Pants are Dragon said that when you die, it's 99% your fault. I agree with this statement, it means every time you die you did something wrong. You missed a crucial skillshot, kited badly, forgot an active item, overextended... Whatever, it's your fault. That 1% left is Zilean not ulting you because he doesn't like you. Do you agree, Fox?
So I've applied this to my games. I now know that the cause of my deaths is that I overestimate my team mates. Ever since I've started treating them like bots, I've improved greatly.
For me I mute all at the start and if I have to communicate at all I use pings. I am low elo and literally no one has ever said anything in chat worth reading.
Hey guys! I tried to explain some ways to prevent your deaths in League since it's so important. Not really 100% sold on how this vid came out but I hope it helps. Thanks for watching as always
+foxdropLoL - Be a Better League Player Okay, so far my list looks like this: Died at 12:32 because my jungler sucks Died at 14:52 teemo is op Died at 15:35 Oh my god my teammates are worthless Died at 18:45 Took me a whole three minutes to die this time! Oh yeah died from op turrets. Died at 19:56 Ganked bottom lane and my adc/sup didn't do anything. 20:06 Team surrendered 21:52 Temp banned for intentional feeding and unsportsmanlike conduct. So yeah. Thanks a lot.
+foxdropLoL - Be a Better League Player Can we have a video on how to play in Top lane?? I know how to play mid, jg, and bot, but i can never get the hang of top.
you should talk about when good criteria for choosing your death as well. Is it ever worth it to sacrifice yourself if it means ensuring your team's success on any given play? Say you are the assassin and their carry is well protected, but you know you can get them even if it means dying yourself, particularly if your carry would ultimately stay up and clean up the fight. Is that ever a good decision to make?
Feel like this is an appropriate place to place this comment esp. since the video is about dying which is usually tied to risk taking. What do ya'll feel, including Foxdrop if you happen to read this, is an appropriate balance between risk taking and playing safe? I played a game today where I tried to do my best calling dragon, baron, and elder dragon plays as well as realizing we were far behind. We ended up stalling for a 50 minute game after a team fight at baron, we won marched up mid and won the game. I felt like I did really well calling it but I could tell I was also getting on my team's nerves. In the end I realized I lean more towards playing safe. If someone flashes over a wall and i don't have vision I won't follow even if they have 5 health left. If our lane is 0/5 I won't fight unless we have numbers. Hoping ya'll will read this and provide some insight on how you guys balance risks and safety as well as calling shots and how to overcome your own team bringing you down. In most of my games I feel like I'm playing 1 v 9 and it sucks.
+Sean Mold I feel you, but it often comes down to a lot of situational factors so there's no definitive answer. I think it's something that comes down to being able to identify those factors and properly evaluate the situation which is mostly gained through experience. However, Foxdrop made some relevant points such as knowing the limitations and potential of certain champions, as well as whether or not your team can/will follow up... As far as being a safe-leaning player everyone has a slightly different play style, even at the highest levels. Once again it's partly experience plus a little personal preference, but Foxdrop did mention that playing some normals and going "balls to the wall" might help you learn when it's worth to flash that wall and when playing safe is right. Hope I was helpful, excuse the wall of text - edit for readers enjoyment :^)
I'm not often in solo lane (I focus on jungle and support play) I most often try to fight any lvl 1 when I'm playing Braum, who's my main support character. If I'm feeling more aggressive I like to play annie. I'll hide in bushes while the ad carry farms and come out and Q+W+auto+thunderlords every 30 seconds. After 2 or 3 rotations of that I like to try to set up an all in. So, as far as support goes I'm fairly comfortable. My other role that I like is jungling because I see it as a second support. My biggest flaw is being counterjungled and not knowing how to respond or knowing when I can fight whom inside jungle unless I'm playing Vi in which case I'm comfortable enough to fight just about anyone.
+Sean Mold Well as long as you recognise your own strengths and weaknesses you can keep improving! Look out for opportunities to practice with something you struggle against, a video of someone in a similar situation/matchup, or find a streamer who plays similar champions. From that you can figure out what it is you can change about your own game play to compensate for your weaknesses. I've still got a lot to learn and improve myself, but the key to doing that efficiently is informed practice... It'll take time, but we'll be challenjour one day!
I saw huge improvement when I started thinking more about never being to heavy to carry by my team vs having to carry every game. goes hand in hand with not putting your self on a pedestal like you said. not only will you play safer and smarter but i think its a less stressful mind set to play with.
How to die less: -Know your champ -know your enemy champ - ward every chance you get you get a free one -Check your minimap before making a play -no seriously check -if you can't avoid dying and your a jungle/top lane and you start falling behind 0/2 35 cs at 10 min stop building damage you will be worthless build tank and use your cc to help your team.
Well.. actually I think when you fall behind it is useless to build tank... I saw some similar video and some pro player explained there that it is better to build damage because when you are behind you do not have enough golds and you cannot build quite tank which will be able to take some damage and also deal enough damage to build aggro in team fight... it might depend on champion utility but in general it is better to deal some damage and stay in fight for just brief moment than deal no damage at all
Antonin Houdek True but that's more when you are a pro IMO. Building damage is cool but if you are behind you are going to behind in gold so your damage will suck, and since your squishy you can flat out die instant to the Feed enemy.
if it doesn't make sense then you may need more help that he is able to provide. makes perfect sense. just need to put it into your head and think how it applies to you.
Hey Foxdrop, i totally like your vids and they helped me to understand the overall concept of league. I started with playing support first because i wasnt sure yet how to play the other positions. I realized how underappreciated Supports are and that especially some ADC's are hating against their protectors. Obviously that ends up pretty badly at the end. Could you maybe do a guide vid about support, would be awesome! Maybe some more people will play them or in general stop hating and blame their sup. Cheers!
i really like this video. I made it a point back when I was bronze and wanted to start climbing to pick a champion I wanted to main and then I would also learn to a high degree their counter. an example of this would be me maining LeBlanc and at the same time learning Morde pre-rework. if I know his limitations and how he beats me then I can play around that and your hardest counter no longer shits on you because you know how and why they counter you.
I remember someone RUclipsr said "always assume your opponent know what they are doing unless you can prove otherwise" it is the best advice I had ever taken about the game
A while back someone ran some stat analysis on what led to wins/losses/etc. While CS/gold per time weren't worthless, deaths overwhelmingly correlated to wins/losses. Kills weren't nearly as valuable as fewer deaths. I would imagine that this would continue to hold true until you're getting into the way top tiers where deaths are less frequent for everyone on a per game basis in general.
I love most of your videos because your playing and explain your thought process. in these types of videos though although still brilliant, I think it may be a good thing to have a couple snippets playing that you can explain why you did or didn't fight or why you did anything that explains the point you are making. :-) great video though dude.
Hey Fox - I thought the vid was great - a useful summary of some of the top factors in deaths. For videos like this I do suggest you drop a summary bullet point list on screen for a few seconds to recap otherwise you get to the end and ask yourself "what was the third thing again?"
Damn son. I can learn a lot from you. Thank you for making this channel so the others can benefit from wisdoms most seem to forget too easily. Sub inc!
Damn i actually saw ur videos only a few times in the past but man, you do rly informative videos! if i think about these thinks it so clear as an ex Dia player i couldnt get dia again but now im on the road with these tips, deffenetly got a subscriber! :) luv ya :3
the first tip is very true, I find that in rank people go in expecting every enemy to be equal in skill, meanwhile there I am in mid just testing out what kind of player I'm up against first. I remember this one yasou was pretty crazy, but I still got 2/0 over him as anivia because he underestimated me. Then he started to roam and I couldn't really keep up behind him ALL the time, he came back to lane 5/2 lol. we lost because they didnt hear out my warning that he was good cause i had killed him
If i have to make a note of every death it would be somehwat like this: - No leash jungle. - No SS mid lane. - Teammate full hp leaving me in a 1v2. - Sick of it just feeding.
Damnit Foxdrop, now I have an entire 3-ring binder next to my computer desk with the words "I died because my team is shit." written in it 7,294,195 times.
I have a question, relating to this video. When I play League with my friends, and i'm somewhere nearby, whether its escaping, killing an enemy, ect. I always seem to run away, or become a coward, and then they get upset with me, well...'Cause I was a coward. And I want to stop being one. How can I become less-cowardly in these types of situations?
what would you say about sacrificing yourself intentionally in order to make a play? for example, you're malphite at low health and you can engage and die but your team will get like 3 kills. i'm assuming taking that is the better play?
I don't know if this problem only applies to me but I often have a lot of trouble with mobile enemies. I mis most of my skill shots failing to poke them down and I don't want to go to base to many when I am in a pretty bad shape since that will cause the enemy to get farm fed. This usually results in my death. Or it results in my enemy starting to roam. I know a way to improve this is landing my skillshots but so therefore my question is. How do you stop a champion from being so mobile in the early game? For example leblanc and fizz.
+Layla dog well in league there are alot of mobile champs in league you cannot stop them, what you need to do is that you need to predict where they are going, example when zed pops his shadow close to you most likely he will swap places you need to know and read your opponent
+Layla dog Another big key is abusing your opponents cool downs. if a fizz uses his E that escape/mobility is on cool down for a bit, so punish him before its back up. that goes for all trades in league rather mobility is the problem or not. punishing cool downs in my opinion is the best way to bulling a lane.
Ya those r good points but I think that thinking ur opponents are good and ur teammates wont help you or will be out of position is also a good way of dying less.
this is one reason im glad my moba experience started with dota 1 and hon. when you died, not only did you give gold and xp to the enemy but you would lose gold. you lose a lot of games unless you learn to trade/farm/kill/dive without dying.
I also have a tip to not dying and heres the guide 1.Press Escape 2.press the bottom left button next to surrender 3.wait 5 seconds 4.press leave game. You WILL have no deaths after the game! but leaver buster....
Out of curiosity why have Red play Yasuo instead of Zed? I'd figure seeing as his best is Zed he'd want to play that into anything and Yas would be perfect because he knows it inside and out and also is an advantageous match up. I guess it could work either way but just curious.
Interesting video, keep up the good content! On a side note, what if the case in point is that you *are* the worst player on your team? What kind of thing can/should I do to stop hindering my teammates?
I would like to see a Video about when it is appropriate to die. Like, when you initiate a Teamfight, tank all de Damage and you win 5 kills vs 1 kill. Or when you give up your life as Support to safe your ADC.
+Controller Crash that awkward moment when you sacrifice urself and the adc reengages and dies as well... Or you initiate, noone reacts and they just get caught 1 after 1...
I think you should have mentioned risk factors. In early game you don't wanna risk if you have champ that dominates late game, and reverse. As a matter of fact I don't think any champion should take any risk in start of a game. I think this is very important tip.
+Stiriacus Tenebris well if you play like Shaco jungle and you just afk farming that is pretty bad like BIG TIME bad :D ... playing passive and hugging turrets is ok but vs good enemy they will just find a way to kill you cause they will realise you play like a bitchh and aint really fighting back so yeah ...
Well yeah i agree, but I was targeting more risky factors. For instance when you gank you don't really risk much considering it will be 2v1, eventually 2v2 at most of times... The real risk factor would be to turret dive in 15th min or so, to actually risk losing something, at most of the times death. And generally farming is not that risky, you can exchange couple of hits which is totally normal, but having in mind whether its better to actually be aggressive (Tryndamere), or stay and collect that stack that you might lose if you are aggressive (Nasus). So they vary, but generally even with Tryndamere you don't wanna tower dive pre-6 or engage into 1v2 battle. That was my point :D
What if a lot of my deaths happen because my teammate decides to back off during fights, instead of going in? As a jungler, this is very frustrating -- just because I'm coming in doesn't mean you get a free ride. To secure kills I might need some backup.
My higgest problem is I'm greedy. I see that enemy with a sliver of health and I go in, whether they're in a group or under a tower. What ussaly happens is that I either get an assist or nothing at all.
+foxdropLoL - Be a Better League Player Hey man, you did a great job of explaining as always! Like you say it's a very broad subject, but you covered it as well as can be done. It's people like you and +Phylol who keep me motivated to persevere in this game; you both help me self-reflect, concentrate on my own performance rather than my team's, and I'm improving with every video! For once I actually enjoy studying something?! :^) You have no idea how valuable your experience and insights are to someone who's new or struggling in this game, and I look forward to many more lessons with Foxy! P.S. I make gaming notes on Post-Its too, especially of this video - I'm a dirty feeding nerd like senpai 8^)
"Deaths are caused because you underestimated someone in some way" Explains my 0/9 kogmaw quadra yesterday, everyone just ignored me cos I fed in lane, then I melted the entire team and ended up pushing to win :D
Got my 2 S ratings for my Mastery 6 on Lee the very first two games I played,for the simple fact that because in the back of my mind I knew I wanted to get an S,like that was my objective,not to win,but to kill a lot and never die,I ended up going like 23/3/8,for me it's all about my mentality going in to games,and I think playing for a good rating is a good way to improve coming off of these games.
+Rob La The thing is, as a support imo that changes a lot(and to a lesser degree for junglers). For example, if you can make a play on a lee sin and get their fed carry you dying isn't a negative. I played some games as support and especially as for example thresh, getting a hook and swinging yourself into the enemy team, dying in the process is most of the time not a bad choice if your team is there. After all, I assume the carry I hooked dies because of me. Hell, I've basically suicided into a team as an immobile tank because I knew we were with more people and were stronger but lacked the engage. Again, I died but we cleaned up 4 as a team only losing me.
Londronable Haha exactly man,this is the reason I sometimes want to commit sudoku while playing Lee,because sometimes the shit people expect you to do is suicidal XD like I love those kinds of plays,but I find that they're so risky,and that they rely on my team killing the dude I style on,it can lead to some depressing feeding :') Thresh is really similar yeah,you just gotta build as tanky as you can and divebomb them for a pickoff XD
Just an observation but over the last 6 months or so i have found that the league community if not the gaming community as a whole is becoming extremely more toxic and, well very uninviting. To the point where i no longer play solo que or infact league in general unless im with friends. People are too quick to blame others for their own mistakes and instead of trying to learn just become tilted and it aggrivates me greatly. I loved league but it has become infested by playeers who just seem to be on there to ruin games for everyone. Foxdrop your videos have helped me so much and i would like to say thank you. keep up the great work, and i have found noone better to help me with my plays especially in the jungle :P even if i am still only in silver.
You're only silver and you already have doubts , you're just too sensitive there's a mute button for a reason , there's other people like you but they can deal with the toxicity
You are 100% correct, I just dont understand why people would ruin a perfectly good game. But hey, i still play, enjoy and spend money on the game. Maybe I wll try that mute button :P Might save me reporting many many people xD
How I die less: play Voli jungle and build Spirit Visage and Cinderhulk. 4k health with Voli passive OP But in all seriousness I enjoyed the video and gained some knowledge from it so I think you did well!
sometimes I get tilted by simply missing 2 or 3 farm in a wave. I can understand when the supp have relic shield but when I lose a cannon or the first three melee minions in the start of the game I get a little pissed. it's not serious tilt though and i juste force myself to focus more. also I get angry when I get less than 100 cs at the 15 minute mark, as for me cs is more important than kills unless there is a dragon or baron in the balance (I play in bronze and it's crazy how people forget the dragon is even there).
I Own every Champ in League and play 120 of them on a daily basis. does that mean im good cause i know many champs or does that mean i dont focus on one champ enough? PS: im Gold 1 atm but lookin forward to get plat by next week.
+Yoko Ritona The general argument is that while knowing more champions is good so you understand how to play against them it's still beneficial to focus on a smaller core of characters to play in ranked as a lot of what lets you climb are fundamentals and match up knowledge.
very good and very realistic. honestly, it's probably TOO realistic, everyone wants to believe they are Faker when they aren't even close (including myself). It's too hard for most people to look at their play objectively and also realize they aren't as good as they THINK they are.
+Mark Exconde he is one of the best picks for Top, he got sustain damage, late game carries deal 0 dmg to him and i probably see him every game in Master and try to ban ^^ Gnar is hard to perform, Illaoi is weak, Illaoi < Darius /^^
+Mark Exconde I would say it depends. Lower ranks don't know how to vs an Illaoi, so she generally creams them. Her weakness is she's really easily kited and poked. Gnar is good at kiting and of course is great in team fights if you manage to get your ulti off, though he takes a bit of practice to be good with. Maokai is pretty solid and easy to learn. He tends to lack damage, so he can't hard carry games very well, but if you play with your team when needed it shouldn't matter. Perhaps a simpler way to decide what you want since they are all tanks and great in team fights. Illaoi > for damage, Gnar > for kiting and poke, Maokai > for CC and sustain.
im zed and lee main and when i play zed i got problem playing against champions who have lot of cc and teleport dashing. example: lux, leblanc , lisandra
"I will say this less-than profound thing in the most profound voice: 'You are dying because you are 1) not doing enough of the right thing and 2) you're doing too much of the wrong thing' **bows**"
I have that tendency to try and hard carry games, but in Low Elo you really can't rely too much on your team. Even when you ping and tell them "That's a bait" they continue running and die because 3 people were bush camping. When people don't have even a basic knowledge of the game it becomes problematic to rely on them, also you have as much vision as Lee Sin in lower Elo unless you pick support or jungle.
+Shane Swart ye supports suck in lower divisons :D no gank mid after first b..dont ward ... dont proc item passive for heal...dont know how to trade :D :D its tragic really
BaronskiLoLigra4a That is if they even buy support items. :P Like one of my friends is a Bronze 5 support, builds Zhonya's and Morellonomicon. Enough said right? XD
+MaxChaosGaming Play her. I main LeBlanc and if you don't know her well enough she seems like there's no counterplay but trust me she has huge limitations if someone plays against her correctly. So pick her up and learn what she's about - The most basic tip I can give is if you dodge her W damage in lane then go in on her with your own kit you'll win the trade. Usually. So picking someone with their own mobility is half the battle won!
Tfw when you feed every game and desperately need this vid
+Nujum Key (Hearthstone & Let's Plays) for me it has come to the point I can only play champs with heavy sustain XD
"that means you've underestimated soneone"
gromp :(
+Dude7469 ?I just did a spit take +1 good sir
Dude7469 a
LOL
Pants are Dragon said that when you die, it's 99% your fault. I agree with this statement, it means every time you die you did something wrong. You missed a crucial skillshot, kited badly, forgot an active item, overextended... Whatever, it's your fault. That 1% left is Zilean not ulting you because he doesn't like you. Do you agree, Fox?
Or the trolls, like tahm kench ulting you in enemy fountain or anivia dropping a wall before your face so you're trapped with the enemy team ^_^
That 1% is 5 man fountain dive
Swaghetti Yolognese no you know where tahm is going to Ult before you go in
But anivia is kinda true
stupid zilean
So I've applied this to my games.
I now know that the cause of my deaths is that I overestimate my team mates.
Ever since I've started treating them like bots, I've improved greatly.
GG.
overestimate*
Thanks.
How did you start thinking of them like that, I want to try it but I can't get my head around it.
For me I mute all at the start and if I have to communicate at all I use pings. I am low elo and literally no one has ever said anything in chat worth reading.
Hey guys! I tried to explain some ways to prevent your deaths in League since it's so important. Not really 100% sold on how this vid came out but I hope it helps.
Thanks for watching as always
Nice video, but why do you throw bronze gameplay on the background?
+foxdropLoL - Be a Better League Player Okay, so far my list looks like this:
Died at 12:32 because my jungler sucks
Died at 14:52 teemo is op
Died at 15:35 Oh my god my teammates are worthless
Died at 18:45 Took me a whole three minutes to die this time! Oh yeah died from op turrets.
Died at 19:56 Ganked bottom lane and my adc/sup didn't do anything.
20:06 Team surrendered
21:52 Temp banned for intentional feeding and unsportsmanlike conduct.
So yeah. Thanks a lot.
+foxdropLoL - Be a Better League Player Can we have a video on how to play in Top lane?? I know how to play mid, jg, and bot, but i can never get the hang of top.
you should talk about when good criteria for choosing your death as well. Is it ever worth it to sacrifice yourself if it means ensuring your team's success on any given play? Say you are the assassin and their carry is well protected, but you know you can get them even if it means dying yourself, particularly if your carry would ultimately stay up and clean up the fight. Is that ever a good decision to make?
+Max Patao Have you checked out SoloRenektonOnly, he plays alot of top and goes over a lot of minion management and stuff.
"Death represents failure in league" --> Sion's passive; 'Glory in Death'.
Every time I kill my laner, the reason is "luck".
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take a note every time you died ?... "jungler didn't gank report"
I swear Foxdrops beard/mustache is majestic af
+FML He looks like orlando bloom did as will turner in pirates of the caribbean
Just stay in base and you won't die kappa :^)
+AlyMewGaming Instructions not clear. Fell on bf sword and died.
+Stephanie Saunders Shopkeeper killed me
Stayed in enemy base and i died. Report for scam.
Feel like this is an appropriate place to place this comment esp. since the video is about dying which is usually tied to risk taking.
What do ya'll feel, including Foxdrop if you happen to read this, is an appropriate balance between risk taking and playing safe? I played a game today where I tried to do my best calling dragon, baron, and elder dragon plays as well as realizing we were far behind. We ended up stalling for a 50 minute game after a team fight at baron, we won marched up mid and won the game. I felt like I did really well calling it but I could tell I was also getting on my team's nerves. In the end I realized I lean more towards playing safe. If someone flashes over a wall and i don't have vision I won't follow even if they have 5 health left. If our lane is 0/5 I won't fight unless we have numbers. Hoping ya'll will read this and provide some insight on how you guys balance risks and safety as well as calling shots and how to overcome your own team bringing you down.
In most of my games I feel like I'm playing 1 v 9 and it sucks.
+Sean Mold I feel you, but it often comes down to a lot of situational factors so there's no definitive answer. I think it's something that comes down to being able to identify those factors and properly evaluate the situation which is mostly gained through experience. However, Foxdrop made some relevant points such as knowing the limitations and potential of certain champions, as well as whether or not your team can/will follow up...
As far as being a safe-leaning player everyone has a slightly different play style, even at the highest levels. Once again it's partly experience plus a little personal preference, but Foxdrop did mention that playing some normals and going "balls to the wall" might help you learn when it's worth to flash that wall and when playing safe is right.
Hope I was helpful, excuse the wall of text - edit for readers enjoyment :^)
I'm not often in solo lane (I focus on jungle and support play) I most often try to fight any lvl 1 when I'm playing Braum, who's my main support character. If I'm feeling more aggressive I like to play annie. I'll hide in bushes while the ad carry farms and come out and Q+W+auto+thunderlords every 30 seconds. After 2 or 3 rotations of that I like to try to set up an all in. So, as far as support goes I'm fairly comfortable. My other role that I like is jungling because I see it as a second support. My biggest flaw is being counterjungled and not knowing how to respond or knowing when I can fight whom inside jungle unless I'm playing Vi in which case I'm comfortable enough to fight just about anyone.
+Sean Mold Well as long as you recognise your own strengths and weaknesses you can keep improving! Look out for opportunities to practice with something you struggle against, a video of someone in a similar situation/matchup, or find a streamer who plays similar champions. From that you can figure out what it is you can change about your own game play to compensate for your weaknesses.
I've still got a lot to learn and improve myself, but the key to doing that efficiently is informed practice... It'll take time, but we'll be challenjour one day!
When a friend sends you this something is wrong :(
I saw huge improvement when I started thinking more about never being to heavy to carry by my team vs having to carry every game. goes hand in hand with not putting your self on a pedestal like you said. not only will you play safer and smarter but i think its a less stressful mind set to play with.
Helpful, as always, I had lost 7/10 of my placements before I started watching your videos, won the last 3, biggest part was mentality, thanks man
How to die less:
-Know your champ
-know your enemy champ
- ward every chance you get you get a free one
-Check your minimap before making a play
-no seriously check
-if you can't avoid dying and your a jungle/top lane and you start falling behind 0/2 35 cs at 10 min stop building damage you will be worthless build tank and use your cc to help your team.
+Grim scythes Lmfao im copypasting this, im plat and i still forget about these fundimentals that got me there.
YasuoBanter we all do lol trust me
thx m8
Well.. actually I think when you fall behind it is useless to build tank... I saw some similar video and some pro player explained there that it is better to build damage because when you are behind you do not have enough golds and you cannot build quite tank which will be able to take some damage and also deal enough damage to build aggro in team fight... it might depend on champion utility but in general it is better to deal some damage and stay in fight for just brief moment than deal no damage at all
Antonin Houdek True but that's more when you are a pro IMO.
Building damage is cool but if you are behind you are going to behind in gold so your damage will suck, and since your squishy you can flat out die instant to the Feed enemy.
Foxdrop commenting on how not to die is like Phy commenting on how to get kills.
Makes no sense.
Foxdrop talking about how to die less, is Like me talking about how to get girlfriends
+Azoh Foxdrop mostly teaches me how to die, :^)
+Azoh fok off
if it doesn't make sense then you may need more help that he is able to provide. makes perfect sense. just need to put it into your head and think how it applies to you.
+Azoh That's low dear Azoh, very low xD
Those were some good advices, + you sound really sweet and calm lol loved the vid
everytime your screen goes black, you shit your pants cuz a fed nocturne ulted and youre alone
+anwar karamany You're not alone.
Because the enemy laner is turret diving you.
indeed xD
How to die less: play urgot with 6 CDR boots
The smooth and calm atmosphere of this vid was lovely:D Great work fox , keep it up
love your videos man. Been watching for 6 months and I've become a lot better.
THANK YOU KEEP IT UP!
Hey Foxdrop, i totally like your vids and they helped me to understand the overall concept of league. I started with playing support first because i wasnt sure yet how to play the other positions. I realized how underappreciated Supports are and that especially some ADC's are hating against their protectors. Obviously that ends up pretty badly at the end. Could you maybe do a guide vid about support, would be awesome! Maybe some more people will play them or in general stop hating and blame their sup.
Cheers!
i really like this video. I made it a point back when I was bronze and wanted to start climbing to pick a champion I wanted to main and then I would also learn to a high degree their counter. an example of this would be me maining LeBlanc and at the same time learning Morde pre-rework. if I know his limitations and how he beats me then I can play around that and your hardest counter no longer shits on you because you know how and why they counter you.
This is the SINGLE most important video to watch if you want to escape iron/bronze/silver and even gold!
Even six years later this helped me alot. thank you sir!
Thanks for these tips Johnny Depp! I'm new to League so this helps me out.
I remember someone RUclipsr said "always assume your opponent know what they are doing unless you can prove otherwise" it is the best advice I had ever taken about the game
That was Scrapcomputer I think
FabulousSaphire
that was probably it
Best LoL guide on youtube. Tysm bro
A while back someone ran some stat analysis on what led to wins/losses/etc. While CS/gold per time weren't worthless, deaths overwhelmingly correlated to wins/losses. Kills weren't nearly as valuable as fewer deaths. I would imagine that this would continue to hold true until you're getting into the way top tiers where deaths are less frequent for everyone on a per game basis in general.
how to never die again in lol: never press the play button.
no no hold your applause your making me blush.
First time viewer Valid points 👌🏾 Nice Vid man keep it up.
I love most of your videos because your playing and explain your thought process. in these types of videos though although still brilliant, I think it may be a good thing to have a couple snippets playing that you can explain why you did or didn't fight or why you did anything that explains the point you are making. :-) great video though dude.
Hey Fox - I thought the vid was great - a useful summary of some of the top factors in deaths. For videos like this I do suggest you drop a summary bullet point list on screen for a few seconds to recap otherwise you get to the end and ask yourself "what was the third thing again?"
Fox, I need help maintaining my lawn. it seems when they laid it down they put down sand? I don't have a lot of money, how should I start fixing it?
Damn son. I can learn a lot from you. Thank you for making this channel so the others can benefit from wisdoms most seem to forget too easily. Sub inc!
saw this video two days ago
never die anymore
finally ascended to bronze IV
thanks FoxdropLoL - Be a Better League Player
Damn i actually saw ur videos only a few times in the past but man, you do rly informative videos! if i think about these thinks it so clear as an ex Dia player i couldnt get dia again but now im on the road with these tips, deffenetly got a subscriber! :) luv ya :3
the first tip is very true, I find that in rank people go in expecting every enemy to be equal in skill, meanwhile there I am in mid just testing out what kind of player I'm up against first. I remember this one yasou was pretty crazy, but I still got 2/0 over him as anivia because he underestimated me. Then he started to roam and I couldn't really keep up behind him ALL the time, he came back to lane 5/2 lol. we lost because they didnt hear out my warning that he was good cause i had killed him
That was a helpful reminder. I need to pull back on the reigns. Keep it up, Fox. :)
Great video, I really felt that one line from the Oceanic player
If i have to make a note of every death it would be somehwat like this:
- No leash jungle.
- No SS mid lane.
- Teammate full hp leaving me in a 1v2.
- Sick of it just feeding.
Damnit Foxdrop, now I have an entire 3-ring binder next to my computer desk with the words "I died because my team is shit." written in it 7,294,195 times.
7:05 That godlike bait by LB...
I have a question, relating to this video. When I play League with my friends, and i'm somewhere nearby, whether its escaping, killing an enemy, ect. I always seem to run away, or become a coward, and then they get upset with me, well...'Cause I was a coward. And I want to stop being one. How can I become less-cowardly in these types of situations?
what would you say about sacrificing yourself intentionally in order to make a play? for example, you're malphite at low health and you can engage and die but your team will get like 3 kills. i'm assuming taking that is the better play?
Great tips as always ! Good work
I don't know if this problem only applies to me but I often have a lot of trouble with mobile enemies. I mis most of my skill shots failing to poke them down and I don't want to go to base to many when I am in a pretty bad shape since that will cause the enemy to get farm fed. This usually results in my death. Or it results in my enemy starting to roam. I know a way to improve this is landing my skillshots but so therefore my question is. How do you stop a champion from being so mobile in the early game? For example leblanc and fizz.
+Layla dog well in league there are alot of mobile champs in league you cannot stop them, what you need to do is that you need to predict where they are going, example when zed pops his shadow close to you most likely he will swap places you need to know and read your opponent
mohamed desmal Thank you, I will try
***** I understand. Thank you for the tip it is really helpfull.
+Layla dog Another big key is abusing your opponents cool downs. if a fizz uses his E that escape/mobility is on cool down for a bit, so punish him before its back up. that goes for all trades in league rather mobility is the problem or not. punishing cool downs in my opinion is the best way to bulling a lane.
Thai Nguyen Thank you. I will try my best
Hi there foxdrop, i wanna ask is this gameplay in the background is recorded from EUW server?
nice video man, map awerness is pretty important as well !
Ya those r good points but I think that thinking ur opponents are good and ur teammates wont help you or will be out of position is also a good way of dying less.
Thank you for changing my mentality completely ❤️
this is stuff i already know very well but its nice to review and play it over in my head. probly very good vid for learning players too.
My girlfriend really benefitted from this video! She tends to start feeding and then gives up. Good advice!
this is one reason im glad my moba experience started with dota 1 and hon. when you died, not only did you give gold and xp to the enemy but you would lose gold. you lose a lot of games unless you learn to trade/farm/kill/dive without dying.
I also have a tip to not dying and heres the guide
1.Press Escape
2.press the bottom left button next to surrender
3.wait 5 seconds
4.press leave game.
You WILL have no deaths after the game!
but leaver buster....
Out of curiosity why have Red play Yasuo instead of Zed? I'd figure seeing as his best is Zed he'd want to play that into anything and Yas would be perfect because he knows it inside and out and also is an advantageous match up. I guess it could work either way but just curious.
Interesting video, keep up the good content!
On a side note, what if the case in point is that you *are* the worst player on your team? What kind of thing can/should I do to stop hindering my teammates?
I would like to see a Video about when it is appropriate to die.
Like, when you initiate a Teamfight, tank all de Damage and you win 5 kills vs 1 kill.
Or when you give up your life as Support to safe your ADC.
+Controller Crash that awkward moment when you sacrifice urself and the adc reengages and dies as well...
Or you initiate, noone reacts and they just get caught 1 after 1...
+LuigiGamingLP the 1 by 1 is mostly a low elo cycle but its annoying af ...
BaronskiLoLigra4a Yeah... Probably... But remember about boosted kids XD or games wich feel like someone is boosted XD
I think you should have mentioned risk factors. In early game you don't wanna risk if you have champ that dominates late game, and reverse. As a matter of fact I don't think any champion should take any risk in start of a game. I think this is very important tip.
+Stiriacus Tenebris well if you play like Shaco jungle and you just afk farming that is pretty bad like BIG TIME bad :D ... playing passive and hugging turrets is ok but vs good enemy they will just find a way to kill you cause they will realise you play like a bitchh and aint really fighting back so yeah ...
Well yeah i agree, but I was targeting more risky factors. For instance when you gank you don't really risk much considering it will be 2v1, eventually 2v2 at most of times...
The real risk factor would be to turret dive in 15th min or so, to actually risk losing something, at most of the times death.
And generally farming is not that risky, you can exchange couple of hits which is totally normal, but having in mind whether its better to actually be aggressive (Tryndamere), or stay and collect that stack that you might lose if you are aggressive (Nasus).
So they vary, but generally even with Tryndamere you don't wanna tower dive pre-6 or engage into 1v2 battle.
That was my point :D
what do you do if an annie stands under tower and waits for you to dive for 20 mins and just stuns and drops tibbers on u
Purfs dont dive
What are other things you write down that you reflect and see what you could have done differently?
Excellent content, keep the good work up :D
What if a lot of my deaths happen because my teammate decides to back off during fights, instead of going in? As a jungler, this is very frustrating -- just because I'm coming in doesn't mean you get a free ride. To secure kills I might need some backup.
really good vid. will try to take this advice to heart
How to not die in League of Legends
Step 1: Dont leave fountain
I have the exact same hair as you foxdrop and I thought I was the only one with that one bloody strand that falls out of place at the front haha
+Name your channel
I know that feel waaayyyy too well.
#FirstWorldProblems
My higgest problem is I'm greedy. I see that enemy with a sliver of health and I go in, whether they're in a group or under a tower. What ussaly happens is that I either get an assist or nothing at all.
+foxdropLoL - Be a Better League Player Hey man, you did a great job of explaining as always! Like you say it's a very broad subject, but you covered it as well as can be done.
It's people like you and +Phylol who keep me motivated to persevere in this game; you both help me self-reflect, concentrate on my own performance rather than my team's, and I'm improving with every video! For once I actually enjoy studying something?! :^)
You have no idea how valuable your experience and insights are to someone who's new or struggling in this game, and I look forward to many more lessons with Foxy!
P.S. I make gaming notes on Post-Its too, especially of this video - I'm a dirty feeding nerd like senpai 8^)
"Deaths are caused because you underestimated someone in some way" Explains my 0/9 kogmaw quadra yesterday, everyone just ignored me cos I fed in lane, then I melted the entire team and ended up pushing to win :D
Got my 2 S ratings for my Mastery 6 on Lee the very first two games I played,for the simple fact that because in the back of my mind I knew I wanted to get an S,like that was my objective,not to win,but to kill a lot and never die,I ended up going like 23/3/8,for me it's all about my mentality going in to games,and I think playing for a good rating is a good way to improve coming off of these games.
+Rob La The thing is, as a support imo that changes a lot(and to a lesser degree for junglers).
For example, if you can make a play on a lee sin and get their fed carry you dying isn't a negative.
I played some games as support and especially as for example thresh, getting a hook and swinging yourself into the enemy team, dying in the process is most of the time not a bad choice if your team is there. After all, I assume the carry I hooked dies because of me.
Hell, I've basically suicided into a team as an immobile tank because I knew we were with more people and were stronger but lacked the engage. Again, I died but we cleaned up 4 as a team only losing me.
Londronable Haha exactly man,this is the reason I sometimes want to commit sudoku while playing Lee,because sometimes the shit people expect you to do is suicidal XD like I love those kinds of plays,but I find that they're so risky,and that they rely on my team killing the dude I style on,it can lead to some depressing feeding :') Thresh is really similar yeah,you just gotta build as tanky as you can and divebomb them for a pickoff XD
Just an observation but over the last 6 months or so i have found that the league community if not the gaming community as a whole is becoming extremely more toxic and, well very uninviting. To the point where i no longer play solo que or infact league in general unless im with friends. People are too quick to blame others for their own mistakes and instead of trying to learn just become tilted and it aggrivates me greatly. I loved league but it has become infested by playeers who just seem to be on there to ruin games for everyone. Foxdrop your videos have helped me so much and i would like to say thank you. keep up the great work, and i have found noone better to help me with my plays especially in the jungle :P even if i am still only in silver.
You're only silver and you already have doubts , you're just too sensitive there's a mute button for a reason , there's other people like you but they can deal with the toxicity
You are 100% correct, I just dont understand why people would ruin a perfectly good game. But hey, i still play, enjoy and spend money on the game. Maybe I wll try that mute button :P Might save me reporting many many people xD
Hello, What's the song in his intro?
7:00 dat LB bait was DELICIOUS! Damn!
Can you make a video oh how and when to group
How I die less: play Voli jungle and build Spirit Visage and Cinderhulk. 4k health with Voli passive OP
But in all seriousness I enjoyed the video and gained some knowledge from it so I think you did well!
sometimes I get tilted by simply missing 2 or 3 farm in a wave. I can understand when the supp have relic shield but when I lose a cannon or the first three melee minions in the start of the game I get a little pissed. it's not serious tilt though and i juste force myself to focus more. also I get angry when I get less than 100 cs at the 15 minute mark, as for me cs is more important than kills unless there is a dragon or baron in the balance (I play in bronze and it's crazy how people forget the dragon is even there).
I Own every Champ in League and play 120 of them on a daily basis. does that mean im good cause i know many champs or does that mean i dont focus on one champ enough? PS: im Gold 1 atm but lookin forward to get plat by next week.
+Yoko Ritona The general argument is that while knowing more champions is good so you understand how to play against them it's still beneficial to focus on a smaller core of characters to play in ranked as a lot of what lets you climb are fundamentals and match up knowledge.
but foxxie what if I hate the playstyle of the underestimated champion? (and it cost 6300ip)
You're probably gonna own them all eventually
well my screen went grey cause i died, now i mastered your technique easy as that ty helped a lot
Thanks Foxy, learned something new this video :)
Great video, hope u keep it up!!
As a diamond jungler, i always respect my enemy, the more i respect my opponent the more successful i can turn the match around.
Any tips on how to carry a game when you are far behind?
very good and very realistic. honestly, it's probably TOO realistic, everyone wants to believe they are Faker when they aren't even close (including myself). It's too hard for most people to look at their play objectively and also realize they aren't as good as they THINK they are.
I know this is an off topic question but Do I buy Illaoi or Gnar??
gnar i would say.
+Mark Exconde gnar, but maokai better.
+Михаил Пандовская How is maokai better? can u explain senpai
+Mark Exconde he is one of the best picks for Top, he got sustain damage, late game carries deal 0 dmg to him and i probably see him every game in Master and try to ban ^^
Gnar is hard to perform, Illaoi is weak, Illaoi < Darius /^^
+Mark Exconde I would say it depends. Lower ranks don't know how to vs an Illaoi, so she generally creams them. Her weakness is she's really easily kited and poked. Gnar is good at kiting and of course is great in team fights if you manage to get your ulti off, though he takes a bit of practice to be good with. Maokai is pretty solid and easy to learn. He tends to lack damage, so he can't hard carry games very well, but if you play with your team when needed it shouldn't matter.
Perhaps a simpler way to decide what you want since they are all tanks and great in team fights. Illaoi > for damage, Gnar > for kiting and poke, Maokai > for CC and sustain.
I actually had the same idea a few days/weeks ago, writing down how I died every time I died.
im zed and lee main and when i play zed i got problem playing against champions who have lot of cc and teleport dashing.
example: lux, leblanc , lisandra
and irrieala wich is the best counter for zed
do an evelynn s6 play, bit hard to keep up since the new update of items.
Phy: "dunt trust your teamm8, make fight whenever you see its not dependent on your teamm8"
Foxdrop: "Have faith on them"
Say whattttt
Don't trust NA players always trust Koreans ,kappa
Really good and useful video thank you
"I will say this less-than profound thing in the most profound voice: 'You are dying because you are 1) not doing enough of the right thing and 2) you're doing too much of the wrong thing' **bows**"
'Why did my screen go grey'
Well it's because I'm blind Mr Foxdrop
fuck yeah caught this one in 5 minutes! :D
I came to your channel like "is he going to upload"
I have that tendency to try and hard carry games, but in Low Elo you really can't rely too much on your team. Even when you ping and tell them "That's a bait" they continue running and die because 3 people were bush camping. When people don't have even a basic knowledge of the game it becomes problematic to rely on them, also you have as much vision as Lee Sin in lower Elo unless you pick support or jungle.
+Shane Swart ye supports suck in lower divisons :D no gank mid after first b..dont ward ... dont proc item passive for heal...dont know how to trade :D :D its tragic really
BaronskiLoLigra4a That is if they even buy support items. :P Like one of my friends is a Bronze 5 support, builds Zhonya's and Morellonomicon. Enough said right? XD
hey man i had to really turn my volume up to hear you, could you maybe have your mic turned up?
+Sir Kazzy same i could barely listen his voice
I feed vs LB but when i play her i think she is easy and i do well... what do i do?
+MaxChaosGaming Play her. I main LeBlanc and if you don't know her well enough she seems like there's no counterplay but trust me she has huge limitations if someone plays against her correctly. So pick her up and learn what she's about - The most basic tip I can give is if you dodge her W damage in lane then go in on her with your own kit you'll win the trade. Usually. So picking someone with their own mobility is half the battle won!
Great video ! Thank you, you even helped me in CSGO xD keep it up oh and awesome intro !
butbutbut which team won? (also solid vid, gonna try out the notepad next game)
that vik putting my brain on tilt
There are so many people who try so damn hard not to die, that they end up doing nothing else.