What’s happening, my handful of readers. Today I’m bringing another article of my gaming past; how I got into TLM and how we’re performing with my current efforts.
As I may or may not have mentioned, Mienco and Sebaku are lov… childhood friends and Mienco and I are housemates, therefore Sebaku and I are childhood friends… I think. Anyways, Mienco and Sebaku were playing League of Legends long before I was, and I joined them soon afterwards. After my double grind to level 30 we finally managed to queue together in normal games. We met many people along the way, like iMegumii and Desdooms, and we all had a lot of fun times together, kicking asses and getting our asses kicked. Sebaku always being the better player among us was a milestone for us to reach. His older Frag vids are testament to the skill difference between him and his opponents, even if he didn’t know much of the game back then.
These fun times ended when I had to cram for my studies for three consecutive months. I stopped playing LoL and my LoL friends moved on without me. They improved their skills while mine deteriorated in lame books about high velocity aerodynamics. From time to time we’d have Skype conversations and Sebaku would tell me about these new guys he’s been playing with (Gootmen, Aximer and Wippedy) and how skilled they are and how fun they are to play with. These stories re-ignited my interests in League of Legends and I started playing the game again.
Getting back into it wasn’t easy at all. I had quite some catching up to do with the 6 new champions I had missed and with the Meta shifts. My micro and multitasking capacities were extremely rusty and I was pretty much a level 10 summoner again. In order to catch up with the others, I had some rigorous 1v1 training sessions with Sebaku, which were all very infuriating for me, because I kept losing them all the time! Many rage sessions were had, but I slowly improved to the point where I was good enough to hold my own in mid. I guess around this time, TLM was officially started.
Me being in mid didn’t always go well, though. If there was a champion I hadn’t faced before, then I would automatically lose. It pretty much came down to experience and I was severely lacking in that department (still am). So for most of that time, I wasn’t a consistent asset to the team and I was therefore dumped in bottom lane, playing as either Ashe or some support champion. Pretty sadface, I know. This isn’t very different now, except for the fact that I’m extending my repertoire of champions and roles. While I’m still in that process, I find myself increasing in knowledge, skill and tactics. I guess practice has its rewards.
The real trick is using these skills in a tournament match. Unfortunately, there haven’t been many opportunities where I’ve been able to perform to the best of my abilities yet *cough* feeder *cough*. Though I’d like to blame it on the fact that the teams we face have ridiculously high Elo compared to us, I have to admit that there is still a lot for me to learn. During these ROFLstomps, the team acknowledges the fact that we were outplayed and we take the experience as a new source of knowledge. We’re not doing many things at the moment, due to very busy schedules, but we will be back soon™.
This is currently where I am within Team Low Morale and even though I wrote this in a hurry, I thank you all for reading this.
Regards,
B3ER
You always will be my lovely brother B3ER
Carry Brand