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Some things Ii've noticed while trying to climb.

Aboylova92·3/20/2015, 1:02:27 AM·1 votes·952 views

As I've been looking at problems I have, mainly not cs'ing properly, not using item actives (ie randuins active), and not roaming/rotating correctly are big things I've noticed. I've also noticed some of the things others just don't seem to do.

First is optimizing your build. Whether it's just what you get going into lane, or simply your item build, sometimes it just doesn't make sense. For example in one of my recent games I had a Cho top. For some unknown reason the fiora and kat switched so it ended up being a Kat to face him. Whether it's not being able to land his abilities, or more likely his extemely offensive build, he manages to lose. Now instead of building tank and just stopping her every fight, he proceeds to build damage, blowing up every time.

You see this against all ad teams where no one buys a FH, or pretty high AP teams with no locket. Simple items like these can win you games.

Second is teams give up waaaaayyy too easily, and start attacking their teamates. Something didn't go according to plan? Yelling at everyone will do nothing, even if it is their fault. All it's going to do is make them play worse, or just start attacking you.

Third is people need to start looking at what their team is comprised of, and use it to their advantage. If you have a team with Tryn top, Nid jungle, Zed mid, and some assorted bot lane, teamfighting probably isn't your strong suit. However it hurts me to see things like Maokai splitting top while his team is getting destroyed fight after fight. Obviously every team isn't going to be perfect and may have some mix and match, but do what you can to make what you have work.

Obviously I'm not the best player, but these are just some of the things I've really noticed that people could use to maybe help them, and try to improve just like I am.

13 Comments

MrPerson103/20/2015, 1:09:19 AM2 votes

Wait...your cho...lost to a Kat? LOL I'm sorry, that's too funny.

Xonra3/20/2015, 1:09:47 AM1 votes

I'd say, as far as giving up too easily goes, people also don't know when they should be hitting surrender, learning from a bad game, and going to the next.

Nothing says stubborn like having 1 turret down, enemy team has 5-6, all the dragons in the game, currently has baron, more than double your kills, but 3 out of 5 people refuse to surrender because it is ranked, and no other reason. Giving up after 5 deaths, that is dumb, but refusing to after 50 to 12, means you need to surrender, go get a snack, and try again.

missou3/20/2015, 5:45:22 PM1 votes

Here's another thing for you to learn. Don't be so confident about the nature of a lane matchup you yourself don't know how to play. Cho'Gath is by no means a hard-counter to Katarina.

Additionally, AP Cho is the standard Cho buildpath. Tank Cho is extremely lackluster in the current meta. I'm not calling the enemy Cho good - chances are, if he was in the same game as you, he wasn't - but if you don't understand the win conditions of a specific champion, don't mock its players for making choices you wouldn't expect.

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Think about it like this:

You're laning as Teemo into Tryndamere - a matchup traditionally understood to heavily favor Teemo. You abuse him heavily in the first few levels and go for a close but straightforward dive, but just barely miss the kill because you underestimated his Q heal and end up dying to the turret. Sucks. Happens though - you see failed dives happen now and then to players of any skill level.

Now you head back to lane, down a few hundred gold, but ready to abuse him again, because the matchup still favors you. Unfortunately he came back with a Vamp sceptre, and the enemy jungler is chilling in the top jungle, so you can't go aggressive enough to push him out. He hits 6 right before you and blindly dives you for a kill.

Well shit, now what? You're 0/2 in a lane matchup you were heavily favored to win. You played it pretty well early but got unlucky on a short dive. You came back and played it to the best of your abilities, and had the map awareness to realize it was too dangerous for you to go very aggressive. Then you died once more because he hit level 6 first. You played alright overall, but lost the lane, because things just panned out unfortunately for you.

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Is that an unreasonable loss that you should be ridiculed for? No, it happens. The Cho vs Kat example is a MUCH softer lane counter than Teemo vs Tryndamere. The lane can easily swing in Katarina's favor from just a couple small mistakes or differences in jungle pressure. The fact that you're sitting here mocking that Cho'Gath for losing lane is ridiculous.

What's more, his build isn't even bad or unusual. He's going for a very standardized ROA-CDR tank setup. You're literally just salty at a loss and masking your finger-pointing as constructive criticism. But it isn't constructive at all.