u/Specific_Weather

Hi all, I'm making a spontaneous trip into the NW of the state this weekend and I've wanted to visit Green River Lakes for a while.

I see that there's some active construction happening on the road and also some rain early in the week. The Forest Service web site says to expect delays of about 30 minutes. I'm alright with that, but if the road's muddy or otherwise in bad condition on top of that, I might want to reconsider because I've only got my little Honda Fit (RIP XJ o7). I don't mind a washboard road or some bumpy driving, I just don't want to get stuck somewhere.

P.S. -- For anyone who's been recently, how's the camping right now? We talked about fishing and doing the main loop trail as well.

Hi all, I ran into some off-meta matchups mid recently that I had some trouble with. I am only Silver and actually won all three of these games but struggled a lot in lane.

1. Tryndamere
   This guy all-ins on cooldown. I made the mistake of letting him build rage on the wave level 1 and he built to mostly full rage and then dashed on me and I ate three crits in a row and thereafter I had a hard time with him just dashing on me on repeat. I only died solo to him once but it was a stressful lane. I don’t know the right strategy for it.

2. AP Ezreal, sorcs rush
   This felt doomed. I struggled to punish his bad early. His scaling and damage are crazy. Early game I think he wins the all-in but I win short trades. Mid game he wins both, hits me with W and does half my health with E. I really struggled to hit a Q on him. He always has to E forward so I did get some help from my jungler when his E was down. I ended this game with a good score, like 6/2/10 or something, but after Sorcs I felt like I couldn’t even be in the same zip code as Ez without a teammate.

3. Gangplank
   A bad GP is super easy but a good one is really tough to fight. I put one behind yesterday to 0/3 down 15 cs and a sheen Q would still take 1/4 of my HP. I kept wondering why he kept trying to go for barrel plays when he could just Q me. I did chunk him pretty hard with QE when he tried this a couple times so maybe that’s why. I also felt like I could never track his barrel cooldown. I would think he used all his barrels and go aggressive and then I’d eat a multi-barrel combo. I also wasn’t sure how to play the barrel minigame. It seems that GP should win it 60+% of the time with Q+auto. And I can’t opt out of the barrel mini game either because he plops barrels in my wave and I need to walk up to CS.

If anyone has advice I’d love to hear it. Or if anyone else is also struggling with other off-meta matchups write them in the comments. A common one right now is AP Xin which I personally haven’t had a problem with.