How would you suggest helping new players?

Desaesid·3/16/2015, 12:15:49 AM·1 votes·442 views

A while back, I had the urge to try and help new players improve and understand the game better, as well has to have fun doing so. It may seem silly since it's just a game and people learn the game just by playing, but since the game has something of a toxic community, I thought it might be helpful to have a friendly player to keep new players' interest and show them the game can be fun.

But this begs the question of how to do so.

A few months back, I made a smurf account named HereToHelp. The account was created purely to help players have fun and learn the game. As such, I made sure to never play in normal games, since that would ruin the enemy team's experience, and to nearly always play support, especially Nami and Thresh. Almost all the games I played were in beginner bot games, since that seemed to be where new players went to practice champions and such. It worked fairly well, but perhaps not as much as I hoped. Most games, the other players were not interested in the assistance I offered, and many times that they DID respond, they were mostly excited that I was feeding them lots of kills. Eventually I reached 200+ wins and nearly all my games were with experienced players. In short, I played so many co-ops that I don't get matched with new players anymore.

I can make a new account and do it again, but I was wondering if maybe there are alternative ways to help. Different modes that could yield better success, strategies to better interest players in having fun and improving.

Basically, I just wanna hear other thoughts on how to help new players. League's a great game, I wanna help show other players how much fun it can be.

9 Comments

SlytherMinn3/16/2015, 12:25:31 AM1 votes

Do you come off as arrogant? Do you offer advice without being asked? People tend to not like that.

Desaesid3/16/2015, 12:29:21 AM1 votes

I enter the game saying I can help with nearly anything and would be glad to do so. Beyond that, I offer a few snippets of advice to whomever I'm laning with if they seem receptive. Otherwise, not much. I've worried about sounding arrogant many times, but I don't think it's a problem in most cases. I think I'm plain ignored much more commonly than I'm taken to be arrogant, unfortunately.

Dangerous Man3/16/2015, 1:09:56 AM1 votes

Tell them to buy Katarina. Ta da you just helped them

Desaesid3/16/2015, 1:14:05 AM1 votes

Would prefer real suggestions, thanks.

Desaesid3/16/2015, 1:21:48 AM1 votes

That's actually pretty helpful, I'll try to keep any help I offer as suggestions for them to decide upon.

Nucleophilic atk3/16/2015, 1:25:19 AM1 votes

I shit on them, and then tell them why I shat on them. For example, guy turned Mega Gnar and immediately used his roar stun thingy (not ult). Of course since I was playing Fiddles I just started draining him while he tried to outdamage me. After killing him, I said, "Next time, don't use stun until I start drain. That way, you cancel all my damage and you take none. Fid is pretty shitty against people that can cancel his drain." When they come back to lane, if they die again the same way, I proceed to stomp on them without giving them any advice whatsoever and make fun of them. If they don't want to listen to simple instructions, I'm not going to try to help them anymore lol. Most people tend not to listen.

Desaesid3/16/2015, 1:59:36 AM1 votes

I had a friend help another friend learn to play like that. It really is a legitimate way to help people learn, but I'm not sure it helps people get over the toxic community and just have fun. I'll consider it.