Are you in Low-Elo? Scrub. Come get some tips and tricks!

If you've ever watched LCS/LCK, you'll see what a great and awesome Team Game League of Legends is. The sick rotations, massive team plays, objective trading and counter ganks. You may wonder to yourself, man how can I play this game!?

Keep dreaming Felicia. Are you a contracted LCS level Player? Good for you! Cause you get to play League of Legends! You're not? Well lets get you off your high horse and show you another game called, Solo Queue, A place of great mystery, emotion and endless salt.

Rotations? Speak english pls. Counter-Ganks? I was finishing my Gromp tho. Map Pressure? I died 4 times in lane and need to freeze my lane for the next 10 minutes. 1 - 3 - 1? 21? 5 man Bot? Omg, just farm under turret.

Today I've got some tips for the regular Low Elo Scrub that lingers in the place we call, Elo-Hell. However I prefer to call it, the Scrublands. Now these are serious tips, trends and hints that will work almost all the time in Low-Elo Solo Queue. At higher Elo's, if you tried these, good luck, expect a very happy team. If these do work at high elo, well then...Great game.

Scrub Jungling

In Lower Elo's if you're a jungler, I bet your jungle clear goes something along the lines of, Gromp/Kruggs > Buff > Wolves/Raptors > Other Buff > Gromp/Kruggs. Maybe you take Scuttle, Wow, good for you!

Now junglers at low elo tend to get what I call the "Do i have too" leash. If your lucky you'll get two auto attacks and maybe one spell cast. So when a Jungler begins his Journey from Gromp/Kruggs > Buff, he's probably at 75% - 50% HP and is drooling for that buff's booty. (I KNOW IT DEPENDS ON THE JUNGLER, Calm down boy)

Did you just hit level 2 after your first camp? No way! How much hp do you have? 75%? Whats next? Oh you're going to your Buff? Lame. Guess what the other guys doing? HIS BUFF. Should go check up on him.

The Level 2 Cheese Jungle No one expects it. At Low elo, junglers just wanna farm their jungle, get their first item and then gank. Would suck if someone killed them at their Buff though. Do your first Camp, hit level 2, go check their buff. Chances are you'll find them 50% or less HP taking it right up the booty by their Buff. Help their Buff out. The enemy jungler will be too low to fight you, and will be taking damage anyways, also it forces them into a 50/50 Buff Kill and most likely burning Flash. Or giving up first blood. This early in the game, Laners are Greedy, they'd rather not lose CS, so chances are they'll straggle a bit before coming to flank you. Most of the time, they're not even looking at their map, so your chance go up dramatically.

Here's some Prime Targets to Level 2 Jungle Cheese. Oh baby. - Only reason he's played jungle in Low Elo is because YOU LET IT WORK.
- OMG HE'S SO TANKY, OP OP. Dude, Blue buff got him like, "Daddly pls no more" - Is that Kha'Zix one shotting you? His buffs literally do most of the work for you, just go finish it. - Are you in Bronze-Gold? Go slay that pussy before her buff does it for you. - "Ban Yi Pls" Yeah or go kill him at blue buff when he's 25% HP. "OMG he so op GG" - His Blue Buff is already beating that pussy for you. No more one shotting your carries. - I really don't get why people let Wukong jungle work. He gets two shot by his buffs. - Really? I can't believe I even have to put this one up.

The common trend with these champs is, They will be Too Low to Fight you/Too Weak To fight you/Do not yet have the means to fight you So when a Summoner Locks one of these champs, or someone similar, they are asking to be Cheesed. Nicely.

Here's some champs you probably should not try to Level 2 invade - Depending on what ability he took level 2. Its not worth it either way. His clear is actually pretty good so he'll be healthy. - Try it I dare you. He's at like 30% whats the worst that could happen? Just outscale this guy. Also has the fastest clear so you'll probably end up missing him. - You can try it sure. Depends really on how good they are and you are, of course. - Risky. He loves risky. - Kill yourself. - Too Healthy of a clear. Plus W passive means you might kill him, but it'll give more than enough time for their laners to roam and kill you. - Same problem as Xin, although has less damage, has INSANE heals. Why do you think he's THE noob jungler?

Common Trend here - High Sustain. Can Duel With you. Strong Early. Simply Jungle faster than you. Will be way to healthy to one shot.

Are you playing these champs? Well you better be all up in their junglers booty level 2 - The Level 2 Cheese is named after this guy. For real, if you aren't first blooding their jungler, you shouldn't be playing this champ. - Chances are you wont kill them. But you have 2 smites and one of them is on a very short cool down, and theirs is down. - Want to level 2 cheese but can't land a Lee sin q? Scrub. Press E. GG first blood. - They'll never see it coming. - "Mundo goes where he pleases"

Common trends - Healthy Clears. Strong Dueling. One Shot potential. Lee Sin. Mundo is still OP.

NOTE Whenever you decide to invade, THAT'S ON YOU. I take no responsibility for you feeding first blood because you can't kill a level 2 10 hp Master Yi. Use your own brain. Just make sure you have one.

Now this isn't a 100% tee, cause maybe they actually have a brain and see it coming. Or they ward. That happens sometimes. Deal with it. But if your playing Lee Sin and you don't abuse the fact that level 2 you are the scariest thing on the map, I wouldn't be surprised. Scrub.

Now to whoever is thinking, "Well if it was so effective why don't Pros do that!?" "I watch Oddone Stream and he never does that!" etc etc Well surprise surprise! Maybe because its High Elo! And I'm talking about Low-Elo here. Scrub.

REVIEW: Is the enemy Jungler a weak jungler? Do you want First Blood? Go Kill them at their buff. Easy First blood.

So if you manage to pull of a Level 2 Jungle Cheese, congrats. Your team will probably still feed but your ahead. On to the next topic.

Counter Jungling!

Is your Top Laner getting Camped? Duh! Is your Mid Laner Feeding? Thats why he went mid! Is your ADC flaming your support about that KS? He didn't deserve it anyways. So how are you gonna win now!? Well, most likely you;ll lose in a tremendous flaming ball of toxic waste. Highly likely. Now in high elo, you'd hope that your jungler would go gank bot lane and get them ahead after your top laner died to a gank top. In Pro Play, you might set up a counter gank. In Silver, Your bot lane is probably pushed up too far to gank for (If they're ahead, though unlikely) or farming under their tower (Because their behind like usual). You could try to gank for them, but that CS tho. They're not gonna forgo that CS for a gank. How about mid? They're probably pushed up to tower and not gankable, or pushed under their tower and again, that CS though. Well What can you do now? Their Jungler just ganked and killed you Top Laner?

Tip I bet they're not in their bottom side Jungle. Oh look, Raptors! Boom 4 CS over their jungler now. Oh wow, Kruggs! 2 CS baby.

Did their jungler just gank and kill your bot lane? Duh.

Tip His wolves are lonely and are afraid of the giant gromp around the corner. Should go check up on them. SECRET JUNGLE TECHNIQUE Did you know if you smite his wolves...you get a moving spirit ward!? WHOA free vision. I can't understand!

If their jungler is widening your Laner's Booty holes, Only clenched booty left is yours, So take that booty wherever their enemy jungler isn't and take their stuff. In low elo, when a Jungler ganks a lane, he Ganks, and then goes to clear his Jungle again. Its like a Book, Page 1 "Gank" Page 2 "Go Farm Jungle". I can read that book and I have a Fiveth grade education. So even though they may have an assist or kill and your whole team is behind now, at least your not...that behind! So where will you be the next time your team flames you for no ganks? Not even you, can prevent Jungle Flaming.

REVIEW: If the enemy Jungler shows up somewhere. Do something where they aren't. They won't stop you. They CAN'T.

READING JUNGLE PATHING

So Laners, you know when your Jungler is doing that thing you hate when he goes and...farms his jungle? Well! Did you know? That the enemy jungler is doing the same thing? Das Right! One thing about Low Elo Jungling, is you can easily, easily tell where the enemy jungle. Low Elo-Junglers always have the most boring and calculated Jungle Paths,

Red Team Jungler Blue side > Red Side

Blue Team Jungler Red side > Blue Side

le scrub I KNEW THAT ALREADY NOOB. THATS SIMPLE! Sure you did. Whatever makes you happy.

So If your the Blue Team's Top Laner and manage to find your mini-map (Yes its there, I'm not making it up) you might see your Jungler farming at his Blue Buff. What a useless Jungler right? Well actually not really! Because following the two Equations I wrote above if, Your JG is at Blue Then Their JG must be at Red! You did it! You solved the Problem! So as the Top Laner, Seeing you jungler at his blue buff, you can safely assume the enemy jungler is at their red buff. Is your lane pushed? I hope not. Did you ward yet? Hope you do soon!

Disclaimer I take no responsibility if for some reason your Jungler is at their blue buff but low and behold the enemy Jungler isn't at their red buff. Well if you warded their jungle you would know. So thats on you too. This is all relative and just common trends that hold at Low Elo.

REVIEW: So you can't see the enemy jungler. Look at yours, use them to form an educated guess. If you can't handle that. Sigh. Scrub.

The TAXMASTER 2000!

Tip Is that an empty lane? Are you nearby? Is the Laner Dead? Is there a minion wave? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should probably go push that wave into turret. Doing so denies enemy CS and will reset the wave for your laner who will probably end up dying again anyways. But really, you get free cs and gold, and whose the most important person in the game? The ADC? No. Stop being so entitled. Just because carry is in your name, if you go 0/8 in lane and are down 50 cs, you definitely are not entitled to any CS or Buffs. The most important person in the game is YOU. So push in that empty lane "for your laner" but know deep inside, you deserved it. Unless your bad, and are 0/11 or something then no, you are not important, just lucky your Laners can't manage their own waves or died 1 v 1 and left the wave in an awkward spot.

REVIEW: Push empty Lanes into turret. Help yourself in the name of helping others.

Scrub Laning

The Level 2 Power Spike.

Are you an OP Laner? The BEST MID/TOP/ADC? Is your enemy laner just FLAT OUT BAD? Ha ha ha! In your head kid.

Let me tell you all a little secret that I really hope you knew already, for your sake. How many minions does it take to hit level 2 in a solo lane? 7 Thats a whole wave + 1 from the next wave. And guess what. Level 2 > Level 1 - WUT!? Yes its true, level 2 is greater than level 1. So what does this have to do with anything? Well if your level 2...and your enemy is level 1, doesn't that mean...You > Them? OMG why u so smart

In Low Elo you easily Win your lane from the second wave. Its either not common knowledge or people can't count but if you fight your level 1 opponent, and are level 2, chances are, you will win. If you don't, you are bad.

So all it takes is a little patience and counting. Simply count the number of dying minions. Once you count 7 dead minions, you are level 2. Now how can you use this to your advantage? What if...you killed 7 minions faster than your opponent!? You would be level 2 first! WHOA. Go get the booty you deserve it. Now here a smart player would back off...but like most Low-Elo Players, thats questionable. So if you're about to hit level 2 first and their not backing off, Lick those lips tiger. Dat booty is calling.

Now with just about any champion, if you have a level 2 advantage, you should always look to trade, or fight. Here are some champs who you should almost always all in as, if you hit the level 2 first. Note These are for when you have level 2 ADVANTAGE, meaning you're up a level. And they will MOST DEFINITELY choose to fight you if they hit level 2 first. So...Back up eh?
- You cannot miss your E. Its Literally Impossible to miss your damage. Armor Shred + ATK SPD Buff. Easy lane. - Stupid crazy all in potential. Again, E is targeted. Armor Shred + A Knock up + A Slow like...how easy can it get? - I'd say, he relies heavily on snow balling from this point. A Knockup + Armor Shred + ATTACK SPEED BUFF + % HP DAMAGE? You just have to land it. - Although you could 1 v 1 just about anyone at level 1, if you hit level 2 first and hit one Q, you better at least burn a flash. - All you really need is Q + W or E + W and if you land them, you win lane. - Has a stupid stun + True damage auto attacks. First blood unlikely buy blow their flash? Oh yeah.

At low elo its super easy to get away with this. Like, Super easy. The trick is to know it. And NOT TO SCREW UP. Disclaimer I take no responsibility if you die somehow with a level 2 advantage. Get good. Scrub. le scrub Q: BUT HEY YOU SAID IF I KILLED 7 MINIONS FASTER I WOULD BECOME GOOD PLAYER AND KILL MY OPPONENT! BUT INSTEAD I DIE UNDER THEIR TOWER LIKE SCRUB! A: Well well, that has to do with a whole other thing called "Wave Control" and "Pushing/Freezing" which is something you'll have to learn on your own. But its common sense, if you push too fast for the level 2, and your wave reaches their turret, thats your fault. Read Disclaimer pls.

REVIEW: Wanna win lane? Try getting the level 2 Advantage.

So these are a few tips and tricks that all ye stuck in the Scrublands of Gold, Silver and that one place the eye does not see can use. Honestly i hope none of it was new to you, cause it was for that reason, I wrote this.

If you can't handle the heavy amounts of sarcasm, or have an irresistible urge to call me out on my misspelling, the fact that I also reside in the Scrublands or whatever, please do share. I won't read it. But here's a , you know where it goes

If you guys have anything to add or other tips or tricks or really anything at all, go ahead and share. Its a public board so i mean...be public i guess.

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