Baddies taking advice from the gods

Need Gold 4 Tent··1 votes·247 views

Is it really helpful? On face value, it seems obvious, the high elo players know what they're talking about and following what they say will improve you as player. Well, improving as a player is right, but I'd also expect some advice to not work in a low elo environment.

Especially on splitpushers, the high elo player might tell you to generate pressure in a lane in particular situation. However, the enemies are dumb enough to let you take an inhibitor, but your team was even dumber to initiate a 4v5, all die and you lose half the base. He might say as champ Y, you should go all-in because you always beat champ Z. But he forgot you are a Bronze III player without the mechanical finesse to pull off such an outplay required of champ Y. They also may misjudge situations to be careful when enemies may not be that competent to deserve that respect, telling you to avoid trying for a particular play when it might've netted you a double.

All these advice are definitely to be considered, were you a player in diamond perhaps but low elo and high elo are like 2 separate games altogether.

So, for low elo advice, better take it from an experienced fellow hardstuck silver or a challenger player without your limitations?

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Mysticman891 votes

Would still lean to challenger player, but ideally challenger player with experience climbing through low elo on smurfs and so on. This means their macro level advice is likely to account for the fact that your teammates are likely to do the 'wrong' thing (e.g. 4v5).

Micro finesse is something you should always be working on anyway and for most things isn't 'that' hard (plenty of silver-gold players out theres who have mechanics on par with diamonds), so shouldn't just assume you can't do the outplays. Even if you can't at first, you won't learn it by never trying. (Note this is try when the experienced players say you can [so you're likely even leveled/items], not keep throwing yourself at an enemy after you failed the first couple times and now they're snowballed, since that's just feeding.)

redniwediS1 votes

It's one thing to understand, and another to put that understanding into practice. For this reason I'd take advice from someone of any tier, including bronze, so long as they show the ability to understand the game. I wouldn't necessarily trust them with my rank, but if they can sit there and think things through I'm willing to trust their mind. That said:

They also may misjudge situations to be careful when enemies may not be that competent to deserve that respect, telling you to avoid trying for a particular play when it might've netted you a double.

Enemies always deserve respect. So what if you didn't get that double, you're learning a good habit that will save you a few deaths when you run into opponents that are actually worthy. It will help you in the long run to make the safe plays instead of the high risk, high reward ones that so often throw games, at least until you fully understand your limits.

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