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My thoughts on LoL Skill and my journey to this point

cryotichero·9/2/2016, 1:53:09 PM·1 votes·1,163 views

Hello everyone! I'm 14 years old (Please don't judge) :) I started playing League about 3 months ago, maybe more... Anyway, I'm pretty bad at the game, but during these 3 months I've noticed a significant improvement over my skills and ability to think clearly during the game. I have a friend who has played with me from the start and he learns way faster than me, for example: He gets mastery level 7 with Zac and still a month later I still don't have even 1 level 6,7 champion. He has better mechanical skills than me, but I think he lacks the ability to think and predict things during the game. I admit that I'm worse than him at the game, but I'd like to get better. We started playing ranked lately and got our first ranks, Bronze 1... We lost 8 games both and won 2 (Obviously). He had better stats than me in almost every game we played, but still we have the same MMR and Rank. I like playing with him and we've had some fun and not so fun moments during our journey. Now to my thoughts of skill levels. Even though I'm bad at the game I've seen some pretty terrible plays and overall weird stuff on the way, that even I as a noob think are stupid things to do. I'm afraid to judge anyone based on their skill since I'm bad at the game myself, but why would anyone "Flash" from under turret with low hp to a full hp malphite? Or why would Support try to engage 2v1 alone? I've had some stupid plays myself, but that's like when I was under level 30. I don't get how a Silver player could be so braindead and try to kill the whole enemy team alone or jump in to the front lines with low HP. Now, I think that was enough of examples to know what I'm talking about.

These are my questions I want to present the Veterans of this game to:

-How to Improve my mechanical skills? -How to get used to certain things like: looking at the map more often -How to not fall short over others improvement? (For example: How to keep/catch up to my friend?) -How to master a champion to it's fullest potential? -When to back from lane / take objectives? Thank you for reading this post, I invested some time to it and I hope I can get some informative answers.

-Cryotichero

5 Comments

cryotichero9/2/2016, 1:53:54 PM1 votes

NOTE: This is repost, since I posted it to a wrong category last time and I think this is the right one for this post.

Risk of Fate9/2/2016, 3:31:48 PM1 votes

Mechanics is something that comes differently to each person and can't really be taught. You can learn all the little tricks to each champion, for example Ahri I use Fox Fire to sort of "dance" to the side to avoid a lot of abilities, however you can't really be taught that, during a team fight, you can Flash-E-Q-R out and burst the squishy. Practice at learning how a champion interacts in certain ways, how items affect power, cooldowns. Try new things whether or not they will work out for you, always try to find something that you can learn in every situation. This goes for mastering a Champion to their fullest potential, however there are some things that even Mains still can't quite do and others will always try to improve upon.

Doing little things like looking at the map just try to make small mental notes. Don't try to constantly watch the map every 10 seconds to see something happening. Try to get a feel of "it's been about 10 minutes and I haven't heard much about deaths, I should probably take a peek at my map." Another thing you can do is always try to buy a pink on the first back whether or not you use it. Having it in your inventory can serve as a reminder that you should ward more often. It's the little things that begin to pile up and lead to more improvements.

Don't worry about the improvement of others, focus on improving yourself. Take this from my personal experience, but when you compare yourself to others, you lose sight of what it is that you want to improve on yourself which can lead to false expectations and over-achievements that can never be reached. Set small milestones for yourself such as "Don't die X amount of times," or "Try to get this amount of creeps by the 10 minute mark." My favorite, however, was always "Protect the turret," where I would try to keep my tower up as long as possible, even well after laning phase.

There's not much I can say about taking objectives or backing as those are things that I need to improve on myself. However, I have this mindset of "Which is more valuable, the kill, the roam, or the tower?" If I can go for an objective, I will try to get it such as if Twisted Fate roams bot, I'll shove into tower or Katarina goes to roam, will try to follow.

Slopestyle9/3/2016, 5:49:31 AM1 votes

Honestly I think the best way to improve mechanical skill is to just play mechanically intensive champions even if you're bad at them. Just start playing some champions you think require a lot of skill to play maybe ones you've steered away from because you thought you weren't good enough. I would do this in normals of course but it will force you to teach yourself to land skillshots and to position and how to focus when there is a lot going on. I would recommend Leblanc. She has some point and click abilities, some skillshots, and an interesting skill set with her ultimate and her w, and even if you miss your skillshots you can still kill someone with your combo. Knowing when to back and when to take objectives just comes from playing the game but as a general rule of thumb, you should back if you think the opponent has kill pressure, if you have a lot of gold you haven't spent yet, if you don't have vision and can't continue a push and nothing else is going on on the map. You can take towers when you have vision of the enemy. For example if you're bot lane alone and you see 2 enemies are mid and 3 are top and you think your team is not at risk of fighting or dying then you're free to take the tower. Hope I helped good luck buddy