Grats!  I'm hopefully about to get back into my plat IV to plat III series.  Still annoyed about losing the last 1 over crap then having to play several to get back to the here, but w/e.  

Been playing ranked a ton with hunny/boaz lately.  Having the fun.  

For our boy hunnybadger - he's been playing eve a bit lately and his early clears are poo.  This shows a better way along with runes, etc - https://www.reddit.com/r/summonerschool/comments/4cjljy/66_healthiest_evelynn_clear_full_health_no_leash/

We learned that boaz sej does not do well against the new champ as a top laner... lets just say he probably hates the new champ and died a few times.  

What else... I should probably dodge if I'm adc and I don't get to play jhin.  Need to work on other champs.

Back in series to plat III again.  0/1 so far though.  Not exceedingly hopeful, but we'll see.  Grinding my mmr up at least so if I make it, I'm guessing demotion will be slower if it happens.  

Oh - and I'm now in the habit of making sure I always know what I could have done better in a game and reviewing that.  Even if you have a game with baddies, there is always something you could have done better.  Focusing in on that (even if its clear you probably couldn't have won even if you played perfect and everyone on your team is johnny feeder) helps and you at least get something out of a bad game.  I got 4 man dove bot.  I could have seen that coming and should not have given the goon squad another kill even though we are down 5 to 26, etc. My CS was crap.  I didn't trade well enough.  I missed a kill OP if I would have flashed. I should have adjusted my itemization or roamed then.  There's always something.  Pretty good habit to get in.  And if you don't see things to improve on (eg I only lost because of X), you are stagnant and likely a bigger problem than you realize.  I really enjoy getting better at the game and working on stuff.  

I think the hardest thing about evaluating a performance for me is when I play in solo queue I tend to make plays trusting my teammates to follow up and they do 75-85% if the time turn out well (stuff like flash ulting, flash pulls, invading for vision with 2 people, ping a dude and gank with a teammate). In scrublord normals I try to do the same things and a lot of the time I get half hearted responces or no follow up at all and I die and look like a goon. So it's hard to decide if x was a bad play or if my ADC held his heal to long or my teammates reaction time was to slow.

Ah - that's a good point and I guess that can get a little dicey.  I tend to think that if I'm setup to make a great play and it requires solid follow through on someone else AND i know my teammate has whatever I need available for the play (if you don't know this before you start the play, thats on you, ofc)... in that case, the outcome is the take away.  Eg if it works, spot on.  If your teammate gets all wishy washy and doesn't follow through (again, with you knowing that they could have, with their cooldowns, sums, etc), then you know you can't rely on the fella. If you know that and continue to play like you can still make the play that relies on someone else, I think that's a mistake on your part.  eg the optimal play is a bad one if you can't rely on your team or teammates and you are actually the one making the mistake by pushing it.  

2 things here - 1 - sounds like you are making  good decisions with such a high success rate.  2 - that's also a really good benefit you get playing in Dia vs lower elo's I'd think.  The lower you go, that follow up is less likely to occur.  Honestly, I'd say 1 out of every 3-4 games I get someone really in sync with me when I'm running support and I can make some big plays that require followup.  

I think the support/adc synergy just gets better at higher elos. The AD's that I have been supporting know how to trade and not take poke. They also follow all my initiation even if they are bad. Usually the lane is decided by jungles/mid lanes ganks instead of just "oh my ADC fucking sucks".

yah - not the same down in plat land like you said.  

I'm still trying to figure out how the new champ crushed mr boaz in top lane.  Don't think I've got a replay of that game.  Guess he'd take a pounding in melee range. hurm.

I think that Boaz just probably doesn't know how to play against the new champ.  The new champ is supposed to be VERY vulnerable at close range since you can get inside the stars.  So if you can dash inside and stay inside the star halo, you can mess him up (since you can't insta proc the stun either).

clips from my last promo game tonight.  Feel the salt.  

http://plays.tv/video/56fc985ab7e13979a0/queue-bot-support-get-bot-everytime-sometimes-get-this-?from=user&_t=eyJ0eXBlIjoiZnJvbSIsImxvY2F0aW9uIjoiUmVwbGF5VXNlckNvbnRyb2xsZXIuVXNlclZpZGVvc01vZC12aWRlb3MiLCJmZWVkX2lkIjoiNTZmYzk4NWFiN2UxMzk3OWEwIiwiZ2FtZV9pZCI6ImIxNzk1ODVjNmI2OGEyNzkxZWVhNGExYWQzZDdlZjcyIiwibGlua19pZCI6InZpZGVvX2xpc3RfdGl0bGUifQ%3D%3D

http://plays.tv/video/56fc991ce0b45a2426/wouldnt-be-quite-as-annoying-if-wasnt-they-guy-complaining-about-his-team-sucking-?from=user&_t=eyJ0eXBlIjoiZnJvbSIsImxvY2F0aW9uIjoiUmVwbGF5VXNlckNvbnRyb2xsZXIuVXNlclZpZGVvc01vZC12aWRlb3MiLCJmZWVkX2lkIjoiNTZmYzk5MWNlMGI0NWEyNDI2IiwiZ2FtZV9pZCI6ImIxNzk1ODVjNmI2OGEyNzkxZWVhNGExYWQzZDdlZjcyIiwibGlua19pZCI6InZpZGVvX2xpc3RfdGh1bWIifQ%3D%3D

http://plays.tv/video/56fc9a1c56bd37e2eb/we-need-cure-for-cancer-also-malphite-is-dr-garbo?from=user&_t=eyJ0eXBlIjoiZnJvbSIsImxvY2F0aW9uIjoiUmVwbGF5VXNlckNvbnRyb2xsZXIuVXNlclZpZGVvc01vZC12aWRlb3MiLCJmZWVkX2lkIjoiNTZmYzlhMWM1NmJkMzdlMmViIiwiZ2FtZV9pZCI6ImIxNzk1ODVjNmI2OGEyNzkxZWVhNGExYWQzZDdlZjcyIiwibGlua19pZCI6InZpZGVvX2xpc3RfdGl0bGUifQ%3D%3D

and me whining about a hunny play - http://plays.tv/video/56fc9794bf300fddf8/that-time-when-hunny-hit-2-with-his-ult?from=user&_t=eyJ0eXBlIjoiZnJvbSIsImxvY2F0aW9uIjoiUmVwbGF5VXNlckNvbnRyb2xsZXIuVXNlclZpZGVvc01vZC12aWRlb3MiLCJmZWVkX2lkIjoiNTZmYzk3OTRiZjMwMGZkZGY4IiwiZ2FtZV9pZCI6ImIxNzk1ODVjNmI2OGEyNzkxZWVhNGExYWQzZDdlZjcyIiwibGlua19pZCI6InZpZGVvX2xpc3RfdGl0bGUifQ%3D%3D

and me whining about a hunny play when its totally my fault :/

http://plays.tv/video/56fc97f7c726bf8142/me-being-good-then-being-awful-then-bitching-someone-when-its-not-their-fault?from=user&_t=eyJ0eXBlIjoiZnJvbSIsImxvY2F0aW9uIjoiUmVwbGF5VXNlckNvbnRyb2xsZXIuVXNlclZpZGVvc01vZC12aWRlb3MiLCJmZWVkX2lkIjoiNTZmYzk3ZjdjNzI2YmY4MTQyIiwiZ2FtZV9pZCI6ImIxNzk1ODVjNmI2OGEyNzkxZWVhNGExYWQzZDdlZjcyIiwibGlua19pZCI6InZpZGVvX2xpc3RfdGl0bGUifQ%3D%3D

I like the malphite "WTF" *ping ping ping* "can't land a binding" 

just don't mind me going in 5 minutes early and dying! lmfao what a twat. All he had to do was wait for amumu to come and RIP there whole team. 

So played a few ranked games supported as blitz in both and went 1 and 1 (dodged a game that had some one pick aurelion top in it).

A few things kayle and shyvanna seem broken as fuck. Kayle died like 10 or 11 times on the enemy team and still carried doing like 36k damage in 30ish minutes. Shyvanna with and titanic and a devourer did stupid damage and is tanky as fuck. These 2 were so oppressive to play versus. I felt like I was beaten by how stupid broken they were not by the player. Definitely two of my must bans now.

Got some more games in with dr swan yesterday.  We got him up to a promo series and then got him a loss.  Think I'm on one of my last alt accounts now that can still play with silver.  Also, we learned the hunny has no variance when playing jax.  Its either 27 deaths or 27 kills.  There are no defensive items.  Also, hunny did not know about brooke candy.  Twas a sad day for the queen of italy.  

Dreadful.

Played with lord dump truck again.  And my mind exploded a tiny bit.  He played a serviceable support.  PDT is back for a bit.  Also, we don't know if we got bouche to rage quit last night or what.  He played 1 game w/ us as shy top, didn't do so well, and then dropped off the planet mid game.  

Anyway, this patch = who care for me.  jhin feels a bit weaker - you get punished much more for any q farming in early levels and that was always a good tool for securing cs/zoning. Mana cost on E going down isn't even kind of surprising as everything I've seen in korean high elo play didn't even scale a point into it until late.   Anyway, I figure he's probably in a much better place now.  

Really looking forward to seeing how the new taric turns out.  Some interesting mechanics at least. Got some stuff to do so probably won't be playing tonight.  

Ah - sweet, sweet game time is soon upon me.  Looking forward to nerding it up tonight.  Been a long week.  I'm up for norms or ranked or w/e accounts needed.  Need to check out some stats post patch changes as well - not sure how hard some nerfs hit.  

Holy crap did I get sucked into the CLG vs TL games on Sat.  So much flip flop.  Last couple of games were great.  

On demand here if you didn't check out.  You can see how amped everyone got in game 5 though.  Tense one

http://www.lolesports.com/en_US/na-lcs/na_2016_spring/matches/na_2016_spring_playoffs/semi-final-1

Mixed results in ranked on my main lately.