So, still in my promos from gold 2 to 1.   Failed them once or twice yesterday.  Played a few with pete (1 good pete 1, 1 pete lives mid lane and is... linear).  

Then played some with hunny.  Ended up back where I started in promos.  One REALLY nice thing while you are stuck in lower elos.  If you fail your promos once, when you get back there, you need to win 1 less game to get promoted.  So, gold 2 to gold 1, I just need to win 1 game out of 2 to move on up.  Was kind of bummed I didn't get there yesterday though.  Doubt it will be much of a problem.  

Apparently brands ult is bugged. It just disappears if his target is ablaze which is pretty much always. I noticed this 3 or 4 times while playing him since the jihn patch came out. Thought I was imagining things but there is a reddit post with riot comments on it.

So the damage on jhin traps apparently stacks... and they already have pretty good damage output on normal AD builds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyA4_LtgohQ

I'm leaning towards udyr being on the must ban list.  56.7% win rate.  Seem some in ranked... unpleasant.  

Sion and panth are way up the win rate tree as well now.  

Currently sitting with 13 support games and 3 mid games since dynamic queue came setting my primary to mid and secondary to support. I am really frustrated with this. I like support but not every fucking game. Considering swapping my secondary to top lane to increase my frequency of mid lane. Well anyway I will be staying away from ranked when the new AD item comes out next patch. Its absurdly broken and will take over ranked games.

"We understand that AD assassins offer low counterplay and significant frustration playing against and, by working on them, we risk exacerbating that in the short term. We feel this work is important because it puts us in a better position to address those pain points as well."

When Riot admits that their new item is going to make assassins out of control when it's released?  You're right to be afraid Cow.  Very afraid.  At least is sounds like they're ready to drop the nerf hammer on them and use this new item as a lever to try and keep them balanced as class.  Mr. Salacia Voice:  "We will watch... and see how this plays out."

That ratio of Support to Mid is bullshit.  I thought I saw somewhere they were going to try and fix that to make sure people got their primary role more often but wasn't able to find it.  Unless they fix that issue it's going to get much worse.  People like you who are willing to play Support but don't want to play it every game will stop putting it as their Secondary.  That will make the people left who are willing to play it as their Secondary end up playing it even more!  Which will cause them to put something else as their Secondary.

"Dude I have this idea, what if all AD champions and bruisers had Zed ultimate that refreshed on a kill?" 

"Yeah man! That's exactly what league of legends needs!"

"Yeah dude let's also make the item super stat efficient"

"Yeah man"

As far as I'm concerned, the actual Ranked season hasn't started yet and won't until they set up the Solo Queue.  If they want to try do something that makes things worse for the short term so that things are better in the long term then right now is the time to do it.

The passive isn't refreshed on kill/assist unless the passive does zero damage.  The item might end up OP at first and it might turn Zed into more of an obnoxious must ban turd than he's ever been before but the fact that you don't use up the passive until you actually get to use the passive doesn't seem all that bad to me.

Wow... I finally got around to reading the notes on the assassin item... i don't even... why?

I'm digging dynamic queue for the most part.  Playing ranked games feel like they matter more, so it kind of increases the we got a win feel.  I also really like that ranked tracks my stats consistently, so I can get a better idea of how I'm doing.  I dislike that you can't just have 2 people and queue up support/mid and mid/support... not enough variety.  w/e.  That stuff makes it a little more annoying to be the host.

I'm still wondering how big a hit the dynamic queue will take when solo starts up.  I tend to think that if I'm currently 1 out of 7 games getting mid if I choose mid and support... well that's going to be much, MUCH worse.  It would be cool if maybe they had some system in place that will intentionally wait a bit longer to make sure at least every few games you get your primary role... 7 games is a bit silly.  That crap benefits me more often than not if I want to play support though.  

League of Bursts.

Riot's fucking stupid.  It's the only explanation for why they think AD assassins need more burst when they already have an item with AA resetting dickcheese, or why they can't see how monumentally fucked any non tank is when a tank takes this item and kills them in 2 seconds with an otherwise full tank build combined with Titanic Hydra.

Latest version of championify is out.  Ur a big ol dummo if you dont use this:  https://github.com/dustinblackman/Championify/releases/tag/1.2.10

And the best site for in game stats:  http://www.soloq.gg/

and then i queued up for ranked solo - choose support prim, mid sec.... mid twice in a row now.  

man I am off my game so far tonight.  stuck mid twice. kill it the 1st game.  Get absolutely annihilated 2nd game.  Get to support game 3.  Then enemy fps morg... pretty much my preferred support currently.  I go zyra and play like a bozo.  Queuing up again...

[10:14PM] PeterDumpTruck: i did alot of damage, yet no one defendfed me
im tired of that
no map awareness
get more ppl
[10:14PM] super king pacov: 02/05/2016 the date peter said someone had no map awareness
[10:15PM] PeterDumpTruck: wat?

talons in the #3 slot for win rate now - before the new assassin item at 54.7%... maybe he'll get up to udyr 57% stats