This Pre-Season is ACTUALLY AWESOME...!
...except for that damn creep-blocking. What the hell... I have to go ALL THE WAY AROUND THE WHOLE ENTIRE WAVE JUST TO CS WTF ! Alright, that aside for now, I surmise that everybody probably wants REASONS as to WHY I think this Pre-Season is actually a GOOD one. Honestly, I feel that near-EVERYTHING has now become viable, not kidding (well maybe not quite everything, but MORE picks are, and THIS is the Pre-Season where those with knowledge of Team-Compositions will prosper), except I still hate Ranked due to the fact that it gave me what seemed like an ENDLESS string of 90% match-making of feeders/trolls/AFKs/disconnects throughout the season when it statistically should have been closer to 50% (not kidding, try getting yourself DEMOTED into BRONZE due to being FOUR-MAN SURRENDER-VOTED AGAINST for over 20 matches in ROW, then for it to happen AGAIN in the SAME season, yes, TWO times demotion into BRONZE, WTF, not ONE of the teams I got after placements could stay alive for even a few seconds into lane-phase, , and often died BEFORE lane-phase even started ! The AVERAGE death-count of my teams in the beginning being around 40x [also not kidding if you could see the statistics for the first 60 matches that I had in the fifth season).
Some things do appear to be broken, saw (and recently felt for myself on the RECEIVING end) how much insane damages that MF dishes out, even though everybody seems to be banning Graves as the top-broken ADC, and although Tryndamere & Jax & Yasuo are also banned a lot & considered broken, Malphite (one of my main) & Rammus are now up in the spot-light again as favoured META-choices, largely due to many players careless going full A-D teams or mostly A-D teams without any C-C or at least very little C-C into either a team with a tank or two or picked in a manner to where they get themselves easily countered, and other trends that I've noticed is that Darius is now finally no longer perma-banned (not that he was even ban-worthy to begin with anyway [you would know this if you saw all of my matches & statistics for the season where my team went against a team with a Darius... I won most of them, both in lane-phase, and team-fights, and the ones that were lost were NOT carried by their Darius]), and this game has become fairly fast-paced now.
I know some people might not necessarily like the fast-paced META, but, ahem, I had nothing BUT FF@20 games after placements, and the FIRST game that lasted for MORE than 20 minutes (due to FINALLY getting team-members who didn't feed like a buffet starting from before lane-phase followed by FF@20-ing) was AFTER my first DEMOTION into BRONZE, and THAT match lasted, can you guess how long, A WHOPPING NEAR-TWO HOURS!!!! Therefore... I feel like I GET the privilege to say : « Deal with it ! ;O » (I do NOT believe that ANYBODY ELSE has had it WORSE this season than I did, seriously, I deserve some kind of Medal or even an Honour-Badge or Rainbow-Coloured Border to indicate « UNLUCKIEST PLAYER N.A. » status)... REALLY, and SERIOUSLY, I GOT FOUR-MAN SURRENDER-VOTED AGAINST FOR MULTIPLE MATCHES IN A ROW INTO A BRONZE DEMOTION, YET I FOUGHT & CONTINUED TO STRUGGLE ANYWAY, DESPITE THE FREQUENCY OF GETTING TROLLED (seriously, just LOOK at the first 60 matches of this season, I STARTED at a Win/Loss record of a dismal 11 wins to 48 losses), DOES THAT NOT DESERVE SOME KIND OF RECOGNITION!?
Yeah, the FREQUENCY of getting FOUR-MAN-SURRENDER-VOTED AGAINST was one of the MAIN reasons that I decided to start queue-dodging, because I had enough, and I would have the crappiest win/loss-record N.A. had I not queue-dodged all of those 350+ times during the season... anyway, I seem to be carrying a lot easier during this pre-season (see recent matches), and I believe that I understand this pre-season better than the average pre-seasoner, therefore, I will tell you the deal if you want to climb faster and easier during the pre-season, from what I gather, besides putting together a decent composition that can handle fights against the enemy team, the current META seems to be something like : Rush an item and/or kill your lane-opponent or drive them out of lane as soon as possible, then as soon as possible, converge & group into the lane that can destroy turrets fastest (you don't need to worry too much about losing your turret if you compare the speed of how fast your lane-opponent can take down one turret in the time that it takes your other lane that you're helping to take down two or even three turrets, because losing one turret is WORTH knocking down two or three turrets, especially if you manage to get your ADC fed [seriously, that was all I was doing in this pre-season, somewhat, even though I sometimes had to be a bit excessive with pings & directing team, managed to help get Pentas for some of these ADCs doing as stated, and remember, this season was regarded by many as the Season of ADCs/Marksmen, therefore we can probably expect to see a MUCH higher frequency of Penta-Kill Marksmen this season IF people pick up on the fact that getting them fed ASAP is usually the top-priority]).
This is a GREAT Pre-Season (besides that absurd creep-blocking that makes you lose out on last-hitting) and don't forget : « Praise the Broken-Picks for Carrying me » ...access to my recent matches can be seen here just so we all know that I'm not merely blowing out hot air of course... http://www.replay.gg/search/na/Habisteus (P.S.: I STILL wonder how half of the Golds I encounter even got their borders... considering their lack of game-sense, map-awareness, ping-sense, follow-your-lane-sense, use-more-than-zero-ward-sense, protect-objectives-sense, take-objective-sense, almost feels like most of them or at least many of them were simply carried into promotions by the random luck-factor of the match-maker... alright... please excuse my ranting)
