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Diamond 2 ADC/Jungler Main helping people! AMA about League of Legends

AwesomeChad··2 votes·1,693 views

I'm here help you guys with my knowledge and wisdom of the game. Go ahead and post any questions you have about the game whether its about advice in playing ranked or playing a match-up. Ill try my best to answer it as detailed as possible. Also, try to avoid general questions. The most specific your question is, the better i can help you. I also stream but I won't post it unless people ask.

My previous two AMAs have been very successful so i will keep posting these from time to time.

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ikKN1t518F1 votes

I have played over 5,000 ranked games and still can't get out of Silver. What do you recommend improving on? Should I main mid? I main jungle and only, what should I do? I jungle all the time

AwesomeChad1 votes

It doesn't matter how many games you play or what elo you're in. The only way to climb in any elo is to improve to the point where you're consistently performing well in every game and grind ranked OR improve to the point where you can carry at least 80% of your games.

It doesn't matter what role you play. Stick to what you like and do best in then, focus on improving. Jungling is a great role for carrying in the current meta. I recommend playing power picks like nidalee and shyvanna. Picking the strongest junglers in the current meta will increase your winrate but only if you're able to play them. Otherwise, stick to the champions you perform best with.

Your question is too general and one of the most common concerns of many players. This is the only advice i can really give you on that.

ikKN1t518F1 votes

Can you be my mentor and add me? You seem like a God to me

Cruk1 votes

I believe I have hit a skill plateau at Plat III. For me ranking up has always really happened in bursts, I was able to rank up from low silver to gold 5 Extremely fast and then the same thing happened in gold, I just advanced into plat very quickly again. Now the quick gains are not coming, I have hit a wall in plat 3, i understand map pressure, mechanics, laning matchups, i have a general sense of the game, (like most plat player claim). This may seem super general but what do you notice MOST different between plat and diamond? Im so close to diamond i can taste it, but i cant get in!

AwesomeChad1 votes

Better mechanics and much faster decision-making/rotations. Overall, much better macro and micro play. Understands how to use a comp to its maximum potential against the enemy comp. The lower tier diamond players are not good examples. I'd say Diamond 3 and above is when you start seeing the differences I described.

Cruk1 votes

So pretty much, teamwork, ive always not been a huge fan of teamwork, played a lot of splitpushing, or solo carrying to climb, but working within a comp, and utilizing teamwork is sometimes really hard for me

AwesomeChad1 votes

Teamwork is an important skill. To be able to rely on teamwork to win the game makes the game much easier to play. Group with your allies and back them up when they're in danger. You will find often that you have alot more opportunities for extra gold from kills or objectives if you play like a team player. You can also have a bigger impact on the game by simply being with your team. If the enemy does not group, grouping is often your biggest strength to defeat the enemy.

Sebrigg1 votes

How to beat Fizz with Malzahar. Malz is my main and I'm getting destroyed by him in the early game. Please help

AwesomeChad1 votes

Fizz has a much stronger pre-6 than malzahar. When Malzahar tries to cast his Q (Call of the Void) onto you, use your E juke it. Afterwards, the only spell he can really dmg you with is his E(Malefic Visions) since you can walk outside of his W (Null Zone). Gap close to malzhar and autoattack him alot (with W activated) . Once you hit 6, you're much stronger than he is. The weakest part of fizz's laning phase is his lvl 1 so I recommend that you play safe and avoid as much dmg as you can (even missing some cs) until you hit lvl 2.

Sebrigg1 votes

No sir. I AM Malzahar. I need to know how to beat the Fizz, not vice-versa lol

AwesomeChad1 votes

oh, then do the opposite of what I said:

  1. At level 1, play very aggressive against fizz with autoattacks and try to zone him away from the minion wave. Fizz at lvl 1 is very weak and you can abuse the range advantage you have on him.

  2. In general, aim to hard push the lane with E. Malzahar has superior wave clear to fizz. Once the creeps are at his turret, poke with Q and E or look to roam.

  3. If you can poke fizz with Q, then you can good trades against him. Otherwise, hope he gets hit by malefic vision and W+R him once hes ~ 3/4 hp. Also keep your distance from him and kite with your abilities/autoattacks. If he gap closes to you , he can outrade u with his W dmg.

Oaky Balboa1 votes

As and Adc main (Currently in silver) I'm wondering when to sacrifice farm for a trade in lane(EX: a minion is low and you want to get the cs, but your laning opponent is also approaching, do you go for the trade? do you get the minion then try to trade?), which always seems to determine if I win or lose lane. also, I would like to know some generic champs to just flat out carry your team on.

Thanks!

AwesomeChad1 votes

Alright so first off, in any situation when you're the player forced into choosing between getting the cs or trading back with the enemy trying to harass, ask yourself this:

"Is the damage I'm going to deal to the eneny champion meaningful ? "

This refers to alot of factors. If you have any type of advantage over them (ex: you can outrade them, you have superior sustain over them), then you probably want to trade back. If there is no advantage or the enemy surrounded by a huge minion wave (minion aggro deals alot of dmg), taking the cs is better. Also keep in mind that there will be situations where the enemy is much stronger than you are. If you are forced into this situation where u know the enemy is going to attack you if you walk up to cs, you may have to miss out on the cs in order to avoid taking further dmg.

For laning phase, you want to be able to stay in lane as long as possible so you don't miss out on the exp from the creep wave. This is especially true if the enemy laner is still in lane. Getting poked out of lane and forced to recall early will lead to level advantages in favor of the enemy. At higher elos, this means they will abuse this advantage to deny you both cs and exp in the laning phase.

Now, if you want to reduce the amount of occurrences for this situation, try to maintain a bigger minion wave (1-2 extra creeps) than the enemy . Doing this means the enemy has to spend more autoattacks on the mnion wave, giving you more opportunities to get free harass on them. This also benefits you in the sense that you also a slight advantage in trades because of minion aggro and you have more opportunities for level advantages.

Now in terms of the meta for adcs, you can pick almost any adc and carry with it. What really matters how good are you on that champion. Some adcs that are pretty dominant in the early-mid game are miss fortune and kallista. Jinx has a very strong scaling and is arguably one of the safest picks due to that. Tristana has good late game scaling and insane turret killing power. Lucian and corki have great burst dmg as ADC casters. Ashe and sivir provide good utility for their team from their ults. ADCs i personally dont recommend unless you're really good at them are vayne, twitch, urgot, and quinn.

Jester of Quebec1 votes

Hey there, I'm currently Plat, but people I know tell me that I'm not making it to diamon because of my attitude, I realise that, I tend to give up on my teamates way too soon. I main jungle and everytime I see one of my lane giving first blood before I even get to finish my buffs I usually just ignore his lane, there's no reason to die at lvl 1 or 2, this is just stupid to go all in against your ennemy at this level. There's also the fact that I realised lots of people in plat still have no global map awareness, I realise that's a though thing to train, it took me over 2 weeks of intensive training with friends who helped me practice my global map awareness. But as I was saying I tend to give up on my teamates too soon when I know I could probably go and help carry them but the facts that they have such poor decision making and I'm not even talking of people who just go playing a champ for the first time because they just feel like it and they have no idea what they are doing with that champ (Had a Nid on my last game who was landing 1 spear every 20 spears and obv it was his first game with Nid), I just drop down the gloves and pretty much stop helping at this point because I feel my team deserves to lose.

I realise that this is a terrible attitude but I'm really trying to help fix this problem to eventually go to Diamond, do you have any tips to help me fix that problem? I guess pretty much everyone that made it to Diamond had to fix that problem at some point but I just can't find a way to help myself, this is why I'm asking to you.

AwesomeChad1 votes

Late response here but here it is:

If you really want to get better and improve, you need to focus strictly on your own gameplay. Don't pay too much attention to the mistakes your allies make because they're out of your control. In terms of attitude, focus on self improvement and always look to learn something from every game, especially losses. Also, as a jungler, you have to realize that your allies giving 1st blood doesn't mean they're screwed over in lane. You should always gank the lanes that are easy to gank. Abuse the strengths of your champion. Also, you need to realize that laning phase does NOT dictate which team wins the game. You can lose lane and win the game OR win lane and lose the game. I've experienced so many games at a higher elo where both cases have happened to me so I know this is true. If you're going to give up that easily, you won't climb. You're throwing the game before trying the late game to see if you can come back. Fix that attitude with what i've mentioned in this post.

LordFluffyJr1 votes

I'm fairly new to League. I have only played seriously the past year. Which I don't feel ready for ranked as I need more game knowledge. I played a lot of support for a while. I am now learning jungle. I don't like having to do it for the only reason that people like to blame doing bad in lane on you. I don't own a lot of great junglers. I think I own Udyr Fiddlesticks RekSai Warwick Nidalee. These champions are nice, but I need a different play style. I've had a lot of luck on Udyr as some people have bad map awareness and I run into lane through the river with my swag and I can still get them. I just don't like playing junglers like Fiddlesticks and Warwick since they're ultimate reliant for ganks. Rek'Sai I have an issue with clears. Stil don't know why.

I was wondering if you could help me expand my champion pool for jungle. I prefer junglers that have a lot of early game presence. I was thinking XinZhao or maybe even Trundle. Who would you suggest that has good early game presence, but yet is a good farm champ.

AwesomeChad1 votes

Gragas Elise Evelynn Rengar

I would also suggest kayle since her ult and scaling is pretty strong but her early game ganks are sub-par.

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