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How to have fun playing league?

Blademaster1980·6/29/2016, 6:23:07 PM·3 votes·250 views

Recently, I've been having a hard time trying to have fun playing league. The main problem I have is the wide array of negative feelings I get while playing a league game. Every time I play, no matter which lane I choose, the enemy player is extremely aggressive towards me, usually leading to me dying in early game. I can't fight back either, because this also leads to me dying. It's especially stressful for me when the enemy jungler keeps attacking my lane at the perfect time, especially if my jungler isn't as competent. Another issue with league is that it always feels hopeless when it's obvious that the enemy team is now stronger than ours, and I, not being an expert at league, do not how to make a comeback. Another issue I have is that recently, a lot of people in draft I encounter have been using ranged characters in top, which makes it difficult for me, because I use melee characters in top. As expressed before, this is stressful for me because knowing that they have the advantage in this situation, ranged characters against me in top are usually more aggressive. Finally, probably the least of my issues is that ever since Lucian got nerfed, it's harder to play as him, and he's one of my favorite champions. Because he suddenly has such long cooldowns, I don't feel like I can defend myself at all. So, how do I handle all these issues so I can have fun playing league?

5 Comments

Cubíx6/29/2016, 6:30:21 PM3 votes

One thing.. listen to music, I tend to be a lot calmer when doing so. Also muting or disabling all chat can help if the enemies are back talking. As for gameplay camping happens, turtle or ward to keep the enemy jungle at bay, and the range top laners? play tanks like nautilus to soak up their damage or play burst champs, I remember one time I had to lane against vayne top so I chose syndra and she didn't stand a chance. As for lucian I guess change up your builds to get more CD I know essence reaver is good early game still, or look for other champs similar to him, Ezreal or Graves are examples. I hope any of this helps, take care.

Zach Sandwhich6/29/2016, 6:26:42 PM1 votes

Try playing a different lane, play with friend (specially your jungler so he'll camp ur ass). Thats all I got.

iisabrina6/29/2016, 7:23:43 PM1 votes

League is a boring ass game, after you learn how to climb and plateau it all becomes the same shit, just who messes up first.
Tell us your main champions who you usually play and give us a few examples
Top lane picking quinn or vayne etc, is probably the worst thing an enemy can do, IF you dont feed them especially at your rank/elo. Because they are one less engage, one less tank, and YOU CAN, beat the adc as a tank

Personally for the reason people try hard and pick ranged top, I take people with good gap closers top who are also tanky, Darius (although I dont like him much), PANTHEON/MANTHEON, Volibear , maybe trundle I dont main him, I think riven might work, Irelia.

Early game these ranged people are very weak and in a 1 v 1 you will outdamage them because your base stats on armor/mr are higher, your spell based damage is also higher .

Part of the Key is, you will be slightly underfarmed, but you killing them first is really important, so youre going to have to ward, and youre going to have to take as little damage as you possible can. Letting them touch you pre level 3 is a bad choice. You just need to stay near your minion wave and gain the experience, last hit just a few minions IF you want, and let them push you to your tower.

If your jungler is good, in your case he isnt so you may have to ignore this tip, suggest he ganks you right away so the both of you can kill them. You should use the bushes to sit in and gain xp from the waves and not let them auto attack you.

enemy jungle ganking you, in a lane other than mid, is primarily your fault. dont stick to the standard bronze/silver ward placement in only your bushes, You can always ask your jungler to pink the enemy blue/red side of jungle so you can track where their jungle is. Freeze the lane also, if youre not pushing against their turret it will be hard for them to kill you.