Maokai is my favorite champion. I started playing him for the last month, and I'm Gold !V and climbing. I started playing League this season, and I've been stuck in B3-B4 for around half a year, then S3-S4 for 4 months. And in one month, I got to climb to gold.
Should I be worried that I'm spamming Maokai and not improving at the game?
Some people may think so, but I've been abusing the fuck out of Stoneplate Cheese with Cho'gath and climbing that way so you won't get any complaints from me.
If it's ranked then that's the "tryhard" do anything not against the rules to win mode. If that means one tricking one of the OP champs then so be it.
Don't forget to get gold in flex as well so you get the bonus reward at the end of season.
Part of the game is recognizing and adapting to the meta.
There shouldn't be any shame in doing so, at least in ranked.
IF you want to climb you play meta and there's nothing wrong with that mostly the people who tell you that you got to your rank by "abusing" meta champs are hardstuck bitter garbage(now this is for ranked if you play broken champs in normals that's a different story)at the end of the day everybody who wants to win either plays meta champs or one tricks a non meta champ there shouldn't be shame in doing either of those.
As long as you're learning something from each game and not just blindly spamming maokai you will improve as you rank up
PS: one guy would always flame me for getting to diamond by spamming graves but he's still plat 4 after 3 years....
Playing one champion is actually a smart way to rank up at least to a certain extent, and may help you later on down the line even when you don't play that champion, since you know how they work thoroughly, in-case you have to vs them. If you're ranking up, chances are you're learning something, so gj and gl.
Just because you are playing only one character doesn't mean you aren't improving at the game. On the contrary, learning the game with a single character helps you learn the game better because you don't need to spend time learning new character's kits. You know all the stuff Maokai can do that other characters can't, so you can easily use Maokai to learn all the stuff every character can do and needs to do in order for you to succeed at the game.
As a side note, MOBAs are actually unique as a genre where the majority of the playerbase plays at least 2-3+ characters, whereas in most other competitive genres the majority of the playerbase will use at most 1-2 characters (at least at a competitive level) because it takes so much effort to learn a new character and it takes so much time away from practicing your current main. Playing one character almost exclusively doesn't quite have tradeoffs that significant, but you still get the benefits of being really good at Maokai.
