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Does watching professional streamers help you play better?

Xiemens·2/20/2016, 6:56:56 PM·1 votes·2,675 views

I was Silver II last season and didn't play ranked that much. I played my placement matches and got placed in Bronze I, I was disappointed that I got placed in Bronze I considering that I was silver last season so I'm spamming ranked trying to get to Silver V but I just can't get out of bronze. I'm currently playing a lot of ADC and jungle (when I'm worried about my internet) because ADC is the easiest role to carry with in my opinion. Since I can't get out of Bronze the problem is obviously in me because everyone says it's not about your team it's you that's ass. So, back to the question, does watching professional streamers help me play better? I never really watched a stream for longer than 5 minutes, I just watch the highlights/funny parts on because I think they're boring but if it helps me play better I will watch them. Can someone recommend some streamers, preferably the ones that play ADC or jungle a lot but any streamer that can analyze and say what's he doing and what he and his team should be doing is good too. I don't know many of them, I only know Imaqtpie, gross gore, pawnce (I think thats his name), KayPea, BoxBox, I don't know if sky streams anymore but that's pretty much it, including every professional player (Faker, Huni, Aphromoo, etc). I've only been playing league for 6 months.

TL;DR - I need recommendations for good streamers who analyze what they're doing.

17 Comments

ilt2/20/2016, 7:16:23 PM3 votes

no, you have all these dumbass Udyrs that never fight or help their team because they watched too much Trick2g

ElysMustache2/20/2016, 7:36:06 PM2 votes

Valkrin, Krepo are two very educational streamers.

Phreak's stream actually pretty good too, when it's on.

Sahn Uzal2/20/2016, 7:47:32 PM2 votes

I would recommend you to watch Nightblue3. He's a great jungler and teaches the game very will imo. I wouldn't recommend you to watch Trick2g because he has a very selfish and unique playstyle. There's nothing wrong with his playstyle and works very well, but you gotta do it right. Most low ELO players won't understand what Trick2g is doing.

You should just watch some streamers and stick with those that you enjoy :^) summoner 31

BRBGTGBOWFLEX2/20/2016, 7:06:32 PM2 votes

I think watching streams is, for the most part, the worst way to learn League of Legends. Too many streamers stream to entertain rather than teach.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeGtVfZD9LVttCJzjIJLY1g?&ab_channel=unswlolsoc

This guy's old Leaguecraft series is one of the best ways to learn about the game. He is updating it, but is shortening each part. However, I watched these at bronze and got to gold in large part because of them.

Laskko 2/20/2016, 7:20:04 PM2 votes

You can pick up a few cool trick here and there from watching LCS and good streamers, but you should listen to what this guy has to say: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7HBjWGU6I

He knows what he is talking about.

Edit: link didn't work

Csfuser2/21/2016, 8:47:24 AM1 votes

Watching streamers only helps if you can analyze what they're doing and why. If they explain it, then all the better for you. You have to see 'okay, I should do that in this situation' or 'okay, I shouldn't do that in this situation'

PapaGreg212/20/2016, 7:14:07 PM1 votes

Oddone and nightblue are usually pretty informative. As polarizing as trick2g is, he is extremely detailed in how he farms, ganks, itemizes and rotates to apply jungle pressure and seldom plays anything but udyr

colesy2/20/2016, 9:18:46 PM1 votes

the problem with watching professional streamers is they do a lot of things and have a lot of little nuances you won't pick up on if you're looking to improve since they do it subconsciously. as long as you can identify and ask yourself the right questions, go ahead. otherwise there's no point.

Lauchmelder2/20/2016, 7:00:46 PM1 votes

Gosus stream helped me a lot (Mushisgosu/ Hi Im Gosu) even though I'm a support main. I enjoyed his streams more before he started talking though, haven't watched a lot of him since he started talking.

A good streamer for supports for example is Krepo. He explains a lot and also gives tipps on where and how to ward properly.

The main point in watching streams is having fun though. If you want to learn from the pros you can do that too (obviosly), just analyze what they did wrong if they die and avoid the same mistake in your games (in case the streamer himself/herself doesn't explain the reason)