Oh man I was hype, it was already about 10 pm and I had resolved that it was now or never. Either I get to Gold now or I will probably never do it. And so I waded in.
Also I realize that the several Amumu comments I've made in the past few posts may not have made sense but worry not, all will become clear. Also amumu is the cursed lonely mummy, that only wants love! and hugs
GAME ONE
A Varus game unlike any other, my team lost every lane including our own bot lane. things looked bleak, but a perfect Q snipe by yours truly, and a clutch assassination by our mid player allowed for an uneven team fight evening out the score. A few barons later and some increasingly good communication allowed for more catches, and eventually game one for me !
VICTORY
I took to the jungle in game two as the space adaptation of my favorite deep sea diver, Nautilus. An early gank top secured a lead for my top laner, a rumble who does extremely well with a lead. So I told him that I was going to snowball the other two lanes, so he needs to buy wards and farm and we will win the game. So I begin my relentless assault on the middle and bottom lanes.
Our Ahri has 5 kills by 10 minutes, and bot has a combined 6 kills with each lane winning by at least 40 creep score (farm). And I'm feeling pretty damn proud of myself, until our rumble dies for the fourth time. See the enemy shen jungle, decided to do the opposite of me and sit their top laner, which should have been irrelevant because of Rumbles wards right ? O wait he never bought any, and that's my fault. I hope that confuses you, because it definitely confused me. Now this guy begins to spout the most ridiculous things and trying to just die outright and get the enemy riven fed.
Things are beginning to spiral out of control until I see it in chat, "gatekeeper". When our entire team demanded what he was doing our Rumble said that one word. Now understand because of past experience with these people you stop telling others when you are in your promo or how far in one you are in, but you can search your teammates to find out that information.
So I go hard mode, not on tilt though. I stayed in control and smart, but this rumble made it hard. But we did it somehow. Its still a blur but we won a 4v5 teamfight mid lane and pushed to win, while Rumble was spouting nonsense in all chat. All I did was respond, "It's ok man, we didn't need you anyway."
VICTORY
GAMES THREE AND FOUR
Without going into too much detail, more gatekeepers and several disconnects are hard to win with.
DOUBLE DEFEAT
GAME FIVE, FINAL MATCH, FIGHT (I had to)
I hugged Amumu,
Amumu hugged me back,
Amumu carried me to Gold.
For the fifth game in my promotion series, I looked at our team composition and decided that Amumu was the best choice of jungler for our team. So I took him into the jungle, for the first time in ranked. Now I'm one of the first to say that first timing someone in ranked is bad idea but just stick with me. Amumu has the gank potential and a super strong AOE(area of effect) stun that can change a game. But this doesn't help when every lane loses early and I get smashed in my own jungle for the first half of the game. Things were looking bleak, and part of me was beginning to accept that Gold was out of my grasp already. Until I saw it, the enemy team was going to Baron Nashor. We had two inhibitors down with hope fading quickly and the team fighting each other. So I went for it, I mashed the follow command to baron and sprinted there myself hoping my team would follow.
I got to the pit waited three seconds, and then launched myself in with a stun hitting their jungler preventing him from smiting (smite is a summoner that allows you to deal a large flat amount of damage to monsters allowing you to execute and secure them) then I ulted killing their already low AD Carry and again stunning their junlger, then I smited, hoping I timed it just right. I looked, and I was wearing the purple buff, I had secured Baron, and my team got the buff, and aced the enemy team at the pit, turns out they did follow. With our buff we brute forced an inhibitor, two turrets and nexus for the win. And so Gold was mine that day.
VICTORY
But looking forward now, I realize that this was just a hill in comparison to the real slope lying ahead, the Platinum and Diamond peaks, splitting the sky far above. Wearing my gold trimmed victory I look with apprehension and excitement, because although I am taking a break for now, soon the slope will steepen and the climb will begin again.
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