"Dude I have this idea, what if all AD champions and bruisers had Zed ultimate that refreshed on a kill?" 

"Yeah man! That's exactly what league of legends needs!"

"Yeah dude let's also make the item super stat efficient"

"Yeah man"

Wow... I finally got around to reading the notes on the assassin item... i don't even... why?

I'm digging dynamic queue for the most part.  Playing ranked games feel like they matter more, so it kind of increases the we got a win feel.  I also really like that ranked tracks my stats consistently, so I can get a better idea of how I'm doing.  I dislike that you can't just have 2 people and queue up support/mid and mid/support... not enough variety.  w/e.  That stuff makes it a little more annoying to be the host.

I'm still wondering how big a hit the dynamic queue will take when solo starts up.  I tend to think that if I'm currently 1 out of 7 games getting mid if I choose mid and support... well that's going to be much, MUCH worse.  It would be cool if maybe they had some system in place that will intentionally wait a bit longer to make sure at least every few games you get your primary role... 7 games is a bit silly.  That crap benefits me more often than not if I want to play support though.  

Latest version of championify is out.  Ur a big ol dummo if you dont use this:  https://github.com/dustinblackman/Championify/releases/tag/1.2.10

And the best site for in game stats:  http://www.soloq.gg/

man I am off my game so far tonight.  stuck mid twice. kill it the 1st game.  Get absolutely annihilated 2nd game.  Get to support game 3.  Then enemy fps morg... pretty much my preferred support currently.  I go zyra and play like a bozo.  Queuing up again...

talons in the #3 slot for win rate now - before the new assassin item at 54.7%... maybe he'll get up to udyr 57% stats

I feel as if I might be redoing my series.

0-2

I split push, get an inhib, my team has 2 turrets before our inhib, and 2 base turrets... overextends dies. No tp up on enemy team - so free inhib if we dont... engage... like crazy peoples.  Anyway, I asked for it and I got it, so fair enough.  

http://plays.tv/video/56b6f315288f6527aa/derp-lords-command-its-4v5-quinn-is-taking-an-inhib-all-in-those-mofos-lose-game?oreferer=notifications

And here's just a decent play from tonight.  

http://plays.tv/video/56b6f41b4b43ef1fdd/im-all-excited-n-shiz?from=user

also.. uh... # jungle busted pretty hard.

Still wondering when we'll hear any more info about solo queue. Haven't seen anything in a bit

Some gg's last night.  Played a few with just Hunny - one he threw a bit then single handedly carried, so that's good.  

Then got some fun games in with both him and thunder.  Finished the night having qualified for my gold 1 to plat V series again.  We'll see how things go but I might get to play in those tonight.  

Good luck on the new pc.  Interested to hear what you end up getting.  

Failed my promos again last night - 3 straight losses.  Not really all that upset by it, though.  I run support/top for my 2 roles in that order.

• Game 1 I'm braum.  My mid tilts off the planet, my top laner picked mundo because he was free and not because he had any skill with him.  My jungler is inept and dies multiple times trying to invade when he's behind as shyvanna and my adc isn't able to get the job done.  I play really well, but then start getting sloppy towards the end - got picked once being where I shouldn't be, died a few times to secure kills for the team (that's ok).  Overall I played well, but I need to be less reactionary if the team is garbage - just keep on point, ward safely, support as best I can, and minimize risk.  
• Game 2 - I'm quinn top.  This game was straight up awful.  The game starts with a 3 man gank in top lane that waits for me to come out with the creep wave and then gets my flash, blows 2 flashes of their own + exh, but gets a kill on me.  Enemy team then lane swaps and aggressively denies me CS.  Their top lane dbl jungles and our bot lane slowly pushes the enemy turret down.  our jungler does not react properly to the lane swap.  He neither helped top nor went bot to try to push the enemy turret down (he did ping me for help in his jungle while I was behind tho....).  Anyway, I got put behind by an ok opening gambit, and then kept behind by their support keeping pressure on me.  I didn't really tilt, but I got super frustrated.  Tried to keep my cool.  I should have just relaxed more and chilled out at my turret.  Our team did not react to the enemy teams strategies.  My kda goes to absolute hell as I end up getting malphite ulted literally 7 times and then die when those ults are followed up by a roaming ali.  So many things I could have done better
• Game 3 - I'm morgana.  This game was really just our team being way too dumb to win.  I play very well in lane and get us multiple kills by making very good plays.  I'm able to get most of the kills on my adc.  I'm able to land binding after binding to setup very easy, good engages during mid and late, but the team's positioning is kind of soft (considering we have a malphite with ult as well).  Our udyr is not particularly good.   Our zed is pretty freaking bad. Our malphite completely wiffed like 3 ults... ><.  For my faults though, I got frustrated again with the teams ineptness.  I had a very tight kda at one point.  I died once choosing to get into a bad position to save someone.... I might have not needed to do that.  I got picked one time going to ward (thought we had a pick op on someone after the ward... I thought a few of us were tracking the same person and saw them iso'd... was just me... and the fella that was with me ran off somewhere else... which I didn't notice, so I'm bad).  I think my main problem is some of these games is really just getting more frustrated than I should, which negatively impacts my play. 

Anyway, played 1 more ranked at blitz. We got a win, but our team was trying desperately to throw.  Game went on 20 minutes too long because of 2 awful late game fights.  Was nice to get a win anyway.  Game was so much harder than it needed to be.  Probably back to it tonight.  

Well, I blew it and I'm currently 1/1 in my series instead of going 0/3 this time.  Will probably try to get my ranked series in again tonight and see if I can hit plat this time.  

TRYING to find a good balance where I'm focused on analyzing my own play after each game and then critiquing myself.  For instance, I'll go back and think about how I overextend to ward at this point when it was not safe, I make a bad play, etc.  And then take it further to analyze bad patterns/behaviors.  A few of my recent observations of myself:

• If I see someone on my team do something that's just completely awful, I am incredibly likely to make an awful play on the back of that if I'm in close proximity to them.  Its like I'm briefly stunned.  Sometimes it will be like my adc positioning horribly, so I'll try to quickly over compensate for them to keep them alive. Other times folks will do that sort of thing and for like a second, I don't reason logically and instead just get into wonky positions myself.  The trigger for this is pretty much 100% me observing something god awful in very close proximity to me.  Something to work on.  
• I'm doing a lot better with map awareness and proper grouping.  
• Playing supports like braum with their poopy, support only scaling, help me to want to get money on my adcs.  
• I'm getting better at praising folks for good plays, still too critical on negative ones, but I'm keeping my mouth shut for most part

Last - hunnybadger gets way too greedy sometimes and does still need a kick in the butt form time to time to knock it off.  I think he had a min of 2 deaths per game due to doing some greedy stuffs.  He did pretty great in a few games and carried nicely.  

also omg.. the mmr on this account is stupid.  don't think I've ever played a ranked on it...