I wanna be pro

RealNiteMare·3/26/2016, 3:33:41 PM·2 votes·1,048 views

I just hit level 30 yesterday and now I don't quite know what to do. I wanna be pro but i gotta learn more. What should I do?

14 Comments

Serevas3/26/2016, 3:59:37 PM3 votes

Most Pro players practice 8-12 hours a day at minimum. Add to that you are starting fresh so realistically professional aspirations, unless you have a natural affinity for the game, are a long way out.

Dedicate a lot of time to it, you need to continuously practice, review replays of your games. I've been told that you should spend at least equal time focusing on your replay reviews as playing, if not more time on reviews. 12 hours of playing isn't as useful as 6 hours playing and 6 hours reviewing. The reason for this is if you keep playing with making errors, but not fixing them, you're practicing bad habits. Watch higher ranked players through Youtube and Twitch, don't let professional play influence your personal improvement through solo queue. It's not nearly the same, you can pick up some things, but as a whole it's not as valuable as high elo solo queue players.

I personally recommend Valkrin as far as streams go. Before the dynamic queue system came out, he was multi season challenger as a fill main. Meaning he played literally every role well enough to maintain a challenger level.

The biggest trap you need to avoid, is blaming your teammates for losses. In most cases there's always something you could have done better, so there's always something to learn even if your bot lane went 0/25, there's something you personally could have done better. Accept the fact that some games are unwinnable. Most highly skilled players still only have a 55% win ratio, that means you're going to lose almost half of your games even if you're personally playing at a massively skilled level.

You should narrow your champion pool. The fact is you're still learning the game, trying to learn several champions only sets you back further. It used to be that you needed to learn some for every single role, now with dynamic queue you can learn champions for a select two roles if you so desire, you can even choose champions that can cross into different roles. For example Irelia makes a decent top laner as well as a jungler, she's not overly complicated, and you can focus on learning the game itself.

I went nuts in terms of learning several champions, trying everything out, and trying overly complicated champions. It took me much longer to learn the game itself, because I was constantly learning a new champion. Being a one trick pony, also known as playing only a single champion, is a very viable strategy to climbing. There's players who play only Teemo, Twisted Fate, Heimerdinger, Riven, and even Annie, all of which sitting inside masters and challenger elos.

III BAKURYU III 3/27/2016, 6:33:45 PM2 votes

I want to be pro too, So every night before bed I say my prayers and eat my vitamins.

Eggplantosphere3/26/2016, 3:36:46 PM1 votes

Well I'm nowhere close to pro, but if you ask any coach for any (e)sport they'll say you need two things: Hard work and dedication. So try that out first

Trashlord Kayden3/26/2016, 3:44:12 PM1 votes

i recommend watching pros play on twitch. you learn a lot that way.

JimmyNtheKudos3/27/2016, 12:52:13 PM1 votes

Super extra hardwork (think Darshan) or natural talent (Jensen, Bjerg) is the only way to do it.

You have to reach challenger or at the very least master, but Challenger would be much more regarded.

Look up articles or videos on youtube that show practice tips or drills you can do to improve yourself mechanically. I don't necessarily recommend Twitch since most of the streamers are just messing around in their smurf accounts. Youtube guides will be much more useful.

You can also hire coaches that will be actual pro players teaching you and giving you tips.

Easiest way to go pro is reach top of the Challenger ladder get a chance to try out, and get into an LCS team. The other is getting into challenger, joining a CS team, and winning your way into the LCS (though this one will be longer and way harder). Lastly, you can also prove yourself in a CS team, and be recruited from there to replace a player in an LCS team.