My first PVP (Normal), lessons learned

Glue Connoisseur·Jan 2, 2016·1 votes·729 views

Xtrasweettea - North America - Summoners - League of Legends

So, I had my first PVP game ever since I started playing this game...

Within in one game I had learned many things:

I announced within the lobby that this was my first PVP game, and I apologized in advanced if I made the game bad for our team. No one said anything negative, so I assumed everyone as cool with me letting them know.
Position is everything (I got ganked 3 times, and I deserved it)
You need map awareness (another reason why I got ganked)
Nidalee needs Runes
You can't heal the person stuck within Tahm
Soraka's E and Q are good for zoning the enemy team out of their position
This player has the patience of a saint, and shout-out to that player: peteragood

As much a I have appreciated the lessons learned from the AI games, those lessons are outclassed by this one PVP game.

5 Comments

TurquoiseYoshiJan 2, 20161 votes

Yeah, PVP games really give you knowledge in the game. Not that AI games are bad, but PVP matters more.

VerxintJan 2, 20162 votes

IMO, AI games are bad past really early on. If you play them too much, you learn some bad habits and don't get some good ones you would in PvP.

At least OP is the kind of person who can realize what his mistakes were. props.

TurquoiseYoshiJan 2, 20161 votes

They do give you short, free wins so you can get FWOTD bonuses. That's nice.

VerxintJan 2, 20161 votes

Oh well yeah, but that's unrelated to what I was saying.

Some people play only bots because they're afraid they aren't good enough to PvP, but you'll only make it worse by spamming bots.

Using bots for easy FWOTD is totally different.

Glue ConnoisseurJan 3, 20161 votes

Hello Little Mac, Thank you. I have no one else to blame but myself for allowing myself to get ganked. The player playing Volibear (the jungler) on the opposing team did a good job capitalizing on my lack of proper positioning.

Bot games don't teach you how to deal with opposing junglers. That complacency caused from the lack of that kind of threat is a bad habit that I need to work on getting myself out of.