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Feeling like a Storm Trooper

Ravenhale·4/11/2016, 2:48:07 PM·2 votes·165 views

So last night I had a pretty rough losing streak. Ran with a Morgana 0/7/8, Lux 4/4/15 and Karma 1/11/21. It was just one of those nights where I couldn't hit anything. Was even asked if I was trolling with Karma because it was seriously that bad. Like I was maybe hitting 20% at best with her and the times I did hit was when it was irrelevant. That Karma game... ugh. That's one of those games where even though I was doing things, it was never when it mattered. It was like playing Soraka and missing that clutch save in every team fight. ¬.¬

I mentioned the other two because I seem to have these nights now and then where every linear skill shot misses. It wasn't as horrid with Lux or Morgana, but I seem to have these nights where "leading the target" is a poor strategy. I swear most of the times I missed a snare was because the enemy did not move at all. It feels weird to miss "skill" shots when the only skill required was point and click. And missing even half of your snares makes you feel bad for taking a champ that was expressly picked for her snares.

So I guess moving forward... I'm going to try to just aim directly until they actually attempt dodging. Feels like a step backwards, but its frustrating to outplay yourself.

3 Comments

xBushx4/11/2016, 3:05:28 PM1 votes

It depends on the elo...

The higher the elo the more predictions play effect. take the "Madlife Hook" but no think the oposite..

So thresh is about to hook me and he's a really good player. you just walk straight to "Fake" dodging or using gap closer and they hook where they THOUGHT you would go.

It's all about mid tricks and it plays our differently at different levels of play.

Personal Flavor: When i am going around a corner of terrain in the fog of war I tend to deviate from what would be the fastest path to safety because predictions are going to be aimed at that "plane". Also I can't tell you how many time i walked towards the enemy team and ate 50% HP worth of damage and ESCAPED instead of getting hit by the prediction Binding and dying.

However when it really comes down to it the answer to everything; All the "Mind games"All of the outplays come from EXPERIENCE. You don't know exactly what you should or would do until the event occurs and you have the chance succeed or fail...then reflect on that.

Some things can't really be changed that much such as reaction time for instance is an innate characteristic of gamers and some people will never have any better reactions than what they have now as most gamers will have already peaked in that ability. (Also personal opinion for the most part)

Hullabaloo9074/11/2016, 3:26:24 PM1 votes

I feel like this is a tilt thing. I personally have trouble with last hitting since I main support. I'll go a streak of missing last hits simply because missing a minion I should have got sends me on a mini tilt