Every low elo player should watch MSI

Randomonium·5/5/2016, 12:11:51 PM·4 votes·775 views

Two of the biggest problems I find in low elo is that 1) teams cannot exploit an early game advantage and snowball the game and 2) If a team is far behind they don't know ow how to stall to get back into the game.

For the first problem watch CLG vs G2. Watch how they move around the map taking objective after objective after objective. Watch how the players who are fed take their advantage to other lanes and get other members on their team fed. They're not doing anything crazy. They're not chasing low health enemies through the jungle. They're not trying to dive 1v3 or 1v4 just because they are ahead. Just very smart efficient play. It was only when they got a commanding lead did they start going for riskier plays in order to crack into the enemy base. Every low elo players should strive to play like this when ahead.

Conversely, for the second problem look at SKT vs RNG. The losing team was immensely far behind but because of excellent vision control and pink ward placement they were able to deny most plays the other team was trying to make. This allowed them to stall out the game for an hour when the game should have been over before the 30 minute mark. Yes they did wind up losing in the end but their ability to stall dispite being at a huge gold deficit was amazing. All low elo players should learn from this game and strive to play like this when they are far behind.

28 Comments

Virgin Ray5/5/2016, 1:43:52 PM4 votes

Bro, never compare bronze solo que with LCS. Their teamplay is organized and planned and us bronzies do what ever the hell we want and hope to win.

GhostOfTsushima5/5/2016, 12:44:32 PM4 votes

Yeah they do watch that is why you see so many noobs low elo tried to play Nidalee and failed hardcore

They tried to play Azir and failed

Vayne failed Kindred failed Failed everywhere

Because they thought they can do the same from watching something LMAO

Maximum Morde5/5/2016, 12:13:53 PM3 votes

Why should they watch others play when they can't even interpret what is going on in their own games right in front of them? They are low elo for a reason and watching little kids play a video game isn't going to improve their own decision making. Only experience will do that.

Shadowatom5/5/2016, 4:29:20 PM1 votes

I don't exactly understand why the downvotes. Yeah, some players will just look at the champs and builds and follow the shiny light, but some could potentially learn something about positioning, warding, setting up, etc and that's better than nothing. How else are people going to learn? Read guides and watch tip videos? Isn't that just as subject to people picking up a champion or build from there and then never actually learning anything from it? Not saying watching the LCS is the end all be all, and it shouldn't be, but saying that everybody will only take champion picks and builds away from it isn't a very strong argument imo.

TBakes5/5/2016, 4:55:57 PM1 votes

I agree. I am Bronze and feel like I learn a lot of this macro-play from watching pro esports. However, it isn't worth much unless everyone on your team is playing with the same mind-set. Farming, controlling lane, rotations, objective control--these things don't mean anything when others on your team are pushing too far, face-checking, over-chasing, trying to solo-kill, etc. My elo is about snowballing and being able to solo carry your team. It turns out I am really terrible at doing that XD

Rio Sanguino5/6/2016, 9:06:10 PM1 votes

Funny how you offer a way that might help players become better, and you get downvoted. Not sure what the thinking is there.

Smart Kitty5/5/2016, 12:39:48 PM1 votes

All elo players should watch it anyways.

PDE5 Inhib5/5/2016, 3:29:07 PM1 votes

That's honestly the worst advice ever. I see so many low elo players rushing rageblade on trist now cuz "muh LCS". Please stop being an LCS meta sheep. k thx