New player - Struggling to win or play reasonably

Maazel·Sep 4, 2016·2 votes·539 views

I'm quite new to, am just hit level 25, and too be frank I suck... how long till I get average at this game, I don't know if have the patience... My last few games.. Loss - 2/5/1 Annie Loss - 1/6/3 Ashe Loss - 2/6/5 Ashe Loss - 0/9/5 Nasus Loss - 0/7/1 Nasus Loss - 4/4/1 Sona Loss - 4/6/5 Nasus Loss - 4/14/9 Master Yi Win - 5/13/20 Nasus Win - 6/11/5 Nasus Loss - 4/3/1 Nasus Loss - 3/4/8 Sona Win - 6/7/11 Ashe Loss - 1/5/1 Nasus Loss - 1/4/0 Nasus

3 wins / 12 Loss, either my team is annihilated or I'm the weak one get smashed.. I have been watching youtube videos, and trying hard to survive, and just cs, but then I usually just get poked down then destroyed... How do I get better!!

Thanks

6 Comments

L0ve Is BlueSep 4, 20161 votes

To be honest, getting better at League of legends is 50% about game knowledge.

Knowing your enemy. If you know every champion in the game, know all of their spells and all of the items they can build, it will be a lot easier to take over them or at least not get shit on by them. If you see you are struggling against some specific champions, try to learn about them and ways to counter them. If you have any questions about some champions ask me!
Knowing your limits. What is your range? Your cooldowns? Do you have vision? Can you push that far without your jungle being close? Is the enemy champion a hard counter to yours? What can you do/ cannot do in teamfights?
Knowing whats going on in the game. If you saw the enemy jungler top and bot lane just got a kill, its a good timing for dragon. If you havent seen bot lane in a while and their jungler suddenly dissapeared too, well they probably are the one doing dragon. If jungle ganked bot lane and you are mid, ward bot side. If their mid is MIA and you are top/bot, you should probably back away.

Another tip to win is to always have a pink ward on the map. Anywhere. Just put one. Vision=win.

If there is anything specific you want to ask don't be shy!

Timethief49Sep 4, 20161 votes

If you want to dedicate yourself to league watch some pros stream. i learned about 90% of my knowledge from watching theoddone. he also made me become a jungle main

WolfChasesSep 4, 20161 votes

Riot is the one who fu*ked up the new player experience seriously. One and the most important thing right now is who's your enemy and your team mate ant this applies to both, rankeds and normals. I remember a game that I player with 4 of my friends, we were all gold/platinum and we had level 26 Tristana in our team. Guy simply got deleted, was 1/10 at the end and that 1 kill he managed to get was a luck in a team fight when he somehow managed to finish someone. Our enemies were also gold/platinum and guys imply couldn't do anything. Enemy Vayne (Plat 3) had close to 180 minions at the time our Tristana had 56. The point is that Riot fucked up match making and it's not rare that you are getting matched with much better veteran players. I am playing this game since 2012 and well...if someone who's not even 30 gets matched with me it's normal that he stands no chance.

Other than that, you shouldn't care much about anything else since you are still under 30 and you have a lot to learn, even Pros have to learn and adapt to every season and every single patch with a bigger changes. You will get better in time but expect that you are going to lose a lot until Riot fixes the match making.

I remember when I started LoL, it was fun, I leveled really fast and I had no problems with match making because it was really rare to get matched with Platinums while you are -30.

Ninja Baby oneSep 4, 20161 votes

Okay, in my opinion you're actually already doing something right. When you start playing the game your mechanics suck, that's a given for everyone, but you're playing easy to learn champions. What you're doing right is you're playing champions that easily teach you how the game works without being too intense on the mechanics. The only issue you're however having with the champions is that you're taking too many chances. You play a lot of Nasus, which I personally think is the best champion to teach you mechanics. I however am guessing you're being relatively aggressive throughout the game. What you want to do is sit back and just farm your Q by last-hitting until you hit level 9. If the enemy goes in on you, use your W on the enemy and run back. Nasus is a weak fighter before level 9 and that's just how it is. He is however IMO the champion that best teaches you how to last-hit because you need to last-hit in order to do good with Nasus (I'm not a pro in any regard, but he taught me most of my mechanics). What I would do if I were you is go into a Coop Vs. AI game and play toplane and just farm. A good rule is to have 70-80 Creep Kills before 10 minutes have passed. Once you can do that Vs. AI you should be able to go into normal games and get a much better game. This is the easiest way to improve, however it takes time. Another thing you could do is learn all the champions that are in the game. A momentous task, I know, but if you know exactly what your opponents can do (You can learn how much damage they can deal later) then you've got a good idea of what to expect. Learning the individual spells should be more than enough to start off, later you can learn combos and such. Lastly, it would be a really good idea to find your role, so to speak. What makes the game fun for you? Is it getting lots of kills (Then maybe a jungler that ganks a lot)? Is it teamfights(Then maybe Amumu or Galio, someone with a big teamfighting ult)? Is it the laning phase (Then a duelist or a great ADC would do great)? Is it bursting the opponent from 100 to 0 in a second(AP Assassins ftw)? Is it being an unstoppable killing machine late game(Hypertanks like Nasus and Renekton)? Once you've figured out what is fun for you, you can figure out which kinds of champions suit that playstyle and play them.

Great MutaSep 4, 20161 votes

Nasus isn't a good pick right now. There's just too many different matchups at top for him to deal with when he just wants to farm.

Hi I Little GirlSep 4, 20161 votes

dont play nasus unless your gonna wanna farm lol if u dont wanna farm or are not good at farming then just play people like malphite or kled that go ham all the time lol