KeiranDarkwills Solo Queue Playbook

Ok so I see this way too often when I am playing league of legends in solo queue. Just like all of my threads I post it is a match after losing and having someone bad try to tell me I'm wrong. How dare they, I can never be wrong . But I'm not going to discuss the match I'm here to give some helpful tips to people who just couldn't get past silver to make it into gold for their rewards. This is for you silver and bronzies I am looking out for you!

1. Map Awareness: You see this in every single tips for lowbie threads. But I'm here to tell you how I execute it. No matter what lane you are in after every single creep you kill glance at the map, it will get you into a routine you eventually will not have to think about. Sometimes I forget, it happens don't beat yourself up over missing someone on the map you're not LCS, it happens. Also when I am mid lane or top lane, when I go back for my first buyback I always pick up a pink ward, they pay themselves off the longer they are alive so GET ONE.

2. Dragon: Dragon is the single most important objective in the early game, more important than getting your towers, more important than chasing an enemy with low HP. As a mid or jungler it is YOUR JOB to be bot lane all the time, the ADC no matter how much of an asshole is the most important role on your team, now people on the forums will say "no n00b I am jungler I say who I gank". Sorry but if you like winning you want to get that ADC fed and to keep their adc suppressed from getting farm as much as possible. And the reason I brought this up in the first place is because when you get kills in bot lane there is a window that you should be doing dragon. Get that dragon and proceed to push the advantage.

2.A Team Movements: This has a lot to do with what I said above because a lot of games are lost solely because of a misstep. If your entire bot lane is going for dragon along with your jungler, STOP farming mid and get down their asap. If your team mates are around the tower in top lane, noxus side, and there are four enemy team members to your teams three, STOP trying to grab that red buff and go up there. I don't care if you can clear it in ten seconds, this entire game is about seconds and in ten seconds your team can be wiped. Another example, you have bot lane inhibitor down on your teams side. The enemy team is down one player (or not depending on circumstance), if four of your team members go to baron regardless of if you think its a bad idea or not YOU GO. There is no leader in Solo Queue, there is no shot caller on your team (unless you have a really good team), even though yes the minions could take one of your nexus towers, if your team gets wiped at baron guess who they are going to blame, you because you through it was a bad idea to go, and they got wiped in in all technicalities they are right it is your fault. Solo queue is hivemind not independence.

3. Team Comp: You can lose from the beginning and not even know it. When you're in champ select and your team goes vayne/nami bot, talon mid, riven top, and fiddlesticks jungle, you very well could lose from that point, you have NO tank and in my experience tanks are always the key team members in late game that cause victories. So before you pick your champion look at what the your team has. Nami bot your team probably needs a braum or leona

Anyways, thats all I had to say. Glhf summoners.