User blog comment:Dracko40/The Angry Illithid: Jungler's Aren't There To Win Your Lane./@comment-3358335-20110831220019

I have recently been playing more ranked games. Mostly because the people I play with have been wanting to transition to them. The first thing you learn is that your elo is essentially reset. Your Normal game Elo has probably long since stabilized but when you first start out at ranked you are not playing with the caliber of players that you are used to playing with (either better or worse.) It tends to throw you off your game if your teammates doesn't do what you expect them to.

But similar to yours, I played a ranked game the other day. Was dual Queue'd with a friend of mine because we dual as Alistar-Poppy. Our team had us, Nocturne, Morgana, and Ashe. Morg takes mid, Noc Jungles and Ashe heads to bot lane. We ask Ashe to solo top, she refused. We ask nicely because we are on chat and Poppy Alistar is a brutal combo. Again She refuses. So I, as Poppy solo top. (My buddy, as Alistar, was the logical choice, but he's not particularly good solo.) Anyway, you can imagine that Solo Poppy probably isn't a good idea.

Fortunately the Akali I was facing was absolute shit and I manged to zone her out. Completely demolished her on CS and managed to send her back a few times so that I had two levels on her when I took the tower down. (A gank from Noc helped with that.)

Bot lane Ashe, even with an Alistar, got demolished. Rather than rage, I started covering bot and pushing that as well. 4 enemies were mid and so was the rest of my team, so I was facing fed Garen, (And demolishing him as well.) However, the entire other team left mid and came bot. I barely caught it because of a ward I could place, and started to get the hell out of there. Unfortunately I ate 3 summoner spells and 4 ults before I made it back to my tower. Noc ulted in and got destroyed seconds after I died.

Then the raging, began and a surrender vote. Him: You n00b, why would you push so far with so many MIA's way to go Pro!!!111!! Me: Um, they weren't Mia until just a second ago, figured I could push this tower while you kept them busy and you'd warn me if they left. Him: Without a ward! you N00b!! Me (Pinging the ward): What do you call that? Had one, just had a long way to run and a lot of ults and summoner spells on me. Him:Rage Rage RAge, Y NO SURRENDER!! Rage Rage. Me: (/ignore Noc) Anybody else /ignoring this gu? because I just did.

We went on to win after that. And I died one time the whole game. That time. (He had 4 deaths by that time, 6 more later.)