[Story Time] A Typical Game of Bronze

tl;dr: Don't let your dreams be dreams. You really CAN carry yourself out of Bronze, even if your team has 2 afks. It's k, because the enemy team is probably a slightly functional potato.

Warning: The following game contains Bronze IV-level decision making, which may offend higher elo players.

The teams: Blue Side: Red Side: (for reference, if you go to stalk my account to find this game in my match history, I'm the Sona)

Early game is pretty normal. 5v5, Cassiopeia displays her godlike gameplay by killing Azir 3 times in under 10 minutes, and Quinn mutes me for asking her use one of her two free ward trinkets to ward the river bush before we get ganked because my trinket was on cooldown (in which she didn't ward, Volibear ganked and killed us, and she flamed me. #supportlife). Whatever.

Then, mid game happens. Ekko was playing at McDonald's, so his internet kept disconnecting (three times, in fact). The third time it disconnected, I imagine he was flipping tables and throwing his computer out the window, as he was gone for about twenty minutes. Yasuo, on the other hand, was clearly playing a game of league while at work or something and probably had to deliver a pizza or something because he said "hey guys I'll brb" and disappeared for about 35 minutes (though there's a 90% chance he was a troll because he kept running in circles at fountain about ten minutes before he decided to join us in the game again--probably had a friend moving his character so he didn't go afk).

So. Mid game. Ekko and Yasuo are out, and it's just me (Sona), Cassiopeia, and Quinn.

Now I'm just gonna pause right here to give a shout out to and . Y'all are fucking gods and do not deserve to be in Bronze. Like. Holy fucking shit.

Around 25-30 minutes it becomes glaringly obvious that we're stuck in a 3v5. Since Quinn was an entitled douche to me, I ended up sticking with Cassiopeia (who also decided to be glued to the hip with me, so that worked). Together, us three take out mid lane, the mid inhibitor, and BARON. (We took Baron three freaking times, and only once--the last time--did the enemy team really try to contest). The only thing the enemy team really manages to accomplish is taking our top lane base tower (which is the only base tower they manage to take in the entire game).

Other than those structures, the game turns into a blood bath as the enemy team kept trying to take us three out so they could push and win. However, they sucked. Like...

Cassiopeia ended that game 21/10/14, and Quinn ended it 29/11/12 (and me, 7/2/34). Comparably, Volibear went 13/10/14, Azir went 12/14/7, and Gangplank went 10/21/8 (and their bot lane was non existent all game, so It might as well have been a 3v3).

Of course, Yasuo and Ekko returned to the game severely underleveled (everyone and Soraka was level 18) and kept trying to split push--but the enemy team was sticking together like their lives depended on it and kept catching them out. Quinn started tilting and tried suicide bombing to get the inhibitors, and me and Cassiopeia were still glued to the hip as we told everyone to stop throwing.

Shit was getting intense...until we realized that the enemy team (namely Volibear and whoever was currently following him at the time) wanted my Sona ass.

On a side note, did you know that Sona can outrun a Volibear that's chasing you down as if his life depended on it? This includes when you fail flash into a wall and have to run around it. The more you know.

So the enemy team would keep chasing me. You would think after a couple times of me leading them in circles in the jungle and into my team where they continuously met their ends would convince them to stop chasing me into their clearly unwarded jungle.

NOPE.

The baits were real...

So, in the end, we baited our way to victory, and once Volibear was down we finally grouped and took the Nexus. In 59 minutes and 52 seconds.

And in case you were wondering, 6 of the 10 players in this game were Bronze IV (myself included), 3 on my team and 3 on their team. Then my team had 2 Bronze II players, and their team had 2 Bronze III players. But, looking at end game statistics, the enemy team had 2 players in promo games (that sucks), and my team didn't have anyone in promos.

**BRONZE IS JUST SO GREAT GUYS. SO FUN. **

[zombie-brand-mindblown]

P.S. I'm not even complaining that my team won. I'm still in a state of incomprehensible shock and disbelief that the skill gap in Bronze is so diverse that you really can win a 3v5. Like. I can't. I need chocolate.