i play midlane and my question is, what should i be picking when i have lets say 2nd or 3rd pick and my enemy laner is last pick, should i be picking something that is good against the enemy comp despite the fact that i could get counterpicked, or should i be picking something that synergizes with my own team?
Hit Dia after ca. 1.5-2 years of playing (briar karthus two trick). Now I‘m wondering if continuing (ranked) is even worth the time. So question to all master+ players:
How crazy ist the grind to climb further. Or is it smarter to uninstall/ play normals/ play other games?
Should probably add that I never watched my VODs (hate it) so starting now to improve faster isn't really appealing to me 😞
I'd like to buy Balmus' book "League of Legends Guide to Game Mastery", but I live in Italy and I literally can't find it anywhere. I checked Amazon, eBay, Vinted and other sites with no luck at all. Does anyone maybe have a PDF version, know where I could buy it, or would be willing to sell their copy?
So, over the past week I've been on a pretty massive losing streak... from breaking into silver for the 2nd time, then immediately falling straight down to bronze 3, now almost bronze 4. The issue is I can't tell what I'm doing wrong....
I try to play around my team's comp(kinda hard to do with just cho/nasus in my pool, working to pick up jax and mundo to tho), win or draw most of my lanes(most being key there, I'm actively performing worse as I drop lower and lower bc I'm demoralized... taking the day off today to ask for advice and come back with a fresh head), and then after lane I just... fall flat on my face because my teammates went 0/10 everywhere else...
I try to team fight, to carry my team... ADC/JG with hellish dive just explodes the rest of my team or I eat all the CC in the game and am just removed from the fight while everyone else dies... then I get flamed for not peeling...
I try to split push, can't, they just send 3 ppl my way and the rest of my team loses the fight elsewhere anyway because... 0/10... then I get flamed for not showing up...
I try to look for picks, I get... maybe 2? before they're never alone anymore and my teammates can't abuse that fact bc... 0/10...
Then I get flamed for throwing lead, or not following an idiotic dive, or or or half a dozen other reasons. Most of the time I end up with the whole team muted and just trying to find something to turn the game back but never can because... the feeders will always feed harder.
I'm just... beyond confused atp and need help... every other game anymore I'm fighting a team game with no team, how is one supposed to climb like that? even have fun like that? I fight for a lead for 15 minutes, build an abusable lead, go to exploit it, then immediately get fked over by stuff I have no way to impact bc it's on the other side of the map...
Hi.
I would like to know whether Naafiri and Xin Zhao are currently the strongest 3 role flex picks in the game? I just checked from Lolalytics website and both of them have very high tiers. Naafiri has S+ tier in top, jungle and mid and Xin Zhao has S+ tier in jungle and mid and S tier in top. Does this mean that these two are the strongest flex picks in current meta?
Any insight is appreciated!
My ranked climb has slowed down dramatically, so I'm trying to expand my champion pool and tighten my fundamentals. But I feel like i don't learn anything in norms. I have an almost 70% winrate in norms, my MMR is clearly extremely low, I can run down my lanes and win almost every time, which I feel isn't building good habits or helping me improve in any meaningful way. I don't feel confident enough to take them into ranked, and when I do, I clearly perform much worse, and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to grow as a player from here.
Do I just run down ranked, accept that I'm going to demote and piss off all my teams in the meantime, but learn much faster? Do I just keep running down norms and hope my MMR eventually catches up? It doesn't feel good to get smashed and flamed over and over again in ranked, but it also gets tedious knowing that all my normal games are going to go the same way and all I need to do is walk into them and start a fight, learning nothing along the way.
Gold support main, btw, with my norms being filled with unranked, bronze and silver.
This is a post glazing azzapp as an educational content creator.
I havent even watched him for very long but the way he taught me to think about the game itself had made a huge impact, that is as a game of probabilities where you should look for the best plays to maximize the chance of good outcomes instead of the usual more shallow thinking that leads to tilt, where if things dont go your way or go catastrophically (which will inevitably happen) people mentally check out and soft int, even if only subconsciously and drop completely winnable games because of a zoomed in self centered mindset about the game and what it takes to become great at it.
He as a player managed to get rank1 with fucking Velkoz of all champs, his mechanics are great but what makes the real difference is his insane ocean of game knowledge he has in so many things i have barely thought about before, the amount of thought he puts into skillshot mind games alone is crazy
Anyway he streams regularly but his youtube shorts are the best resource i think and he has some sparse educational videos.
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Sliver 1 peak. I mainly play enchanters and mage supports, but I feel like half my deaths come from being out of position without realizing it until it’s too late. Sometimes I walk up too far to ward, get caught before objectives, or stand too close during team fights and instantly get focused.
I know supports are supposed to create vision and help engage/peel, but I struggle knowing HOW close I should actually be standing depending on the situation.
Some things I struggle with:
What helped you improve positioning the most?
Was it map awareness, watching cooldowns, camera control, spacing, etc.?
Any tips, videos, habits, or mindset changes that helped you die less as support would be appreciated.
I've been playing for a decent bit on and off, but I feel like I can never improve at this game. I'd like to dive into some comp but I feel like I shouldnt as I consistently get stomped in draft pick lol. I've settled in with ahri as my main champ but no amount of educational videos seems to make me any better. Are there any fundamental tips about midlaning or ahri that would significantly improve beginner play? Thanks for any advice 😄
So had a very interesting game, was xerath into TF, but enemy team had voli top, rammus jungle, tahm yummi bot and I killed TF twice in the first 3 minutes and he rage quit and I had his tower at 8 minutes, at this point all tank enemy team and I'm a xerath so I went a different item path of Torch>liandrys>Rylais>morello>horizon, game ended before 6th item but I was thinking serpents fang since besides rammus all other champs on their team shield heavily and neither my Yi jungle or jinx bot wanted to grab it cause "bad item", voli was hyper fed from Sion doing Sion things but his split pushing was useful at least, and we had a brand support which kept saying burn build on xerath is bad and I should've gone burst which into their comp I disagree, but yeah we barely won a 4v5 and would going serpents fang been a good call given the circumstances? And should I have itemized differently?
Started playing a couple days ago and have been struggling getting used to mouse movement and auto attacks. On youtube a video says one way to make it a breeze is bind attack move to a and move with mouse click and while it does make it very easy to auto attack is this a good habit to get into? Would moving my character make auto attacks faster? How would I know Im doing the best in terms of auto attack proficiency?
Also unlocking camera is best practice? but I find having to move my mouse to move my camera cumbersome in tense situations. Often times Im trying to reposition my camera and attack at the same time. Also I find myself accidentally getting into enemy range attacks and caught when trying to kill minions. Whether due to camera speed or subpar movement whats the best practice in tense situations?
Any help would be appreciated but please keep in mind Im new so terminology isn’t all there. I’ll consider it a cop out if you recommend WASD for movement as I myself went into practice tool and found the delay to be egregious for auto attacking. Or maybe I’m also doing that wrong, let me know!
Hey everyone!
I’m a Diamond/Master jungle player and Zyra OTP and I’ve always really enjoyed teaching and helping players improve. I know the Discord already has a more formal coaching system with selected coaches, I am just looking to offer something more casual and flexible for anyone who wants it.
I’m happy to help for a few games and then see from there or VOD review. This is all completely free.
I can coach Junglers within and up to Platinum or Zyra Jungle players specifically up to Diamond. Anyone wishing to pick up a new Jungler with Zyra is also much welcomed of course.
This is mostly for newer players or people who feel stuck and want a second opinion in a more relaxed setting. Anyone interested can comment or DM me.
I have recently gotten back into league and want to progress up the ranks (currently high silver with about 10 games played). One thing that I keep hearing/seeing is the mention of locking in on a ‘champion pool’ and focusing on that pools mastery.
Questions: 1)How to go about this without worrying about meta affecting this pool?
2)How many champions per role? My guess is around 2/3 per role.
I like general discussions around these types of things so any input is appreciated
Hi guys, I am a silver 2 player from EUW. In my recent games, I just felt the game is not competetive anymore. People usually go 0/3 0/4 and start to intentionally feeding or playing aggressive for no reason. I see the most strange picks like aurora top, fizz jungle, teemo everywhere. I barely play zed and twisted fate mid 80% or 90% of the time and stick to them. I lose lane as well but play to win every game. Sometimes I recover, sometimes not but still play to win and to help my team. I can recognize that if I am 0/3 I worth nothing so i go Side lanes start farming and pushing and even if they collapse, either my team get something ( at least should) or i get something for my push. But every game i do my best to win. Instead, other people do not play to win. They play ranked for no reason, after they are tilted, or to tilt and to lose. I just feel the game is not fun anymore and is not competitive anymore jn the sense that the community doesnt want to improve. They want to game and to coin flip and see what happens. Yesterday i felt so Lost i went afk 3 minutes before the game would have ended. I think that s my worst behaviour in lol. I felt so bad after doing it, i never did as a very competitive person. However, i felt so lost and disgusted i couldnt play anymore. My sett top was 0/8 and emoting whoever and running into enemies for no reason. How do you Escape from that ? Should i quit lol ?
Okay, listen. I really love this game, because of the strategy and skill expression. But I HATE losing. Being miserable 50% of the time playing a game really isn't enjoyable, but I'm aware this can be changed with a different mindset / perspective. It's so easy for me to fall into this pit of despair. Obviously there's possibilities to win every game, but I'll very quickly write off games as lost, and start to feel hopeless if our team starts falling behind in levels and gold. That's not to say I give up, but I would be lying if I said these feelings didn't affect my gameplay and decision making. I fall into the category of "gifted kid in school who never faced challenges until they hit the real world and then found themselves incapable of coping," which probably plays into my relationship with the game. Things have to go perfectly according to my plan, and any kind of challenge or struggle sends me spiraling.
So um how can I be ok with playing out a game where our team is currently losing or just accepting a loss after the fact?
Looking for practical, actionable, and philosophical advice, I guess.
How do you guys learn a new role without tanking your MMR? Normal games always feel like a fiesta and half the group is typically just limit testing or just not taking game flow seriously. I currently play MID/ADC at a gold level but want to play some competitive kayle games. If I take Kayle into normals, people dont really care to pressure me early so it is not a good learning experience and then I scale too easily. If I take into ranked gold, I am pretty sure I will go 0/5/0 by 15 minutes which is a waste of my time and my teams.
Am I recommended to have 4 alt accounts for each role? (supp not needed since i play that as secondary on the ADC account and win rate is fine on multiple champs). I made my first alt to learn mid but now both accounts are gold so I do not have a great learning account. Is there an easy way to just get a level 30 account?
I mained Jax for a long time and I still get excited everytime I have Triforce in base lol. It’s just such a huge power spike for him that lets him 1v1 any champion.
I was curious about any other power spikes like that that give a huge boost, whether it’s a level, an item, or any other condition.
Another one I can think of is Lucian with Navori’s, not sure if it’s really that big of a power spike but I feel the difference instantly.
i've been having hand tremors for a few months now, and it has made me lose so many matches because of the involuntary shaking i make with my hands that caused me to lose cs or target the wrong champs... it happens very often like maybe once every 30 seconds, my hands shake involuntary and it only cools down if i rest it like for a while
for context, im currently d1 46lp and am a mid main, playing control mages like ryze, anivia, orianna!
i just wanna hit gm this season and im not sure if support fits my playstyle and i dont wanna get flamed for doing stupid shi- that i cant control (currently on a 5 loss streak)
what champions and roles would you recommend for me to try out? (very much appreciated!)
I honestly dont know what Im supposed to do, I play malzahar and veigar and almost every game, and by that I mean 3/4 games I will finish lane with both me and the enemy mid at 0/0 while there are 2 enemy lanes wirh 2 kill leads or more. What can I even do with these champs to turn back games where my teammates are already calling for ff at 5 min.
Im on iron btw and while I hope the answer isnt pray the smurf lands on your side
Emerald jungle main, just lost a game like this and was wondering how to deal with this situation. Enemy team gave up elder dragon to take mid and bot inhib, and almost top, and my team was stuck wave clearing until elder ran out. Also, what do you do in similar situation with baron buff instead?