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Wards are very important in League of Legends yet their importance is often cast aside by newer players. Why? Mainly because they cost gold and why would you buy a ward when you can save up for your Rabadon’s Deathcap? Unknown to newer players wards give you a great advantage by giving you vision on your enemies. This can help massively during a game as it helps prevent ganks from enemies and also gives you vision of important objectives. This helps your team know when the enemy is trying to take the baron or dragon.
Although ARAM might be a lot more casual than summoner’s rift (as there is no ranked version of it) it shouldn’t be dismissed so fast. There are plenty of benefits of playing ARAM and it can actually make you a better player. How so you may ask? Well for starters the games are much faster and usually last around 20 minutes, 30 minutes can be considered a fairly long game. Compare this to summoner’s rift and the average game time is already much shorter. This is a good thing as it allows you to finish games faster and get onto the next one with new players and new champions to play with. This makes ARAM a great game mode for practising! The game mode also forces you to play champions you would never necessarily pick, who knows you might end up finding your next main role! The map itself is also a lot smaller as it’s only one lane meaning there is a lot more action and team fights. If you want to practice a champion as well as team fighting then ARAM is definitely the place to do it!
League of Legends is a game that continually evolves with updates. Riot is always looking to improve the game and in order to do this, some changes need to be made. It’s important to keep up to date with the latest updates as some new patches can have really big changes. These changes can be anything from mastery or runes reworks to individual champions getting the makeover treatment.
It’s important to know which champions have been buffed or nerfed after every patch as this can have a big effect on the game’s meta. A good website that keeps up to date with the latest champion changes is Nerf Please. Be sure to check their website after every patch to see which champions have been buffed or nerfed. If a popular champion gets nerfed or reworked then a lot of people might decide to stop playing them in game as they are not seen as strong anymore. This means players will look to swap preferences to a stronger champion.
You need to take objectives in order to win a game. If you don’t take objectives then your only chance of winning is the other team surrendering, which is unlikely to happen during ranked. Deciding when to take a tower and push the lane or recall back to base can be a tough decision. Do you take the tower and get the gold but make yourself more vulnerable to ganks or do you leave the minions to die to the tower and deny them gold while you recall? Obviously, we can’t give a solid answer as it depends on your situation in game. Are you winning the lane comfortably or are you losing? Is your jungler doing a good job and communicating or are they nowhere to be seen?
If you’re really winning the lane then it’s probably best to take the tower and start to push. Whereas if you’re losing on CS and kills then it’s probably best to play it safe and keep the tower up as long as possible. Knowing when to take objectives can be a real game-changer, telling your team to do baron with the enemy team still alive is not the best idea. Wouldn’t it make more sense to wait until most of them are dead first?
When someone on your team makes a bad play you should really think twice before you start flaming them. Saying something bad to them can really annoy a lot of players and make them tilt, troll or just generally play worse overall. To stop this from happening in your game, try to only say positive things and stay away from negative criticisms. There’s no point moaning about how somebody missed their skill shot. That’s in the past, move on. Like your mother probably once told you, if you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all.
When playing League of Legends it is important to focus on yourself as you really have no control other the rest of your teammates. Your focus should be on yourself only, if your mid laner keeps dying then that’s something you’re just going to have to deal with. You can try to change your gameplay and strategy around helping the mid laner but you can’t control how the mid laner plays. By focusing on yourself it directs your attention to where it should be. If you play really well you might be able to have an impact on the game and push it in your favor. Instead of flaming, worrying and moaning about other players who you can’t control, focus on the things you can. [garen-swing]
