User blog comment:Megames1/Against the Meta: Mega Farming Z Plus More!/@comment-5194571-20121013125721

Thanks for using my suggestion.

The thing about 2 top and no jungler is that some people are stupid. Example: Yesterday, I had a game where someone (IN A RANKED GAME!) said that the only champion they play is Xin Zhao. That is, in itself, not a good thing. But then they said that they are bad jungle and hate solo top. Why only play Xin? We went with no jungler because they threatened to feed and nobody wanted to queue dodge. I tend to get this a lot. A person picks a champion that tends to go in a solo lane then complains "i no solo". Makes me mad. Or when someone picks a champion that would solo top, but then cries and begs that there's no jungle if, at champion select, someone has Smite. Just to avoid the hell of being on a team with someone that doesn't want to work in a team because you jungled when they said no, I sometimes bite the bullet and go 2/1/2 in teamcomp.

As for farming, what you say is so very true. I come across so many people that either can't last hit or spend all their time and mana harassing, losing trades and going back every minute and wondering why they are behind 2 levels. I hate it when people don't know how to trade, I'm in lane with them, they initiate a fight we would lose, so I back off, and they complain at me for not fighting. I learn each champion before going into pvp with them so I know how to trade and at a basic level, when I will win or lose a fight. It really pays off. I wish I could play 5v5 with an arranged team, I really do.

Now for mega farming. The champion I farmed the most on ever was Singed. He's one of my mains, so I know him really well. There was a time I was solo top and the other team had a heavy AP comp. Jungle Diana, Karthus mid, Lux support and Kennen top. To cover that, I got an Athene's, Spirit Visage and Force of Nature. Even though (miraculously) it was still the laning phase by that point a every lane had been super passive, I just farmed all day from that point. I got 4-man ganked, but that was fine, I was Singed after all. Once they backed off after almost giving me a triple kill, I farmed some more. Then they decided diving me at my turret was a good idea while I was typing. Nope. Double kill. Farm some more. Push their tower down, escape a 3v1, farm bot, push that tower down, then I went back with over 4000 gold to spend. Thanks to both teams being really passive early, that game lasted over an hour and I had over 400 cs. Was fun. Didn't think I could ever stay out for that long.

Another story was fairly recent. I planned on playing support Soraka, but our mid disconnected at level 1, so I covered for them. Due to the awful teamcomp of the enemy team (not a single ranged), they sent Kha'Zix mid. Not only did I win my lane hard, but I still had only my Faerie Charm when teamfights started at level 10-ish. After dying in the next teamfight, I went full AP because Nidalee decided to build support as she was no longer solo laning. (She refused to go mid because she was behind, good call I would say.) I've never seen anyone rage so hard at dying 3 times in a row to a Soraka with only mana regen. Good times. Goooooood times...