I love how all your videos talk about the laning microdetails, you are the only channel I learn from and your videos helped me go from diamond 2 to master 400 LP. Keep it up!
Videos like these give me so much hope for my soloq games, It is so clear how on a champion that doesn't normally stomp hard like viktor, if you play it near perfectly you can almost 1v9 any game
I always feel like Viktor is bad for solo q because I have no early impact but I guess if you manipulate the wave and poke when the enemy missteps you can gain a big advantage to carry, especially in dia
If you are interested in learning how to win lanes like this you can also look at vids of Dopa playing Oriana he does the same things to take perfect trades and win lanes hard on a champion you don’t often think of doing that.
at 3:15 I believe its actually better that he didnt hit the e and instead used it to shove the wave. If he stopped Zoe base there by using his e he wouldn't have it to crash the wave, and I believe the enemy JG would of bailed Zoe out by either shoving the wave back into faker or freezing, because Fakers oom this would result in a losing position, This is true especially because it wasn't a cannon wave and zoe misses a lot off this base
It's funny because to many people, without these explanations, faker may look like he's just randomly doing lots of stuffs but in actuality so much is going through his head.
@@mdzed5767 she has burn from pots + the caster + her q was up shortly + electrocute? isn't trades like that good when u have a lee jgl so u can force tp before chapter
@@NguyenHieu-ck6nz well I’m asking why void over deathcap even if you’re ahead, is the %pen worth going for over deathcap crazy AP even if they don’t have MR
Crazy AP doesn't mean better dmg. The base MR is way enough for you to buy penetration due to how calculation in this game works. And in 90% case, buying penetration item (armor as well, not just magic) worth more than AD/AP. And also buying HP 60-70% of the time worth than buying A/MR even if your opponent has little to zero dmg of the other type, especially in the early game, due to how EHP works. Raw AD/AP items grants you almost nothing but a stat check (but stat checks perform well mostly on bruiser type champion only). Or buying it for the "effects" that it grants. And you do also need to calculate the gold efficiency as well. Rabadon will likely just worth early for champ that scale other factors as well like Vlad or Veigar (and since Veigar can stack indefinitely, they'll more likely building tank for more survivability rather than raw AP). Other than those case, Rabadon would definitely a good 5th or 6th item, you buy early only if you're a smurf and for sure don't need anything else. (You also have to consider the effect you need, Stasis? Speed from Cosmic Drive/Lich Bane?, ...) -------------------------------- E.g: you facing an opponent with just 50MR (average stat of champion around end of laning phase if not building any MR items, but most likely opponents will buy Merc and having 1-2 MR shard). And you got a skill with 100% AP ratio for easy calculation. (Actually only a few champs got scaling that high, but it will be a good example since ppl always talking about "Buying AP on champs got high scaling and buying penetration for champs got low scaling". P/s: Actually I only agree with this for Zoe and Nidalee, if you can hit Q max range most of the time). I will use Cho'Gath's Q: 300 base dmg (at max rank, lv9 if you max Q first) + 100% AP. You got 70AP from Everfrost (it's just for the sake of example, and because of many ppl building it on Cho' AP, plz buy Luden or Rocketbelt for best result). And 9*2 = 18 AP from shards. You would dealt 388 dmg, and reduces to 258.67 (50MR => dmg × 100/(100+50)). ------------ With 3600 gold, you can buy Rabadon, which makes your AP -> 280.8 (aka (120+88)×1.35). => You would dealt 580.8 dmg, reduces to 387.2 ------ Also with that gold, buy 1 Void Staff (2800) + 1 Amplifying Tome (435), not even reaching 3600 yet. This would give 40% Magic pen, 65+20 = 85 AP. Thus, dealing 473 dmg, reduces to 363.8 dmg (from 50MR -> 30MR). Only a little below while still having 365 gold left. ------------ And that is a skill with both high base dmg and high AP ratio. With a lower ratio, obviously it's not where buying AP would shine. Also buying Magic Pen early can opt-out 40% of any future MR opponents gain. While AP does not (except for Rabadon also gives your AP 1.35×, but that's not really worth when they gaining MR, not just from items, but base growth, drakes, ...)
@@MFGeedorah47 also for the 2nd part I mentioned E.g. you have 1000HP and 30MR, with 450 gold, would you buy 150HP (400G) or 20MR (450G) At this time, you'll have to calculate (1000+150)×1.3 vs 1000×(1.3+0.2) The first would give 1495 EHP vs magic dmg while also having 1150EHP vs phys (if you have 0 armor). While the 2nd option give 1500 EHP vs magic dmg but still 1000 EHP vs phys (if 0 armor) During early game, you don't have that much HP to begin with, so increasing multiplier wont help much, but you need to build the base number first. After you got decent amount of HP, then A/MR will be worth. And also becuz of opponent buying Pen early (for the first case), if you buy A/MR, you just waste your gold for a thing that auto lose 30-40% value (serylda/dominik/void). But then there's other factor like %HP dmg at which you... have to build A/MR again... except when facing Vayne, you'd need to slow her attack speed) But all big A/MR item will give HP anyways (except stoneplate) so it's kinda okay. But most of the time, you should avoid buying cloth armor or null-magic mantle, unless you only have it left to finish the big item. Prioritize the HP component first.
people who are saying hes washed are legit just 17 year olds who have no idea about the game/human anatomy. Faker is at peak brain/physical performance at 26 years old right now. He is no where near washed. people are so dumb
@@6700adam then you should know some English grammar. I said “kids” not actually referring to you but referring to people who say that shit in the first place since you said “supposed..”
Its worth noting how almost entirely worthless this advice is for most of league players. Early viktor uses a lot of mana, for little damage. Faker is able to get this lead because he misses like 1 E the entire laning phase. If he had missed 2 more hed be OOM. Its far smarter in lower elos to play passive and save abilities for lane than to constantly try to poke. The reward is little and the risk is high, which is necessary for pro players, but not silvers
Don't know why I got recommended this video but this is an extreme level of overanalysis. Faker is not consciously thinking about all this crap. He is simply trying to Q+auto Zoe whenever she walks up to farm or harass and he would sometimes rather secure a minion kill than use the auto for harass. This type of harassment works especially well for Viktor because he gains a shield from using his Q so the enemy can never fully trade back the damage unless they use more than 1 ability.
SoloQ be like : I try to do all these little micro optimisations to win lane and get advantage over my matchup and be 1/0/0 Looks at top lane : enemy darius 6/0/0 :D
If you’re anywhere near gold or plat though the “micro optimizations” are actually giant gameplay mistakes that if you fixed would make your game 10x better
I hope Zoe wins xD. I’m a Zoe main and she’s just so fun!! People get so trolled by the bubble, and her voice lines are so cute like when she sings about chocolate cake LOL! She’s super random but also smarter than she looks, just like me xD
Faker is mediocre? he's not the best 1v9 carry anymore but he's very well rounded player that can play in any style any meta. You could say that he got carried by his rookie but he's a type of player that you want in your team when your team is already good because he could play anything his team want.
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Faker after watching this video - Ah, so this is how it works
Faker has to learn the game from someone aswell
he learned to not build lich bane lol
@@Nxffie aliens
@@Nxffie his coach
@@Nxffie ye that someone is the game itself
I love how all your videos talk about the laning microdetails, you are the only channel I learn from and your videos helped me go from diamond 2 to master 400 LP. Keep it up!
That makes my day!
Videos like these give me so much hope for my soloq games, It is so clear how on a champion that doesn't normally stomp hard like viktor, if you play it near perfectly you can almost 1v9 any game
This guy is not doing it that well, what are you talking about?
I always feel like Viktor is bad for solo q because I have no early impact but I guess if you manipulate the wave and poke when the enemy missteps you can gain a big advantage to carry, especially in dia
viktor is legit broken lol, champ is gross once u get 2 items
If you are interested in learning how to win lanes like this you can also look at vids of Dopa playing Oriana he does the same things to take perfect trades and win lanes hard on a champion you don’t often think of doing that.
Really love this channel! when I lose hope in soloq I come here renew it, rewatch a couple of gods playing this game and go back!
These laning detail videos you do are by far the best in the league scene. I can't get enough of them!
Crazy thing is how even at his immense skill level there are so many improvements to still be made. He had Zhonya's when he died at 6:55 for example.
He did inted there he backs instead of zhonyaing. I think he thought that he wouldnt die. simple mistake but funny when its faker.
@@onurcay6668 it's when her passive procs that gets him, I would imagine he miscalculated the damage
at 3:15 I believe its actually better that he didnt hit the e and instead used it to shove the wave. If he stopped Zoe base there by using his e he wouldn't have it to crash the wave, and I believe the enemy JG would of bailed Zoe out by either shoving the wave back into faker or freezing, because Fakers oom this would result in a losing position, This is true especially because it wasn't a cannon wave and zoe misses a lot off this base
Big brain faker deciding not to cast
Faker takes 6 minions in a simple way
This guy ; imma add 20 explaining subtitles for it
This explanation is exactly what I’ve been looking for in a league creator.
My 2 braincells can't do this much psychological calculations man
"Check teamates while autoing" very useful and legit tip. I am sure everyone would be able to utilize it lol
Love this, the viktor videos are so great because these concepts exist for most champions in mid
It's funny because to many people, without these explanations, faker may look like he's just randomly doing lots of stuffs but in actuality so much is going through his head.
as a plat 2 mid laner, you make me feel like a bronze ☠
to be honest as a dia 1 mid laner, to faker I am like a bronze player
Faker easily dominates 99% of the player base.
@@The23rdGamer .9
@@The23rdGamer 99% is a big understatement, I dominate 99% of the player base yet faker would shit on me harder than I would shit on a bronze player
Pro league is just an entirely different game
This was very satisfying to watch, thanks for quality content
Great content as always Keep the god work TOTSS!
1:57, what does it mean to drag cursor?
totss back with another banger, ty totss! your analysis makes my day (unless it's toplane, all my homies hate toplane 😈... but i still watch)
2:00 wtf how he can check his teammate while autoing the cs?????
Click to auto, then use keybinds to check teamates
He is faker
you can check your teammates with the f1 f2 f3 f4 buttons
thanks for the vid once again TOTSS!
Mind blown, great details on the game. No wonder I am in plat
Could you make a video on how a player like Mangofish on his kassadin beats canyon server players even with such a weak earlygame champ?
Faker Is so cool
he tank one attack from caster minion to not tank two attack
Only in slowmotion im able of followning faker's mouse, this guy legit plays on 20k dpi xD
this helped me think so much
Great video like always
not doubting faker or anything but there are micro things that are mostly possible at really low ping
Really nice to see the detailed breakdown!
yeah im okay staying gold/silver. this level of micro is insane
why doesn't zoe commit to the trade at 1:04?
Bruh her Q is on CD
@@mdzed5767 she has burn from pots + the caster + her q was up shortly + electrocute? isn't trades like that good when u have a lee jgl so u can force tp before chapter
faker playing his lane on autopilot and this guy thinks he's a death note character with a 10 step plan
Why is it that some people go Void staff third when enemy team has no MR? Is it just because it has better build path than deathcap?
If you r well fed just build it
@@NguyenHieu-ck6nz well I’m asking why void over deathcap even if you’re ahead, is the %pen worth going for over deathcap crazy AP even if they don’t have MR
Crazy AP doesn't mean better dmg.
The base MR is way enough for you to buy penetration due to how calculation in this game works.
And in 90% case, buying penetration item (armor as well, not just magic) worth more than AD/AP. And also buying HP 60-70% of the time worth than buying A/MR even if your opponent has little to zero dmg of the other type, especially in the early game, due to how EHP works.
Raw AD/AP items grants you almost nothing but a stat check (but stat checks perform well mostly on bruiser type champion only). Or buying it for the "effects" that it grants.
And you do also need to calculate the gold efficiency as well.
Rabadon will likely just worth early for champ that scale other factors as well like Vlad or Veigar (and since Veigar can stack indefinitely, they'll more likely building tank for more survivability rather than raw AP). Other than those case, Rabadon would definitely a good 5th or 6th item, you buy early only if you're a smurf and for sure don't need anything else.
(You also have to consider the effect you need, Stasis? Speed from Cosmic Drive/Lich Bane?, ...)
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E.g: you facing an opponent with just 50MR (average stat of champion around end of laning phase if not building any MR items, but most likely opponents will buy Merc and having 1-2 MR shard).
And you got a skill with 100% AP ratio for easy calculation. (Actually only a few champs got scaling that high, but it will be a good example since ppl always talking about "Buying AP on champs got high scaling and buying penetration for champs got low scaling". P/s: Actually I only agree with this for Zoe and Nidalee, if you can hit Q max range most of the time).
I will use Cho'Gath's Q: 300 base dmg (at max rank, lv9 if you max Q first) + 100% AP.
You got 70AP from Everfrost (it's just for the sake of example, and because of many ppl building it on Cho' AP, plz buy Luden or Rocketbelt for best result). And 9*2 = 18 AP from shards.
You would dealt 388 dmg, and reduces to 258.67 (50MR => dmg × 100/(100+50)).
------------
With 3600 gold, you can buy Rabadon, which makes your AP -> 280.8 (aka (120+88)×1.35).
=> You would dealt 580.8 dmg, reduces to 387.2
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Also with that gold, buy 1 Void Staff (2800) + 1 Amplifying Tome (435), not even reaching 3600 yet.
This would give 40% Magic pen, 65+20 = 85 AP.
Thus, dealing 473 dmg, reduces to 363.8 dmg (from 50MR -> 30MR). Only a little below while still having 365 gold left.
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And that is a skill with both high base dmg and high AP ratio. With a lower ratio, obviously it's not where buying AP would shine.
Also buying Magic Pen early can opt-out 40% of any future MR opponents gain. While AP does not (except for Rabadon also gives your AP 1.35×, but that's not really worth when they gaining MR, not just from items, but base growth, drakes, ...)
@@hungmn13 thank you for the very in depth explanation, this is exactly the type of answer I was looking for
@@MFGeedorah47 also for the 2nd part I mentioned
E.g. you have 1000HP and 30MR, with 450 gold, would you buy 150HP (400G) or 20MR (450G)
At this time, you'll have to calculate (1000+150)×1.3 vs 1000×(1.3+0.2)
The first would give 1495 EHP vs magic dmg while also having 1150EHP vs phys (if you have 0 armor).
While the 2nd option give 1500 EHP vs magic dmg but still 1000 EHP vs phys (if 0 armor)
During early game, you don't have that much HP to begin with, so increasing multiplier wont help much, but you need to build the base number first.
After you got decent amount of HP, then A/MR will be worth.
And also becuz of opponent buying Pen early (for the first case), if you buy A/MR, you just waste your gold for a thing that auto lose 30-40% value (serylda/dominik/void).
But then there's other factor like %HP dmg at which you... have to build A/MR again... except when facing Vayne, you'd need to slow her attack speed)
But all big A/MR item will give HP anyways (except stoneplate) so it's kinda okay.
But most of the time, you should avoid buying cloth armor or null-magic mantle, unless you only have it left to finish the big item. Prioritize the HP component first.
HOLY PLAY, he q'd zoe and then got the creep. OMG i never knew anyone can be this good at the game
can you make a video that shows us how to play against melees as mages
if you want to get old at age of 20 and feel like an 80year old be like faker
So clean viktor gameplay
Faker is supposed to be washed
But when i see him laning like that i can only doubt
yup
Its one thing to he washed when compared to the top 10 players in the world and another to be washed compared to the top 0.1% of players
people who are saying hes washed are legit just 17 year olds who have no idea about the game/human anatomy. Faker is at peak brain/physical performance at 26 years old right now. He is no where near washed. people are so dumb
@@Aurora11793 im 26 too ...
@@6700adam then you should know some English grammar. I said “kids” not actually referring to you but referring to people who say that shit in the first place since you said “supposed..”
Whos the voice of the lady giving FAKER advice? I don't get it
I am a zoe main and hate to play this match. Its Very hard against a good Victor.
faker is great, but the real champ here is the balancing team with their victor specific blindfolds, that champs is OP af
Fakers just uses his muscle memory xD
I still have no idea what the Chinese girl voice is doing as the overlay, like if it's a translation, it's a shitty and cringy one
its a translation. she's explaining it
i tried this and the jungler camped me for 11 minutes.
Great video!
(You use the word premitively a lot in your videos, but I believe you mean to use pre-emptively)
6:51 nice
Its worth noting how almost entirely worthless this advice is for most of league players. Early viktor uses a lot of mana, for little damage. Faker is able to get this lead because he misses like 1 E the entire laning phase. If he had missed 2 more hed be OOM. Its far smarter in lower elos to play passive and save abilities for lane than to constantly try to poke. The reward is little and the risk is high, which is necessary for pro players, but not silvers
who is the female voice?
Chinese translater i think
Id proly just afk if I laned against that
realizing he's playing on 2 ms 😢
yh definitely not cos its faker lol, its the ping
well in lck they are playin on 0ms so he basically plays on a setup similar to worlds
tbh in low elo getting free hit( viktor's E) isnt that hard lmao XD, the hard thing is to lane ur empowered auto after Q since that is ur main Q dmg
Goat 🐐🐐 👑👑👑
Don't know why I got recommended this video but this is an extreme level of overanalysis. Faker is not consciously thinking about all this crap. He is simply trying to Q+auto Zoe whenever she walks up to farm or harass and he would sometimes rather secure a minion kill than use the auto for harass.
This type of harassment works especially well for Viktor because he gains a shield from using his Q so the enemy can never fully trade back the damage unless they use more than 1 ability.
It is too hard to be good at this game
Didn't know faker ever use skin
First step have a stable 2ms I’m just kidding 😂.
it almost seems unfair. Faker is playing against other challengers around his MMR and its like he is playing playing against bots.
"check teammate while autoing"
faker things
how can zoe prevent this from happening?
Kill viktor
beast
viktor loses hard in waveclear???
Early game absolutely, once he gets E upgrade he can waveclear much better than Zoe though
SoloQ be like : I try to do all these little micro optimisations to win lane and get advantage over my matchup and be 1/0/0
Looks at top lane : enemy darius 6/0/0
:D
If you’re anywhere near gold or plat though the “micro optimizations” are actually giant gameplay mistakes that if you fixed would make your game 10x better
so in other words,faker is a robot xd
❤
6:55 so even Faker bms lol
how to do it?
u need 2ms pings
A race car doesn't automatically make your driving skills to the level of pros.
I never thought Viktor could be so powerful. Seems like a very bad champion.
Who's women voice? And why?
Translator because he is famous.
I hope Zoe wins xD. I’m a Zoe main and she’s just so fun!! People get so trolled by the bubble, and her voice lines are so cute like when she sings about chocolate cake LOL! She’s super random but also smarter than she looks, just like me xD
'_>'
Every smart person i l know writes lile this... scary
@@revilo00 i'm sure she's smarter than she looks
nobody knows because nobody use brain in LoL xdxd
Auto.
Watching while there is someone talking what you are seeing, tsk2, not even a good review , thanks for narrating what I am seeing
but isn't Faker mediocre compared to many modern midlanes? He's like in a top 20 or smthn
I mean, that the title is kinda too shiny
Regardless of whether he's #1 or #20, he's still absolutely worth learning from! Most of us aren't even in the top 1000!
Only in terms of laning, overall I honestly think he deserves top 6,7
yea i mean
he's just inconsistent with his laning nowadays
probably because of age i think
Top 20 is preety good compared to soloQ players, even high elo soloQ players
Faker is mediocre? he's not the best 1v9 carry anymore but he's very well rounded player that can play in any style any meta. You could say that he got carried by his rookie but he's a type of player that you want in your team when your team is already good because he could play anything his team want.
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