u/Svanskof

Hello Azir mains!

I'm a Garen OTP that reached masters first time this season and now i want a new challenge. I've been really curious about Azir top and been thinking about a rune setup that sounds kinda interesting, would love to hear your thoughts. This is the setup:

First strike, cash back, biscuit delivery, cosmic insight, presence of mind, alacrity, double adaptive scaling health. Flash TP

The premise is to get as many first strike procs as possible and get your items faster. Tested this out in a game and it looks a bit promising, got 1620 gold in a 32 minute game doing kind of averagey (it was lower elo). I need to test it more but would love to hear your thoughts and tips on learning this cool shuriman guy

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Hello everyone!

I'm a low-mastah Garen onetrick and today I played and lost two games and they taught me a bit about myself and about tilt.

So I was playing Garen top twice into ranged matchups, a bit annoying. My champ got nerfed, fair but a bit annoying. My team was tilting already in lobby, a bit annoying. My team died a lot, also annoying. I had plenty of things I could turn into excuses and I also made some mistakes myself. I was overall happy about my performance though.

Surprisingly, I didn't make any excuses and I didn't tilt at all today and it felt freeing to have a bad result and not be upset about it.

I think the more you play competitively, the more you have to learn to abstract away the results. It sounds counter-intuitive but you have to mentally let go of what you climbed to. Your current rank or LP isn't really who you are, it's just a datapoint from one point in your climb.

The big lesson for me I think is that you don't have to process criticism in real time in the game. Soloqueue is way too turbulent to digest any meaningful lesson as you're playing. It's like being a chef in the middle of the lunch rush and having someone criticize everything you do. Maybe they're right, but you still have 30 orders to do, theres time for criticism later.

For me I have felt before that I can turn criticism into a reflection on my selfworth. "I made a mistake" can get turned into "you are a mistake". That's not healthy, and I realize that I don't want to make someone else feel that way when I play.

My goal for now will be to try and be the person who others can feel it's okay to make mistakes around. I think it can be a lot of value to both myself and others.

I don't know, these are some thoughts I've been having today, what do you guys think?

I've been playing this guy almost exclusively since like season 8, im currently masters and I think Garen has both pros and cons. What makes you frustrated about him and what rank are you coming from? I compiled some stats for this and last patch:

Master: 48.38% wr, last patch 50.17%

Diamond: 49.84%, last patch 51.09%

Emerald: 51.33%, last patch 51.49%

Plat: 51.3%, last patch 52.08%

Do you feel the same way about for example singed who has higher winrates in all ranks? Or would you prefer to play against a ranged top like quinn or teemo?

Also, if you see him picked (i always first pick him), why not go one of his counters like vayne, tryn, camille or kayle? all of them have 58% wr against him

Hello everyone!

I'm a toplane Garen otp who just hit masters first time. I decided that I wanted to take a break from toplane and am considering testing out support for like 100 games or so. I want to learn the role and see how far I can climb, I want a different perspective from what I've played.

I am interested in learning Taric, Zilean and Soraka. I feel like they all offer something different and seem fun to play. What would be the biggest advice you guys have for learning the role? Is it effective to one trick as support or be more versatile? How do you influence games?

Have a nice day yall!

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