Jayhog1992's journal in NA: Match 1.

Match up: Ashe (Me) Shen Kennen Gnar Veigar

vs

Leona bot Shyvana bot Teemo bot Alistar bot Jinx bot

Not even the loading screen started and the people in my team were already afraid that I was some bot. Told them calmly that I was a EUW smurf into new horizons. Guess the issues there are the same as ours in EUW.

Match started, went bot by instinct untill Gnar told me to let him and Veigar duo at bot. Being a game against bots, I went top with Shen, agreeing with the idea. Gnar smiled and thanked me, told them in return that I was a yordle master in the making in EUW, knowing that yordles deserve respect from me. For the whole duration of the match, I was impressed that I didn't lag, despite having over 100 ping. No stuttering, no nothing. I might stick around for a while longer.

Short talk later, minions arrived and boy it was hard getting gold for a BF without a proper support. Was even failing last hits due to not having runes and masteries set up properly, all I had was 0.4% attack speed. Ouch.

Anywho, Shen was also first time playing that champion and he was having some issues, but he'd learn eventualy. In the meantime I just tried to last hit and poke when possible.

As you'd expect from a bot match, our team had most kills and sometimes Shen or somebody another lane would die due to a mistake, just the circle of life to lower levels. Me and Shen got first tower, got BF and went to back. Came back to lane, picked up another couple of kills and got half of a Runnan's hurricane.

By the time I started recalling for Runnan's, I noticed Teemo low under his 2nd tower. Pinged Kennen, told him I was gonna ult Teemo and managed to land the shot. Kennen got the kill. It hurt me a bit seeing my own main suffer like that, but in war, all sacrifices were made, even if the enemy wasn't even being controlled.

Kennen sounded surprised that my ult didn't do too much damage. I explained to him how it worked and it was magical damage that scaled with AP alone, so AD wouldn't help with it. But everyone knows you don't want your ult for the damages.

Picked up another tower, a few more kills. Our Gnar was legendary at this point.

What surprised me the most was that our Gnar seemed impressed that I was, and quoting "The first nicest Ashe I ever seen". Was the NA servers that toxic that he couldn't find a nice Ashe to play with? It confused me, wondering how bad it would be once I hit the PVP after level 3.

15:55 minutes into the game, the game ended for me, because the servers had to restart due to the 6.14 update. Nice welcome to the NA servers. XD I'll try again a new game of bots, in hopes that I can expect to learn more from the Americans there.

Still thinking airman's offer for their own NA war in the M&G. Already a mess of opinions out there and trying to understand who stands where and who's right and who's wrong.

Airman was the first to make the offer, so I might consider his side. Unless somebody on the other side can show me a better offer tough. Still have time to think about this...

Welp, better log back in and see if I can play a proper match without interruptions this time.