Welp. I played my very first Ranked Conquest game ever. Honestly could have gone a lot worse, but boy did I feel a lot more pressure than normal. Didn't play very well, but I sort of expected that.
Only one other was actively talking/using the new in-game voice chat. And he was complaining (not unjustified I'm sure) a lot. He was our best player (
Ao Kuang), and without him, we definitely would have lost. Other than 2 others that were also playing qualifying matches, the spread of players consisted mostly of Silver division.Keep in mind, the entire ranked experience was new to me, with the banning and all.
Here was how it went:
Banning & Picking
Freya
Chang'e
Cu Chulainn
Terra
Nox
Ganesha
Medusa
Kali
Poseidon
Bellona
Geb
Sun Wukong
Chronos
KuzenboI decided to use my Devo's / Crit build, rather than the Trans build. Why? It's generally my preference, and because I had a brain fart and was thinking while first considering the enemy team's composition that I'd look to build
Witchblade to counter the many enemies that have basic attack functions in their kits. Didn't do that in the end, realizing that it would be building double-lifesteal at the time I was going to get it, so decided to just go for 
The Crusher instead. Also forgot to switch out 
Warrior Tabi for 
Ninja Tabi. Oops. Probably should have gone with the Trans build, and subbed Witchblade in for 
Asi. Oh well.Actual gameplay starts at around 10:30. In the early game, we started at our power buff, which I took. In lane, I don't know if I was playing very timidly, but should have kept attacking the minions for a bit longer...was scared of
Rama, and when I saw 
Artio incoming, I backed off. And overall, I was just consistently pushed back. At least I played a bit smarter than normal and didn't feed.My first death was found because I didn't have an aggressive ward up, and I entered the jungle from the middle rather than my defensive area.
Didn't get my first kill until almost 28 minutes in.
Throughout the rest of the match, forgot to ward sometimes even though I always had them on hand (normal), went in first and/or solo on some fights that I obviously shouldn't have, and didn't focus objectives sometimes from the distraction of enemy presence.
That said, again...it could have been worse.
Ended at 12/6/15 in a 45 minute win. Took us a while, and there were a lot of swings in the match. On my team,
Kukulkan and Ao Kuang outdamaged me...I had 32k damage. My ADC counterpart also heftily outdamaged me with almost 50k damage. But I didn't feed, came out with more kills than deaths, placed 8 wards (should have been way more though), and did the most objective damage with 6,404.Build Critiques
Midgardian Mail
Sovereignty
Heartward Amulet
Polynomicon
Spear of Desolation
The Morrigan
Hastened Katana
Qin's Sais
Frostbound Hammer
Shogun's Kusari
Obsidian Shard
Spear of the Magus
Void Stone
Bulwark of Hope
Breastplate of Valor
Spirit Robe
Gem of Isolation
Demonic Grip
Bancroft's Talon
The Executioner
Titan's Bane1 down, 9 to go, if I can survive this...seriously, people take it way too seriously.
Second, WHAT THE ACTUAL **** is your keybindings (I thought my bindings where weird)?
Third, I'm so glad that none in EU uses the ingame voice chat. I would have tilted so hard if I had to listen to that Ao guy >_< (like why wouldn't you fight at 45 min in that corridor? It was the perfect spot for a medusa ult and the turtle. But some ppl can only think about what they can do in a fight I guess. So when it wasn't a perfect fight for Ao, you shouldn't do it...) It would have been so fun if Ao lost you the game by chasing that Kali kill at 52 min!
Regarding keybindings, the multitude of clicks are mostly from my movement. I use a thumbstick for it, and it's not analog, it's digital with loud clicks (don't know why Razer decided to make it like that). Here, I'll explain.
As for the rest of your observations...yeah, wasn't thinking AT ALL about
Regarding better clear, I thought you go for the red buff if you're unsure or know you're going to have worse clear...because if they beat you out in the first wave, they might steal it while you're still finishing up the wave...?
I'll probably do this recording and writeup for all of my qualifying games...good or bad.
That is some siq keybinds haha
I just got my skills as 1,q,e,f (i think).
My actives as c and g (used to have the con my mouse, but my mouse keeps disconnecting and resetting the keybind midgame etc. So I might suddenly not have a beads key. Buying a new mouse soon.).
I have stor bound to i and recall to b or r cant remember atm >_<
Consumables ar 2 and 3.
Looking forward to see more. And I will keep giving you gameplay feedback as I see fit hehe.
And you need a strong mental health to handel ranked without tilting :p
I would like if you had push to talk on the in-game chat and could talk more freely to "us" watching the video. Just some midgame analysing is nice. Hearing your thoughts as the game plays out.
I dont really know how the different starts work and when to do them. The safest is to do buffs then wave. But if you where able to go red wave purple as Neith of something I think that could be really good. You could also just do wave red purple.
But ive pretty much only done buffs the wave since i got back.
PS i started writing this comment at 11am it is now 4pm..
Yeah, that's a pretty weird setup you have.
Played 2 more games last night...figuring out with Duotem how we're going to start presenting the rest of my games. I did switch to push to talk, so I could specifically talk without teammates hearing everything, but just...multitasking is hard for me. I need more practice at that.
Just a spoiler though, I'm an awful player XD
That way you can **** talk ppl without making it awkward Xd
They're probably the ones muttering under their breaths about me. I need all the help and edge I can get to be at all competitive. I might cut even on console if you allow me a mouse and keyboard.
And I mean, for all humorous intent, "just being" can be whatever might be funniest to you. Like, if they're just in their teenage years and generally would be considered gamers, then that basically qualifies their skill level as being naturally higher than mine when it comes to SMITE.
So, exaggeration? Maaaaaayyyyybe. But when you start watching some of my matches, then maybe you start questioning my mental faculties. I seriously do some stupid, airheady stuff. I wish I could take all of my general knowledge and put them to real-life, in-the-moment use, but instead, I get nervous, I get scared, I have blinders on with regard to my lane and forget to check the minimap, I forget the wards that are in my inventory, etc., etc., etc. Yay for me.
Gotta keep an eye on that Gold Fury ;)
Keep on trucking m8 <3
(gonna watch the game now)
Love me an early
Haven't watched the video, but looking at the builds I generally agree with you. Just gonna mention builds that stick out to me.
Not sure what