25th try - Close

I'm in Lux frenzy :) played her a lot in normals and ranked team, both support and AP mid, and I really feel she's my char.

I click on the button, let the fail begin!
Champ selection chat looks fine, everyone seems to be nice.
We're Kennen (mid), Lux, Ashe, Malphite (top), Nocturne vs. Gragas, Cait, Blitzcrank, Lee sin, Teemo.

What to say? Our Ashe disconnected at min 10 or so and never came back, so I had to manage a solo lane vs Cait and Blitz.
It was a hard and long game, and we even managed to win some team fights due to Malphite's ulti. But we were lower, Malph was so aggressive he almost was solo all the time, and eventually the 4 vs 5 thing was too heavy for us, and we lost. But it was a very well fought game, despite our lack of AD carry. Of course at the very end everyone was starting to blame anyone for everything... I blame that Ashe, I don't believe in disconnections of 45 minutes anymore: it definitely was a quit, and deserves a punishment. Will the justice be swift? I really hope so.

- 18 ELO, 1107 rating, FUUUUU so close! :(

(Yes, that strange Lux portrait you can see is due to a custom skin I installed once, before purchasing the Spellthief Lux. Despite I uninstalled it, the portrait remained. Not too bad, I like it more than the standard one.)
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After that game, I really felt I wanted a more relaxing game. I was planning to pick Sona.
Champion selection, everyone wantes to solo top, chat startes to be filled with insults and complains, everyone begins to pick what they want without listening to the team's needs... and I alt+F4. 30 min of queue before playing again. And all for trying to avoid trolls and a sure defeat. My ranked day ends earlier :-/ too bad, I had time for a couple of games.

24th try - DEMACIA!

Did I ever mention that I occasionally play in a ranked team with some friends?
I do. And even if I'm best at supporting, I have to play different roles due to composition necessities. That is, another one of us wants to support so badly that I cannot say no :) he's good at it, too, so everything's fine. At first I was the jungler, but it's not really my role - and can play decently only Alistar. Now I'm the AP carry, and even if I'm good with Cassio or Ahri, I'm best at Lux. Which can be used as support, too. So... you know where I'm going: I'll train hard with Lux while also supporting in solo queue :)

I've tried support Lux many times in normal and she's always one of my favourite choices. I've never tried her in ranked before, so let's give her a shot! (I don't build her as a true support, just switch runes and masteries and vary the opening items).

First game, noone wants to support. Well, I DO: be prepared!
I choose Lux, noone complains, and we're Caitlyn, Alistar, Lux, Ahri, Jax vs. Malzahar, Poppy (Jungle), Volibear (support), Teemo and Vayne.

Vayne-Voli lane is usually hard due to the strong CCs and beefiness of the bear, but today was one of the "cage" days (when all the skillshots are right) and Cait ended up with a double kill very early. We won our lane after a few well-fought fights, and even if other lanes were almost even, we were absolutely dominating, pushing, ganking and roaming. So eventually they surrendered.

+19 ELO, 1125 rating, In the name of Demacia I will punish you!

22th and 23th try - D'oh!

Oh, nooo ç_ç I forgot to publish the post about my last 2 tries, and left it as a draft for too long. Now I cannot remember well what happened, and how much ELO I did gain / lose. Meh. I'll try to fix the notes I've taken and track some of the main facts.

Patch applied to EU aswell :) time to try ranked without fearing troll picks!
I'm last pick, ask for support, noone complains, wonderful. I pick Lulu.
"not lulu"
"I didn't complain about your choices :)"

So we're Lux, Warwick, Teemo (top), Graves, Lulu vs. Tristana, Riven, Taric, Ahri, Lee Sin.

Well, what happened? "Noob warwick lost us the game." - that's what I wrote. Which brings to mind that we had a terrible jungler. No ganks, farming in jungle even after lvl 6, I didn't see him use a ulti even once. And he was super squishy too, building something horribly wrong (too bad i don't remember the exact items). Me and Graves were having difficult times staying under turret 24/7 and being ganked by 3-4 ppl at a time. Was very frustrating, noone of us came to help, not even once. And of course everyone was annoyed, mostly by Warwick's fails.

We lost in a horrible way - or even surrendered, I can't remember. Was a big fail, though.

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Second chance, I feel I've lost faith in gamers. I feel the urgent need to have a solo lane.

I'm first pick, so I take Ahri and head mid. I definitely need to see some foxes to cheer me up. Did I ever mention my overwhelming love for foxes?
Yes, yes, I know I wanted to play only support when possible... but even though I didn't ask for support role, our bot lane turned out to be premade. So it's ok.

We're Ahri, Riven, Graves, Blitz, Malphite vs. Taric, Wukong, Lee Sin, TF, Cait

I don't remember much of this fight o.o the only thing i wrote was "AP TF, huhm". Indeed, I was facing an AP Twisted Fate mid that really was the luckiest dude ever. He survived some ganks with less than 20 hp. I don't remember other team fights, but remember I could get only a few killing blows because of our Graves who was three-shotting everything. Well, bad for my score but good for our team!

Lost & found, I'm back to 1106 ELO. :-/