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And Knowing Is Half The Battle! :)

Today, I learned two things - one, pubstomping, while it might be fun for others who engage in it, is not something I find fun myself, and two, while that is so, it just feels so much more rewarding to calmly sit down in the aftergame chat and politely offer tips and pointers to the enemy team, who are usually surprisingly grateful that a higher player is breaking tradition and helping them out.

Case in point: my Vi, Darius and two earlier Olaf jungle games that you see on that list turned out to be complete out-and-out pubstomps as I was queueing with some extremely green players. In all three games I invaded the enemy jungle constantly. None of their junglers even got to their second buff camp before I killed them within five minutes. It only snowballed from there as, between successful ganks and further invasions, I just got more and more impossible to kill and equally impossible to escape (the poor bastards in my Darius game didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell, really).

All three junglers after the game congratulated me for my plays, and I returned the favour by remarking on various ways to improve their early game strategies (eg. "It's amazing what versatility you are afforded with a buff-to-buff run.") and builds (ie. "Riven doesn't make very good use of Wriggles."). I also sometimes offered tips about countering the junglers I used, just in case they stumbled into another Darius, Vi or Olaf in their games. I came out of all three feeling distinctly light-spirited.

Before you ask, my score with Darius was NOT because I ks'ed everything in sight. I swear on my life I was trying my damdest to donate kills to the lanes. And even if I wasn't getting an unofficial penta probably justifies it, though (damn you, Fiora). xP

Also worth mentioning I guess, the most recent Olaf game on that list had me busting my ass super early on to give Garen some leeway in his 2v1 lane. It worked, getting us a double kill at the first gank and towards the end of the game we were basically two unstoppable wrecking balls bulldozing into the enemy team and tearing their MvPs apart. You'd think we came out of that one ready to scream our anguished declarations of brotherhood with the way were both gushing about how epic a game it was. Of course I didn't let that go to my head TOO quickly and thanked the enemy team for the game (with a particular shout out to their Talon - he played very well).