[{quoted}](name=DJ Fuego,realm=NA,application-id=cIfEodbz,discussion-id=UKm1X4w7,comment-id=0002000000000000,timestamp=2016-02-17T23:41:35.522+0000)
I get what you're saying about runes, but I never really had a problem with it. I usually easily get a lead once I get a little bit of damage off. I really should get more runes, but my goal is to get all champs first since the day I started League. Runes will be my priority after since there will be nothing else to spend IP on. So I'm not worried about runes. And yes, Ik KDA doesn't win games. But I can only do so much in my part to help win. I can't do everyone else's part, its their job to do theirs. I'm not the jungler, so I can't go around ganking 24/7 when I have a mid lane to worry about, I'm not a support and no where near a tank so it is not my job to peel the adc. My job, as an assassin, is literally to kill. That is the job description of an assassin. I wipe out whoever is the weakest and wipe out the enemies for my team to push. It would be different if I played a tank but I almost never play tank. Adc works kind of the same way, except I stay in the back line and kill people from there.
You also make it seem like I'm able to control and move my team where I want them to go. Do you know how many times I've pinged baron or drag or tower when their half their team is dead, but no one obeys. I can only do so much. In the end, its not me who can decide how the game ends cause I have almost no control. I hate when people say "If you lose, its your fault", when that contradicts a TEAM GAME. But how can you win if you don't have a team? You can't, no matter how well I can do, I can do my job perfectly, but if my team decides to feed then I cant control that. And don't say "Roam" because that is not always the solution. I can't be 2/0 and roam to a lane where the enemy is 5/0. It just won't work, it will end up in a double or they will just back up and I will have wasted exp in my lane for nothing. People need to understand that not being able to win because of a team not playing correctly is a something that exists. There is no solution to it.
If your team all loses lane except for you, but you don't even have a really big lead, you are just about 3/0 or 2/0, what can you do? Almost nothing, its not your fault you lost, you couldn't do anything and not because you caused it, because someone else did. Your team caused you to lose, not yourself. You can't help everyone, you aren't god, so you can't go into a lane and instantly double kill the enemy. The only way to win those type of games is if you yourself can control your team personally.
Trust me, I know exactly what I'm talking about. You can try and try, but those types of games aren't winnable. Ik because I'm always the guy who ends up being the only reason the team is even alive at the moment.
It's going to take a long, long, long time to buy up every champion in the game. I would say 2+ years to get everything if you play every day. Buying runes allows you to "reinvent" the champions you already have. In time you will get to a point where there are no champions you really want to own right away and that's when you will want to invest in runes. You're free to do what you like but if you want to play ranked having a diverse rune page is immensely useful to your long term success.
Being an assassin is tough. Not just in mechanics but in what role's objective is. There is a psychological aspect to being an assassin where beating up on someone can make them tilt as, to me, their greatest contribution to the team is to set someone behind in gold income as well as confidence levels. I still feel like mages are better in the solo queue arena simply because a majority of them have great wave clear as well as utility to cover up an ally's mistakes. When not assassinating people some assassins can split push but fighters pretty much corner the market on this aspect. You can kill 3 of the enemy team but if your team isn't smart enough to capitalize on your contributions then your skill gets wasted. Assassins still need their teammates to capitalize on the openings they make and for this reason they aren't the best carry roles in solo queue. Try playing someone like Riven or Tryndamere who can still kill people when they feel like it but through split pushing and wave clearing can also take objectives too just in case their teammates aren't reliable enough to do this for themselves.
Everyone gets 90 seconds to pick a champion and lock in. Realistically you really only need about 10 seconds and the rest is just idle chatter about what the game plan is. You could all lock in prior to this to speed up the down time but why do that when you can use that time to get to know one another. I use this time to make a good first impression on my teammates. Make them laugh, formulate a game plan, recommend item set ups or just talk nonsense to keep the tension loose. Its not always effective but it helps get 1-2 of them on my side right on the on start of the game. Then when I make play calls later on in the game my likability factor comes into play and they follow my play calls slightly above that of other people on the team. You can control what they do in this sense, or at least that is how I go about it.
It is a team game, you're right. And not every game can be won. I think statistically 3/10 games are rigged to be lost and likewise 3/10 are rigged to be won simply based on who is in your games. Riot likes to say you have total control over whether you win or lose but really its not that simple as over half the games are decided by people other than yourself. So in the chance that everyone is equally matched, how you go about your games in the other 4/10 can determine whether you become a winner in the solo queue arena or not.
Usually when you're the only one on your team who is doing well try to advise teammates to do things that would help your succeed. Like telling your rammus to build magic resistance or asking your jungler for blue buff. If they question your advice explain why it is a good idea without coming off as rude. "Rammus we are up against 3 AP champions and Corki deals true damage anyway. You will survive longer if you build magic resistance for us" or "Because if I can get blue buff I can shove mid lane and take tower when Talon eventually roams bot lane looking for kills." Saying stuff like that helps me convince them to do what I want.
And you can take my advice or not, but at least for me it works.
