By the way, I did have boots, I just sold them late in the game for more room for items, and even then I died at the final push with over 4000 gold. Was this a good item build? I almost grabbed Banshee's Veil over Guardian Angel, but I ended up going with it because I feared Tryndamere more than anyone else on the enemy team.
I rarely get to say I carried a team, but except for my team's Zilean, who was absolutely amazing (and had more minion kills than Vlad and Akali?!), I was the only competent player on my team. That is something I never say. I love free week heavy teams when they're the enemy team, but we had an Akali and a Vlad who hadn't even used them in bot games yet. It didn't help that our Vlad spoke Spanish and our Nunu spoke Portugese (I am completely serious). By the way, Nunu may have died a lot and done almost nothing during team fights, but at least he could draw attention to himself before he died and allow me to murder everything, so I respect that.
We should have lost, even with the amazing Zilean, but the enemy team had three free week characters and only one competent player, the Tryndamere. All of my deaths except one were to him, the last being to a truly amazing Ezreal ult across half the map (it was kind of awe worthy, I confess). The result of one team having two useful players and the other team having one useful player? An incredibly slow game that took forever to resolve, in which Tryndamere, Zilean, and I got fed beyond fed (though why Zilean kept his Doran's Ring by that point I do not know) and everyone else ran around like dumbasses. Half the time Akali tried to engage three-on-one and then just hit her invisbility and stood there because if she moved, she'd get killed, and no one on the enemy team bought oracle's or wards or anything.
The only reason we won was that the enemy Jarvan inexplicably built tank Jarvan even though they had a Shen, so when he ulted me or used that annoying rush forward move, I actually defeated him every single time. If he had been able to kill me even a few times, my team would have collapsed during the ensuing team fights.
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Started: July 6, 2005