Ive been having a fun time playing the Ice Queen Sejuani. Ive been finding it easy to lane with rather it be top or mid.  Against some champs its hard at first but it doesnt take much gold to get strong with her.  I saw out of all of us i have the highest win %.  Haha thats all with sejuani!

O no not the Teemo top!

played exactly 3 games with boaz on my main - demoted instantly to plat IV.  

Actually kind of weird, jokes aside.  I hit plat 3 - think I played like 1-3 games total - 2 win 1 loss... something like that.  Tonight i fire it back up, get exactly 3 losses in a row.  Instant demote to plat IV.  Kind of weird.  Not sure why though.  Maybe mmr was low... but still.  I was playing a bunch solo on my main - not influenced by lower gold folks etc... yet pretty severe.  Guess I don't super care, but it kind of blew.  Back on my main though for a bit now I think - no more silvers with folks I'm playing w and I already did all the OCD stuff for chests on my alt.  Oh... did get promoted to plat on my alt.  dodged 2 matches of my promo series... then was like fug it - play on alt for fun - prob not keeping it lower mmr so I just need to tough it out and get good in other roles.  

Night all!  Happy St Pats

Yeah - guessing its a lot mmr then.  Just never had experienced before.  Sitting at 95lp in plat 4, so hopefully i can get demoted to gold 1 tonight.  

The adventures of hypee leona with heal and fervor of battle jhin.  Probably going to do a series.  Poor soupcup though.  hypee (not boozed at all on St Pats day I'm sure) leona just leaves lane when she gets bored.  But she likes to party.  If there's a throw down to be had, let's go. I think I'll try to be a smidge more support oriented next time...  .  

Anyway, looking forward to nerding later and not getting any key shards.  

Rito spells out exactly that you can get key shards on ARAMs.  Everyone I've asked and talked to about it except for 1 goof, says they haven't gotten a single shard there.  Which makes me think the one goof is wrong.  Unless one of you gets a key shard there, I'm just going to not bother with aram with my crafting goals

Updated listing

• super king pacov - plat IV 95lp (down from P3), pacov Plat V (up from G1)
• Cow - d4
• karl - gold 4 
• soupcup (been playing a bunch w/ him lately - madcast fella) - gold 1 90lp
• boaz (the bouche) - gold 4 (up from g5)
• swan (sultan of swan) - in placement
• bryff - gold 4 (up from gold 5)
• hunnybadger - gold 3 (up from g4)

Guessing soup will hit plat tonight if he plays.  

So what happened to the honor system? I ran into the first person I have seen with a ribbon in months the other day. It is a pretty cool system. I wish Riot would make a post about or something to get people back into honoring. I usually honor teammates whenever I win a game in ranked. 

I hope it's revised some time this year. It was another fun thing to try to achieve but now feels impossible to get. Mao's winnrate is super low So maybe it's just me but I am like 7-0 with him in ranked and I have never felt like I have lost lane yet (had some rough games from getting ganked but nothing where I was completely useless or unable to 1v1 the other top laner).

The more and more I play top the more I feel like Sunfire cap is extremely strong. Check it out if you haven't been building it lately.

Sloppy plat quad

http://plays.tv/video/56f09348957a574a9b/sloppy-quadra-plat-iv?from=user

Uh oh.  Maybe I should have taken my Dynamic Queue games a little more seriously instead of as a warm up for Pure Solo Queue...  Dopey me!

"Riot Socrates 2016-03-22T20:11:28.027+0000 Hey guys, we know there are a lot of players who are really passionate about solo queue. We're not trying to be dishonest or dodge this topic. Radio silence on this the past couple months has been painful, we know. We hoped to come out with a direct answer to this, but working through the problems players are facing on live now (consistency around position select, queue times and matchmaking for high MMR) is taking longer than we initially expected. We did a bad job at managing expectations around this and deserve the heat we're getting around that. That being said, solo queue does not directly address either of these problems and could suffer from the exact same problems. We'll be honest: there's definitely a world in which solo queue doesn't return, but we'd rather keep it on the table as we work through these issues before making a final decision.

A few days after we launched dynamic queue we said we would re-release solo queue within weeks, which we haven’t. The main reason is we've prioritized improving matchmaking and position select first and foremost. It's also clear we underestimated the amount of iterative work necessary to bring dynamic queue up to our standards, and we should have communicated that earlier. That said, as we continue our work, we're concerned about the impact solo queue will have on matchmaking as a whole, and we’re assessing how to best proceed. Once we've fixed match times and position selection, we’ll have a better update on other queues."

It helped a little too much.  I kept playing when I was losing a lot because I really only cared about my rank in Solo Queue.  I was actually a little stoked to get demoted cause I'm able to play with my friend Beer without hopping on an alternate account.

Nah, the reasons I struggled this season were:

Gave up Kalista cause they keep balancing her around pro level mechanics.  She's even bugged still where if you use attack move click your attack speed slows down significantly.  Which means you can't hop away from the angry Xin as fast...

Tried to stop using Attack Move Click cause of the Kalista thing.  Figured if I could learn to right click on things real fast like Doublelift I'd get good. Instead I got Silver.

Tried to replace Kalista with Jinx.  Turns out low mobility marksmen in Silver Elo are possibly not the best choices.

Support is my best role and second favorite to play but I really don't want to play it 95% of the time.  Especially in games I queue in solo after my MMR tanked.  Been having a hard time figuring out what roles and champs to play when I don't get Bot.

Been playing with anyone who wants to play Ranked.  Karl will attest that I've been playing Ranked with some people that might be better Normal Game Friends.  Sorry Karl!

Anyway, all that is sorted out now so no worries.  The Solo Queue Dream is dead so gonna start try-harding Dynamic.

so..uh... skarner is #5 for win rate atm?

uh...

Rito disagreed so much they brought down all of NA.  Also to keep you from playing Hecarim.  

Some serious platform issues at the moment though fellas.

Was there someone at Riot that was like - here's a manly freaking idea.  BeastHunter trynd.  Let's make him look like ass hunter tryn.  

I don't even...

Anyway, we've got a world eating jungler now. Also that trynd skin.