After years of playing and trying my best, I finally hit Diamond. AMA

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What is your play style/build with Nocturne? I've been interested in him for a while, but can't seem to do well with him. Any tips?

I typing avoid going devourer, try and stay towards warrior into bork and its situational from there.

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Did you ever quit for a long period of time (for reasons other than you were unable to play), and for how long?

Always, for months. Typically from not progressively getting better, or lack of time in general.

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what did you value more ( without neglecting everything else) : being able to support your team ( even by chat or by promoting tactics ), deep knowledge and execution of timings and mechanics or being creative and flexible in your games, or something else?

Giving your choices, Deep knowledge and execution. Knowing match ups and rotations is huge. And generally knowing the game is most beneficial.

If I was to chose, just being nice and not calling people out made the most impact. In my opinion whoever rages first has a higher chance of losing. keep it cool is the best way to give yourself an advantage.

Waffles or Pancakes??

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Pancakes or Waffles?

Pancakes 100%

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I see you play a lot of early game junglers. How do you finish off games in a timely matter in Solo Queue? I, and many others, have problems with this sometimes.

This is actually my biggest issue. And im still working on this today.

Playing a specifically puts a time line on your game right away. What I have learned to adapt to is non stop ganking, and take full advantage of gank, either taking a dragon with it, a tower, or denying the other team a creep wave or so. Everything gets your team ahead.

Also I try not to take all the kills for myself, even though I want to snowball to.

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I find it hard to understand what the logic behind the actions of my team mates are in solo q. Even going back and looking at the games, i can not understand what they were thinking. (usually they die from these actions for no gain)

Have you ever had to combat not relating to your team actions and if so how did you over come this problem. I honestly feel this is my biggest problem in advancing and have hit a road block.

It really depends on the elo, but I 100% understand what your saying. When you think its best to take dragon now, and no one follows you and now you die and they get dragon ect ect....

If a team honestly doesnt respond to a call you want, typically you need to swallow a bit of your pride, and just dont do it. Even though you 100% its the right call, if your team doesnt follow, it might not be the right call now.

Being a jungle main this is huge, and making sure people are on the same page as a gank, typically I will pre say something in chat ex. "hey going top, follow me on this." of if im coming in really quickly, ill ping 2-3 times that im OMW (green ping)

Hope that helps, there is alot of situations were this occurs. and its one of the more frustrating problems.