Mid laner Main, Support/Jungle secondary LFT 5's for serious gameplay

Mr Malrin·11/15/2015, 6:27:25 PM·1 votes·393 views

Hello I am currently a B3 solo Que player and over the past few weeks I have climbed from B5 due to changing my main lanes and champion choices but play much much better when on a communicating team.

I main MID and support/jungle is my secondary

Best Champions in each role are:

MID- Ahri Brand Heimerdinger Leblanc Lulu Lux Malzahar Veigar Varus Morgana Support-Braum Galio Leona Lulu Lux Malphite Morgana TahmKench Zilean Jungle-Gragas Kindred LeeSin Hecarim Olaf Rammus Sejuani Volibear

Personal Improvements over the past few months:

**Warding. It has become a better focus no matter what role I am in. I always try to give the best informative vision depending on where/what I am. As a mid laner I have experimented with the new Farsight alteration and have reduced ganks against me massively as well as giving the jungle vision of what's going on with his/her camps. As jungle I've given top and bot lanes better chances to survive/prevent ganks by warding key points to give them ample time to reposition(if they actually pay attention to pings/mini map) As support I've worked a bunch on maintaining ample vision for myself and ADC while keeping dragon lit up so that we as a team can intercept dragon attempts or steal from the enemy.

**Split-Pushing. I have been focusing a lot on keeping top/bot lanes at the hallway point or a wave towards the enemy base while the other 4 work towards saving a lane/turret or getting other big objectives. In solo que I've been scolded for doing such a tactic even when we outnumber the enemy 5>3 because most don't understand the importance of keeping lane control even when the laning phase is basically over. Once the laning phase has past most of the solo que games I've been a part of just want to roam the jungle or chase forever into death or go full mid and ignore the other 2 lanes completely. While this is fine when you are in a position to finish the game, most of the time this is not the case. I don't do this much as support unless I have chosen one that can wave clear decent even as a support (Morgana TahmKench Galio Malphite ) as well as stay relatively safe even if the enemy comes to take me down.

**item build paths.
I've been experimenting with the new items and the changed items as well to better equip my champion based on my role in the team and what the team needs. For example on support if I have a Tristana Jinx as my ADC I try and get an item 3056 to help give the ADC that extra 3 seconds after a wave is gone to finish off a turret or when we decide to go for a dive. Again I've been scolded in solo que due to others not seeing the value of such an item because I didn't copy & paste off of Pro Builds sites.item 3512 I've used as a jungle sometimes if top is pushing well so that they have a little extra help taking turrets down if they don't need me to babysit. It also gives them a free 2.5 minute mini ward that the enemy will most likely stop to attack and destroy due to the damage it does inflict on turrets.

**Pings and other communication.
I've started using my pings more often and making sure that I constantly shift between lane and mini-map focus so that I can better support my team from anywhere. I've been experimenting between pinging the danger area only and don't get much attention so I started pinging danger on my teammate followed by a trail of pings in the danger direction. I've also starting taking mental notes when I catch another lane being ganked on the mini map and trying to convey the "most likely" path that they will repeat a gank due to most people fall into patterns in their gameplay.

*Teamwork changes and solo lane/jungle During laning as mid I have tried to be sporadic in where I go as far as positioning and when I see a teammate coming to gank my lane I try to keep from giving it away by going deep when I normally wouldn't. I randomly push a lane out or let it come in towards my turret so that my enemy in lane doesn't really know what's going on and I do this even when no gank is happening as I have found that most people tend to see a hard push as me having my jungler waiting for them to be aggressive and push me back and seem to let me get close enough to toss some damage at them and the turret before they push back. Other times I'll let them push me in and go at them very aggressive to give the interpretation that they are about to be ganked and when they back off I'll give a minor chase then clean up my lane in turn denying them some farm and confusing them on when a gank is coming. As support I try to keep the enemy guessing as to how we are going about the lane. I've sat in a bush nearby (gaining XP and gold) for 3 minutes once just to set up a reverse dive because I had a really good ADC who managed to chunk some health off the enemy without me doing anything and when the enemy got cocky they come after him and I came from behind and CC'd them while he finished them off. Other times I've kept the enemy zoned in uncomfy positions and totally negated their strengths because of the fear of an incoming gank due to how it was looking.
As a jungler I have changed from the "Farm to 6 then gank" to a more aggressive style where I've ganked as early as lvl 2 so long as I had confidence that where I was ganking my teammate(s) were on board and would follow through. Other times I've ganked a lane that is doing fine just to throw some pressure and make the enemy in the lane do some thinking before they try anything. I have worked on never taking the same route twice in a row and been trying to work on counter jungling as well as best places to drop vision depending on the situation.

  I can get any kind of voice chat needed for a team and am in the EST time zone. I'm usually available to play almost any time of the day except 2-7pm and virtually any day of the week but things do come up and real life takes precedence over the game even if I am trying to take the game a bit more serious. I am an ever improving shot caller and have access to PBE. Back in season 3 I was on my other account which was a Gold 1 solo and was on a team that made it to D4 that I lost all the information to during season 4 when I took a break from the game. I look deep into new champions, old champions, items, map changes, I read all the news, patch notes, and watch tons of gameplay to give me information to use while in game to better my self and others around me who are willing to take and give advice/criticism. 

In game- Malrin1981 Match History

Hope that this gives you enough information about me and my playstyle as well as what I'm looking for in a team.

Thanks and see you on the Rift. Malzahar Mid Main TahmKench Support Rammus Jungle

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Mr Malrin11/16/2015, 11:10:52 PM1 votes

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