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The most necessary skill to climbing

Kendren1·11/30/2019, 1:42:58 AM·6 votes·5,681 views

For people looking to improve their ability to climb in any elo, I just want to throw out there whats helped me improve my winrates the most while learning game.

Analyze the situations... and dont always commit just because ur team does.

This skill will always be a work in progress, and u'll never be perfect at it. But if ur someone who always follows the teams calls, or is scared to get flamed for not going in even though ur outnumbered or fighting from a bad spot, then ur winrate will never get much higher than 50%.

I did this for along time because there rly isnt a way to gauge the outcome of a fight without the experience to know its gonna get u killed. But once u get better at that aspect, being able to get SOMETHING done during the time u would otherwise have been dead is the keymark of a good player. Could be shoving out a lane or w/e.

Just to give people an idea of things to focus on for improving their own gameplay going into s10.

GL

9 Comments

toby mcteague11/30/2019, 2:46:26 AM3 votes

In my opinion, reducing your C game is better than improving your A game.

For example, your C game is making a shit ton of mistakes which could be :

Chasing into FOW without knowing where enemy team is.
Taking bad trades in lane. Taking risky CS _and _ dying.
Helping your jungler when you lose in a 2v2, or are low on mana, or have a huge wave under turret.

Your A game is when you’re CSing perfectly and are fed as hell. Or even having huge map pressure and teamfight presence.

None of your A game matters if you are still making the same mistakes in the C game. You’ll be trading kill for kill, which in turn reduces your map pressure, which in turn make it so that you have less chance to win the game.

Playing both your A and C game at the same time will hinder or even bring your climb to a halt, where you feel like you have plateud.

For me, I climbed from Gold 2 to Plat 3 in 2 weeks, after being hardstuck Gold 2 for 4 months. I simply reduced the amount of my deaths from chasing kills, as well as giving up CS in lane if I had to. Playing safe but smart means Im lowering my C which in turn gives more room for My A game to shine.

DestructoDave11/30/2019, 4:22:28 AM2 votes

I think learning to accept being carried is a bigger factor. Most people can't. People lose lane, or die, or get killed in their jungle, and they just shut down and throw the game because its not gonna be a highlight reel for them. Start raging, or afk farming sidelanes or their jungle, or feeding.

They cant handle being a role player for a game.

Cõmega11/30/2019, 1:45:52 AM2 votes

So the skill of "Actually using your brain" Heimerdinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI-fV-jOxxo

I guess the mods wanted me to write out a reply this long when it could of been expressed in one sentence

SheikhEleazar11/30/2019, 6:48:21 PM1 votes

Persuade prostitute that my mom is not iron

Garson21111/30/2019, 7:50:35 AM1 votes

Pff just abuse op champs,you can be most positive person in the world or even toxic no matter thats not help you if you pick underpowered champ,ppls who abuse op broken champs will win anyway

AhernfVy11/30/2019, 8:15:20 AM1 votes

I've taken multiple accounts to high plat/diamond and the most important skill is luck.

CØulrophobia11/30/2019, 4:14:25 PM1 votes

I think most important part is learning how resist tilting and provocations from either sides. Bonus points if you can deescalate arguments between teammates.

Emotions compromise judgement and decision making skills. Especially the bad ones.