@@D0nci if you need to ask then you already have the most solid mental in the world and this couldnt help you or on the other hand your to far gone in the pits of delusion that its a waste of time to help you with the answer..
timestamps for the people: 0:00 Intro 0:12 Champion Pool 4:31 Repetitions 5:45 /Mute All 7:41 Coaching 7:51 Using Emotions 9:16 When to Dodge 10:51 Understanding the Meta 13:13 Learn from OTPs 16:35 Trading 20:16 Threat assessment 24:48 Letting Teammates make bad plays 27:51 Communicating Intent 29:24 Role in the Comp 30:32 Solving 1000 Puzzles 32:30 The Ranked System 34:00 Making Peace 36:22 Toxic friends 37:46 Be Kind to Yourself
Really loving the recent content. Your channel hast always been gold but this is next level. Elaborate, concise, no bs. You are a hero for making this accessible for free.
Unironically, with fhe advice about learning from top players with certain champs, "faking it until you make it," is genuine advice. You'll make the connection for *why* they do it after you mimic it
hit diamond for the first time on euw this split. mostly thanks to onetricking and actively listening to you and Nathan's podcast :) thanks u curtis rly one of the few coaches that has a different level of approach to improvement in league.
Bronze 4 player here that managed to dip all the way into Iron 4. Peaked at bronze 1 and have slipped back to 4. Have been dreading the game lately but have kept playing but seeing this video has been refreshing beyond belief. Your videos are amazing and this one is no exception. Thank you for this, you have given me the breath of fresh air and tips I needed to self-reflect to improve on my game. Here's to this next split! 💪
There ya go. I was kind of in the same boat last about 2 seasons ago where I was just hard stuck iron/bronze but then I just decided to stick to one role and a few champs and I was able to hit plat and I almost hit emerald before the season split a few weeks ago
I want to thank u coach about ur contant, I owe it to u ❤ Yesterday was my first time climbing to Gold since I started playing the game in s12, and I believe your contant is a big part of it as u helped me understand and accept how hard this game can be. So thank you coach Curtis, and keep the amazing work ❤❤❤
1:03 Curtis I'm actually with the strawman on this one. In my own experience I had this exact situation about 2 years ago when I first got coaching on support. My coach said "Lulu is clearly your best champion, so just stick with that" so I did. I got to diamond, yeah, but at the end of the climb I was so chewed out and dead inside I damn near quit the game and resorted to a desperate last ditch role swap to keep me interested (which plummeted my skill level down to gold but it worked). Manage expectations, sure, but fun is always #1 by a country mile. If someone's bored they won't have the focus to get into the details and review. People aren't robots. They THINk they want to climb by any means necessary until they actually have to do it and by day 5 they're checked out.
Exactly. Either you focus on getting better and playing your best - it`s exhausting, it need work, study, focus, additional time. Or you play for fun. Then, please, dont join ranked. Normal games have same variety of players and you will get most of fun there. T think of all the work boxesr who make make to get into high league (sorry, not familiar with box terminology, trying to make a real-world analogy). How many hours one should play and/or study to get 2000+ points in chess. Yes, sometimes there will be some young prodigy - random dna may give some advantage here - but most of the time it is A LOT of hard work.
Agreed, we see this in lots of other things too. it's really hard to feel actually motivated and not just completely mentally drained to actually get into the weeds and want to study these things if we cant even gain some amount of joy out of it ... this may sound stupid but really think about this: it's difficult to study, if i dont WANT to study. but if you're passionate and interested in learning something and ENJOY it. then it's a lot easier to learn right? and also makes it so you dont just quit after day 5. how many people would be healthier if going to the gym was fun? the reason it's impressive is because it's not fun, and therefore difficult and the vast majority of people end up quitting before they even get to the part where they're seeing results
@@БарриЛомов You can play to win and have fun at the same time. They aren't mutually exclusive. We're talking about getting to diamond not getting a Worlds trophy. Of course the top of the top have to do all the boring shit that gives them tiny advantages, but with getting to diamond it's not a question of IF you can do it, but just how long it will take you.
I got a question for you! - Did you find any fun getting into higher ranks? - I know i find the most fun playing shaco support - but i know i can gewt so many more wins playing seraphine or top mundo... i am not sure how long that will be fun for me though.. what is your take on how to grow but still have fun?
He clearly says that if you really wanna play this other champ know that your climb will be slower since youre not getting as much lp playing that, its totally fine doing so if thats what you want and is fine with the downsides to it, but be aware that the journey will be longer
@@wolvewick4414any role that can make immediate impact at any time in the game. If you’re trying to get out of low elo, stay out of supp role and possibly adc. JG mid and Top can make the most immediate impact in low elo and you need to be in control of that
I managed to climb from Gold to Diamond in 2 month by playing only Yorick (sometimes Sion) and watching AloisNL, I never played him before so everything possible with just the right mindset and focusing on your improving instead of looking at LP
I am a jungle player but love to watch these videos. They're applicable to every role with a little imagination. Letting people die is a jungler's greatest skill. If I can get my camps and go for high % plays, I know that I will be ahead, and in a position to carry.
So, as a person who formerly one tricked, left the game for over a year, and came back with the determination to add champs to my pool, I can also confirm that one tricking is 100% better for climbing. I formerly one tricked Vayne. Came back, she sucks, had to expand my pool. Started playing Jhin, Cait, Ashe, and MF. Win rates were fairly even, all around 54-56%, and sadly the 11 games I have on Vayne resulted in 36% wr. I started to hard focus on Caitlyn, since she is more capable in the current meta. Caitlyn wr went from like 54% to 64% in about a week. Still climbing. One tricking works, especially if you have good macro knowledge.
@@AWeakPrinnycongrats on that win rate its pretty good, i started maining adc this season after being a top laner from s4-s10 while also taking a hiatus from s10 until now, i ranked and placed bronze 3, yesterday i got gold 4 with 60% win rate cait and kai’sa
Hey man if u love vayne I can recommend this build for you, I am emerald with 67% wr on vayne in 52 games, I always build kraken slayer into rageblade and play very aggresive around boots rush power spike, this build helps u end the game super fast if u can get a lead early
Managing expectations is a very core thing for many, many players. I myself have chosen to prioritise fun by switching to what I think is the most fun champ in the game, namely Lee Sin. But obviously I am going to struggle more to climb on Lee Sin than I would on my own mains, Zac and Taliyah. My goal is to reach diamond *eventually*. It doesn't have to be this year, or the next. My elo range on the other champs are mid emerald to mid plat. For Lee Sin, it's high to low plat. But I am here for the long con. At one point the elo ranges will even out, and eventually my Lee Sin will be able to overtake the other two. I think there are lots of players who try to do this, but who can't stay committed to a champ, because they haven't found 'the one' - if anyone reading this can relate to that, my advice to you is simple: commit. Commit to a champ pool for the season. Stick with it. And see what it brings you. Regardless of the pick, aim for 90% playrate on your main champs. *Have* main champs.
I am silver 4 currently, going to try this advice in my games in the future. Love the last point since I always feel that I am bad at the game. Thanks for making this video, continue to drop banger advice!
The last point is so important. I taught myself after many years until I’m a grown ass man. When games become hard inevitably as I climb, it’s not that my teammates are shitty, it’s my opponents that are better at stopping me from carrying games. Once I do that, I don’t stress out that much and I see the bigger picture a lot better. What I was doing isn’t working any more because my opponents are better now. So I need to learn, rather than being desperate and frustrated and confused. Then a whole world opens up and I get to learn not only from my own play, but also taking my opponents into consideration and that helped me so much. (Thats why I hate those tutorials where they say: make these plays and you will win. I’ll be like: No! What if your opponent does THAT instead?)
If want to mute every time, just change your chat settings to 'Party Only'. You will see pings but not chat, and you won't have to remember to type at the start of each match. Same result for less effort.
I think the difference is that party only chat doesn’t allow you to type “give drag” to your team in chat since you’re in party chat. Mute all allows you to remain in team chat but just not see others messages, so you can still type to your team, but not see their messages.
Really great video, I found this super easy to consume. A thought: when I decide not to join a fight I don't feel guilt. I feel anxious that my team will throw. That if I'm not there to help they will lose the game, and my additional resources won't matter when my team is down numbers on the map
Hey coach curtis im a toplaners and love how a lot of thr stuff you said also applies to us. Also the advice about learning based on specific ability usage is genius dunno why i did it irl but not in league. I couldn't pass my drivers exam because of the mixed questions so i did them by similar sections and that way i could learn more effectively
i absolutely have to agree with the mute all stuff, if youre playing in bronze or something, legit fullmute except your junglers pings, and once they do a crap ping, just get ridda them too. once u get a bit higher maybe unmute your mids pings too.
What he’s saying about champs is 100% correct. When I first started playing in s4 I found riven and I loved the champ so much I mained her. I went from B4 in s4 to gold in s5 then plat then d4 then was stuck at d2-1 s8+ until I broke master but I could of gotten to diamond faster if I didn’t struggle with her but now I’m happy I did since that’s my bread and butter. Then I went into boosting
About copying abilities: Velkoz OTP Azzapp had a roaming build for the champ that worked kind of like a Bard. I use Velkoz as a 2nd champ, so I couldnt copy it very well, given my lower sample size and not willing to dedicate the time to understand how to fundamentally change my use of the champion like that, even if it was (i genuinely believed it was, given I consider him the best velkoz player) the best way to play the champ to climb. Which means, I couldn't use his ability usage as a "macro" reference in the season he played like that (I still watched older videos of him to understand about the champ) You should blindly copy it, but after a few games use the hindsight to check if it makes sense for you, and adapt.
Thank you so much for this video, I will definitely bookmark it and rewatch it every once in a while I really want to learn Irelia but cant find any good active streamers playing the champion (and on RUclips most of the videos are just highlights or montages) do you have any recommendations for who to watch to learn from?
There's this replay app you can use that lets you review your deaths, or the past minute. While you're dead, you can do a mini review on what you could've done, or what you shouldn't have done. I've used it in most of my games, and there was this one matchup I hated that I was able to dissect while I was in gray, and won that very game! Hope this helps!
I used to compliment my enemy back in the days, when they played rly good, especially in some high intense matchups like Zed vs Fizz and it was rly fun and close, but I stopped bcs at least in my games 9/10 enemys would just write "easy, u are so trash, get better noob" etc, really sad...
I have been peak s1 since season 9. It’s a bit depressing, but in my defence I’ve usually played less than 200 ranked games a year. Trying to focus up and approach with a learning mindset and not think about wins or losses at all. Hopefully I can make gold at some point 😂
The importance of small chanp pool is indespitible. The one counter I'll offer to this, is win rates do not report on the elo you were in when winning. So below your natural elo it is easy to get high w/r on anything you are passibly conpetent on.. but 70% w/r on a champ in bronze games does not mean that is your ticket to masters. Make sure you are looking at chanp w/r in your current peak elo.
Rather than /mute all, perhaps suggest that you set your settings to premade team only, that way you can still see pings. I've found that to be one of the best settings.
Be honest Curtis, do believe in "never ff" and "always a way to improve" if you get some afks or trolls? Or are these types of games a guaranteed lose and how do you review them?
My top 1 tip would be to buy a second account. My second tip is to take time off from league. 1 or 2 months will make a big diference in your mentality and understanding of the game. Just these 2 took me from silver 4 to platinum.
My Champ pool is I would say 3. I play Teemo, Wukong and Fizz relatively well for a low-elo player. Where I fall off is that I think I can win lane/jungle quite often or at the very least go even. What I have is that after the early game, the map opens up and I do not use my advantage effectively. My impact on the team and the map is too little for the advantage I get. I sometimes team up, start roaming or am indecisive with my lead.
@@francispaniagua4228yeah, but I really like those 3. My best is teemo, I dont know which one come close to that? I usually play top or jungle, and an AP mage top or jungle I dont see next to Teemo. Any recommendations? I used to main Wukong, and then Jax and Renekton nezt to him. But I found bruisers underwhelming and no fun. Then I picked up teemo and loved him. I played fizz a lot because for some reason, he just clicked with me. I have my highest win rate with him. He feels natural.
Someone help me out here on winrate. Honest question. What's the expected number of games to play before winrate is a true showing of you playing that character in ranked? If I were to pick say 3 good champs to try out to decide which to main hownmany games are we looking at here per character? 10? 20? 50? 100? Thoughts?
I was pure hard struck bronze last split with over 1000 games playing every role and nearly every champion, towards the second half of the split I tried to narrow my champ pool and decided to be a Yasuo OTP😂. This split I decided to play a more simple champ and see how much it really would affect me. I’m currently at 57% WR this season in Gold and rocking a 72% WR Malphite with 53 games played. And the climbing is still occurring fast and easy. This video really hit hard for me and making me stay strict with just spamming malphite as I have a good win rate with him and if I seriously want to climb I need to actually play who I’m winning with.
38:40 I would say "laugh with yourself" is a good way of characterising this point. Don't laugh at yourself as if you're putting yourself down, but laugh with yourself as if you were your own friend
you actually dont have to /muteall every game now, you can just disable the chat in settings while you play ranked so you dont have to keep doing it. this keeps pings too
I have a non league anecdote that can very easily be applied to the making sure to mute all thing. I was working as a waitress for about 5 months like 5-6 years ago and I've always been really sensitive to people just being mean(MOBAs actually are what helpped me build a little bit thicker skin in that regard) but I had an older couple I was waiting on when I was given a 13 top, large famly with lots of kids. I determined after taking the large table's drink orders that they were a table I could joke around with while I knew the older couple wasn't so I joked around with the large table and kept it strictly professional with the older couple. I guess they didn't like something about that because they complained to my manager that I was "rude and awful" and I was curious about what they complained about because she wouldn't tell me what they said, she literally told me she knew I would dwell on it for the rest of my shift but I pushed her into telling me and guess what? I dwelled on it for the rest of my shift, and several days afterwards. >.
6:21 holy shit i love you for this. i always mute all. and then individually unmute all the pings. and its sooooo annoying. so thank you so much. ( best tip ever ) i wish league would just make a setting for this though.
i dont know if you know already by now but you can go into the settings either in the client or in game, go into “interface” tab, and scroll down to the chat option and select “party / premade chat only” instead of “everyone / all chat” (idk the exact wording but you get the gist). it will stay like that every single game from then on and you can change it any time you want!! it mutes team and all chat but keeps pings (and emotes) visible still, hope this helps :D
Ok I’ve been struggling for nearly a decade trying to understand the answer to this question… maybe coach curtis can help. Im a mid player. I love Anivia, by far my most games played. I also love hwei, Aurelio sol, viktor, and other mages. I’ve tried many times to climb with them, I get stuck in silver. Sometimes I might get a solo kill, I rarely get solo killed, but I don’t steamroll early game super hard. 1, maybe 2 kills in the early game every few games, but most games are even, and I am not dominating scuttle fights/roaming and pushing my lead elsewhere). I’m usually just farming up the best cs I can in mid lane, poking enemy mid down but not killing. Then when late game team fights start, I can use inherent scaling of my character to crush team fights. Why am I stuck in silver on these mages? There obviously could be a blind spot that I’m not seeing, but in my mind it usually seems like it’s because I’m not crushing my laner, and I’m not influencing other lanes/jg fights. When I play against assassins, they have the tools to skirmish, and there’s a psychological thing that happens where most people just stop trying to win the game as hard when an enemy gets ahead, so they are WAY more likely to surrender early before my mage can slowly scale. I NEVER surrender, and it’s frustrating the amount of surrenders I go through which I was a little ahead, my team is all super behind, and the enemy (especially mid) is super ahead. This has gotten me to struggle to understand how people can climb as mages at all?? And I want to also be clear: when I’m climbing, I’m spamming a single mage, for a prolonged time (years at a time). Like I was spamming Anivia for years, and I’m stuck in silver. Before you answer, last year I started maining assassins. I played fizz and Akshan, secondary role was Akshan top. Over the course of a year, I got to emerald!! It was literally as I though: I am able to solo kill my lane opponent almost every game multiple times, absolutely crush skirmishes where jg is involved, spam ganks on bot lane, and enemy usually surrenders. I had nearly a 65-70% win rate with fizz at some point, then I swapped to Akshan and kept nearly the same win rate… Then after I climbed with these assassins, I had some real life stuff happen for a few ranked splits in a row, and now I’m back in ranked, and I’m thinking “hey, maybe from everything I learned getting to emerald on assassins, I can use that knowledge to finally climb with mages!” So I do placements and have been playing ranked a lot as mages only (like 70 games so far) and I’ve sunk down to gold 4 (on the cusp of silver). I’m experiencing all those issues with mages I talked previous, and I have to ask: do people actually climb with mages? Would a masters/gm smurf consistently win games in gold as Anivia or hwei?? Or are those mages just good at high elo where the chaos doesn’t happen like it does in low elo??? I have seen some videos of people “smurfing” mage gameplay where they are playing on a relatively new account, but the LP gains they get are so high for these new accounts that they never really are truly climbing like the way I would. I want to see a masters Anivia player take a hardstuck silver account like mine was (7 lp per win/loss) and climb THAT account to high elo. I don’t think it’s possible, but I want to hear coach Curtis’ take on this!!
About the champion pool thingy, my issue is that even if I had Champs with consistently 55+% winrates, I get tired of playing the same champs over and over very quickly... Great video though!
well, I wanna get Diamond+ with one tricking Riven. first season I had a 30% winrate in bronze (dropped from like bronze 1 to bronze 4). next season i had a 65% winrate and climbed to gold. next season i had a 40% winrate and dropped to silver. next season i had a 30% winrate and dropped to silver 4. next season i had a 50% winrate and stayed silver. this season i have a 65% winrate and climbed to gold. help? on top of it, i can freelo mundo to plat+ i'm very sure with WAY less mastery.
I think the last step goes hand to hand with the /mute all tip. Mute everyone, laugh at your misplays, it's ok because everyone makes misplays, but most of league players with shit on you because of your mistakes and that can destroy your mental.
I approach this the opposite way I should say. I play my champs and see how far I can get. It's difficult to say what rank one should have these days as it's account wide not specific champ wide. I peaked silver so far but I have beaten people on my lanes - bot/top - who had their previous seasons shown up to emerald etc as they weren't playing on their main champ. I would say rank per champ would make the game more clear as to who is where at the rank spectrum.
I'm a bit confused, when you say stop your reviews at the 5 min mark.. does that mean you only watch each replay for 5 mins? Or 5 mins for each emotional moment you review?
he means spending no more than 5 total minutes in the review, not necessarily stopping at the 5 minute mark into the game. his wording on the topic in this video is slightly confusing, but based on what he's said on the BBC podcast, he means 5 minutes per review.
11:20 ban Brand (sup), every time he is in the game its a nightmare. my brand int, enemy brand carry with most damage (same but a little less: Viego jgl). i really think this helped me much more than other vids with the same theme. 36:30 YES, they are weaker and will leave you anyways (its my experience, 3 times already, toxic people are the first who deinstall league). i have a question: does the 2 champs who i play need to be ad and ap? or can it be like belveth viego?
muteing chat works wonders for performance people just lie and say Bullshit stuff most of the time and its rare for them to actually say someting worth value , also i find it funny how most people ping for no reason most of the time makes me laugh .
my target was silver and i made it but then i dropped to b4 like the last time when i almost climbed to silver . I dont get this fluctuations in this game.
I think the biggest challenge I have with accepting my rank and LP gain/loss. I've reached peace before, and I naturally improved by a few divisions as a result. Because I improved, I suddenly started caring about LP again, I didn't want to fall back down (and eventually did). Any advice for getting past this mental roadblock?
/mute all is OP. Although I personally prefer having chat disabled and trying to use the objective calls, and pings. Also sometimes even the pre-lobby is gonna tilt you. Happened to me at least once recently. That or it was the bot laner taking smite, playing Gragas and coming top to steal all my last hits in top lane. Jokes on them though as we won that game because the Jungler carried hard.
as support main, the majority of my WR on my champions has come from picking the right utility for the game. but when i have low damage teams then the utility doesn't seem to matter. not sure how to fix this
@fryday1036 both supports and adcs that play in the bot lane face this same issue... which is why damage supports will almost always out-perform utility supports in terms of climbing capability. Your agency is more determined by the competency and roles/composition of your teammates as a support player, and your early and mid game agency as a marksman in bot lane is almost entirely decided by the competency of your support. If during lane phase your duo is not performing, then your agency capability will be affected by that both in the lane and after, since you likely won't have as many opportunities to roam and won't have as much gold as you'd like. Bot lane as a whole is really the worst place to be in for attempting to solo carry during ranked matches, by a long shot. As an adc in the bot lane, if your support isn't up to snuff, you're going to effectively be useless for the majority of the match because of how dependent on levels and items you are, which both will be delayed significantly if you have to effectively 2v1 the lane while getting your exp soaked by a bot.
Quick Question about dodging: Szenario, I've dodged a game and my next game I get autofilled again and my Toplane locks in Yuumi. Clearly, I'd dodge again, but is the second and third dodge worth it? I find myself in lobbies regularly where people troll their picks, already get toxic during champ select or the draft is clearly awful (like no cc into 3 enemy assassins etc), is dodging, waiting and losing LP through multiple dodges worth it in the long run? I'm currently Dia4 and I really want to hit Master and I believe I can do it, but I sincerely believe that those regularly occuring bad lobbies are holding me hostage in between Emerald and Dia. Every third lobby of mine features some level of unbearing toxicity or a sh*t af draft which I'd LOVE to dodge but I'm just so afraid of getting banned, giving away too much LP from dodging and also this looming threat of "will the next lobby be better or will that also result in a dodge by me?"
if your toplaner locks yuumi, that’s 100% a dodge. just wait it out til the last second and maybe someone else will dodge. it’s better to take the small lp hit from dodging than to take an almost guaranteed -23
I find it a bit ironical to do /mutepings all and afterwards say how important pings are for communication. If everyone does it, there will be only communication with yourself. It's good advice for the chat, but shitty advice for the pings if you ask me, Curtis. A better practice would be to mute pings of lanes u have 0 business with or even better: Only mute pings when someone uses them in a toxic way. Especially frustrating as a Jungler when you ping enemy ganks 15 seconds before they happen and nobody reacts at all, because they got pings muted. :D
He probably could have made this a bit clearer, but typing /mute all mutes both pings and chat, so then typing /mutuall pings directly afterwards it toggles the pings back on while still allowing you a chat free experience. It definitely could have been clearer though that this is ENABLING pings rather than disabling them
I'm stuck at step 1 because of my inability to cope with the concept of projail. To be clear, I'm not talking about a 54% wr champion being nerfed so that he's now 51%; I mean riot deciding for often arbitrary reasons to nerf a champion so much it feels like utter misery to play because of proplay. After thinking about it, for me it's less about the number (the average winrate) and more about the reasons why they do it, since I don't consider them sound. "Not exciting enough" is not a good reason, for me, to keep a champion intentionally weak. It's not my fault riot makes mistakes in champ design: it's on them to fix it. Maybe I'm delusional. I struggle with the flaming, the insults, but above all the rage troll picks in revenge for my perceived "troll pick" (e.g. Seraphine APC, Smolder usw). After that for context, basically I let it get to me and it ruined my relationship with the game. I love a lot of projailed, not-fun-to-watch champions. No, I don't succeed at them. What should I do? I can't make myself play certain champions, I dislike them too much, but I also don't want to hinder myself. I don't want to play perma-projailed champions, but I understand that the game changes constantly. "Play what you want" doesn't work, for me. I need to find a balance. I'm currently taking a break and skipping a split because of what I've said, but I want to come back with a clear idea of what I should play. Xcept, yeah, whole lane is in projail. Sometimes it's so miserable I wonder if I should swap to mid, your videos are that inspiring and they make it look so fun (whenever I tried mid, I either won lane and then lost game or fed like a free-for-all buffet)... Should I laneswap? Should I grit my teeth through the pain? pick from a pool of low/mild projail only, and then choose the one that I like the most.. or where I perform best? I don't have a single champ that I like and on which I perform well except for Sera and, ironically, Yuumi... but I don't like to play support, ffs. I'm going nuts.
You should acknowledge the game is hard, get over your desire to play projail champs and just pick something simple. League is bloody hard, spend your time learning the game not learning projail champs that make your journey harder.
@@fivefourtwo4498 Yeah... you're right. I had MF as a simple pick I could take, but she's in pro and is eating more nerfs if I know anything about riot. As is Ashe. I identified Twitch and Kog as 2 champs pros don't pick. Would they be suitable? My favourite picks if I can't have Smolder are Kai'sa and Nilah. Both are not simple, they can get pro'ed and I don't dare commit, although I like them very much. Going down the list and skipping Jhin (can't stand him), I'm left with Jinx, basically. So I do that or take Lux mid and start over, grinding normals until I can use her at a human level? Playing support breaks me, too toxic
Masters peaker here, it's more important you play what you're good at and improving at than whether or not the champion is "projailed" I think the big thing Curtis was trying to say is you'll get people whining about low wrs and not being able to climb. You look at their opgg and they have like a 70% wr over 30 games on one champ, then like a 47% over 90 games on another. So why TF are they playing the one they're so shit at? You're actually artificially making it feel even harder, because your MMR is averaging the skill on the two champs, it's compensating for when you pick the skilled one. So when you play the one you're bad at games feel even more impossibly
As a top laner who enjoys top lane champions like Garen I am wondering if there could be a place for me in mid lane, as it's the lane I struggle with the most besides ADC (although my solution there is to play Swain, since kiting and positioning is not as important).
Hi, ty for the great work On observing how high elo players trade in lane, im facing a problem : on certain timings people dont trade at all. One of the players knows that he will lose the trade in this matchup and just gives up cs and control. I can recognize that, but it does not tell me how to properly punish people in my own games when they dont respect this timing, what would have been the good trading pattern.
In Brazil at least the players after 2 am are terrible, if you're trying to get better you'll want to play during the day where you'll find less trolls and sleep deprived weirdos.
Little caveat for the champ pool discussion. Say i have a yasuo witha 60% winrate in 20 games but i prefer to play my Qiyana with a 53% winrate in the same 20 games. Won't improving Qiyana's winrate relative to Yasuo's just make me a better player even if it will take me longer?
coach my problem is ; im a two trick vlad/kassadin but my champs really sucks in this meta and especially the next split, and i can't predict what will my new 2 champions be by the time the new split comes online!! can u do a meta prediction video or some champ recommendations? im thinking that it should be battle mages/anti tanks meta love your videos and really appreciate the efforts ^^ im considering to buy ur mid lane academy course.
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"Compliment your enemies."
This is an absolute cheat code to improve your mental.
what good will that do for your gameplay?
@@D0nci if you need to ask then you already have the most solid mental in the world and this couldnt help you or on the other hand your to far gone in the pits of delusion that its a waste of time to help you with the answer..
@@codyschott6083 you could answer him without texting this much ;*
@@D0nci helps you realize and accept that sometimes, the other guy just played really good.
@@D0nciif your mental is solid you play better thats a given fact
Got Diamond this split. Masters to Diamond went hard 🥵
XD
Lmao
you had us in the first half
Why?
This split you're not alone in the reverse climbs xD
timestamps for the people:
0:00 Intro
0:12 Champion Pool
4:31 Repetitions
5:45 /Mute All
7:41 Coaching
7:51 Using Emotions
9:16 When to Dodge
10:51 Understanding the Meta
13:13 Learn from OTPs
16:35 Trading
20:16 Threat assessment
24:48 Letting Teammates make bad plays
27:51 Communicating Intent
29:24 Role in the Comp
30:32 Solving 1000 Puzzles
32:30 The Ranked System
34:00 Making Peace
36:22 Toxic friends
37:46 Be Kind to Yourself
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"letting people die"... so many times I died because I rushed to a fight to help, knowing that I will die but hoping maybe with luck will win
As a support, this is hard to remember.
Really loving the recent content. Your channel hast always been gold but this is next level.
Elaborate, concise, no bs. You are a hero for making this accessible for free.
Unironically, with fhe advice about learning from top players with certain champs, "faking it until you make it," is genuine advice. You'll make the connection for *why* they do it after you mimic it
hit diamond for the first time on euw this split. mostly thanks to onetricking and actively listening to you and Nathan's podcast :) thanks u curtis rly one of the few coaches that has a different level of approach to improvement in league.
Bronze 4 player here that managed to dip all the way into Iron 4. Peaked at bronze 1 and have slipped back to 4. Have been dreading the game lately but have kept playing but seeing this video has been refreshing beyond belief. Your videos are amazing and this one is no exception. Thank you for this, you have given me the breath of fresh air and tips I needed to self-reflect to improve on my game. Here's to this next split! 💪
What role do you play?
Best of luck in your future games! You got this!
@@jacobjensen1380 top lane. Started out in the jungle as I was a jungle casual for years. Decided to move top about 8 months ago.
@@Toesty5 thank you!!
There ya go. I was kind of in the same boat last about 2 seasons ago where I was just hard stuck iron/bronze but then I just decided to stick to one role and a few champs and I was able to hit plat and I almost hit emerald before the season split a few weeks ago
I want to thank u coach about ur contant, I owe it to u ❤
Yesterday was my first time climbing to Gold since I started playing the game in s12, and I believe your contant is a big part of it as u helped me understand and accept how hard this game can be.
So thank you coach Curtis, and keep the amazing work ❤❤❤
1:03 Curtis I'm actually with the strawman on this one. In my own experience I had this exact situation about 2 years ago when I first got coaching on support. My coach said "Lulu is clearly your best champion, so just stick with that" so I did. I got to diamond, yeah, but at the end of the climb I was so chewed out and dead inside I damn near quit the game and resorted to a desperate last ditch role swap to keep me interested (which plummeted my skill level down to gold but it worked).
Manage expectations, sure, but fun is always #1 by a country mile. If someone's bored they won't have the focus to get into the details and review. People aren't robots. They THINk they want to climb by any means necessary until they actually have to do it and by day 5 they're checked out.
Exactly. Either you focus on getting better and playing your best - it`s exhausting, it need work, study, focus, additional time.
Or you play for fun. Then, please, dont join ranked. Normal games have same variety of players and you will get most of fun there.
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think of all the work boxesr who make make to get into high league (sorry, not familiar with box terminology, trying to make a real-world analogy). How many hours one should play and/or study to get 2000+ points in chess. Yes, sometimes there will be some young prodigy - random dna may give some advantage here - but most of the time it is A LOT of hard work.
Agreed, we see this in lots of other things too. it's really hard to feel actually motivated and not just completely mentally drained to actually get into the weeds and want to study these things if we cant even gain some amount of joy out of it ... this may sound stupid but really think about this: it's difficult to study, if i dont WANT to study. but if you're passionate and interested in learning something and ENJOY it. then it's a lot easier to learn right? and also makes it so you dont just quit after day 5.
how many people would be healthier if going to the gym was fun? the reason it's impressive is because it's not fun, and therefore difficult and the vast majority of people end up quitting before they even get to the part where they're seeing results
@@БарриЛомов You can play to win and have fun at the same time. They aren't mutually exclusive. We're talking about getting to diamond not getting a Worlds trophy. Of course the top of the top have to do all the boring shit that gives them tiny advantages, but with getting to diamond it's not a question of IF you can do it, but just how long it will take you.
I got a question for you! - Did you find any fun getting into higher ranks? - I know i find the most fun playing shaco support - but i know i can gewt so many more wins playing seraphine or top mundo...
i am not sure how long that will be fun for me though.. what is your take on how to grow but still have fun?
He clearly says that if you really wanna play this other champ know that your climb will be slower since youre not getting as much lp playing that, its totally fine doing so if thats what you want and is fine with the downsides to it, but be aware that the journey will be longer
I love seeing more ppl encourage /mute all. I went from bronze to gold fast when I muted and unlocked cam
on what role or roles?
any role@@wolvewick4414
@@wolvewick4414any role that can make immediate impact at any time in the game. If you’re trying to get out of low elo, stay out of supp role and possibly adc. JG mid and Top can make the most immediate impact in low elo and you need to be in control of that
You can climb easily by playing support properly. Supports influence the game greatly now. I would agree to stay away from adc.
@@0x7000 Top lane also just very volatile in 90% of games, I love top's laning phase
I managed to climb from Gold to Diamond in 2 month by playing only Yorick (sometimes Sion) and watching AloisNL, I never played him before so everything possible with just the right mindset and focusing on your improving instead of looking at LP
one of the best you've put out in a while but alot of your solo content has been on point lately man
I am a jungle player but love to watch these videos. They're applicable to every role with a little imagination.
Letting people die is a jungler's greatest skill. If I can get my camps and go for high % plays, I know that I will be ahead, and in a position to carry.
i got 70% wr to master playing only one champ so i can say for sure one tricking really works
So, as a person who formerly one tricked, left the game for over a year, and came back with the determination to add champs to my pool, I can also confirm that one tricking is 100% better for climbing.
I formerly one tricked Vayne. Came back, she sucks, had to expand my pool. Started playing Jhin, Cait, Ashe, and MF. Win rates were fairly even, all around 54-56%, and sadly the 11 games I have on Vayne resulted in 36% wr.
I started to hard focus on Caitlyn, since she is more capable in the current meta. Caitlyn wr went from like 54% to 64% in about a week. Still climbing.
One tricking works, especially if you have good macro knowledge.
@@AWeakPrinnycongrats on that win rate its pretty good, i started maining adc this season after being a top laner from s4-s10 while also taking a hiatus from s10 until now, i ranked and placed bronze 3, yesterday i got gold 4 with 60% win rate cait and kai’sa
@@fxde4710 I need to pick up Kai'sa. She seems to be the pick of the season.
Hey man if u love vayne I can recommend this build for you, I am emerald with 67% wr on vayne in 52 games, I always build kraken slayer into rageblade and play very aggresive around boots rush power spike, this build helps u end the game super fast if u can get a lead early
@@omardan I will have to give this a couple tries. Do you play her top or bottom?
Managing expectations is a very core thing for many, many players. I myself have chosen to prioritise fun by switching to what I think is the most fun champ in the game, namely Lee Sin. But obviously I am going to struggle more to climb on Lee Sin than I would on my own mains, Zac and Taliyah.
My goal is to reach diamond *eventually*. It doesn't have to be this year, or the next. My elo range on the other champs are mid emerald to mid plat. For Lee Sin, it's high to low plat. But I am here for the long con. At one point the elo ranges will even out, and eventually my Lee Sin will be able to overtake the other two.
I think there are lots of players who try to do this, but who can't stay committed to a champ, because they haven't found 'the one' - if anyone reading this can relate to that, my advice to you is simple: commit.
Commit to a champ pool for the season. Stick with it. And see what it brings you. Regardless of the pick, aim for 90% playrate on your main champs. *Have* main champs.
Oh no, not the aurora rabbit hole...
god dammit
id love to go deep down aurora's rabbit hole
@@me4za BONK horny jail
@@me4za she just some squibbly lines on a screen.
Aurora's rabbit hole is built for big orange carrots 🥕
No words for how important this video is. Thank you. A lot of gems for life in here too. Peace
I am silver 4 currently, going to try this advice in my games in the future. Love the last point since I always feel that I am bad at the game. Thanks for making this video, continue to drop banger advice!
How have things gone?
@Kisuzume Now I am Plat 3, the advice really helped my mentality when playing the game
@@arkiddo2740 hell yeah brother
youre doing gods work brother like you can tell youre all about information and no bs
Thank you dude, the reality of ranking in lol in just a piece of advice from a friend. That’s how I take this video and it feels good. Again thanks!
dang this is soooooooo good, every bit of it is helpful man
The last point is so important. I taught myself after many years until I’m a grown ass man. When games become hard inevitably as I climb, it’s not that my teammates are shitty, it’s my opponents that are better at stopping me from carrying games. Once I do that, I don’t stress out that much and I see the bigger picture a lot better. What I was doing isn’t working any more because my opponents are better now. So I need to learn, rather than being desperate and frustrated and confused. Then a whole world opens up and I get to learn not only from my own play, but also taking my opponents into consideration and that helped me so much. (Thats why I hate those tutorials where they say: make these plays and you will win. I’ll be like: No! What if your opponent does THAT instead?)
If want to mute every time, just change your chat settings to 'Party Only'.
You will see pings but not chat, and you won't have to remember to type at the start of each match. Same result for less effort.
I think the difference is that party only chat doesn’t allow you to type “give drag” to your team in chat since you’re in party chat. Mute all allows you to remain in team chat but just not see others messages, so you can still type to your team, but not see their messages.
@@strengthinnumbers9092 But then if everyone fallows the rule, who are you typing to?
@@Tnargavnot every person who has ever played league is watching this video
@@repriat6846 But it's not just this video. I see this being offered as a "solution" everywhere.
@@Tnargav so few people will ever do it that it doesn't matter, think about how many people ignore common, good advice IRL
Great video man. Probably the best how to climb video i have seen.
youtube just recommended me this video, i am emerald III rn, feeling hopefull i will get diamond in this last week before the season ends :)
Amazing, you are so clear and deep in explanation! Ty, this video is gold! 😉💪✨
Really great video, I found this super easy to consume.
A thought: when I decide not to join a fight I don't feel guilt. I feel anxious that my team will throw. That if I'm not there to help they will lose the game, and my additional resources won't matter when my team is down numbers on the map
thanks for being always so transparent and helpful
Hey coach curtis im a toplaners and love how a lot of thr stuff you said also applies to us. Also the advice about learning based on specific ability usage is genius dunno why i did it irl but not in league. I couldn't pass my drivers exam because of the mixed questions so i did them by similar sections and that way i could learn more effectively
Fantastic video. Everyone under Diamond needs to watch this.
i absolutely have to agree with the mute all stuff, if youre playing in bronze or something, legit fullmute except your junglers pings, and once they do a crap ping, just get ridda them too. once u get a bit higher maybe unmute your mids pings too.
You know the mindset tips are good when they apply to actual life
What he’s saying about champs is 100% correct. When I first started playing in s4 I found riven and I loved the champ so much I mained her. I went from
B4 in s4 to gold in s5 then plat then d4 then was stuck at d2-1 s8+ until I broke master but I could of gotten to diamond faster if I didn’t struggle with her but now I’m happy I did since that’s my bread and butter. Then I went into boosting
About copying abilities:
Velkoz OTP Azzapp had a roaming build for the champ that worked kind of like a Bard.
I use Velkoz as a 2nd champ, so I couldnt copy it very well, given my lower sample size and not willing to dedicate the time to understand how to fundamentally change my use of the champion like that, even if it was (i genuinely believed it was, given I consider him the best velkoz player) the best way to play the champ to climb.
Which means, I couldn't use his ability usage as a "macro" reference in the season he played like that (I still watched older videos of him to understand about the champ)
You should blindly copy it, but after a few games use the hindsight to check if it makes sense for you, and adapt.
I would love to see a video like this from diamond to master. I'm struggling so much in high dia for 2 seasons but never get to master
Thank you so much for this video, I will definitely bookmark it and rewatch it every once in a while
I really want to learn Irelia but cant find any good active streamers playing the champion (and on RUclips most of the videos are just highlights or montages) do you have any recommendations for who to watch to learn from?
Can you do a video on climbing from Diamond to Master?
Sure can!
@@CoachCurtis Thank you! ❤️🙏
There's this replay app you can use that lets you review your deaths, or the past minute.
While you're dead, you can do a mini review on what you could've done, or what you shouldn't have done.
I've used it in most of my games, and there was this one matchup I hated that I was able to dissect while I was in gray, and won that very game!
Hope this helps!
What is it called?
Great video i jelqed 10/10 session
I used to compliment my enemy back in the days, when they played rly good, especially in some high intense matchups like Zed vs Fizz and it was rly fun and close, but I stopped bcs at least in my games 9/10 enemys would just write "easy, u are so trash, get better noob" etc, really sad...
I have been peak s1 since season 9. It’s a bit depressing, but in my defence I’ve usually played less than 200 ranked games a year. Trying to focus up and approach with a learning mindset and not think about wins or losses at all. Hopefully I can make gold at some point 😂
Very good Video thanks mate
to add onto the mute all, i auto mute first 10-15 mins then unmute , it can be sometimes nice to type out strategy at 25-35 mins
The importance of small chanp pool is indespitible. The one counter I'll offer to this, is win rates do not report on the elo you were in when winning. So below your natural elo it is easy to get high w/r on anything you are passibly conpetent on.. but 70% w/r on a champ in bronze games does not mean that is your ticket to masters. Make sure you are looking at chanp w/r in your current peak elo.
Rather than /mute all, perhaps suggest that you set your settings to premade team only, that way you can still see pings. I've found that to be one of the best settings.
Be honest Curtis, do believe in "never ff" and "always a way to improve" if you get some afks or trolls? Or are these types of games a guaranteed lose and how do you review them?
for /mute all u can also go into the settings and set chat to [Party] that way u can only see messages from ppl u invited to ur game
Playing to win -> 🚩
Playing to do well -> 💚
mute ping is probably best thing to do,i die for my team ping because i get stuck between what i want to do and what they want to do
My top 1 tip would be to buy a second account.
My second tip is to take time off from league. 1 or 2 months will make a big diference in your mentality and understanding of the game.
Just these 2 took me from silver 4 to platinum.
My Champ pool is I would say 3. I play Teemo, Wukong and Fizz relatively well for a low-elo player. Where I fall off is that I think I can win lane/jungle quite often or at the very least go even. What I have is that after the early game, the map opens up and I do not use my advantage effectively. My impact on the team and the map is too little for the advantage I get. I sometimes team up, start roaming or am indecisive with my lead.
too diferent playstiles on the 3 champs bro, could be very difficult to climb that way
@@francispaniagua4228yeah, but I really like those 3. My best is teemo, I dont know which one come close to that? I usually play top or jungle, and an AP mage top or jungle I dont see next to Teemo. Any recommendations? I used to main Wukong, and then Jax and Renekton nezt to him. But I found bruisers underwhelming and no fun. Then I picked up teemo and loved him. I played fizz a lot because for some reason, he just clicked with me. I have my highest win rate with him. He feels natural.
@@francispaniagua4228 which champs would you recommend then?
Play teemo wukong top bro, good champs, low ban/pick rate, ap/ad, you will climb fast
i dont play league anymore but like your cognition
How would you recommend someone to find the OP pick of the patch? LoLalytics?
Someone help me out here on winrate.
Honest question. What's the expected number of games to play before winrate is a true showing of you playing that character in ranked? If I were to pick say 3 good champs to try out to decide which to main hownmany games are we looking at here per character?
10? 20? 50? 100?
Thoughts?
I was pure hard struck bronze last split with over 1000 games playing every role and nearly every champion, towards the second half of the split I tried to narrow my champ pool and decided to be a Yasuo OTP😂. This split I decided to play a more simple champ and see how much it really would affect me. I’m currently at 57% WR this season in Gold and rocking a 72% WR Malphite with 53 games played. And the climbing is still occurring fast and easy. This video really hit hard for me and making me stay strict with just spamming malphite as I have a good win rate with him and if I seriously want to climb I need to actually play who I’m winning with.
Very good Video!
So... I have 30% higher winrate on red side. Do I just dodge every blue side game from now?
Outstanding!!!!!!
38:40 I would say "laugh with yourself" is a good way of characterising this point. Don't laugh at yourself as if you're putting yourself down, but laugh with yourself as if you were your own friend
A Diamond to Challenger (or even just GM) guide similar to this would be great. Though I understand it’s a lot less lucrative on RUclips.
you actually dont have to /muteall every game now, you can just disable the chat in settings while you play ranked so you dont have to keep doing it. this keeps pings too
Instead of using 2 commands for muting you can also use /fullmute all, but yea I'd recommend keeping pings on until someone spam pings
I’m different, I’ll turn off pings first and keep chat
junglers spamming you to help drag when you have a wave crashing is why I mute pings
I have a non league anecdote that can very easily be applied to the making sure to mute all thing. I was working as a waitress for about 5 months like 5-6 years ago and I've always been really sensitive to people just being mean(MOBAs actually are what helpped me build a little bit thicker skin in that regard) but I had an older couple I was waiting on when I was given a 13 top, large famly with lots of kids. I determined after taking the large table's drink orders that they were a table I could joke around with while I knew the older couple wasn't so I joked around with the large table and kept it strictly professional with the older couple. I guess they didn't like something about that because they complained to my manager that I was "rude and awful" and I was curious about what they complained about because she wouldn't tell me what they said, she literally told me she knew I would dwell on it for the rest of my shift but I pushed her into telling me and guess what? I dwelled on it for the rest of my shift, and several days afterwards. >.
6:21 holy shit i love you for this. i always mute all. and then individually unmute all the pings. and its sooooo annoying. so thank you so much. ( best tip ever ) i wish league would just make a setting for this though.
i dont know if you know already by now but you can go into the settings either in the client or in game, go into “interface” tab, and scroll down to the chat option and select “party / premade chat only” instead of “everyone / all chat” (idk the exact wording but you get the gist). it will stay like that every single game from then on and you can change it any time you want!! it mutes team and all chat but keeps pings (and emotes) visible still, hope this helps :D
Ok I’ve been struggling for nearly a decade trying to understand the answer to this question… maybe coach curtis can help.
Im a mid player. I love Anivia, by far my most games played. I also love hwei, Aurelio sol, viktor, and other mages. I’ve tried many times to climb with them, I get stuck in silver. Sometimes I might get a solo kill, I rarely get solo killed, but I don’t steamroll early game super hard. 1, maybe 2 kills in the early game every few games, but most games are even, and I am not dominating scuttle fights/roaming and pushing my lead elsewhere). I’m usually just farming up the best cs I can in mid lane, poking enemy mid down but not killing. Then when late game team fights start, I can use inherent scaling of my character to crush team fights.
Why am I stuck in silver on these mages? There obviously could be a blind spot that I’m not seeing, but in my mind it usually seems like it’s because I’m not crushing my laner, and I’m not influencing other lanes/jg fights. When I play against assassins, they have the tools to skirmish, and there’s a psychological thing that happens where most people just stop trying to win the game as hard when an enemy gets ahead, so they are WAY more likely to surrender early before my mage can slowly scale. I NEVER surrender, and it’s frustrating the amount of surrenders I go through which I was a little ahead, my team is all super behind, and the enemy (especially mid) is super ahead. This has gotten me to struggle to understand how people can climb as mages at all?? And I want to also be clear: when I’m climbing, I’m spamming a single mage, for a prolonged time (years at a time). Like I was spamming Anivia for years, and I’m stuck in silver.
Before you answer, last year I started maining assassins. I played fizz and Akshan, secondary role was Akshan top. Over the course of a year, I got to emerald!! It was literally as I though: I am able to solo kill my lane opponent almost every game multiple times, absolutely crush skirmishes where jg is involved, spam ganks on bot lane, and enemy usually surrenders. I had nearly a 65-70% win rate with fizz at some point, then I swapped to Akshan and kept nearly the same win rate…
Then after I climbed with these assassins, I had some real life stuff happen for a few ranked splits in a row, and now I’m back in ranked, and I’m thinking “hey, maybe from everything I learned getting to emerald on assassins, I can use that knowledge to finally climb with mages!”
So I do placements and have been playing ranked a lot as mages only (like 70 games so far) and I’ve sunk down to gold 4 (on the cusp of silver). I’m experiencing all those issues with mages I talked previous, and I have to ask: do people actually climb with mages? Would a masters/gm smurf consistently win games in gold as Anivia or hwei?? Or are those mages just good at high elo where the chaos doesn’t happen like it does in low elo???
I have seen some videos of people “smurfing” mage gameplay where they are playing on a relatively new account, but the LP gains they get are so high for these new accounts that they never really are truly climbing like the way I would.
I want to see a masters Anivia player take a hardstuck silver account like mine was (7 lp per win/loss) and climb THAT account to high elo. I don’t think it’s possible, but I want to hear coach Curtis’ take on this!!
cooking with this one
About the champion pool thingy, my issue is that even if I had Champs with consistently 55+% winrates, I get tired of playing the same champs over and over very quickly...
Great video though!
well, I wanna get Diamond+ with one tricking Riven. first season I had a 30% winrate in bronze (dropped from like bronze 1 to bronze 4). next season i had a 65% winrate and climbed to gold. next season i had a 40% winrate and dropped to silver. next season i had a 30% winrate and dropped to silver 4. next season i had a 50% winrate and stayed silver. this season i have a 65% winrate and climbed to gold. help?
on top of it, i can freelo mundo to plat+ i'm very sure with WAY less mastery.
/mute all only gets rid of chat and also pings now, you dont need to do the second command. my games were always pitch quiet.
I think the last step goes hand to hand with the /mute all tip. Mute everyone, laugh at your misplays, it's ok because everyone makes misplays, but most of league players with shit on you because of your mistakes and that can destroy your mental.
I approach this the opposite way I should say. I play my champs and see how far I can get. It's difficult to say what rank one should have these days as it's account wide not specific champ wide. I peaked silver so far but I have beaten people on my lanes - bot/top - who had their previous seasons shown up to emerald etc as they weren't playing on their main champ. I would say rank per champ would make the game more clear as to who is where at the rank spectrum.
3:42 hit me. I know what I want to be known for but I don't know if I have the strength to do it.
Great video
You can just turn chat off in the settings while having pings on still
I'm a bit confused, when you say stop your reviews at the 5 min mark.. does that mean you only watch each replay for 5 mins? Or 5 mins for each emotional moment you review?
he means spending no more than 5 total minutes in the review, not necessarily stopping at the 5 minute mark into the game. his wording on the topic in this video is slightly confusing, but based on what he's said on the BBC podcast, he means 5 minutes per review.
Two games away from diamond, hope tips help
11:20 ban Brand (sup), every time he is in the game its a nightmare. my brand int, enemy brand carry with most damage (same but a little less: Viego jgl). i really think this helped me much more than other vids with the same theme. 36:30 YES, they are weaker and will leave you anyways (its my experience, 3 times already, toxic people are the first who deinstall league). i have a question: does the 2 champs who i play need to be ad and ap? or can it be like belveth viego?
/mutepings all ! wow thank you so much for that ! XD
muteing chat works wonders for performance people just lie and say Bullshit stuff most of the time and its rare for them to actually say someting worth value , also i find it funny how most people ping for no reason most of the time makes me laugh .
my target was silver and i made it but then i dropped to b4 like the last time when i almost climbed to silver . I dont get this fluctuations in this game.
I think the biggest challenge I have with accepting my rank and LP gain/loss. I've reached peace before, and I naturally improved by a few divisions as a result. Because I improved, I suddenly started caring about LP again, I didn't want to fall back down (and eventually did).
Any advice for getting past this mental roadblock?
I'm Iron 1 34LP and I'm just trying to get better game by game :)
/mute all is OP. Although I personally prefer having chat disabled and trying to use the objective calls, and pings. Also sometimes even the pre-lobby is gonna tilt you. Happened to me at least once recently. That or it was the bot laner taking smite, playing Gragas and coming top to steal all my last hits in top lane.
Jokes on them though as we won that game because the Jungler carried hard.
its very wholesome that you do so much lower elo content.
as support main, the majority of my WR on my champions has come from picking the right utility for the game. but when i have low damage teams then the utility doesn't seem to matter. not sure how to fix this
Brand and lux i guess. Gotta put team on back and press r
@fryday1036 both supports and adcs that play in the bot lane face this same issue... which is why damage supports will almost always out-perform utility supports in terms of climbing capability. Your agency is more determined by the competency and roles/composition of your teammates as a support player, and your early and mid game agency as a marksman in bot lane is almost entirely decided by the competency of your support. If during lane phase your duo is not performing, then your agency capability will be affected by that both in the lane and after, since you likely won't have as many opportunities to roam and won't have as much gold as you'd like. Bot lane as a whole is really the worst place to be in for attempting to solo carry during ranked matches, by a long shot. As an adc in the bot lane, if your support isn't up to snuff, you're going to effectively be useless for the majority of the match because of how dependent on levels and items you are, which both will be delayed significantly if you have to effectively 2v1 the lane while getting your exp soaked by a bot.
Quick Question about dodging: Szenario, I've dodged a game and my next game I get autofilled again and my Toplane locks in Yuumi. Clearly, I'd dodge again, but is the second and third dodge worth it? I find myself in lobbies regularly where people troll their picks, already get toxic during champ select or the draft is clearly awful (like no cc into 3 enemy assassins etc), is dodging, waiting and losing LP through multiple dodges worth it in the long run? I'm currently Dia4 and I really want to hit Master and I believe I can do it, but I sincerely believe that those regularly occuring bad lobbies are holding me hostage in between Emerald and Dia. Every third lobby of mine features some level of unbearing toxicity or a sh*t af draft which I'd LOVE to dodge but I'm just so afraid of getting banned, giving away too much LP from dodging and also this looming threat of "will the next lobby be better or will that also result in a dodge by me?"
if your toplaner locks yuumi, that’s 100% a dodge. just wait it out til the last second and maybe someone else will dodge. it’s better to take the small lp hit from dodging than to take an almost guaranteed -23
I find it a bit ironical to do /mutepings all and afterwards say how important pings are for communication. If everyone does it, there will be only communication with yourself. It's good advice for the chat, but shitty advice for the pings if you ask me, Curtis.
A better practice would be to mute pings of lanes u have 0 business with or even better: Only mute pings when someone uses them in a toxic way.
Especially frustrating as a Jungler when you ping enemy ganks 15 seconds before they happen and nobody reacts at all, because they got pings muted. :D
He probably could have made this a bit clearer, but typing /mute all mutes both pings and chat, so then typing /mutuall pings directly afterwards it toggles the pings back on while still allowing you a chat free experience. It definitely could have been clearer though that this is ENABLING pings rather than disabling them
I'm stuck at step 1 because of my inability to cope with the concept of projail. To be clear, I'm not talking about a 54% wr champion being nerfed so that he's now 51%; I mean riot deciding for often arbitrary reasons to nerf a champion so much it feels like utter misery to play because of proplay. After thinking about it, for me it's less about the number (the average winrate) and more about the reasons why they do it, since I don't consider them sound. "Not exciting enough" is not a good reason, for me, to keep a champion intentionally weak. It's not my fault riot makes mistakes in champ design: it's on them to fix it. Maybe I'm delusional. I struggle with the flaming, the insults, but above all the rage troll picks in revenge for my perceived "troll pick" (e.g. Seraphine APC, Smolder usw).
After that for context, basically I let it get to me and it ruined my relationship with the game. I love a lot of projailed, not-fun-to-watch champions. No, I don't succeed at them. What should I do? I can't make myself play certain champions, I dislike them too much, but I also don't want to hinder myself. I don't want to play perma-projailed champions, but I understand that the game changes constantly. "Play what you want" doesn't work, for me. I need to find a balance. I'm currently taking a break and skipping a split because of what I've said, but I want to come back with a clear idea of what I should play. Xcept, yeah, whole lane is in projail. Sometimes it's so miserable I wonder if I should swap to mid, your videos are that inspiring and they make it look so fun (whenever I tried mid, I either won lane and then lost game or fed like a free-for-all buffet)... Should I laneswap? Should I grit my teeth through the pain? pick from a pool of low/mild projail only, and then choose the one that I like the most.. or where I perform best? I don't have a single champ that I like and on which I perform well except for Sera and, ironically, Yuumi... but I don't like to play support, ffs. I'm going nuts.
You should acknowledge the game is hard, get over your desire to play projail champs and just pick something simple. League is bloody hard, spend your time learning the game not learning projail champs that make your journey harder.
@@fivefourtwo4498 Yeah... you're right. I had MF as a simple pick I could take, but she's in pro and is eating more nerfs if I know anything about riot. As is Ashe. I identified Twitch and Kog as 2 champs pros don't pick. Would they be suitable? My favourite picks if I can't have Smolder are Kai'sa and Nilah. Both are not simple, they can get pro'ed and I don't dare commit, although I like them very much. Going down the list and skipping Jhin (can't stand him), I'm left with Jinx, basically. So I do that or take Lux mid and start over, grinding normals until I can use her at a human level? Playing support breaks me, too toxic
Masters peaker here, it's more important you play what you're good at and improving at than whether or not the champion is "projailed" I think the big thing Curtis was trying to say is you'll get people whining about low wrs and not being able to climb. You look at their opgg and they have like a 70% wr over 30 games on one champ, then like a 47% over 90 games on another. So why TF are they playing the one they're so shit at?
You're actually artificially making it feel even harder, because your MMR is averaging the skill on the two champs, it's compensating for when you pick the skilled one. So when you play the one you're bad at games feel even more impossibly
As a top laner who enjoys top lane champions like Garen I am wondering if there could be a place for me in mid lane, as it's the lane I struggle with the most besides ADC (although my solution there is to play Swain, since kiting and positioning is not as important).
From statistics, garen mid is actually rather strong. But I haven’t tested it myself
@@DarkXehanort I have tested Garen mid, and yeah it's pretty good, particlarly into certain picks, but there's also really bad matches.
I feel like the smolder nerf hit pretty hard. I'm hoping the item changes feel better for all adcs though
Coach Curtis can you do similar video but from Diamond/Master to Challenger?
How do you stop the 4 other players from doing FF when you are in a winning game?
does "own dodging protocol, other boxes to be ticked" include enemy team having dogshit champs like vlad/anivia/kassadin/heimer?
2:25 I see what you did there, coach. :p
Hi, ty for the great work
On observing how high elo players trade in lane, im facing a problem : on certain timings people dont trade at all. One of the players knows that he will lose the trade in this matchup and just gives up cs and control. I can recognize that, but it does not tell me how to properly punish people in my own games when they dont respect this timing, what would have been the good trading pattern.
In Brazil at least the players after 2 am are terrible, if you're trying to get better you'll want to play during the day where you'll find less trolls and sleep deprived weirdos.
after 2 splits of being plat I finally made it to gold guys!
Little caveat for the champ pool discussion. Say i have a yasuo witha 60% winrate in 20 games but i prefer to play my Qiyana with a 53% winrate in the same 20 games. Won't improving Qiyana's winrate relative to Yasuo's just make me a better player even if it will take me longer?
coach my problem is ; im a two trick vlad/kassadin but my champs really sucks in this meta and especially the next split, and i can't predict what will my new 2 champions be by the time the new split comes online!!
can u do a meta prediction video or some champ recommendations?
im thinking that it should be battle mages/anti tanks meta
love your videos and really appreciate the efforts ^^
im considering to buy ur mid lane academy course.