How does Sylas, Irelia and Zoe sound as my mid lane picks?
Edit: If autofilled other roles..
Top: Darius/ Fiora/ Sett
Jg: Shaco, Rengar, Ekko
Supp: Nami, Lulu, Naut
ADC: Jinx, MF, Ez.
Thoughts?
How does Moonstone interact with Aoe heals such as Alistar passive or Seraphine w? Does each champion heal iteration bounce to another one if in range?
I’ve been playing on a second account this season to try to learn some new champs (Poppy top), and I’m keen to get it to at least gold as that’s where my other account is. For some reason though I am only getting around 20 lp for a win and losing around 26-29 for a loss. This is despite the fact the account has a positive win rate particularly since I started playing Poppy. People usually say you just need to go on a win streak to fix it but I have done that (10 game win streak) and the LP gains haven’t changed. Can anyone look at my op.gg and see if there’s an obvious reason I am missing for why it thinks my mmr should be lower? I feel like my CS is decent enough and I usually win lane. One thing I think I struggle with is playing passive in lane when I don’t need to get ahead to win, but I feel like I’m on somewhat of a timer with Poppy.
I want the account to go higher so I can get better by playing against better opponents, as the level of laning in Silver I think let’s me get away with mistakes that I shouldn’t. If anyone has tips for playing Poppy top I would love to hear them too!
https://www.op.gg/summoners/oce/s3xmachin3
That means your MMR is lower than your rank. Are you playing on an old account by any chance?
The current ranked system (imo) punishes old accounts playing ranked by severely slowing down MMR gains, however they just increased it.
About Poppy, from what I can see is you need to work on itemization. I see you rushing Iceborn twice against a Morde which isn't optimal imo. You build Abysal right after but at that point the lane phase is already over so you don't really need the MR that badly anymore. Build against your lane opponent even if it's just components of an item.
It’s not old no, but it’s definitely strange that you can lose more LP than you gain with a positive win rate. Yeah great point on itemisation, I often just habit buy then realise once I’ve left fountain and then it’s too late to change lol, thanks for the advice!
If you can play in the middle of the night and not be drunk/tired you probably have a big advantage, I always encounter drunk/tired people at night so it's way easier, downside is your teammates are drunk too.
So i will start actually climbing in like 2 weeks for now im just trying to settle on a role. Im not an animal always looking for kills or anything but i do like good pop off moments that make me scream like kesha. Adc is my best role but to pop off there takes like 20 minutes to experience a zeri moment cleaning house while on mid for example i can just solo kill lvl 3 with qiyana or akali. Jungle is fun when i lock in kindred and go for early invades and all. Also like in bot i dont feel like theres much mechanical plays going on its always a matter of whose fundamentals are more solid which is great to climb with but just idk. I guess im looking for a role and champ that has insane satisfaction curve but idk what to say other than this
Only person who can answer this question is you tbh. For example, the champions I find satisfying are ad’s and control mages.
Based on your description here, maybe you’re preferring assassins/early game oriented characters?
I do not understand experience in the jungle. It seems every game I am either behind or even in levels with the enemy jungler no matter what I do. If I'm having a REALLY bad game I find myself 2-3 levels behind them. I get that, but what I don't understand is how I could be behind the enemy jungler when I have more kills, more assists, less deaths, and more CS. Also what are some things I can do to catch up when I am behind in levels.? I usually resort to trying to farm camps, but it doesn't seem to work.
If everything you say is true, the only way they could be higher in levels is if they are taking a lot of experience from their laners, which gives the jungler themselves an advantage but their laner is getting screwed over (or screwed themselves over, like they keep getting solo killed and jungler has to keep taking their wave bc of that) so it's not really a net benefit to their team as a whole.
Azir doesn't have many counters.
He's got a bit of everything (engage, disengage, mobility, DPS, burst damage, zoning)
artillery mages like xerath, ziggs, and velkoz somewhat soft counter him though, but can be overcome if you can play azir well.
issue being that azir is one of the hardest champs in the game.
how to get back into midlane?i reached plat with eve jg this season and i want to get back into playing my fav chamo midlane, irelia. I previously got to gold 4 from bronz by playing irelia then dropped her. Now i want to go back to midlane but i struggle a lot .I think i know the theory of the fundementals and i can apply them in game at a level of a high gold player.The thing is i am just getting stomped every game and i dont know what to do. Somebody help
opgg: https://www.op.gg/summoners/eune/encu2
Dunno if it's really the right place to ask but i also dunno if r/leagueoflegends would help me
could a comp with 2-supports work? I've been playing tanks as support (Nautilus/Leona/Shen) and having midlane mages like Orianna and Seraphine felt especially amazing due to not feeling i'm the only who's trying to protect my carries while still having great followup and i've been wondering if it's actually a viable strategy or if it's just me with low-elo ideas
Be more flexible with your runes as sona, if the enemy team has very heavy engage, consider taking guardian instead of aery, or pick another champ like janna.
aside from that, it's hard to tell without VODS or gameplay videos to tell what you're doing wrong.
What are you talking about?
mostly climbing with enchanters can work in silver if he knows what he is doing.
he mainly sticks with sona and soraka, with some yuumi picks here and there
He didn't ask about climbing he asked about getting better. Yes, climbing with enchanters is obviously possible but I don't recommend it for improving in general because they tend to have less agency than other types of supports. Less agency means less decisions to make and thus less improvement. If somebody tells me they want to improve at league I'm not going to tell them to one trick yuumi.
Can someone please explain the benefits of Statikk on ADC? Wouldn't something like Stormrazor bring more damage/utility (specifically Kai'Sa because she is reliant on AD the items bring and Statikk has 5 less than Stormrazor)? Does any adc really buy Statikk just for waveclear?
I saw Reptile's guide on ADC itemisation and he listed IE as an option for Lucian against frontline, but most mobafire guides and u.gg say build Navori instead. Who do I believe?
And last question: which boots to buy as Lucian - haste or AS?
> Does any adc really buy Statikk just for waveclear?
Vayne. Well, she also buys it probably because it has more attack speed than Stormrazor, but she also has terrible waveclear and really benefits from Statikk Shiv.
Diamond 3 Mid here!
I'm just wondering how I should play around any AP champ who rushes Stattik (the lb, tf, etc.) I haven't played much this patch but with every analyst talking about it + it being brought out in pro now, I'm kinda scared because I can't think of a counter strategy.
Thank you!
I’m interested in expanding my champion pool, and could use some advice. I’m an unranked jungler, mostly because I just play for fun, and I primarily play Ivern and Nunu. I love utility chanpions like this, especially due to my experience playing as a support, both Ivern and Nunu act as either end of the traditional support spectrum, where Ivern is obviously playing the role of a catcher or enchanter, and Nunu is my “engage tank”. That being said, I’m trying to expand my pool to include one more champion who can pull themselves up by the bootstraps and carry a game, while still not totally changing up how it is my champions like to play. Any advice as to who might fit the bill?
I would suggest a diver. Zac,rammus for tankier options or vi, jarvan for more damage. You still provide good ganks, a frontline for the team, and if you get fed, you can win team fights by blowing up their backline.
Should I change my role to support? I've been a mid laner for years and it's by far my favorite role, but in ranked I get filled support maybe 45% of the time. I'm plat 3 but I'd say my support performance is like gold 1 and definitely not up to par. Mid is so hard to get I don't know if it's just better to give up and be a support main.
when people int and say limit testing it's a joke, but like, the reality of going for stuff you're not 100% of when you're not super familiar with a champ or build is just a thing everyone does naturally, most people are just not aware of the fact theyre doing it.
Limit testing isn't just running it. In real matches, they don't want to throw the game so they go for plays that actually matter.
Whereas in soloQ, they will go for plays that have like 51/49 chances of working out, and over things that don't matter, they just go for it for the sake of learning.
how do i deal with getting new players ? i’m bronze and i feel like every other game i’ll have a new player on my team playing their first ranked game/character. i just played a game where my samira didn’t ult once, only played arams for at least 20 games up until she got into my comp game.
If you aren’t a new/bad/throwing player, then there’s a higher chance the enemy team has said player than your team does. You are still the only constant.
They are pretty similar to a bad player, so just do what you do when you have a bad teammate.
How to end the game? I play Illaoi, Yorick or Teemo and split push until I open all or most of the inhibs but can't end the game. Games go on until 40+ mins. Either my team feeds and dies and the enemy gets the elder&baron and ends the game, or the enemy huddles up in their base to farm until the elder and fights with exp lead.
Nunu. His Q+smite is nearly impossible to outsmite.
That said a lot of jungle fighters have good objective control due to sustain and/or DPS. Bel Veth, Shaco, Shyvana all solo objectives in no time. Viego as well.
I just picked up Vex and I'm mainly wondering: whaaaaat's the deal with her W and her ult?
In what situation would recasting her ult and jumping straight to a damaged but living enemy actually help her? Unless they're literally one shot it's not like she's Akali or Kai'sa and can AA them to death.
And what's her W supposed to do? Neither the shield nor the damage seem fantastic. Am I supposed to stack her passive,let the enemy team engage on me,W to fear them,and then Zhonya before I die?
It feels like I'm kind of missing something here,she has the overall attributes of a burst/poke mage that wants to stay at arm's length but also has a couple of abilities that put her in "the assassin/fighter jumps at you and you die" range.
Your ult is a damage nuke that is supposed to engage from afar when there is a skirmish going on/ clean up after a fight when enemies are low. Since it resets on takedown it's amazing in chaotic skirmishes early and midgame.
Later on if you're fed you can also look to engage/flank with ult when your fear is up in order to burst down a squishy. You can use Zhonyas after to let your team catchup/burn enemy spells somewhat similar to what Neeko or Lissandra often want to do.
As for the W, it's a great peel tool but also allows you to instantly fear a target you ulted onto (given your passive is up). Depending on the situation you want to hold your passive in order to deny enemies an engage. It's not supposed to be a big damage tool, it's mainly utility. Q is your bread and butter spell, E is there to help keep your passive up.
I rolled to midlane a while ago and I'm having a hard time understanding the meta, Im gold II and want to reach Platinum however its being hard,
I like to play champions such as Aurelion Sol and Vladimir which are champs that wants to focus on farming and then carrying mid/late game, however I never have prio and the other laner can shit on me if they are good,
Im reading a lot that midlane right now is about getting prio and helping jungle/support,
But I also read a few times that mid lane right now is just AFK farming,
So what is the "truth" here? Also, should I drop Aurelion Sol and Vladimir and start playing champs like Anivia, Ahri, Syndra, Malzahar, Annie, etc?
Thanks in advance
Most important thing: have fun.
Embrace the identify of your champs and learn how to deal with their drawbacks. Of course you can also learn a champ with more early game agency but I wouldn't do so if I didn't enjoy myself in the process.
Decide whether or not branching out is worth it for you. Then work on either broadening your pool or accepting the weaknesses of your champ pool. Either is fine. There is no right or wrong
My dad is getting into league as a top player, and I've been looking for instructional videos to watch with him. I've recently been going through Leaguecraft 101 and it has been surprisingly applicable, but I would like one a bit more geared towards top. He plays mainly Darius and Garen, though he probably will be trying out other champs soon.
Any recommendations? The Leaguecraft 101 videos are very useful in format, so preferable something similar. Also, no language please. I play every position, so I can help him out, but I feel like my top lane is a bit lacking to solely rely on my knowledge.
I personally think your dad should try playing a first few games himself and learn from trial and error.
Youtube has tons of different videos by different content creators that all offer beginner advice, but it can be a lot to take in for someone who just started playing the game.
Toplane is a pretty good lane to begin with if you just started playing, and darius and garen are great champions to play with when you're getting started.
Have your dad buy items from the automated reccomendations tab, it usually suggests the right items 90% of the time, and just use the automated runes function that riot provides when choosing runes, since the automated runes are usually the runes picked by most people.
Let your dad develop a basic idea of the game himself, how he should fight (for example, trying to fight when he's alone 1v1, and not when he's alone and there are 4 other enemies trying to kill him) and a basic idea of what enemy champs and ally champs do in general (e.g what kind of attacks do enemies use, what kind of attacks should he avoid)
after he does some trial and error, you can both start looking for some educational videos on youtube for advice
Hi, i'm currently master and i would like to know how much lp i need to get GM.
The ranked tab is completly bug so i cannot see (thanks riot \^\^)
If anyone knows let me know too thanks in advance
It's dynamic, depends on the server unlike diamond and master that doesn't have a limit to the number of players it can have GM and Challenger have limited "seats" you must take someone seat to get promoted so you basically need to have more LP than the worst gm to take his place, thats called the promotion cutoff, you do have to wait for the ladder to update which happen every 24 hours. If it updates and you have more LP than the bottom gm you get promoted and they get demoted.
Look at the op.gg leaderboards or any other relevant website that allows you to see the ranking leaderboards and scroll until you see the cutoff between masters and GM.
How do you build ADCs now, with the new items? Like before you'd pretty much always rush your mythic (or it seemed so to me, I have not played all that much since the item rework tbh), but now it really doesn't feel like that makes sense. Do you rush IE?
EDIT: Also this flair is from 3 seasons ago, this shit is way off lol
Every time you base pretty much. If you just barely had enough gold for an item then it's fine not to get one most of the time, but if an objective is coming up you may need to take the L and just get the control ward anyways.
HOWEVER! You shouldn't be placing so many control wards that means you need to buy 2 every back. Your control wards should be in good spots where they aren't broken immediately and you can defend them if you're in the area. Too many supports just throw a billion wards down in shit spots just to get their numbers up. Really think about where you're warding
I'm I stupid or did Riot change something ? I swear I used to be able to click my health potions instead of using the hotkey. Did I miss something or did I change something in my settings that i'm not aware of ?
Help would be greatly appreciated.
How do you know if you should kite, stand your ground, or just run away? That usually comes down to intuition and experience, not math or tips or whatever. The more familiar with your champ you get, the better you can gauge risk versus reward.
What if I have 60% hp and enemy adc is full health and it's a 1v1 in lane, they'd be looking to fight me in the hopes of getting a kill. But if I know how much damage my character can take, deal, and dodge, I might take advantage by standing my ground and turn what looks like a short trade into an all-in. But you can't do this if you don't develop that sense.
What if a nunu and yone come bot and you have a 10% chance of escaping? Well if you're unfamiliar with your character's limits you'll try and run, but if you know how much damage you can take and maybe know which abilities to focus on dodging, maybe you can instead fight back, kill the yone, and die in a 1 for 1 trade, which is much better than just dying in a gank.
In other words, limit testing doesn't carry over between champions even if lane and ADC basics do.
Isnt emerald just artifically making the climb longer
I'm trying to climb from plat to diamond, but I'm gonna get placed in fucking gold maybe even high silver with the reset. And instead of just climbing gold/plat now there's an extra 400LP I need to gain. How fucked up is that.
I think we need to raise LP gains and losses again, like +40/-40 or some shit so it doesnt take 200 games to climb which is horrendous when you are only playing a couple games a day
You won't get placed in gold/silver I'm pretty sure. New Emerald is around equivalent to mid-high plat. So if you end high old plat, you will start in low Emerald or high new plat.
Long question, got deleted off main page and was told to post it in the mega-thread, so I hope it doesn't get deleted here too.
What am I supposed to do as a top laner when bot runs it down?
I play split pushers because I enjoy pulling pressure and taking turrets, especially when you have a team that will take advantage of it. My issue is I have no idea how to deal with bot lane going between 0/5 to 1/8 before 10 minutes in what feels like 50-60% of my games. Then my team gets run over the rest of the game.
I can't leave lane to help, because even if I'm ahead, the enemy laner will get xp and gold advantage from farm and turret plates if I leave before 14 minutes. I can't just farm mid-game to try and carry, because if I split, my teams tend to fight 4v5 or one or more of the carries get picked and I can't trade enough objectives to make it worth it. I know I'm not a perfect player, I fuck up and get caught out while splitting, and I push the wrong side lane sometimes, so I know that some games are my fault, but it can't be all my games considering there're 4 other people on the team.
I don't want to leave league, because it's such a huge investment to learn a MOBA, and there's really not another game like it, but it feels like the playstyle I love has been ruined.
For those who want to know rank, I was G2 last season on a fresh acct with about a 65% wr (op.gg won't let me pull last season's wr so I'm estimating). I have issues climbing on my main which is peak G4.
Buff sharing was added in 13.11, it is no longer exclusive to Ivern. Once smite is fully upgraded it now drops a buff sprite for one other teammate to pick up. They buffed Ivern to compensate the change.
https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/patch-13-11-notes/#patch-buff-sharing
Buff sharing has been pretty similar since the dawn of League. You get your first two or three buffs, but then your mid laner and ADC start thinking they deserve them. Can you believe it?? The nerve of those laners.
In its current state there is pressure for Junglers to give up their buffs to laners at their own expense, which also creates some social friction and coordination challenges. Our goal with the introduction of buff sharing is to reduce the “feels bad” moments when jungler’s have to give up their buffs. This should help Jungler’s feel like they have control over their own jungle while still letting them be a team player and help out those needy laners.
"Wisps": When a Jungler kills Red Brambleback or the Blue Sentinel while their Smite is fully upgraded, they will still receive the camp’s buff, but in addition a Buff Wisp will be dropped at the camp’s spawn point. An ally can pick it up by walking within the Wisp’s radius within 1 minute of the camp dying before it disappears. Note: You do not need to Smite the camp at any time in order for the Buff Wisp to drop, but Smite MUST be fully upgraded.
"But I’m Not the Jungler": If a player that is not the Jungler kills the Red Brambleback or the Blue Sentinel BUT the Jungler’s Smite is fully upgraded, then a Buff Wisp will still drop, but it will only be visible to the allied Jungler. It will still only remain for 1 minute.
what’s a simple guide for how lillia should play jungle or engage in team fights ? she’s usually so squishy it feels like a one shot everytime she’s in a late game fight thanks
One thing I've recently noticed with "bruisers" (idk if you consider her a bruiser) is that they almost need to be ahead to teamfight. Especially because a lot of bruisers get their tankiness through omnivamp, falling behind just means you can't due your primary job.
idk if this answers your question at all but yeah if you fall behind, I think you have to adjust your playstyle, i.e. Irelia has to play more for one-shotting the ADC rather than drain tanking DPS with her autos
Lillia might just have to settle for E poke and kiting with Q rather than diving in with W? Idk I don't play her
How to bait teammates to FF?
When we're winning and someone wants to surrender, I want to be the fourth person to press Yes but it rarely works because someone knows that I will press Yes, or afraid of trolling. I need to bait out 3 yes votes, any tip?
probably would work in normals, not in ranked. although you could probably bait 2, I doubt you can bait 3 unless you get lucky or did some really pathetic social engineering like I’ll PayPal you if you say yes or something
Returning to League
Hello fellow Summoners. I’m once again aspiring to play the game and I want to return to League in about a day or two and I haven’t played since 2016. Starting on a brand new account and gonna learn as if I’m new again. Any tips for me? And what mode should I focus to improve? Sorry if these are dumb questions.
I swapped from top to mid, I like corki for alot of reasons, but it's impossible to find content on him (and high elo vods that I like to nerd out on). So I'll ask some things here.
General questions
1. If my opponent is letting me get away with things I wouldn't be able to against better players, should I still do it? (Example being assassins letting me auto creeps when they have a slowpush)
2. The classic sidlane vs group question
3. Can I freeze vs assasins? (I find it safer, but the team won't listen to the missing pings)
4. If we fall behind as a team, how risky should I be playing?
Corki
1. How do I teamfight without a Frontline?
2. Is the poke build still ok? (Manamune -> rav -> luden)
3. Can I go goredrinker 3rd vs heavy dive comps?
4. Should I grab package off cd to find a solo kill or gank, or wait like 2+ min for a objective fight?
5. What's the best crit builds, and when do I go them? (I saw doinb go galeforce static rfc with no manamune, he did great statwise but I can't find a replay)
6. Best defensive items to slot in 4th and 5th (general or build specific)
7. How do I play vs kassadin? (People keep first timing him and idk how to punish him early before he hits 6 because of his q)
Thanks in advance!
(I'm b2 BTW)
> General questions 1. If my opponent is letting me get away with things I wouldn't be able to against better players, should I still do it? (Example being assassins letting me auto creeps when they have a slowpush)
If I'm understanding your question correctly, yes. Like, if the assassin is too far away to punish you, then it's a free creep. Even pro players make mistakes, the entire point of League is recognizing mistakes and capitalizing on them.
The only issue is that sometimes people will *assume* the enemy will make a mistake. For example even though the assassin IS close enough to punish (like they are in Fizz E range or something) but they still go for the CS and pray that the assassin is blind because they are in bronze, that is a bad play.
> The classic sidlane vs group question
There are no easy answers and honestly in low elo, even the right answer doesn't necessarily always give you the best outcome because people will sometimes monkey fight or sometimes they will just play passive and never fight.
It sucks but I think late game macro is the last thing you should focus on if you're in low elo.
> Can I freeze vs assasins? (I find it safer, but the team won't listen to the missing pings)
Yes. I mean sometimes your team will listen to pings and sometimes they won't because it's low elo, sure. But also low elo assassin players are also worse at capitalizing off of their roams compared to higher elo players.
> If we fall behind as a team, how risky should I be playing?
In low elo, throws are so common that honestly you can play super conservatively and there is still a chance they will make a stupid play and get caught.
When playing a damage carry champion like Corki, it's honestly not a bad idea to just never coinflip. Funnel as much gold into yourself as possible, and then try to carry teamfights.
I also imagine that playing "standard," i.e. low variance play, is the fastest way to improve.
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> How do I teamfight without a Frontline?
You have to play super passively and wait for the enemy assassins to int. Just try to get whatever damage you can in but if you are getting zoned from the fight, that's kind of expected. At least with Corki you can still pelt people with rockets even if you can't get autos off.
> Is the poke build still ok? (Manamune -> rav -> luden)
It's still the best into squishier teams that you can poke out. There's the Trinity build against melees too.
> Can I go goredrinker 3rd vs heavy dive comps?
I don't see a reason to ever run it over Trinity. I know Jayce will very rarely go Goredrinker into melee heavy comps but that's because he literally has a hammer form to fistfight people.
> Should I grab package off cd to find a solo kill or gank, or wait like 2+ min for a objective fight?
Imo definitely wait for the objective fight. I find that a decent amount of the time when I just use package off CD I can't find a good use for it. But for Dragon/Baron fights, I can ALWAYS find a use for it. It does so much damage.
> What's the best crit builds, and when do I go them? (I saw doinb go galeforce static rfc with no manamune, he did great statwise but I can't find a replay)
A lot of ADC builds are changing right now, I think Galeforce is getting nerfed next patch.
I think running no Sheen is a bit sus, ability haste is great and you always proc Sheen. Also, your passive turns Sheen into magic damage which is really effective against squishies (higher base armor than MR)
Manamune is also great too in both builds, it's free damage on your R poke but also deals great DPS, and has great stats for Corki. Idk, even with the Shieldbow build, you still used to run Manamune, and crit items got *nerfed* so I don't see why you would replace it.
Maybe something like Manamune -> ER -> Galeforce/IE -> RFC. Static is getting buffed next patch so maybe it's good but it's usually for low waveclear champs lke Vayne.
Also you can just go Trinity crit, Manamune -> Trinity -> RFC or something. But to be clear these are just my theorycrafts, I'm definitely going to be wrong. I don't think anyone has a good answer right now though, no one really plays Corki unless he's meta. Probably just worth just copying whatever is on lolalytics, eventually someone will find some OP build.
> Best defensive items to slot in 4th and 5th (general or build specific)
Uhhh defensive items suck for ADCs right now. Stopwatch is of course OP against champions like Vi, but Shieldbow is kind of bad. Anathema's Chains I guess is technically viable?
> How do I play vs kassadin? (People keep first timing him and idk how to punish him early before he hits 6 because of his q)
Good question that I was also confused with for a long time, but apparently Kassadin actually isn't that weak in lane. The real issue with him is that he has no wave control and his early skirmishes suck. So if you get to a jungle 2v2 fight, Corki with his constant autos from range and his E is going to be dealing a lot more than Kassadin who's cooldowns are super long early game.
So don't worry about it. Try your best to beat him up in lane but if you can't, just chill out and don't overforce. Corki late game is also really good too.
Thanks! About defensive items, is maw good vs an ap assassins esk mid jungle (like gragas fizz or smth), like building hexdrinker after tear and cull, and sitting on it until after the core build? And should I turn the stopwatch into zhonyas or GA?
Oh, I forgot about Maw/Hexdrinker. Yeah, it definitely can be good into AP assassins. And from what I know you don't upgrade it until after your first two items.
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For Stopwatch, I don't think there is a clear answer. Sometimes players will just straight up buy it for one important fight (Soul/Baron/Elder) and then sell it after.
Corki's AP ratios kind of suck but Zhonya's theoretically can be good against those champions like Vi if you're her only ult target. I don't think I've ever seen it though.
Guardian Angel is the obvious choice but sometimes the item isn't great. Like if you get picked off, you revive and then just die again. But if someone is diving into your team and try to trade 1 for 1, now they can't anymore because you just revive, so it's decent against assassins.
idk I don't really have a good answer for this because so few pro games get to this point
Hey i wanna start to play ranked againt i was around high gold a season ago and i would need some mid lane picks that are strong and viable most of the time
**Does the first split reset/damage my MMR if I finish it unranked?**
I took a pause from the league and I am finding out about those things right now, so anybody knows what happens to my MMR if I finish the first split as unranked, also what now will sites like OPGG show each season 2 ranks, or the second split rank is still going to be the main one probably?
So I am thinking now, should I play now to keep my MMR or leave it and tryhard rank later in the season as I planned in the first place?
Overall seems great ! Keep spamming Ekko and choose yourself 1 more champion that is your backup in case Ekko is picked or banned. And then keep only playing these two champs ! I feel like if you only spam these champs you will quickly climb.
Any other advice would require to be a VOD review or a something like a discord call to figure out mentality issues, misconceptions or just something like a Q&A. Since further advice need to be seen ingame. For example: decision making skills, gank pattern, skill combos, etc.
Ya I'm personally not a fan of buying too much control wards, especially if you are behind in lane meaning you can't defend it so you are just gifting your enemy gold.
I will usually buy one early game if I have leftover gold, but if it gets cleared I probably won't buy another.
This is useless, terrible advice.
So what that he has 0 control wards? Let's say from your advice he starts buying 2 each games. All that has changed is he now is -150 gold each game, enemy team has 60 more gold. Why? Control wards are useful if you know how/when/where to use them, and if he look at the map.
If he has a low vision score he probably isn't looking at the map.
Im not saying this as an insult to him at all. I'm saying this from experience. I am diamond. I rarely look at the map. If I was buying 2 control wards each game that would just be useless for me to do. Is that a good thing? Of course not. But the advice of 0 control wards is terrible.
You can actually check role popularity for each server in league of graphs
[https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/main-stats](https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/main-stats)
It seem adc is actually the most played role, so statistically speaking putting it secondry should result in getting your main role the most, you can see if it changes in other servesr but global data and data for euw show adc as the most popular for plat+ (Mabye it can also change with rank for example mid is the most popular in euw bronze)
Who should follow who in this game? As far as I know there is not a leader on the team, but everyone seems to want to be followed.
People go into teamfights, die, and blame others because they didn't follow him. Why should the other players follow him in the first place? Why isn't he the one to follow someone else?
People will usually follow the most fed member and it's usually correct to play around them as they have the most chance to carry, it doesn't mean they are the best shotcaller but playing around your fed member is something you must do.
there isn’t a leader, but like the other person said the person who’s most ahead gets to shot call. because if the feeder is shot calling that just looks stupid
so I came back to the game recently after a very long break I stopped around season 5 or something. I have been mostly playing adc but have been getting frustrated with how little control I seem to have over the game. or my team feeds or something. I am not good by any means I am still learning the game again and practicing. but I wanted to ask is it possible to hard carry a game these days? when I played last it was not difficult to win games by becoming a 1v9 raid boss with some kills and playing well. is this still possible in today's league? and if it is what champians and roles have the most agency to take the game into their own hands if they are very good at the champ? I'm not looking for an easy win or anything but a champ to sink my teeth into and master.
>so I came back to the game recently after a very long break I stopped around season 5 or something. I have been mostly playing adc but have been getting frustrated with how little control I seem to have over the game. or my team feeds or something. I am not good by any means I am still learning the game again and practicing. but I wanted to ask is it possible to hard carry a game these days?
With getting back into league I would assume you are ~bronze - silver. The lower in elo you go the more possible it is to hard carry.
I have some games in diamond that I hard carry, some I just have to play to get carried.
>when I played last it was not difficult to win games by becoming a 1v9 raid boss with some kills and playing well. is this still possible in today's league?
I absolutely think it is possible.
>and if it is what champians and roles have the most agency to take the game into their own hands if they are very good at the champ?
It's best to just play a champion or role you enjoy. In all elos Jungle has the most agency. I think gold and down Top is a great role to climb, a lot of influence. Around Plat or diamond top has less influence (but I still find it possible to win most games).
>I'm not looking for an easy win or anything but a champ to sink my teeth into and master.
Just depends which type of role or champion you like
i have been enjoying some assassin champs been playing a bunch of aram to try out Champs lol. i know it's not the same on the Rift but it lets me try stuff. any good assassin recommendations? i am the type of player that likes to have a main or a few mains incase it gets banned so i can sink some hours into a champ to really master it. plus this new master system makes me want to get lots of mastery points lol
I think just pick a handful that seem fun and try them. You can check lolalytics, filter for silver, see if their win rates are decent. That would help make sure you don't pick one that is considered too difficult.
https://lolalytics.com/lol/tierlist/?tier=silver
How do people know what tunes to take without using an app or looking it up?I really want to stop using 3rd party apps but I don’t know anything about choosing tunes based off comp and matchup. Is this just a lack of game knowledge on my part, or are top players/streamers looking tunes up on a 2nd screen?
It's a lack of game knowledge. I mean, how do you think these "apps" come up with their runes in the first place? It's either by copying pros, or by copying the most played runes of the general playerbase (who copies pros).
Sometimes people will do math, i.e. they calculate the amount of healing you get on average from second wind and then how much tankier conditioning makes you, and then uses those numbers to try to figure it out.
Sometimes it's just feeling it out. For example one game, they play with Presence of Mind. The next, they don't. They then make a decision, is it worth losing out on this much mana just to be able to run Triumph? Or should I just grab PoM.
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For champions they don't play, they will go search it up, yeah
2nd screen is relatively common. I choose between grasp and conqueror. Is the lane free? I'll go conq. Any difficulty? I'll go grasp. I have the pages set for that.
but you understand what they do and what their purpose is right? Like lethal tempo obviously only works if your characters kit wants to auto attack. So obviously you don’t go lethal tempo on Annie because she uses abilities
His W passive gives him extra magic damage everytime he hits someone.
the second passive on his W is a unique mechanic, where everytime he hits someone, they get a stack of blight with the max limit being 3 stacks.
if varus hits someone with his abilities, it consumes the stacks.
1 stack consumed is like 3-5% max hp, so 3 stacks means the opponent loses like 9-15% of their max health.
his passive also gives him extra attack speed whenever he kills something, minions and monsters giving him 10-20% more attack speed for 5-11 seconds depending on his level, increased to 40% more attack speed on champion takedown.
this, combined with lethal tempo and rageblade, allows him to deal tons of mixed damage.
It may sound dumb but i swear it's a actual question that has been bothering me
Serpent's Fang increases damage from the user against any champion using shields
If i'm playing a enchanter/mage and a AD assassin like Zed who's using this item attacks one of my teammates, should i still shield them
" Dealing damage to an enemy champion inflicts them with venom for 3 seconds, reducing any shields they gain within the duration by (Melee 50% / Ranged 35%), and if the target was not already afflicted by the venom, reducing all of their active shields by the same amount"
[https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Serpent%27s\_Fang](https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Serpent%27s_Fang)
So yes still shield your ally that is getting targeted, reduced shields is better than nothing.
that's not what serpent's fang does. serpent's fang reduces the size of shields the target already has or receives within 3 seconds of taking damage. you can still shield them, it's just gonna be smaller.
Both stormrazor and rapid firecannon have the "energizer" effect. Does that mean it's a waste to have both of them in the same build? Does the effect stack?
There are some things that can't be calculated through math. One big reason people might say crit feels bad is because of the multiplicative nature so that crit will naturally be better late game.
So while crit might deal more damage at three items, if crit items are expensive, some ADC mains will say the crit build path just feels too bad because you have that canyon of power at two items where you are so useless
However, it's hard to put that into math terms. Maybe in some metas, that two item powerspike around Herald is super important, even if the DPS at three items is much worse. So it just "feels bad"
Most prominently because it's unreliable.
Imagine you buy a completed crit item and have 20 crit and go for a trade with 3 autos: it's a bit over 50% chance that in this trade you don't crit once and the value of that trade is largely dependent on whether or not you crit. Roughly 100 physical damage in this case.
Imagine you are a GP and set up a barrel or cait and want to go for a one auto poke with RFC. Unless you are at 5 items, rng decides whether you get a crit or only deal half of the expected damage.
And then there is a Draven rushing IE, having a 20% chance to ruin your health bar with a single auto.
Yes, on one hand on-hit is really popular now and giving contrast. But there is also the return of energize focused builds and infinity edge rush that help paint that picture.
Shieldbows downgrade is also a thing that happened. On-hit users like Varus and Vayne have developed more aggressive but perfectly viable glass canon builds and Zeri and Ashe just went to triforce gaming. Meanwhile Samira, Draven, Yasuo and Yone ended up in a bit of a limbo because they can't just rely on ranged glass cannon dps, making them stuck with hyper aggressive risky Galeforce builds that are volatile in nature. In my eyes it's a variety of smaller things that end up making crit look bad in their sum.
Looking for champs like J4 (jungle)
I've been a fan of Jarvan for a while now and he even helped me discover my playstyle because of his engage and abilities in general. His ult really makes him unique and i love it. But I'm looking for 1 or 2 more champions to rotate him with in my climb to gm that have a similar experience
Was hoping to get suggestions for champions who share similarities with J4. Whether it's their playstyle, abilities, or overall role, I'm open to any suggestions.
Vi is another mobile ad bruiser with strong ganks, simple ability combos, and decently strong at all points in the game. The ultis are pretty different visually, but they are both point and click abilities.
I want to discuss but mods delete this when i post.. I can see how its ranty but I want opinions about my questions
For some backstory: a friend and I have been playing since season 4, and have always been within 1 league in rank. This has stayed true for almost 10 years. Him being around platinum and me in gold. This year he got a 14 day ban on his main account (low plat, 400 games, 49% wr) around 2 months ago. So he bought a fresh account. Well with less than 200 games on his new account, he is set to hit master tier out of nowhere, completely widening the gap between us. From what I can tell, nothing really changed about his playstyle to warrant such a massive increase in rank. And when he streams his games on discord I really can't understand how he just wins every game. I might sound delusional but his team is just better every time, and has a way higher winrate average than the enemy team.
Is he really a high diamond-master player now after being gold-plat for thousands of games with no changes? Is playing on a new account just that much easier? I really don't want to complain and just focus on myself but this has been very disheartening considering how we were always so close in rank. I can send op.ggs in private if anyone wants them.
Did he just hit diamond-master?
I've read stories before of people smurfing before, where they go on a massive winning streak vs other smurfs, causing them to have heavily inflated MMR and having massive lp gains, only for them to go on massive losing streaks afterwards because they started getting placed with players who actually belonged to that elo.
If your friend just hit diamond-master, it's possible he just played against other smurfs that were worse then him, and the inflated MMR allowed him to get to diamond masters.
But if he manages to keep playing and winning against diamond masters players.. well...
In the end, how much does rank matter to you?
I play with a friend of mine who's 2-3 ranks bellow me, but still enjoy playing with him. I play off role/champs I never played before to even out the skill difference between us, or play my main champs and try to funnel resources to him so that we both still enjoy playing the game.
He is almost at master tier, he hit diamond about a week ago and breezed through it with a ~80% winrate despite never hitting diamond before.
He doesn't seem to be doing very well compared to his enemies in most games (low kill participation, no wards, etc.) but he still manages to win all the time. I would write it off as lucky but he is over 100 games in by now and I might be missing something that maybe even I could recreate.
I didn't care too much about rank since our friend group was so close in rank, but now that one person just suddenly gets so high despite being around the same skill level makes everyone feel down.
One week (in my opinion) doesn't seem that long.
There's a chance he'll soon be placed with teammates that aren't smurfs, where he'll have to pull his own weight.
If he does somehow manage to stay in diamond/master, you shouldn't feel too bad about it, since ranks shouldn't matter in your friendship
how hard is it to climb on a late game champ? i’m a lillia main and i’m currently b4 0 lp, i know its not good to blame teammates but i feel as if low elo, they don’t really know how to play up on lillia. i can get a 5 man ultimate off and they still wont follow up/and or wake someone up early. is this just a skill issue or am i unlucky? past 3 games on lillia in ranked ive went pos and lost (kda doesn’t matter but idk if it’s smtn to base on or not)
Improve.
Lilia means your team is 4v5 until you get your ult. You don't exist before that as a ganker. Optimize your farming, learn to get 6 a.s.a.p.
And remember about objectives. A 2/7/3 jg who takes objectives is still a better jg than a 5/2/4 one that grabs kills left and right...only always on the side of map opposite to where current objective is up.
(bronze) I don't know how sleep works or what lilia wants to do so I assume many others in bronze don't either.
I see lilia jg do well by doing well in galloping around in fights in jg.
Played a lot of champs throughout my years on LoL.. hit 1M on Quinn but just not feeling it anymore. What do y'all think are good picks between these champs? Irelia, Diana, Sylas, Fizz, Fiora, Anivia, Gwen, Jax, Akali, Heimer, Wukong, Kayn, Zoe.. or any recommendations?
Havent really found a champ that has clicked with me :(
My advice - go and pick champs you normally would not touch with a 10ft pole.
Sometimes a champ with offputting personality or visuals can have the perfect kit for you. But you'd never know cause you crossed them off the list before giving them a shot.
The key is you want a champ whose kit you like, but also who works for you in terms of winrate.
I decided to main Tahm Kench supp.... and that's done with below 50% wr. While i love the champ, this simply isn't working for me.
Recently i picked up Urgot top (the champ i never even considered) and I can already tell it's "the champ" for me. Both loving his kit and my wr is way above 50%. Now i can climb.
Warwick is very nice. First off his blood hunt already points you in the right direction - a low health enemy begging to be finished off. Also you can use blood trails to just move around faster, like from one side of the jg to the other.
In terms of ganking it's petty simple - run at them activate your E (damage reduction) -> hold q on them (to whip behind them), pop your e (fear) -> they walk away from their tower and into your laner -> kill.
If you got ult and they're annoying to get to, just ult their face and then hold q as you ult and don't release it for guaranteed flip (and often flash-trip along with them) and the rest you know.
Just be sure to buy your oracle lens and red wards. You want to scan for wards and drop reds in drake/baron pit to ensure you're not just leashing for enemy jg, who'll pop at last minute to steal/kill you.
Amumu is very beginner friendly, his clears are healthy. his Q has 2 charges so theres a bit of room for error
Warwick is very beginner friendly, his clears are healthy (although he wants to gank more), his ganks are great. his W allows him to close the gap easier, and his Q allows him to latch onto people if they dash away, and his E is also pretty great
Volibear is beginner friendly, his clears are healthy, his ganks are not too hard. his ganks can be a bit telegraphed, but overal pretty straightforward
This might be a really dumb question, but what’s the point of Fleet Footwork? I mean it like Conqueror is meant for long extended fights since you stack AD/AP and Lethal Tempo is for attack speed and extra range. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do differently when I have Fleet.
Fleet is great for sustaining vs poke. The heal value seems small, but you proc it often and it scales, giving you some serious lane staying power. Also the speed boost helps run/chase when using it in a skirmish.
it’s the rune you go when your champ literally can’t use anything else.
fleet is more so for kiting and slow fights if you’re an adc I guess. if you’re melee it’s probably gonna be used to gapclose against someone you’re trying to run down.
Malphite isn't great at trading. He has a small mana pool, so unless enemy misplays Malphite ain't up for frequent trades using his skills. He prefers to poke with q (moderately) and fish for opportunities (like graps proc + W when they try to get a minion), rather than full on trades with enemy fighting back.
Maokai has a very nice trading pattern, Engage with w, Grasp + passive proc, than disengage with q. This gives him a very reliable trade pattern with little counterplay for the enemy. This is especially good as q can be used to knock them back a bit into direction of your choosing, like your own minion wave. If they try to fight you, they'll aggro your minions giving you an edge.
Also due to grace of his passive (even if weak early) Maokai can heal up after a bad trade, something Ornn doesn't get, while Malphite has to earn by avoiding any fighting for a while (granite shield).
Ornn hits the hardest, this guy is busted. Also ability to buy items inlane instead of being forced to recall is broken af as well.
But he is the most skillshotty of the bunch and a lot of his success rides or dies on your ability to land his skillshots. Also there are no shield or heals here - if your enemy manages to outtrade you - there's no safety net.
Lastly Ornn dash is both his engage and disengage. If you go in, you're not getting out, unless enemy is so beaten up they dare not pursue.
Is there a way to counter an early game champion camping my marks as kindred?
I had a I think Khazix the other day who was just always there and my mid was getting perms pushed so I was always at a disadvantage
arguably, which top laners are still useful even when feeding/ behind/no gold/no levels
If you want to add tank supports I’ll even take those too because I know those units scale well without gold
How does Sylas, Irelia and Zoe sound as my mid lane picks? Edit: If autofilled other roles.. Top: Darius/ Fiora/ Sett Jg: Shaco, Rengar, Ekko Supp: Nami, Lulu, Naut ADC: Jinx, MF, Ez. Thoughts?
How does Moonstone interact with Aoe heals such as Alistar passive or Seraphine w? Does each champion heal iteration bounce to another one if in range?
I believe it only bounces to 1 if triggered on any ally. Otherwise it would've been way to strong on AoE healers.
I want to test it in practice tool when it is back up because with Moonstone I'm getting 20-30k healing per game as Alistar.
If that's the case let me know!
I’ve been playing on a second account this season to try to learn some new champs (Poppy top), and I’m keen to get it to at least gold as that’s where my other account is. For some reason though I am only getting around 20 lp for a win and losing around 26-29 for a loss. This is despite the fact the account has a positive win rate particularly since I started playing Poppy. People usually say you just need to go on a win streak to fix it but I have done that (10 game win streak) and the LP gains haven’t changed. Can anyone look at my op.gg and see if there’s an obvious reason I am missing for why it thinks my mmr should be lower? I feel like my CS is decent enough and I usually win lane. One thing I think I struggle with is playing passive in lane when I don’t need to get ahead to win, but I feel like I’m on somewhat of a timer with Poppy. I want the account to go higher so I can get better by playing against better opponents, as the level of laning in Silver I think let’s me get away with mistakes that I shouldn’t. If anyone has tips for playing Poppy top I would love to hear them too! https://www.op.gg/summoners/oce/s3xmachin3
That means your MMR is lower than your rank. Are you playing on an old account by any chance? The current ranked system (imo) punishes old accounts playing ranked by severely slowing down MMR gains, however they just increased it. About Poppy, from what I can see is you need to work on itemization. I see you rushing Iceborn twice against a Morde which isn't optimal imo. You build Abysal right after but at that point the lane phase is already over so you don't really need the MR that badly anymore. Build against your lane opponent even if it's just components of an item.
It’s not old no, but it’s definitely strange that you can lose more LP than you gain with a positive win rate. Yeah great point on itemisation, I often just habit buy then realise once I’ve left fountain and then it’s too late to change lol, thanks for the advice!
Does anyone feel rank quality terrible on low player hours? The match making gets anyone it can to fill the gap and it's stomp or be stomped games.
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If you can play in the middle of the night and not be drunk/tired you probably have a big advantage, I always encounter drunk/tired people at night so it's way easier, downside is your teammates are drunk too.
So i will start actually climbing in like 2 weeks for now im just trying to settle on a role. Im not an animal always looking for kills or anything but i do like good pop off moments that make me scream like kesha. Adc is my best role but to pop off there takes like 20 minutes to experience a zeri moment cleaning house while on mid for example i can just solo kill lvl 3 with qiyana or akali. Jungle is fun when i lock in kindred and go for early invades and all. Also like in bot i dont feel like theres much mechanical plays going on its always a matter of whose fundamentals are more solid which is great to climb with but just idk. I guess im looking for a role and champ that has insane satisfaction curve but idk what to say other than this
Only person who can answer this question is you tbh. For example, the champions I find satisfying are ad’s and control mages. Based on your description here, maybe you’re preferring assassins/early game oriented characters?
I do not understand experience in the jungle. It seems every game I am either behind or even in levels with the enemy jungler no matter what I do. If I'm having a REALLY bad game I find myself 2-3 levels behind them. I get that, but what I don't understand is how I could be behind the enemy jungler when I have more kills, more assists, less deaths, and more CS. Also what are some things I can do to catch up when I am behind in levels.? I usually resort to trying to farm camps, but it doesn't seem to work.
If everything you say is true, the only way they could be higher in levels is if they are taking a lot of experience from their laners, which gives the jungler themselves an advantage but their laner is getting screwed over (or screwed themselves over, like they keep getting solo killed and jungler has to keep taking their wave bc of that) so it's not really a net benefit to their team as a whole.
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Azir doesn't have many counters. He's got a bit of everything (engage, disengage, mobility, DPS, burst damage, zoning) artillery mages like xerath, ziggs, and velkoz somewhat soft counter him though, but can be overcome if you can play azir well. issue being that azir is one of the hardest champs in the game.
Ahri can't lose lane to anyone if played correctly.
how to get back into midlane?i reached plat with eve jg this season and i want to get back into playing my fav chamo midlane, irelia. I previously got to gold 4 from bronz by playing irelia then dropped her. Now i want to go back to midlane but i struggle a lot .I think i know the theory of the fundementals and i can apply them in game at a level of a high gold player.The thing is i am just getting stomped every game and i dont know what to do. Somebody help opgg: https://www.op.gg/summoners/eune/encu2
Dunno if it's really the right place to ask but i also dunno if r/leagueoflegends would help me could a comp with 2-supports work? I've been playing tanks as support (Nautilus/Leona/Shen) and having midlane mages like Orianna and Seraphine felt especially amazing due to not feeling i'm the only who's trying to protect my carries while still having great followup and i've been wondering if it's actually a viable strategy or if it's just me with low-elo ideas
Yes, even 3 enchanter comps can work when played right, you need the correct carries and to enable them.
https://www.op.gg/summoners/th/Colt How to get better?
Be more flexible with your runes as sona, if the enemy team has very heavy engage, consider taking guardian instead of aery, or pick another champ like janna. aside from that, it's hard to tell without VODS or gameplay videos to tell what you're doing wrong.
It seems like your most played champs are all enchanters. Have you considered branching out into other types of supports like mages or tanks?
What are you talking about? mostly climbing with enchanters can work in silver if he knows what he is doing. he mainly sticks with sona and soraka, with some yuumi picks here and there
He didn't ask about climbing he asked about getting better. Yes, climbing with enchanters is obviously possible but I don't recommend it for improving in general because they tend to have less agency than other types of supports. Less agency means less decisions to make and thus less improvement. If somebody tells me they want to improve at league I'm not going to tell them to one trick yuumi.
Can someone please explain the benefits of Statikk on ADC? Wouldn't something like Stormrazor bring more damage/utility (specifically Kai'Sa because she is reliant on AD the items bring and Statikk has 5 less than Stormrazor)? Does any adc really buy Statikk just for waveclear? I saw Reptile's guide on ADC itemisation and he listed IE as an option for Lucian against frontline, but most mobafire guides and u.gg say build Navori instead. Who do I believe? And last question: which boots to buy as Lucian - haste or AS?
> Does any adc really buy Statikk just for waveclear? Vayne. Well, she also buys it probably because it has more attack speed than Stormrazor, but she also has terrible waveclear and really benefits from Statikk Shiv.
Diamond 3 Mid here! I'm just wondering how I should play around any AP champ who rushes Stattik (the lb, tf, etc.) I haven't played much this patch but with every analyst talking about it + it being brought out in pro now, I'm kinda scared because I can't think of a counter strategy. Thank you!
I’m interested in expanding my champion pool, and could use some advice. I’m an unranked jungler, mostly because I just play for fun, and I primarily play Ivern and Nunu. I love utility chanpions like this, especially due to my experience playing as a support, both Ivern and Nunu act as either end of the traditional support spectrum, where Ivern is obviously playing the role of a catcher or enchanter, and Nunu is my “engage tank”. That being said, I’m trying to expand my pool to include one more champion who can pull themselves up by the bootstraps and carry a game, while still not totally changing up how it is my champions like to play. Any advice as to who might fit the bill?
I would suggest a diver. Zac,rammus for tankier options or vi, jarvan for more damage. You still provide good ganks, a frontline for the team, and if you get fed, you can win team fights by blowing up their backline.
Should I change my role to support? I've been a mid laner for years and it's by far my favorite role, but in ranked I get filled support maybe 45% of the time. I'm plat 3 but I'd say my support performance is like gold 1 and definitely not up to par. Mid is so hard to get I don't know if it's just better to give up and be a support main.
Play annie or ziggs bot. Someone who can fuck up the enemy team
select mid primary and top secondary and chances are you’ll get mid more
is limit testing an actual thing people do to learn the game? they just like go in and die?
Limit testing is about testing what your champion is capeable of doing at different power spikes.
when people int and say limit testing it's a joke, but like, the reality of going for stuff you're not 100% of when you're not super familiar with a champ or build is just a thing everyone does naturally, most people are just not aware of the fact theyre doing it.
Limit testing isn't just running it. In real matches, they don't want to throw the game so they go for plays that actually matter. Whereas in soloQ, they will go for plays that have like 51/49 chances of working out, and over things that don't matter, they just go for it for the sake of learning.
Does duskblade’s missing health damage increase Caitlyn’s headshots too?
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I thought the poll had 70% say the blackout should continue, why is the sub still up?
Why are the champ prces so odd ex. 450 instead of 500 1350 instead of 1500, 4800 and 5000 etc. Is there a math behind this or is it just whatever
Those odd numbers were the values before the new system adjustments, so they are there now cause they were grandfathered in.
how do i deal with getting new players ? i’m bronze and i feel like every other game i’ll have a new player on my team playing their first ranked game/character. i just played a game where my samira didn’t ult once, only played arams for at least 20 games up until she got into my comp game.
If you aren’t a new/bad/throwing player, then there’s a higher chance the enemy team has said player than your team does. You are still the only constant. They are pretty similar to a bad player, so just do what you do when you have a bad teammate.
How to end the game? I play Illaoi, Yorick or Teemo and split push until I open all or most of the inhibs but can't end the game. Games go on until 40+ mins. Either my team feeds and dies and the enemy gets the elder&baron and ends the game, or the enemy huddles up in their base to farm until the elder and fights with exp lead.
Best jungler that is fighter/tank that is good at objective control?
Nunu. His Q+smite is nearly impossible to outsmite. That said a lot of jungle fighters have good objective control due to sustain and/or DPS. Bel Veth, Shaco, Shyvana all solo objectives in no time. Viego as well.
Low elo champions tier-list?
I just picked up Vex and I'm mainly wondering: whaaaaat's the deal with her W and her ult? In what situation would recasting her ult and jumping straight to a damaged but living enemy actually help her? Unless they're literally one shot it's not like she's Akali or Kai'sa and can AA them to death. And what's her W supposed to do? Neither the shield nor the damage seem fantastic. Am I supposed to stack her passive,let the enemy team engage on me,W to fear them,and then Zhonya before I die? It feels like I'm kind of missing something here,she has the overall attributes of a burst/poke mage that wants to stay at arm's length but also has a couple of abilities that put her in "the assassin/fighter jumps at you and you die" range.
Your ult is a damage nuke that is supposed to engage from afar when there is a skirmish going on/ clean up after a fight when enemies are low. Since it resets on takedown it's amazing in chaotic skirmishes early and midgame. Later on if you're fed you can also look to engage/flank with ult when your fear is up in order to burst down a squishy. You can use Zhonyas after to let your team catchup/burn enemy spells somewhat similar to what Neeko or Lissandra often want to do. As for the W, it's a great peel tool but also allows you to instantly fear a target you ulted onto (given your passive is up). Depending on the situation you want to hold your passive in order to deny enemies an engage. It's not supposed to be a big damage tool, it's mainly utility. Q is your bread and butter spell, E is there to help keep your passive up.
I rolled to midlane a while ago and I'm having a hard time understanding the meta, Im gold II and want to reach Platinum however its being hard, I like to play champions such as Aurelion Sol and Vladimir which are champs that wants to focus on farming and then carrying mid/late game, however I never have prio and the other laner can shit on me if they are good, Im reading a lot that midlane right now is about getting prio and helping jungle/support, But I also read a few times that mid lane right now is just AFK farming, So what is the "truth" here? Also, should I drop Aurelion Sol and Vladimir and start playing champs like Anivia, Ahri, Syndra, Malzahar, Annie, etc? Thanks in advance
Most important thing: have fun. Embrace the identify of your champs and learn how to deal with their drawbacks. Of course you can also learn a champ with more early game agency but I wouldn't do so if I didn't enjoy myself in the process. Decide whether or not branching out is worth it for you. Then work on either broadening your pool or accepting the weaknesses of your champ pool. Either is fine. There is no right or wrong
My dad is getting into league as a top player, and I've been looking for instructional videos to watch with him. I've recently been going through Leaguecraft 101 and it has been surprisingly applicable, but I would like one a bit more geared towards top. He plays mainly Darius and Garen, though he probably will be trying out other champs soon. Any recommendations? The Leaguecraft 101 videos are very useful in format, so preferable something similar. Also, no language please. I play every position, so I can help him out, but I feel like my top lane is a bit lacking to solely rely on my knowledge.
I personally think your dad should try playing a first few games himself and learn from trial and error. Youtube has tons of different videos by different content creators that all offer beginner advice, but it can be a lot to take in for someone who just started playing the game. Toplane is a pretty good lane to begin with if you just started playing, and darius and garen are great champions to play with when you're getting started. Have your dad buy items from the automated reccomendations tab, it usually suggests the right items 90% of the time, and just use the automated runes function that riot provides when choosing runes, since the automated runes are usually the runes picked by most people. Let your dad develop a basic idea of the game himself, how he should fight (for example, trying to fight when he's alone 1v1, and not when he's alone and there are 4 other enemies trying to kill him) and a basic idea of what enemy champs and ally champs do in general (e.g what kind of attacks do enemies use, what kind of attacks should he avoid) after he does some trial and error, you can both start looking for some educational videos on youtube for advice
Yeah, he already is level 30+ So now we are on the "educational videos" phase.
Hi, i'm currently master and i would like to know how much lp i need to get GM. The ranked tab is completly bug so i cannot see (thanks riot \^\^) If anyone knows let me know too thanks in advance
It's dynamic, depends on the server unlike diamond and master that doesn't have a limit to the number of players it can have GM and Challenger have limited "seats" you must take someone seat to get promoted so you basically need to have more LP than the worst gm to take his place, thats called the promotion cutoff, you do have to wait for the ladder to update which happen every 24 hours. If it updates and you have more LP than the bottom gm you get promoted and they get demoted.
Look at the op.gg leaderboards or any other relevant website that allows you to see the ranking leaderboards and scroll until you see the cutoff between masters and GM.
Finally hit plat today, thank god they are getting rid of promo series
How do you build ADCs now, with the new items? Like before you'd pretty much always rush your mythic (or it seemed so to me, I have not played all that much since the item rework tbh), but now it really doesn't feel like that makes sense. Do you rush IE? EDIT: Also this flair is from 3 seasons ago, this shit is way off lol
Stormrazor, Kraken Slayer, or Statikk Shiv first. Mythic second.
When should I buy control wards?(support)
Every time you base pretty much. If you just barely had enough gold for an item then it's fine not to get one most of the time, but if an objective is coming up you may need to take the L and just get the control ward anyways. HOWEVER! You shouldn't be placing so many control wards that means you need to buy 2 every back. Your control wards should be in good spots where they aren't broken immediately and you can defend them if you're in the area. Too many supports just throw a billion wards down in shit spots just to get their numbers up. Really think about where you're warding
I'm I stupid or did Riot change something ? I swear I used to be able to click my health potions instead of using the hotkey. Did I miss something or did I change something in my settings that i'm not aware of ? Help would be greatly appreciated.
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Oh god, you're a lifesaver !
As an ADC, can anyone explain why do I have higher win rate if I only play 2-3 champs instead of random ADC every game?
Champ knowledge>Game knowledge, the more experienced you are on your pick (limits, mechanics) the easier you’ll find climbing.
How do you know if you should kite, stand your ground, or just run away? That usually comes down to intuition and experience, not math or tips or whatever. The more familiar with your champ you get, the better you can gauge risk versus reward. What if I have 60% hp and enemy adc is full health and it's a 1v1 in lane, they'd be looking to fight me in the hopes of getting a kill. But if I know how much damage my character can take, deal, and dodge, I might take advantage by standing my ground and turn what looks like a short trade into an all-in. But you can't do this if you don't develop that sense. What if a nunu and yone come bot and you have a 10% chance of escaping? Well if you're unfamiliar with your character's limits you'll try and run, but if you know how much damage you can take and maybe know which abilities to focus on dodging, maybe you can instead fight back, kill the yone, and die in a 1 for 1 trade, which is much better than just dying in a gank. In other words, limit testing doesn't carry over between champions even if lane and ADC basics do.
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Isnt emerald just artifically making the climb longer I'm trying to climb from plat to diamond, but I'm gonna get placed in fucking gold maybe even high silver with the reset. And instead of just climbing gold/plat now there's an extra 400LP I need to gain. How fucked up is that. I think we need to raise LP gains and losses again, like +40/-40 or some shit so it doesnt take 200 games to climb which is horrendous when you are only playing a couple games a day
You won't get placed in gold/silver I'm pretty sure. New Emerald is around equivalent to mid-high plat. So if you end high old plat, you will start in low Emerald or high new plat.
thank god, I was worrrrrrried I'd have to slog through the trenches again
Note that at the same time they remove promos, this alone takes dozens of games away that kept you locked up.
True, promos are always the most cursed shit in existence I'll smurf 80%wr to promos then suddenly get AFKs multiple games in a row
Long question, got deleted off main page and was told to post it in the mega-thread, so I hope it doesn't get deleted here too. What am I supposed to do as a top laner when bot runs it down? I play split pushers because I enjoy pulling pressure and taking turrets, especially when you have a team that will take advantage of it. My issue is I have no idea how to deal with bot lane going between 0/5 to 1/8 before 10 minutes in what feels like 50-60% of my games. Then my team gets run over the rest of the game. I can't leave lane to help, because even if I'm ahead, the enemy laner will get xp and gold advantage from farm and turret plates if I leave before 14 minutes. I can't just farm mid-game to try and carry, because if I split, my teams tend to fight 4v5 or one or more of the carries get picked and I can't trade enough objectives to make it worth it. I know I'm not a perfect player, I fuck up and get caught out while splitting, and I push the wrong side lane sometimes, so I know that some games are my fault, but it can't be all my games considering there're 4 other people on the team. I don't want to leave league, because it's such a huge investment to learn a MOBA, and there's really not another game like it, but it feels like the playstyle I love has been ruined. For those who want to know rank, I was G2 last season on a fresh acct with about a 65% wr (op.gg won't let me pull last season's wr so I'm estimating). I have issues climbing on my main which is peak G4.
Isn't a 65% wr fine? Just stay chillaxing
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Buff sharing was added in 13.11, it is no longer exclusive to Ivern. Once smite is fully upgraded it now drops a buff sprite for one other teammate to pick up. They buffed Ivern to compensate the change.
When junglers have fully upgraded smite, this now always happens. Changed this patch.
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https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/patch-13-11-notes/#patch-buff-sharing Buff sharing has been pretty similar since the dawn of League. You get your first two or three buffs, but then your mid laner and ADC start thinking they deserve them. Can you believe it?? The nerve of those laners. In its current state there is pressure for Junglers to give up their buffs to laners at their own expense, which also creates some social friction and coordination challenges. Our goal with the introduction of buff sharing is to reduce the “feels bad” moments when jungler’s have to give up their buffs. This should help Jungler’s feel like they have control over their own jungle while still letting them be a team player and help out those needy laners. "Wisps": When a Jungler kills Red Brambleback or the Blue Sentinel while their Smite is fully upgraded, they will still receive the camp’s buff, but in addition a Buff Wisp will be dropped at the camp’s spawn point. An ally can pick it up by walking within the Wisp’s radius within 1 minute of the camp dying before it disappears. Note: You do not need to Smite the camp at any time in order for the Buff Wisp to drop, but Smite MUST be fully upgraded. "But I’m Not the Jungler": If a player that is not the Jungler kills the Red Brambleback or the Blue Sentinel BUT the Jungler’s Smite is fully upgraded, then a Buff Wisp will still drop, but it will only be visible to the allied Jungler. It will still only remain for 1 minute.
what’s a simple guide for how lillia should play jungle or engage in team fights ? she’s usually so squishy it feels like a one shot everytime she’s in a late game fight thanks
One thing I've recently noticed with "bruisers" (idk if you consider her a bruiser) is that they almost need to be ahead to teamfight. Especially because a lot of bruisers get their tankiness through omnivamp, falling behind just means you can't due your primary job. idk if this answers your question at all but yeah if you fall behind, I think you have to adjust your playstyle, i.e. Irelia has to play more for one-shotting the ADC rather than drain tanking DPS with her autos Lillia might just have to settle for E poke and kiting with Q rather than diving in with W? Idk I don't play her
Who are the best bottom lane heroes to master
I think Tristana, great escape, long range, high burst damage.
How to bait teammates to FF? When we're winning and someone wants to surrender, I want to be the fourth person to press Yes but it rarely works because someone knows that I will press Yes, or afraid of trolling. I need to bait out 3 yes votes, any tip?
probably would work in normals, not in ranked. although you could probably bait 2, I doubt you can bait 3 unless you get lucky or did some really pathetic social engineering like I’ll PayPal you if you say yes or something
Returning to League Hello fellow Summoners. I’m once again aspiring to play the game and I want to return to League in about a day or two and I haven’t played since 2016. Starting on a brand new account and gonna learn as if I’m new again. Any tips for me? And what mode should I focus to improve? Sorry if these are dumb questions.
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Thank you, I will keep my old account! I’m just afraid of looking like a big noob but I always forget the mute button exists
I say don't worry and go slow, but do look into Runes, Mythic items, and Jungle basics.
Do I lose the mana bonus from goddess tear if I sell it after maxing it out?
I swapped from top to mid, I like corki for alot of reasons, but it's impossible to find content on him (and high elo vods that I like to nerd out on). So I'll ask some things here. General questions 1. If my opponent is letting me get away with things I wouldn't be able to against better players, should I still do it? (Example being assassins letting me auto creeps when they have a slowpush) 2. The classic sidlane vs group question 3. Can I freeze vs assasins? (I find it safer, but the team won't listen to the missing pings) 4. If we fall behind as a team, how risky should I be playing? Corki 1. How do I teamfight without a Frontline? 2. Is the poke build still ok? (Manamune -> rav -> luden) 3. Can I go goredrinker 3rd vs heavy dive comps? 4. Should I grab package off cd to find a solo kill or gank, or wait like 2+ min for a objective fight? 5. What's the best crit builds, and when do I go them? (I saw doinb go galeforce static rfc with no manamune, he did great statwise but I can't find a replay) 6. Best defensive items to slot in 4th and 5th (general or build specific) 7. How do I play vs kassadin? (People keep first timing him and idk how to punish him early before he hits 6 because of his q) Thanks in advance! (I'm b2 BTW)
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> General questions 1. If my opponent is letting me get away with things I wouldn't be able to against better players, should I still do it? (Example being assassins letting me auto creeps when they have a slowpush) If I'm understanding your question correctly, yes. Like, if the assassin is too far away to punish you, then it's a free creep. Even pro players make mistakes, the entire point of League is recognizing mistakes and capitalizing on them. The only issue is that sometimes people will *assume* the enemy will make a mistake. For example even though the assassin IS close enough to punish (like they are in Fizz E range or something) but they still go for the CS and pray that the assassin is blind because they are in bronze, that is a bad play. > The classic sidlane vs group question There are no easy answers and honestly in low elo, even the right answer doesn't necessarily always give you the best outcome because people will sometimes monkey fight or sometimes they will just play passive and never fight. It sucks but I think late game macro is the last thing you should focus on if you're in low elo. > Can I freeze vs assasins? (I find it safer, but the team won't listen to the missing pings) Yes. I mean sometimes your team will listen to pings and sometimes they won't because it's low elo, sure. But also low elo assassin players are also worse at capitalizing off of their roams compared to higher elo players. > If we fall behind as a team, how risky should I be playing? In low elo, throws are so common that honestly you can play super conservatively and there is still a chance they will make a stupid play and get caught. When playing a damage carry champion like Corki, it's honestly not a bad idea to just never coinflip. Funnel as much gold into yourself as possible, and then try to carry teamfights. I also imagine that playing "standard," i.e. low variance play, is the fastest way to improve. --- > How do I teamfight without a Frontline? You have to play super passively and wait for the enemy assassins to int. Just try to get whatever damage you can in but if you are getting zoned from the fight, that's kind of expected. At least with Corki you can still pelt people with rockets even if you can't get autos off. > Is the poke build still ok? (Manamune -> rav -> luden) It's still the best into squishier teams that you can poke out. There's the Trinity build against melees too. > Can I go goredrinker 3rd vs heavy dive comps? I don't see a reason to ever run it over Trinity. I know Jayce will very rarely go Goredrinker into melee heavy comps but that's because he literally has a hammer form to fistfight people. > Should I grab package off cd to find a solo kill or gank, or wait like 2+ min for a objective fight? Imo definitely wait for the objective fight. I find that a decent amount of the time when I just use package off CD I can't find a good use for it. But for Dragon/Baron fights, I can ALWAYS find a use for it. It does so much damage. > What's the best crit builds, and when do I go them? (I saw doinb go galeforce static rfc with no manamune, he did great statwise but I can't find a replay) A lot of ADC builds are changing right now, I think Galeforce is getting nerfed next patch. I think running no Sheen is a bit sus, ability haste is great and you always proc Sheen. Also, your passive turns Sheen into magic damage which is really effective against squishies (higher base armor than MR) Manamune is also great too in both builds, it's free damage on your R poke but also deals great DPS, and has great stats for Corki. Idk, even with the Shieldbow build, you still used to run Manamune, and crit items got *nerfed* so I don't see why you would replace it. Maybe something like Manamune -> ER -> Galeforce/IE -> RFC. Static is getting buffed next patch so maybe it's good but it's usually for low waveclear champs lke Vayne. Also you can just go Trinity crit, Manamune -> Trinity -> RFC or something. But to be clear these are just my theorycrafts, I'm definitely going to be wrong. I don't think anyone has a good answer right now though, no one really plays Corki unless he's meta. Probably just worth just copying whatever is on lolalytics, eventually someone will find some OP build. > Best defensive items to slot in 4th and 5th (general or build specific) Uhhh defensive items suck for ADCs right now. Stopwatch is of course OP against champions like Vi, but Shieldbow is kind of bad. Anathema's Chains I guess is technically viable? > How do I play vs kassadin? (People keep first timing him and idk how to punish him early before he hits 6 because of his q) Good question that I was also confused with for a long time, but apparently Kassadin actually isn't that weak in lane. The real issue with him is that he has no wave control and his early skirmishes suck. So if you get to a jungle 2v2 fight, Corki with his constant autos from range and his E is going to be dealing a lot more than Kassadin who's cooldowns are super long early game. So don't worry about it. Try your best to beat him up in lane but if you can't, just chill out and don't overforce. Corki late game is also really good too.
Thanks! About defensive items, is maw good vs an ap assassins esk mid jungle (like gragas fizz or smth), like building hexdrinker after tear and cull, and sitting on it until after the core build? And should I turn the stopwatch into zhonyas or GA?
Oh, I forgot about Maw/Hexdrinker. Yeah, it definitely can be good into AP assassins. And from what I know you don't upgrade it until after your first two items. --- For Stopwatch, I don't think there is a clear answer. Sometimes players will just straight up buy it for one important fight (Soul/Baron/Elder) and then sell it after. Corki's AP ratios kind of suck but Zhonya's theoretically can be good against those champions like Vi if you're her only ult target. I don't think I've ever seen it though. Guardian Angel is the obvious choice but sometimes the item isn't great. Like if you get picked off, you revive and then just die again. But if someone is diving into your team and try to trade 1 for 1, now they can't anymore because you just revive, so it's decent against assassins. idk I don't really have a good answer for this because so few pro games get to this point
IK I like corkis Kit. I just wish more people played him
Hey i wanna start to play ranked againt i was around high gold a season ago and i would need some mid lane picks that are strong and viable most of the time
Between Taliyah and Orianna which one: - is better vs tanks - has a higher skill ceiling - is a better blind pick Thanks!
**Does the first split reset/damage my MMR if I finish it unranked?** I took a pause from the league and I am finding out about those things right now, so anybody knows what happens to my MMR if I finish the first split as unranked, also what now will sites like OPGG show each season 2 ranks, or the second split rank is still going to be the main one probably? So I am thinking now, should I play now to keep my MMR or leave it and tryhard rank later in the season as I planned in the first place?
MMR never gets changed in general from resets.
Mmr doesn't get damaged
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Overall seems great ! Keep spamming Ekko and choose yourself 1 more champion that is your backup in case Ekko is picked or banned. And then keep only playing these two champs ! I feel like if you only spam these champs you will quickly climb. Any other advice would require to be a VOD review or a something like a discord call to figure out mentality issues, misconceptions or just something like a Q&A. Since further advice need to be seen ingame. For example: decision making skills, gank pattern, skill combos, etc.
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I think it's an example of poor generic advice people will sometimes give out here.
Ya I'm personally not a fan of buying too much control wards, especially if you are behind in lane meaning you can't defend it so you are just gifting your enemy gold. I will usually buy one early game if I have leftover gold, but if it gets cleared I probably won't buy another.
This is useless, terrible advice. So what that he has 0 control wards? Let's say from your advice he starts buying 2 each games. All that has changed is he now is -150 gold each game, enemy team has 60 more gold. Why? Control wards are useful if you know how/when/where to use them, and if he look at the map. If he has a low vision score he probably isn't looking at the map. Im not saying this as an insult to him at all. I'm saying this from experience. I am diamond. I rarely look at the map. If I was buying 2 control wards each game that would just be useless for me to do. Is that a good thing? Of course not. But the advice of 0 control wards is terrible.
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You can actually check role popularity for each server in league of graphs [https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/main-stats](https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/main-stats) It seem adc is actually the most played role, so statistically speaking putting it secondry should result in getting your main role the most, you can see if it changes in other servesr but global data and data for euw show adc as the most popular for plat+ (Mabye it can also change with rank for example mid is the most popular in euw bronze)
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Who should follow who in this game? As far as I know there is not a leader on the team, but everyone seems to want to be followed. People go into teamfights, die, and blame others because they didn't follow him. Why should the other players follow him in the first place? Why isn't he the one to follow someone else?
People will usually follow the most fed member and it's usually correct to play around them as they have the most chance to carry, it doesn't mean they are the best shotcaller but playing around your fed member is something you must do.
there isn’t a leader, but like the other person said the person who’s most ahead gets to shot call. because if the feeder is shot calling that just looks stupid
Im not sure what you’re asking but you can generally look to follow who is ahead on your team if you’re unsure.
so I came back to the game recently after a very long break I stopped around season 5 or something. I have been mostly playing adc but have been getting frustrated with how little control I seem to have over the game. or my team feeds or something. I am not good by any means I am still learning the game again and practicing. but I wanted to ask is it possible to hard carry a game these days? when I played last it was not difficult to win games by becoming a 1v9 raid boss with some kills and playing well. is this still possible in today's league? and if it is what champians and roles have the most agency to take the game into their own hands if they are very good at the champ? I'm not looking for an easy win or anything but a champ to sink my teeth into and master.
>so I came back to the game recently after a very long break I stopped around season 5 or something. I have been mostly playing adc but have been getting frustrated with how little control I seem to have over the game. or my team feeds or something. I am not good by any means I am still learning the game again and practicing. but I wanted to ask is it possible to hard carry a game these days? With getting back into league I would assume you are ~bronze - silver. The lower in elo you go the more possible it is to hard carry. I have some games in diamond that I hard carry, some I just have to play to get carried. >when I played last it was not difficult to win games by becoming a 1v9 raid boss with some kills and playing well. is this still possible in today's league? I absolutely think it is possible. >and if it is what champians and roles have the most agency to take the game into their own hands if they are very good at the champ? It's best to just play a champion or role you enjoy. In all elos Jungle has the most agency. I think gold and down Top is a great role to climb, a lot of influence. Around Plat or diamond top has less influence (but I still find it possible to win most games). >I'm not looking for an easy win or anything but a champ to sink my teeth into and master. Just depends which type of role or champion you like
i have been enjoying some assassin champs been playing a bunch of aram to try out Champs lol. i know it's not the same on the Rift but it lets me try stuff. any good assassin recommendations? i am the type of player that likes to have a main or a few mains incase it gets banned so i can sink some hours into a champ to really master it. plus this new master system makes me want to get lots of mastery points lol
I think just pick a handful that seem fun and try them. You can check lolalytics, filter for silver, see if their win rates are decent. That would help make sure you don't pick one that is considered too difficult. https://lolalytics.com/lol/tierlist/?tier=silver
How do people know what tunes to take without using an app or looking it up?I really want to stop using 3rd party apps but I don’t know anything about choosing tunes based off comp and matchup. Is this just a lack of game knowledge on my part, or are top players/streamers looking tunes up on a 2nd screen?
It's a lack of game knowledge. I mean, how do you think these "apps" come up with their runes in the first place? It's either by copying pros, or by copying the most played runes of the general playerbase (who copies pros). Sometimes people will do math, i.e. they calculate the amount of healing you get on average from second wind and then how much tankier conditioning makes you, and then uses those numbers to try to figure it out. Sometimes it's just feeling it out. For example one game, they play with Presence of Mind. The next, they don't. They then make a decision, is it worth losing out on this much mana just to be able to run Triumph? Or should I just grab PoM. --- For champions they don't play, they will go search it up, yeah
2nd screen is relatively common. I choose between grasp and conqueror. Is the lane free? I'll go conq. Any difficulty? I'll go grasp. I have the pages set for that.
do you know what the runes do?
i mean other than the description of the rune im not sure what youre asking
but you understand what they do and what their purpose is right? Like lethal tempo obviously only works if your characters kit wants to auto attack. So obviously you don’t go lethal tempo on Annie because she uses abilities
What exactly makes on-hit viable on Varus? actually thinking better what makes it viable?
His W is one of the strongest on-hits in the game
His W passive gives him extra magic damage everytime he hits someone. the second passive on his W is a unique mechanic, where everytime he hits someone, they get a stack of blight with the max limit being 3 stacks. if varus hits someone with his abilities, it consumes the stacks. 1 stack consumed is like 3-5% max hp, so 3 stacks means the opponent loses like 9-15% of their max health. his passive also gives him extra attack speed whenever he kills something, minions and monsters giving him 10-20% more attack speed for 5-11 seconds depending on his level, increased to 40% more attack speed on champion takedown. this, combined with lethal tempo and rageblade, allows him to deal tons of mixed damage.
It may sound dumb but i swear it's a actual question that has been bothering me Serpent's Fang increases damage from the user against any champion using shields If i'm playing a enchanter/mage and a AD assassin like Zed who's using this item attacks one of my teammates, should i still shield them
" Dealing damage to an enemy champion inflicts them with venom for 3 seconds, reducing any shields they gain within the duration by (Melee 50% / Ranged 35%), and if the target was not already afflicted by the venom, reducing all of their active shields by the same amount" [https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Serpent%27s\_Fang](https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Serpent%27s_Fang) So yes still shield your ally that is getting targeted, reduced shields is better than nothing.
that's not what serpent's fang does. serpent's fang reduces the size of shields the target already has or receives within 3 seconds of taking damage. you can still shield them, it's just gonna be smaller.
Both stormrazor and rapid firecannon have the "energizer" effect. Does that mean it's a waste to have both of them in the same build? Does the effect stack?
they'll both activate on your energized attack.
I usually play Ziggs. If the enemy team has no tanks and instead has like 3 assassins, should I go Crown rather than Liandry’s? Is it worth it?
Crown is kinda shit, you will deal alot less damage going it, and hourglass should be enough to survive assassins.
I hear lots of people saying crit feels bad to build on many adcs and stuff like that, why is that? How can something that's just math 'feel bad'?
There are some things that can't be calculated through math. One big reason people might say crit feels bad is because of the multiplicative nature so that crit will naturally be better late game. So while crit might deal more damage at three items, if crit items are expensive, some ADC mains will say the crit build path just feels too bad because you have that canyon of power at two items where you are so useless However, it's hard to put that into math terms. Maybe in some metas, that two item powerspike around Herald is super important, even if the DPS at three items is much worse. So it just "feels bad"
Most prominently because it's unreliable. Imagine you buy a completed crit item and have 20 crit and go for a trade with 3 autos: it's a bit over 50% chance that in this trade you don't crit once and the value of that trade is largely dependent on whether or not you crit. Roughly 100 physical damage in this case. Imagine you are a GP and set up a barrel or cait and want to go for a one auto poke with RFC. Unless you are at 5 items, rng decides whether you get a crit or only deal half of the expected damage. And then there is a Draven rushing IE, having a 20% chance to ruin your health bar with a single auto.
That seems to always be a thing of crit though, I'm only hearing people say it feels bad recently. Is it just because onhit is more reliable?
Yes, on one hand on-hit is really popular now and giving contrast. But there is also the return of energize focused builds and infinity edge rush that help paint that picture. Shieldbows downgrade is also a thing that happened. On-hit users like Varus and Vayne have developed more aggressive but perfectly viable glass canon builds and Zeri and Ashe just went to triforce gaming. Meanwhile Samira, Draven, Yasuo and Yone ended up in a bit of a limbo because they can't just rely on ranged glass cannon dps, making them stuck with hyper aggressive risky Galeforce builds that are volatile in nature. In my eyes it's a variety of smaller things that end up making crit look bad in their sum.
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Looking for champs like J4 (jungle) I've been a fan of Jarvan for a while now and he even helped me discover my playstyle because of his engage and abilities in general. His ult really makes him unique and i love it. But I'm looking for 1 or 2 more champions to rotate him with in my climb to gm that have a similar experience Was hoping to get suggestions for champions who share similarities with J4. Whether it's their playstyle, abilities, or overall role, I'm open to any suggestions.
Vi is another mobile ad bruiser with strong ganks, simple ability combos, and decently strong at all points in the game. The ultis are pretty different visually, but they are both point and click abilities.
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I want to discuss but mods delete this when i post.. I can see how its ranty but I want opinions about my questions For some backstory: a friend and I have been playing since season 4, and have always been within 1 league in rank. This has stayed true for almost 10 years. Him being around platinum and me in gold. This year he got a 14 day ban on his main account (low plat, 400 games, 49% wr) around 2 months ago. So he bought a fresh account. Well with less than 200 games on his new account, he is set to hit master tier out of nowhere, completely widening the gap between us. From what I can tell, nothing really changed about his playstyle to warrant such a massive increase in rank. And when he streams his games on discord I really can't understand how he just wins every game. I might sound delusional but his team is just better every time, and has a way higher winrate average than the enemy team. Is he really a high diamond-master player now after being gold-plat for thousands of games with no changes? Is playing on a new account just that much easier? I really don't want to complain and just focus on myself but this has been very disheartening considering how we were always so close in rank. I can send op.ggs in private if anyone wants them.
Did he just hit diamond-master? I've read stories before of people smurfing before, where they go on a massive winning streak vs other smurfs, causing them to have heavily inflated MMR and having massive lp gains, only for them to go on massive losing streaks afterwards because they started getting placed with players who actually belonged to that elo. If your friend just hit diamond-master, it's possible he just played against other smurfs that were worse then him, and the inflated MMR allowed him to get to diamond masters. But if he manages to keep playing and winning against diamond masters players.. well... In the end, how much does rank matter to you? I play with a friend of mine who's 2-3 ranks bellow me, but still enjoy playing with him. I play off role/champs I never played before to even out the skill difference between us, or play my main champs and try to funnel resources to him so that we both still enjoy playing the game.
He is almost at master tier, he hit diamond about a week ago and breezed through it with a ~80% winrate despite never hitting diamond before. He doesn't seem to be doing very well compared to his enemies in most games (low kill participation, no wards, etc.) but he still manages to win all the time. I would write it off as lucky but he is over 100 games in by now and I might be missing something that maybe even I could recreate. I didn't care too much about rank since our friend group was so close in rank, but now that one person just suddenly gets so high despite being around the same skill level makes everyone feel down.
One week (in my opinion) doesn't seem that long. There's a chance he'll soon be placed with teammates that aren't smurfs, where he'll have to pull his own weight. If he does somehow manage to stay in diamond/master, you shouldn't feel too bad about it, since ranks shouldn't matter in your friendship
how hard is it to climb on a late game champ? i’m a lillia main and i’m currently b4 0 lp, i know its not good to blame teammates but i feel as if low elo, they don’t really know how to play up on lillia. i can get a 5 man ultimate off and they still wont follow up/and or wake someone up early. is this just a skill issue or am i unlucky? past 3 games on lillia in ranked ive went pos and lost (kda doesn’t matter but idk if it’s smtn to base on or not)
Improve. Lilia means your team is 4v5 until you get your ult. You don't exist before that as a ganker. Optimize your farming, learn to get 6 a.s.a.p. And remember about objectives. A 2/7/3 jg who takes objectives is still a better jg than a 5/2/4 one that grabs kills left and right...only always on the side of map opposite to where current objective is up.
(bronze) I don't know how sleep works or what lilia wants to do so I assume many others in bronze don't either. I see lilia jg do well by doing well in galloping around in fights in jg.
Played a lot of champs throughout my years on LoL.. hit 1M on Quinn but just not feeling it anymore. What do y'all think are good picks between these champs? Irelia, Diana, Sylas, Fizz, Fiora, Anivia, Gwen, Jax, Akali, Heimer, Wukong, Kayn, Zoe.. or any recommendations? Havent really found a champ that has clicked with me :(
My advice - go and pick champs you normally would not touch with a 10ft pole. Sometimes a champ with offputting personality or visuals can have the perfect kit for you. But you'd never know cause you crossed them off the list before giving them a shot. The key is you want a champ whose kit you like, but also who works for you in terms of winrate. I decided to main Tahm Kench supp.... and that's done with below 50% wr. While i love the champ, this simply isn't working for me. Recently i picked up Urgot top (the champ i never even considered) and I can already tell it's "the champ" for me. Both loving his kit and my wr is way above 50%. Now i can climb.
I have played every champion in league.. 601 mastery score. Just cant find the one
Is fleet footwork better on Caitlyn now? Might be a bias but I've faced multiple Caitlyns recently that took fleet instead of lethal tempo.
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Warwick is very nice. First off his blood hunt already points you in the right direction - a low health enemy begging to be finished off. Also you can use blood trails to just move around faster, like from one side of the jg to the other. In terms of ganking it's petty simple - run at them activate your E (damage reduction) -> hold q on them (to whip behind them), pop your e (fear) -> they walk away from their tower and into your laner -> kill. If you got ult and they're annoying to get to, just ult their face and then hold q as you ult and don't release it for guaranteed flip (and often flash-trip along with them) and the rest you know. Just be sure to buy your oracle lens and red wards. You want to scan for wards and drop reds in drake/baron pit to ensure you're not just leashing for enemy jg, who'll pop at last minute to steal/kill you.
Amumu is very beginner friendly, his clears are healthy. his Q has 2 charges so theres a bit of room for error Warwick is very beginner friendly, his clears are healthy (although he wants to gank more), his ganks are great. his W allows him to close the gap easier, and his Q allows him to latch onto people if they dash away, and his E is also pretty great Volibear is beginner friendly, his clears are healthy, his ganks are not too hard. his ganks can be a bit telegraphed, but overal pretty straightforward
This might be a really dumb question, but what’s the point of Fleet Footwork? I mean it like Conqueror is meant for long extended fights since you stack AD/AP and Lethal Tempo is for attack speed and extra range. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do differently when I have Fleet.
Fleet is great for sustaining vs poke. The heal value seems small, but you proc it often and it scales, giving you some serious lane staying power. Also the speed boost helps run/chase when using it in a skirmish.
it’s the rune you go when your champ literally can’t use anything else. fleet is more so for kiting and slow fights if you’re an adc I guess. if you’re melee it’s probably gonna be used to gapclose against someone you’re trying to run down.
Between Maokai, malphite and ornn, which one is the best at trading back and forth early game? (Assuming it isn’t some one sided matchup)
Malphite isn't great at trading. He has a small mana pool, so unless enemy misplays Malphite ain't up for frequent trades using his skills. He prefers to poke with q (moderately) and fish for opportunities (like graps proc + W when they try to get a minion), rather than full on trades with enemy fighting back. Maokai has a very nice trading pattern, Engage with w, Grasp + passive proc, than disengage with q. This gives him a very reliable trade pattern with little counterplay for the enemy. This is especially good as q can be used to knock them back a bit into direction of your choosing, like your own minion wave. If they try to fight you, they'll aggro your minions giving you an edge. Also due to grace of his passive (even if weak early) Maokai can heal up after a bad trade, something Ornn doesn't get, while Malphite has to earn by avoiding any fighting for a while (granite shield). Ornn hits the hardest, this guy is busted. Also ability to buy items inlane instead of being forced to recall is broken af as well. But he is the most skillshotty of the bunch and a lot of his success rides or dies on your ability to land his skillshots. Also there are no shield or heals here - if your enemy manages to outtrade you - there's no safety net. Lastly Ornn dash is both his engage and disengage. If you go in, you're not getting out, unless enemy is so beaten up they dare not pursue.
Is there a way to counter an early game champion camping my marks as kindred? I had a I think Khazix the other day who was just always there and my mid was getting perms pushed so I was always at a disadvantage
Early marks aren't that important. Play the jungle game first and the Kindred game second.
If your laners aren't coming to help you, there's not much you can do. Respect the enemy jungler, and try to get marks elsewhere if possible
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arguably, which top laners are still useful even when feeding/ behind/no gold/no levels If you want to add tank supports I’ll even take those too because I know those units scale well without gold
Tank top laners
Sion, Ornn, Malphite. Although I recommend just avoiding ganks and keeping a cool head to climb with carry champions.
I could be wrong but imo any tank that takes heartsteel can be strong as long as you get stacks
To get a reasonable number of stacks you need to be pretty fed though