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Ashie The Soft·5/27/2015, 1:20:05 AM·1 votes·1,123 views

So, I've been playing League of Legends for 2 years. Not straight, I work full time and it just seems to me that I always have to mold myself to my friends wants or needs. A long time ago support was my best roll, I did best there. Then my laptop broke and gave a chance for another friend to play support. And now that I play with them again I can no longer play support. The only two rolls left for me to play are Jungle and Mid. Two BIG rolls, that I can't even begin to understand how to play without being overwhelmed.

Mid, is a passive/aggressive roll. You gotta farm, but you gotta harass and get ahead. If you don't you'll end up dog food late game.

Jungle, What do you even start anymore? When I played jungle it was as simple as starting Red or Blue. Now You can start Gromp or Golems. Never the large buffs. But wait there's more, what should you smite? Whenever you can? When you need an oracles buff or a ward that protects half of your jungle? How do you even gank anymore? Through river? or tower wings?

I get forced out of a roll where I can do actual good and can't even decide where to go next, because what waits me are rolls that I will NEVER...EVER...be good at. No matter how many runes I get, masteries, anything. I always lose middle lane. I get 1 kill out of being dived and having ignite, and then that's it, I go like 1/8 every time. And I'm not even switching character's I'm trying to stick with one solid champion to learn.

I don't know what to do, maybe this is me being an attention whore, just feeling like there's no where to turn. Or maybe this is just me trying to find an outlet for my problems...or actually it's probably me wishing I was actually good at the game. I wanted more than anything to have the courage to spam this game all day long and climb ranks and learn a lot of mechanics that only LCS pro's ever learn.

But...that's never going to happen so what was the point of this post? Maybe it's for everyone on the rift who told me I was bad, that I should kill myself, uninstall, who taught me that this game obviously is no longer just to 'have fun'...that they were right. and I should've listened to them and quit while I was ahead. So to all my brother's and sister's on the rift...Goodbye. I loved this game. But there's no where left for me in this game.

12 Comments

WhiteSpheres5/27/2015, 1:47:05 AM4 votes

Hello!

Honestly, the most important thing to do is try other lanes and roles. The best way to learn what to do in a role and lane is just to practice. If you're going to learn a role such as middle lane or jungle, expect to feed a lot of games before you understand what to do in those roles. You dont have to pick these mechanically hard champions like Zed or Syndra to play middle lane. Or champions like LeeSin or Elise to play jungle. Your whole job middle lane is just to farm, defend your tower, roam (following your laner), and helping assist your teammates with objectives such as dragon and towers). Start out by playing a easy farming champion like Ziggs. If you dont want a farm heavy champions and want a bursty assassin-mage you can go with Annie. If you're worried about dying a lot in middle lane bring defensive summoner spells like summoner 4 , summoner 3 , summoner 7 , or summoner 21. Jungling is a whole different story and can have a hard learning curve to start, certainly in this season. Pick junglers such as Amumu or Warwick to start off. They're fairly easy, good ganks, good teammates, and lategames. Just gank other lanes as you roam around and farm your jungle. If you kill say middle lane or the adc and support, call your team for a dragon. Just try your best to create pressure on the map for your lanes. As always try your hardest to get summoner 11 down, understand its range, damage, and utility (based on your jungling item). Playing and learning new roles is all about the many experiences that you'll well, experience. Feeding games is not a bad thing, it's your way of understand a champions limitations. Ignore what people have to say when learning new roles, you have no reason to listen anything that toxic players will tell you. Overall, just try your hardest and never give up on something that you think that you can't do. Everything is possible, there's nothing stopping anything from learning roles and chasing dreams. Keep your head up and keep trying at it, you're bound to succeed.

Hope to see you on the rift. :) ~Spheres

Noctix5/28/2015, 9:02:25 PM2 votes

First off LoL is a game the point is to have fun. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Also you do have to practice the other roles. If you're playing with friends have you tried telling them you'd like to play support? Even if someone else is maining support it never hurts to ask. If you'd like to learn mid if you can land skill shots, which I know a lot of supports have, try playing Lux or Ziggs both are pretty fun champs that are safe to play because of their range. As for anyone who tells you to uninstall, kill yourself, or anything like that report them. They won't think they're so good when their account is perma banned.

Raxicor5/27/2015, 10:04:42 PM2 votes

Well, you're playing with your buds, right? Just play around in normals some. Losing is not the end of the world in this game. In fact, its a great learning tool. Don't get hung up on things like people taxing your lane, they are probably helping you push so you can back or taxing for ganking for you. If they are doing neither, ping them. Communication is key.

Also you don't "need" to always start golems or gromp. Their buffs are just handy to take down the big buffs and get that early 2nd level. I've seen plenty of people start straight at the buff and turn out just fine. As far as what each one does, wiki it. Google is a very handy tool. If you want to try an easy jungler, try Warwick. He's an easy way to get you back into the swing of things. You don't even have to worry about teammates complaining about you not ganking until 6 because, frankly, they shouldn't expect one until then.

slamor5/28/2015, 4:45:21 PM1 votes

I can add you and try to personally teach you some stuff. I used to be silver but I climbed up to diamond IV because I made a determination to find out what I needed to do to win games. I had plenty of games where I did go 1/8. It can be hard to know what you need to do to improve and it was hard for me. Add me and I can try helping.

Aatrox Herself5/27/2015, 1:23:47 AM1 votes

Why don't you just ask if you can support?

Angry Monster5/28/2015, 9:07:17 PM1 votes

you whine to much, You should leave.

T RexHasTinyArms5/27/2015, 2:00:40 AM1 votes

Honestly I'd say look at jungle or top lane. Both are lanes you can bring utility champs to, so you have some over lap w/ what you learned/knew playing team fights as support.

Stonewall008, and foxdrop are both really good resources for youtube channels that will help you learn the current jungle. You probably can also find some utility champs in what they play and watch that to think about how you should be playing jungle if those are the champs you like. Also there is a lot of over lap for top and jungle so you can play the same champs in both roles and be on stuff you're comfortable on if you have to fill the one you don't main. For me I'd say the list of what you can play in both top lane and jungle looks like: Chogath Darius DrMundo Fiora Gragas Hecarim Jax Kayle Malphite Maokai MasterYi Nasus Nautilus Nidalee Olaf Pantheon Poppy RekSai Rengar Riven Shyvana Sion Trundle Tryndamere Udyr Volibear Warwick MonkeyKing XinZhao Zac which is a pretty huge list to pick from, and at that point is just about finding 2 or 3 you really love the lore/kit/visuals or whatever else for them, and are willing to play a bunch and try to get better w/ them. I climbed from mid/low bronze to low/mid silver so far just by finding something I love playing and getting better. If you do the same and really focus on getting better w/ that champ each game you play then you'll improve in time, and have more fun doing it than if you play something you don't like as much. Also shout out to jungle Nunu if you like support :D

Jekk Toranaka5/27/2015, 4:07:02 AM1 votes

I don't want to be that guy, but this sounds like a bunch of whining to me.

Just keep playing, man, don't give up. Every one of us was in this exact same position at one point or another. Sure, you may not be very good now, but keep it up. You'll get better. That's a guarantee lol One of the main thing you need to do is remove yourself from this whole "unskilled" mindset. There's a difference between being bad at a role, and being inexperienced in a role, and this sounds like an example of that difference to me.

Yes, learning a new role is scary, especially mid or jungle, you're right, there's a lot riding on those two players. But that doesn't mean you should give up because of x amount of bad games. The more you try, the more learn, and the stronger you become. Believe it or not, mechanical play makes up a lot less of this game than people realize. You're never going to get any better if you don't attempt/learn new roles and champs.

WhiteSpheres has some very good tips and advice in his response. Try them out. You won't see results immediately, but you will get better. Practice makes perfect :P

Another idea is to maybe stop playing with this group of friends, or find another to play with? I don't know how close you are with these folks, but, and I don't know the entire situation here, it seems to me as though they're trying to force you into something that you're just simply not comfortable doing. You play support and so does this new guy. I see no reason why the two of you can't alternate games or something similar. It would have dual benefits of both allowing the two of you to play the role you want, while simultaneously forcing both of you to learn new roles/champs. Seems like a win-win to me ;)

In summation: Don't give up. It will get better. I promise.