic damage itself...also was problematic to me.) Midway through the game, our toplaner dc'd. (Possibly a ragequit, but not definitely so.) A 4v5 made that kinda unwinnable. I was doing decently well for the most part, staying fairly even, but it wasn't a game where I could win. Then I got assigned jungle. Someone dodged. And then I got assigned jungle again but the support decided to (very wisely) take over as a jungler and let me take the support role. (I honored them for it purely on the merit of them allowing me to not be forced into that role, but they were one of the top performers in our game anyway with stats topping the chart and only our midlaner being close to rivaling them, so they deserved it anyway.) So I ended up getting to try out the support Ashe build I was going for anyway. Previously, my support Ashe build was Arcane Comet, Transcendence, Scorch, with a secondary tree of Inspiration. There's multiple possible items to build (obviously you take Spectral Sickle, but beyond that), I previously tried out Black Cleaver + Runaan's and it works well as being supporting the adc really well, but lethality on Ashe is also a common go-to for Support Ashe. (There is a third way to do it, "Ashe is basically a second-adc 'support'", where she builds ER, Trinity, and other meta items for adc-Ashe, but I don't like that one as much.) This time I tried out just running my adc runes. Sorcery-Precision. Arcane Comet, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, with Bloodline and Presence of Mind. Still obviously taking Spectral Sickle, but throwing in a tear as well--not building into a Manamune (that takes too much gold), but to have huge mana replenishment, and then build into lethality. Umbral Glaive, then two additional situational lethality. (Edge of Night was what I settled on due to the enemy "support" being Lux who ended up being the largest threat on the enemy team because the enemy adc was free gold for us due to how worthless he was so Lux was their real carry. Ideally, duskblade would be the third.) Basically, a pseudo-Senna build, because Senna builds tear into Muramana (one of the three champions to do so, the other two being Ezreal and Kai'sa), then two lethality items, then a RFC, finishing off with a situational item (well, as support, that'd be the support item, but since Senna's being played as an adc primarily right now, the build was modeled mostly after that Senna). And it actually worked out pretty well. Admittedly, the game was a bit of a clown fiesta. For no real reason, everyone went bot, with the occasional focus on mid. Literally, even with no dragon available, we were going 5v5 or close to down there. They kept on trying to fight and fight and fight and fight. For the entirety of the night, adc games and support games, almost every single arrow I shot missed (even ones which had no right missing--they SHOULD have hit, and had every right to hit, I shot them directly at the champions, the champions didn't move out of the way, and yet the arrows literally passed through the champions instead of hitting them even though by every right the hitbox should've triggered), but in spite of my terrible aim, I was getting really good vision for my team in the key area (I never visited the top half of the map but like I said--I never needed to because nobody was at top, but I was lighting up the bottom half of the map), I only got two kills but a metric ton of assists, I set up my adc to get multiple kills, the stuns I did land were crucial, my slows were useful, everything felt like I was doing it right. I did die ten times that game, probably about seven to their Lux and a couple to their jungler, but we usually got something out of those deaths, where my death led to my team getting 2-5 kills most of the time. (There was at least one death where I was overextended and knew I was risking death, but I thought it'd be worth it to try for the kill--we didn't get it and I died, so that one was my bad and I said as much, but mostly? Mostly by the time I died, the enemy team was low enough where they died one after another after another.) It felt really good. We won. I helped set my team up for success, supporting them fairly well. So I think the build has promise. Where I harass the enemy, poke and poke and poke them down, stay at max mana, get 40% cdr, get arrows, shoot them, set my team up, and then we win. Like I said, game was a bit unusual in that nobody was going to the top half of the map, like, ever. In most games I'd have to try and help with things like the Rift Herald and Baron. (Which I'd have been able to do fairly easily if I had gone up there, I just didn't have a need to in that game.) Butstill. It leaves me hopeful for in the future being able to do it better. It was good practice and really fun. In every game the whole night though, I do admit, I got lucky--my teammates every single game were fairly friendly and didn't flame at all. The closest I ever got to being flamed was in the champion select where I was assigned jungler and I said I couldn't jungle and didn't have any junglers (that's a lie by the way but if I told the truth my teammates would've been inclined to want to force me to play jungle on a champion I don't know when I only want to play Ashe and I don't want to play jungle and don't want to dodge so saying I don't have a jungler helps encourage them to either dodge or swap with me), but even then that wasn't really flame so much as annoyance at me being autofilled to a role I am woefully inadequate for. Butstill. Results paid off. Felt good. Power outages are, hopefully, not going to hit.
With luck, even if they do, so long as they are fixed quickly, I won't need to reboot my computer because hopefully my father actually did the fix for the uninterruptible power supplies. So I've been catching up on a bunch of stuff, but I've also had a ton of stuff which I've neglected which I can hopefully get to starting tomorrow. Apologies that I haven't been on top of stuff lately. Been frustrated, been in a bad mental headspace, but I think I'm going to be headed in the right direction now. Hopefully. Especially when my fatass of a father refuses to actually fix our uninterruptible power supplies meaning that even a hit for five seconds, knocks out EVERYTHING, electronics included. My computer included. Which takes 5-10 minutes to boot up and be ready to use.
But those outages lasting so long is also so. bloody. annoying. And there's no. damn. reason. for them. No wind. Virtually no rain, at least by Washington standards. The level of rain we're getting isn't enough to drag down tree branches of this state. So why the hell are we getting these random-ass outages. It's the reason why the days I haven't had blog entries, haven't had blog entries--each and every single one of them in the last two weeks or so, was due to a power outage. And sometimes there were times where I wanted to make an additional blog entry beyond my initial one, but couldn't. It's just. so. annoying. It also is rather detrimental to my viewing experience of League games. Last night I was forced to choose between the LEC broadcast and the OPL live broadcast--I ended up having to choose neither due to...yep. You guessed it. Power outage. And today. I woke up early enough specifically to watch the LEC. (Admittedly I did miss the first few minutes.) In the middle of what I considered either the best or second-best match of the day. (Fnatic's game.) BAM. Power out. Did get it back in time for the G2 game, butstill. On that note, watching the LCS right now. Gotta say I'm incredibly happy so far. Nothing against CLG, but I am rooting for 100 Thieves, so seeing them win was great. I really really REALLY hate Team Liquid and want to see them lose, AND, Dignitas is probably my favorite team of them all, so seeing Dignitas win warms my heart. C9's up next. I don't have anything against Immortals, but I am kinda rooting for C9 in that match, too, especially since they are one of the best candidates for making sure TL doesn't win so the more times C9 wins, the better their chances of outdoing TL. |
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