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So the results are in
Topic Started: Dec 27 2014, 10:50 AM (3,108 Views)
501st Big Mike
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LightPhyXer
Dec 31 2014, 06:36 AM
501st Big Mike
Dec 31 2014, 01:15 AM
There is this awesome SNL skit that is perfect to describe what Ionia did. Sadly, I cannot find it online anywhere (if anyone has Netflix or whatever its the opening skit on Season 37 Episode 14). It's from the 2012 Republican Primaries featuring one of the SNL cast playing Mitt Romney. The Mitt Romney character talks about how he was coming in 2nd and 3rd in a lot of states that week, and is bragging about it. He acting like being in 3rd for the whole primary and then swooping in at the very end to win is the way politicians are supposed to do it. He says stuff about how the guy in first place is under too much pressure, and how the guy in last place is embarrassing himself and should just drop out already.

Looking back at that all I can do is laugh at how Ionia did exactly that this arc XD
It's a good thing we are gamers and not politicians, then, right?

I also don't like how you implied that Ionia was trashtalking first place or last place. Our ambition to dethrone Bilge from 1st place was hardly a hidden fact, but much of that came out as trying (and failing for much of the arc) to beat them in featured matches. As for SI, I got the sense you guys were trashtalking yourselves a lot harder than any other faction.
What? I never said that Ionia trash talked. All I was saying was that Ionia copied the SNL political strategy from that skit.
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Dec 31 2014, 01:45 AM
I'd just like to point out the same thing I pointed out over and over again through the arc. Shadow Isles never ever played with the comps Shadow Isles won with. Like... You guys kept trying to use these strategies that never worked, then you'd do something different, win, and go back to doing the things that didn't work. You never ever used the steamroll comp that made Shadow Isles a legitimately terrifying faction...

Heca top and Nocturne mid, supported by an early pressure jungler like elise or evelynn to steamroll everything while karthus thresh bot scales into a beast. Instead you went with hypercarries in all the lanes comps that all lost lane and got smashed away.
When did we do that? O.o

Also, I did a Karthus Thresh bot lane once. Against a diamond Graves and Naggarok on Katarina support. Needless to say we lost.

Plus, for the last month and a week or so of the arc Elise and eve were weak beyond believe (and they still are) because they have incredible difficulty early game which is where they are supposed to shine. This is what mostly convinced us to steer away from us at the end of the arc. Also, most of the games we put our silver or bronze (myself included) as jungler and we're not great at those junglers. I don't even own Elise!
Edited by Zondervain, Dec 31 2014, 07:50 PM.
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