After a couple of days of avoiding playing Conquest (friends I would team with are usually never on when I play!), I felt brave last night.
Decided to play a solo-queued Conquest match. Finally was able to conquer my fear of solo-queuing (maybe just this once). I tried calling Solo first, but was beaten to the punch, so I was able to get ADC. Chose Medusa...and found myself against an opposing Medusa.
I didn't do my Support any favors...poor Athena...sorry! Was just thoroughly outplayed, so it wasn't about bad god matchups, just my poor play. Though...I did get her just once. If I recall the sequence correctly, there were some Acid Sprays involved, maybe some other abilities, and Petrify being thrown around back to back. I think she activated hers first, and I activated mine. Turned around to avoid hers, then immediately spun and stoned her, and finished her with a couple of quick basics.
Went 1/4/0. Ouch.
Luckily, the rest of my team were actually good players, and scared the other team into a quick surrender. After the match, that team was screaming at each other (virtually), calling for Ao Kuang to be reported, etc.
DucksRock invited me to play a bit after I finished the above match. I totally warned him that it was going to be bad. Was able to call Solo, and as I felt comfortable with her from the previously mentioned game from Episode 1 with ThePerfectPrism, chose Aphrodite.
Great...2 in a row. Matched against the same god as me, again. This time a Mastery X. Ugh. Thoroughly, thoroughly outplayed me. This is where I learned Aphro's combos, by having them performed on me. Never used the kiss/stun to 2/3 before. Very effective, lol. By the end, I was at least able to replicate a bit of the same type of gameplay, but she was too far ahead for me at that point, and her Jungler was helping her a lot. Oh, and she started Soul Stone while I started Vampiric Shroud. Maybe that made a difference too?
So, I'm not sure if my poor play affected my teammates (allowing the enemy Aphrodite to rotate sooner) or what, but my entire team was bad. Ducks and I were the only 2 to even get a kill. At least I wasn't clearly the worst on my team. Gotta look for the positives, right?
Final score: 1/6/1. Bleh.
This match started poorly, but ended well. I compliment Ducks for his bravery in playing a 2nd match with me.
Started out on the bad side, but clawed my way back to relevance when things turned to teamfights. Got a bunch of healing in (10,516!), saved Ducks at least once, and felt like I made a difference. Was able to win my lane by getting the enemy tower down first, laid down 5 wards, which is a lot better than forgetting them all, and ended up on the positive K/D ratio.
Final score: 6/5/5. If the outcome could be more like this every game, I'd play a lot more. I'm not going to delude myself into thinking that, though. I do have to admit, I had a lot of fun in this one.
Here's the gameplay video for your amusement. Watch how long I have Wards and don't use them. So awesome.
Thus to achieve this advantage you want to build offensive early. ADC's should grab Throwing Dagger, and mid and solo laners will often grab items like Soul Stone and power potions to give them an edge. So... yeah! Hope this helps bran.
BRAN PLS
Later we need to talk about refining those aphro abilities boio
:p
Hmmm...the biggest thing I remember after the game was someone screaming about Ao Kuang...so maybe it was the 1 solo that was screaming about him. But there was definitely a lot of back and forth and general unhappiness, lol.
Credit my Athena Support...not one bad word. Really appreciated that.
I just find it odd that in your first game, the enemy team was raging against Ao Kuang, because it was a 4 player pre-made, which included Ao Kuang.
Only you and Zhong Kui were solo queuing.
Flaming against party members seems a bit odd in my opinion.