November 30, 2015

Adventures in Ranked Joust

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Chang'e  |  joust 1v1  |  ranked  |  adventure!
So as some of you know (maybe) I've been doing my best to climb the joust 1v1 ladder. I recently achieved platinum almost exclusively playing Chang'e, with occasionally AMC if she's banned (although I'm thinking of switching that to Bastet since I'm not an amazing AMC). In any case, just wanted to share my progress. Some extra stuff:

My first ban is He Bo since it's a bad matchup. If my opponent does not ban Chronos I will then ban him (I personally believe he's the strongest 1v1 jouster in the game, and I don't like to mirror match with him). If my opponent bans Chronos (which is most of the time) I'll then likely ban Hou Yi or Ah Muzen Cab depending on how I'm feeling that day. You might question why I allow Hel through, but I'm playing Chang'e soooooooo.... yeaaahhhhh...

In any case, I've had a 70% winrate with Chang'e in this gametype (it's actually been getting better over time), so I hope I'll keep rising until I'm definitively the greatest Chang'e to ever Chang'e.

And in case you're wondering what happens when I mirror match other mastery X Chang'es....

get dunked on

That was a 14 minute match for me to take down her titan. I don't think my tower even took a hit of damage. And to top it all off, she had 1700 more worshippers than me! (She deserved it though, went in there with that ****ty Lunar Tango skin, I knew I couldn't show any mercy).

In any case, just posting this for the heck of it. Feel free to comment whatever on it, or just comment on your own adventures in joust 1v1 or anything else that comes to mind.

*edit: played a game against SamDaDude (popular streamer, Masters Joust player) Sol vs Chang'e. Game ran for almost 40 minutes, we went back and forth for ages (at one point around 2:35:30 I got DC'd pushing his phoenix and died, that was one ulti I didn't whiff, smite did the thing where people keep moving in the direction they were going until you reconnect so on my screen I had hi her, by the time I reconnected my death timer was almost done, I cry every time QQ), but in the end he pulled through. Thought I'd post the video so you guys could see some gameplay if you want. I could have played better, whiffed a few ults which is kinda embarrassing, but it was a really close match and despite losing, I ended 11/5. I also probably should have gotten Stone of Gaia, I underestimated Sol's sustain. Match starts at ~2:11:00.

Video is here