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Mirk's Tips&Tricks(P2)

Mirkwoodia·9/14/2015, 1:24:29 AM·1 votes·445 views

I love making guides and helping people out, even if I'm only P2. Even if Im not Challenger, please hear me out, a lot of my tips are independent of skill. TlDr at the bottom

Don't play to win. Play to learn and improve. You can lose 10 games in a row and feel depressed, or you can lose those 10 games, find ways to improve, and start your road to Challenger MMR. Who cares if your not there yet? As long as you never give up, you can never lose. If you have the attitude to get to Challenger, your half-Challenger already. The rest is just playing enough games to get the title.

  • Reaction speed This is not something I gain from League. I choose to play Osu! every now and then to keep me training and refreshed

  • Retreating This mistake is HUGE, people never know when to back down. Even in plat, so many people go "Lets just fight" and don't actually understand that they should only pick fights they can win. Like, when your carry gets 1shotted by rengar, unless you can instakill the rengar back, just back off, he got caught, dont let it happen next time. I can't explain it easily, but try to only pick fights that you can win. If you can't win, play passive until they make a mistake, or you can get a better engage onto them.

  • Teamwork Contribute as much as you have possible, but stay smart. Lets say your low HP: if your carry is good, you can start peeling for him rather than tanking (you can hide behind your carry, just CC or hit whoever comes into range). If your too low, just get out, and come back to defend objectives instead as your contribution. Another example: Junglers dont actually need flash to jungle, so use it off cooldown to get a gank off for a lane.

  • Positive Motivation Many people play for ELO, and thats a straight path to disappointment. You gotta FIGHT LIKE HELL!!!! and give every game your best shot, and you will climb as long as you keep fighting your best. But there are trolls and bad players everywhere, even in Diamond I'm pretty sure. Its a lonely road to carry yourself on, and teams will always hold you back and let you down. Expect them to let you down. You just gotta do everything you can and more to eventually start winning, use this game to get better than your last game, and you'll climb by yourself.

  • Macro decision making All lanes have some sort of logic to them and to the game as a whole. For example, I see a lane bully vs lane bully match up in top lane. If I get my top laner ahead a kill, then his lane naturally wins. If he still loses after that, just drop the lane, as he's probably not very skilled, and go work on keeping other lanes in the game. For another example: some late game champions have a hard time with some counter match ups. Gank for him 3 times, just keep him in the game if you can, and focus on helping him survive the laning phase for a better shot at late game, rather than having some worthless laner who got shut down.

  • Wards Some games just need the right wards at the right times, to prevent getting counter-jungled (pinks help) or ganks (even a trinket at the right time can stop a gank or initiate a counter gank).

  • Music Listening to music has a distracting effect, which can lead you to just "go with the flow" of the game. This ties back into "FIGHT LIKE HELL!!" you should just give every ounce of attention you have into your game. Anyways, plug in for this one, I got it from Twitch.tv/kireiautumn

  • High level Streams NO do NOT go to these thinking that your learning the game. Watch a Plat streamer, and even if your gold and below, you will actually be able to SEE mistakes happening. And that's when you realize: Hey I could be making these mistakes too! And that's how you learn what to avoid, you barely even learn from high elo streams (maybe Valkrin though). I know there are very few out there, and most are girls, so even spectating your friends and providing your own self-commentary for them can be very helpful.

Some streamers I watch: Twitch.tv/valkrin (Master-tier guy who always points out what people should do, and makes you feel good and human) Twitch.tv/Kireiautumn (Plat... I dont think.. there are any guy plat streamers... who are good)

I don't think Im that great at this, so here's a tl;dr review of the most important parts

Watch Plat games, whether streamers or friends, and learn from their mistakes. Put every amount of effort and concentration into every game, FIGHT LIKE HELL!!! and dont fight everything you see. Pick only the fights that you know you can win

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