New season, same goal...

Ok, going out of the ELO-Hell zone (whatever it may be) was the primary objective of my ranked play. 

And  I really wanted to do this as a support, for two main reasons:

1. 'cause I'm born to support. It's the role I like the most and for which I'm best suited. Plus, I'm not really performant in the other roles, though I can play decently as mid and not-so-terribly-bad as AD or jungler;
2. to show that supports can be decisive in determining the fate of the game. All-shame and no-fame, the supporting role is always underestimated. Everyone praise who makes the kills, noone cares of the one who's busy avoiding horrible deaths to the party and preparing kills for the carry.

With the end of season 2 approaching, I have now a new (unrealistic) goal: to reach the gold tier. Which means over 1500 rating for solo queue. Starting from just over 1150, which is the lower Silver rank.

To show the world how powerful supports are?

To gain self-esteem and prove myself that I'm able to do it?

To have a new reason to motivate me doing ranked games and blogging of my daily failures?

Nope.

...seriously, did you hear about the exclusive War Hero Janna skin? *_* 

Here you can find the complete summary of the new ranks and rewards for Season 2.

Janna is one of my favourite characters of all time, and even though I really like the Hextech skin (my very favourite, since I'm also a Steampunk lover), I'd gladly alternate her with another one.

Well, I'm very aware of my limits and know that this dream will not come true. But hey, Janna is too sweet not to give it at least a try!

So I'll be training hard and queuing for ranked every time I can.

Wish me luck. :<

Oh, and of course, if you happen to be on EUW server and want to boost a 1176 ELO scrub out of Hell... you're welcome XD

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Edit: well, sure, I could always try and reach 1450 with my 5v5 team... but we have hard times playing together lately, we're too busy working / studying and can't be online at the same time :-/

43th to 46 try - Two days of MEH :V

I continue doing ranked games saving just a few informations reguarding each match... when I come back to the post draft days later, I find it hard to reconstruct the original situation. :-/ However, here we go!

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1.

I pick Leona and head bot with a good Ezreal.

He's a bit chatty and finds the need to suggest me everything I could do to improve my playstile... but we played so well together that we decided to queue again after this one. So we added each other to friends and our failing begun. (He was also climbing up from around 1200 ELO).

+13 ELO, 1189 rating, new friends?

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2.
NOOO!!!

I must jungle (Maokai) because a fail mate random picked support while afk during champion selection -.-

And Alistar was banned.

And I don't know many other champs to jungle with, except made for Amumu (which was also banned) and Sejuani (but she's not my best either).

Our great afk Taric didn't buy a single ward in all game, stayed AFK half the time and was really, really bad. 0 map awareness, and the team was reacting really slow to ganks (and of course I wasn't brilliant, too) so we lost bad T_T

-11 ELO, 1178 rating, why being AFK during champion selection? GEEEZ!!

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3.
Ez and I decided to give it another try. But this time he asks me to play Sona. Weird choice, but ok...

...no no no NO I'll never listen to others, ever!!!

He did nothing but smart talk all the (damn) game! Irelia and Amumu fed the enemy Jax top at the speed of light, our Morde failed mid against Swain, and we lost bot cause they were harassing harder than I could heal (and my mate Ez was taking all the buckshots he could in his face...)

Deleted from contacts ASAP. I really hate arrogant people who do nothing but talk all game, never admitting their own mistakes...

-11 ELO, 1167 rating, FFFUUUUUUU never again add someone from solo queue to friends >.<

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4.
Last one for today T_T since I dont want to lose much more ELO.

...of course I failed hard. This day was full of Morde and Amumu, 90% of which was just FAIL.

My Ezreal was getting grabbled and harassed all game long. Our GP failed hard top and continued feeding AoE.

-14 ELO O.o 1153 rating, siiiigh was just about to hit 1200 and am falling back into dispair instead.... T_T

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37th to 42nd try - Better be nice

Still home from work, even though I miss my lab I'm glad that I can do some more ranked games.

1.

I'm last at picks. Soraka banned o.o first time I see this choice. Maybe they'll go Karthus? Er... no.

Ryze, Ezreal, Lee Sin, Kayle, Janna vs. Kata, Shen, Leona, Olaf, Graves.
Good Ezreal I must say :)
+13 ELO,  1162 rating, Sweet Janna of mine!

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2.
I have the chance to duo queue with another friend ^^ so we play Ezreal + Janna bot.

5 skins vs 5 no-skins... I like these combos ^^ (Of course my team has skins... I'm totally graphic addicted. And Hextech Janna is too beautiful to lose!)

+11 ELO, 1173 rating, skinz winz!

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3.
Back to solo, they won't let me support, so I must jungle :-/ I take Alistar as usual.
We have Evelynn ap mid in enemy team O.o they say she's op. First time I've ever seen her.
OMG she rocks!! Our Diana mid was meh, our Warwick top was meh, but this Eve!! They were better than us, and ofc there was a lot of flame in chat.
-11 ELO, 1162 rating, OMG EVE BBQ!

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4.

Someone wants to pick mid AP Eve.... I'm totally with it, hoping it's the same guy from last game. But nooo, someone leaves -.-

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5.
Again, with the same guys, we have Eve mid vs Anivia
I support with Janna and must babysit a not-so-bad MF bot.
...why do I even try to play something else than janna? She's so damn good at everything!

+13 ELO, 1175 rating, I start liking AP Eve mid.

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6.
Super nice and cool people O.o all agree on which role to fulfill.

I take Janna and head bot with my Graves, which does not ahve heal cause of enemy's Tristana's ability

and prefers ignite instead.

We had a great game and the chat was very polite (incredible!!!) but we lost. A good jungler Shaco messed up our game from the very beginning.

-12 ELO, 1163 rating, I "like" to lose if there's no harass in chat!

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7.
Hello Fizz mid! Long time no see!
I got Corky to support and we're not that tanky, so I pick Leona.
They invade and after some good fighting they got FB.

We face Blitzcrank + Draven bot... Corki gives them a couple kills being grabbled early by Blitz. We fight a little in chat. But after then we see that both of us are good, and begin to day only "gj". I like it when the game goes this way :) don't realy want to fight with my AD.

Nice game, we were dominating almost all lanes and won early.

+13 ELO, 1176 rating, the Dawn has arrived!

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Enough ranked for today... I'll go try this AP Evelynn mid :-) ...vs AI, of course! :p

32th try and beyond - No-stop fail

Today I was sick and stayed at home. To avoid sleeping all day and being unproductive, I planned to do a non stop ranked marathon. I didn't record all the games' data, saving just a few comments for every match.

Let's get started!

1.
Everyone in chat seems nice and not flaming, we start the picks and everyone agrees on which role to fulfill.
Summoner 3 leaves.
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2.
Still no flame or complains, there must be something strange in the air.
We're Darius. Janna, Cait ,Shyvana, Gragas vs Ryze, Skarner, Ashe, Teemo, Leona.

As I said at the start: "Ban the fear Janna is here!" and so it's been :)

+11 ELO, 1125 rating.

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3.
We're Renekton, Mundo, Alistar, Caitlyn, Rumble (mid) vs  Ezreal, Xin, Blitz, Sion, Anivia.

We turned 0/7 in 10 mins... our jungler was just MEH. Fail mundo is fail o.o not only did he miss every single cleaver, but he took our blue, didn't gank before lvl 5 and was just roaming around the map, feeding the enemies now and then. All the lanes were doing bad, but this exceptionally failing jungler was just something wrong.

-11 ELO, 1114 rating, are you fucking kidding me??

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4.
No ban on kassadin! Mates flame, someone leaves.
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5.
I'm last and ask for support as usual.
We're Malph, Ez, Anivia, Nidalee, Leona vs Gragas, Graves, Blitz, Shyv, Maokai.

We were good, had fun times playing bot. Nidalee was pulverizing Shyvana top. We went to late game, and lost several team fights because of suiciding Anivia and Nidalee who were always engaging alone. Malph and I were so upset!!! "DON'T GO ALONE! Wait for us! WAIT FOR US!! Noooo dont engage!! Back back back BACK!!!" And they kept going alone :V

Eventually, Ezreal's quadra kill won us the game :)

+11 ELO, 1125 rating, tanks will be tanks.

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6.

Nothing to say, I was with a good Cait and we won our lane (and the game) easily.

I think we had Amumu jungle in enemy team, that's why I chose Janna. Was a good game.

+11 ELO, 1136  rating, why only 11 rating all of a sudden? Can't I go forth by 16-17 points every time? :-/

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7.
Kassadin not banned, enemy team picks Kassadin. Will our Cassio survive?
We'll never know, cause someone leaves.
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8.
Noone banned Morgana. Enemy has first pick. We're doomed!!!
...no wait, they pick Cassio. And our mid can't play her :V WHAT???
I can't allow a game in which Morgana is free to play... without a Morg!
So I pick her as a support, and my mates are ok with it.
I was in lane with a good Tristana.
...OMG Morg support vs Blitzcrank and Vayne D: poor things!!!

+13 ELO, 1149 rating... Morgana!! Run for your lives!!!

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Enough for today... I gained 35 rating in 5 matches :-/ I don't know if it's a good outcome or if it's pretty poor. I had fun, that's what really matters :)

30th and 31th try - Two hearts and a RAWRHGHRR!!!

Sunday evening, what a perfect time for a ranked game with my mate!

We're Leona (me) Yorick (mate) Graves Fizz Diana (the others).

Our Diana was really.... NO. Besides getting counterjungled all game, she was failing hard everything. 0 wards, feeding akali mid.... our Fizz was not bad but continued harassing and spamming in chat 24/7, so really annoying.

Also enemy team kept telling us to surrender and something about the gold they were gaining...  no-one focused their carry Ezreal, obviously, and we lost almost every team fight. Really bad game, was so frustrating that people seem to enjoy more insulting each other than trying to do their best and play.

-14 ELO, 1100 rating, roar!

We didn't play any more ranked that game, feeling that we could spend our time together in other ways.

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The day after, I wanted to try my best and go for a ranked solo queue. Real solo this time.

First try, last one picks mid even when we needed a jungler, then leaves. Boh.

Second try, I pick Janna... enemy team was strange. They had a mid Nasus who left after a few minutes. At least all in the game were nice people. My carry (Ashe) even said "Good job supporting bro" :3

Faith in community: restored!

+14 ELO, 1114 rating, back to my usual rating :-/

26 to 29th try - Home sweet home

Home sweet home!
I finally moved into my new home - which actually belongs to my mate's parents - but I'm living alone for now.
Moving took me lots of time, and I wasn't able to play properly for some weeks. I've done some ranked now and then, mostly with one of my IRL friends.
I noticed that summer brought an increased number of trolls... is the hot climate favolable to the reproduction of this annoying animal species? So it seems.

Long story short, I managed to due a few ranked, with suboptimal results. (Largely due to my lack of training...)

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First one. I wanted to support but are forced to jungle instead. Bans and picks deprive me of my favourite junglecow, so I must pick my favourite pig instead. Sejuani, I choose you!

So we're Lux, Poppy, Sejuani, Nidalee, Graves vs. Jayce, Alistar, Orianna, Janna, Vayne

A truly, truly, truly outrageous Poppy top (which seemed to be on drugs or really lacking the use of her senses) lost us the game by being not only useless, but dangerous. Map awareness wasn't allowed in my team, and every gank failed miserably. We failed hard, and that's it.
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Double trouble: a friend and I wanted to go bot, someone else asked to, so he headed top with Olaf and I took Alistar to jungle. Not really brilliant match, but we won.

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Another ranked, this time we went bot together. He took Kog, I chose janna. Our jungle Evelyn went afk the whole time, meh. But our great Diana mid and our wonderful Malphite top were more that sufficient, and we won despite the lower number :)

1125 rating

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Another bot lane! This time my friend chose Urgot. Well, it was fail, he didn't have much damage. I feel he's not bad, but excels in other carries, such as Kog or Ezreal. However, we all lost. Our team was failing and harassing 24/7. Really annoying (truly outrageous!)

1114 rating

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That's all for a quick summary of my summer (almost fail) time :) now that fall is approaching, I hope to have more time to train harder my supporting skills.