Reign of Gaming

Picks: I was surprised to see Nasus picked after I had locked Teemo. I didn't question his pick though, I expected a godlike Nasus that'd shut me down instead. (Un)fortunately, I was disappointed, not only in my opponent but mostly in myself.

Lane: I was pretty confident in my lane, with success as I killed Nasus a few times and got some jungler help afterwards. 

However, I wasn't happy with my laning. Reflecting on my decisions I feel I maxed the wrong ability, maxing my Toxic Shot first would have been a lot better against Nasus, instead I leveled my Blinding Dart- a poor decision.

Not only that but my (early) csing was garbage, Nasus had bought a Null-magic mantle on his first back, but I didn't have enough money to buy magic pen yet. I made the mistake of buying a tome and a ruby, while I should've built sorc boots which would've helped me more at this point.

I didn't get punished for it (lucky me), but it's noteworthy for future match ups, something I need to keep in mind!

Team Fight/Mid Game: This is where the enemy team screwed up. Our Yasuo was fed and our bot lane didn't do that well so we had to deal with a fed Jinx. But it didn't really matter, we were better at team fighting. Yasuo made some nice plays, I made sure to blind the carry but I made the mistake of not shrooming enough before fights, a very stupid mistake that prolonged the game and made me lack in presence.

We won nearly every team fight (we lost one after overextending in their base) because their top lane was inflicted with the curse of the farming dog, for some reason he kept farming all game. This meant we had a massive advantage in team fights. Resulting in our victory.

Conclusion:  I don't like to say this but the enemy team lost thanks to Nasus. If he had helped his team instead of trying to make up for his lost stacks they would've had a better chance at winning the team fights as he was still a pretty tanky monster. Their fed Jinx also threw way too much as she was focusing too much on harassing with rockets, risking to be engaged on by Leona.

I feel I still need to work on my CS, I was focusing way too much on harass during the laning phase and missed a lot of minions, messing up my build afterwards as I was a little gold starved. A very stupid mistake. When it came to team fighting I made up for it though, I made sure I was a useful asset. But overall I am not satisfied with my performance, even though it was a nice win.

Picks: What a champion select screen. It was pretty quiet at first, Trynda jungle, Vayne ADC, Lulu supp - or so I thought. Lulu was top, but I didn't notice it in time and I locked Teemo. Of course my future teammates sent me loads of death threats for doing this. So I told them I'd go mid, my first time Teemo mid... in ranked... I was afraid it wouldn't end well, but I decided not to worry too much as it was Ezreal who's still reliant on auto attacks to some extent.

Lane: I gave first blood really early on, I could imagine my teammates sighing IRL after seeing that. I was very stupid to take a fight at level 3, even after dodging most of his skillshots he still fucked me as his cooldowns were way shorter than mine. A silly mistake, but I decided to play safe afterwards. I tried to improve on cs'ing instead, with success. Trynda ganked mid a few times and we were able to kill ez easily after baiting his e. 

Our Lulu won her lane and tp'd to bot often, resulting in a lot of early team fights there while ez and me were fighting mid. Bot lane went pretty equal both the enemy team and my team won team fights there. Mid lane was one sided in my favor, ez couldn't take the damage of my maxed Q and the poke of my E, you could say it was an ez lane :^)

Team Fights/Mid Game: This was my time to shine, I feel like I carried at this point. I decided to make mid and baron my minefield. We pushed mid together and disengaged often, engaging whenever they decided to step into my shrooms which dealt loads of damage because of my Torment and Deathcap, especially Ez, Thresh and Graves got destroyed by them. (I could kill Ez a few times just because of 2 shrooms)

We could take mid and bot inhib and didn't allow them to leave their base. So we decided to do Baron and it is there that we won. 

Thresh stepped into a shroom and died after I hit him with a Q. The enemy team had to fight 4v5 now, their frontline didn't mind though. Irelia and Vi engaged on us, exploding two shrooms in the process. Graves got out of position trying to leave via the blue and also stepped on a shroom, killing him. Ez backed and tried to defend as best as he could, but alas, he failed. And we ended.

Conclusion: Using Ez' flaming words:

"Wtf, Trynda and Teemo, bronze champs"

This was a very one sided match, but heck, it was so much fun. It reminds me exactly why Teemo is so enjoyable to play, it's because you enable your team to engage on the enemy team after they step on a shroom, even if you're losing! The amount of turnarounds you can do with this little hamster is incredible. I really feel like I stepped up my game in this match, while being blessed with good teammates.