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Help with better map awareness?

ZacsRealm··1 votes·636 views

Let me tell you a story of my second ever ranked game yesterday.

Shen (Me): Le farming in top lane, LvL 8 by this time.

Zac dies

Zac "Shen no ult?"

Shen "Sorry, didn't see."

Zac "Omg"

Zac le dies again

Zac "WTF NOOB SHEN DONT PICK SHEN IF YOU CANT ULT"

((The second time he died I had clicked on him to ult, and he died before it went off.))

Shen "I did ult you. You died before it activated.

Zac "Yeah right"

Zac [All]: "Report Shen unskilled can't ult for shit. Useless as fuck."

20 minutes in, teamfight in mid.

Guess which slime died again. And blamed me for not ulting.

Zac "SHEN. YOU WERE DOING FINE WITH YOUR ULTS A MINUTE AGO. WTF"

Shen "There were like four people there, If I ulted you they wouldve gotten a double.

Zac "STFU NOOB"

Le end of story.

I know this Zac is toxic af and deserved me to not ult him. (Actually I didn't ult him a few times on purpose for that reason. Didn't say a thing those times though*) But there were times, especially in the beggining where I felt so bad about letting my team die because I didn't see anything important happening. I was more focused on farm, which, come to think of it. The Zac complained about my cs too.

Zac "Noob Shen only 98 cs @ 20"

This could be bad for all I know but the main focus of this thread, how can I better my map awareness, since I really want to main Shen

5 Comments

MrPerson101 votes

To be fair, you're pretty new to the game - we don't expect you to have the CSing down at this point.

Map awareness is something you'll get over time once you get used to the activity levels of your champs that you play most. Advise trying out jungle, you'll notice improvement in map awareness from there as without it you're going to be underfed

ZacsRealm1 votes

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To be fair, you're pretty new to the game - we don't expect you to have the CSing down at this point.

Map awareness is something you'll get over time once you get used to the activity levels of your champs that you play most. Advise trying out jungle, you'll notice improvement in map awareness from there as without it you're going to be underfed

I do play jungle, usually Rammus and Skarner. The main difference is I feel there is so much more to be focused on in lane. I don't even really know if it was my map awareness, Zac was stressful that match.

When I play jungle, most of the time I kill a few camps, get my machete upgrade, by a vision ward asap and place it at drag, but in lane I have to focus on last-hitting, poking, avoiding poke, zoning. Maybe I just shouldn't play Shen?

dEAdbUs1 votes

Your map awarness is ok. You were heavily ganked? No. Your lane enemy was ganking other lanes and you forget to ping or follow him? No.

Here is a trick: after every cs look at minimap. Look if there is mia on mid, where is enemy jungler, is there fight somewhere. Else you can look on panel with your teammates health. Actually try to increase you side of view - it shouldn't be only you, enemy and minions, because you'll be easily ganked then, even if you always keep river warded. It requires practice and experience: to keep your skills, lasthit, enemy position and cds, yours jungler position, river view and whole map situation under contol same time. Shen is pretty safe farmer, tanky, with sustain and escape. So relax and look around. And Shen will be buffed soon, so it's good to practice him now. In S2 he was godlike pick.

MrPerson101 votes

There's a variety of current problems with Shen and the meta, mainly that he's immobile without his ult and while he does bring utility that a lot of top laners lack, he also lacks sufficient waveclear that we see being a mainstay of top lane picks.

Izbiz1 votes

If you're struggling with map awareness, Shen is a great champ to learn it.

Just not in ranked imo. Just play Shen in normals until you get the hang of it.

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