PSA to low mmr players looking to improve

TenSlashTen·9/25/2015, 3:58:08 PM·1 votes·775 views

Learn all the champs in your role so you can pick the correct champ to win the game. Thank you.

Stop playing 1-2 champs. play them all. Thank you or don't play ranked, just tired of reading about how someones a one trick pony and then losing the game because I think this time will be different. No this isn't 2012.

If you want to win, counter them. Only pick that doesn't have to counter is first picks. They look to give the OP's to the lower picks. Every other team pick is important to countering and team comp.

8 Comments

Lugg9/25/2015, 4:30:08 PM4 votes

For low MMR, that is actually terrible advice. It's much better to main just 2-3 for each position and even better if you have a champ that does well in multiple roles. It's much better to be awesome at a handful of champs than good at a bunch of champs.

Once you reach mid to upper ELO, you should just stick with 2 -3 champs for each situation in your main role. For instance, as a support you would want to know tanky (Nautilus, Braum, Alistar), utility (Bard, Lulu, Thresh), damage/poke (Annie, Sona, Karma) etc.

Maximum Morde9/25/2015, 3:59:51 PM1 votes

Noty I'm happy having fun win or lose.

Ternt9/25/2015, 4:59:26 PM1 votes

At low elo, counters don't exist. It's all about who is better with their champion. I've played multiple games as Jayce versus Wukongs, sometimes I win easily, sometimes I lose easily. Wukong is technically a counter because he can deal damage and W out before I can really do much since his clone is in my face. The games I win against him are purely because the Wukong hasn't played them enough or good enough with them. Jayce counters Riven since I have range and a knock back, but that still doesn't help when the Riven is extremely good. I started playing this season and when I started I tried tons of junglers, as that was my favorite position, and it didn't really help me. It wasn't until I focused on playing 1 or 2 champion consistently did I make my way from Bronze 4 to Silver 1 (now Silver 2). I picked 2 solid, meta champs to learn and stuck with it. Gragas and Rek'Sai. Once you feel comfortable and confident on a champion, then you start knit picking your mechanics and awareness. Buying wards, what to build versus certain champs/comps, when to roam, when to push, etc. If anything, the best advice I could give people stuck in Bronze is to know what each champions strengths are and what to build against it. This helps far more than just buying a ton of champions you don't know how to play.

EDIT: I'm not the greatest at the game, but spamming 1-2 champs for awhile helped me get better in general. I started picking up some other champs and noticed that it just seemed easier to play them than it did before. I started playing Ekko after his original nerf to his base damages and was still doing fine. I struggled to play Ekko prior to this, but was doing absolutely fine and actually winning a lot of games. I personally feel that once you get a play style down, all champions in that similar class follow. I learned 2 tanks, Rek'Sai and Gragas, which means I got better at when to engage, when to leave, how to peel for carries, etc. These are things I didn't understand before, but once I started playing other champions of similar roles (Ekko, Zac, Hecarim), you start to pick things up faster and have better games.

Xonra9/27/2015, 6:52:48 PM1 votes

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Learn all the champs in your role so you can pick the correct champ to win the game.

Terrible advice

Learn at least 4 (as in know their kits and understand matchups), and I'd say only 3 really well (4 in the case of the occasional ban/counter pick/enemy take it away scenario but 3 you are really comfortable with).

There is no reason to learn every single adc for example, because chances are you won't ever have to play all of them.

Stop playing 1-2 champs. play them all.

Nothing wrong with having 1-2 champs that are your main in a role. I play mostly Ziggs and Ori mid, Cait, Ashe ADC, Naut/Morg Support, etc. Rarely are they banned, and they are flexible in a lot of team comps.

No need to spend time learning every single champ just because.

If you want to win, counter them.

False again, believe it or not. The game isn't laning phase only, so you shouldn't play the entire champ select ONLY to counter pick your lane opponent. Does it help? Sure. But if you counter pick your lane opponent but pick a champ that is bad against the entire enemy comp, then you will be worse off regardless of a lane advantage, and your opponents you beat in the laning phase could be better against your comp.

I've had 3/0 leads on lane opponents many times, out right countering them, only to have them scale out and itemize and get ahead of me in kills because they worked better against my entire comp than compared to me 1v1.

Overall this is bad advice, and the time a person would be taking to practice and learn every-single-pick in a role could be used to strengthen the play on the smaller group of picks.