and the chase potential is amazing! Even better than Vaynes when ahead, imo.

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201752964-Gifting-Guide-and-FAQ

They can't, two weeks.

That was why i asked if we could play together on Friday night while i was on, since you can Mystery Gift after a game, rather than waiting 2 weeks.

Thanks!

Yes and no.  I used to queue up with my IRL buddies when they were Bronze V's so I've gotten a couple of Pentas on my smurf account but they don't really count.  Had one on my main with Irelia, but that was when they used to do hard resets and I think I got it against Silver V's so I don't count that either.  Plus it was one of those mobbish clusterfuck teamfights where I didn't realize I had gotten any kills until it said "PENTAKILL!!!" after I picked my face off the keyboard.

But my Kalista Penta?  It was a long drawn out fight over Dragon that I felt I played fairly well against people at my maximum skill level, so it's the first one I'm actually proud of.

Edit: Cow, my goal this season used to be to get to Plat.  Now it's to accept that I'm a Gold player and just have fun playing champs that I enjoy playing.  Nothing but max skill cap champs that I have no business playing for now on!  I'll be Kalista Bot, Riven Top, and Lee Sin everywhere else so I can kick enemies at Pacov when he's low health.

This is a better goal than plat.  

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mentioning as I think cow said he needed one a bit back. 

Anyway, who is still digging urf?  I somehow am.  The crazy picks some people make are quite strange to me.  Like bryff thinking vayne would be delightful - brad wongs pal going darius - like why do people think these are good ideas.  Anyway, going to keep playing it on and off while its out.  Need to get back to normals soon.

Also, skarner apparently has a pretty high win rate in urf. I wouldn't think he'd be crazy strong, but I guess he is.  hurm

yah - but I just don't get home its even fun to play darius.  You've basically got people that can spam mobility like crazy or wail on you from a distance.  Darius can miss pulls over and over again or spin w/ his q left and right.  I can't imagine what would be fun about it.  At least with like varus you could  spam you q, etc. 

Blitz is amazing on urf when built full AP with spooky ghosts

chroma packs... woo. Another revenue stream that's incredibly cheap for riot to produce - I'd think anyway.  590 or 620 rp for 3 on 1 champ if I follow right.

Haven't jibba jabbered here in a bit, so here goes.  I've been getting a little bored here and there with LoL lately.  I really enjoyed urf for a little bit.  Was a really nice, blow off steam and relax mode.  Now, I'm just finding myself annoyed a lot of the time, which is taking the fun out of things.  I'm not playing particularly well and more often than not, my team makes stranger and stranger decisions to me that just make the game ridiculously hard to win. 

I feel like generally I can do my job, get whatever I need to get done, done. And then some sort of idiotic crap will happen that never needed to happen and just makes winning the game more and more difficult.  So, doing well in lane, having proper rotations, etc, mean less and less when in 3 minutes, 4 people on your team are going to try to chase 1 person on the enemy team for 45 seconds resulting in losing a dragon and 2 towers.  Or we are ready to group and someone decides to go wander off by themselves to try to steal an enemy dbl golum camp... for no conceivable reason, etc.  And boom - now all the work done elsewhere starts to crumble, the team pisses away w/e adv was earned- and there's jack you can do about it. 

I personally don't feel like I've been playing very well lately and have been making poor decisions here and there, but its just kind of a bummer.  Worse, I find that I'm fairly quickly just being like oh well when my team does these things... and then I just make oh well decisions... which compounds the issue.  Teams can get crushed for going some dumb arse composition, and then come back to win because of poor decisions made by folks on the team and you just can't do anything about it.  And I'm finding more and more games are being drug out by these dumb plays that enable more players to hit big power spikes.  I kind of think hyper focused tower objective play is where folks need to be heading and I don't think I'm seeing that.  Eg - enjoy your dragon, we are taking a tower now. None of what I've said here and above is meant as a jab at any of you fellas anyway. 

maybe people are just playing a bit more loosely because of urf mode?  heh... also I made a dumb arse plan the other day.  Put in some reps on sej in customs and play her in normal draft.  Well... oddly its difficult to get 75% ban rate sej in normal draft. I'm not smart.  Also, this rant is stupid.  I'm frustrated because I've been playing a dumb game mode, then I've been playing with so so skilled people... and in a few instances some madcast people that I don't really like.... and so on.  So, I'm going into games generally expecting poo town unless I can carry hard... and even then, some goon is going to do something really dumb and make things more difficult and cost us a lot... which means now I have to really make some good plays happen or we are done.  Anyway, kind of bummed that I'm not sure interested in other games either. 

Re:  Pacov's Mid LoL Crisis 

You don't play optimally on purpose (as do we all) occasionally but it bothers you quite a bit when other people do silly things or play really loose. With your reputation to experiment and try different things I think that leads to people playing with you to tend to get in sort of a mode where they're not taking things as seriously.  Even if you're trying your hardest in a particular game.  I think it's as simple as that.

My advice to you:

Separate your games.  Play some try hard Ranked like Cow suggested.  Play semi-try hard with friends.  Want to rush Zz'rot portal against Panth while playing Teemo?  Play Teambuilder by yourself.  Don't let people get conditioned into not giving a shit about winning or losing or playing their best when you're on their team.  

It's not even a conscious decision mind you.  It just... the few times that it's only me and Karl playing together, I try my hardest without realizing it.  He's always going to do what's best from the moment he chooses his champion so I do the same without even thinking about it.  Even when the team is losing he's going to make plays that at least have a small chance of turning things around, not go on suicide missions to try and take an outer tower over and over again.

And maybe concentrate on playing Mid and Top.  You like to split push so much, I've always wondered why you don't main Top.  Especially in the TP Meta! You like having control of the game so why are you not always trying to play Mid where I'm told you get the most control over the early-mid game?

Getting fed as an ADC might make you strong but you still need your team to peel for you. And you need to rely and be on the same page as your Support to win your lane.  

Seems like you enjoy having a lot of personal influence in the games you play in and winning your lane with a great KDA not only gets you and your team ahead, but it helps get the Randoms to listen to you when you call shots.

teambuilder matchmaking adjustments= murder.  I play anything i haven't played in tb before, I get tardo city matching.  back to it

Went 2 for 2 in solo queue tonight. Felt pretty good about both. 

Played mao game 1. Got pretty far behind my Diana lane opponent, lost a stupid fight and died with minions shoving my way. Anyways started 0-2 and had the latest RoA in the history of the league. My CS suprisingly stayed close to the top if not the top through mid game so I was able to get tank items (Frozen Heart/spirit visage). Ended up making some nice TP plays and the vlad on our team carried the team through to late game. Ended up 3-3-20something and was a huge presences in team fights. 

Game 2 I got brand and was vs a morgana. I had a slow start but farmed well and stayed ahead of morg since she was pretty roamy. We gave up a few kills to morg roams but I took mid tower pretty early for it. Eventually team fights started happening and I picked up a double kill to make my score 2-1. I finished Rylais after having to do a triple dorans ring start to keep up with morgana's wave clear. Anyways long story short I showed up in team fights and ended  up 9-3. I was set up to get kills largely due to our fed malphite making nice ults and our nautalus support making plays with his hook. Great teammates = easy game.