Started playing League the week Azir was released, around pre-season 5. Played my placements (which also were my first ranked games ever) in the beginning of season 5, was placed in Silver 2 and climbed from there. Currently a diamond 5 Ahri main and >400k mastery points with her. I don't even have a border. Feel free to ask me stuff about ranked or Ahri and I'll try to answer your questions!
how2ahri
I'm a support main so be gentle
Why do you think anyone cares?
So, name change or is this a smurf?
With a name like that people are just going to assume you're a smurf. Which makes climbing from S2 to D5 in a single season a lot less impressive (if you're already a Diamond player).
I'm going to go ahead and assume you're actually not a smurf and you literally only started ranked this season and managed to make the climb, which is incredible.
So, the ask - We've recently seen (at worlds and in a lot of my games now) TP being taken mid instead of ignite. Do you prefer to still run ignite on Ahri or have you swapped to TP like the rest of us sheep? Or perhaps, did you climb so fast because you brought TP mid before it was cool?
Second - where do you position when your skills are on cooldown in a teamfight? Like say I R in, E a squishy, Q-W-R for the kill, then R out. My Q and W are both back up in like 4-6 seconds, E in about 8 seconds. How far away should I go while I'm useless? Should I come back as soon as I have damage, or should I wait for charm too?
I placed silver 2 as well (this being my first season playing League) but, unlike you, I'm not climbing at all. I don't know whether that's because I'm just horrible at the game, or I have idiotic teammates, or I'm against LCS players incarnated into silver, or what. Though I do have a few questions for you -- but, basically, the answer to all my questions would be something along the lines of, "get good," but I'm going to ask them anyway.
How can you compete against all the ever so popular click to win champs that have very little, if any, counterplay? Irelia, Zed, GP, Fiora, Xin, Yi, Trist, Vayne, etc. Sure, people say just CC them, but how often does that actually work? Very rarely.
How can you climb when, 9/10 times, your team just absolutely feeds and plays horribly? I can carry every game, but still end up losing horribly because my team can't do anything to back me up, and as much as I'd like to 5v1, I can't.
Are champions with skillshots and complex mechanics even competitive, or should I just give up on having fun and play braindead clickers to win? (First game with LB, I went 19/1, for example)
When the enemy team is all tanks, and despite building all the tank shredder items available, you can't hurt them at all -- what can you do to win? They instantly kill anyone they get near, but no one can kill them short of a 5v1 for 10 seconds.
Likewise, when the enemy team has 2 CCs per person, and chains them back to back to back to back, what in the world can you do?
How can you beat Irelia? Malzahar? Zed?
When I'm against a lane opponent who can, quite literally, kill me the second I go near any minions, what can I do? Do I just sit back and not farm at all? Do I just abandon my lane until later?
Sorry if my questions are stupid, but these are the only issues I have with ranked queues. >.>
