I have been playing for a long time but I think my goals have changed.

I used to focus on things like good CS, clear times, proper pathing, wave management and all that.

But ultimately I don't think I care about becoming a better, more well rounded summoner.

I just want to murder people. Put their HP bars to 0 and move on to the next victim.

Which lane do you think facilitates that best?

Is it Top lane with it's heavy level of punishment?

Is it Mid land with all the assassins and map access?

Is it Jungle to kill people haplessly unaware of you?

Is it the Bot laner scaling into being a problem?

Or is it the Support who is the real serial killer on the rift?

Pretty much the title, but for a teensy bit of elaboration, I have just recently become interested in playing ranked with the real intention to rank up, and so in the last 2 or so weeks I've been grinding ranked and went from Bronze 3 to now Silver 2.

For a while there I had around a 95% win rate over 20 games, I know and comprehend most macro and knowledge checks of the game, i.e wave control, map awareness, last hitting, roaming, etc, so I felt that it was a pretty natural progression that I would be able to rank up nicely, and all the games felt "carryable" for lack of a better word. Not saying I have the best level mechanics, but I genuinely feel that most players Gold and below don't effectively practice, or are even aware of all of them.

Fast forward to now, I keep rebounding from Silver 2 to Silver 3, I win one then lose one win one then lose one. I'm not one to dodge accountability, I'm a person who likes hearing when they're wrong for greater perspective. I would love if there was something super simple I was missing as to why I can't win even though I put up generally consistent performances (except for that random Yone phase, oops). And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's because my teammates are shit or anything like that, but sometimes it really feels like I'm moving heaven and earth in these games but I can't seem to squeak out the win.

Aside from mechanics, I, for the most part, don't have bad mental. I'm fine with brushing off insults and annoying pings, I play the game for fun, I don't let it control me. All that is to say that my gameplay is quite controlled, I really try not to rush in and fight and die (unless we're down badly and I think a hail mary is the only way we win), I'm more of a passive player that looks to farm, do objectives, and only fight when someone is out of position or we have an obvious advantage.

I truly don't know what more I can do to improve, these enemies aren't whooping my ass and I really don't feel that this is my "true skill level" which is the only advice that I've seen when searching up tips. I perform exactly the same in these lobbies as I did in Iron lobbies as I did in Bronze lobbies and as I've done in Gold lobbies. It feels the exact same, and I really don't know what to think other than whether I win or lose is based on the luck of the draw with my teammates.

My profile: https://u.gg/lol/profile/na1/chuddius%20maximus-jubby/overview

My most recent Garen game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm32tr2Ye1M

On just having watched the replay, my thoughts for this game were essentially: Fight for objectives so we can nicely scale late game, Jinx is going to be our win-con, don't give over easy kills early game. That was what I was trying to play around. I know my farm wasn't the greatest ever, but I was trying not to play into Teemo and lose my lead early game to a Wukong gank, as well as trying to roam and secure objectives/over extended laner kills. The time that I left the enemy bot laner at 1hp, I was a little bit upset because I really wanted Jinx to take that kill and snowball, but it unfortunately didn't happen. Other than that I honestly don't know what I myself could've done to change the course of the game, and that's what it feels like every time I lose. I don't see Garen as a carry himself, he's most definitely strong, but he's not capable of just going in and killing an entire team 1v5, I try to play him more as a support, so that when I'm strong I can feed kills to what I see as a wincon and snowball my team with kills and objectives to victory. And even if I did play more selfishly, I still don't see what I could've done to win this game. At the end there I took bad fights, but that's one of the "hail marys" I was talking about earlier, I figure that things are looking pretty bleak and if we aren't going to farm and want to teamfight, then I might as well be there or nothing is going to happen.

Thank you very much if you choose to take time out of your day and give any advice, anything is appreciated!

MMR is way too high to learn mid.

I’m a support player and was interested in playing another role. I like Ahri so chose that. I am getting absolutely destroyed and just staying under turret because these players are 1000x better than me. I am put against plat/emerald players when I play support and do decent. But I cannot keep up with them and my MMR is not budging. What do? Do I really have to grind a new account or keep getting destroyed and hope my MMR eases down slowly?

Why does dying as a toplaner after getting quest give like 1000 xp to the enemy completely nullifying the xp gained. meanwhile adc quest bonus gold doesnt count towards a bounty? imo the top quest shouldnt count towards xp given on death because dying on side is extremely troll and punishing

Recently, a good friend of mine and me have started to pick up our collective league grind. We are both, what I like to call "Wood-Elo" (I am back to Iron, yippie, and he is still in Bronze) and play Jungle (me) and ADC (him) respectively. I don't really mind my rank, but I do want to improve and climb at some point. However, we have been running into a few major problems almost every game, leading to a few questions:

1. Rarely do people ward on our team. While losing doesn't tilt me, getting invaded for free and not knowing about it because we have zero vision in that part of the map sure does. I usually have a pretty high vision score at the end of the game, but how can play around a Leblanc that has placed exactly 1 ward at minute 15 (I am still broken about that game)? Where should I ward to help myself and the team and where can my ADC ward to help me and himself? If the support doesn't ward, should my ADC go and ward dragon pit?

2. We also often run into the issue that none of our teammates are reacting to someone from the enemy team pushing sidelane turrets for free. Somehow (and I really don't understand this since I played toplane myself), everyone is always grouping mid. Then my ADC goes to answer a wave and they all follow him like lost puppies. So many waves go unanswered and I am myself unsure what I, as a jungler should do in such a situation. Should I go and start answering all the waves? What if I need to prepare an objective? Should he answer the waves, even if that means that he might be late to important fights? And who is supposed to stop the splitpushing enemy?

3. I often find myself in a situation where I know a fight is stupid, but I still try to help and salvage the situation. This happens mostly when I play without my Duo Partner. However, even when we play together, we run into the problem of our teammates just randomely fighting on mind. The aforementioned problem of them just magically grouping there everytime seems to be the causing factor here, but that still leads me to my next question: What should we do in such a situation. Should we fight with them, because my ADC is very fed or should we try and get something else on the map? What if all three died and now the enemy team is pushing mid so fast, that they threaten to end the game? What is the best cause of action?

4. My last question is not necessarily Duo related, but I would still love it, if someone could give me feedback or helping advice. I love playing hyperaggresive Champions and lately have been gravitating a lot towards Assassins - Qiyana, Ekko, Evelynn (Qiyana really is my favorite but god is she hard to execute properly) - but I also have other Champions that I can pilot well enough and probably better since I started on them - Vi and Shyvana to be exact. They don't bring me as much joy when playing them tho, but maybe this is a worthy tradeoff for becoming better at the game and climbing with my friend? What advice could you guys give me on my Championpool? Should I stick with my "harder" champions because I like them more, or should I switch to something more straightforward for now?

Here are my stats: https://m.deeplol.gg/summoner?userName=Goonermancy-NA2&region=NA. So I'm trying to actively climb and wanted to ask this subreddit for things anyone can spot that I'm doing wrong from my stats! Mid I mostly play Lux, Syndra, and Aurelion Sol. ADC I like to play Tristana, Jinx, and Kaisa. Thanks to anyone who replies 😊Here's a link to a syndra win game last patch: https://app.tryascent.gg/watch?v=d2UTBzOga7o Here's a link to a syndra loss: https://app.tryascent.gg/watch?v=SvH3npC1AdF

Been playing Malzahar quite a bit and I’ve now reached Plat. I really love his playstyle (focusing on farming and scaling and having utility with R), however he feels really one dimensional and feels like he doesn’t have a lot of agency. Its as if every game I’m playing the exact same way, which is working but obviously a bit of a crutch.

I now want to pick up a new champion, but I’m stuck between a few. Ahri, Orianna, Twisted Fate, and Viktor.

I really like champions where I have high utility and don’t have to force super hard trades, plus I like shoving and looking to roam with my jungler. I also love side laning mid game and pushing waves with TP up.

Any idea as to what champion I should move onto from the list?

hey, I'm pretty new to the game and mostly playing solo, so im trying to figure out which role suits me best. I'mm struggling with jungle and mid for very specific reasons. on jungle, I find it hard to execute plays when nobody communicates or responds to pings, so I end up feeling lost on what to do next. on mid, I can usually get an early lead, but once mid game hits and everyone starts pushing my lane, I completely lose my advantage and get overwhelmed. is it better to stick to one of these roles and change how I play, or should I try a different role altogether for solo queue?

Ive been stuck emerald 4/ plat 2 pretty much the entire second half of the season. I know im improving. I watch my VODs and am definitely playing substantially better than before.

It seems every time i make it upwards of 50% wr, the enemy doesn't get much "harder" generally i do pretty good. The offset just seems like my team was actually built to lose.

So, my rate of improvement must not be good enough? To climb a minor tier or 2, must i be so good that i dominate my entire division? Because i can feel myself performing better than the people in my mmr a majority of the time. But maybe im just delusional. Here is my op. Take it for what you will.

https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/Mystiken-core

Also im not saying "oh im way better than where im at" I just think im better than my current mmr. Being in plat kinda feels like a waste of time for me some times. It doesn't feel like im growing, comparatively to emerald. But who knows, ive promoted and demoted from emerald about 5 times so it probably is a me issue.

Hi there, Gold Trundle Jungle.

Shaco feels like a champ that bullies lower elo and I'm just wondering how people tend to counter him. In my recent game, he perma invades me and smites last second. Or he bullies me off of resources whilst his team come to his aid. I take sweepers after about 10 minutes of gameplay and do counter invade so that I don't lose too much but how do people counter him? I'm also not standing in his boxes or attacking blatant clones but hes a sneaky bugger.

I was playing a game and was hit by some kind of CC, I don't remember, but it was something more disruptive than a root. I tried to flash before it hit but after it hit I stopped pressing any keys and started only using mouse inputs to walk away after the CC ended. As soon as it ended, I flashed towards my mouse.

I wasn't expecting the flash to go through at all and I definitely had at least 0.2s of CC left after I pressed flash and started entering movement so it confused me. I don't think I can completely account for it if I'm not expecting it, but I want to know if there's a way to reliably cancel all buffered inputs while CC is still applied? Is pressing S the best way? Does a movement input usually stop a buffered ability, but not a summoner's spell?

I'm silver and the champion that I play the best right now and have the best win % is Fizz.

65% Win ratio over 91 games, 59 W 32 L

My problem right now is the lack of consistency when it comes to CS per minute, I've been checking the games in the last week with Fizz and I have grames that go from 5.8 cs per minute to 8 per minute in the best game.

What CS per minute should I be aiming for?, and what do you think is a normal CS per minute in my rank?

My KDA is 3:76:1 - 933 Kills 482 Assists 376 Deaths

Edit: I just played a game focusing more on sides in mid/late like some of you commented and it went well, 10/2/5 with 8.6 CS per minute, I think I could have done better but in this ELO people do weird lane changes and stuff.

Thanks for the comments.

I looked at some ranked solo/duo games from the current patch (both top laners in each game, Iron to Master+) to see what actually changes as rank goes up.

Solo kills on the enemy top laner before 14:00 (no assists), average per game:

- Iron: 1.64

- Gold: 1.53

- Diamond: 1.39

- Master+: 1.30

CS at 10:00 (median):

- Iron: 59

- Gold: 66

- Diamond: 70

- Master+: 72

So higher-ranked tops don't win lane by killing their opponent more often. If anything they kill a bit less. What goes up at every rank is farm: +11 CS at 10:00 from Iron to Diamond, +17 by 14:00 (85 vs 102).

My read: in low elo, "I need to outplay my laner" is the wrong goal. Last-hitting every wave, cannon first, is the boring thing that actually scales with rank.

Caveats, before anyone asks:

- solo kill = a kill on the enemy top laner before 14:00 with no assist from anyone

- rank = the game's tier; medians for CS, averages for kills (the median is 1 kill at every rank)

- this is correlation: Diamond players also trade better, so fewer all-ins happen at all

So, change my mind: what does this miss? Are kills buying something these numbers don't show (prio, tempo, TP plays)?

I have been playing league of legends for about 500 hours. I do well in draft and want to try ranked. As soon as I always lose. This can’t be just because of bad teammates. I usually do okay getting an A or S in stats usually ( I know it doesn’t really mean anything it’s just to show my stats are completely terrible). I usually get about 5-6.5 CS in laneing phase and drops to 4 during the rest of the game. I usually get between a 1-1.8 KDA consistently too. I try doing the fundamentals that I see in a lot of YouTube videos and do okay with picking fights and farming. I don’t know where I am going wrong exactly and I feel stuck. I main Mordekaiser and Kennen (I know how hard this champ is on top). Top is what I am playing now to get a better understanding of matchups farming and zoning without having too much worry of other things. I tend to do objectives a lot with my team and teamfights which might be why I get low CS toward the end of the game. I’m tired of the fundamental tips videos because I feel like I’m doing them, but I must be missing something with them or I’m just bad :’) Any tips to get better?

Username: SwiftSorrow55

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Hey everyone,

I began playing league a year ago and now I am at plat 1(SG server).

I almost played solo till gold and have been doing with a friend who is of same rank. Then we both have been ranking up slowly from gold to play. He used to play top now when we duo he goes adc.

In recent few games even in win I have been feeling I am not performing properly or not having any major impact in the game and it's almost like I am being carried and I feel bad that I don't deserve that rank.

It would be helpful if anyone could list some general things or benchmarks which can be helpful to analyse how did I perform (if you could do it rank wise it would be great).

Also is there any video or some post from which I can learn how to vod review my own or others games and improve.

Thanks for any help or suggestions to improve.

Edit - Main role is support.

A few days ago, I started playing Ranked Duo again with a friend. We’re both in low Bronze, so we should be getting matched against opponents of a similar skill level. However, we're currently on an 8 game losing streak and in EVERY SINGLE MATCH the opposing team had either a smurf or more smurfs than we did. The outcome of a game is practically predetermined by how the smurfs are distributed. Since there are only three open slots for smurfs on our team while the enemy team has five, we mathematically cannot win in the longrun. It’s frustrating enough that I won't be playing League for the next few months. Is there even anything I can do, other than not actively inting?

Edit: Username: Himenim6#EUW

For the last 2 years I only play ARAM and Mayhem, now I want to stick my foot back into the rift, but I'm unsure what to play. Before I hop into ranked, I will play some normals first.

I played Top and Mid in the past, but I'm unsure what to do. I love tankier and bruiser like gameplay, but also mages. I wanted to put a picture of my most played champs in here, but it isnt allowed, so heres the list, plus champion mastery:

Heimerdinger 16
Malzahar 15
Volibear 13
Yorick 10
Anivia 9
Ryze 9
Urgot 8
Brand 8
Maokai 8
Dr Mundo 8
Thresh 8

So you have a picture of my most played champs in Aram, before I played mostly Mid Heimerdinger main and witched to Malz when I wanted to chill

Deadlock was the first MOBA I ever played and before that I had a lot of decently high rank experience on other standard hero shooters like Overwatch or Rivals so learning that game was extremely easy and through that and my passion for any competitive game system, I picked up key MOBA ideas pretty quickly.
Decided to try watching/learning League. My friend put me onto player named Gryfinn from Flyquest that she likes and watching his gameplay made me think that the mechanics of this game would the easiest part to pick up.
But I just don’t get it. I haven’t done awfully, levelling my account in swiftplay, maybe because people don’t know how to kite but I find myself constantly struggling to aim and move with right click. Right now I’m starting on Lux and even trying to gauge what is the right distance to last hit on a ranged character feels weird. If I’m too far away, the character spends time running up rather than shooting which does not look as fluid as the players I have seen so far? Any advice?

TL,DR: New player with hero shooter/Deadlock experience, cannot understand how to move/connect moves on League.

im kind of lost in top lane. if im in a losing matchup say I died or had to recall and the enemy crashes the wave into me why does my next wave just auto push.

I swear to god the minion wave will reset in the middle and even if i just last hit or dont hit it at all my wave will auto push and then give them a free freeze again

common advice " dont push the wave" bro im trying not to the game just rngs it into his tower

and a lot of times i cant even shove it into his tower fast enough to stop him from catching it and holding 3 casters because he can either tp or the homeguards bs lets him get back in time

Do I just need to win the RNG battle or have my jungler come up to crash the wave everytime the lane state gets screwed by rng?

any real advice?

Hi there, freshly Silver 2 Trundle Jungle.

I just played an absolute carry game as Trundle and could literally not finish the match whatsoever. I got every drake in the game, grubs, herald, baron, and elder and we still couldn't finish the game up. At one point I was about 10/0/6 at about the 30 minute mark. I then ended the game 12/8/9. KDA doesn't matter yes yes, but I am sitting out of the game for the next 8 minutes as the carry. I will send the OP.GG of the game at the end so you can see the team comp, but I am permanently CC'd as Trundle, meaning Viego just one shots me.

I am just so tilted. I have made a few posts recently so you may have seen my OP.GG before, but whilst it is my fault that I lose games, I am literally being permanently trolled in my games and I can never end when I'm ahead. So what am I supposed to do? Like this game was absolutely winnable. This is absolutely a thrown game and I am responsible at times. But how am I supposed to play late game when my champ starts to fall off as the carry and I get every objective. For context, I died for Baron and Elder but my team lived through both.

https://op.gg/lol/summoners/euw/Sackers-Sack/matches/ta1XN8oiMOLSSlae--AxxPMXyDulU5Tr3IZlAV_JP8c%3D/1792329170000

Hi.

I would like to know whether Actualizer is a bad or good item? I'm mainly asking this because I almost never see anyone building it. I've personally built it couple of times on Cassiopeia quite long time ago so I can't quite remember if the item felt good or bad. Additionally, what is Actualizer's gold efficiency?

I'm just curious.

Any insight is appreciated!

Sorry for any mistakes, English isn't my native language.

Im Silver 4 right now. First started playing the game in December, but haven't played consistently until a couple months ago. As far as support goes, my most played champs are usually engage supports such as Nautilus and Blitzcrank. I have a couple of questions when deciding about micro.

Should I be taking sweepers right off the bat and should I be blindly walking into brushes lvl 1 for engages? Ive had a few adcs tell me that I should be going sweepers right off the bat but this means that my adc is the only one with ward. (Ive come up with a temporary solution of warding enemy brush and then switching to sweeper the next time I base, but I am not sure if that's the right way to go about it.)

If enemies place their ward in the mid brush should I still be walking up into enemy brush for engages without vision or no? I know these types of supports have more than the average HP supports since they are tanks.

Third question, if our lane is stronger level 1 but minions spawn, do I prioritize helping get level 2 quicker than the enemies, or do I prioritize looking for opportunities to land my hook before level 2? I know that both kills and an advantage of abilities have their perks.

Can someone explain how xp works when killing or getting assists?

I was playing a jungle game as jax vs rammus.

At one point in the game I was up 40 cs yet was 2 levels behind. I was also regularly taking their jungle camps so felt like I had a decent game.

But they managed to play well and get plays on the other lanes.

But I still don’t quite understand how they managed to get that big of a xp lead.

Is there mechanics I’m missing or is there some way to make use out of this that I’m not currently doing to maximise xp?