LoL Guide [Zen Gamers Guide]: The Power of a Warm-Up Routine

[Zen Gamers Guide]: The Power of a Warm-Up Routine
Free Coaching Vods From Previous Post
Team comunication
I'm just a Dia scrub but here are some basic tips to help you maybe win more games. (all roles, mostly Toplane focused tho)
If your laner leaves, ping on your allies, not your own lane.
How to win (not lose too hard) lane as support
What to do with a roaming midlaner
When, if ever, should I stop doing a camp and walk away to do something else?
How to always open shop in "all items" section and not in "recommended"?
I need help with laning (adc/mid)
Differences in strategy between ranked and draft?
How to escape the low elo trap without losing your mind
What is my goal on Irelia late game?
[DIISCUSSION] Is there anyone here that actually tried mastering all the roles if so how?
Is there anything about Warwick Top that is different from Tryndamere in terms of mid-late game?
Vel'koz into assassin match up
Lets talk about the current state of Swain after his changes
Why do people say Taliyah is good?
Does this Olaf clear still work?
Any pro tips on playing Syndra?
When to buy stopwatch on Toplane as an AD Champ?
5 quick tricks to be better at macro as an ADC.

[Zen Gamers Guide]: The Power of a Warm-Up Routine

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 08:09 AM PDT

Zen Gamers Guide: The Power of a Warm-Up Routine

Hey all!

A couple of weeks ago I posted a guide on tilt in gaming. This post was well received and I hope it helps a lot of you. Thanks for the positive responses, this motivates me to write more guides like this.

Today's topic is creating a warm-up routine. Every professional athlete, actor, news reader, chess grandmaster and so on uses warm-up routines to mentally and physically prepare themselves to perform at their best.

You can't expect yourself to play your best if you're not warmed up. Athletes start warming up their bodies sometimes even hours before their match. Chess grandmasters will get their mind up and running long before their game starts. Professional Esports teams all have their own version of a warm-up routine before any important game.

Do you have one?

In this post we will talk about the benefits of having a warm-up routine and how we can develop a warm-up routine that works best for you.

BENEFITS OF A WARM-UP ROUTINE

Before we start to develop a warm-up routine, we of course first want to know why we want to have one.

How much is 13x14? If you randomly get asked this question, it probably takes some time to calculate it. Now imagine that you are already practicing these types of sums for 5 minutes. You will be able to answer much faster than without any practice.

A warm-up routine helps you to already start up your engine before you start playing, getting your mind and body ready to perform.

Start focused/sharp: If you start your game without any preparation, your mind and body still need some time to get things going. Your last hitting or aiming won't be perfect yet, your moves are not as smooth and fast as they can be. You're basically still warming-up when you're already playing. By doing a little warm-up routine, you will start your game with much more focus and accuracy.

Prevent Tilt: If you start your game unprepared, you are more likely to play bad in the beginning and make mistakes. Playing bad and making mistakes are very common triggers that can lead to tilt (see article on TILT).

Prevent Negative Snowball Effect: If the beginning phase of your game starts bad because you were not warmed up yet, you will have a harder time in the mid and late phase. You're playing from behind, your opponents have higher levels, better equipment/items and so on. You can reduce the chance of this happening by warming up.

Reduce risk of injury: It's especially important when you play long gaming sessions to warm-up your muscles to prevent yourself from getting injuries. Eye strain, mouse elbow, RSI, gamers thumb, are all common injuries gamers suffer from. By doing a little warm-up exercise for your eyes and hands you reduce the chance of injuries.

Effective improving: If you want to become better, it's good to identify what skills you want to improve on and put extra focus on these skills. In your warm-up routine you can put your intention on focusing on these skills.

More fun: When you play more focused, with less tilt, and at your best, the game is simply more fun to play. You'll get in the zone (flow / a-game) faster and more things start working in your favor.

DEVELOP A WORK-OUT ROUTINE

If the benefits sound convincing enough for you, it's time to start developing a warm-up routine. Each person is different, each game is different, so it's a matter of finding out what works best for your personal situation.

We want to warm-up both our body and our mind. Making you calm, grounded, peaceful and at the same time alert, focused, energised and ready to play.

The order in which you do the routine is not extremely important, just find out what works best for you.

1. Warm-up your muscles

For this part I'd like to share a link to a guide that has 10 different exercises for your fingers, hands, wrists, and forearms. And 3 exercises for your eyes. https://esportshealthcare.com/gamer-warm-up/

2. Set an intention

This part is particularly important if you really want to improve your skills, want to get better and want to climb the rankings. The idea is that you identify for yourself which elements of your game you think you can improve on.

Do you have poor map awareness? Can you improve on last hitting? Can you communicate better?

Don't pick too many elements at once. If you pick too many elements to focus on, you will overload your conscious mind, resulting in tilt and making you play worse. So keep it simple and pick one or two elements in your game you want to focus on in your next game.

Ideally you want to write them down on a piece of paper and keep reminding yourself during the game to put extra focus on those elements. This is a great way to quickly improve your game. In the future I will write an article about quickly improving.

3. Clean up and get ready

Start with cleaning up your desk! "constant visual reminders of disorganization drain our cognitive resources and reduce our ability to focus." Quoted from this publication.
Go to the toilet.
get a glass of water.
Put your phone on silent mode and preferably don't have your phone on your desk at all. Even if your phone is on silent mode, you will still lose some focus if your phone is in your sight, because you will still look at it automatically every now and then.
Close all your browsers, all your social media and every program that can distract you in any way. If you play music during gaming, have your playlist ready before the game starts.

4. Short practice

Most games have some form of a practice game, where you can do target practice, train your last hitting skills, or just go over some specific details of the game. This is a great way to warm up those skills and be more prepared for the real game. This practice doesn't have to be long, 5 minutes will usually do. You don't want to make this practice too long, otherwise your focus might drop at the end of a long game.

5. Get your mind ready

This can be the most valuable part in your warm-up routine, especially if you consistently keep doing it. Meditation. It doesn't have to be long, 5 minutes can already do wonders. There are many different forms of meditation, but if you're new to it, you can just start out with a simple meditation, putting your awareness on your breathing. (just search for "5 minute meditation" on youtube). This will help you clear your mind, calm down and focused. I will be making meditation guidance videos for gamers in the future.

You can also use different breathing exercises for different purposes, like energising yourself (coffee breathing) See this ted talk for the how to.

6. Manage expectations

We already went over this part in more detail in this post. Write down a sort of mantra, a statement, in your own words, to manage your expectations. Such as: "I only have limited control over the outcome, all i can do is play my best". This helps with getting less frustrated when things are not going your way. For more details see the other post.

7. Decide how long you want to play

Oke, just one more game. One more, this is really gonna be the last one. This has happened to all of us. We decide to play a last game, but once that game is finished we automatically press the play button again. And before we know it it's 3 hours later. To reduce the chance of this happening (it will still happen every now and then) it can be helpful to beforehand set a clear schedule for yourself. I'm gonna play 3 games, no matter what. I will stop playing at 22:00 or not start a new game after 22:00. If you have trouble with continuing to play when you know you shouldn't, it helps to write your schedule down. This makes it more likely that you will actually stick to that schedule.

I hope this guide will help you to set up your own warm-up routine. Don't underestimate how effective a warm-up routine can be. Start testing out different routines and see what works best for you. Once you have a routine that works good for you, use it every time before you start playing. You will play better and enjoy the game more.

Additional tips:

Have a pen and paper on your desk. Every time you are not sure if you made the right play, write down the in-game time. This way you can easily use the replayer to analyse your play.

I'm really curious what other tips you guys have, let me know in the comment section and I'll add it to the list here (I'll add your name in parantheses as credit)

I'd also like to hear any other questions, suggestions, comments etc.

Thanks for reading!

PS: if you like content like this, I'm starting a youtube channel about gaming and mindset.

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Free Coaching Vods From Previous Post

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 02:20 PM PDT

Hello again, r/summonerschool!

Thank you SO MUCH for the amazing feedback on my previous coaching post! I was NOT expecting the turnout to be this big! I am so sorry for not being able to coach everyone this week, as I had several hundred people contact me in the last few hours alone.

HOWEVER, I started a Youtube channel, where I will upload most of the coaching vods so that people who weren't fortunate enough to get a session this week have a chance to learn!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCQEKOPU2JrsnGFmcbFKf_A

Also, I will be streaming these sessions live on twitch starting in a couple days, so that is another platform for people to learn on! You can find the link to my Discord server and my twitch channel through my YouTube link. (I don't want to bombard you guys with links in this post)

Again, THANK YOU for your kind messages and support! I look forward to working with everyone!

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Team comunication

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 09:26 AM PDT

Hi everyone! My friends and I just recently start playing lol, so we made some mistake in micro and macro of course. We have so much to learn about our role cuz we play since 3-4 mouth. Despite this we can usually play 3-4 times together per week, but also do some soloq if someone is missing. We all have a question: during team fight who has to call the focus? The champ who has some cc(stun, root etc) or the damage of the team (like adc or mid)? Just to know...we don't have a "shot caller" in the team cuz we are pretty new at the game and we all make mistake...we usually listen every opinions. On internet it's hard to find a "team comunication guide" Thanks to all

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I'm just a Dia scrub but here are some basic tips to help you maybe win more games. (all roles, mostly Toplane focused tho)

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 11:13 AM PDT

I've put in some links on certain things in case you, reader, do not know what i mean with these words.

Try to pick a champion your whole team can work with. There is no point in picking Rengar in the jgl if your team has a Fiora toplane and mostly poke champions on other lanes. Fiora will splitpush and the other players will poke them down until you can engage.
Dont be egoistic. This can be interpreted in many ways but in general its, don't cry if your jungler or some1 else takes your kill (and please dont say "ks" coz its 2020 and no1 says that anymore). If you are the jungler DO NOT take the wave or just the cannon if your gank has failed. it costs your laner 69g and will most likely tilt them.
If you play a roaming support (any support can roam but im talking about gank potential champions like Bard, Alistar, Morgana etc), buy Relic shield, upgrade it and an Oracle's Lens. This will help you not waste your time if you are standing on a ward and can help your jgler get vision on places, your laners couldnt get to because their wards are on CD.
If you play as a midlane champion that has decent to pretty good waveclear (Ryze, Syndra, Galio...) try to push your lane and roam. Some would think this is common knowledge but i've seen plenty midlaners just sit there and do nothing. Just push your lane and either get deep vision or roam and maybe get a kill somewhere on the map.
Depending on your toplane champion, try not to just sit up there and farm, wait until wave comes towards you and just do the same thing for 20 mins. If you are in a melee vs melee matchup, try to Freeze your lane if possible. This can help you gain a MASSIVE cs lead over your opponent and even help you win lane just by the cs lead. If you are Melee vs a Ranged top, they will push you in to then poke you. Try to farm as much as possible and once you got some items, push the lane hard and roam or try to pick them off while hiding in a bush in the toplane maybe.
Objectives are more important than kills. If the dragon is up, and your team wants to take it, there is no reason to overextend and chase down the enemy midlaner just to then get caught and die. Take the free objective and reset.
For Dragon and Baron fights, try to get as much vision as possible and clear the enemy vision. It would be even better if you could get Midlane Prio. This just means, push the lane so the enemy has to react or else the minions will push too much while a dragon/baron fight is happening. Someone will catch that wave and this gives you the opportunity to have a 5v4 advantage for a brief period of time.
If you are able to hardshove a wave in once the Herold spawns, try to communicate with your jungler so you can take it and make the most out of it while plates are still active on turrets. The first Rift Herold spawns at 8 minutes into the game. This early on, it would be a bit difficult do kill if you are more the scaling type of laner so getting help from your mid/toplane would be helpful.
Depending on which side you are, Toplane red side, Botlane blue side, try to take the krugs on your way back to lane if your wave has not been pushed in too much. Some junglers will do this camp once or twice and leave it there to do other things so you can get some gold and EXP before returning to lane. I've done this quite alot, especially when a bit behind to keep my cs up and get some extra gold.
as for Toplane, the Rift Scuttler spawns at the 3:15min mark, which means at the time you reach level 3 or are almost level 4, you can head down to the river and take it before the enemy jungler does to prevent some gold and exp. this will also give you 70-126g (depending on monster level ofc). could be the deciding factor if you can upgrade your item on your next base or not ;)
In the toplane, if you are melee vs tank, try to push them in and roam. I've done this couple of times to either get vision on the enemy jungle, catch them doing a camp while low HP and get a summer or even a kill. or just try to roam to midlane maybe to punish the enemy midlaner for pushing too hard. Most tanks dont have the base damage to properly last hit while under their turret so this can help you make them miss some cs and get you ahead.
Watch your map ! You dont have to look at your map after every cs you take but looking at it every 5-10 seconds could be crutial. You can spot the enemy jungler even for just a brief amount of time and give information to your team or you can see an incoming gank from the enemy jungler or other laners. Sometimes, people will forget to ping ss/MIA and you could die because of that. instead of flaming them, just watch your map a bit more often to prevent this and possibly safe your life !
After a succesful teamfight, try to take the enemy jungle camps. This is a huge help for you and your team as this will prevent them from getting some gold and EXP back after the lost fight and will help you snowball even faster and win the next teamfight even harder because of the gold and EXP lead you have. I always try to ping this to my team but they sometimes dont listen and just reset after killing 3 of the enemy teammembers.
Keep your mindset neutral or positive, even when behind. The new "ff 15 go next" after dying just once trend has become such a standard now that people are slowly forgetting how to play from behind. Try to look out for mistakes your enemy laner makes and punish those. Lane example; Toplane, a Darius misses his pullback which is on a roughly 15 second cd. punish him for that with a short trade or maybe thats even an opening to go all in and kill him. Try to bait out abilities and then punish them if they overextend while those are on CD. Most low elo players do that on Gnar while the jump is on CD or Vladimir while his pool is on CD.
Dont just /mute all. Sure, some people are annoying and you can mute them but if your team hasn't said anything worth muting, keep them unmutedto get information and communicate with them. Some say, if you mute all at the beginning, you will win more games but not everybody is a toxic monkey just waiting to flame you if you miss 1 cs. There will often be that 1 guy who is toxic and just talks instead of focusing on the game, just mute him and his pings but not your whole team. if the rest of your team has a good mental, you can just communicate your way to victory and help each other out or even compliment each other to boost the team moral and ones confidence (not too much tho, you dont want to push the yasuo's confidence for making 1 flashy play just to see him jump into 5 the next second and die :D )
Some windows to punish some toplane champions; Fiora missed W (24 seconds CD level 1), Vlad pool on CD (28 sec level 1), Gnar jump on CD (22 seconds level 1), Camille missed E, Nasus used Q on a minion (this is the best way to punish him because he has to come into melee range and you can get a full combo on him depending on your champion), Garen W on CD (23 seconds level 1). This makes him really squishy and is the perfect window to trade with him, depending on your champion (Riven or Sett would be better than other champions because you can negate some of his damage with your shield, parry or even attackspeed slow aka nasus). Sett W on CD (18 seconds level 1) he cant get his shield and will take all the damage. Also, avoid him if sett is between you and an allied unit as this will allow his E to stun you for 1 second. if there is no allied unit, you are just being pulled and can get a combo off onto him.

These are just some small tips i have for the ones in lower elos and maybe around the plat elo.

My op.gg:

https://eune.op.gg/summoner/userName=QQ453829916

https://euw.op.gg/summoner/userName=Akash%C3%ADro

I'll gladly help some of you guys to climb a bit faster or win your lane better. just DM me and i'll see what i can do.

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If your laner leaves, ping on your allies, not your own lane.

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 03:06 PM PDT

This is probably more of a low elo tip;

I'm a silver player, and have noticed that when I spam ping on top of my allies rather than on my own lane, people listen a lot more. I typically ping MIA on my own lane a few times, but there's a 50/50 chance nobody listens, and then the enemy Katarina gets a double kill and your team wants to ff at 15.

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How to win (not lose too hard) lane as support

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 08:04 AM PDT

I mainly play pyke and leona with a try not to lose too much health against ranged/mage supports and wait for a engage, but there are a specific champions I run into where it just never works out a lot of the time:

Swain: I seriously have no idea why he needed a buff. he was and still is a big pain to lane against, me or my ad just try to steer clear and avoid his E and all inning him feels impossible with how much sustain his R gives.
Morgana: just a in general thing with hook/cc supports, but how do u win against a morg when your primary cc is just negated most of the time? A lot of the time they just wait till their E cd is up then play aggressive, and when its not they hide behind minions... can't really do much.
Yuumi: I cant hook her. I just cant go in and cc her, its infuriating but if Im against a yuumi they constantly stay attached to their adc and hide behind minions, so trying to find mistakes can only be focused on their adc's positioning, which is most of the time pretty safe.
Senna: GLACIAL AUGMENT. walking up is asking to get autoed by her massive range and slowed, letting her stack her ghouls easy with AA+Qs. need them to REALLY mess up to get a kill in, and sometimes they just build tanky items and I can't do much.
Blitzcrank: some blitzs play like he owns the entire lane early, because they are just that good at landing hooks. wts the right way to play against him so I don't have to just forfeit my lane?

Thanks for any responses :D

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What to do with a roaming midlaner

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 01:51 PM PDT

Hello!! I've found myself getting frustrated by this recently so I figured I'd come here and see if people had opinions/advice.

I'm a low ELO (bronze 1) midlaner who tends to shy away from assassins—I'm a Neeko/Veigar man with forays into Ahri and Syndra, plus a sprinkling of Zoe and Fizz on the side for flavor.

One thing I've found happening more and more often is that I feel really confident in lane, I'll bully the enemy Zed/Kat/Talon, and then they'll disappear, pick up two kills bot, and come back mid all beefy. And even though I'm up 35 CS and 4 plates, I'm suddenly dealing with a strong mid and a pissed off botlane.

I always feel torn in these situations—is it better for me to stay mid and take a big neutral advantage (CS and turret push) at the expense of kills? Or is it better to follow and kinda turn bot lane into a 4v4? There's a third, more intangible factor too, which is that in my experience, even if you're pinging and pushing, your teammates tend to get real pissed if they're getting mid ganked.

TL;DR: I want to hear people's thoughts on when it is and isn't worth following a roaming mid. Thank you for your thoughts!!

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When, if ever, should I stop doing a camp and walk away to do something else?

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 11:13 AM PDT

Title, basically.

When I'm doing raptors or kruggs or whatever, some camp that takes a second, and something happens on the map that signals me that I should be somewhere else -- is it ever worth it to just drop the camp and come back to it later?

I often debate on whether I should do it, but rarely ever actually drop the camp.

I guess an example would be if I'm red side doing raptors, and I see that my bot lane has priority and the enemy jungler shows top -- should I drop my camp and head over to steal his jungle? Or should I finish my camp and then go try to see what I can steal? How important are the few seconds I gain and the small amount of gold/exp I lose? How bad is it to leave 2-3 small chickens in this situation?

I just don't understand the intricacies of it.

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How to always open shop in "all items" section and not in "recommended"?

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 01:19 PM PDT

Mine switches back after each recall.

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I need help with laning (adc/mid)

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 03:54 PM PDT

I could never leave platinum, and then diamond, i always had the same issues- lane phase. I never know how to play the lane, should i trade or not, should i go in or not, should i push or lasthit, can we kill x,y,z, do we win 2v2 (mid/jg or adc/supp),. Can anyone recommend me some tutorials, vods, just anything? Even if its hundreds of hours of material im willing to go through it.

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Differences in strategy between ranked and draft?

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 11:39 AM PDT

Just started playing ranked and it seems to be quite different than playing draft pick. In Draft I usually do pretty good, and have often dominated matches, but starting in ranked it's like I've never played the game before. I often play Lux and it seems if I miss a single Q my lane partner is flaming me and asking if I'm new, lol. Are people just on edge in ranked? Are there any strategy differences I need to be aware of?

Also I've noticed people want to ff when the team gets down 0-2, it's kinda weird.

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How to escape the low elo trap without losing your mind

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 11:29 AM PDT

Since my little rant got removed, I wanted to share my thoughts on how to survive and get out of low elo without having to suffer quite as much.

Let's face it, there is a large number of players in low elo who have been there for years and who show no signs on improvement. We can deduce a few things from that that will help us:

They are unwilling to learn. That means, talking to them does not help at all. In fact, you are far more likely to get an aggressive response and distract them from the game. Don't ping them, don't talk to them, just ignore them and mute if they flame you.
Almost any game can be won. Low elo games often drag out to 40 minutes or even more, because the winning team starts chasing solo kills and rarely ever groups. That is painful if it's your team doing it, but you can exploit that on the enemy team as well.
Pick champions that can impact the game and do well with a lot of gold. So Mid and Jungle would be my top choices. Also focus on champions that do well on their own without any set-up from your team, since you will rarely get it. An obvious choice is reset champions like Master Yi and Katarina or Darius.
Try and get a duoq buddy. Combinations like Mid and Jungle work best, but you can also go ADC and sup if you prefer that. Playing as either sup or ADC without knowing who will be your lane partner will lead to very frustrating games.

Also, and I can't stress this enough, learn to dodge games in a smart way.

Someone with a 40 percent win rate in champ select insists on getting mid so he can carry? He gets angry and starts insulting people? Dodge the game. It costs you 3 LP and no MMR. The same goes for people who get auto-filled and then complain about it, saying they need their main role.

Just dodge it. It's not worth your time.

If you remember those things you will climb a little quicker and not lose your mind doing it.

FYI: I used to play mainly in season 4 and 5 where I (barely) reached Diamond 5. Right now, I'm sitting in Plat 4 after getting a few games in thanks to our global pandemic. I'm writing this because I had to climb all the way from Bronze 1 on an old account I used to get back into the game and this was the first time I experienced this low elo.

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What is my goal on Irelia late game?

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 03:09 PM PDT

Am I a split pusher, initiator, clean up crew? Like obviously I probably do all of those depending on the game, but like most of the time what am I supposed to do?

Or is there no real "this is my job" with Irelia? Do I just fill whatever spot is vacant? I want to learn this champs. I feel like I have the mechanics somewhat down, but not the game sense. What do other Irelias think about when laning phase ends?

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[DIISCUSSION] Is there anyone here that actually tried mastering all the roles if so how?

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 07:27 AM PDT

so I play bot lane right now and I'm getting bored. I tried jungler and support etc, I ended getting flamed. I want to play different roles doesn't matter which one. I'm doing this so that I can make league more challenging and fun for me.

That and I'm actually curious if anyone actually done this because league is a big game with diverse mechanics. I know that many pro's can actually play different roles but is there anyone who knows how to play all the roles at least diamond level?

PS: I don't know how to put flairs

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Is there anything about Warwick Top that is different from Tryndamere in terms of mid-late game?

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 02:58 PM PDT

I wanted to try out Warwick top since I recently gotten his Lunar Guardian skin (Which I'm excited to use) and wanted to practice him as a secondary pick since I'm very used to Tryndamere (To the point where he's the only champion I have a mastery 7 with since I used him to learn about the game).

So far, I know the differences about Warwick and Tryn in terms of the lane phase.

Warwick has:

Sustain that helps him in the really early levels
Good trading
No undying ult and no fury
Q can be used to catch dashes and get out of ganks
E can be used to tank damage
One of the more simple champion due to his sustained kit
Bad waveclear until Tiamat

But what about after lane?

Should I play him like Tryndamere and splitpush on a lonely lane while taking out picks and jungle camps when they come by, or do I mainly play on roaming around the map just for taking picks on targets (Or is it both)?

What should I mainly do to help my team win the game?

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Vel'koz into assassin match up

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 02:41 PM PDT

I really like playing vel'koz and can blind pick him into pretty much any matchup. (For note my go-to ban is fizz) However when I play into a Leblanc or a Zed, I feel powerless against them, should I instead try picking a different mid laner into the assassin matchup or is there some tips that you can give to help me?

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Lets talk about the current state of Swain after his changes

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 10:26 AM PDT

Hi, I wanted to get people's general opinion on Swain right now after his recent balance changes. I have played a couple games with him since his changes and he felt pretty nice and I have also noticed that he has a great winrate right now (with a very small sample size). He seems like he is more incentivized to build CDR now to make better use of his passive and semiglobal W. So far I have played a support game where I rushed liandries and an "adc" game where I rushed GLP first and both felt quite nice. He seems strong still in the bot lane since you can get combos off of someone else's cc for pulls but I think he could be strong top in a lot of matchups as well. So in general how good do you think he is after changes, where are people mostly playing him now, and what build paths are people trying?

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Why do people say Taliyah is good?

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 09:57 AM PDT

I just don't understand it. She seems like she's actual garbage. Her clear seems slow and unhealthy in the jungle and her damage and sustain seems low in lane. Her passive is much weaker than most others in game, only providing ms while near terrain. Her E and W seem way to difficult to land for the amount of damage and utility they provide. She genuinely seems like one of the worst characters in the game. How do high elo players see her as viable?

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Does this Olaf clear still work?

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 01:42 PM PDT

The clear: https://youtu.be/HJ7Vy2JCJ7M?t=387

He kills gromp by 2:00, for the life of me I can't get it done before 2:03-2:04, and the best overall clear time I've gotten has been 3:13. I went through the patch notes since the video was posted, but couldn't find anything that would change the clear. I might just be bad, but I'd like to know that it's still possible before I keep grinding it.

Sorry if I've missed something obvious, I'm just coming back to the game after a couple of years and trying to learn the new jungle routes. Thanks for the help!

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Any pro tips on playing Syndra?

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 01:33 PM PDT

I used to play her a lot back in season 6 but stopped since I was really bad at her.

Now my skills are way better and I wanna climb to Diamond/Master.

Im a toplane main, ex-Diana Onetrick that excels at micro play. I crush the early game but i suck at mid game, late game's ok. Syndra however is a great duelist, high ap ratios, great dmg, cc and teamfigther, and also a disengage tool.

I wanna main her and learn whats the reason behind the champion to exist (is she a disruptor? A safe pick? A jack of all trades in terms of teamcomps? A strong battling mage?

The combos are ok, those are learned with time and practice. But I need to learn about the purpose of the champion, its role, when to be careful and when to contest, etc.

Thank you so much in advance.

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When to buy stopwatch on Toplane as an AD Champ?

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 01:31 PM PDT

I personally like stopwatch as an item, if its unexpected it can give you a huge surprise advantage, and almost nobody in low elo that doesn't rush zhonya's buys it, including me most of the time. (and to be honest, i have yet to see someone build GA earlier than their 4th or 5ht item and someone besides supports building stoneplate at all) I've noticed i personally only buy it when e.g i have a cocky tryndamere on my lane that i know will towerdive me as soon has he hits level 6 or if i have to fight a mordekaiser and cant afford a whole QSS, so basically to buy time. (and of course if im planning on buying zhonyas and have an awkward amount of gold) But what are some other scenarios where i can buy it? And what is the best usage in teamfights? And most importantly for me, when is it worth delaying my core items or parts of it for 650 gold to buy a stopwatch?

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5 quick tricks to be better at macro as an ADC.

Posted: 31 Jul 2020 06:21 PM PDT

Hey Summoners. I'm a Challenger ADC main and I often get asked for tips about ADC macro.

To keep things simple, I summarized some of the most important parts of the ADC macro game.