Trying not to be the worst player in the game

SpinachSpinach··2 votes·661 views

I've only recently joined League and already I'm fairly sure I'm the worst player in the game. I've practiced for hours trying to get a decent CS score and I just can't do it. I figured I'd just play support since I wouldn't have to CS but that just lead to more lost games from me being completely awful. I really don't know what to do. I don't want to keep losing games for people even if they aren't in ranked and I've tried really hard to be better but it just never works. Any tips or should I just quit now before things get worse?

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Aeszarck3 votes

You're definitely not the worst player. You know that saying, "There's always someone better than you" or something like that? Well, there's also always someone worse than you.

One thing the Boards is not good about is giving advice. You see advice discussions very rarely, since most of the time the complaint discussions in Gameplay crowd them out. Even though Youtube is a terrible place for having a discussion, it is a great place for guides. You can find some really high quality teaching content here, like SoloRenektonOnly and LastShadow9. Unfortunately, you need to be good about separating the wheat from the chaff here, because there's so much disgusting clickbait on Youtube made to generate ad money. If a title seems too over-the-top, don't click on it. A good example of a Youtuber not to watch is Brofesco. r/SummonerSchool is another great place for learning. The LeagueOfLegends subreddit is just as bad as the Boards when it comes to circlejerk and complaints (except it focuses on complaints a little less and eSports a lot more) and you are not likely to find any good guides there, but SummonerSchool is a different story. It is a subreddit dedicated towards teaching players how to be better and most of the threads are going to be helpful to you. Mobafire is sort of a meme because of its joke guides, but there are many legitimately good Champion guides on this site as well, and they're generally easy to spot. The best ones sometimes give lessons applicable to any League Champion like warding or playing the laning phase. The guide creators range from trolls to people who treat Mobafire guides like they are their life's work, and it's up to you to find the latter guides. SoloMid is TeamSoloMid's site, and it has guides too. It doesn't have as many as Mobafire but they're more serious on average. However, the best guides on SoloMid don't come close to the best guides on Mobafire. LoLClass is a great place for extremely informative videos from top-tier players. It's like Youtube but you don't have to weed out the clickbait videos. Skill Capped also has very detailed video guides from top-tier players, organized for a strong learning experience. ProGuides is a paid service but I hear it is extremely rewarding if you invest the time into studying. Mobalytics is a personal improvement tool but it only works once you play some ranked games. It gives you personalized tips to improve based on the results from your past matches. Even though you can't use the tool yet, Mobalytics has published a lot of informative articles that could help you get better.

You can also try hiring a coach. Most coaches charge for their services and you will need to invest a time commitment, but you'll get unparalleled personal attention. Remember though, not all coaches are good and you want to make sure that your coach knows what he or she is talking about. Ask about the coach's track record if he or she does not provide you with that information initially. You can use the Player Recruitment subboard to ask for a coach. Sometimes coaches post there and offer their services, so make sure to browse frequently. Sometimes they're working for free to get started and get a track record going, and you can potentially benefit from these coaches. LoLTrainingHouse is a cool tool for finding coaches. XsollaAcademy is another tool for finding coaches. LoL Coaching is another cool tool for finding coaches.

Hope this helps!

SpinachSpinach1 votes

I don't know about that first part but the rest is all very helpful, thank you. I hope that didn't take you that much time to type up, I wouldn't want to be wasting your time on a bad player. Do you think there are any easy champs I could focus on improving with? (Preferably Support if possible)

Aeszarck2 votes

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I don't know about that first part but the rest is all very helpful, thank you. I hope that didn't take you that much time to type up, I wouldn't want to be wasting your time on a bad player. Do you think there are any easy champs I could focus on improving with? (Preferably Support if possible)

Good idea on focusing on easy Champions. You can focus more on improving your general skills and less on your Champion's specific mechanics and knowledge. Make sure to focus on all roles, not just support. You're going to look like a clown if you can only play one role competently.

Top: Chogath Garen JarvanIV Malphite Kayle Swain Talon Akali Mordekaiser Morgana

This gives you a very wide breadth of Champions to play top. They're all relatively easy and learning all of them will allow you to be a very versatile player. You can adapt to your team composition while being able to counterpick enemies.

Mid: Annie Ahri Akali Chogath Morgana Lux Talon Varus Swain Mordekaiser Kayle JarvanIV

These are some more relatively easy Champions who will allow you to be extremely adaptive to your team and the enemy team.

Bot: Ashe Sivir Twitch Mordekaiser Varus Lucian

Lucian is a bit harder than the other marksmen but I think it's important that you have at least one mobile marksman. Mordekaiser gives you an AP option when the rest of your team picks AD. The other four are easy and fit into a wide variety of compositions.

Jungle: Amumu Chogath Fiddlesticks JarvanIV Kayle Talon Evelynn Udyr Malphite XinZhao

These Champions are relatively easy and give you a very versatile Champion pool.

Support: Annie Blitzcrank Braum Janna Lux Brand Leona Soraka Malphite Morgana

This covers a lot of potential roles you can play for your team as a support and all of the picks are relatively easy.

SpinachSpinach

All roles other than support are going terribly, and so is support haha. Tried jungle with Amumu and Xin Zhao and both games I fed like crazy. I'm sorry for taking up so much of your time with this, I think I might just quit since I really cannot handle the skill level of players I get set against and can only win if we have a high level carry on our team. Sorry for wasting your time.

Aeszarck2 votes

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All roles other than support are going terribly, and so is support haha. Tried jungle with Amumu and Xin Zhao and both games I fed like crazy. I'm sorry for taking up so much of your time with this, I think I might just quit since I really cannot handle the skill level of players I get set against and can only win if we have a high level carry on our team. Sorry for wasting your time.

The great thing about League of Legends? It's so popular that pretty much players of all skill levels can find a balanced match. Your MMR is going to drop if you continue doing poorly and losing, and while most would see that as a bad thing, it's good for you. You'll start encountering people who actually play at your skill level and who will give you fun, balanced games. Keep practicing the other roles and you'll eventually get better at them. People strongly dislike people who can't play other roles because that means that they A. can't trade roles B. can't fill in a role for the team and C. don't understand how the other lanes work. For example, knowing how to play jungle can help you when you're playing support because you'll get a feel for good times to gank bot. Playing bot can teach you the limits of each bot laner and how aggressive you can be as a support to a bot laner. Finally, playing other lanes teaches you about the other Champions that appear in other lanes.

You need to be able to play all five lanes.

Don't worry about doing poorly. Just play them and you will eventually get better. I was deathly afraid of playing bot lane until I played a blind pick game and every other role got called, so I played it. It didn't go so well, but after that moment I decided the only way I was going to get better was if I played nothing but it. So I played probably twenty consecutive Tristana games. Once I did that, I realized bot lane wasn't so hard afterall, and even though I still wasn't so good at it, I was better than before and much more confident in my ability to fill that lane should my team require it.

SpinachSpinach

I wish there was some kind of instant MMR dropper. I keep getting paired up against Zeds Yasuos and Yis who can pentakill pretty much all the time. I'm suprised people who are so good are getting matched with me at all since I can barely get a kill if I have the whole team supporting me. I guess I'll keep at it and hopefully I'll see some improvement, I'm not seeing any right now though, heck I think I'm getting worse.

Kai Guy2 votes

Play vs bots when your wanting to practice mechanics. Find something that clicks for you. Every week take each Free champion to a bot game at least once to get a feel for them. Its a game and its got a steep learning curve, if you have had fun and think your gonna have more fun as you improve then keep playing it. If its just a chore and you don't enjoy other moba games then it may not be your cup of tea. I wish you the best of luck and feel free to bug me if ya need more help.

Edit, Also your gonna have a hard time pre level 30. Runes have a huge impact on lol. They are worth several hundred gold of stats, a wrong rune page or no runes really screws players and its not something that's explained in the tutorial and is also rarely brought up to new players.

SpinachSpinach1 votes

I don't really enjoy it but my friends want me to play it so I do. Is there a really easy support champion that doesn't take much skill at all to play? I figure if I can focus on one basic champion and not play anyone else I should do better.

Kai Guy2 votes

How good is your aim?

SpinachSpinach1 votes

I'm not sure. Some games people say it's good other times people say that I'm blind. I'd guess I'm on the bad side but I'm not too sure.

Kai Guy2 votes

Try Alistar Lulu they both are pretty easy to pick up and rewarding when mastered. If you can land his Q then Blitzcrank is broken as all hell. Garbage if you don't make the Qs thou. On the topic of skillshot to reward, Bard Nami are some of my fav champions. You can also try to jungle, Nunu Fiddlesticks are pretty streightfoward champions, if your just playing for hommies sakes then I suppose you could also go with Hecarim Amumu Sejuani as I'm reasonably certain most players enjoy hard cc. They will be harder to learn however, and jungleings a tough role to master.

SpinachSpinach1 votes

I'll go with Alistar then, the rest seem too difficult for me. I don't want to touch jungle since I know I'll be bad at it. Hopefully I won't lose as many games using him. Thank you.

Kai Guy3 votes

np, Id still give the free champions a whirl in AI games. Alistars really teamreliant but that's the support role. Your going to want to learn how to land his headbutt into pulverize combo, you might want to use the training tool for this until your able to hit it 9 out 10 times so you don't get frustrated watching folks fly off to safety.

Next time he is free give fiddle a try. Pretty simple kit and his impact on a match is loaded mostly into his R. Same for nunu. Good luck and hope ya have fun. (Also give ARAM a try when you can. might be more fun for ya.)

SpinachSpinach1 votes

I really don't think I'll try Fiddle or Nunu, Jungling seems way too complex for me. ARAM is a game mode I really don't enjoy but I guess I'll try it out.

SpinachSpinach

Tried jungle and it ended terribly. So did playing Alistar. I think I'm just going to quit since everyone I get put up against is leagues better than I ever will be and I don't want to keep losing games for people. Hopefully my friends won't be too annoyed.

Kai Guy2 votes

Your call mate, if your not having fun your friends shouldn't bug ya over it. If your don't enjoy a game its a mistake to play it. However if you like the game but are only upset your not good at it then I would say keep at it as your only gonna ever improve by playing it. Like I said runes have a huge impact on Leauge but its not ever mentioned properly to new players, your pretty much handicapped until you hit 30 and have a proper page for your main champions.

Regardless thanks for your time and have yourself a great day. Rock on bruh.

Magical Zoe2 votes

The game shouldn't be hard to play if you've played MOBAS before, but if you're completely new to the genre, I suggest playing against bots where you can really practice. If you really like the game, I wouldn't quit, just keep trying and it'll come to you.

SpinachSpinach1 votes

I've played a SMITE a lot and only a little bit of DoTA 2 and HoTS and I'm finding it really hard to do well at anything. Maybe I should try to enjoy it more and that might help me improve?

Magical Zoe2 votes

Smite doesn't require you to last hit, and DOTA is definitely harder than League (requires more game knowledge and mechanical skill). If i were you, i would stick to smite, because at least I could enjoy it. But you can always find friends in League and you can duo with them and they can help you get better.

SpinachSpinach1 votes

I don't really enjoy SMITE either, it was just another game that I played because my friends wanted me to. I guess it would be better to stick to that though. Thank you for the advice.

ReySolomon2 votes

If you are having issues with CS watch any pro gameplay on how they cs during laning phase and how they use their champions but don't quit!

Jaspers2 votes

I can agree with this about watching pros. I didn't play much at all before hand. I didn't get a lot of things but watching pro games in the 2015 finals got me hooked. Casters tell you thing and pros show you it. It's the closest thing to a tutorial in the game :-P

Cs practice will come in time. I stuck to bots until basically level 30.

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