Didn't notice those posts from yesterday so my (delayed) thoughts on the two in-house games. I won't speak on the other lanes because I didn't watch them during the game much.
Match 1 - Team comp setup was setup to poke while having the sudden isolation in J4 + Cho. Janna just sort of got picked but, in hindsight, it gives us an emergency disengage so it was probably one of the best options.
Mid lane vs Ryze was just a basic vs Ryze match of push and bleed him dry early on and force the decision of farm lane or chase mid. His scaling is pretty bad early game so he can't reliably push until 6 (and "wastes" his ult to do it) and it takes until Level 9/10 | 2500 Gold for him to establish much in lane. My goal here is to get my Tear early and just deny as much farm as possible. Only word of advice I can give is I was probably really gankable with my awkward ward timings but closer was spread thin + mega behind due to the counter jungle.
Game was a stomp, though. Every lane went big and we controlled the flow of the game fairly well. Objectives were kept warded and we had better vision in general as far as I could tell.
Edit: Oh, right, I'm pretty sure I ran 9/0/21 with MS% Quints + Nimble so I had a better chance of getting free auto-attack harass while avoiding Rune Prison. Also, EXP Masteries so I can hit my levels before you to establish the lane position better. Not sure if it made a massive difference but hey!
Match 2 - I honestly don't think we put any thought into the team comp. Lulu/MF works well so that made sense but then we didn't really have any real synergy with the rest of the comp. I just wanted to play Nidalee so I picked that into a Shen and that was pretty stupid and then Voli + Ahri against those picks is iffy at best. On top of that, I went glass cannon Midalee in the top lane and my Nid mechanics are bad (spears how do they land). Realistically, I should have picked Elise here instead of wanting to try Nidalee / use the skin I bought. #fuckmyteamskins2win
I gave up an early death because wards are too complicated to place (dying with ward in inventory gg) and then I fell behind in cs even without the ganks/camp due to mistiming my cs since I'm used to AD Nidalee. All-in-all, it was a failed top lane and we decided to sacrifice the lane so mid/bot can get Jungle support instead. I couldn't even teleport support anywhere since I did literally nothing :/
We didn't treat the split push properly since we didn't feel confident in forcing a 5v4 and we had an awkward initiate anyway (Volibear vs Wither, Rune Prison, Aqua Prison; Ahri too squishy/important to risk initiating with). Honestly, the split push could have been pressured better. 4v5 we probably would have lost and you have the perfect Shen ult targets of Nasus and Ryze anyway. Instead, it seemed to be a lot of "he's split pushing, just defend while Shen takes thing" that then became, "he's split pushing, help the Shen."
I got caught at the end and we turned it into a 5v4 last stand that worked out due to bad positioning (ADC up front and caught by Charm, Ryze forced away from fight, MF ult across errbody) and we just pushed it out to win from there.
