Made Silver 5!

In this post, I talked about finally getting to Bronze 2 (up from Bronze 4 in a month). Three months later, I have finally made it to Silver 5.

Here's the game where it happened:

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1553229197/423744

I was playing Ashe, and the support was Thresh. Thresh was really aggressive considering we were against Leona and Lucian. I messed up a few engagements and Thresh got kind of pissed off, but he kept playing well, and I improved.

My duo partner was Viktor, and he played pretty well as usual. I'm pretty sure his help over the last couple weeks has helped me go up in rank. Sure, the matchmaker tries to make sure we're on even teams, but having a good duo partner reduces the chances of getting a troll or AFK.

I'm finding this season that my Ashe record is much better than with Caitlyn, who is my "main". If the stats told me in Season 3 that my main was Cait, my Season 4 stats appear to be telling me that my main is really Ashe.

I'm 58% win on 35 games with Ashe, and 45% on 171 games with Cait. Season 3 I went 60% with Cait on 102 games. I'm really not sure what happened to cause this. Not that I never play Cait well, like in this game where I went 20/2:

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1543816521/423744

One of those deaths was when someone asked me something, and I responded with "okEfffffffffffff". "E" is shift-E, auto-casting her net-escape, and "f" is flash to warp out.

Well, as I move up I must say the quality of the games is increasing. Fewer trolls, fewer AFKs, stronger tactics all around. It's a good sign when your enjoyment of a game increases as you get better. Well, that's all for now. Signing off!

Promoted to Bronze 2

I haven't written anything for quite some time about LoL, because I felt stuck in a rut. Every time I would get to the top of Bronze 4, I would go on a losing streak and be back at the bottom. Or worse, back in Bronze 5.

So I practiced and practiced for months, usually playing a game a day, often more. Still I could not break out of Bronze 4. So I did something drastic:

I took lessons. I paid AotW Lemons for two 1 hour lessons a week apart. He was a great coach, and helped me a lot. We played a game each session, with me as Cait (my main) and him as support. We were on Skype, and he told me what I was doing wrong as it happened, and told me which things I did well.

Turns out I was doing pretty well with CS (getting gold from killing minions), but badly with positioning. I was not using Cait's range to its fullest advantage.

One month later, I was promoted to Bronze 2. From the bottom of Bronze 4 to Bronze 3 I went on a winning streak of about 7 ranked games in a row. Here's the chart of my LoLKing score:



The results of the game that promoted me follow:



My duo partner was Skarner, a Silver 3. Note that I'm in a game with nobody ranked lower than Bronze 2 here, and I went 13/7/14 with Ziggs mid. The things Lemons helped me with on bot lane have improved my game all over the map.

So if you're a long-time struggling LoL player who is still stuck in the bottom ranks, let me recommend you take a few lessons. It's worth the money and time. Also, LoL is a game that gets more fun as you get better at it!

Next target: get to Silver 5.