This is my first year I'm watching worlds relatively intently to try and learn more about professional play into improve myself as a league player in general ( my interest may or may not have had something to do with the new pick em, but I digress) . I do have a question though what exactly does the coach do ?
Earl Eulrich1 voteshttp://worlds.lolesports.com/en_US/worlds/articles/origens-coach-hermit-comes-out-his-shell offers some insight, though it´ll be slightly different for each team.
Alex is the name1 votesA lot of the coach's job has to do with team strategy rather than individual play, most pro players are light years better as a player than their coaches and know how certain situations should play out mechanically. Coaches are mainly in charge of pick bans to make sure the team has a good comp to play with and that the enemy team doesn't get champions that will auto win them the game. Coaches are also mainly in charge of setting up scrims against enemy teams and testing out new team strategies in scrims and make sure the team plays as a team and not as five solo players.
Hope that helps.
LaoBushido1 votesyea this helps a bit but then it confuses me when it come to a play being a "shot caller"
Alex is the name1 votesThe coach designs the team comp in champ select but the shot caller executes the team comp during the game. So Hai is the shot caller for C9 so if they are playing a weak early game but strong late game comp he may decide to gank top and trade a kill and tower for first dragon in bot side because the early gold is better than the dragon buff for the team. The shot caller is the in game decision maker which the coach obviously can't do.
Ale non è male1 votesThe shot caller is the player that actually decide what objective to go after, if the team got to group or not, if the team must play defensively or offensively, when to fight or go back, etc. in game In a normal game with stranger you ping dragon or write in chat while other people do the same maybe saying the same thing, in a team you can't afford that, and there is usually one guy that has the duty of calling the play to be made. Think about a basketball coach and his playmaker, there is pretty much the same relationship