Once again your scientific method is lacking.

The only true way to know what you play best when drunk is to play Ranked while sloshed.  25-30 Ranked games after taking shots should let you know pretty well which roles you truly excel at while inebriated. 

Huh?  I don't understand this sentence.

Anyway, keep in mind it's not always easy for us.  You often offer to fill in games despite being the one who got the team together, so no one begrudges you staking out a role whenever you want to play something.

It's when a game goes south cause people are playing off roles and you get frustrated.  That's not ideal for me personally.

"Okay, the other team got their third Dragon, we don't have any.  Okay, they're way ahead of us on towers.  Okay we're about to lose yet another tower and I guess we're not going to get anything accomplished in return..."

I know you are trying to be constructive and helpful and get people focused on turning things around, but sometimes the things you call out are simply unavoidable when you're on the team that's losing badly.

To which I can't help but think to myself "If Pacov cares so much about winning, why didn't he let the Plat Support Main play Support?  And have our Plat Jungle Main play jungle?"

Can't you just go into a game thinking "Okay, we might lose this Normal Draft game cause we're playing off roles.  But we're going to all be getting better from playing out of our comfort zone so who cares."  Trying to adopt that would seem like the best solution to your dilemma.  

@thunder - I thought I responded to you but apparently did not.  The short version is that I was just whinging about not being able to play support when I invited certain folks even though I wanted to play support.  For instance, if you only played support/jungle, I'd want to put you in that role.  If someone else joins that also does support and jungle, then I'm a pisser for taking either of those roles as I already have those roles filled up.  So, I can't play the role I'm interested in and I generally don't feel like telling people I won't play with them because I want to play support and you can only do that, etc.  Thank god riot has a built in Offline button.... Not a big deal at any rate, just whinging as this is more and more common with the folks I'm running w/.

All that said, I get your point re: me being negative about missed objectives, etc, and that being super fun to hear. 

Anyway, I was really surprised to see that I had gotten those skins.  If I start up another smurf acct, I'd be happy to get one of you credit.  If I remember right, you used to have to get crazy referrals to get those skins - now its like 3 and 5 people to level 10... kind of easy to do I'd think. 

Just going through some of my reddit stuff I marked to check out later.  One thing I came across:  http://www.trackingthepros.com/soloq-online

Go here and you can see the top challenger players in the world, what champ they are currently playing, how far along they are in the game and spectate.  

boaz just went on a 4 game win streak and hit gold V again.  

Ironically he fought against a sej in his last game as amumu.  The sej was mentally handicapped and his team pretty much stomped. 

Normal matchmaking on LAN for 1 game.  Let me know what strikes you.  

If you get a level 1, you also get 2 elo boosters and a diamond 5.  I mean.. what... 

Quoting pacov,

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Normal matchmaking on LAN for 1 game.  Let me know what strikes you.  

If you get a level 1, you also get 2 elo boosters and a diamond 5.  I mean.. what... 

It's probably expecting a lot to hope that the system can accurately guess the MMR of every smurf who is stomping LAN beginners.  The KDA's of Plat V and Diamond V players who have been playing against pre-30 players is probably fairly similar, so you probably are going to face more and more good players now that you're marked as an El Smurforino.

I am back from my trip and pretty rusty. I felt really awkward playing league last night. Its funny how a week off can really set you back mechanically. Anyways I should be around very frequently again.

Also WFX got beat in the promotional tournament so we will have two new teams in the NA LCS for the summer split (the best challenger team gets in automatically and TDK). Hai also stepped down from being C9's mid laner. IMO this should of happened much earlier during the spring split. Hai through a lot of blame on a wrist injury in a blerb he posted. It will be interesting if C9 will stay close to the top in NA with a roster swap after being together for so long.

Glad to have you back man.  Nice that you got to get back in time to catch a rare Nades/Sharpie sighting!

Hai was the shotcaller on that team right?

Yeah for sure.  Their superior shotcalling/macro level/whatever helped set them apart.  But it wasn't just Hai who made them trendsetters.  Seemed like everyone on their team were innovative in their own way.  Except for maybe Balls.  If Cloud 9 was the Beetles then Balls was Ringo I guess?

Re: Rust

You seemed like you were playing as good as ever the other day.  Just wait until you get on the wrong side of 30.  Then everything goes to shit when you stop playing for... like two hours.

What really trips me out is how good Sharpie is after like... two years off.  She was laning with me bot one game and was doing great. Gotta talk to her about rushing Ruby SS but as far as mechanics go, she's solid.

prob back on NA whenever the patch lands.  got up to level 20 on my acct there.  Running with a few NA folks. 

There better not be.  I'd be pretty pissed off if I queued up by myself in a Normal game the matchmaking system made me waste my time in a sub 30 game to 'balance' things out. 

I imagine that not many Challenger players enjoy low level games, so I doubt they queue up with their pre-30 friends that often.  When it does happen, it sounds like the system does the best it can to compensate.

From what I know about the matchmaking system, this is what I think is happening:

Pacov shows up in LAN and makes a new account.  He starts stomping beginner players from Costa Rica.  Great win percentage, huge KDAs, good fun.

Oh no!  The smurf detector notices this.  He's now registered as a smurf.  The matchmaker don't know if he's Gold V or Challenger.  Pre-30 games are a total crapshoot so it's really hard to tell.  So when a level 30 Challenger enters a Pre-30 game, the system says "What the fuck?  Well... This Pacov guy is pretty good.  He might be Challenger too for all I know.  Let's see what happens."

If you were curious, hopefully that clears up a little of the mystery.

If you were complaining, keep in mind that the actual beginners who are learning the game don't want to play with you.  Riot doesn't want you to play with them either, so if you're ending up in games full of NA smurfs then everything is working as intended.

so, kinda of a big change for morg if you haven't read about it (reddit found anyway).  I think what riot has done is actually fix something that has been broken for some time.  With morg's spellshield, previously you could block cc even if dmg was greater than that of the spell shields value.  Eg my spell shield is worth say 20.  If I fire a cc at that spell shield doing > 20 dmg, the spell shield pops.  Previously, though, the cc would be stopped even if the spell shield was popped.  NOW, cc will not be stopped if the shield pops. 

This seems an appropriate change, but does impact the fairly large amount of flexiblity you had with morg previously.  For instance, I could get away with my goofy GDM before - now, without added ap, it could make a bigger difference for shields.  Additionally, it will likely become more important to level up that ability earlier which reduces kill potential on upgraded q's.  It's also probably worth doing the math if you are fighting against a morgana so see how much damage is needed to pop those shields.  For instance, how much dmg do you need for a thresh hook to go through the shield.  If you can have that damage at level 2/3 due to runes, you can swing a lane... especially as folks will see the shield, think they are safe, and then get destroyed.