u/Haunting_Inflation54

Many moons ago I managed to hit iron 4. Many moons ago I spent months of my life trying my hardest to break into Silver by consuming nearly every guide I could find. Recently I hit emerald 3 with a 61% winrate in my last 60 games and a 63% winrate in my last 80.

I'm by no means the best player ever but I still think some people will find the following advice useful. They're condensed, hyper specific tips you can implement instantly. It's all advice that allowed me to see a noticeable increase in my winrate when I started to implement it.

1. Pick 1 lane and pick 1-2 champs. Play nothing else. Don't swap between mid and bot. Choose. One tricking a champion far outweighs trying to counter pick or play for team comp especially in low elo. Play a champion you enjoy, not what's in the meta.

2. Play for your wave state, not for kills. Play for objectives, not for kills. Objectives and gold are how you win games. I've seen so many players chase kills and they ended up losing way more gold than they gained. Another example is you blow your sums and ult on a kill right before a drake but the enemy respawns just before the drake is up and is able to tp, you now don't have an ult or sums for the fight and you lose, whereas if you didn't go for the kill you may have won the team fight + drake and be in a much better position.

3. Learn about turns. There's 2 examples of turns I can give. Example 1 is playing around cooldowns for short trades, if they use a key ability, there's a short window where they can't use it and that's your time to fight. Example 2 is playing around wave state, if the wave is nearly under your tower pushing towards you and you both die, you lose your entire wave, if you both die and minions are equal that sets up a freeze, you need to make sure that when you fight you don't risk losing your entire wave in the process.

4. Learn proper wave management, there's plenty of good guides on YouTube

5. Learn to take good recalls and don't get greedy. Staying for an extra plate is how you lose lane. If the enemy recalls and you stay, they now have item advantage when they come back. If you recall as they come back to lane they'll also take a plate and negate any advantage you had. Good recalls are situational but good habit generally include recalling 30s before an objective (unless you have tp), and recalling when the wave is under enemy tower. If you need to take a bad recall, aim to recall on a cannon wave, you won't lose as much.

6. Look at your map more

7. Learn to track enemy jungle. If you know jungle timers and which way they path, you'll avoid way more ganks.

8. If your teammate makes a stupid play let them die. 1 death is better than 2. Don't follow stupid plays.

9. Ping more. Your communication probably sucks. Spam ping when objectives are up, ping danger when your laner is missing. Let your team know what you want.

10. Mute chat and don't tilt, if you play on tilt you will lose. If you tilt your team you will lose.

11. Don't play for KDA. Not all deaths are equal. I frequently have terrible KDA and kill participation but I'm at every objective and I know when to push side lanes. Play for your team and for objectives.

12. Learn to identify your win condition. Most games have a win condition. If your adc is playing well, you must sacrifice your life to keep them in the game. Let the adc kill everybody. You don't have to carry every game.

13. Play around vision and match tempo with your team. If your team are in your jungle and base and you're hovering around 2nd tower, you're probably going to die. Aggressively push only when you can see the enemy or your team are matching side lanes forcing the enemy to choose.

14. If you have tp, play the opposite side of the map to the spawning objective.

15. Learn your champions role and identity. Play with intention. Do you push sides? Do you assassinate the adc?

16. Don't die before objectives, ever. Avoid using your ultimate or summoner spells before objectives as well.

17. Roam when wave is pushed under enemy tower. Slow push the wave so you get a longer window to roam. If you roam whilst there's still minions to be killed you'll likely lose more than you gain.

18. Make decisions quickly. A bad decision done quickly can sometimes be better than a good decision done slowly. Indecisiveness loses you games.

19. If you use mana, don't spam your abilities on the wave until mid to late game. Ability spam is how you run out of mana quickly and then lose a fight and die.

20. Don't kill inhibitors before 25 minutes. If you kill an inhibitor and can't quickly end the game, you give the enemy free gold

21. Play safer when you have a bounty

22. Don't force objectives or over stay. A bad baron call will lose you the game. Taking mid tower "quickly" because the enemy team is dead isn't worth more than securing soul. Games have been thrown because players want to end quickly and get it over with.

23. Play for your winning lane. Don't gank your 0/5 top laner unless they scale heavily and it's a guaranteed kill.

24. If you lose 2 games in a row stop playing for the day. Playing after 2 losses is how you suddenly go from plat 4 to gold 4.

25. If you use tp, save it for objectives or really good team fights after the 15-20 minute mark. Making good tps is how I've won so many games. I used to just tp back to lane and it was such a waste.

There's probably more tips I could give but I wanted to go for an even 25. Feel free to ask any questions :)

Many moons ago I managed to hit iron 4. Many moons ago I spent months of my life trying my hardest to break into Silver by consuming nearly every guide I could find. Recently I hit emerald 3 with a 61% winrate in my last 60 games and a 63% winrate in my last 80.

I'm by no means the best player ever but I still think some people will find the following advice useful. They're condensed, hyper specific tips you can implement instantly. It's all advice that allowed me to see a noticeable increase in my winrate when I started to implement it.

1. Pick 1 lane and pick 1-2 champs. Play nothing else. Don't swap between mid and bot. Choose. One tricking a champion far outweighs trying to counter pick or play for team comp especially in low elo. Play a champion you enjoy, not what's in the meta.

2. Play for your wave state, not for kills. Play for objectives, not for kills. Objectives and gold are how you win games. I've seen so many players chase kills and they ended up losing way more gold than they gained. Another example is you blow your sums and ult on a kill right before a drake but the enemy respawns just before the drake is up and is able to tp, you now don't have an ult or sums for the fight and you lose, whereas if you didn't go for the kill you may have won the team fight + drake and be in a much better position.

3. Learn about turns. There's 2 examples of turns I can give. Example 1 is playing around cooldowns for short trades, if they use a key ability, there's a short window where they can't use it and that's your time to fight. Example 2 is playing around wave state, if the wave is nearly under your tower pushing towards you and you both die, you lose your entire wave, if you both die and minions are equal that sets up a freeze, you need to make sure that when you fight you don't risk losing your entire wave in the process.

4. Learn proper wave management, there's plenty of good guides on YouTube

5. Learn to take good recalls and don't get greedy. Staying for an extra plate is how you lose lane. If the enemy recalls and you stay, they now have item advantage when they come back. If you recall as they come back to lane they'll also take a plate and negate any advantage you had. Good recalls are situational but good habit generally include recalling 30s before an objective (unless you have tp), and recalling when the wave is under enemy tower. If you need to take a bad recall, aim to recall on a cannon wave, you won't lose as much.

6. Look at your map more

7. Learn to track enemy jungle. If you know jungle timers and which way they path, you'll avoid way more ganks.

8. If your teammate makes a stupid play let them die. 1 death is better than 2. Don't follow stupid plays.

9. Ping more. Your communication probably sucks. Spam ping when objectives are up, ping danger when your laner is missing. Let your team know what you want.

10. Mute chat and don't tilt, if you play on tilt you will lose. If you tilt your team you will lose.

11. Don't play for KDA. Not all deaths are equal. I frequently have terrible KDA and kill participation but I'm at every objective and I know when to push side lanes. Play for your team and for objectives.

12. Learn to identify your win condition. Most games have a win condition. If your adc is playing well, you must sacrifice your life to keep them in the game. Let the adc kill everybody. You don't have to carry every game.

13. Play around vision and match tempo with your team. If your team are in your jungle and base and you're hovering around 2nd tower, you're probably going to die. Aggressively push only when you can see the enemy or your team are matching side lanes forcing the enemy to choose.

14. If you have tp, play the opposite side of the map to the spawning objective.

15. Learn your champions role and identity. Play with intention. Do you push sides? Do you assassinate the adc?

16. Don't die before objectives, ever. Avoid using your ultimate or summoner spells before objectives as well.

17. Roam when wave is pushed under enemy tower. Slow push the wave so you get a longer window to roam. If you roam whilst there's still minions to be killed you'll likely lose more than you gain.

18. Make decisions quickly. A bad decision done quickly can sometimes be better than a good decision done slowly. Indecisiveness loses you games.

19. If you use mana, don't spam your abilities on the wave until mid to late game. Ability spam is how you run out of mana quickly and then lose a fight and die.

20. Don't kill inhibitors before 25 minutes. If you kill an inhibitor and can't quickly end the game, you give the enemy free gold

21. Play safer when you have a bounty

22. Don't force objectives or over stay. A bad baron call will lose you the game. Taking mid tower "quickly" because the enemy team is dead isn't worth more than securing soul. Games have been thrown because players want to end quickly and get it over with.

23. Play for your winning lane. Don't gank your 0/5 top laner unless they scale heavily and it's a guaranteed kill.

24. If you lose 2 games in a row stop playing for the day. Playing after 2 losses is how you suddenly go from plat 4 to gold 4.

25. If you use tp, save it for objectives or really good team fights after the 15-20 minute mark. Making good tps is how I've won so many games. I used to just tp back to lane and it was such a waste.

There's probably more tips I could give but I wanted to go for an even 25. Feel free to ask any questions :)

To clarify on my title, I'm currently emerald 4 75LP, I've got a 66% winrate in my last 60 games and a 65% winrate in my last 20, I'd say I'm climbing pretty well. Despite this I'd like to make my climb easier so I'm still trying to learn and I wondered if there's any big improvements that can be made at this rank or is it simply a case of refining what you already know?

To give an example, you can jump from iron to bronze by learning to cs correctly, you can jump from bronze to silver by learning about tempo and playing for objectives, you can go from silver to gold by learning about wave management etc and you can climb higher than this by 1 tricking a champion.

Basically the moment you learn something like wave management and tempo for example you'll see an instant improvement in your gameplay, a small change made a big difference.

Are there any typical knowledge gaps once you hit emerald? Or do you just apply what you already know but do it better and more consistently?

Like in lower elo you learn to be at objects, in higher elo you might take it a step further and make sure you time your summoner spells and ult so they're up in time. Same lesson, just performed better. I can learn to better perform the lessons I've already learnt through personal practice, I'm just curious on if there's any knowledge that I might not know that isn't champion specific.

I edit full time but occasionally dive into niches or styles I'm less familiar with and as I'm paid per project it usually results in less money. Obviously the more reps you put in the faster you'll become but I'm curious about others'experiences?

You're a professional video editor for documentary and then you decide you want to edit a music video for a rapper for example. You'll 100% have the technical skills, you'll know the software like the back of your hand and already have some systems in place but there will definitely be a noticeable drop in efficiency whilst you get used to the new style.

How long until your typical speed catches up? And how much of a drop in speed do you usually see in these situations?

So I recently hit Emerald 4 with a 60-70% winrate 2 tricking Akali and Mundo. Akali and Mundo are pretty different champions for the most part but one thing they have in common is a very clear play style and a lot of get out of jail free cards.

Mundo just pushes towers and is a side lane beast that can survive ganks by using R and Ghost

Akali sucks at split pushing but is great at instantly killing carry champion.

When I played Akali I'd usually have the most kills on my team and when I played Mundo I'd average about 30k tower damage a game.

This being said, Akali isn't a great top laner once you climb higher and Mundo also starts to fall off the higher you climb so I decided to try Jax. Turns out I suck at Jax. I played him in a few normals and then tried rank on an ult account, and I haven't gotten a positive kda in any of my ranked games so far.

Jax can split, Jax can team fight, Jax can get solo kills. One thing that makes Jax a better high elo champion is his ability to be strong in multiple situations which until now I've never really dealt with. Jax also has very few get out of jail free cards if he gets ganked at least compared to Mundo and Akali.

Jax has essentially allowed me to identify parts of league I seem to struggle with. I was a 60-70% winrate in emerald on Akali and Mundo and since picking up Jax and hopping on an alt, I'm now hard losing in plat 4 lobbies.

So if someone was looking to become a more balanced player? Someone that can perform at least average in all parts of league, what would be the champions to play? What champions teach these fundamentals?

TLDR: There's lots of ways to win a game, solo kills, team fights, split pushing etc. Some champions are only excel at one of these play styles. What champions would make a well rounded player who can perform at least average in every situation?

So I recently hit Emerald 4 by 2 tricking Mundo and Akali, yes I know those are 2 very different champions but for some reason I just really enjoy playing them and happened to get good at both. Since hitting emerald I decided to start practicing another top lane champion as the higher you climb the harder it is to climb with Mundo because he has so many counters and is a bit of a one dimensional champion, and Akali isn't a great top laner full stop. I ended up picking Jax.

I currently have 2 accounts, my main that's in emerald 4 and an alt that's in plat 4. I decided to hop on my alt to practice Jax as playing normals puts me against bronze and iron players.

For context I hit emerald with a 60-70% winrate, I should be able to glide through platinum but I'm genuinely getting stomped every game and it's 100% my fault. I wanted to make sure I don't just suck now so I played a game on Akali and it was a free win, so the only conclusion is I suck at Jax. I'm so bad at playing Jax that I went from stomping emerald lobbies to going 0/10 in a low platinum lobby.

I'm in the process of watching guides, doing my best to improve etc, I just want to know at what point does it get better? How many games did it roughly take you to start piloting the champion with half a brain? Or is this simply just a skill issue and I should already be better than I am? I've definitely played over 10 games already.

I've personally never had too much issue with revisions as I specialise in short form content so revisions are typically quick but as I'm starting to move towards more long form videos where many changes may be required I'd like to strengthen and add more clarity to my current contract.

How do you guys personally structure your revisions? Do your contracts include a set number of individual changes and you add an additional fee once it goes over that amount? Or do you include 1-2 rounds of revision? In which case how do you define a round so that the work is reasonable?

How do you prevent a round of revisions being hours of additional work vs an extra 20-30 minutes?

I'm curious. If you were in a war and could pick the group you fought with/against e.g Pirates, Vikings, Knights, Modern Soldiers (prior to 01/01/2001 to keep with forum rules), Cavemen etc etc what would you pick and why?

Feel free to pick a specific war or just a general war that may not have had any name.

For the sake of this question you can assume you're a somewhat trained solider, good enough to kill others but there's a good chance you'll eventually die before the war ends.

Example answers could be:

I'd fight some random war as a pirate, I like the idea of going to war at sea in that era for x reasons

I'd fight in the battle of hasting because I want to use a spear and I'd pick that specific battle for x reasons

I'd fight in a random caveman war because I'd rather get hit with a rock than an arrow

I'd love to hear any personal or historical reasonings behind your answers. Are you picking a war because its a significant part of history or because the methods they used to fight would likely result in a quicker or less painful death?

Hey so I'm currently in a situation where I intended to move to Manchester with a friend. I currently work freelance so my income is unstable and my friend just quit his job. We have enough savings to easily cover a year of rent for a 2 bedroom flat around the city centre and he intends to find work once he arrives and I intend on getting more higher paying clients once I arrive as well. Money isn't an issue.

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That being said, for the time being we don't meet the income requirements for a lot of the places we were hoping to rent, and since the new renter's rights act, it's now illegal for landlords to accept rent up front which was our go to method for securing a place (was going to give 3-6 months up front).

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I already emailed one place and asked if using a guarantor who meets the income requirements would make it possible and they said no. So basically they won't accept rent up front, and they won't accept a guarantor that meets the required income. We ourselves need to have this income which isn't going to be possible any time soon.

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Does anyone have any suggestions? Or know any letting agencies that would accept a guarantor in place of our own income?

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I know students are able to rent using a guarantor since they don't have their own income but as we're not students I'm unsure if this will apply.

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We both really want to move to Manchester, we have the money to do so, but finding a decent place that will accept us is looking tricky.

Me and a mate are looking to move to a flat in Manchester. They require 2.5 x income combined from tenants and all tenants must have an income. My mate just quit his job and I currently work freelance so income can be inconsistent. We are both intending on finding better and more secure work in Manchester. This being said, we both have enough savings combined to cover rent for 6 months + and I'm still making money, just not enough for the combined income they're after.

In the past you were usually able to get a place in circumstances like this by paying rent up front, whether that be 3, 6, or 12 months up front but since the new renters rights act came in that is now illegal and landlords can't accept upfront rent.

How are we supposed to go about getting a place?

We have enough money to pay the rent no problem, we just don't have enough actual income at this point in time. Surely savings count for something?

Am I missing something or being stupid? If I was unemployed with a £1,000,000 in my bank but 0 income am I unable to rent?

Me and a mate are looking to move to a flat in Manchester. They require 2.5 x income combined from tenants and all tenants must have an income. My mate just quit his job and I currently work freelance so income can be inconsistent. We are both intending on finding better and more secure work in Manchester. This being said, we both have enough savings combined to cover rent for 6 months + and I'm still making money, just not enough for the combined income they're after.

In the past you were usually able to get a place in circumstances like this by paying rent up front, whether that be 3, 6, or 12 months up front but since the new renters rights act came in that is now illegal and landlords can't accept upfront rent.

How are we supposed to go about getting a place?

We have enough money to pay the rent no problem, we just don't have enough actual income at this point in time. Surely savings count for something?

Am I missing something or being stupid? If I was unemployed with a £1,000,000 in my bank but 0 income am I unable to rent?

Not new to Davininci but very new to multicam clips.

When using a compound clip you're able to make multiple cuts to the clip and then later adjust the source clips. For example if I stack a few clips on top of each other, create a compound clip, cut the compound clip into multiple sections, and then go into the clip and replace the source footage, it instantly updates and keeps my cuts exactly where they were.

Do multicam clips work the same?

I created a multicam clip from my timeline, synced 5 different videos together, now 1 of those videos needs replacing with a better quality version, I'd ideally like to be able to sync it manually on the timeline and then it automatically updates to the multicam clip I've already made an edited. That way I can preserve all my cuts whilst adding in the improved footage.

Is this possible?

I currently specialise in editing short form content for big creators and smaller businesses. Recently my income hasn't been great and I've been debating whether my niche is the issue and I need to target more brands instead of creators or if it's the fact I'm editing short form Vs long form.

Obviously short form pays significantly less per video but due to the fact you can make like 5-10 videos in the time it takes to edit 1 long form video, is the total income at the end really any different?

Almost every big business now has a TikTok, Instagram etc and they all posts ads targeted at short form users. Would editing short form commercials pay the equivalent of the typical ads you see on TV?

Looking for a phone that can easily post on the latest version of TikTok and Instagram without lagging. What are the cheapest options available? Second hand is fine. Filming will be done with a different camera, I just need something cheap that can run the apps without issue.

If you were given an unlimited budget to build an industry standard studio in your bedroom, but the task was to use as little money as possible, what would you buy? What is the bare minimum required for a studio that could produce high quality songs for the likes of artists like Drake, Billie Eilish, Arianna Grande, Travis Scott, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd etc etc?

How acoustically treated does the room need to be? Can you get away with slightly less treatment without falling below the industry standard?

What mic would you go for? What speakers? What interface? What headphones?

If you were going to charge these artists for your time and they wanted to make a hit song? What is the bare minimum you'd need?

I'm fully aware hit songs have been made in hotel rooms and cheap setups, literally anything is possible these days if you're working with a good enough engineer. You can make vocal booths out of blankets and you can make crazy records on really minimal setups but that's still not the norm and if an artist was paying for actual studio time and they saw some mid tier gear and a blanket they'd probably walk out.

On the other hand I feel like you don't need loads of hardware or crazy analog gear to be able to justify charging for studio time either. I feel like most of these artists would be comfortable with just a high end mic and an interface like the Apollo twin x.

I'd be really curious to hear what you guys would personally buy or a rough ball park for the budget you think you'd need?

I've got an AMD stock cooler and I'm trying to replace the thermal paste but I can't seem to unplug the cooler from the motherboard. I've tried pushing it, squeezing it, not sure how to get the clip to budge and the only way of getting a really good angle would be to remove the entire motherboard as the top doesn't come off the case it's in. The pc is off and the cable is quite long. Can I just unscrew the cooler and place it outside the case with the cable attached whilst I apply the thermal paste, clean the cooler, and then reattach it?

If not have you got any idea on how to undo the clip?

When I'm making music with vocals I've always valued consistency and trying to complete each song in the same space with the same setup but I'm curious on if there are any known songs or songs you've personally worked on where the setup has changed but still ended up sounding great and you can't really tell?

Maybe the mic gets changed mid way through the song? Or you have to record some vocals in one studio and then you end up recording more vocals either at home or in a different studio?

There's probably an obvious answer somewhere but I couldn't find it after a quick google. I'm aware the current split just ended but what time does the new split start? When will ranked be back online?