Starting Diamond Ranked Team
IGN: Idenn
About me: I'm a Diamond 5 ADC Main. I have plenty of ranked 5s experience and am looking to start up a team. I am available between 12pm noon and 12am midnight Eastern Time (pretty much all afternoon till midnight). I work the mornings and have class Tuesday nights from 6-9pm EST. All other days that time is pretty much guaranteed. I DO work in IT, and have to be "on call" one week every 6 weeks. This means League will be difficult past 6PM. I need to make myself available and drop anything to receive emergency calls so I will not be playing past 6PM on those weeks. I've tagged this as semi-serious because I want to be serious about times, schedule, and climbing, but I am not looking to be LCS bound. Tournaments are fine, just don't expect big ones. Preferred practice is 6+hours a day.
What I'm looking for: A team that is knowledgeable. If you hard carry during tryouts, fantastic, but that will not guarantee you a spot. I want to see you help defend the jungle early levels as a laner, I want to see you help place additional wards if we are being choked out in vision. I'm looking for a team that knows how to play as a team. If you are a one trick pony, don't bother applying. I give more points towards players that fill in solo queue rather than call their role, yet still play their role at top notch. Players that know how their teammates and allied champions play are much stronger than those that only know how their champion is played.
Positions I am looking for and what I expect:
Support: 1. Presence. Pressure the lane. I am not your sandbag and you are not mine. We trade together, we fight together, we die together. 2. Don't just know where to ward; know when to ward.
Jungle: 1. Practice your route. Have a plan and announce it. If you are working your way towards top, our top better be annoyed by how many times you said it. 2. Objective control. If you need to stay near a certain lane or objective, make sure there are wards elsewhere. 1 Deep ward is worth 2 lane wards and you're the best role to do it. Also, don’t waste time top if dragon is spawning or be farming bottom when baron is up. Blue buff just spawned? You needed to be there 10 seconds ago.
Mid: 1. Information. Where are you? Where is your opponent? Do you win lane? Are you stronger out of lane? 2. Play to the strengths of your team. I will not demand you roam on Anivia, or snowball your lane as Kassadin, but I will expect you to have a similar impact from game to game. This ties in to point 1 about relaying information if you can or cannot be somewhere/follow a roam, but emphasizes that the decision you make will be determined by what the team needs and not your playstyle/champion.
Top: 1. Impact. Not every top matchup can be won, and I want to see how you play from behind. I want to see you pick what the team needs and play it effectively. I want to see you survive a matchup you don't win and be within 20 CS and still have an impact on the game. 2. Diversity. Also ties in what I mentioned in point 1, but extends to playstyle as well. Depending on a composition, we may need a split pusher, team fighter, disengage, or dive buddy. You need to be able to play multiple champions AND fulfil their roles for the team. If you win lane as Lissandra, I expect to see you holding TP for dragon fights, not using it to grab more CS top and split push.
Coach/Analyst: The 6th member of a team is almost always necessary. I would like to look for one once the team is established, but am willing to start looking for knowledgeable players from the get-go. I don’t want to know what, I want to know why. I’ve been playing for 5 years and know a lot about this game. If you can’t teach me something new, then I might as well do your job. Being able to explain your point is also a necessity. I don’t care how much you know, if you can’t convey the information convincingly, then listening will be difficult. If we make a bad call in game, it’s human nature to defend our decision: debate it, and win that debate so we can improve. If you can’t convince us that your decision is better, then we won’t improve. Everyone: Just be good people. No one wants a rager, and no one wants a player that gives up. Simply asking to surrender, or saying “gg” in voice chat demoralizes a team and can heavily affect the next one. Information is key and if we’re behind and you aren’t relaying it, your mouth shouldn’t be open. If we’re ahead and it’s not an important, life-changing game, then have a good time. As I said earlier, we aren’t LCS bound co-workers; we’re teammates, and teammates need to get along.
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