u/Roberto_Guillimano

I don't know how to deal with farming. I've gotten a lot of flack for spending my time "whacking frogs" and not helping on VC. In games I get pinged (mostly by bot) for farming my camps.

Yet at the same time while my K/D is 3.5, I always get left behind in gold and xp by enemy junglers. In low elo not so often since they also tend to hover all over for kills and not farming, but today was different - Today I helped steamroll an early game by setting my team up with a 15 kill lead - and we still lost because the enemy Diana farmed her camps all game and ended up folding us all up in a single fight. She had a 5k gold lead by just farm alone, she only caught up to me on kills like so.

As an assassin I feel torn. All points to me having to farm more to do better. Yet killing and ganking is more fun, but doesn't actually seem to win games. It only delays the inevitable if the enemy takes the lead in resources. Should I just ignore if I get flack for farming from now on?

I'll put my short story under if you have the interest, and the actual question behind a Q.

Essentially I used to be extremely allergic to everything. As an infant I could only tolerate sweet potato, and almost didn't make it to adulthood due to that.

However as I grew up most of the allergies faded. I underwent exposure therapy and gained the ability to consume dairy and eggs. By adulthood I could feel healthy without allergy medication or cortisone. I could live like a relatively normal person.

Then I took a liking to sweet chili, silly as it sounds. I took a habit of buying some mild chili mayo if I had fries. I noticed it often made me cough afterwards, and made it difficult to swallow without drinking. I thought nothing of it, until one day a normal meal turned into the worst reflux attack of my life. I couldn't sleep, and had to go to the ER because I had no idea what was going on.

I got put on PPI's for 2 weeks. Again, I though it would be the end of it. Then I started to wake up at night feeling like I had swallowed hair. It kept happening with increasing regularity, alongside a leaky nose. My doctor was quick on the uptake, sent me to relevant examination, which turned into an EOE diagnosis. The damage in the esophagus was minimal, but the structure had visible rings.

I had all of the risk factors for this disease I didn't know existed for +20 years. I had a heavy dairy, wheat and egg based diet for years, with next to no issues. I thought I had conquered my allergies. It was quite a shock to find what I thought was just minor reflux could turn into a lifetime ban for so many ingredients. Moreover, I have no idea why I was healthy for so long if I had reacted to said food in this way, and why it appeared only now.

Q: Thus I'd like to ask, do you have tips on adapting to such a huge dietary change? I take too long in preparing meals, and end up with low blood sugar and reflux due to that all the time now. As a person who relied on dairy and pastries as snacks it's been a nightmare to come up with anything I could prepare quickly.

As a first disclaimer this is not a salty post. I'm just attempting to log some rounded observations about Draft, as I have seen it for the past few months of playing league.

For the background, I've consistently queued with a friend who swaps between mid and top, while I always jungle. I'm at acc lvl 70 with gold, and he is at around lvl 50 with gold as of now. On average our K/D/A hovers on around +4. This seems to mostly be our only constant average.

Now, we've played together for a long time, and have noticed some bizarre pattern within our drafts. I do not have a chart to back these things up mind you, so take it all with a grain of salt:

- We've had two separate occurrences where we've gone on a +90% winstreak out of nowhere (20 games).
- We've also had two separate occurrences where we've lost +90% (20 games)
- We've had team setups where the difference in acc levels is +900
- We've consistently faced emeralds and diamonds from silver upwards
- We've had several teams with EXTREME variances in levels (eg. 4x ~20 lvl + 300).
- Botlanes aren't usually "bad" just because when they're doing terribly. The people placed there are on such a low level they are essentially just learning to play. The most one sided engagements (in terms of player experience representation) usually happen here (from my perspective as a jungle).
- Misfortune on the friendly team tends to be a sign of misfortune in the previous context.
- Same goes for Yumi.
- Matching as a 2 man gets the "full party" treatment. Eg. the amount of parties balances each other out, not the number of players in those parties. Thus there's drastic variance in terms of how the maneuvering in team fights can happen.

Essentially it would seem that performing well increases the quality of opponents, which is of course ideal. However, it does disturb me that out of nowhere the quality of enemies and allies can decrease drastically out of nowhere, leading to extremely one sided snowballs. It's not just about "throwing" or anything like that: most times it really is a matter of the player just learning the ropes, getting mixed in with players way above their league.

Especially if you play specific niche champs that do knowledge checks it becomes really apparent: You sometimes get no counterplay, while on the next game you get control wards popping up like mushrooms during rain (probably gives away I main Evelynn). For my top it means facing a lvl.20 something Sett who can't dodge a single Plank barrel in a game, and facing a Quinn who's untouchable the next.

I'm self aware that emotional investment is literally what makes those exceptional games stick out. Still, I feel there's something more weird going on beneath the surface, with the constant irregularity of patterns. Both me and my friend like "even" experiences, with smooth, repeatable patterns like PvE games. Our style in league reflects a same sort of defensiveness and calm observation. That's why with league we've also been discussing these points over and over ad nauseum. As neutral as I try to present them, for us these do sometimes sour the mood.

Call me insane, but I hope I'm not the only one who feels it.

I'm curious because I wanna find an otp champ.