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Picking Up New Champions Gets Easier the More You Play and Why You Shouldn't Call Someone a Bronzie.

Mat7itan·4/13/2015, 11:42:44 PM·3 votes·936 views

Picking Up a New Champ: To start you might find "mastering" (I don't think anyone can truly master any champ) a champion pretty hard. Learning how to play even the champions that seem most basic can be difficult to start. But those difficulties on simple champions really make it worth the effort to play them, and learn them. By playing these simple champions you're really just improving your mechanics (even if you think you have "mastered" them).

Take this game for example: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1794429751/214906406?tab=overview

I purchased Morgana a couple days ago just so I could have another support for ranked (I hate support). However, being a mid main I decided I should start by practicing her mid as I know how to play against many of the mid lane champs. The last time I played Morgana was well over 6 months ago when she was free, and I only played her one time. Morgana isn't a super difficult champion (however if you can't land bindings you really aren't all that useful) and she is a good champion against Annie because you can just spell shield the stun. That being said I still hadn't played her in over 6 moths, but because my mechanics are where they are I was able to carry (more or less) on a champion I have hardly ever played.

So some of you might get frustrated that you struggle when trying to learn a new champion because no matter what you do it just seems hopeless (you're feeding, losing lane, and all of that unpleasant stuff). If this is the case I recommend playing a champion you're comfortable with in whatever position you're trying to learn with the new champ. Go for a 1 to 1 or 1 to 2 ratio. Play a champ you're comfortable with 1 or 2 times so you can learn more mechanics and match ups and then play 1 game as the new champ using the skills you learned to improve your game with the new champion. Trust me it gets a lot easier.

Why You Shouldn't Call Someone Bronzie: I just finished my placements not too long ago. I won 3 of the 10 games and got placed in bronze 1 (pretty pleased because I didn't win many games and it's my first season). Anyway in the aforementioned game: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1794429751/214906406?tab=overview the enemy shyvana was really salty (we were winning pretty heavily). It wasn't long before she started calling me and my team bronzies (which I am... I am in bronze and my team was bronze or unranked). In other words she was saying I am bad and my team is bad, but if you're doing worse than a team of bronze players and calling them bronzies doesn't that mean you are worse than a bronze player? I don't understand why people need to call other people bronzies especially if they are behind. All you're doing is saying that you're worse than a bronze player. Rank isn't everything. The bronzie I am has beat gold players in lane (I'm playing at a silver 3 to silver 1 level).

12 Comments

LQ9tcXETvN4/13/2015, 11:59:34 PM3 votes

Your supposed to find like a few champions per lane which is how you master champions because your comfortable playing them so often. Like blitzcrank and lux are 2 champions that I've "Mastered" playing because of the rate of how often I play them.

Also, about the bronzie thing. People in this game are honestly just retarted. They'll get destroyed in a silver elo game and proceed to tell me there really a "plat" smurf and how I won't ever get out of my elo and how their feeding only affects me and not them. Lmfao..plat my ass

2000boxes4/14/2015, 2:48:34 AM2 votes

i regret playing ashe adc the very second i saw the notification saying i was lvl 30 at the time i only had a few champions like 1 champion per role and that was ryze top nunu jungle ashe adc alistar support and twisted fate for my mid lane and those were the only champs i bought then my cousing said buy yasuo with rp cause you should always spend your rp on champs

I literally was only lvl 5 when they told me to spend my rp on yasuo so i didn't know any better so i was basically a lvl 30 who had no mechanical understanding for the game and i had just barely enough champions to do draft pick and i was the role i was worst at in a ranked game so because i decided to rush rank i am now bronze but i am slowly climbing i already climbed out of bronze IV and V

AthenasVendetta4/13/2015, 11:52:15 PM1 votes

The thing about the ranking structure... it does care about you personally just the team as a whole.

Kãtãrinã4/14/2015, 12:07:38 AM1 votes

If you are "playing at silver 3 to silver 1 level" you literally would be in those elos. Bronze is a joke of an elo to climb. Even silver is pretty easy. i also don't think you have fought a gold in ranked if you are currently bronze 1 because bronze can't fight gold in ranked.

KingKong23504/14/2015, 12:26:46 AM1 votes

I won 8 or 9 provisional and got placed in bronze 3

UltraGigaNiga4/14/2015, 2:00:11 AM1 votes

Insec mastered Lee for sure.