A First Win!

Well, I feel like I'm more excited than I have a right to be given that it came in my 6th ranked game in Bronze V, but it was a pretty good win.  I ended 1/3/10 which is a bit lower than I would like given that we had over 30 kills (I feel like I'm not doing my job unless I've got K+A of more than half of our team's kill total, preferably above 2/3), but I had the lowest number of deaths on my team and was often well positioned to get our team kills while still extricating myself from trouble.

Once again, skill shots were a problem for me.  My Nami Q (bubble toss) only hit about half the time, which annoyed me because I was even trying to lead my targets.  I just still need more practice to calibrate things.  Yi threw me off too, of course--I would often toss a bubble just late enough that he'd be able to initiate his Alpha Strike before it hit, even when I was anticipating him. 

A big difference in this game as well was that I made more of a conscious effort to establish map control and map awareness.  I did a lot more pinging than usual (though not spam pinging), called more MIAs even in other lanes sometimes when I could see enemies moving away and our guy was out of lane for one reason or another and wouldn't see it in person, and set a few objectives for us as a team.  It didn't always work out, and the team was generally uncoordinated, but that was all good practice for me and I feel like getting in these habits will be good for me in the long run and build good instincts.

Oh, and I got 21 LP for this win.  I'm not sure whether that's a big number, a small one or an average, with this being my first win of the season, but it feels big--four more wins of that caliber and I'll be out of Bronze V...potentially.

Current Status:
Bronze V, 21 LP
1 Win, 6 games played.