Jarvan DC’d at the beginning of the game, we had to fight a man down.

Results were predictable, although we were actually doing decent and got a ace or two in there. Snagged the Rylia’s because I figured I could use the damage to help with fights.

Counting it as a troll. (And yes, there was no Game 5 because Taric wasn’t played.) No replay, either, since I didn’t know the “new” version I downloaded the other day was still busted. Got the latest now, so should be okay from here on in.

Another game with the armor yellows & mana regen reds. Slight tweak in the item build  this time in that I actually picked up a Lucky Pick for all three gold/5 items.

Oh, look, what happens when you don’t get trolls in your game and everyone gels nicely. For some reason, Ashe/Taric seems to be my best lane combo lately. Being able to open up a engage with a Nuclear Stun Arrow and Dazzle once you hit 6 really means someone opposing you is going to die.

Made a slightly poor choice to dive early-on. Almost killed Nid, but forgot I wasn’t six yet so I didn’t have my ult. Whoops. Turned it around when we got back in lane to double-kill both Ez and Nid, so all was forgiven. Things just went down-hill for the enemy team after that. They kept on playing forward, I’d stun, Ashe would kill, and we’d run away with giant sacks of cash to the item shop.

Nid’s spears were actually pretty scary when they’d hit, though. Glad I got those MR boots.

Victory (finally!), +13 Ranking to 839. (LOLRecorder seems to be having some issues after the patch, looks like it won’t upload ATM. Will edit the replay link in later if I can get it to work.)

Tried a slightly different build this time. Mana regen reds, armor yellows, MR blues, gold/5 quints. Definitely has a nice mix of burliness and still having mana to actually cast abilities.
How’d it go?

Things that might not be apparent at first glance:

Ashe was mid, Morg was bottom. Awesome, so my armor reduction from shatter was basically useless during laning.

I seriously want to spite-ban Morg all games from now on due to that… incredibly rude Morg. Seriously, does she attract all the drama-queen buttholes or something? She was talking shit the entire game, and was totally useless herself. The Junglestar was actually pretty damn impressive, even if he did have a bit of a problem with self-preservation. Often didn’t run away from a fight. Ashe got her teeth kicked in during laning. I’m assuming the whole “put a AD mid to counter Kass” is a thing, but it totally wasn’t a thing that game.

Had a decent game myself, although I found it hilarious that I was getting bitched at for kill-stealing. Yeah, I was totally expecting a rank 1 Dazzle to kill that Shaco, and wasn’t doing it to try to stun him so someone else could get the kill. Totally KSing on purpose, guys. Really tempted to put together a AP “support” build sometime and just take all the kills. Because they’re Taric’s kills, deal with it.

Surprised more people didn’t build MR, since Kassadin was just barfing void vomit on people and destroying them.

Will actually count this one as a loss, we really got out-played here. -13 ranking to 826. Game 3 Replay Download Link.

Damnit, Lee Sin.

Luck of the draw tonight. This time around, we get a Lee Sin who’s jungling and went AFK for the first few minutes…

…and then went AFK in the jungle while his middle lane was getting butchered. Was actually a pretty rough game all around, since Nocturne was jumping on our shit all the time, and Leona/Ez was pretty rough. Actually fightable, though.

Tried doing more of a “traditional” Taric support rune set this time, with MagicPen reds, mana regen yellows, AP blues, and movement speed quints. Gotta say, I really missed the extra durability the armor seals & runes gave and gold/5 the quints brought. Even *if* I would’ve been personally more dangerous due to having some actual AP.

Counting this one as a Troll too. -12 ranking to 839. Game 02 Replay Download Link.

And here we go…

Damnit, Singed.

Started out well. Ended up going 2/0/0 early-on when I was able to snag some kills on Varus. And then Singed DC’d.

Well. Shit. For a while it wasn’t actually too bad, since they would get caught out of position a lot and we’d pick up some kills.. but then you hit that point of critical mass where people have items, and you really can’t fight back against a team that’s slightly competent and a man up.

I’ll count that one up as a T (for Troll). -12 rating. Replay Download link.

This game happened.

And so, I got to thinking… “Man, Taric’s awesome. I should totally play him all the time and see what kind of crazy crap happens in these low-ELO ranked games. And document it.”

As a wise man once said, FILDI.

Let’s start this shit up.