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What are Your Game-changing Plays and Crazy Comebacks?

A Superb Villain·12/15/2015, 6:00:43 AM·6 votes·704 views
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So I recently had a game that did not go the way I expected it to... at all. It was simultaneously the most frustrating and exhilarating game I have played in a very long time. Yet somehow, despite the odds being overwhelmingly stacked in the enemy's favor, my team pulled through.

I gave First Blood... to a Karthus... with HEAL. It would not have been so bad if our Riven had not immediately died to Renekton following my blunder. The game is looking grim and we are barely five minutes in. Moving forward, I managed to control my lane, though bot struggled through the early game and top continued to feed. Our jungle Gragas did his best, but our team was proving to be just too heavy.

Skipping to the mid-game, we managed to grab Baron... before immediately being aced.

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Two downed Inhibitors later and things are looking hopeless. Someone makes the call to take Baron when it re-spawns as the enemy Vayne is pushing bot.

We failed, miserably.

Nidalee's nuclear-tipped spear steals Baron while Renekton jumps over the wall and Vel'Koz utterly destroys our team. Vel'Kozby goes down, but Renekton mops up the rest while Vayne rushes to cut off the rest of our team. Gragas gets gets in a few hits and does his best to slow them down. All things considered, he got Crocodile Dundee and League's resident cougar pretty low on health, but Vayne put a stop to that.

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Renekton and Nidalee push down mid as Vayne joins them, taking an Inhibitor.

Our Nexus is exposed, it's already quite low on health, and the three bum-rush it to end the game.

It's just me with a shiny, new Rabadon's and a GLORIOUS purpose: make them earn their victory. I do the stupid thing and flash W/ult onto Renekton and Nidalee; I must have been channeling my inner LeBlanc because both disappear before they can lay a finger on our Nexus.

Vayne does her best batman impression and pins me to my own Nexus, chunking me down faster than the stun timer. I'm practically dead, one more auto and it's all over.

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#EXCEPT IT'S NOT!

I mash my Zhonya's key and somehow I'm saved. Vayne, instead of blasting away the last sliver of our Nexus' health, suddenly succumbs to her thirst and waits for me.

Big mistake.

My Death Ray comes off cooldown and I zap her, throwing in an ignite as a parting gift while she puts an end to my life. Before she can tumble to our Nexus, she dies.

All-chat explodes.

What followed was a sudden and wholly unexpected victory ripped from the jaws of defeat with such force we managed to tear out a few teeth with it.

Just because you gave up First Blood doesn't mean you're on tilt. Just because top gets pushed to their second tower at twelve minutes doesn't mean they're worthless. Just because your Nexus is exposed and there is no-one else to defend it doesn't mean you can't. Most of the time, you lose. But sometimes, if you just try, you can accomplish the impossible.

So tell me, what is your story?

5 Comments

Void Nargacuga12/15/2015, 7:43:09 AM3 votes

Well this game right here --> http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1890085400/228001655?tab=overview <-- HOLY SHIT! Over 1 hour long! Both sides knew near the 1 hour mark: If we screw up a single team engage... WE LOSE! O_O Just check it out.

I'd describe what happened... BUT this match took place on 7/18/2015 and did last for 1:12:51... So yeah... I can no longer remember the exact details anymore. Sorry.

ZT Xperimentor12/15/2015, 2:46:31 PM3 votes

Well my story is from season 2, so yeah it's records were long deleted. But it was the game that made me interested in league more than just the occasional bot game. I played just a couple pvp games a day since season 1, and mained top lane fighters; but as season 2 rolled around and teams started being cohesive, I wanted to try the jungle assassin role. It was still fairly risky and inefficient, but I played nocturne, thinking I could assist all my lanes.

Long story short it was a mistake, I fell so far behind my own team didn't count on me, and in teamfights I was focused last because I was the least threatening on me team. Let that sink in, I was such an harmless assassin that neither team paid any attention to me unless they had to. In hindsight my mistake was that my only damage item was the bloodthrister; I had boots of swiftness, the static shiv, and a phantom dancer. So I was fast, but didn't deal noticeable damage; for scale for you newer players, the only mobility abilities in the game was nocturne's & twistedfate's ultamites; and movement speed items were hard to come by, so I was literally untouchable in a chase. Turns out this was the only advantage I had that I needed.

To remind you older players, and bring you newer ones up to speed; dragon just gave global gold back then, no buffs what so ever; and loosing an inhibitor made a super minion spawn in every lane every wave, with more spawning for each inhibitor down; while baron didn't buff minions either, it buffed champions giving them a flat but significant bonus to every stat except dodge & critical chance. Death timers were also lower early but scaled harder late, as in a 2 minute respawn in an hour long game. The super minions & inhibitor mechanic was changed going into season 3 because it was too snowbally, guess riot doesn't remember their mistakes; but that's a rant for another time.

Anyway, the game was going on over 45 minutes so everyone was getting anxious since no one had taken an inhibitor yet, be we each had one open. While I was jungling to grab my red then blue buff, my team went for dragon and got interrupted by the enemy team. I was too far away to ult in, and my team crumbled in the 4v5 and we lost dragon; I skittered through the jungle keeping a keen eye on the minimap watching their movement as I was the only survivor, initially planning on stealing their blue bluff once they left dragon. But they crossed mid lane going to baron, I already knew I was so far behind I couldn't solo any of them, let alone if they were baron buffed; likewise I wouldn't be able to defend our base against 5 juggernaut powered up champions. So I went for their exposed inhibitor when I seen them engage baron; my team was even telling me to back out, until I downed the inhibitor. I started farming the minions in their base as they finished baron, but when I seen them leave the baron pit, I my imaginary knees to the breeze!

My team had finally changed their tune, both impressed I was so gutsy and surprised I pulled off a partial backdoor; though I didn't take their nexus towers before they returned, it was still the game-changing turning point. For the first time in this game our team wasn't forced to defend, the enemy team had split up with 3 moving in on our base hoping to take our inhibitor as the other two retreated to defend the bot lane wave shoving in. My team was respawning before they reached our base and we won the following 5v3 scrimmage just outside our remaining towers; allowing us to shove in and take their other two inhibitors then shortly after, win the game.

I doubt I was the first or the most impressive to perform a backdoor or even coin the term, but man was that the most exciting game I had played.

Killer of Poros12/15/2015, 7:13:23 PM2 votes

Getting a pentakill while the Fed enemy for cocky and went for baron. One jump and quadrakill with a single auto for baron and spearing the last enemy off. It was glorious.