also it occurs to me that the magical vlog is probably a good deal less interesting than I originally imagined.
I think I'll just ramble some now...
I'm contemplating changing my focus to a specific role with a smaller pool of champions. I think my main problem is that I want to be very good with any champ I play. To flesh that out a little, let's say I'm into jungle now. Well, what I do is pick a champ that I'm interested in. play test literally any reasonable jungle route, toy with runes and masteries over and over, how soon they can safely take drake..you name it... and then work on mechanics with w/e champ I'm into. In short, I'm actually putting in quite a bit of time before I even get into playing a champ in a live game.
And then, after all that time and prep, my options are to play team builder and get w/e role I'm focused on (side note... every single team builder game I've played recently has an afk on my team), or hop over and try to get in some games with you folks. Where I'm likely going to offer to play support so someone else can have a go a w/e role they want.
Guess I'll talk about that a little bit - playing roles I'd rather not so others can do what they like. Now, I actually enjoy playing all roles from time to time, but typically cycle through very specific interests for a few weeks or a month. I think if you observe me specifically, you'll notice a pattern where I'll either offer to support early based on who we have on the team or after a few games.
About 90% of the time, I'd rather be playing some role other than support. But I generally want folks to have fun. As a hypothetical example, consider me wanting to play jungle every game and I keep inviting karl (mains jungle), but I take jungle all night. In my mind, that's me being a shit. So, having that attitude, I choose to let folks do what they want. But, of course, this means I'm not working on whatever I'm looking to improve at.
I will add that I also don't really like playing champs I suck at or am working on with pals. Consider 5 of us wanting to win a game and I take a role where I'm inexperienced from someone that has much more experience. On top of that, I play a champion I'm interested in working on instead of a champ where I'd be better at in a role. All of that strikes me as dickish.
So, I feel bad when folks don't get to play w/e role they want because I'm taking it from them. I feel bad when I take a role from someone who has a higher skill cap or more experience (or in pete's instance, turns to poo town in other roles). Anyway, that's how I generally feel and is why you see things like me offering to cover support for someone else.
So - magical martyr pacov, right? well... if you like. If we want to be friendly, I'm requesting that you folks try to have more of an open mind when it comes to what roles you play. Barring that, I'm going to start playing other roles MUCH more frequently which will quite possibly result in other people being put into roles they blow at. Also, bad news - I'm probably going to suck while I work on getting better. Perhaps you can be the good guy and step up and offer to cover support so someone else might do what they want.
long winded topic 1 of about 7 on my mind...
