Solo Queue 1

Bans: Amumu, Mordekaiser, Urgot, Alistar

Picks:
Akali
Nocturne, Blitzcrank (suckafreesunday)
Gragus, Warwick
Janna, Corki
Shen, Teemo
Katarina

Pregame Breakdown:
I enjoyed my team for two reasons. 1) corki, blitz, and noc are fantasic pub stompers in the right hands and 2) a farmed blitz can tank and dish out nice damage with loads of cc. other than if i would take top or kat would, i knew it was going to be blitz and janna bot. suckafreesunday runs cv when he plays blitz and its awesome. I wasn’t too worried about the enemy team with there low amount of hard cc. Though shen can prove annoying. akali can snowball hard so i was going to keep an eye on her. i wasnt really worried about gragus or teemo, though they have surprised me every so often.

Summoners: Exhaust and Flash

Starter Item: Doran’s Blade

Lane Match Ups:
Top: Gragus vs Katarina
Middle: Teemo vs Corki
Bottom:  Akali and Shen vs Blitzcrank and Janna
Jungle: Warwick vs Nocturne

I will not do a full break down of this match as it was an easy win. Sadly, its true that you learn more in defeat than victory. But FB went to janna with a nocturne gank, who then ganked my lane and secured a teemo kill.

K/D/A
3/0/4

End Game Items:
Doran’s Blade, Tear of the Goddess, Berserker’s Greaves, Sheen, and a B.F. Sword.

Creep Score/Towers Destroyed:
156/2

Wins/Loses:
1/0

Elo:
965

Comments and Tips:

• Always be ready for a level 1 fight at blue, if your jungler is starting there. This can be critical to the entire team’s success. Losing first blood can be a real morale killer, to say the least. Especially, when its your jungler at level 1. This can often destroy sub par jungler’s chances of being an asset to the team early and mid game.
• I need to work on denying more, while still maintaining a high level of farm. Though it worked out that we took an tower early.
• I need to be better with long range skill shots. Missed a few kills because of it.

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