User blog comment:CCoville/Tankin' ain't easy/@comment-3358335-20110308193035

Another thankless tanking match. I was jungle Amumu. After clearing the jungle my bottom lane (Shaco and Teemo) had already been killed and were back with full health. Our Solo lane Vlad was up against his tower from Twitch and Nid, so I helped gank the two of them. Both dead, dropped to middle lane helped our Ez kill their Ez middle. On my way to bottom lane Shaco and Teemo managed to die. . .again. So I was left to hold the tower, out of pots, badly needing to shop vs Urgot and Scion. Teemo decides to go top lane, Shaco decides to jungle. . .WTF! I had burnt all my mana to buy me enough time for them to return, but when they didn't come straight back I ended up getting slowly picked apart. . (Sion stun, Urgot NEC, missile's ensue.) Vlad told Teemo to go away, so he left and tried to help Ez in mid and ended up getting killed. Shaco got killed by a minion while jungling. Our Vlad managed to tear apart top lane. So Sion went top while their twitch went on a ganking spree. Shaco finally went back bottom, and I went back to work. Twice saving Vlad when he had less than 20 hp by bandage tossing Sion who was chasing. (This was to become a recurring theme throughout the match.)

As the match progressed we lost all our front towers, they lost none. Our teemo and Shaco continued to fail, and our Vlad and Ez were both instantly targetted, Vlad first, Then Ez. Teemo and Shaco were completely ineffective and ignored. I was dropping bandage tosses, ults, crying, etc in order for the team to run with minimal losses rather than complete aces. The idea of me using my ult to start a fight we could win was, at this point, ridiculous. As members of my team fell into trap after trap, I was running from one fight to another trying to prevent each gank attempt resulting in more kills for the enemy. Never once, was I thanked for using ghost to get to a fight, and using Amumu's ult to prevent what was surely two more kills for the opposition.

By late game, The other team had Twitch, Urgot, AP Ezrael, AP Sion, and heavy AP Nidalee. Nid's spear could take our Ez, Shaco, or Teemo out of the fight, before it began. However, since I was the only one to buy magic Resist on the team, and my team was completely incapable of dodging that projectile, I started having to jump in front of that spear like the secret service taking a bullet for the president. Again. . no matter how many spears to the face I took for the team, no thank you's. My surrender attempt was voted down. 1-4.

By end game I had, Warmog's, Force of Nature, Abyssal Scepter, sunfire Cape, Frozen Heart, and Boots of Swiftness. I was unkillable by their AP heavy team, and after Abyssal Scepter they couldn't stay in a fight with me for very long, no matter how many ganged up on me. Twice my team managed to get ganked and killed doing something stupid while I was too far away to rescue them, and I was forced to prevent the tower push, alone. The other team was too scared to attempt the dive.

In the end, we managed to pull off a win, A center push by them got stopped cold by my ult, (and my team was actually alive and following me this time.) and then I tanked all the center lane towers for the win, despite two of their team still standing.

The closest I got to a "good job" from my team was the opposing team saying at the end "Amumu's back has to be hurting from carrying that game", and agreement from the rest of the opposition. Even when I didn't have the most kills on my team.