OK - so I played 3 more solo (4 total on alt account, 3 solo).  1 game with hunny... in which I learned people in this elo are not to be trusted.  Hunny and I made a play to back up a super dummo.  Could have been an ok play.  Ended in 3 deaths for us.  Lesson - don't trust mofos here.  

Anyway, then 1 game solo where I didn't believe folks were inherently bad still and played braum... with a kog jungle.  You shouldn't play braum here... braum = you carry a good adc.  You cannot carry a slop team imo as low kill potential solo.  

After that, I kicked into pacov of old.  This is the shit I did on my LAN account.  I become the selfish god of bot lane.  FU runes/masteries on heavy AP carry.  Lux in these games.  No GP/10 crap - just power.  Anyway, I crush it completely.  Recruit myself some minions and requeue.  Win again.  I find someone that is actually good.  An ADC jung/main.  This means I now have a 3rd that I can use to help get hunny up to gold V so I can play with him again on my main.  The guys fucking legit as well.  2 games - 23 and 24 kdas on lucy.  Guy gets this shitty elo and is also pretty chill - said he was gold and got demoted due to afk last season.  Anyway, high hopes.  Think this guy EASILY belongs gold and prob plat based on a few games.

From what I've seen, hunny spends time when I'm not about solo climbing, so hopefully he gets on a streak and gets closer to his promos.  Hunny had a serviceable jungle zac, so perhaps we can try that with this other fella adcing in this lower elo mess. 

Happy valentine's day boyos. 

Yeah, I was going to mention that.  He's obscenely good right now and in my opinion a must pick/ban every game.  Was watching a Challenger ADC main play him last night and it was really scary.

Kog jungle currently has a 50% win in Diamond and the percentage gets better as you go lower in elo.   So that Kog jungle you were talking about maybe wasn't trolling you when he was keeping the other team from getting the most OP champ that's in the game?

Posted a bunch of stuff to plays - http://plays.tv/u/pacov

Here's the hunny penta - http://plays.tv/video/56bf5b6c63e7b4911c/great-kench-play-resulting-in-penta?from=user&_t=eyJ0eXBlIjoiZnJvbSIsImxvY2F0aW9uIjoiUmVwbGF5VXNlckNvbnRyb2xsZXIuVXNlclZpZGVvc01vZC12aWRlb3MiLCJmZWVkX2lkIjoiNTZiZjViNmM2M2U3YjQ5MTFjIiwiZ2FtZV9pZCI6ImIxNzk1ODVjNmI2OGEyNzkxZWVhNGExYWQzZDdlZjcyIiwibGlua19pZCI6InZpZGVvX2xpc3RfdGl0bGUifQ%3D%3D

haha... that's kind of funny.

Still, I think this is a bit preliminary, but good data nonetheless (I hadn't seen this yet, thx for posting it!).  The play rate being the bigger variable.  I think we'll see a bunch of folks trying the item out, sucking with that champ + item, and the buggering off.  

I played in exactly 1 game where we had a talon with the item and he was popping folks like it was his job.  Talon's 1 to watch I think because the play rate shooting up so much.  Could, and probably is, a bunch of crappers dropping the win rate.  

So I'm still low enough elo that I'm trying to carry through heavier AP plays on my alt (pacov) as supports mostly.  Been playing lux exclusively (and selfishly).  Anyway, couldn't do that one game, so I want good ol morg.  Haven't done an AP lean morg in forever as supp (don't have the runes for a normal morg support atm).  Anyway, did it.  Love it again.  Very safe, very strong champ here.  I do proper support items but toss in a zz here and there to force people to group.  Forcing people to group in silver is good...  

Anyway, love it.  Was really missing playing proper support and this is close, just with FU dmg runes/masteries

edit - also, every game now I'm last pick and we get a mid going lux.  #hope the other team doesn't pick morg

Continued on my alt yesterday a bit.  Sitting 79 LP in silver 3.  Boaz finished his placements and ended up silver V.  

I'm kind of annoyed with Rito's system for what tiers can play together in ranked.  I mean, I get why they are doing it - I don't really want someone that at least appears to have low elo showing up in my ranked games.  But that crap where I duo'd a bunch w/ hunny and then cannot now without some handicap kind of blows.  

I don't entirely know how it works - if its tier for tier matching at lower elos or if its just a plat can't play with a silver.  For instance, I'm plat V and hunny is silver 1.  Not possible to play together.  Would that also be true if I hit plat IV and he hits gold V?  If so, that also blows as if I sink time on my main and climb to plat IV, then that's more I can't play w/ pals... which is all kind of why I'm playing on my alt.  I see a bit of playing on multiple accounts if I want to play ranked with pals in my future :/

And zz portal is disabled.  #thanksfuggingreddit.  Grats on finding a fringe case break, teaching the entire fucking world how to exploit it, and getting the item disabled.  What more, I doubt there's a simple solution to this thing that should probably never happen if it had not received publicity from some shitter just fugging about.  

Went direct from silver 3 to silver 1 on my alt.  Hunny is now in his series to promote to gold.  Currently 1 and 1.  Game 1 we massacred the enemy team.  Game 2 went less well.  I screwed up 1 early play that hurt us a bit (thought I had ignite vs exhaust so I hit the wrong champ ><).  We recovered eventually, but the enemy team was just much better in all the other roles.  We had a 1st time panth jungle, etc.  Rough 1.  Was hopig to help hunny get to 2-0 tonight . 1-1 is.  So, perhaps tomorrow we finish out the series and hopefully he gets his gold.  

Some good points from mr meteos.  Talking about stuff that SUCKS as jungler - correct.

Darius? Oh funny way to say udyr

ain't pretty, but highlight of the night for me sadly

http://plays.tv/video/56c681fa24019e7663/this-morg-play-lost-game-but-still-woo?from=user

One of those, you are fugged, but feels good plays.  

Anyway, back full time on my main acct. Still want to play ranked primarily, but i'll be sending out invites if you are able to join.  I looked into it and I think I can play with anyone in plat/gold/dia.  So, rip my alt for a bit.

recap on alt acct.  I had a ton of fun playing solo a bunch.  I meant to play w/ hunny a bit to help him power up to gold, but only ended up playing a few with him.  It was nice to go hypee most games.  

Braum in this elo discussion - Elo being silver/gold.  Here's the thing with braum and other supports that are engage oriented.  1st - braums not quite the same as a leona for engage oriented, but I find he's a heck of a lot more about your adc understanding exactly what braum brings in order to have an optimal lane.  Eg, an adc that factors in exactly how many stacks braums passive will be at after a trade vs someone that occassionally picks up on the whole 4 stack = stun = kill potential, etc. Or understanding exactly what a dash to them means or that shield means.  I kind of think braum is a champ that you really need to understand to be able to do well with him if you are evenly matched at least.  2nd point - braum ain't carrying shit.  He can have excellent plays, block key dmg, but his scaling is straight garbage.  There is no damage braum option (looks at tahm kench building tank and hitting like a truck).  

Add in that the entire team needs to get what braums passive does properly and now its even worse (eg top lane could have a kill right now if he's willing to flash for 1 more AA for the stun, etc).  Anyway, I think braum asks too much of your team in lower elo.  I think its better to play supports like morg that offer clear engage windows and some carry potential.  

I started my low elo journey with braum.  Decided after 2 games, no... this isn't a good idea.  Swapped to my carry lux shite.  Carried to silver 3 or so.  Hopped back to morg and carried up to silver 1 near gold V and now I'm done.  Wish I could have played braum more but I'm 100% sure I would not have climbed anywhere near as fast with him.  That's also kind of why I think amumu was really strong in lower elos.  People understand that if amumu hits a grab and ults, well its fing go time.  If I land 3 stacks of my passive as braum folks don't always see that a big an opening.  

Anywho... night!

Flashing in front of him, next to the tower, would have been quite safe, he only needed a few hits blocked.  Doesn't seem worth getting excited over though.  He was definitely retrievable for a summoner.

All I ever wanted was to help you become a better person, karl.  #youknowuthoughtIwasaskingyoutodiveincrediblydeepintotheirteaminsteadofwherethesaveobviouslywouldhaveoccurredbutatthetimeyouthoughtIwasaskingyoutodosomethingstupidbutratherinfactyoujustkindapussedoutandnowaretryingtojustifyit.

I dreamt of you last night whispering the first 5 seconds of this to me:

Instead of this: http://plays.tv/video/56c7eab7083abae82b/support-fugging-karl?oreferer=notifications

hue.  Anywho, my funnin aside, folks seemed really edgy a bit last night.  Dear god you and hunny were going it at hardcore after 1 game together.  It was kind of an agitation machine - cow wound up about ranked and then us getting stomped that game, you and hunny laning together brought out the best in the world, me harassing you, bleh, bryff hopping out of retirement blehbleh.  Its k.  Its ranked garbo queue... supposedly not shit queue is coming.  

Anywho, see you placed in silver 1 - so hopefully hitting gold is quick n easy.