Wednesday, July 27, 2011

LoL: Ashe


Dabbled in a little non-Soraka the past few nights, as we were without either of our typical AD fellows for a while. Of course, Neil had to be a troll and pick Soraka as soon as my back was turned! I don't begrudge anyone to play Soraka, I suppose. It's a relaxing way to play the game, and my personal favorite. But Neil plays her as battle-Soraka, and I just can't get on that bandwagon.

I'm not the best AD carry in the world, as I've discussed previously. I usually leave it to Xian, who froths at the mouth every moment to see someone's hopes and dreams destroyed.

It makes for a super good assassin, and a terribly scary spy in TF2. Me and Lin, we like to facilitate the success of others, and save lives. The only way I can convince myself to play a carry at all, is by telling myself that I can save lives by murdering every single person on the other team, as fast as possible. This, unfortunately, does not make me better at last hitting.

Anyhow, we had reasonable success, but I'll assume it wasn't me as much as it was the other people in my party, stepping up their game because there was no healer, and the fact that there's 5 people's worth of damage/tanking in teamfights, instead of 4 people and a Soraka. The one extra stun/initiate is very helpful as well. I usually have a pretty solid arrow, but I have my off games. One game I managed to miss with nearly every one, just barely grazing every single member of the other team. Disheartening. Anyway, I was owned solo versus Jarvan/Ashe top lane in one miserable game that ended at 20min surrender, and then owned with a Taric babysitting me against a Miss Fortune/Lux lane, and then promptly played an excellent game with a Taric versus a Jarvan/Miss Fortune lane in the very next game. I want to say that the first Taric was too aggressive and got us killed, but the second was super aggressive and nearly got us killed - in the end, as I may have said before, my fate seems to rest entirely on the (somewhat unpredictable) skill of the other team, and not my own.