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I'm in my mid-20s now, and with adult responsibilities piling up, I realistically only have time for 1–2 games a day, sometimes none. On weekends, I'd rather relax or play the ps5 rather grinding ranked for 3-4 hours.

I used to be Plat years ago, but coming back to League has been humbling. Even Bronze and Silver players seem mechanically better than what I remember.

I've always wanted to reach Diamond at least once, but I'm starting to wonder if that's realistic without dedicating hours every day to the game.

I'm not in a rush either. Even if it takes a year or two, I'd be happy with that.

Has anyone here managed to reach Diamond or higher while playing casually with limited time? Is consistent improvement possible with just a couple of games a day, or am I underestimating how much commitment it takes?

Would love to hear from people who've actually done it.

I always W to lane since i'm pretty sure it is faster than just walking but i notice that a lot of Challenger Asol players i watch never bother using W to mid lane. Is there a reason why? Like i maybe thought they would get to lane and use W on the enemy right away but they never end up using it

Holy hell this champ gives me so much stress. I blinded Jax they pick illaoi - i know the general break her tentacles and dodge her E but even if I dodge E I lose every all in

If I get hit by 1 E I lose 75% of my hp. If my jungler comes top she 1v2s

Her kit and design is so terrible. Unfun to play vs and unfun to play

How do you as a melee play vs illaoi? If I hide behind minions she just never Es until I walk to auto minions. She hard shoves me under tower and then just pokes me out

Like what is the solution here

I am a new player and now I am currently grinding to get to level 30. I really like playing Bel’Veth because she is very fun to play for me and I like how she is forcing you to learn macro to get better plays. But the issue is that I am very oftenly being placed in normal draft against emerald/gold jungler who is above my skill level. Now I am wondering, will Iron ranked have the same problem where there will be a lot of smurfs or players that are iron but have insane amount of hours in the game but play every few weeks? I just don’t want to be surprised by going 0/10 in an iron ranked. So my ultimate question is, will iron ranked still be as hard or harder or easier than normal drafts?

Hi.

I've noticed something interesting when I'm facing Illaoi. Under 10 minutes I recall like 4-6 times, when usually I recall only 1-2 times against other opponents, but against Illaoi I have to recall many times because I find myself with low HP. She has so much poke that I easily get to under 10% HP.

How bad idea is it to recall so many times? I know that I get behind in levels and gold, but if I stay in lane I'm going to get eliminated, so I'm not sure what to do.

I guess I could try going Second Wind + Doran's Shield against her.

I'm just curious.

Any insight is appreciated!

Sorry for any mistakes, English isn't my native language.

Hey guys,

I would really like some help on how to play this matchup.

I often pick Lux and the enemy will pick yasuo in response. I feel like this is really a nightmare for Lux for mainly 3 reasons.

1: you can never hit anything. Yasuos E gives him enough mobility to prevent you from ever hitting a skillshot.

2: even if you hit something it does not matter. His passive shield will be up and prevent a significant amount of damage.

3: In lane but especially in lategame, the Windwall just turns off my champion. Yeah I can still Ult, but that is not the most reliable to hit without Q or at least E slow.

So what can you really do? So far I have come up with 3 solutions

1: ban Yasuo (I always band zed, can't for the life of me play against that champ)

2: dodge when they pick yasuo (I would do this but since dodging gives a penalty immediately id like to avoid it)

3: only pick lux when I see enemy mid or Yasuo is banned

Any advice is welcome. Is this just a skill issue? I have played many matchups as Lux and none feels as bad as this one. Absolutely no agency in the game.

Elo is Plat 1 / Emerald 4 if that matters

Thanks in advance:)

I’m very low elo (iron I swear I’m not mentally challenged just trying to learn the ropes) and I play briar jungle usually. I have a bad habit of trying to force a team fight because I feel like if I don’t show up no one will. Usually it’s when the enemy team is targeting turrets)l, but I feel like it’s more of a compulsive habit of me being a control freak and trying to fix a bad situation but I ultimately make it worse. That or everyone stands there and I’m waiting for someone to engage (since briar is not really an engage champ). Then, I obviously end up inting. I’m frustrated at myself for not making better decisions and also being stuck with teammates that feed early game. I also partially think I also don’t know when to identify what’s killable vs not. Any advice is much appreciated.

ARAM, everyone always gets to swap faster than me.
Evne when the champ opens up it takes atleast a second before Riot even registers my click and swaps the champ.

I literally have to hope that nobody wants to play the champ i want to swap with cuz else i won't get that champ 100%.

Sick and tired of that bs and i don't even know why.

People keep saying ''it's your PC''.

RTX 2070 Super Gaming X
AMD Ryzen 3600 X
Game is on a SSD
17 Ping, Ethernet Cable

It's not up to date but it's atleast 70% better than the fan community.

Anyone else struggling with this? Gets quite annoying when all the other champs are either ones you don't like to play or find straight up boring.

Hi I am new to this game and sometimes when I play, 2v2 or 3v3 matches usually have no problem. But when it comes to 4v4 and 5v5 games, the AOE and graphics are so big that I lose track of my cursor. My cursor size is 30 and now did 50 for now. Is there a way to mitigate this? Thanks.

I have noticed that in pro play, even supports like Milio tend to build Knight's Vow. I have tried to build it on Seraphine and Lulu, when my ADC is a hypercarry like Aphelios, and they have a lot of burst damage/assassins. I found it to be nice.

Is it feasible? How often should I build it, when is it better than just your usual enchanter items?

Hey so i'm reeeally new to the game and very slowly i'm getting used to the camera movement but something i noticed is how at the moment to drag the cursor down to the lower edge of the screen is that there is very little space between my hand and the mouse to drag the cursor there and sometimes that ends up getting me dying in teamfights pretty quickly just because i can't move the damn camera around like i should🤦

hi im new solo player that recently reached silver rank but i always tend to feel lost in draft pick, constantly dying and not knowing how to help my teammates. I often get scared during games freezing up and not knowing what to do. I know eventually I was to main jg but for now i queue up for mid and support to learn the game quicker and easier. I play quite a lot of jg viego in coop vs ai and aram mayhem.

Whenever im support i lock in neeko, but i have trouble knowing what to do as most of the time i blindy follow my adc around until very late in the game or get assist pings. I've researched a fair bit of neeko's builds, runes and how to maximise that knowledge into my gameplay but so far ive been scared to queue up and letting my adc/team down.

From time to time I actually get mid I lock in vex. Whenever playing mid i aim the turrnets and helping my jg with grubs or baron. When I play mid i usually need help from my jungler to gank and win lane. I heard to keep my champion pool small so really i only play vex and neeko but also like playing viego, hwei and heimerdinger. (once i tried playing top but i got slimed out by gwen going 0/12 playing aatrox...)

Some stuff I struggle with and want to improve the most is:
- trading and last hitting minions: i have a hard time timing my last minon hit before my minions do so, and i dont know when to trade damage with the enemy or know my limits to go back to base or hide under my turrent. --> this also goes for the technical terms of league, i dont know how to build either going for the standard build for my champion sometimes changing an item to help me in fights.

- to the vex mains, i have a hard time keeping my fear meter up mainly wasting it on minions before the enemy comes back to lane, so when we fight i cant fear them away esp with close ranged champs

- when playing support neeko i dont know what to do stated before, how should i know when to roam or stay in bottom lane? Also I get insane ? pings after accidentally stealing a kill, is there any way to try and prevent getting the kill.

- playing both vex and neeko theres one thing in common, my aim is really bad

any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

I've been playing LoL for just over a year, and like a lot of people, I didn't know what or where to play at first. I played on every lane with pretty much every possible champion, and eventually (after being an OTP Malzahar up to Mastery level 25) I settled on the jungle, maining tanks (Shen, Poppy, Sejuani).

I put up some decent stats with them, like 13/6/14, 10/5/18, and 10/0/15 (over 150+ games in total) so even though they were pure tanks, I wasn’t just passanger in my matches I actually carried them quite often. Out of curiosity, I tried Warwick and fell in love with him. My stats are very similar to what I had on the tanks, but I feel 100 times more dopamine playing him. I genuinely feel like I have a bigger impact on the game, but on the other hand I invested time, effort, and money into skins for the characters mentioned above. In the meantime, I’ve also tried Vi and Xin Zhao, and the situation is the same as with Warwick.

I could just add Warwick to my pool, but I think three champions is definitely more than enough, especially since playing Warwick is completely different from playing tanks.

Moving on to the last issue, I also recently got a skin for Yone (Old Heartsteel) skin, and best of all, I played 2–3 games where I got 2 pentakills. I also really liked how he snowballs the game, so I’ve actually created more problems for myselfm,for obvious reasons, since Yone isn’t exactly the best or most reliable pick in the jungle.

I know this might seem trivial and childish, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately, and it's been bothering me in LoL.

Maybe someone has been in a similar situation where they transferred the time they'd invested in tanks to completely different characters, and could give me some advice on what I could do in this situation?

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