Had to bugger off a little early last night.  Sick wifey.  Hopefully be around tonight for games.  I'm feeling bardtastic

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."

Yeah... it's been looking like they are going to bone us for a bit.  My current conclusion is that this will be a feature that gets pushed to next season... if it gets implemented at all.  Kind of bummed as well.

I guess try to look at the positive side of things - if you had ranked anxiety, this likely helped (helped me anyway).  Now you just have a bit of a whole to dig yourself out of, but I really doubt getting back up to gold at least again will be a real problem for you.  If you are stressing and still have an alt account, maybe give that a go for a little bit.  I found it liberating to play on my alts and help folks grind up elo.  I'd do my best, but it nearly completely removed me caring about elo on that account anyway and I just had fun with it.  

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.

Have you given Jhin a fair shake?  I find him to be lower risk, higher reward.  And you can generally safely farm up to your 1st power spike (I usually do my 1st shop with 1400 gold or so - feels easier to last hit).  + you can generally afford to position safely in fights and drop your ult from a distance while bruisers/tanks do their thing.  Got like 26 kills with the fella in a plat/gold elo game.. and I don't consider myself all that good an adc.  Not sure how much the ping would impact your ult.  

I've also been playing graves some as adc. I have much less of an impact with graves as I often build him similar to top lane graves, so my dps goes down, but its very hard to kill me.  Better a live adc imo.  Anyway, those 2 cater to me pretty well.  Maybe corks/varus mid?

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

uh...

Thats because I'm the only person who plays him.

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.

New champ is out. Saw dyrus trying it in the jungle to bad effect.  

I unlocked the champ by combining 3 of the champs I owned in crafting, so that works as expected.  

Good news- in 7 hours I get another chest drop... then a 1 week wait.  Ah well - why not. 1 key shard away from another unlock.

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.  

Just played vs bigfatlp and got slaughtered. To be expected I guess. 

lil bit.  Still - always fun to see how you stack up to good players. 

You guys should try my new support jhin build out.  You take the adc role, but you just get assists.  

Anyway, summary of the night - got legit carried 1 game (always feels good to be carried - especially when the guy ahead is like 1v5ing).  Had to work the other games.  Had a few with boaz where it was freaking WWF stuff.  Just people throwing down like maniacs over and over.   He worked on his vlad a bunch tonight.  

Anyway, got in games with him, then later hunny/soup and a few solo.  Ended the night just hitting my promo series back to plat III - so I'll be playing that tomorrow.  Night all! 

Well... in and out of my series for plat III yesterday.  Won game 1 then lost 2 in a row.  Took me long enough to get back there and now I get to do it again.  Smeh.  

hmm... zed is one the recommended bans now due to influence

https://www.reddit.com/r/summonerschool/comments/4caogu/best_bans_by_tier_in_each_region_patch_66_a/

also... raka's winrate is a bit nutz.  Apparently the changes were pretty decent perhaps?  Haven't really played w/ her since the last change up.

Got diamond III tonight. I am hoping to go higher but we will see. I have been playing support here and there for fun and blitz seems to be a lucky charm for me. 10-2 right now on the robot.