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How can I improve?

Hollow Miracles·12/31/2015, 1:12:35 AM·2 votes·513 views

So here's the deal: I've been playing this game for a little over a year now. I realize that this isn't actually very long in League terms, but it sure seems like a damn long time to me. I enjoy the game (for the most part) but the one HUGE problem I have with it is that I cannot seem to get any better. I don't think I've improved one bit since I hit level 30, which was a long time ago. I constantly make the same dumb mistakes and when I win a trade or a teamfight it feels like pure luck rather than any form of skill. Winning a game is almost never my doing and when it is it's probably because I got stupidly fed (somehow) and...well you get the point. I don't have main champion or role since I'm not particularly good at any of them. I just kinda skip around from role to role, champ to champ, trying to find one that I enjoy or can play well.

Essentially, how can I get better at League of Legends? (Cause practice doesn't seem to be doing jack)

5 Comments

MrBuffington12/31/2015, 2:05:23 AM2 votes

My favorite resource: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWIfnDrWU_Cvc1a8qZribhA

LS is one of pretty few western content creators/coaches I've found who understand the concepts of the game and can articulate them in an understandable and memorable way. He also goes into the nitty gritty micro of the game, as well as macro, so understanding the concepts he brings and learning how to apply them to your game goes a really long way towards improving

Also a helpful resource: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtvPSp4nXGdFCRUR76a2Vwg

I've been enjoying this channel lately; it helps more if you have more background (which LS helps with), where you can start to break down and reverse-engineer what the players do and why. Also generally just looking up replays from top pros.

Bottom line is that a lot of what this game comes to is refining your fundamentals. The game, by nature, is constantly changing, but if you have a solid foundation, you can adapt to anything. There really isn't a golden bullet to getting better (there are a few easier ways to climb the ladder, but you won't really become a better player, just better at a niche cheese tactic), it's just thoughtful and meaningful practice.

shyv12/31/2015, 1:35:26 AM1 votes

well, once i hit level 30 i started watching a lot of high elo streamers and spectating other people's games in the client. it helps to see what other people are doing when you have time to focus on them and you don't have to worry about controlling a champ and stuff.

and, yeah, you're right, one year really isn't a lot of time. unless you're playing a ton of games a day there's not a lot of time to improve. i've been playing for about 4 years now but i play pretty casually, don't do ranked and play maybe 4 normal matches a day just for fun. you learn with time.

read patch notes, ask questions, spectate games, use mobafire and stuff if you want to learn a new champ. but don't rely on mobafire, learn from experience.

btw if you have any specific questions you can ask me, or even add me in game if you want, but it's up to you. i've been playing for way too fuckin long so i know all the basic stuff. if you need to know advanced stuff ask someone who is plat / diamond bc i am not there. yet.

Dreadlocks12/31/2015, 3:14:28 AM1 votes

Study the game like a text book.

FrickendaChicken12/31/2015, 3:26:37 AM1 votes

Go into a role, play the CRAP out of that role, learn it's strategies, when it's able to do things and how much. Then move to the next role. Go into each game trying to improve one specific part of your gameplay, and then when you go into your next game, do that specific thing, plus another thing. Specifically learn things like map awareness and warding spots in each lane to begin with, then go into how to win specific matcheups WITHOUT jungle help. You don't even have to win lane, just focus on not feeding lane. It's okay to lose, just don't go past 0/2, if you go past that, then your opponent can reliably snowball the game. THEN learn what each role does before, during, and after a teamfight. Are you the assassin? Kill the adc then just do the most damage you can while trying to get a lot of resources from the enemy team. Are you the tank? Cc and hurt people that come to close making them waste resources on you. Are you the adc? ONLY SHOOT THE PEOPLE IN YOUR SPACE and space yourself from your enemies while keeping your allies close. E.T.C.

Do this until you can reliably get yourself fed (or someone else fed if you're in jungle or support).

Vesarixx12/31/2015, 6:58:52 AM1 votes

Probably the best thing you can do is see what you can get away with, if you see an opening go for it, if there is a 25% chance it could go in your favor then it's worth trying, after a while you'll know what you can and can't do, and if it's an issue with mechanics keeping you from doing something you can drill those mechanics, if it's map awareness buy a pink ward every time you back, if it's game knowledge then research it, if it's a specific match up, look for people on the forums who main specific champions and 1v1 them until you have it figured out. Also don't settle for winning your own lane and then complain about still losing the game, if you're crushing your lane, go to another one and win that too, if 2 lanes win you're in a better spot to win the game than if only your lane wins. If you're jungling just pick 1-2 lanes to get ahead based on who you think can carry harder.

Also, don't think about something being OP, Riot does a decent job at keeping things balanced no matter what the boards say, so you can win against any champion if you play it right. If you're against someone higher rated don't sweat it either, if you go in thinking they'll win right away you're giving them a huge psychological advantage, if you go in with a level head and play well then you have the edge because they may underestimate you.

Counter picks are pretty much meaningless, so don't pick something just because it's supposed to be a counter, I've won lane vs so many people who think they have me countered just from knowing the matchups better than they do, even matchups like Katarina vs Diana.