Time Management

This going to a really quick tip for now. I might edit this later in to a more extensive guide. But here's the jist and I hope you guys agree with me. If so, I'll add more to this with examples, screenshots etc.

In every game of league that last 40mins, you spend at least 10 mins afk.

_What do you mean Loco? Are you actually Loco? I never afk from my games, I'm a master tier with a diamond smurf and I've never left a game once, how dare you compare to such low life scrubs. _

Ah my dear imaginary friend in my head, you are right, you don't leave the keyboard, no, but lets break it down a bit.

How much time do you spend actually just doing nothing at all but movement in league? From the start of the game, from the little movements you make as you wait to last hit that minion, as you travel to next camp.

These are miniseconds like your amazing master tier level ping. These are whole seconds, and they build up, and up, into minutes.

I cannot stress how important time management is in league, and being able to effectively manage your time and be as efficient as possible with your actions. You will improve massively. You will carry games. After all, how can someone compete with you when you've literally spend 10 mins extra performing in the game?

Here's some basic tips for time management.

Always adjust your positioning and think ahead to your next action, your next two actions

The difference time makes is seen below

'Hm, I need to ward that bush, ah that minion is low health, wait for it, ah ok it's dead, let me go ward the bush OMG 5 MAN BUSH NOOB TEAM YOU KILLED ME'

'Hm, I need to ward that bush, that minion is low health let me move towards the bush as I wait for it to die and ward the bush then get the cs, WOAH THEY WERE JUST ABOUT TO SET UP FOR A GANK lucky me i saw them in time!'

Better and less desperately badly humored examples are starting to move away from the camp to the next one as your red buff will kill it. Using your w to gain some movement speed as lucian as you head towards dragon.

You can also use this methodology to waste your opponents time. Freezing lane at your turret, why is it done? Gold advantage, exp advantage, and forcing the enemy to do something less time efficient. Time is money, literally.

There's no global xp in this game, and real income is based on reward from your actions. As jungler, going through a lane and doing nothing but just being there gives you xp compared to walking through your jungle. there are disadvantages to that of course, but you get the basic concept.

The problem I find is that really time management is made up of a bunch of really small things. But if you're thinking about it constantly, always saving, you can be a minute ahead of your enemy, literally.

Have you ever seen a jungler who seems to be everywhere while the enemy jungler seems to be nowhere? This is time management, what can the enemy jungler do if you're clearing your jungle 20 seconds faster, if you can then use those 20 seconds to gank, to gain cs, to gain xp, to get kills, to push objectives.

20 seconds you have, 20 seconds they simply don't.

The enemy is forced to catch up, because you are ahead of them in time, you can dictate the course of the game, you are initating while they are responding 20 seconds later. then 30 seconds later, then 40, then 50.

I am going to pull up some statistics shortly on this, but I reccomend you watch some lcs games and just see how much faster they get things done, if a gank fails there's no waiting around, they are already at the next camp. My theory is that the team that has spent less time doing nothing will almost always win the game. It just makes common sense.

Please incorporate this into your game. mechanics matter alot less in the long run, then decision making like this ever will, this is how you truly get good at these kind of games.