Meh, I dislike normal games mainly because there's no sense of progress. All you get is a win/loss number and total games played.

I feel you should learn the champions skills/basic combos in a custom game and then play ranked games to develop your proficiency. Normal games just don't offer the pressure to perform for me. And I think that's what makes you make plays.

 

I think that normal game with three or four friends is infinitely more fun than any ranked game on your own.

 

Is it just me, or have there been a rash of fucking terrible ADCs lately? I swear to god, I've been cursed. Every other game my Bottom Lane feeds like the dickens.

 

On the flip side, their must be a rash of amazing ADCs on the other team too.

 

Could always be the supports or junglers carrying the AD-carry...

 

Or fenfen doing worrrrrkkkkk

 

Eh, I did get promoted, but it was as mid in my last four matches.

 

CJ Entus Frost's Shy and Blaze's Flame teach top lane.

Highly recommend watching, there are English subtitles in closed captions.

Koreans, man.

 

B-but, I'm not a mean guy...

 

I just spectacularly failed one of the easiest matchups there is, Ryze vs Fizz.
At lvls 1-3 it was so easy. I poked him, lowered him to almost dead. I go in for the kill, I press ignite, and turn around, secure in my first blood. I don't see fb, am like 'wtf?'. Turns out ignite wasn't on smartcast. I played on new PC, so I checked the smartcast earlier. I saw qwer on smartcast, so I thought summoners were on smartcast too. They weren't. I ended up giving fb to Fizz, and tearing my hair out.
Go back to lane, rinse and repeat. Like a retard, I forget to fix ignite in my frustration. Again I miss the kill because I didn't ignite. Nevertheless, Fizz is low enough that w-q should finish him. I go in, try w, didn't work. Like a retard, I didn't notice I was out of mana.
After that, Fizz was too strong for me. I deserved that loss. Jesus, the plays.

 

Don't feel too bad. I used to main Fizz for a while and I while I've heard Ryze is THE counter to Fizz I never actually had too much trouble in-lane vs him. Levels 3-11 are pretty much a skill matchup in my opinion. The lower levels let Ryze dish out free harass and at higher levels root duration and Ryze's beefiness can fuck Fizz up. That said, if you dump on Ryze from 3-11 and roam a lot you can mitigate a lot of Ryze's power.

 

I feel bad because I misplayed that so badly. Fizz only got fed because instead of picking up two easy early kills, I gave them. If I had not gone full retard, I would have gotten huge from early game, and Fizz would have been completely behind.
I suppose it happens, but I don't remember the last time I played so bad, so I thought it was worth a mention.

 

Brand'll be annoying because of the similar ranges and his passive means you will lose out if you just go in and trade Q's.

My best advice would be to, early on, mash Q to get him low then get your jungle in for an early gank. Make sure he's scared to get in range.

If that doesn't work try and bait what skills you can (assuming he doesn't have blue) then all in him.

An early negatron cloak would also be your friend.

 

Cannot get my daily win done these days, I hate playing against bots even though that'd be the easiest method. Every ARAM I win lately I have to lose 6 or 7 before it, so the quick win of the day to knock 2 hours off turns into a 3 hour pointless set of games just to get it, bleh.

Ryze is... I dunno, I'm not sure why Riot are messing with him again, perhaps it's to get all his spells in line? As they're all different ranges or something weird like that so it makes getting a combo off pretty awkward - at least it does for me. Still, it feels like the lane changes will make him easier to shut down early before he can get a chance to farm up.

 

Ryze is all about hitting the "Perfect combo". Being good at Ryze basically means you have good map awareness and can hit his combo (QWQEQ) and then know what to do after. In general it's back-off, because very few things will outrade your full combo. The trick is hitting your full combo. Also knowing when to ult, because it gives MS and AP, and should be up basically all the time.

 

I thought the combo was w>e>q repeat.

 

For the most DPS, always try to reset your Q. Keep in mind you can use R to reset your timers too.

And I THINK you can use Archangels to count as a spell.