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. :-/

20th and 21th try - Pretty please?

"Best @ supp worst @ ad"
"Same"

But I was slower and wrote second :-/ so I took the Cow and went to the jungle.

We're Olaf, Alistar, Annie, Janna, Sivir vs Volibear, Nida (top), Cassiopeia, Miss Fortune and Soraka. We got more cc, we could easily win!

We had an awesome start. I started ganking at lvl 2 and didn't stop until 6. Then I went back to buy. Lots of kills, a good advantage + FB, everything seemed fine. But then... the pain. Our Annie was really bad, I'm sad to admit it but it's true. She was always taking the wrong path, walking alone like a boss but being roflstomped like one of Teemo's Mushrooms. But without any damage to the enemy. Our Sivir's first item was a triforce... I don't know if it's really a bad choice on her, but she was always pushing alone, waiting for the nth gank. Long story short, they got really fed and no cow could save them. I felt like I had no team, just 4 solo dudes trying to go 1 vs 5. "Pretty please, try to stay as a team". NO. Annie was useless, Sivir was soloing all the time, Janna... well, no shame nor glory for her. Our Olaf was good, but we could little against a super-fat Miss Fortune. They rushed our nexus and GG. I felt really frustrated, a wonderful start ruined by some exceptionally low mates.

Lolwut, I forgot to check the score :-/ must've lost around 17 ELO. Good start, bad mates, same old story.

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Second try, please don't match me with armless monkeys T_T please. Just please. Pretty please.

Selection screen, I arrogantly ask for my role - "me support please :)" - and we begin.

We're Ezreal, Lulu, Nocturne, Annie, Warwick vs. Cassio, Wukong (WTF I SAID NO MONKEYS), Kog'Maw, Soraka, Olaf. Pleeease! Be a good team! Please!! >.<

The game ended pretty fast. My Ezreal was always low, as his favourite hobby was to bait attacks and silences - and take them all right in the face. I ran out of mana trying to save him, and when we finally were both low and oom he decided to throw himself in the middle of the lane, trying to kill Kog. He died, I picked up Kog's kill, he started blaming me. I was pinging to go back for at least a minute. But no, sure, it's my fault, why recall at 15th minute when you can feed them a bit instead. Gosh. I was nervous and as he started flaming me I begun aswering properly (in my way, saying things like "sure, blaming the support makes you SO pro, my dear" and "you're dead, I killed him and I'm alive, you want to cry more?". Suddently, my connection beginned to faint, and as I sensed we were going through a sort of fight bot I ulted + shielded Ezreal, but couldn't see what was going on since I was lagging too much. Then I disconnected. I reconnected to find I didn't die (nor did Ez, apparently) and the chat was weirdly empty. A gank bot, Nocturne's ulti, I ulted him, Annie joined the party, they surrendered. We discovered right after that that enemy team had one leaver. Not really GG, I want to have nice and fair games, not argues with overgrown arrogant kids. Meh meh meh. Maybe next time? ...pretty please? :p

Gained whatever I did, 1109 rating, Leavers are bad but flamers are worst.

18th and 19th try - Double up!

I usually prefer to play ranked games alone, but today I gladly queued with a friend :) so we asked for bot lane.
First try, all ok in chat, when a random Evelyn with smite + revive appears! But she's also so kind to leave the game :-/ 
Second try, everyone's still nice and lets us bot.
We're Akali, Lulu, Tryndamere, Kog'Maw, Nocturne vs. Lee Sin (top), Brand, Warwick (jungle), Alistar (supp), Graves.
Nice game, with a well fought bot lane, but an over-farmed Akali mid that begun melting everything, and won us the game :)

+15 ELO, 1125 rating, Friends will be- OMG Akali quadrakill!!

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Despite it's saturday afternoon, which usually means more trolls and bad players (can't pove it yet, but I'm sure of it!) we decide to give it another shot.Lulu, Nidalee, Nautilus, Annie, Kog'Maw vs. Zilean, Teemo, Malphite, Karthus, Ashe
Dat bombs -.- the most annoying things ever. And even though we wouldn't have died, Karthus' ulti was just too annying. Couldn't shield both of us of course, and I died often :( dat Ashe wasn't really brilliant and missed lots of arrows, but jungle Malphite was always ready to ulti us under our turret. Felt so helpless. Our Annie could nothing against Karth, and our top Nida went AP and couldn't do much vs. Teemo. We were slowly losing all lanes and - well, it's obvious when you begin losing - the chat begin to be filled with insults and complaints. After some more destruction, Annie quits, and we surrender. I never agree to surrender, expecially in ranked games, but even if I pressed no I must admit that this one was a relief.
-18 ELO, 1107 rating, leavers in hell will go to hell.

17th try - All you need is MOOH!

Always hot in here :-/ my room is as small as a coffin, and my fan is trying its best to keep me safe from spontaneous combustion. Don't fail me now fan, I'm going to elo hell! :<
"Support please!"
"dude let me support I'm premade with the carry"
"meh ok, I jungle then - can I alistar or u want to support with him?"
"i want support pls"
...
"I said can I JUNGLE with alistar or u want to pick him as supp?"
"lol sry kk"
Seems that reading is not a universal skill :-/

So we're Sivir, Morde, Anivia, Alistar (MOOOH), Taric vs. Hecarim (top), Mundo, Urgot, Blitzcrank, Vladimir.

We had an awful start. Morde was afk under turret 'cause he was at the phone (...) and we got invaded without having cover. My stun + Anivia's ball and I head to safety. But blitz kept the grab to pull me back to their team, and my flash wasn't enough to avoid giving them the first blood. Sad cow is sad. As I respawn, I quickly signal my team to do their blue instead. But my mates seem to be checking facebook, and are too slow to be effective, so I start jungling without buffs. Had really hard times trying to keep up with the levels and farm, and could gank much less than I wanted. The rest of my team was feeding, overextending without wards and blaming me for not being in every side of the map at the same moment. Well, I ganked bot successfully 2 times and made some enemy use flash several times, but hey - ye it's my fault that everyone's dying. Extremely sad cow. Anivia started complaining about everything while dying under enemy's turret.

"nub alistar"

I was losing any hope of victory, when Sivir came out from bot lane and started killing things. Whoa, when did she get fed? o.o

We won several team fights (also thanks to Blitz who used to pull me right into their team) and at the end rushed their nexus pretty quickly. No-one was complaining anymore about my skills :) weird isn't it? Everyone kept saying "gj", cause we really were a good matchup and fought well. But dat laning phase almost disrupted our team spirit :-/

+16 ELO, 1110 rating, all you need is MOOH!!!

16th try - SO hot!

Hell has come to my room.
It's too hot to stay at the pc, too hot to think. I don't care, finally I have some spare time, so... let's support! My connection feels laggy, my router is burning, let's hope for the best.

I don't really pay much attention at picks. Noone writes in chat, so my "hi there, support pls :)" stays alone.
So we're Rumble, Twisted Fate, Lulu, Malzahar, Malphite vs Pantheon, Lux, Kyle, Nocturne and Volibear. Whooo they have no ranged ad? No wait... flash+heal... it's Kayle? And Voli's going to support her? I'm confused.
Game starts, TF is AP and claims mid, saying he told it and he's second pick so he's higher elo and blah blah blah. So I'm bot with Malz :-/ selection chat bugged, noone could see the other's sentences. Siiigh. Let's hope for a good game, they have no true AD carry either.
Bot line is Kyle-Voli, as I imagined. After a couple of fail ganks from our Malph + TF, we happen to be 0/3 at 6th minute. Yay? Early game was really painful, me and Malz were really slow and couldn't escape enemy's cc, so we were under turret all the time.

Then something changed, as we started roaming a bit: our AP carries were definitely not bad, and could manage to do a couple of kills. One team fight after another we push their inhibitor, enemy team surely didn't know well who to focus and was relatively easy to save my squishies' asses. I felt like the hero of the day, since many bad team fights turned to our advantage largely due to my CCs. Come on guys, let me feel proud of my little skills, once in a while!

Everything was going just fine, when suddenly my Lulu decided it was too hot to move. WHAT?? I couldn't move her or use abilities, I just could write in chat. "My game client is crushing" - I guess - "better restart it". But could not even start the launcher. So I restart my router. Nothing happens. I try again restarting the entire system, and when I finally log in I find a mysterious obstacle between me and my ranked game.

FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
No no nooooo we can win this game!! Why am I stuck outside?? Hold on guys, I'll be there soon!!

I finally manage to log back in, apologizing with my mates for the disconnection. Geeeez, I've been away for at least 4-5 minutes!! We were dominating, but while I was away we lost an inhibitor and got pushed to our base.
"My client, pc and connection crashed... I'm so mad >.< sorry guys!"
"Np, now make up for that and let's win this." - says TF.

No more than 1 minute later, we were fighting at the baron, bringing home a nice ACE, and rushing through their nexus. "Ok like this? :D" And it's a GG!!
+18 ELO, 1094 rating, Hot suppordle is HOT!