I have heard from others a lot that one tricking is a strong way to learn the fundamentals of the game. For some reason though I don't find myself doing it. I am not good with fundamentals such as CS, but never felt that I needed to one trick any champion to get better at the game.
If you arent an aspiring Jungler, then I always recommend ARAM. Its the most fun version of League, and also gets you good quick. it forces you to experience playing a really wide variety of champions, and removes the blame shifting and ignoring of mistakes so common in summoners rift.
The basic idea is that in ARAM there aren't as many layers of BS. There's 1 lane, even field, everybody is in it unless they're dead or afk.
This means you can clearly see what you're doing well and what you are not, and all the plays are always in front of you on the screen. If you are getting carried by a team mate, you can see what they're doing better than you and emulate it. if you realize that you're the weak link and feeding hard, same thing. You have 10 play styles on the screen and can compare what works much better than summoners rift. For example in SR you might see that your teamate got an S+ but not have witnessed the actual legwork that got there. Plus you cant just choose a glory hog champ every time then claim you carried, you gotta play your role. so you sort of learn the basics of what each role is quickly. You also see a lot of the core realities of the way the game works faster, all the little lessons nobody bothers to explain.
Plus, you'll find your new Main in the champ you never would have tried otherwise. have fun!
Dont one trick, especially now. I have over 4k games on nothing but Jayce, and thats it. In the previous seasons I would agree for one tricking, but now, being a one trick is too risky. Riot isnt balancing the game for every champion to have the same carry potential. Honest truth is you need to pick 5 champions, and learn those 5 champions. Play 100 games of Jayce, 100 games of Shen, 100 games of Gragas, 100 games of Gnar, 100 games of Irelia, then 100 games of heimerdinger. The point of these 5 champions, is to pick entirely different type of playstyles so you have a clue for future metas. Jayce is good in early-mid game carrying metas, like Season 6/7. Shen is good in tank metas. Gragas is good in metas where team fights matters. Gnar is good against tanks. Irelia is good in snowball metas (current).
So pick the lane youre going to play, pick the 5 champions that have different meta playstyles, and play 100 games in a row on each champion. Then this way, when you go to play a different tank, youd have more of an idea on how to play them. Instead of picking 5 assassins that will for one only be good in burst metas, and you'll only know how to play like an assassin. Thats my honest advice to you.
If you mastered your champ you have more time learning the other aspects of the game. Dunno if it works for everyone, or if it worked for me.
On the other end of the spectrum, you can be a fill main, though you'd usually harm your micro performance in favor of learning how to macro efficiently, though I wouldn't suggest that either since climbing becomes more of a team thing for you, and takes more time than one tricking. The only good side I'd say would be you eventually learn to be able to pick up any champion and play them at a good enough level without much practice, usually with the exception of champions with high skill ceiling though, since they tend to be reliant on how good you are at micro
It’s true that if you master a champion you have more time to learn game mechanics but only if you actually do so. A lot of low elo one-tricks think they’re good at the game because they can consistently win their lanes. The problem with this is that they have no idea what comes after and are stuck in a “I smahed my lane —> I’m good —> my team is holding me back” mentality when they’re not better themselves. So yes you can learn the game faster when you one-trick but only if you do it the right way.
You can learn the fundamentals, and you'd probably be a god at whatever champ you OTP with. But if him/her gets banned in draft or ranked, you're screwed. I recommend you have a easy secondary like Garen or something, so you don't automatically lose the game if your main champ is banned. I main Caitlyn, and I bought Kai'Sa just in case Caitlyn gets banned(which isn't often, but still). If I happen to play mid lane, I have two champs I can play, Akali and Karthus. I play 4 champs, so my fundamentals aren't exactly great, but at least I won't screw the game horribly.
Every day I at least try to get the win of the day, so that by the end of the week, I can get a new champion. From there, I use the tabs (in the collection screen) to find out which roles I am playing the least. I’ll get a champion for that role, and will play them for at least 2 days. This stray has helped me to cs better, poke and dodge better, and macro better. So I guess 1 tricking doesn’t really work for me?
