Decision making is all you need to climb

HateDaddy··10 votes·886 views

You really only need to have exceptionally good mechanics past high diamond. You can even get up to mid diamond with gold level mechanics.

That's why this game can be so hostile because you have players who rely largely on mechanics but they make terrible decisions mixed in with players who have great decision making and on-the-spot thinking but are really below average mechanically. And that combination can be highly combustible.

So while mechanics are fairly important, decision making is something I'd argue has a much more meaningful impact in most games. Even if decisions seem bad, if you go with them you'd be surprised how often bad plays/decisions work just because everyone makes the decision to follow up.

There's really not much of a point to this thread, just that I'm ass now because I barely play anymore and I can still carry games in mid plat by just making good decisions despite how awful I've gotten mechanically.

So uh, buff nasus, JAX, vlad, gangplank, malphite, shen and someone else I play that i cant remember atm

oh yeah buff olif

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DemoGuide3 votes

Upvote for truth. One week ago i climbed to DIamond, maining supp/mid, and my mechanics are terrible. Especially it can be seen when i play ADCs.

Miraweave2 votes

U RITE HATEDADDY

######also buff mages especially ori

HateDaddy2 votes

Ye

Miraweave1 votes

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Ye

omg +1

AwesomeChad1 votes

.....

CerealBoxOfDoom1 votes

Taliyah "Choices. Those are my only true possessions."

Tobias Brackner1 votes

This

Make decisions and watch the minimap.

The games where I perform the worst in are ones where I go brainnumb and stop thinking while the enemy doesn't take the same breather.

SouL1ess1 votes

Decision making skills and game consciousness rates above mechanics in terms of playing MOBAs

Choo61 votes

Yeah I agree. In terms of mechanical mastery in MOBAs it's easier to press 4 buttons to execute something than in fighting games where you have to chain multiple combos together. Sometimes I like to think of MOBAs as multiplayer chess.

Serika Zero1 votes

to be fair, I could do combos in fighting games like 2A - 2B - 5B - 6B - 5C - 2C - 6C - j.B - j.C - dj.B - j.C - Air Trow as the easy one everyone can do after like 2 days

then it took me like 2 weeks to learn 2A - 2B - 5B - 6B - 5C - 2C - 6C - j.B - j.C - dj.[C] - j.A (whiff) - j.214A - 214A - j.A - j.B - j.C - dj.B - j.C - Air Throw with j = jump; dj = double jump; numbers = directions (easy to understand if you look at num pad).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVHPfy4LN28 - that would be just the first 2 combos in the video

But I could practice that over and over and over again for like 3 hours per day. LoL lacks a 100% cdr practice mode.

So, even something like Rengar's ult one shot combo its difficult for me to do (as in close to never). Therefore, we can't improve mechanical skills as easy as fighting games.

My point, comparing mechanical skills in fighting games and league is not good because fighting games give you a training system. While league doesn't.

Akali is SO HOT1 votes

But what if you're laning against pantheon and your playing as any top laner in the game?

HateDaddy2 votes

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But what if you're laning against pantheon and your playing as any top laner in the game?

The only decision you have is to try and survive lane phase without dying and hope your jungler has a brain and claims the free gold top. That rarely happens with pantheon for some reason

Serika Zero1 votes

stay in exp range, try to farm when possible recall and heal when below 50% hp, if he freezes in bad spots for you, ask jungler for help to break the freeze, if he doesn't then farm some jungle camps.

Serika Zero1 votes

Don't know if it works up to Diamond. But I can confirm that you can climb at least to plat in euw with just game knowledge (which lets you make better decisions)

xxxDogmanxxx1 votes

I am currently sitting at Diamond 1, and I probably have something like bronze 5 mechanics. That's why I only play mechanically easy champions like Xin Zhao and Volibear. I know I am very easily outplayed, so I end up being a very safe player overall. I only go in when I am absolutely sure I can brute force the situation into my favor. Seems to have worked out well for me so far.

Maximum Morde1 votes

Olif confirmed next champ? I saw it on a stream.

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