u/bryceking64

I usually play bruisers / tanks but want to learn how to play assassins even if anything to have better knowledge of champs overall. The most “assassin” like champ I really have any experience with is Diana.

Is talon a good champ to try to do this or would you guys as the talon mains say he’s better off in lane? I really don’t know much about his kit but he seems fun. Always been intimidated by assassins because I always assume they’re mechanically hard to play.

I’ve been in a wicked down slope lately and am deciding to do a refresh and take a step back from what I’ve been doing. I mainly play tanks / set up champs but in gold/silver I’m just not making it work. I’ve never really played any of the assassin / glass cannons and I think maybe that could help push me to be a 1v9 player. What assassin in the jungle do you think is the easiest to learn / most forgiving? I’ve been playing eve the last couple days. Seems very fun but I’m really struggling with her. The clear, hitting the charm, not getting detected/predicted… even though im invis it feels like everyone just knows exactly where I am all the time even though nothing is revealing me so clearly im just doing something very wrong.

Really enjoying Rammus but would like to elevate my gameplay with him a bit. I’m sure there’s plenty of nuanced things that o could improve. Only guy out there I find videos on are Sawyer JG and Fz Frost and idk both those guys are quantity over quantity creators. I’d love to see what a true high elo OTP does and thinks when playing Rammus.

I’m starting to play garden a lot more lately and am noticing myself never really experimenting with items and have been basically running the same build every time and what is the most commonly built on him from what I see on U.gg
Zerkers, Stride, PD core into standard flexing items like IE, Mortal, Steraks, the slow resist armor item (blanking name idk why)

While it obviously works well what are other items you flex in? Are there any viable bruiser options? I’ve watched some videos that are a few months old and am seeing people raving about tricforce over stride. Is that something anyone still does or is it not as good anymore ?

I’ve been playing a lot of Shen in the top lane the last week. I’ve got a lot of experience with him in the past but I’m definitely quite rusty as I transitioned to play jungle and support for a while. Now that I’m returning to the top lane I’m getting that harsh reality of how brutal the lane can be and how quickly you can be completely bullied out of lane.

I feel like I’m good at last hitting on most champs I can sustain ~7 cs/min on average most games all the way through from start to finish. Sometimes more sometimes less.

With Shen though, most games go as follows, I’ll manage to kill lane pre 6, never able to actually crash the wave because 0 wave clear that early, opponent gets back, freezes wave and now I’m stuck in lane 1/2 hp can’t back but also can’t cs and then all of the sudden am down 40 cs at 12 mins

Other alternative, opponent will be like Sett / Camille / Darius / Teemo and I get absolutely bullied to the point where I’m cowering under tower and scrounging for any last hit I can manage to get.

If I don’t take ignite I feel like I it’s really hard to get the early kill and lane opponents recognize it and if I don’t take TP I’m screwed if I have to back with a shit wave state. Or if I need to Ult before finishing top lane quest. My win rate is >60% over like the last 15 games I love how much I can impact the game out of lane but I know most of the losses could have definitely been avoided if I was able to prevent my lane opponent from basically free farming.

Not a rant, searching on how to improve. I finally got to gold after years of trying and failing. Am at a complete and utter stand still now though sadly. Every day I get back to gold 3 then immediately lose 2/3 games and back to 4. What is blowing my mind though is that soooo many games our team will have STAGGERINGLY large leads. Multiple lanes win, JG clearing well and getting objs and then that 25ish minute marker hits and we still haven’t ended… at this point I’ll have identified about 10 opportunities we could have ended the game but idk why maybe it’s because I play support and am not “carrying” with KD but no one listens. Then egos come out jungle wants to do this, top laner wants to split mid laner doing whatever and then one by one people get caught out overextending a split, showing bot lane when baron is up and giving for free, forcing unfavorable fights and I watch shutdown after shutdown go to the enemy the fed 12/0 700 gold SD Yone is all of the sudden 12/4 asking for FF, now that timers are 50 seconds enemy team gets elder and baron and we lose. Sorry ended up ranting it’s just never ending.

Back to the main reason of post, what should I be doing as the support (usually I’m playing Ali or Janna) to try and get the team to just work together and finish a game?

Been really immersing myself into alistar life. Been trying to watch as much content I can and watch how people play the champ and build. One of the most informative videos I’ve seen so far is this 2 hour long podcast like video with Coach Cupcake as the guest, not sure who the host was cupcake is just a memorable name. 🤣

Anyways, in the itemization section of the video they looked at pick rates per item on Lolalytics and showed that swifties were the overwhelming majority, and lucidity at a very low pick rate. Cupcake couldn’t endorse lucidity boots enough; basically alluding that swifties are bait and people just buy them without really thinking. His reasoning made a lot of sense that it’s significantly more valuable to cycle CDs multiple times in an extended teamfights in the game rather than slightly faster roaming abilities. In my personal experience the logic has worked great and I’ve won the vast majority of games that I’ve build lucidity boots.

Anyone else tried them out consistently? Or have a differing opinions?

Been really enjoying Ali support but just from my own theory crafting I’m confident I’m not efficiently using like 80+% of his kit. Especially in lane. The W + Q combo is straight forward; but in the heat of the moment I know I’m telegraphing it. I’ll find myself basically ONLY going for that combo especially if the lane is a challenge which cannot be good. Was wondering if there’s any OTP or just support YouTubers that you enjoy that have made some good videos on him how to play him? Combos, roaming, landing phase, Runes, itemizations etc. I’ve tried finding my own and there really isn’t much, especially from S16. I’m guessing older videos I can learn combos but the more recent the better.

The technical and mental skillset of this games player base is so volatile it is clearly impossible to make balanced games. I think so many of us, myself included have just unkownigly become addicted to the idea of having good teammates and winning a game. The dopamine of the few times a game goes smoothly, everyone plays well, everyone is nice is so high because its so rare. We really all just be chasing that high.

I never know when is the viable time to try and roam. Seems like every time I try I usually just feel like I’m wasting time and my adc dies. I clearly am doing it at an unideal time. Is it best to do it after the wave crashes into your tower? Or vice versa?

I get there’s probably not a one size fits all approach but was unsure if there’s any fundamental things to roaming people consider.

Started playing the bear a lot more recently and have been really enjoying Hybradge’s bruiser build of

Dusk&Dawn -> Black Cleaver -> Steraks/Visage/Unending/Jak Sho. Could be because I’m new with the bear but every time I’ve tried running the flickerblade I feel like I die so fast. It was very relieving to see that he also thinks the item is bait. For runes I also really like his set of the standard LT tree but doing Sorcery for secondary (celerity and water walking).
What builds do you guys like to run?

So I’ve been playing Wukong like nonstop for the last few days, absolutely loving the champ. While my win rate has been high I feel like I am definitely not playing him even close to his peak. Should I be top damage? I feel like I have improved working in as many Qs as possible in team fights but dont really ever have high damaged output overall and will be like 4th/5th damage every game. When we win I’ll get praise because I seem to engage well and use the knockup to win fights but the few games I’ve lost with similar numbers I’m absolutely torched by team. I like the bruiser build more than the lethality one, even with bruiser I feel like I still die pretty fast if they have multiple range/ap champs.

Really enjoying Wu in the jungle but was curious if there’s any one tricks that people enjoy watching? Most guides I’m seeing on YouTube are Sawyer JG and FZ frost and those guys just spam content without really mastering any champion

I’ve been seeing a lot of mixed opinions and was wondering what people on here thought of nasus jungle since the patch. I’d imagine he’d be worse at least early because you don’t have the CDR needed to efficiently kill the small creeps in camps with Q. But he’s still going to be great late game. Does that seem fair of an assessment or am I complete off base? Haven’t had a chance to play myself.

TLDR: is he worse early but still great late or do I just need to change my early game clearing strategy a bit

I’m really enjoying Nasus in the jungle but feel like I’m definitely not doing well when it comes to stacks in the first 20 minutes. I feel like my average first clear is taking 30 seconds longer than people I watch on videos and even though I feel like I’m perma farming I can never even get close to the stack amounts they have after like 25 minutes that they’ll have in 15 😂 being in low elo; not playing “optimally” still is yielding high win rate but I’m always trying to improve. Genuinely think nasus could help me carry myself into higher ranks once I can get him down more.

I’m hoping I will phrase this in a way that makes sense…

One nuisance that I keep coming across is when I send people off to chop wood, mine ore, harvest berries, heal root, or crops they just leave everything on the ground after finishing. Is there a vanilla way to get have a pawn haul things back with them as they harvest or is it just expected that I just keep scanning the map for things left behind and mark the to be hauled and just have a designated pawn to haul?

Other idea, is there a way to have these things automatically be marked as haul so someone will come grab them regardless?