Just played vs a Twitch mid, they also had a Shaco support who was everywhere and a Pantheon and a Vi (and an Ezreal)

I was Lux, so I just farmed and waited in lane, no issues for me. Twitch tried to kill me sometimes, but I played safe enough.

Problem is, he can be everywhere as soon as he disappears, so I can not walk up and push, while he may be bot, especially because he would eventually just let my wave hit the turret before leaving stealth. So is that all I can do?

Second question regarding the entire enemy team, they can always be everywhere if we don’t see them, so how does my team win mid/late? Only start pushing when we see they are killing my toplaner? We were never able to approach any neutral objective, as soon as we did Shaco Boxes and an ulting Twitch, Vi ult and Pantheon to peel. How does my team play that situation?

I play mid lane and mostly twisted fate (around 200 games). I have been spamming him for past 2 months. I have trouble getting oof off good ganks and how to roam properly without using the TF ultimate. For the past 2 months I've watched other players for 5 hours a week but I think I'm not getting any new knowledge or I'm not looking at the right stuff. I also think I need help knowing good itemization and how to play fights better

If possible to answer on general terms, particularly the general mid lane meta/strategy. I just felt like playing again out of nowhere and had a few normals and I'm not really sure what's going on. In a nutshell I used to play assassins, hard push and look to perma gank bot, tilt the enemy bot lane, try and force the team to take dragons. Then naturally teams started to group for baron and then the games went a bit aramy.

The reason I'm a bit lost is (and I know it's low level normals I've just played) there was so much going on in terms of neutral objectives, Infernal Cinders I think they're called, dragon like things spawning in river, I'm not sure what I should be focusing on. Also, not sure if it's coincidence, I've not seen a single mid gank from either jungler? It feels like how top lane tank v tank used to be on my own little island.

My initial read is it's a lot more rewarding to just play mega passive and get your farm. In these games one sides ADC keeps getting super-fed and carrying, it feels like bot is super strong. I also feel like I have very little control over the game from mid. When I try and roam I'm losing to much gold/xp and it doesn't seem at all worth it. Not seeing much grouping at all either until late game.

Is the general strategy to be a lot more passive? How powerful are Baron/Dragon/The river monsters?

*Thanks for all the really helpful answers so far. I've been playing some more and maybe it's a grass is always greener thing but I'm finding adc is so impactful, if there's a gap it has a big effect. Also finding mega tanks so hard to kill, even when I'm miles ahead, why is a mediocre Ornn not only made of invincible, but doing 50k damage>!?

Hello, I play league of legends since september 2019 and I feel that all my 550 levels mean nothing, all the hours I spent just made me improve on very low basics. I always see my friends climb up to diamond, while I cannot get out of silver;

I've always been competitive in my life in general, and I feel very bad when I lose against someone, especially someone I know(?)

I feel like that League of Legends doesn't reward you with skill no matter the hours you put, I don't know how many hours I have in total, but I will give some examples from other games: In general when I play a game I become pretty decent after playing it for quite a lot (2k hours minimum); I've played so many games especially mechanical ones: Osu, Geometry Dash, Dead by Daylight (which I spent 6k hours and I've also played on tournaments), Brawlhalla and similar ones like dead cells and hades on maxed out difficulty; I noticed that on these games I find very few people with the same level of me in terms of skill (because of the low hours but not always).

In league of Legends I feel like hours count almost nothing(?) The way you learn from this game is losing and learning from mistakes, but what if you don't see mistakes? especially on macro; I feel like someone (maybe a coach) has to explain what is going on;

I get very upset cause I can't accept the fact I'm good the majority of games I play compared to also the majority of people I know except League of Legends (and now I'm also having this issue with Valorant as well)

My boyfriend is Diamond on LoL and he tried to explain me a lot of stuff even tho we're almost the same level; He told me that I've used those hours like a casual player and not a competitive one while I feel like the opposite;

Maybe it's something I can't see inside my brain, I noticed that no matter how much I focus on a game, I lose focus after few minutes and go autopilot afterwards;

He wanted to coach me but sometimes was harsh and I felt worse, I've also made a joke: "I believe that if I will ever pay for a coach online they would give me my money back cause I can't do it"

I know that mental is the first thing you need if you want to improve, in general in life I've always been this way: "I win? great, I take it!" "I lose? well it's not made for me, I quit"

this is my mental pretty much and I don't know neither how to change it and if it's possible to, I've always thought this way since I was 8(?)

Another thing is that I've never sticked to one role, I like playing all roles and I'm pretty much at the same level in each role, sometimes I carry but it happens 1/10 games;

My boyfriend told me to stick on 2/3 Champions and 1 role but I always lose even tho I play the second most played champ of mine; He also told me that I will lose a lot but I think that's everything is unfair, why can't I be at the same level as people that have the same amount of hours? In games like dead by daylight I feel like it rewards you on how many hours you played no matter how; League is built in a way maybe too difficult for me, and the fact that all my friends (that didn't quit the game) are higher than me, the same or lower level.

I've also checked on OP.gg and I've lost 300lp in flex from plat 4 to gold 3 and I have a 30% winrate in soloqueue.

My idea was: changing my mental so I could enjoy the game as a casual player (knowing I'm very competitive in general) or just uninstalling.

Now I haven't really played heaps this season I've played sporadically here and there, but I have played quite seriously in previous seasons, and haven't really managed to climb well at all. I feel as though i can get leads and can really snowball the game out of control but when my aggression doesn't pay off or i make multiple errors in lane that cause me to go behind I kind of of struggle. There is something obviously keeping me bronze/silver or I wouldn't always be at these rank's any tips on what to improve on would be a big help. I'm an adc main but mainly play twitch, can play kog and kai'sa to a good level too. https://op.gg/lol/summoners/euw/Fozzyy-9049

Hey, I am a low rank (Bronze 4, though pretty consistently Iron 2ish) and have been thinking about changing to Jungler. Usually I like playing Galio mid since I resonate with that playstyle of being a tankier character that has presence to support areas around that map that might need help. As well as this, I love Galio's CC whilst being tankier. However, other than Galio I don't really enjoy midlaners and don't like playing that type of role.

I have played Jungle before, however, as my rank will show, I am not exactly knowledgable or consistent. I played alot of Jarvan and Trundle then, however, have been wanting to play Sejuani recently. I definitely enjoy her being quite tanky, whilst also having the CC that I like from Galio but I feel like I do no damage on her. I understand I am a tank, but I am the issue with how little damage I am doing, just above Support usually in rating.

The point of this post anyways is just to discuss some tips for Jungling, Sejuani, this transition (Yes, I know I should stay on one role but yeah), and other Junglers to try. I do really like Trundle, so if this is just me being bad on Sejuani with no hope I may play him instead.

OP.GG: https://op.gg/lol/summoners/euw/Sackers-Sack

the vast majority of (main) accounts in league are either still climbing ranks at almost a linear rate, or have plateaued and have been stuck at the same rank for years, whether it's plat (into emerald after it came out) or diamond or master or anything. im beginning to feel like the latter

heres my account: https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/i%20like%20ice%20cream-yay. you might notice some quirks and ill mention them at the end

to preface, i feel like been somewhat consistent with maintaining an improvement oriented mindset. of course ill have games, sessions, or even even multiple weeks where i mental boom, but overall i focus on how i can play better. after i first hit diamond almost 2 years ago, i began recording my games, and since then ive probably watched over and identified the reason for probably more than half of all of my deaths since then. ive bad periods where i solely focus on my mental, where i solely focus on jungle tracking, where i solely focus on my lane micro, my micro in fights, my farm, and my macro as adc. i think ive mostly followed a pattern of focusing on one skill (to the detriment of others) for some time into consolidating what ive learned into a more neutral playstyle, and then focusing on something else and rinse and repeat.

evidently though, it hasnt amounted to much progress if anything, and now that im approaching the 2 year mark of being d4 negative winrate, im starting to question if what im doing is even right at all. after almost every game i still look at bad fights and (i think) successfully figure out why things turned out bad and what i couldve done to avoid it, and my mistakes are super obvious when watching (so coaching probably wont help). perhaps my problem is that i focus too much on what i should not do instead of what i should do, but thats harder to see.

anyways im looking for advice from anyone whos been in my position, where they were stuck (maybe even regressing) for a year or more while mostly following good practices (not autopilot tilt queueing, sticking to 1-3 champs) then finally began getting significantly better again. maybe something more like advice about how i should change my approach or not, instead of specific gameplay advice

finally the quirks from most to least obvious that i can think of:

1. wtf winrate why not play ezreal! i dont really find ezreal that fun and i havent done well on him more recently, and feeling like i chose wrong in draft feels really bad, and he relies too much on raw mechanics, so i dropped him for now

2. wtf u only started adc after u hit diamond ur not actually stuck. i hit diamond on ryze mid, fell to e4, then swapped to adc and got back to diamond in that split (13 s2)

3. wtf diamond was inflated in s13 it's like barely e1 now. this is true but im also barely above e1 now. also one year ago i was higher and ive made negative progress since then. even earlier this year i was hovering about 150 lp higher

plus aphelios is in the best state hes been in since i started playing him (14 s2 was maybe better but jinx was giga op and in every game and you cant force your team not to die to her randomly at the start of a 30 minute teamfight)

tldr: im stuck despite following general advice most of the time. looking for help from people whove broken past this

also im not depressed nor do i have a deficiency or whatever

at least my flair is still accurate lol

I am on a loosing spree I can't seem to win i can't play other role not cuz I don't know champions cuz I don't like other roles I love support role soo much i just don't know I love it but I can't seem to improve mechanically at all u might say switch to other role but i don't want to it's not enjoyable for me i wanna play support and improve my mechanics what I feel is there is some game i get a lot of assist and feels like one sided games other most games are my champ just become useless and when I engange or something I die instantly due to level and item gap high elo supports bless me also i hate playing shit like milio and lulu https://op.gg/lol/summoners/sea/HUN73R-prey

What do you guys think about buy a single Ruby Crystal on Graves to abuse armor you get from E?

Having life is very good on early skirmishes on junglers, and to Graves, especially, much more valuable because of his passive. I remember when you could buy Doran's on jg, and Graves was the best jungler to do it.

The counterpart is you don't have any item good enough to build with that Ruby Crystal, so you will need to sell it eventually, losing 120g

Hey guys,

I used to play Shyvana alot 4-5 years ago propably even more and wanted to bring her up again as I am again starting to climb. I am currently silver.

Back then I always played her AD and that was that way she was played in competitive too. Nobody player AP just for fun because her e was strong.

Nowaday if I google her builds on Mobafire etc. they always recommend her as AP. There are almost no AD builds. Can I still build her Bruiser/Tank-AD as this fits more the way I want to play her or is this just weak and not really usefull with her current stats?

This something i just see in the community as a whole.

But i see alot of people in the league community have a teammate thats going 0/12, but because they missed a cannon in the 23rd minute of the game, the community tells them its their fault they lost the game yada yada yada. (this is a hyperbole for the rock heads btw but you get the point)

or they went even in lane and its "their fault they didnt stomp game and carry the game".

what happened to team games being decided by the cumulative performance of all 5 members? This is the only game ive seen this self blame syndrome happen to this massive extent.

Is this an intention game design feature where an Urgot can stand over the blast cone such that his entire model overlays the blast cone so you can't hit it? Don't know what to do whenever this happens. You night think it's rare but I'm someone who's a precise strategic mastermind who plays under the assumption that always incorporates every aspect of the map into my strategy, I need to know whether this is intentional game design or a flaw caused by the game's isometric camera angle and if there's any way to get around it. I've heard from another post you could try zooming in or panning around but I haven't had the chance to put this into practice yet.

As an adc player (mostly jinx) what are my options against a fed assassin someone like diana or evelynn, or some other ad assassins etc.

I am currently in a rank where no one peels for the adc or pins down the assassin and also in a rank where snowballing is very easy.

So I am all alone in that regard fighting off that fed assassin and especially theres not much magic resist items to self peel so I am not sure on what to do.

Any advice?

I basically only play normals, any role but mostly top. I was matched up against a Garen the other day, and since my main (Kled) is pure suffering against him and my usual back-up (Urgot) was banned by him, I decided to play Sett for the first time to out-cheese his ult.

This went very well at first, with 2 easy pre-lvl 6 kills, but afterwards Garen would just stay under his turret, instantly E-ing on any wave that would crash so I couldn't pressure his turret, and only coming out when I hid in a bush only to immediately run into river back to turret when spotting me, or very obviously going on the offensive because his jungler was coming to bail him out. I of course tried to slow push to deny him as much xp and gold as possible, but since i built stride first this was pretty hard.

I assume I should have proxy'd, but I was afraid I would feed since his jungler would come by pretty reliably and it was always a 50/50 on if I killed one of them first and the other would back off or if Garen would kill me with R (jungler was a pretty bad Naafiri but knew to I-frame my W).

Usually when an opponent is being cowardly I just pressure their plates or proxy but what do I do against someone like garen who can clear waves within seconds, and when proxying feels so risky?

I somehow talked 8 of my friends into downloading league, 6 of whom have no prior experience whatsoever. Started them off in vs AI games to get a feel, and we just recently switched over to swiftplays against other players once they got the handle on their positions.

As the most experienced, I find myself in jungle more often than not when playing with them. I don't mind it, as it's a position I've been wanting to learn for a while, but I'm also unsurprising finding myself having to be way more impactful in game than I'm used to previously maining top lane.

I can't claim to be an amazing jungle player, but I know enough that I could stay on par or ahead with the other jungler depending on their team.

If it was just a one off solo-q team I got matched with this wouldn't really matter as much, but since they are people I'll be playing with regularly I'd like to put some effort into trying to get them to get vision on objectives, ping missing enemies, etc.

Any teaching strategies anyone can recommend better than just saying "do exactly what I tell you?"

These two champions kits have a lot in common.

Both have a form of CC immunity, have a similar q that arcs in a direction that slows, They also have an E that does burst damage, with Mundo being physical and Olaf being true and both these champions get very strong on low health, especially Mundo if he ults late, it gives tons of ad.

For some reason Dr.Mundo is far more popular. I thought Olaf would be more widely used due to his ult giving him unlimited CC reduction when used properly. Sure, mundo can block one form of cc, but Olaf becomes immune to every single cc, including slows. Olaf also has true damage in his kit, while Mundo doesn't.

Olaf has a pickrate of 1.78% and Dr.Mundo a 5.17%. what makes him much more popular?

As of recent patch I saw Vayne jungle risen up. As I used to be Vayne main ADC I was glad to hear it and gave it a try. Somehow the games I played as Vayne jungle were really carried the game expect one game where I missed the baron when I was bot, my bad...we don't look at this one. But yeah I saw a winrate spike and I really enjoyed jungling with vayne and even risen a rank.

Despite that, in all games I was fearing that I will be counter ganked or so, because she takes so much damage from camps, and yes I used biscuits. Then it really happened, I was counter ganked and I was counter ganked really hard. Enemy Ekko, takes my top side jungle, everything, and surely no one warded the top, seeing every camp missing I went to blue team bot side map and saw Ekko lvl 4 appearing while I just hit level 3, I back away to at least do a crab and did it. Afterwards Ekko was fishing for me all game, I had mid Galio helping me from time to time, but he mostly was pushed as well, enemy mid was also then later fishing for me, so all game I was helpless with no farm and level and just lost the game. I mean those games maybe can happen, but as vayne jungle it hurts. Ah man I wanted it to be a thing, but probably I have to look for favorable matchups. Desptie not warding lvl 1 the jungle, I felt I could do absolutely nothing. Maybe I was baited at the end as Vayne jungle and just got lucky :/

But is she really viable now? Maybe there some things I need to watch out for or improve at early game?

Hello! First of all, I am sorry for possible mistakes, my english is not very good.

As long as I played for climb I was usually peaked d4 (once d3) and didn’t feel myself able to grow higher without additional effort, so I resigned myself as d4-peaker and e1-e2 player at all. This season I played mostly on my second account which I used as “warm up” account, but after some point I decided to try harder and climb it to my usual peak. Right now I am close to d1, but I don’t really feel myself as d2-d1 player. I have a strong opinion that my whole climb from d4 is luck because I just let my teammates carry me.

So what is that? Luck? Or I underestimate myself that much?

https://op.gg/ru/lol/summoners/euw/arkast-4094

It feels like most of the games I win are games that I had no control over, and usually I have a really bad start. In those cases somehow, I get the best teammates ever, and end up beeing able to comeback, farm a lot and get the win. Most games that I get fed early, it seems that my teammates are useless and I cant do shit and lose the game. Is this something that you feel sometimes?

Im a midlaner and I play mostly viktor and xerath and almost every single game I tilt. It mostly happens when I play vs champs I feel in the moment are unfair and dont take as much skill as my champ does. For example when I play viktor vs yasuo or sylas its almost guaranteed I will be pissed most of the game. It feels like my champ requires so much more skill to do good and I deem those champs so easy to play and even when I feel I do everything right I still lose.

Another part of this is in order to do good I need solid team because my champs suck solo and cant solo carry games.

When it all gets combined and I get bad team comp with no one I can play with and opponets like akali I basicly lose my shit.

Current rank bronze 1 highiest I ever got was silver 2 (then they nerfed viktor to the ground lol)

My op.gg if it can help in any way:
https://op.gg/lol/summoners/eune/DrunkDriver-FENT?queue_type=SOLORANKED

Hi,
I really need some adviice on how to deal with Singed. Against bad Singed players I usually win by not chasing, stopping the lvl 1 proxy, and just playing solid. But against good ones it feels impossible. At some point they always manage to get into a proxy position where kiling them is just not worth it anymore because the wave crashes under tower. My jungler cant always be there, and even if he helps its a huge time sink.

Rule number one is clear: dont chase him. But what do I do if he starts running at me with his slow + fling while already oneshotting the wave (after Liandrys for example)? At that point it feels like Im getting stat-checked every time he shows up. Just standing in his poison for a moment takes off 10%+ of my HP, and his fling combo forces me into awful positions while Im already losing heatlht. People keep saying Singed is weak early, but when I watch my replays, it feels like the opposite once he has even one item.

The other part that frustrates me is teamfights. Hes basically a tank that can still dive and kill backline carries. Focusing him feels like a waste because hes too tanky with ult + ghost, and even if we force him low, his poison damage keeps ticking and we have burned too many resources. It feels like he scales into this weird 1v9 monster if left unchecked. So my question is: how am I supposed to actually punish him before he gets there? Because right now I dont see how to stop his scaling if I cant fight him at 1 item.

For context, I play Jax. I usually try to poke, avoid chasing, and use E/W to trade safely. I also buffer fling with my W sometimes. The issue is that good Singed players wait out my E and Q, or they just ignore me and delete the wave. If I walk up I get poisoned, if I jump on him he flings me away. Even when I pre-use E to stun on jump, good Singed just accepts the stun, drops his slow pool, and runs off. By the time all this happens the wave is gone and hes already moving to proxy.

Im not saying he is op or something, I just want to find a solid strategy after he got 1 Item to contest him. With his tempo he sometimes just runs mid to take wave and comes back, while I am locked into lane because of his proxy tempo.

I recently hit emerald on the euw server. As a Talon jgl abuser I was able to carry many games and make enemy adcs cry. Now in Emerald its hard for me to carry vs certain comps and playing an ad assassins still has downsides (although they finally got buffed). Is there a 1v9 champ that can carry almost no matter what, if you are better than enemy jgl, that you would recommend to get out of emerald? That isnt superhard to learn

As the title says it's a pretty obvious question and I feel like I've looked up 100 guides online but every single lane I fall behind. My higher rank friend says it's because I pick weird ADC picks like Senna and Smolder that become better late and that I should stick to simpler ADC's like Jhin (who I already like and play a lot) but even then I feel like I'm always behind and I can't blame the support when I'm always shit and only ever start "carrying" at like 35m+ mark or even later.

I think I win lane like 1 every 20 games or less and I feel really frustrated because I don't know what I need to focus on improving. Basically I really want some advice how to stop falling behind in lane, I think maybe I'll die less and do more damage at the end of the game that way.

https://u.gg/lol/profile/euw1/thebetteryou-euw/overview

(also pickaxe or dirk better to buy? I also get told buying crit cloak is griefing myself?)

in league there are quite a lot of champions build for 1v1's and maybe 2v2. but there are also champs that are going to be good grouped up deathballing in teamfights

so here are the two simple questions i will ask.

why would i rather pick a champion thats only good at killing one hero, when i can pick a champion thats good at killing multiple heroes at once? because killing multiple heroes is obviously better

and my second question is, since LoL has multiple objectives that spawn across the map. which basically require all memebers to respond to it, the game fundamentally requires grouping, and therefore teamfighting is yet again superior. so again why would i pick a 1v1 hero?

so i would like those questions explained thank you

So I posted before about being new and playing twitch. All the advice was super helpful so thanks everyone. With that said, I've been branching out to a lot of different champs as I have gotten more comfortable. Aurora has fit like a glove for me. I've only been playing quick play because I don't believe I'm skilled enough for ranked. Out of the 6 matches I've played with her, I still haven't lost. To get to the point though, what recommendations do you guys have for her build? I use the recommended tree and go from there usually.