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Catch up on The Climb

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Special art credit to Sizo for his work: "Blitzupdate"

The Climb is an educational feature geared toward League players who’d like to improve all aspects of their play. Each article spotlights a video created by one of the many talented educational Youtubers within the League community. Topics covered in season 5 ranged from high-level gameplay mechanics to having a challenger mindset while playing.

If you’d like to learn more about the creators featured so far, click on any of the article titles below. Each article includes a short bio of the featured creator, along with all relevant social media links!


How to win trades in lane | Phroxzon

Phroxzon teaches what he calls the “trading stance,” a method that makes it easier to win trades and secure kills.




Optimizing your jungle clear | Foxdrop

Foxdrop shows how optimizing your jungle kill order makes a dramatic difference in reducing the damage you take. (Editor’s note: This video was made during season 5, before the recent pre-season jungle changes.)




Improve your last hitting | Jeremy GamingCurios

Jeremy GamingCurios demonstrates a practice regimen that helped him increase his last hitting accuracy from 60% to 80%.




Think like a challenger Irelia | Irelia Carries U

Irelia Carries U explains his mental process in lane as he leverages Irelia’s strengths and weaknesses against a Challenger Olaf.




Master Alistar’s moochanics | Torenthal

Torenthal demonstrates tips and tricks to help you play Alistar to his mooximum potential.




The trick to an efficient recall | Scrap Computer

ScrapComputer goes over a tactic to get you out of the fountain and back into the fray quickly and efficiently.




ADC teamfight positioning 101 | Phylol

Phylol demonstrates the decision-making and mechanics it takes to deal the maximum damage possible in a teamfight while minimizing the risk to your squishy little life.




How to avoid ganks by reading your opponent | Commando Yi

Commando Yi teaches you how to read your lane opponent’s movements and keep you safe.




Cast abilities faster | Bodytags

Bodytags goes over why and how to use input buffering, and then follows it up with how you can add Flash to the mix for a particularly deadly combination.





Advanced Yasuo tips & tricks | Redmercy

Redmercy looks to increase your personal affinity and aptitude with The Unforgiven by breaking down four flashy, mechanically intensive tricks to outplay your opponents.




What kinds of topics would you like to see in future articles? Let us know in the comments below!

67 Comments

CrazyC0ffee40 votes

Where are the Milk Builds?

W Train7 votes

Professor Milk UHHHNNNGGG

Hyrum Graff1 votes

Updated S6 Zed #milkbuild:

100% crit dmg runes, 12-18-0 item 3031 item 3078 item 3508 item 3087 item 3094

Last item either item 3117 item 3072 item 3139

Jeff DUN DUn DuN1 votes

last item boots? stupidest thing i ever heard...no youmuus? even stupider

Hyrum Graff1 votes

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last item boots? stupidest thing i ever heard...no youmuus? even stupider

#"UHHHNNNGGG"

Squidzar24 votes

How do I play Ao Shin?

srryimbad12 votes

You're already doing it! You just wait patiently for the next forever.

bluesombrero7 votes

ayy lmaoshin

Pope Of Nope1 votes

go to your room

UThisReadWrong20 votes

Perhaps in the champion detailed menu, give links to how to play the champion?

UThisReadWrong5 votes

But these gameplay videos are nice

Oblivious Denial2 votes

I think something like linking their spotlight into their detail menus would be a good idea. Like you have the overview tab, the abilities tab, etc. They should make a spotlight tab, or just make the spotlight be on the same tab as the tips one.

LGBTCute15 votes

....aaaaand they don't link the warding video, A.K.A. "the only one that matters".

Srsly, Riot gives us free wards with free upgrades, and people STILL cry "WHY IS THEIR JUNGLER CAMPING MY LANE???item 2045

sergier9 votes

and than they complain that the support is not warding enough!!

don't forget the support is not the only champ that can ward item 3340

DarDarThePenguin4 votes

Gosh ik it's so frusterating item 2045 item 2045

Vaskalair1 votes

I mean, the wards last all of 5 seconds. free wards dont mean anything if the jgler ganks when all wards are down.

Foo Dogs4 votes

Honestly the ward update screwed me over,these new wards at the moment are trash tier, prior to the ward update if you upgrade your ward at lv 9, they last 3 minutes and recharge within a minute. These wards last barely 90 seconds and takes 2-3 minutes to recharge, riot sorta went backwards on these ward updates, players who actually bought wards or upgraded their trinkets got punished for no real good reason.

NavyDivea1 votes

And cheaper pinks.

Bunni Anzu7 votes

You should include various other things, I know theres a bunch of stuff out there, but I'll put a couple things down.

For people who want to play Zed, visit:

Azoh's Zed School by Azoh on Youtube

For people who want to play Azir, visit:

Azir School by Drift King Azir on Youtube.

ThyUnison4 votes

So.....anyone liking Poppy now?

HaydenJedi1 votes

she not be ye updated Gangplank

Pacosampeles4 votes

Or You could give us a sandbox mode like CS:GO

AntiSkillshot3 votes

One of these days, Stonewall will be featured. Happy Redmercy, ScrapComputer, Irelia Carries U, and Commando Yi were featured.

Helios Ex3 votes

Why didn't you put Stonewall on here, he's pretty good. another guy is Kaptain Ballsack (the name, I know...), who happens to have a fairly good Draven guide, that might be something of interest

BackDay1v92 votes

please nobody watch yasuo tricks/outplay techniques...Ive had enough of that champ

GentleDragon3 votes

Yasuo sees you

BEASTIFIED2 votes

Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo .....................Yasuo

Quoub2 votes

What the frick did you just fricking say about my gear, you little n00b? I’ll have you know I am a lvl 90 Undead Arcane Mage, and I’ve won so many PVP matches, and I have done raids on every 10 man heroic dungeon. I also have a frickton of macros and I have a GS of 10K. You are nothing to me but just a lvl 12 gnome hunter. I will pwn the frick out of you with Arcane Missiles the likes of which has never been seen before on Azeroth AND Outland, mark my freaking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over raid? Think again, fricker. As we speak I am contacting my guild of mages and shamans across The Eastern Kingdoms and your character is being targeted right now so you better prepare for the ownage, n00b. The Arcane Barrage that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your character. You’re fricking pwn’d, n00b. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my secondary talent tree. Not only am I extensively trained in Arcane magic, but I have access to the entire arsenal of Fire magic and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable neckbeard off the face of Azeroth, you little gayl0rd. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re getting debuffed, you goddamnn00b. I will poop Dragon’s Breath all over you and you will burn in it. You’re friking pwn’d, gay0rd.

Scythe Daddy1 votes

Cute

Rhyvin1 votes

Can we get that blitzcrank skin?

Nymbusu1 votes

Does it come with a hand-washing Vi?

Rhyvin1 votes

Isnt that Neon striker Vi?

Fanged Fist1 votes

channeling got worse

mukespree1 votes
  1. Rammus ok
Brockinroll1 votes

I would buy that Blitz skin

ARKHAM KNIGHT OP1 votes

where are the REDMERCY & PANTS R DRAGON vids

DarDarThePenguin2 votes

pants r dragon isnt rlly too good actually

coevke1 votes

Pants Are Dragon isn't good says the Bronze 3.

DarDarThePenguin1 votes

Yes I do say considering I have played better than him more than you would think.

GentleDragon1 votes

Oh my God, I've been playing wrong this whole time!?!

lmpurus1 votes

Bard

Cavalier Kled1 votes

Just recently got demoted to b2, been in b1 for the last month or so. I know im not amazing. im probably not even decent. But honestly it doesnt even matter anymore. Ive had so many disconnects, trolls, and feeders that no matter how good i do im almost doomed to fail. I did a little math on the statistics of my last 30 matches its a 78% chance ive lost this match at teamselect because lastpick wanted adc. its almost an 65% chance that i will have someone dc in the first 10 minutes of my match, its honest-to-god an 80+% chance that i will have a dc in the first 25 minutes of my match. the very last match i just had our support fed 10 kills then afked, all the while not saying a single word. the entire time this was happening my mid was d/ced. Thankfully,l after our support left our mid came back and went an astonishing 3/11. And i cant even just shake it off anymore because i had a similar problem like this the 4 games prior to this, and if my math is correct its around an 80% percent chance my next game will be exactly like this one. So why even continue to bother with this game? Why is the LoL community so terrible and toxic? And i garauntee almost all the feedback from this post will be some remark about me being bronze and not admitting i should work on getting my skills better. Eh maybe im just cursed. Maybe riot just stopped giving a F--k about teamwork and community who knows.

D4rkPhil1 votes

pats back I been in bronze before, and Ima tell you right now, I understand where you're coming from. The trick is to pick champions that make the other team afk first, champions that seem to have really op abilities. There's Karma, Morgana, Kallista, Veigar, etc.

Basically any champion where people go like "OMFG 10 MINUTE STUN OP" or "OMFG EASY CHAMP VS DIFFICULT CHAMP" (Teemo vs Nasus)(heh) "BROKEN CHAMP" (but you usually gotta know how to play those; Riven, Yasuo, Zed, other playmakers)

At any rate, good luck.

Bear Riddles1 votes

Hopefully this next patch with multi-man solo queue will help you out mate

NarwhalPeasant781 votes

Where are the glorious guides by Darkk Mane?

Small Tiddies1 votes

Forgetting the Milk And Darkkmaniac Guides. They're... Glorious... ha.. ha.. ha..

lowfatlatte1 votes

I am extremely disappointed. There is no advice that is applicable for supports. Now I feel even more under-appreciated.

Tamarizz1 votes

on next episode: "how to not rage 101" , "take a deep breath and don't be toxic" I love the "teamwork OP" video...

kirarising

Who is the chick on the left at top pic.

Cavalier Kled2 votes

Vi

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