You get a wide variety of people (MMR/elo) in Promo Series, and you usually get 4 people doing a series, with 1 person who's not. So naturally, they're all super nervous and the blame game starts really fast.

J4 is really popular because people see him in the Promotional series in AoE comps, and I honestly think he's still very good in solo queue too.

Still, if you got to 1 promo series for gold, you'll definitely get to another one. Good luck!

 

So I'm in one of my series matches to move up. Feeling pretty decent. Lost my first series match yesterday with Fenraellis due to a 0/10/12 Ashe(Varus? Whatever, the ADC was using a bow) whom I was supporting as Thresh. ADC wanted to play passive after I picked Thresh before he picked his ADC. *facepalm* He proceeds to feed nonstop because he never wanted to engage. Team jungle never ganked bot while enemy jungle ganked bot at least 3 times in laning phase. I constantly warded near drag, enemy tri(I was purple side) and river bush along with the occasional lane bush. My ADC never payed attention to my pings or wards or the mini-map at all. I died once in lane, he died 5 times before we tried to transition to team fighting. I decide to take a break.

Today, Kellros and I decide to duo queue to try and ramp up my chances a little so I don't get stuck with too many trolls for my second series match. We have multiple people call top and mid, Kellros calls ADC and I call support. First pick gets Zed, second pick gets Singed, and Kellros chooses Ez. Pretty solid line-up so far. Fourth and Fifth pick comes around and the person insta-locks Kat. We try to convince her to go jungle so I can support and we can move on. Never responds. I don't choose a champ so hopefully it doesn't hurt my series since by this time, no one could just shutdown LoL. The game disbands and I'm kicked out of my series matches with the second counted as a technical loss.

TL;DR I fucking hate bloody little shits who throw bitchy little tantrums because they don't get the position they want so they decide to screw everyone else over and bait out a dodge so they don't have to lose LP. Fuck this system that Riot has in place. There seriously needs to be something in place for some sort of consequence for trolls in champion select.

 

Should've played the game and reported after. The outcome is the same (a loss), but the douchebag gets served a steaming hot plate of justice.

 

4 ranked games yesterday. 3 loses. Every loss was a 4v5. I know elo hell's just an excuse but.. urgh.

 

ElDee, I actually wasn't sure if not choosing a champion would actually result in a loss. They only recently implemented the whole AFK kicked out of lobby deal so I was hoping that it wouldn't count as a dodge.

If I knew, I probably would have just played through the match.

 

Simply cannot find a functioning well-oiled team in ranked currently, gone from 100lp to 16 in a couple of days, not won a match either, starting to get depressing.

I wish I could pin the blame on me but all I've done is support and won the lane as per usual, the problem lies in the other 3 players, I don't know what they do but somehow they keep getting rolled over. Then they turn their aggression on me post-laning phase because I'm still the only person buying wards.

Like, if you're Nasus aginst AD Nidalee, why try to all-in her when you have no sustain/farm, she's 40cs & 2 levels & 2 kills up on you. Why on earth would you even try? I just don't understand some of the team-mates I've had lately, you can't carry people this bad, I want to know how that Nasus is silver/gold, like, it wasn't even a bad game, he'd just constantly try to 1 vs 5 when he had his ult and he had a randuins to his name.

Just, boggles my mind. Can't get any lane because I keep getting 4th/5th pick so, carrying from support is proving difficult, maybe I need to get experimental and create some kind of kill-lane as going Leona & winning just isn't enough lately it would seem.

So long as I don't fall back down into Silver II I'll be happy, but I've proven I belong in Silver I winning games as all roles bar mid, I just need to get a team who initiates their brain and we can do something other than get flattened. Entirely possible I've won games against teams like this, but that's how it goes, you win some you lose some, I just dislike losing streaks of more than 3 games.

Edit; Nasus jungle proves itself, finally won a game. Competant team-mates & I didn't use locket the first 2 TF's I had it so, standard me really, forget to use my actives on a jungler, honestly. Not even sure how, simple things amid the chaos I guess. Soloing dragon the second you hit 6 feels good too if you have a pink on you, seems nobody's learnt from the LCS just yet.

 

I would like to believe you, but you just said Nasus has no sustain. And it sounds like Nasus was trying to initiate for your team. Considering they probably all turned on him immediately, after the first time he did it you could have adapted your tactics to fighting it out anyway.

Carrying from support isn't rocket science. Play either a carry-support (Lux, Zyra, Kayle, etc.) and convert from a support to a carry after you get kills, or play an initiation support that gets tanky and focus on turning your ability to create beneficial fights into objectives. The majority of the time I've won in silver 1 has been as support who focuses the ADC into taking objectives over chasing.

 

He maxed q first judging by the lack of damage his e had by level 6 & yes, he has his 12%(?) lifesteal on his passive, but that won't stop you being poked & harrassed down by Nidalee, doubly so when she's gone BotRK and has a huge lead on you in every possible way. The blame could go with our Amumu not helping him but ganking a Nidalee, especially post 6 is annoyingly difficult and not really worth it in my opinion.

The other problem was Nasus didn't say a word, all game, he never pinged either which is why he ultimately got reported for lack of communication. He'd just get his Ult off CD and charge in regardless of whether we were defending bot, fighting over an inhib (props to him for that one, but it was 3 vs 5 so we were screwed anyway) or just manning up and it worked once because we could actually go off of it. Leona, Amumu & Xerath just melt people combined with Nasus ult but we pulled it off once because I was in range to follow up. Every other time he'd just go on his own regardless of people being dead, alive, clearing super minions or just not paying attention. If he pinged before he'd go, great, or he could catch someone with wither but it just wasn't the case. We deserved the loss anyway as we had 1 tower and no objectives though that was more a team failure on warding the top half of the map and wondering where Nidalee was.

True, I need to practise Zyra as I've played 2 & I think I'm 50/50 with her but it's finding a match-up that works, or rather making it work. The main problem is of course, people chasing. For all the pinging of turrets and inhibs I can do, it doesn't matter if nobody listens to me and chases anyway. Those problems admittedly are rare in Silver I which is great, 9/10 you can ping an objective and people listen, though there's always someone that shows bot when doing a Baron dance on either side. When it's your adc... well, I hope that extra 10 cs was worth it.

 

Nasus's passive is 14/17/20% scaling at... bleh, it's been a while, but I think it's around 7 and 13.

Also, just curious, but since when was it in style for lane-Nasus to level E over Q? I know it's in fashion for jungle-Nasus(also, hating the style to E, then only Q-kill the big creep, rather than a small and big, but that's another issue), but I've never heard of it for lane-Nasus.

 

I think it's a case of people copying pro players without understanding them. There was a Nasus against a lane switched duo so he took spirit fire to safely grab the occasional creep but primarily trying to hold the lane.

 

Pretty normal actually to prioritize a couple E first before Q when facing someone that can stop your farm completely. Leveling Q is useless if you can't make use of the lower CD and lose cs due to harass

 

More people need to learn that skill builds should vary depending on the opponent, just like item builds do. But maybe that's expecting too much from the kind of people who play Malphite and rush Sunfire/Randuins in lane against Rumble because that's what Mobafire says.

 

Sunfire hard counters Rumble's Q. Gotta fight fire with fire.

 

TBH, I wish Mobafire would get DDoS'd and shutdown. It'd stop a lot of retarded builds.

 

To be fair, there are some decent guides on mobafire. If you go to the top rated guides they are pretty good. This Caitlyn guide, for example, is as good or better than anything on solomid or whatever other site you have.

I think the real problem is that people just take the first guide they see as gospel and don't actively search for the good ones, or they only glance at the recommended items at the top of the page, without reading the explanations of when to buy which items.

 

How can they search for the good ones? If you're looking for a guide, you can't know which ones are giving good advice and which ones are an elaborate troll.

 

50% good does not invalidate 50% bad.

 

After experimentation, think I'm gonna stick with 20 armour & flat mr on Lulu over M-pen and mp5/lvl as it just seems to work better overall, sure it's a tad mana hungry but I can always go chalice as my 3rd item after philo and ruby sightstone and buy the odd mana pot here and there for the laning phase.

Dunno why we had a Zed complaining about a lack of CC, I guess in comparison to their team we had very little but we made it work in fights and thye never got near our ADC. CC wise the teams were Lulu/MF/Wukong/Zed/Lee vs Naut/Lux/Blitz/Cait/Irelia. Wukong + Lulu + MF just melts them and they grouped up all the time so... gg wp. 55lp and counting.

 

So my provisional matches placed me in silver V, I won four games in a row, began a promotional series, and I apparently forfeited a match by leaving at champ select. Does leaving in champ select always cost you points or is it only during a promotional series?

Either way, its my own fault for being uninformed, but still- ugh.

 

You always get a loss and during promo series you automatically lose it (the promo series).