What's The Winning Formula?

RUMBLER J·12/26/2015, 6:51:20 AM·1 votes·1,226 views

I have a BIG question. What's the key of winning more games? And I mean, a LOT more games?

I tried to be good at all roles. Really, I did. But, it turns to be too difficult for me to handle. And that got me wondering, what is the winning formula? Does it depend on luck? Does skill play a role? Is it my attitude towards others? What's the right formula?

That's all I wanted. There's MUST be something missing. There MUST be something good players have done that I have been seriously lacking. What is it that I'm missing? Luck? Skill? Attitude? What, what, WHAT?

10 Comments

Surfer Ashe12/26/2015, 7:00:01 AM3 votes

The difference between high elo and low elo can mainly be found in the death counts.

I found in games where I've died 4 times or less, I have about a 75% chance of winning it - yes, even when other teammates feed to high hell.

You can only control your actions wholly. You can indirectly, positively or negatively, affect other players and their actions but if you focus on yourself primarily, you should see improvement.

Lately, with vision changes, I found jungling well give you the best results because of vision changes. You can pressure the map early and hard with just a pink and a sweeper and get to snowball your team easily.

If you're tilting at the moment, take a break from League. No games at all. Then come back and practice on normals with a clear head. Remind yourself what you found fun about this game to begin with.

Chibi Templar12/26/2015, 6:59:38 AM1 votes

wut rings u got btch?

Seriously though. You just need to be competent at maybe 6 or 7 different heroes. 5 you're solid with, 2 you're really good at in your main roles. You don't need to know the ins and outs and in betweens of every role, just the basics, and maybe a neat trick or two. You just need to be able to hold up at minimum your 25%.

FadedFreezy12/26/2015, 7:07:53 AM1 votes

I would recommend being proficient at three roles with 2-3 champions. Learn one lane mainly, know the counters and find a champion that you roam comfortably with. If every lane can handle their weight this leaves the jungler open to farm up and coordinate ganks which is better than having to focus the jungler on one lane. While on the topic of ganks, wards, wards and more wards. Vision can give huge advantages in the jungle and prevent ganks and control over Dragon, Baron & the buffs. Don't be toxic, make friends to play with and if you have the capabilities a voice chat saves a lot of typing. I made gold four after my first ten games, much of my time is spent focusing on a single champion at time. I bounce from lane to lane while learning champions and force myself to play even bad match ups until I'm around level four or five with the given champion. There's a lot of guides and even just reading game play threads you'll be able to pick up little things. Map Awareness and a decent knowledge of your champion and counter buidling I would say is enough to get you into gold. Good luck and always push yourself out of your comfort zone while practicing and testing champions.

Niyumi12/26/2015, 7:11:15 AM1 votes

Step 1: Find the easiest, most braindead champs in the game who mash buttons or click on people and win.

Step 2: Learn how to exploit their broken kit to the fullest

Step 3: Click on people, and delete them.

Step 4: Play like a good overall player.

Step 5: Win.

shyv12/26/2015, 7:53:19 AM1 votes

from looking at your profile i can see that you're pretty new. unranked and ~100 normal wins is not a lot of time to learn the game, believe it or not. trust me, you will learn with time. if you want you can add me and i can help you learn some of the things you might be missing, but it's up to you

personally, i don't care about normal games, but in ranked i won a lot by literally just spamming games with champs im good at. didn't play anyone but shyvana and leona at all this season (except sivir once when my client fucked up and i couldn't trade, that was interesting and i fed a vayne 8 kills) and i was able to climb by only playing 2 champs.

as long as you're Decent at other roles and champs, as in, if you're forced out of your main role you won't feed your ass off, then you'll be fine really. focus on farming in lane and don't risk dying, because that puts you at a huge disadvantage.

something i've noticed from watching high levels of play is that most of the time, people don't die in lane, they die from ganks and teamfights. you should be playing safe in lane and not putting yourself in risky situations where you MIGHT get a kill but you also might die

also, this is preseason, and preseason sucks. everything is snowbally right now and most games end by surrendering. don't worry about preseason, hopefully everything will get fixed in the new season and it will suck less

just something to think about, i'm not an expert obviously, just been playing this game for way too fucking long. if you have any questions hmu

xReadyPlayerOnex12/26/2015, 7:59:46 AM1 votes

I'd say it depends entirely on your team.

I just put a post up about how to recover from behind. But that's just part of it. If your team feeds, you can't carry. It's that simple. And believe me, I've gone 24/5/18 with almost 600 cs in a 70 minute game and couldn't carry cause my team was all 3/19 with under 100 cs. It's a team game. Has to be played as such. It helps to learn enough to teach people to be better but most games you can't and it's pure luck. There's a reason almost EVERY win rate is around 50%. Statistically, on a large enough sample. The game is a pure flip of the coin.

Valderis Vandala12/26/2015, 8:50:16 AM1 votes

If diversifying your skill set doesn't work out then you could try the opposite, focus on a single champion and get super good with him/her. Learn all the match-ups, learn to beat all your counters, learn your power spikes, learn to play in any position, etc.

The key to winning is skill and knowledge, perhaps you lack skill and need to train a lot more, perhaps you lack knowledge and need to read more. Understand that LoL is a game not just of skill but also numbers, if you can understand all the numbers then you'll be able to make better decisions that will help you win more games. It's also a team game, so the more you can do for your team the better your chances become.

Mimy12/26/2015, 6:53:47 AM1 votes

Just play.

GamblerOfLives12/26/2015, 3:09:49 PM1 votes

The difference between high elo and low elo is this: Mistakes. the higher you go, the fewer mistakes you make:).