Newbie looking for teacher

Miss Neptune·9/28/2015, 2:54:16 AM·3 votes·4,816 views

Hello, I'm level 15 in League and am looking for a teacher. I'm just learning about all the roles and would love someone to help me learn one of them, jungle and support looks the most fun to me! I also haven't found a main champion yet if that's alright

40 Comments

TouchpadExpert9/28/2015, 1:21:59 PM4 votes

I made a guide a while ago you may find helpful. It talks about laning styles and lane synergies. I will probably add on a jungling styles part to that guide.

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/tips-tricks/5BK3mUsE-the-three-types-of-laning-styles

Edit: Posted the wrong link originally. It's fixed now.

RiotRiot 10YearSanta9/28/2015, 8:53:49 AM4 votes

Hm I'm pretty busy these days, but feel free to add me. I'm always willing to help new players. :)

Declined9/28/2015, 11:19:15 AM2 votes

Hey this may be a bit too early for you, but once you come to terms with how the roles are played, and all that, I did write this pretty extensive guide that should help you understand what you might, and what you might be missing.

It contains around 80% of what you need to know about the laning phase, and 95 % if you're playing in bottom lane.

Caboosanaitor9/28/2015, 6:10:26 AM1 votes

if your still interested, id be willing to be your mentor for a night, i could teach you about the game and help refine your mechanics and decisions. but voice communication is a must.

Chuck Charles9/28/2015, 10:35:43 AM1 votes

If you want to learn anything about the game or have any questions, I'm always Down to help new players. willing to teach you anything as long as you are nice ^.^

Username on league is same it is on here

TouchpadExpert9/28/2015, 10:57:31 AM1 votes

I can talk you through any champions you're interested in. Like explain their play style, what items they buy and stuff like that. Or if you want to play bots I could do that. I don't play PvP until the weekends.

ZDrahgonz9/28/2015, 12:40:59 PM1 votes

i can lend you my help, we can play together as well.

Miss Neptune9/28/2015, 12:48:58 PM1 votes

Thanks for all the comments guys (: I'll be sure to add everyone and stuff after school today.

HadesBlades9/28/2015, 12:55:29 PM1 votes

I mained morg in season 4 in a supporting role! add me ! :D I would love to give tips on her, and what items to buy! She is super fun.

VictoryFire9/28/2015, 1:43:09 PM1 votes

For jungle you would mostly likely want to start of with champs like MasterYi and Warwick so that you can get the basics of ganking at appropriate times. Then move onto champs like XinZhao MonkeyKing to practise to farm and see how to either camp a lane (ganking one lane constantly-every few minutes or so.) Make sure then to watch some videos or read some guides before moving onto harder champions that can have a better gank style that fits you. The hardest champs to jungle with would be Elise or maybe LeeSin if you're looking for mechanics.

For supp, there isn't much but Blitzcrank Thresh both make a good choice if you want to pull enemies in. Try blitz first then move on to thresh, since thresh has more to do with utility and making sure you land your hook right and know when to go in. When you want to be a tanky, damage absorbing wall for your adc, then go for Nautilus or Braum Leona and possibly Taric . As for very utility based, skill shot champs, try out Bard Lux Zyra . Good supps to poke enemies down to low hp so your adc can kill easily would be Nidalee Annie . For a more defensive and heal champ, go champs like Soraka Sona. The champ that do cc to stop adcs from moving either away or towards you would be Janna and Morgana.

Auroramancer9/28/2015, 2:32:49 PM1 votes

I'd be willing to help you out! Add me in client.

Flash Nova9/28/2015, 3:17:33 PM1 votes

You can add me if you'd like, always willing to help a pre30 figure the game out

Zhou Ziyu9/28/2015, 3:18:29 PM1 votes

Sent you a friend request. I main support, so I can teach you support (or mid and top, as the other lanes I play frequently).

ninjaIRL 9/28/2015, 3:45:53 PM1 votes

For a map to look at click here. Common ward spots map.

Vision is incredibly important in League. If you are the support then it is your job to protect your ADC and that includes protecting them against Rengars that might jump out of brushes. The team who wards more commonly, efficiently and effectively are usually the ones who win because you can't see opponents in the jungle unless you ward within it. There might be an ambush waiting there for your whole team and you wouldn't know. Junglers that are coming to gank will be spotted. Objectives in the jungle and river (dragon, Baron, blue buffs) might be being taken and you could steal it, etc. Over time you will notice patterns in how the junglers and generally, everyone else walks around the Rift and you can use that to your advantage when it comes to vision control.

If you you buy a item 2043 (last forever until killed) at the start of the match and place it in the brushes that no one in the enemy usually walks into, it will last really long. These brush spots are:

•The brushes in between the mid lane outer turret tower and the blue buff (for both sides of the map). No one walks through there early, the jungler is too busy trying to clear so he wants the quickest and most efficient path and that's not the right way. •The two single patch of circular brushes in the rivers are also good pink ward spots. Its coverage is really wide. •The tri-brush between bot lane outer turret (blue side) and dragon and the tri-brush between top lane (red side) outer turret and Baron Nashor are good spots to ward depending on which side of the map you are in. The blue team usually has easy control over the tri-brush near bot lane so the blue team should pink ward it. For the red team to reach that spot they would need to overextend, it's more unsafe for the red team to contest vision.


After buying a item 2049 you should sell the item 3340 that you bought at the start of the match and buy a item 3341 to destroy any wards that the enemy might have. item 3341 is also useful for Teemo shrooms and Shaco boxes and those are always good to take down.

HdjSeqzgAJ9/28/2015, 4:06:30 PM1 votes

While I can't actually teach you anything myself given I'm newer than you are I can link you to some videos that I've been watching as of late to try and learn more about the game.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ProfGonGoon/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=0 has stuff such as "When to leave lane" along with "trading" and the like.

https://www.youtube.com/user/flexpointlol/playlists is a channel I found yesterday. It has these "spectating" videos where he watches games sent to him and provides feedback along with guides. His rank is Diamond.

https://www.youtube.com/user/HuzzyGames/videos is just overall great. He comments on his own mistakes and uploads his losses too which makes things easy to understand.

Hope it helps, Neptune. If you feel like getting together for a game sometime feel free to add me.

Blue Collar Bear9/28/2015, 4:07:24 PM1 votes

Since you already have plenty of people to play with, I'll leave some resources instead.

There are quite a few YouTubers who pump out content for a variety of viewers. For jungle, I would recommend pants are dragon, whose channel name is luigidragon. For general information, Leaguecraft has recorded lectures, power points, etc. for a more academic approach. When you feel you've got a good understanding of the game, look up lastshadow9. He uploads coaching sessions.

Look up everything you have a question about on the Wiki. It's the best tool you can use.

Wolf Queen9/28/2015, 7:42:07 PM1 votes

ill help you if you want. I could spectate your games tell you what your doing wrong and what your building wrong etc add me on kitten0(my smurf) if you want my help. Im on that account more often lately. Im a gold adc main but i know the other roles pretty well and i know support as well as adc. Bot lane should know both roles equally well

AMYS GRAVE9/28/2015, 8:02:20 PM1 votes

https://www.youtube.com/user/foxdropLoL

for jungle guides i recommend this dude. He is a diamond player who mains jungle and i found his advice pretty helpful to add jungling to my league repertoire.

Totalwanabe9/28/2015, 9:24:25 PM1 votes

forget everything you learned so far, Every champion can fill every role, the only difference is some will have easier time then others in those so called roles.

Umbral Light9/28/2015, 3:06:04 AM1 votes

I would like to say I could teach you some few things but I myself play certain roles mostly and can't even play well due to a few difficulties lately. You could try asking my friend and League teacher UltimateGargoyle. I'm sure he'd be fine with helping a new player out.

Twisted Laz10/15/2015, 7:15:58 PM1 votes

FIX THE TROLL PROBLEMS

Genuwhine9/28/2015, 3:09:17 AM1 votes

get to level 30 first and get starter rune pages standard ap and standard ad you can look up what those are when you are 30 but until then jungling is too hard and the game you are playing isnt the real game its just a clusterduck.

NightOfLight9/28/2015, 6:03:48 AM1 votes

I could recommend a few things although I am not the best at the game just a low silver anyway.

Jungle could be a bit challenging without the proper runes but there are a few champions that do decent in the jungle even without runes some that come to mind for me are Warwick Nunu and MasterYi do to some piece of their kit giving decent sustain or atk speed. You could in theory jungle with anyone with enough practice but I would try to get runes before you go to crazy with that.

As for support you have a couple options on what type of playstyle you want to do do you want to be a tank and soak the damage for your adc maybe Braum or Leona could fill those roles. Do you want to have decent disengage or have a decent heal or shield so your adc can stay in lane a little longer maybe Janna or Soraka could work for you. And finally you could try to either poke the enemy adc out of lane or burst them down so your adc does not have to do all the damage maybe someone like Annie or Nidalee could work for you. Also in theory if a champion has something in their kit that allows them to keep an adc safe they can go support, I usually run Nautilus bot do to his large amount of cc and tankiness.

As with any role or position its down to preference so what I would recommend you do is try a champion out and see if they can fill this position if they do a decent job and you like how they play considering maining them. This game is partly trial and error if you fail you can always try again and see if you can do better.

Hope this help.