I want to play ranked

Ńord·10/6/2015, 12:23:14 AM·1 votes·882 views

I recently joined league of legends (3-4 months ago). I've been reading all the things that people say newbies should do before they decide to play ranked like having 2 or more champs that they can play in each role. I have that and I can play them reasonably well. I also have 2 general rune pages with tier 3 runes and my mysteries are in order. My favourite role is support>adc>mid=JG=top so I know a lot about the importance of wards and other things. My mechanics with my champs are also good. I think I have played about 350 games so far. Is there anything else I should know before playing ranked?

15 Comments

Randomonium10/6/2015, 12:27:31 AM4 votes

The biggest mistake I see people make is they go into ranked when they aren't very good at CSing. Have you practiced CSing in custom games before? You should be able to get 35 CS by the 5 minute mark. I wouldn't go into ranked until you can do that consistently.

cchained10/6/2015, 12:28:54 AM3 votes

have a positive mindset, if you are playing with a negative attitude then you will do nothing but lose. trust me. take breaks in between loses and be humble in your wins.

Deep Terror Nami10/6/2015, 12:26:47 AM3 votes

Practice in Normal Draft instead of TB to get used to the draft style champion select (including not getting your preferred roles).

disregardable10/6/2015, 12:39:39 AM2 votes

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Lohrr Look at this guy's ranked winrate. This is what happens when you go straight into ranked.

If you want to get into ranked as soon as possible, I'd recommend going to your champions' page on the client and playing at least 10 games with every champion in all of the roles. Obviously that won't be possible in your 2 less preferred roles, but you can stop when you've memorized almost every kit regardless of whether you've played them. Knowing what the enemy champion does and how they play will help you counterplay them a lot. If you don't know what the enemy champion does, you'll make a lot of really stupid misplays that you don't need to make.

Replace your AP reds with Magic Penetration reds, and read some itemization guides (bc you clearly do not know how to itemize). Watch the 4 episodes of Leaguecraft on youtube -link- so you have a basic idea of what you should be doing. Lastly, practice makes perfect. Make sure you can CS well on champions that need CS, and play a lot of normals draft.

Amelie10/6/2015, 1:39:09 AM1 votes

I see a bunch of teambuilder games from you. Have you played any Normal Draft mode? If not, try it out and see how it goes before you start ranked. It will get you used to not automatically choosing the role you get to play every game.

Maximum Morde10/6/2015, 12:29:58 AM1 votes

I want to play ranked too but, Devourer exists.

F33dMeKills10/6/2015, 12:34:31 AM1 votes

Use all of your summoner spells! Even if it's an overkill! Or its to escape! Every second and kill matters.

Tilomentry10/6/2015, 12:52:51 AM1 votes

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I've been reading all the things that people say newbies should do before they decide to play ranked like having 2 or more champs that they can play in each role.

Having backups to cover you when your champion of choice for a role is pick/banned out is good and all but you want quality over quantity. Being really good with a few champions is better than being alright with many champions. Practice with no more than 1 champion per role and have the rest be backups that you can go even with and hope someone else can carry you.