More tales from my ranked matches:
Match 5: Maokai (Jungle)
No communication from anyone in champ select and the guy bans out skarner after I call jungle. So there goes my main. Lee Sin is also taken on the other team, and they have Karthus and Galio locked in so I'm thinking Maokai can help against that AoE. We actually have this game won, 2 inhibitors down and a baron with a couple of minutes left, and then retard takes over and half of them start roaming for random map objectives, getting caught, dying, getting caught, dying. I spend half an hour begging them to group up and push, but all they want to do is run around trying to kill and getting killed. They finally decide that we ABSOLUTELY MUST BARON AT ALL COSTS EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW IT IS WARDED AND ALL 5 OF THE ENEMY ARE STILL ALIVE WITH FULL HEALTH. They force the baron fight and we lose it twice, despite me once again begging them not to. On the second ace, the enemy finally has the common sense to just push to our nexus. Longest hour of my LoL career yet.
Defeat: 10-6-15
Match 6: Shyvana (Top)
So this match was pretty close all the way through and then I don't know what the fuck happened. I jump on Ziggs and Ashe who were out of position and eat their heads because I am a mighty dragon. We ace them soon after, push down to their inner turrets and pick up a baron safely. I go back to buy with the 3k gold I'm sitting on, everybody backs off while we're buying. Then out of nowhere I see ezreal die, and then blitzcrank die a few seconds later. They push right down to our nexus and then kill me, maokai and ryze, while our baron is still up, under both our nexus towers. Obviously we lose. As I said, I have no idea how the fuck that happened.
Defeat: 12-8-7
Match 7: Shyvana (Jungle)
Queuing with my irl friend who is pretty terrible but I didn't really care too much about win/loss after the last 2 matches. He can only jungle with warwick or play some very specific mid champs. I lock in shyvana planning to solo top but then the other team takes warwick so my buddy goes into panic mode. I tell him to play support and I'll jungle, so that's what we do. He's the worst support ever, spends half of the match in base going "what should I buy, Dale?". Luckily, it's a very easy match as I give our Brand in mid every single blue, he goes 8-1, I go 7-1 and we pretty much carry the entire game by ourselves. Their warwick was shit.
Victory: 7-1-5
Match 8: Skarner (Jungle)
Still queuing with my irl friend, I finally get to play Skarner, who is, in my opinion, the best jungler in the game. The gangplank in chat is helpful and we sort out our team comp. Gangplank goes top, I'm jungling, Annie is mid, just bottom left to decide. I lock in skarner, second pick who is yet to speak... autolocks Master Yi with Heal and Ignite. Hurray! Gangplank still takes top lane and luckily Yi was going bottom anyway along with... autolock Teemo!
We get into the game and the Master Yi decides that he is going to take my Wraiths and my mini golems while I'm getting Blue, leaving me with nothing to do for about 30 seconds. I didn't really feel like invading against Lee Sin who probably started wraiths anyway. Despite this, the game gets going and through some co-ordinated ganks with Annie we start wrecking shop. I've pretty much got full control of every lane bar top (no point ganking Garen anyway when the other 2 lanes are free kills), I get a couple of double kills on bottom lane and surprisingly the Yi/teemo combo doesn't do badly at all, although this is probably down to their 0-5 Vayne being fucking terrible and their Alistair spending more time typing in chat than he did actually supporting. At about 20 minutes I'm 7-0, Annie is 3-0, and the game is pretty much over. My friend then types "brb" and recalls... ok. We carry on just fine without him anyway and 10 minutes later we get the surrender vote. Annie has still not returned and has gone offline on Skype. Hopefully he's not dead or anything. I guess I'll text him...
Victory: 9-1-11
EDIT:
Match 9: Nasus (Top)
Defeat: 3-3-3
