The Shikyo Memorial for QQ Therapy - Page 85

On December 06 2011 22:08 ArcticFox wrote:
I started playing league after it was featured at MLG, and finally hit level 30 yesterday. "FINALLY!" I said to myself, "I will be able to do ranked queues with other players who have reached level 30, which means they have some idea of how the game works, and since it's a ranked queue, everyone in the game will be trying their hardest!"

I queue for ranked for the first time, butterflies in my stomach. I just hope I don't screw up too badly. The game lobby opens and everyone starts actually communicating about bans and picks, and my input is actually considered! I even offer to support, because I play a monstrous Sona and have been known to rape face on occasion.

I end up supporting an Ashe in bottom lane, who runs out ahead of the turret, facechecks the opposing brush (I used my CV to check opponent blue to set up a gank, which everyone backed off from for some unknown reason), and dies immediately to the Leona and Caitlyn hiding inside. First Blood. Hokay, no problem, I'm prepared for this. I ward up the brush and start to lane by myself for a bit. Top dies. Jungler dies to creeps. Mid holds his own until he gets jumped by their jungler. My Ashe has no idea what the word "overextend" means and proceeds to not get a single kill.

End of the game, we've lost 29 kills to 6, with me having 4 kills, being the highest level of all champs on my team, with the highest CS (note: did not kill a single minion while Ashe was in my lane, only while she was dead). As Sona. Again, I'm mentally prepared for all of this, because I'm still at a low ELO where people are actually terrible.

What I wasn't ready for was the *second* things started going bad, EVERYONE was blaming everyone else.

"way to give first blood ashe noob"
"wtf sona HEAL ME stupid bitch"
"fucking cunt morg can't kill shit"
"ww what the fuck GANK YOU FUCKING NOOB"
"SONA YOU CUNT PUSSY ASS N****R WHAT THE FUCK DON'T RUN" <--- this one for flashing out when getting focused in a 2v4 and escaping to our turret.

Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head. I don't usually BM, in fact I try to calm people down and get them to work together and remember that you're all ACTUALLY playing to win. My 2nd game was the exact reverse -- in the lobby they're screaming at each other because 3 of them want to jungle and none will back down, and I finally calm everyone down and remind them that we all just want to win, and suddenly the cogs fall into place and inside the actual game we're a well-oiled machine of death and destruction, with repeated aces and never getting ganked, thanks to actually getting assist gold and warding every brush like a support possessed. XD

Today will be my first full day of ranked queues, while battle.net is down (and it will invariably be down....). I look forward to having some more horror stories to share. >.>