It was only mentioned briefly here, but I honestly think it’s the most important aspect of league. Learning how to keep your brain on for the whole match is SUPER important and you’ll find yourself making like 90% less mistakes if you actually focus on it.
this is my biggest problem lol, i'm playing at full focus maybe 20% of the time and if i was full focus all the time i legit think i'd be high diamond or master (i'm emerald). my first game of the day is almost always a win because i still have focus and the game still feels fresh
@@harryhein3991 Same here, I only play one match per day because of this and it helps with mood aswell. Losing one game is not bad maybe even okay but losing a bunch in a row back to back is horrible.
idk who said this but 20% of ur games are gonna be loses u cant do anithing about, 20% are gonna be easy free wins, and 60% of the time ur the main factor in the game, like in life if u put effort into something results will always be positive, as someone who played league since season 6 and reached grandmaster multiple times in last 3-4 years, main thing u need to do is to improve ur mental, just remmeber how many losing games u had and u actualy won them at the end, games u thought are 100% lost, bad days will happen good days will happen, but just remmeber at the end of the day its just a game and u can improve if u try, going into games every day thinking its pointless and that ur going to lose, that there is no reason to try to do better will get u nowhere, same applies in life.
I think it's more like 40% free win game,40% free loose game and 20% games that matter. That would explain that having less than 40 winrate is near impossible
@@arigatameiwaku Also depends how much you put effort. Playing 10 games per day isn't the smartest move. I've had best results when playing only 1-3 per session. This week I have played 25 games with 73% winrate, and I didn't use extra effort. Half of my games I get autofilled but my main role has almost 90% winrate
People don’t like to accept personal responsibility for their failures. That’s basically true for most everything in life including league. The most logical way to prove everything you said is right, is pro player solo queue. Individual performance is absolutely key to climbing, or those guys wouldn’t be top challenger every year.
Truly the the most goated league guide I've ever seen. Not just simply tell you to try your best but also show you that by doing that you could improve and win games
I don't want to be that guy but last split I started listening to BBC at work, really paying attention. Watching a lot of vods, Skill Capped, etc. Playing in a structured way - working on single key skills at a time, playing in 2 or 3 game blocks, reviewing, only playing one champion as possible, being really conscious of cs, roam timers, wave control, trading, etc - generally playing with high intensity and curiosity etc etc. Went from Iron 2 to Bronze 3 (peaked in Bronze 2 for a short time). Then the split reset happened and I'm Iron again XD - back to the grind. A lot of what you had to say is exactly my plan and execution so I am glad for this reinforcement and hopeful for the future
Tbh tips you will most often find at BBC or skillcapped are fairly advanced, meant for plat-diamond bracket macro things. Not to say you wasted time, because these things will be very useful to you eventually, but having a good macro without mechanical skills to back it up can often simply not yield results (unless you play champion that sidesteps that to an extent). Its just, if you are heavily behind, your good decisions simply lack weight, because u may be in good place on the map, u may be doing the right thing, but you wont have stats necessary for it to work. If you are iron-bronze, you should pick a champion or two and just try to get pretty good mechanically at it.
This is the kind of content that the league comunity needs right now, not that toxic narrative of "loosers Q" "impossible to win games" and "int/soft inting", the guys at Broken by concept podcast would be happy to see this, i feel like the league comunity is slowly shifting the mindset finally
Sometimes your personal scoreline and impact suffers from team disparity. Massive jungle or support gap can easily have a negative effect on your individual performance.
It's very cool that your approach worked out well. The playing 1 game a day seemed to be very important to that. I used find it hard to focus on one thing to improve. I was forever trying to get better at last hitting. But I would get poked down, then lose my focus and just "play."
One thing to add, once you get to the higher elos like emerald and beyond, you won't climb just by "learning a new skill". At this point everyone knows how to play so you need to learn *a lot of skills* to make a difference. And it is not just about learning skills, it is about playing perfectly. Your performance in a game is based on the amount of good decisions/plays that you make and minimization of the bad plays / mistakes that you do. The more good plays you do and the less mistakes you do the higher elo you will climb.
Emerald players aren't massively different from silver / gold / plat players. Maybe they know better how to end the game. Micro gameplay is bad. Laning, wave management, trading patterns, it all sucks in that elo It still does in diamond too. Macro is definitely a bit better than in lower elos but that's about it.
@@disadadi8958 In emerald and diamond everyone understands the fundamentals and applies them constantly. In gold and silver you can learn the fundamentals and learn a new champion and that alone will let you climb ranks (thats how i climbed at least). But once you learned the fundamentals, you dont have anything else "special" to learn to keep climbing, and you get stuck at diamond. In diamond people still makes tons of mistakes, but that's were the things changes. You are no longer supposed to learn new things to keep climbing like before; now you are supposed to minimize mistakes and maximize good plays to keep improving. At this point it's not about learning, but about perfecting your gameplay.
@@k241.- right right, I guess this is at least partially true. I think it's a bit more complex than that but yeah. There are some silvers with good mechanics and such and they could climb without learning anything new. Just too many mistakes that they make along the way
@@disadadi8958 true, i think it is indeed more complex than what i said, but overall the points is that the most you climb the less new things there are to learn and the more difficult it is to get better
I fucking loved this video, as a challenger player this is actually the best analytic breakdown I've heard in years right next to Curtis's shit. 10/10 you magnificent bastard, very well said. Bravo. With that mindset you're just like us up here, stick to it and you're going to make it man. You've even reignited my spark. No, even being up at the top of ladder we still do not know the whole game, we're still learning new things every season. You don't stop learning honestly, there's always something new to digest and put into practice and once you get that feeling of it clicking- you're a rocket blasting off. Just don't lose the mindset like a lot of us do, we forget that, we autopilot, we lose faith and blame it on boomer hands when all reality it's just your mindset is tired. I'm guilty of that. I've been playing for 15 years, I've heard every excuse in the book, and this is the game at it's core. I hope the remaining players never forget that and keep striving on your downtime to find that passion. It's not easy, it never will be. I'm having a hard time myself at this point in time. It flows and ebbs like a minion wave, try to hold on to it as long as possibly and have faith that all those negative funny numbers will turn into positives. You put in the effort, it'll work out. I promise.
@@islixxn facts my brother theres actually not much difference between silvers and challengers. challenger players are just silver players that got lucky
@@inbeing3464copium. Account sharing and boosting is one of the easiest thing to notice, if you reverse smurf you will drop so no it's copium, accept that some people are better at a stupid game
In gameplay terms, it certainly depends on how much the players know about the game. When to retreat, when to fight, limit test. You know, internal knowledge that only by trial and error and with experience, you show the knowledge in practice But that's all thrown out of the window when it comes to League of Shitters(as one properly said it) Non-professional games are like this, which team has the worst player(s). Professional games certainly show who is skilled and which team has the most chemistry together. But with how the matchmaking is, it is an E-drug casino rigged fiesta. This EOMM(engagement optimized matchmaking) sole goal is to engage, to draw the attention to the game so you can play It for more. Playing more means you sacrifice the limited time you have, to this game,in hopes of taking it seriously and maybe buy a skin or something. It's not supposed to be taken seriously, all online competitive games have it in this era(FIFA, Overwatch, COD) Stop thinking about digital numbers and pixels, certainly stop trying to boast and flex as this game is more of a mess. Yes, there is a difference between an experienced Lee sin versus a first timer. But remember, the sacrifices the experienced Lee sin player has made just to reach that point. Was it really worth it? If he is casual and doesn't take the game seriously, does off meta stuff, plays like a true sportsmanlike, then yes, he is an actual good player(not in terms of skill). But if he is the type of toxic, losing calm and Always being angered easily, then what's the point of playing this mess? To win? Don't let numbers and defeats of a game and especially a digital one, shape the life and your personality. Developers now only want your money and attention just like ads and websites. You're the product, they gain information and money. Learn to think like that, so you can avoid taking the game seriously. If you're a pro team, that's another topic which is obvious to even the blind. But for people,like me, who love the style of the game, how it flows and to play their favourite Hero (Kayle) in every role(mostly bot lane). If they have fun (by playing normally,not trolling and losing their cool), and playing within reason(not playing for too long),then l believe this is the correct mentality someone should have. They are many times these one sided games where you can't do anything and you can feel it is not natural (same if you're winning one sided too). Regardless, don't blame your teammates, blame yourself. Either if you did bad plays, or lost your cool and judged your teammates or the enemy or just for taking the game seriously in the first place. Because, what's the point of playing a game that destroys you? Isn't it the same as smoking? Or doing any vice with supreme desire to keep doing? It all starts and ends,with our internal war. Ask yourself, not your teammates or enemies why they trolled or whatever, ask yourself why l am taking this game seriously or this game takes my whole day and life away.
Low key, the very last point before the video ended is a really good one. I wanted to climb just because of ego. I worked at things I sucked at, but in the end, decided I don't have an aptitude for League so stopped playing Ranked, and then stopped playing all together.
in this video: Basic fundamentals I recently hit a 25 game winstreak and hit masters 150LP before the season ended lol. I don't play to rank up, so I play to hit low-mid masters and give in for the split now. Everything past that feels too much like dedicating myself to a game instead of my friends
Bruh I was killin it all season and all of a sudden 2 weeks ago I went on a TWELVE game loss streak and demoted multple times. Went from Plat 4 80 LP to gold 4 40LP within 3 weeks. No joke 70% of the games I lost were impossible to win.
@CardsAreFun711 while I'd usually agree with you and would also be skeptical, of my last 20 games Ive had 12 games with leavers and 5 with multiple leavers, and 4 games where we were stomped by smurf accs with 20+ kills that ended tbe game before 20 mins lol
Great video. I fell down a similar league improvement rabbit hole and I came to just about the same thesis as you. Now you are giving me the confidence to give it a go. Thank you for being a guinea pig. N of 1. I'll try to remember to report back how it went for me
_Gather ‘round, everyone, for the legendary saga of a League of Legends player, eight long years deep into their adventure, yet still lost in the darkest corners of the Rift like a minion without a path. This is no ordinary player, oh no - this is a tale of perseverance, of someone who has managed to avoid progress so masterfully, you’d think they’re being sponsored by failure itself. Enter Lux, the easiest champion in the game, a champion whose abilities are so forgiving that a toddler could land a Q, yet here we are, watching this player dodge success harder than their enemies dodge their skillshots._ _Now, let's talk farming - or, in your case, the fine art of not farming. Watching you last-hit minions is like watching a slow-motion car crash, except I’m not sure if you're even in the car. It's almost poetic how consistently you manage to whiff on minions that are practically begging to be hit. Seriously, how do you even survive with that CS? I’m convinced that if Riot added a ‘farm assist mode’ where Lux’s E auto-aimed at minions, you’d still find a way to miss. It’s like you’ve taken an oath of non-violence when it comes to gold._ _Honestly, even bots farm better than you. They must sit in their AI-controlled games, looking at your CS score and wondering, 'Is this what it’s like to have your brain unplugged mid-game?' Riot might as well turn your gameplay into an educational video: 'Welcome to League of Legends! Here’s how not to farm for 25 minutes straight.'_ _Then we move on to trading, or as I like to call it, your personal charity mission. Watching you try to poke is like watching someone throw feathers at a brick wall, hoping to do damage. Every time you step up, it’s like you’re signing a contract to donate 50% of your health bar to your lane opponent. Honestly, it’s generous, I’ll give you that. You’ve turned trading into a one-sided donation drive, where the only thing you're giving is free kills and opportunities._ _And 8 years? Eight whole years of doing this? That’s not dedication - that’s an odyssey of failure on a scale that’s almost heroic. You’ve crafted a personal narrative of badness that most people couldn’t recreate if they tried. It’s like you’ve been working on a PhD in being bad at Lux, and let me tell you, you’re overqualified. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if your mouse had only two buttons: one to miss skillshots and the other to feed._ _But hey, at least you’re consistent, right? And that’s got to count for something! I mean, most people would accidentally improve after that much time, but not you - you’ve stayed true to your roots, grinding away at mediocrity like it’s your full-time job. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to set Lux free. Try something with no skill, not much aiming. Maybe Yuumi is more your speed. You can latch on to someone else that actually knows what they're doing and just sit back. Nothing personal tho_
What a heartfillig essay. I've never been roasted so violently yet with so much grace and thought behind every word. with every stroke of your finger, carefully caressing on your keyboard I can feel years of soloq scars on your back, countless wars fought against some random dude on the internet. You just destroyed my career as a league player, career that has yet to begin But I can't even be mad. Honestly respect dude for wasting your time on such a failure like me. You are truly a PhD doctor at roasting random dude on the internet. Keep up the good work
@@heroken999 _So we talk about the fact that anyone can climb if they just have good macro and are terrible micro wise ?_ *Summs up emerald elo pretty well atleast, nah ?*
@@hibana364 its kinda hard to be bad at micro, it comes with time and experience naturally. Especially if you dont play super forgiving champs like... lux. But even then watching enough synapse videos or other people who main your champion, your micro will improve no matter what. Most people have more then good enough micro, but they are missing all the macro.
As a study conducted about what was the impact of luck over success : 8 out of 10 successful people made it because they were skillful AND lucky. 2 out of 10 made it just because they were skillful. Basically 80% of your success is based on you getting the opportunity and being able to take it, 20% is about succeeding without much opportunities to begin with. Where does this bring us ? You will always be more impactful if you train than if you just wait for luck to strike.
There's a hardcap for skill, since each champ is still designed not to 1v9, unless you're nasus on a 69min game. Like how can you beat a Deathball comp squad with voicecomms as a solo player? in an FPS game like BF1 you can just chuck a grenade or set a trip wire and get a multi kill, while in a moba Deathball comps just annihilates any lane and anyone protecting it.
@@MangaGamified Indeed. And here, the hardcap for skill literally depends on luck. Are you lucky enough during the draft ? Are you lucky enough to see the skillshot soon enough so you can dodge it and make a critical play ? Some games, you literally rob the game on one mistake from the fed opponents. Luck is still the factor that locks your ability to win despite being skillful here.
@@hibana364 But you can try to influence such luck. Comminicate with team during draft,if you recalling instead of "shopping",look whats happening,if youknow they have ezreal,slightly move your cam to hlep you see his ult. Is it still luck based? Yes. But you gotta take this luck and Wield it,and not jsut wine when your 1d6 doesnt roll6
Small sample size but the point is that he was hardstuck for a considerable amount of time and he made macro changes and he began seeing results immediately. As soon as I began reviewing my vods I found I was making many game losing mistakes, so there had to be fixed, and I hit d4 for the first time in years.
bro go to any side you can see best players win ratio and you will see they on average someting like 65 % win ratio and its like on highest level. If they would be in bronz they would have on average something like 98% win ratio. but i agree 20 games is not much, good point.
woah wtf I thought this was just gonna be a rant video (which it did start off as) but this quickly turned into a "how to climb the ranks thru midlane" real fast 0-100 haha
I've been playing for a year and I got to diamond this season. It really bugs me how so much people can't look into their errors and accept they're not perfect. I just met someone today that was saying "300 games and I don' understand why I'm stuck in emerald, bad luck" while he was flaming the entire game... like.. can't you notice that MAAAYBE you're doing something wrong?
I think at some point people integrate bad decisions, bad mechanics and bad reflexes because they played the game so much for so long without ACTUALLY trying to improve that it's kinda impossible for them to go back and stop themselves from doing that. Some people make it but it takes some time to reverse all of the bad shit they learnt
Maan i could have not found something more relateable, i always watch skillcapped and i was also stuck in P1, tho i couldnt make it above emerald 3 cuz i just stopped playing due to work and uni Same exact thoughts, methods and even the role matches I can 100% recommend this guide to everyone based on experience 10/10
I know this comment is maybe too late but.....I was Diamond 3 before rank reset and now I am stuck in E3. I get like +20 -18 LP for a game, that is like almost the same. And the worst thing about this is I have been getting this since I played the rank placements :(. In Diamond I was getting all positive people and the game was actually FUN. Now I am getting people who are toxic right of the start in draft, or people who give up after dying two times on a gank and it just feels like imposible for me to have the hand over the game. Usually I perform well. But no matter what I do, it just feels like a complet gambit, depending on what teammates I get. I am saying this as a guy who would always say that if you are not winning it's YOU, but holy shit this is actually insane what I have experienced. I never thought that I would actually get to this point. But since I have been playing characters like Zoe, Vel'koz and stuff. I developted a play-style about playing around your teammates. And this has worked well in Diamond. But in Emerald people are just bad. And that counts for my team and the other. But my roster of champions just doesn't allow single carry as much as other champions do. But I just don't want to spend time playing champions that I don't like. Now I don't know what to do. maybe wait another 60 days for another rank reset or idk.
Great video. GZ. I did the same to climb to Diamond and it really worked some months ago, I have reached Diamond 1 recently on Split 2. Split 3 seems too big effort for me so I will do the same again, 1 or 2 games a day full focus and If I play more, just for fun on another acc. or not ranked at all. (SUPPORT HERE)
good vid man, i've been on this journey too! been at it for a few years all too learn jungle and i've gone from barely getting carried by friends to gold iv for a skin to being able to get myself to emerald consistently. it's a great feeling and your vid is so relatable it's crazy, and i really hope it inspires more people to engage with the game in this way
Well, the fact that your own skill can impact the winning of the game can be proofed even more easier... smurfs! :D Like if your personal skill would not matter that much, then smurfs would not be that common (or the accounts would not have a sudden spike of a really huge winrate). So yeah, great video, I agree with everything!
Unbelievable that you only have less than 1k subs and views when your videos are such good quality. Good luck getting popular in the next few years, I bet you can do it if you keep this up.
Great video. Though you didn't play enough matches. And you can play 2-3 games instead of 1-2. Try doing it for entire split and you will end up in diamond+ for sure!
Is league a skill based game? Yes. Can you win at League? Absolutely, I can dominate my lane 10/1. Will that translate into a win? Not when their mid, jungle, and bottom all are 10/1 too, so no, regardless of how good you are, the game will fuck you, I've had a Master friend play on my account and even he said the teams I get are uncariable.
You are lying. If you were truly that unstoppable and making decisions that good, you would climb, full stop. If you’re 10-1 out of laning phase, you can 1v2. If you can force 1v2s repeatedly and win them, your team controls every objective on the map and can no longer lose. The problem is you suck, and until you accept that you will never stop sucking.
From having played for years I'm just gonna share my thoughts before I finish the video. In fact, I just got to the intro and will share my thoughts. I'll edit later if I feel like I have something else to say. There are a few complicated issues in the ranked system. ELO hell is real in the sense that there is an ELO range where people simply don't know how the game works and so certain ways of playing the game that kinda relies on your team at least knowing the basics of the game will not work as well in those ranges as they would in higher ELO. Like you're not gonna get a bronze player to ward properly and there is a 50/50 chance they never look at the mini-map all game. You can also get stuck with loosing way more LP per match than you win which means it'll be a lot harder to make proper progress if you've struggled for a few years (like I have, good game knowledge, awful in-game execution of said knowledge) leaving you stuck in lower ELO with those teams that just don't play the same game as higher ELO players and you're losing 2 wins worth of LP on a loss. This is not to say you can't get out of here purely on your own skill but it does mean that you may have valid reasons to make an alt account because you might well start in gold instead of bronze after placements.
Broooooo statistics! winstreaks are way more common because we play more than 10 games. The cancer example would only work if you only ever play just 10 games and nothing more.
I hit GM in season 14's second spit after learning fundamentals, meta, and matchups as an Emerald on the first spit. I've learnt that this game is, in fact, luck (teammates) based. By playing Meta champs and roam, you can reduce the risk greatly. Your win rate will be higher, around 60 and 65, but it won't be as high as the clickbait VDO that other content producers provide. You should give it a shot if you want to succeed. Personally, I feel terrible that I have to abuse meta to win, rather than just enjoying the champ I love, which is terrible during that season or patch.
Hey that was me for 4 years xd who knows how high my rank couldve been if i tried when i was like 13 now im 400lp masters maybe i wouldve been challanger 1klp as an 18 yr old
I literally just played a game where they had a trolling mid I gank top and get her ahead by 3 kills. My mid is winning because like I said their mid was trolling I ganked bot and who is reliable and bard and they got some kills. Guess what? We fucking lost. They did NOTHING all game and they were delusional on coming back. How tf do you lose this? I helped you and you still lost. How did we lose? Maybe I just needed to be better but the truth is we had no pressure. No turrets 1-2 objective but we never pushed. I was held hostage, I saw the team fights and was able to tell that the game was over.
Currently stuck between plat 3 n 2 but 100 percent agree. Was silver a couple seasons ago and decided to actually try in ranked and improve and have a better mental. While my skills have improved alot my mental has reverted lol. Just something i need to work on. I truly do hate how many people blame the game or others for their losses tho. Im well aware most losses i have even if i had a good game were because of severe mistakes im making.
congratulations !!! 🥳🥳 nice to see you found good stable method to climb, meanwhile im stuck bronze 1 ._. , oh well if u ever hit diamond u should do a celebration video
Your theory on certain skills in certain mmr brackets is wrong. All it says that the person loses a lot (>= 50 %) in given mmr bracket, but it does not say why.
I am a top main player, just claiming my feelings of 8 years of league experience, this role is totally irrelevant to winning or losing the fucking game until u get to master or even higher.
Thats a great video many should watch and internalize. This season was also the one that clicked for me. I climbed from Emerald hardstuck for 5 years and in split 2 I hit master. You just have to cut out all the bullshit and focus on your gameplay
It's still unfair I have been to iron bronze silver and gold ... I am not considered a good player but from my personal experience in order to climb you have to be good enough to carry or you have to get good teammates... in a few wards you will never be in your elo because you are better than what you deserve you either stuck because you can't carry or you are much better and climb to a division that again you can't carry .... I personally could easily play on platinum for example but I was never able to carry in gold .... should people in order to climb have to carry ?
So far I'm 0W-6L in ranked and it's hard to play the game when someone goes 0/10 in the first 12 mins. Had 1 game where enemy Hecarim bought Spear of Shojin at 8 mins lol.
Of course if you improve at that game you will climb but it is not a point. I have a problem with matchmaking because it estimates my skill and than force me to win/lose x many games to put me in estimated rank and this is backwards. I would rather play with people in rang that I am in and then stack as a effect of opponents getting better. The same outcome but different experience
I rarely play ranked but I said why not just play a few games just to get the rewards for the recent split... I went 5/20 W/L. I'm talking a few patches away from ranked lmao
Its possible to get worse at lol. How much work do you need to do in LOL to not become worse? And thats assuming you dont get depressed have sleep issues and never get sick.
The game being very heavily leaning towards deathball comps in addition to EOMM, lastly the h0stage system. Philosophical guides like focusing, giving it your all, was old, and had been long said and done already. Cause when you always win, EOMM triggers.
okay its kinda true but if it was all skill based, you shouldve been mvp in all of your wins. i consider every win where im not mvp as insanely lucky, since that means one of your teammates was better than you, for me that pretty much never happens, if i win, im mvp simple as that. once every 20 games i win a game where im not mvp. so getting a 10 game winstreak for you was still mostly luck, you carried 4 out of 6, got lucky in the rest. you can look at your losses the same way, if you lose and you were ace, then you were unlucky, if you lose and you are not ace, then you just suck at the game.
nah, enemy can get fed nothing u can do and they are ace and not you. Can get to the point where u cant play because they target you and your fed. Lots of reasons for why you wont always be ace. if your ace almost every time and still hardstuck, your just KDA farming and not actually trying to win or learn.
ive rapidly risen in rank and rapidly fallen in rank so many times, at this stage, i dont feel like my skill is responsible for rising or falling. its out of my hands. I just play and matchmaking decides if i win or lose.
so how about that. i played 16 matches and won just 4 of them with 7 kda average + 8.0 cs per min average. which is equivalent to master elo performance every match as a mid laner. i watched all the skillcaped mid lane videos and executed them. what are the odds? im bronze 2. after this streak i deleted the game forever.
Every game I play all 4 of my teammates are 10x worse than I am but I am unable to climb cuz the enemy team every game plays way better than my team. I win lane 100% of the time but still end up having negative win rate cuz of team. No other reason. I am always the best in my team.
Think about it this way, if all other 9 players are in a bad rank and bad players, and you are supposed to be the good player, then you have to face 5 bad players while the enemy only faces 4 bad players That's a significant enough advantage
@@Requilith it doesn't matter if all 5 enemies are bad. They're still significantly better than all 4 of my teammates. And thanks to my teammates, all the enemy players are now FED. And even if I outplay them, I lose because I get stat checked since my team gave them a 7000 gold lead
What you say seems impossible but please bare with me when I guess some possible reasons why you feel this way: 1. Winning line is very loose term, do you mean going 10/0 or just few CS up? See for example if you play mid and play Yasuo vs Azir and you went 1 plate up and 10 CS up you might claim you won your line but in fact due to scaling difference you accualy lost line 2. Winning the line is just an aspect of the game, a part of big picture. Even if your line would be challanger lvl but you map awarness, teamfights, macro and roaming will be iron you will be a bronze player at the end. 3. Game splits are 30/40/30 imo, meaning 30% you autolose, 30% you have to just not suck to win and 40% is up to you beeing better than your opponent. So if you are always better you should have 70% WR. If you would be willing I'd be happy to look at your op.gg and try to find some glearing problems
@@zetsu12344 i am pretty much 10/0 in lane every single game unless hardcounter match up + massive jungle and support babysitting gap to the point i am playing 1v3 the entire game cuz my team sucks. Winning lane is the most important part of league. If my teammates played like me and won their lane, 3 winning lane is automatic GG. Impossible to lose with 3 winning lane. Your game split theory is a completely nonsensical fallacy.
Also to you saying that winning line is everything.... Lets say team blue has Panth top, Talon mid and Kalista Adc While Red had Ornn, Kassadin, Jinx Blue is 1k gold up on every line at 20 min ... Who is winning?
crazy i will make a video complaining about riot putting me in teams with afk 0 20 bot ,then i will wait for riot to see and give me good team so they will not look bad on the internet
Ok but what if i analyzed my 100 matches and acording to deeplol in avarage my teammates were worse than enemy? The biggest difference is on top bc i have no impact while i play bot. My score was much higher than avarage. ALWAYS riot can say that score (depends on objective, kda cs..) say nothing. But still these data are more real than their magic mmr. Here i can only believe them that everything is related to good mmr system. Just play more xd yep
Your individual skill matters a lot, in fact, when 4 individuals have skills that matter that you need in a 5-man team and they don't do their part. Well. Do the math. You're right. It's a skill-based game. The issue is that the skill base is required for all 5 team mates. lol You're basically saying nothing. The matchmaking is still broken.
Idk if it'll help but maybe it's because you play too much. I think it was in a video of xPetu where he said a lot on the environment you play in and how you feel when you decide to play. When you loose 2 in a rows stop playing and if you really wanna climb you review. But yes as many said you have to keep in mind that some lost games are just a team diff (roughly 20%) I think. Finally, it also depends on the impact the role and the champion you play have on the outcome of the game.
the problem is i was hardstuck iron/bronze at 69% wr. made a smurf and went to plat. The skill needed to play plat games didnt change from bronze games games one bit. yet on my main i've never gone above silver 3. even now on a few hundred games hardstuck i still have about 55%wr. This is the real problem with ranked. it doesnt matter if you are faker. If you have been cursed with having to play on an old account with bad mmr you just dont climb. +5lp -25lp for a solid year with 69%wr is stupid.
@@Vel5697 exactly.. it doesnt make sense! Yet its the reality for anyone not smurfing cause the ranked system is messed up. I've seen iron players better than me and grandmaster players worse than me. Im in no way "good" at the game, but this is ridicolous.
@@hjfeldt4998 i was doing + 18 and - 30 in gold in last split , i climb to diamond with close to 80 wr in like 60 games while doing + 15 - 32 when i was close to diamond , now next season I peaked master with 80wr , and im doing + 25 - 25 in high diamond . If you play well , you win more , if you win more you increase the lp and the mmr , but the lp goes faster so your gains will be less positive , the more stuck and old is your acc , so longer it takes , but if you was lets say bronze 4 with + 25 - 25 and you climb to silver 4 with high wr lets say 70 , now you are doing + 18 - 30 even tho you have positive wr , it doesnt mean that you are stuck , you got + 400 lp , but maybe + 200 mmr , so you actually did + 200 the visible rank doesnt really matter . Also , smurfs goes higher way faster but it doesnt prove that you are better than your main acc rank , riot tries to place smurfs as fast as possible having few games to analyse , sometimes they place you higher that you should be , sometimes lower , but it adjust quickly , like everything in league rank system , its all about time , no one can be placed correctly if they dont play much , the moment you are hardstuck is finally the moment where the game puts you on your skill level . Also stop with the cope " doesnt matter if you are faker " I just saw a streamer taking an IRON 4 acc with NEGATIVE GAINS all the way up to master in weeks . On the long run , it really only depends on your skills and this has been proven by high elo players litteraly THOUSAND of times already .
@@hjfeldt4998you will hit your ceiling once you make that account with the new gains, the rank system works when you put in the games. Your story fucking sucks when explaining the ranked system because its one analogy. And if you are better than you elo you WILL climb, which is why the ranked system works. Saying ive seen iron player better than me and grandmaster players worse is just ridiculous because while that may be true, iron player will INT at ur elo 90% of time and the grandmaster player will STOMP 90% of the time. Stop the fucking cope and either lock in or quit.
Not rly, ur method does work, but that's ofc depends on the champs u play and the team u get. I know how to win every game, but in that process I need to avoid ppl stealing my stuff and that's impossible, since my champ will lose SO MUCH if I got stolen from a kill, a jgl cs or a minion. And since Riot will never bann ppl who troll by stealing others, neither will I give a fk to improve my rank. The game is so much focused on champion diff, if u play op champs like Syndra who has FKING TRUE DMG in late, so there is no need for brain and magic penetration or u play vayne who just max hp true dmg or Draven who walks with attack speed 4th shot from Jhin kind of dmg. Then ur method will make these champs easily win almost every game adn improve. But if u play weak champs like Kalista, Kayn, Aurelion sol, etc... Those champs that relies so much at getting a head to carry, its impossible.
"League of Legends is certainly a game"
This quote inspired me
It was only mentioned briefly here, but I honestly think it’s the most important aspect of league. Learning how to keep your brain on for the whole match is SUPER important and you’ll find yourself making like 90% less mistakes if you actually focus on it.
this is my biggest problem lol, i'm playing at full focus maybe 20% of the time and if i was full focus all the time i legit think i'd be high diamond or master (i'm emerald). my first game of the day is almost always a win because i still have focus and the game still feels fresh
@@harryhein3991 Same here, I only play one match per day because of this and it helps with mood aswell. Losing one game is not bad maybe even okay but losing a bunch in a row back to back is horrible.
idk who said this but 20% of ur games are gonna be loses u cant do anithing about, 20% are gonna be easy free wins, and 60% of the time ur the main factor in the game, like in life if u put effort into something results will always be positive, as someone who played league since season 6 and reached grandmaster multiple times in last 3-4 years, main thing u need to do is to improve ur mental, just remmeber how many losing games u had and u actualy won them at the end, games u thought are 100% lost, bad days will happen good days will happen, but just remmeber at the end of the day its just a game and u can improve if u try, going into games every day thinking its pointless and that ur going to lose, that there is no reason to try to do better will get u nowhere, same applies in life.
and most important, drop ur ego!
think it was alois
surreal hearing this from draven pfp
I think it's more like 40% free win game,40% free loose game and 20% games that matter. That would explain that having less than 40 winrate is near impossible
@@arigatameiwaku Also depends how much you put effort. Playing 10 games per day isn't the smartest move. I've had best results when playing only 1-3 per session.
This week I have played 25 games with 73% winrate, and I didn't use extra effort. Half of my games I get autofilled but my main role has almost 90% winrate
People don’t like to accept personal responsibility for their failures. That’s basically true for most everything in life including league. The most logical way to prove everything you said is right, is pro player solo queue. Individual performance is absolutely key to climbing, or those guys wouldn’t be top challenger every year.
Truly the the most goated league guide I've ever seen. Not just simply tell you to try your best but also show you that by doing that you could improve and win games
I'm worried about my ballz now
I don't want to be that guy but last split I started listening to BBC at work, really paying attention. Watching a lot of vods, Skill Capped, etc. Playing in a structured way - working on single key skills at a time, playing in 2 or 3 game blocks, reviewing, only playing one champion as possible, being really conscious of cs, roam timers, wave control, trading, etc - generally playing with high intensity and curiosity etc etc. Went from Iron 2 to Bronze 3 (peaked in Bronze 2 for a short time). Then the split reset happened and I'm Iron again XD - back to the grind. A lot of what you had to say is exactly my plan and execution so I am glad for this reinforcement and hopeful for the future
Tbh tips you will most often find at BBC or skillcapped are fairly advanced, meant for plat-diamond bracket macro things. Not to say you wasted time, because these things will be very useful to you eventually, but having a good macro without mechanical skills to back it up can often simply not yield results (unless you play champion that sidesteps that to an extent). Its just, if you are heavily behind, your good decisions simply lack weight, because u may be in good place on the map, u may be doing the right thing, but you wont have stats necessary for it to work. If you are iron-bronze, you should pick a champion or two and just try to get pretty good mechanically at it.
Teach me your ability of listening to big black cables
This is the kind of content that the league comunity needs right now, not that toxic narrative of "loosers Q" "impossible to win games" and "int/soft inting", the guys at Broken by concept podcast would be happy to see this, i feel like the league comunity is slowly shifting the mindset finally
as another broken by concept enjoyer, i whole-heartedly agree and am excited for the day when the broken by concept mindset becomes the norm in league
Sometimes your personal scoreline and impact suffers from team disparity.
Massive jungle or support gap can easily have a negative effect on your individual performance.
It's very cool that your approach worked out well. The playing 1 game a day seemed to be very important to that. I used find it hard to focus on one thing to improve. I was forever trying to get better at last hitting. But I would get poked down, then lose my focus and just "play."
One thing to add, once you get to the higher elos like emerald and beyond, you won't climb just by "learning a new skill". At this point everyone knows how to play so you need to learn *a lot of skills* to make a difference.
And it is not just about learning skills, it is about playing perfectly. Your performance in a game is based on the amount of good decisions/plays that you make and minimization of the bad plays / mistakes that you do. The more good plays you do and the less mistakes you do the higher elo you will climb.
Emerald players aren't massively different from silver / gold / plat players.
Maybe they know better how to end the game.
Micro gameplay is bad. Laning, wave management, trading patterns, it all sucks in that elo It still does in diamond too. Macro is definitely a bit better than in lower elos but that's about it.
@@disadadi8958 In emerald and diamond everyone understands the fundamentals and applies them constantly.
In gold and silver you can learn the fundamentals and learn a new champion and that alone will let you climb ranks (thats how i climbed at least).
But once you learned the fundamentals, you dont have anything else "special" to learn to keep climbing, and you get stuck at diamond.
In diamond people still makes tons of mistakes, but that's were the things changes. You are no longer supposed to learn new things to keep climbing like before; now you are supposed to minimize mistakes and maximize good plays to keep improving. At this point it's not about learning, but about perfecting your gameplay.
@@k241.- right right, I guess this is at least partially true. I think it's a bit more complex than that but yeah.
There are some silvers with good mechanics and such and they could climb without learning anything new. Just too many mistakes that they make along the way
@@disadadi8958 true, i think it is indeed more complex than what i said, but overall the points is that the most you climb the less new things there are to learn and the more difficult it is to get better
@@k241.- very true
I fucking loved this video, as a challenger player this is actually the best analytic breakdown I've heard in years right next to Curtis's shit. 10/10 you magnificent bastard, very well said. Bravo. With that mindset you're just like us up here, stick to it and you're going to make it man. You've even reignited my spark. No, even being up at the top of ladder we still do not know the whole game, we're still learning new things every season. You don't stop learning honestly, there's always something new to digest and put into practice and once you get that feeling of it clicking- you're a rocket blasting off. Just don't lose the mindset like a lot of us do, we forget that, we autopilot, we lose faith and blame it on boomer hands when all reality it's just your mindset is tired. I'm guilty of that. I've been playing for 15 years, I've heard every excuse in the book, and this is the game at it's core. I hope the remaining players never forget that and keep striving on your downtime to find that passion. It's not easy, it never will be. I'm having a hard time myself at this point in time. It flows and ebbs like a minion wave, try to hold on to it as long as possibly and have faith that all those negative funny numbers will turn into positives. You put in the effort, it'll work out. I promise.
"in League if you are stuck, it means that you suck" my favorite moment :D
nah its mostly luck
@@islixxn The better you are the less luck you need
@@spidermanlift4527 Exactly
@@islixxn facts my brother theres actually not much difference between silvers and challengers. challenger players are just silver players that got lucky
@@inbeing3464copium. Account sharing and boosting is one of the easiest thing to notice, if you reverse smurf you will drop so no it's copium, accept that some people are better at a stupid game
In gameplay terms, it certainly depends on how much the players know about the game. When to retreat, when to fight, limit test. You know, internal knowledge that only by trial and error and with experience, you show the knowledge in practice
But that's all thrown out of the window when it comes to League of Shitters(as one properly said it)
Non-professional games are like this, which team has the worst player(s). Professional games certainly show who is skilled and which team has the most chemistry together. But with how the matchmaking is, it is an E-drug casino rigged fiesta. This EOMM(engagement optimized matchmaking) sole goal is to engage, to draw the attention to the game so you can play It for more.
Playing more means you sacrifice the limited time you have, to this game,in hopes of taking it seriously and maybe buy a skin or something.
It's not supposed to be taken seriously, all online competitive games have it in this era(FIFA, Overwatch, COD)
Stop thinking about digital numbers and pixels, certainly stop trying to boast and flex as this game is more of a mess.
Yes, there is a difference between an experienced Lee sin versus a first timer. But remember, the sacrifices the experienced Lee sin player has made just to reach that point. Was it really worth it?
If he is casual and doesn't take the game seriously, does off meta stuff, plays like a true sportsmanlike, then yes, he is an actual good player(not in terms of skill).
But if he is the type of toxic, losing calm and Always being angered easily, then what's the point of playing this mess? To win?
Don't let numbers and defeats of a game and especially a digital one, shape the life and your personality.
Developers now only want your money and attention just like ads and websites. You're the product, they gain information and money. Learn to think like that, so you can avoid taking the game seriously.
If you're a pro team, that's another topic which is obvious to even the blind.
But for people,like me, who love the style of the game, how it flows and to play their favourite Hero (Kayle) in every role(mostly bot lane). If they have fun (by playing normally,not trolling and losing their cool), and playing within reason(not playing for too long),then l believe this is the correct mentality someone should have.
They are many times these one sided games where you can't do anything and you can feel it is not natural (same if you're winning one sided too). Regardless, don't blame your teammates, blame yourself. Either if you did bad plays, or lost your cool and judged your teammates or the enemy or just for taking the game seriously in the first place.
Because, what's the point of playing a game that destroys you? Isn't it the same as smoking? Or doing any vice with supreme desire to keep doing?
It all starts and ends,with our internal war. Ask yourself, not your teammates or enemies why they trolled or whatever, ask yourself why l am taking this game seriously or this game takes my whole day and life away.
skill capped is so good, they made me go from silver support main to diamond toplaner within a season back in the day
Low key, the very last point before the video ended is a really good one. I wanted to climb just because of ego. I worked at things I sucked at, but in the end, decided I don't have an aptitude for League so stopped playing Ranked, and then stopped playing all together.
in this video: Basic fundamentals
I recently hit a 25 game winstreak and hit masters 150LP before the season ended lol. I don't play to rank up, so I play to hit low-mid masters and give in for the split now. Everything past that feels too much like dedicating myself to a game instead of my friends
Bruh I was killin it all season and all of a sudden 2 weeks ago I went on a TWELVE game loss streak and demoted multple times. Went from Plat 4 80 LP to gold 4 40LP within 3 weeks. No joke 70% of the games I lost were impossible to win.
@@jaymo517 You never know. But is a good trick to take a rest after 2 losses, even if you don't want it you'll be kinda tilted and it will afect you
playing less games is the key it is engagement based matchmaking and if you keep playing the games will be bad
U don't go from plat 4 to gold 4 without seriously shitting the bed on your part this Is cope
Then why can people get chal with 90 win rate?
@CardsAreFun711 while I'd usually agree with you and would also be skeptical, of my last 20 games Ive had 12 games with leavers and 5 with multiple leavers, and 4 games where we were stomped by smurf accs with 20+ kills that ended tbe game before 20 mins lol
Great video. I fell down a similar league improvement rabbit hole and I came to just about the same thesis as you. Now you are giving me the confidence to give it a go. Thank you for being a guinea pig. N of 1. I'll try to remember to report back how it went for me
Bro just diagnosed cancer for 1/250 of his viewer after climbing the ladder
i'll probably never watch a video again from you, but i give you subscription because of the structure and funny comparisons of this video xD
_Gather ‘round, everyone, for the legendary saga of a League of Legends player, eight long years deep into their adventure, yet still lost in the darkest corners of the Rift like a minion without a path. This is no ordinary player, oh no - this is a tale of perseverance, of someone who has managed to avoid progress so masterfully, you’d think they’re being sponsored by failure itself. Enter Lux, the easiest champion in the game, a champion whose abilities are so forgiving that a toddler could land a Q, yet here we are, watching this player dodge success harder than their enemies dodge their skillshots._
_Now, let's talk farming - or, in your case, the fine art of not farming. Watching you last-hit minions is like watching a slow-motion car crash, except I’m not sure if you're even in the car. It's almost poetic how consistently you manage to whiff on minions that are practically begging to be hit. Seriously, how do you even survive with that CS? I’m convinced that if Riot added a ‘farm assist mode’ where Lux’s E auto-aimed at minions, you’d still find a way to miss. It’s like you’ve taken an oath of non-violence when it comes to gold._
_Honestly, even bots farm better than you. They must sit in their AI-controlled games, looking at your CS score and wondering, 'Is this what it’s like to have your brain unplugged mid-game?' Riot might as well turn your gameplay into an educational video: 'Welcome to League of Legends! Here’s how not to farm for 25 minutes straight.'_
_Then we move on to trading, or as I like to call it, your personal charity mission. Watching you try to poke is like watching someone throw feathers at a brick wall, hoping to do damage. Every time you step up, it’s like you’re signing a contract to donate 50% of your health bar to your lane opponent. Honestly, it’s generous, I’ll give you that. You’ve turned trading into a one-sided donation drive, where the only thing you're giving is free kills and opportunities._
_And 8 years? Eight whole years of doing this? That’s not dedication - that’s an odyssey of failure on a scale that’s almost heroic. You’ve crafted a personal narrative of badness that most people couldn’t recreate if they tried. It’s like you’ve been working on a PhD in being bad at Lux, and let me tell you, you’re overqualified. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if your mouse had only two buttons: one to miss skillshots and the other to feed._
_But hey, at least you’re consistent, right? And that’s got to count for something! I mean, most people would accidentally improve after that much time, but not you - you’ve stayed true to your roots, grinding away at mediocrity like it’s your full-time job. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to set Lux free. Try something with no skill, not much aiming. Maybe Yuumi is more your speed. You can latch on to someone else that actually knows what they're doing and just sit back. Nothing personal tho_
What a heartfillig essay. I've never been roasted so violently yet with so much grace and thought behind every word. with every stroke of your finger, carefully caressing on your keyboard I can feel years of soloq scars on your back, countless wars fought against some random dude on the internet. You just destroyed my career as a league player, career that has yet to begin But I can't even be mad. Honestly respect dude for wasting your time on such a failure like me. You are truly a PhD doctor at roasting random dude on the internet. Keep up the good work
@@heroken999 _So we talk about the fact that anyone can climb if they just have good macro and are terrible micro wise ?_ *Summs up emerald elo pretty well atleast, nah ?*
@@hibana364 its kinda hard to be bad at micro, it comes with time and experience naturally. Especially if you dont play super forgiving champs like... lux. But even then watching enough synapse videos or other people who main your champion, your micro will improve no matter what. Most people have more then good enough micro, but they are missing all the macro.
@@hibana364 trust me emerald players don't have macro
ur funny but ur being too harsh towards him, did you get offended when he said that people who speak one language can't get good at league😂?
As a study conducted about what was the impact of luck over success : 8 out of 10 successful people made it because they were skillful AND lucky. 2 out of 10 made it just because they were skillful.
Basically 80% of your success is based on you getting the opportunity and being able to take it, 20% is about succeeding without much opportunities to begin with.
Where does this bring us ? You will always be more impactful if you train than if you just wait for luck to strike.
There's a hardcap for skill, since each champ is still designed not to 1v9, unless you're nasus on a 69min game.
Like how can you beat a Deathball comp squad with voicecomms as a solo player?
in an FPS game like BF1 you can just chuck a grenade or set a trip wire and get a multi kill, while in a moba Deathball comps just annihilates any lane and anyone protecting it.
@@MangaGamified Indeed. And here, the hardcap for skill literally depends on luck. Are you lucky enough during the draft ? Are you lucky enough to see the skillshot soon enough so you can dodge it and make a critical play ?
Some games, you literally rob the game on one mistake from the fed opponents. Luck is still the factor that locks your ability to win despite being skillful here.
@@hibana364 But you can try to influence such luck. Comminicate with team during draft,if you recalling instead of "shopping",look whats happening,if youknow they have ezreal,slightly move your cam to hlep you see his ult. Is it still luck based? Yes. But you gotta take this luck and Wield it,and not jsut wine when your 1d6 doesnt roll6
only because of 20 games with 80% winrate means nothing
Small sample size but the point is that he was hardstuck for a considerable amount of time and he made macro changes and he began seeing results immediately. As soon as I began reviewing my vods I found I was making many game losing mistakes, so there had to be fixed, and I hit d4 for the first time in years.
make sure to tell that to the Iooseq believers when it comes to their 80% Iooserate as well
bro go to any side you can see best players win ratio and you will see they on average someting like 65 % win ratio and its like on highest level. If they would be in bronz they would have on average something like 98% win ratio. but i agree 20 games is not much, good point.
woah wtf I thought this was just gonna be a rant video (which it did start off as) but this quickly turned into a "how to climb the ranks thru midlane" real fast 0-100 haha
And remember, no matter how much you climb, in at best 4 momths you will reset to where you started
I've been playing for a year and I got to diamond this season. It really bugs me how so much people can't look into their errors and accept they're not perfect. I just met someone today that was saying "300 games and I don' understand why I'm stuck in emerald, bad luck" while he was flaming the entire game... like.. can't you notice that MAAAYBE you're doing something wrong?
I think at some point people integrate bad decisions, bad mechanics and bad reflexes because they played the game so much for so long without ACTUALLY trying to improve that it's kinda impossible for them to go back and stop themselves from doing that. Some people make it but it takes some time to reverse all of the bad shit they learnt
Maan i could have not found something more relateable, i always watch skillcapped and i was also stuck in P1, tho i couldnt make it above emerald 3 cuz i just stopped playing due to work and uni
Same exact thoughts, methods and even the role matches
I can 100% recommend this guide to everyone based on experience
10/10
Bad news, EOMM makes sure you don't win too much, unless you have a permanent 5 man squad every time any time.
I know this comment is maybe too late but.....I was Diamond 3 before rank reset and now I am stuck in E3. I get like +20 -18 LP for a game, that is like almost the same. And the worst thing about this is I have been getting this since I played the rank placements :(. In Diamond I was getting all positive people and the game was actually FUN. Now I am getting people who are toxic right of the start in draft, or people who give up after dying two times on a gank and it just feels like imposible for me to have the hand over the game. Usually I perform well. But no matter what I do, it just feels like a complet gambit, depending on what teammates I get. I am saying this as a guy who would always say that if you are not winning it's YOU, but holy shit this is actually insane what I have experienced.
I never thought that I would actually get to this point. But since I have been playing characters like Zoe, Vel'koz and stuff. I developted a play-style about playing around your teammates. And this has worked well in Diamond. But in Emerald people are just bad. And that counts for my team and the other. But my roster of champions just doesn't allow single carry as much as other champions do. But I just don't want to spend time playing champions that I don't like.
Now I don't know what to do. maybe wait another 60 days for another rank reset or idk.
Am I the only one who got stuck and can't move on?
Great video. GZ. I did the same to climb to Diamond and it really worked some months ago, I have reached Diamond 1 recently on Split 2. Split 3 seems too big effort for me so I will do the same again, 1 or 2 games a day full focus and If I play more, just for fun on another acc. or not ranked at all. (SUPPORT HERE)
lux is burst mage not battle mage
good vid man, i've been on this journey too! been at it for a few years all too learn jungle and i've gone from barely getting carried by friends to gold iv for a skin to being able to get myself to emerald consistently. it's a great feeling and your vid is so relatable it's crazy, and i really hope it inspires more people to engage with the game in this way
i keep getting people disconnect, feed whenever they get butthurt and lose us game, people who lose on purpose 🤮🤮
Those people are temporary, your dedication must not 🗿
Well, the fact that your own skill can impact the winning of the game can be proofed even more easier... smurfs! :D
Like if your personal skill would not matter that much, then smurfs would not be that common (or the accounts would not have a sudden spike of a really huge winrate).
So yeah, great video, I agree with everything!
Unbelievable that you only have less than 1k subs and views when your videos are such good quality. Good luck getting popular in the next few years, I bet you can do it if you keep this up.
Great video. Though you didn't play enough matches. And you can play 2-3 games instead of 1-2. Try doing it for entire split and you will end up in diamond+ for sure!
I was exactly where you were. And then after a similar experiment ended up 200lp euw at the end of split. 😅 it works 100%
Is league a skill based game?
Yes.
Can you win at League?
Absolutely, I can dominate my lane 10/1.
Will that translate into a win?
Not when their mid, jungle, and bottom all are 10/1 too, so no, regardless of how good you are, the game will fuck you, I've had a Master friend play on my account and even he said the teams I get are uncariable.
You are lying. If you were truly that unstoppable and making decisions that good, you would climb, full stop. If you’re 10-1 out of laning phase, you can 1v2. If you can force 1v2s repeatedly and win them, your team controls every objective on the map and can no longer lose. The problem is you suck, and until you accept that you will never stop sucking.
Imagine playing a main Shen but the queue will take 3~4 minutes to find a nocturn for the other team every match.
From having played for years I'm just gonna share my thoughts before I finish the video. In fact, I just got to the intro and will share my thoughts. I'll edit later if I feel like I have something else to say.
There are a few complicated issues in the ranked system. ELO hell is real in the sense that there is an ELO range where people simply don't know how the game works and so certain ways of playing the game that kinda relies on your team at least knowing the basics of the game will not work as well in those ranges as they would in higher ELO. Like you're not gonna get a bronze player to ward properly and there is a 50/50 chance they never look at the mini-map all game. You can also get stuck with loosing way more LP per match than you win which means it'll be a lot harder to make proper progress if you've struggled for a few years (like I have, good game knowledge, awful in-game execution of said knowledge) leaving you stuck in lower ELO with those teams that just don't play the same game as higher ELO players and you're losing 2 wins worth of LP on a loss. This is not to say you can't get out of here purely on your own skill but it does mean that you may have valid reasons to make an alt account because you might well start in gold instead of bronze after placements.
"one of the most complicated games out there"
isn't DOTA2 far worse? and don't get me started on stuff like ck2
There are more complicated games out there I'm sure, but the league is super complicated as well
@@Dakkych Yeah definitely, not saying it isn't. that's why I can only really do well with the easy champs ha
The game purposefully puts you into loss games and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Sometimes I lose no matter how well I perform and try to win.
Sometimes I win when I try my best to lose the game (without getting banned for it)
Broooooo statistics! winstreaks are way more common because we play more than 10 games. The cancer example would only work if you only ever play just 10 games and nothing more.
I hit GM in season 14's second spit after learning fundamentals, meta, and matchups as an Emerald on the first spit. I've learnt that this game is, in fact, luck (teammates) based. By playing Meta champs and roam, you can reduce the risk greatly. Your win rate will be higher, around 60 and 65, but it won't be as high as the clickbait VDO that other content producers provide. You should give it a shot if you want to succeed. Personally, I feel terrible that I have to abuse meta to win, rather than just enjoying the champ I love, which is terrible during that season or patch.
So are you a support main?
my life story, being "stuck" but i never tried, always smurfed, kinda sad, but great vid. Im going for masters now
Hey that was me for 4 years xd who knows how high my rank couldve been if i tried when i was like 13 now im 400lp masters maybe i wouldve been challanger 1klp as an 18 yr old
I literally just played a game where they had a trolling mid
I gank top and get her ahead by 3 kills.
My mid is winning because like I said their mid was trolling
I ganked bot and who is reliable and bard and they got some kills.
Guess what? We fucking lost. They did NOTHING all game and they were delusional on coming back. How tf do you lose this? I helped you and you still lost. How did we lose? Maybe I just needed to be better but the truth is we had no pressure. No turrets 1-2 objective but we never pushed. I was held hostage, I saw the team fights and was able to tell that the game was over.
Dont see teamfights. Paticiapte in them:D
Great guide, great video, fun editing. Definitely deserves more subs and LP :D
4:08 that ezreal getting vaporized by 3 lasers damn 💀
I stand by my opinion is that League of Legends is a gatcha game, except you have to wait 30-40 minutes between pulls.
Currently stuck between plat 3 n 2 but 100 percent agree. Was silver a couple seasons ago and decided to actually try in ranked and improve and have a better mental. While my skills have improved alot my mental has reverted lol. Just something i need to work on. I truly do hate how many people blame the game or others for their losses tho. Im well aware most losses i have even if i had a good game were because of severe mistakes im making.
Highly recommend disabling chat completely, set it to party only. Can still communicate through pings, but it's great for focusing on mental
congratulations !!! 🥳🥳 nice to see you found good stable method to climb, meanwhile im stuck bronze 1 ._. , oh well if u ever hit diamond u should do a celebration video
this gameplan is actually usefull af
I want skin for the champ I play,he play the champ he got skin for,we are indeed not the same. Nice video.
Your theory on certain skills in certain mmr brackets is wrong. All it says that the person loses a lot (>= 50 %) in given mmr bracket, but it does not say why.
I better check for cancer... Because my main account is def cursed
Well smurfs and boosting existing and league NOT being a skill based game is already contradictive
I am a top main player, just claiming my feelings of 8 years of league experience, this role is totally irrelevant to winning or losing the fucking game until u get to master or even higher.
The mood swing.
Thats a great video many should watch and internalize. This season was also the one that clicked for me. I climbed from Emerald hardstuck for 5 years and in split 2 I hit master.
You just have to cut out all the bullshit and focus on your gameplay
Video made me laugh so much, nice way of putting jokes trough examples, as a new lol channel too i wish you all best!
Why is a guy talking about climbing while playing Lux?
It's still unfair I have been to iron bronze silver and gold ... I am not considered a good player but from my personal experience in order to climb you have to be good enough to carry or you have to get good teammates... in a few wards you will never be in your elo because you are better than what you deserve you either stuck because you can't carry or you are much better and climb to a division that again you can't carry .... I personally could easily play on platinum for example but I was never able to carry in gold .... should people in order to climb have to carry ?
So far I'm 0W-6L in ranked and it's hard to play the game when someone goes 0/10 in the first 12 mins. Had 1 game where enemy Hecarim bought Spear of Shojin at 8 mins lol.
I just want to say how intelligent u are for using the colours yellow and red in the thumbnail to capture our attention
Chatgpt does wonders if you ask correct questions 🤣
Just five ???? lol I’m on a 15 game loss streak I quit for the split and waited for this reset
Of course if you improve at that game you will climb but it is not a point. I have a problem with matchmaking because it estimates my skill and than force me to win/lose x many games to put me in estimated rank and this is backwards. I would rather play with people in rang that I am in and then stack as a effect of opponents getting better. The same outcome but different experience
Linkin park heavy is the crown 👑
I rarely play ranked but I said why not just play a few games just to get the rewards for the recent split... I went 5/20 W/L. I'm talking a few patches away from ranked lmao
The real question is do people know wtf league of legends is and what the main objective is ? It’s not call of duty team death match that’s forsure
There’s so much aspects in game , so hard to practice , just play and practice and take your time. Learn the game you’ll be fine it’s fun
Congratulations 👏🎉👏 1k sub
6:15 great diagram "skill baset"
Its possible to get worse at lol.
How much work do you need to do in LOL to not become worse? And thats assuming you dont get depressed have sleep issues and never get sick.
Yes. If I don't play for a week my mechanics are thrown out of the window.
The game being very heavily leaning towards deathball comps in addition to EOMM, lastly the h0stage system.
Philosophical guides like focusing, giving it your all, was old, and had been long said and done already. Cause when you always win, EOMM triggers.
okay its kinda true but if it was all skill based, you shouldve been mvp in all of your wins. i consider every win where im not mvp as insanely lucky, since that means one of your teammates was better than you, for me that pretty much never happens, if i win, im mvp simple as that. once every 20 games i win a game where im not mvp. so getting a 10 game winstreak for you was still mostly luck, you carried 4 out of 6, got lucky in the rest. you can look at your losses the same way, if you lose and you were ace, then you were unlucky, if you lose and you are not ace, then you just suck at the game.
nah, enemy can get fed nothing u can do and they are ace and not you. Can get to the point where u cant play because they target you and your fed. Lots of reasons for why you wont always be ace. if your ace almost every time and still hardstuck, your just KDA farming and not actually trying to win or learn.
I gave up on ranked. Ill still play it cause draft no one plays right. Hard stuck bronze regardless how well I play. Still fun though.
ive rapidly risen in rank and rapidly fallen in rank so many times, at this stage, i dont feel like my skill is responsible for rising or falling. its out of my hands. I just play and matchmaking decides if i win or lose.
Would love to have you in my ranked games.
Great video, I hope I could show it to all the crybabies that complain about the new split
Good one mate. I see u 🙃
so how about that. i played 16 matches and won just 4 of them with 7 kda average + 8.0 cs per min average. which is equivalent to master elo performance every match as a mid laner. i watched all the skillcaped mid lane videos and executed them. what are the odds? im bronze 2. after this streak i deleted the game forever.
Dude is lowkey funny af
thank you this is a really good video keep the godd work up
Every game I play all 4 of my teammates are 10x worse than I am but I am unable to climb cuz the enemy team every game plays way better than my team. I win lane 100% of the time but still end up having negative win rate cuz of team. No other reason. I am always the best in my team.
Think about it this way, if all other 9 players are in a bad rank and bad players, and you are supposed to be the good player, then you have to face 5 bad players while the enemy only faces 4 bad players
That's a significant enough advantage
@@Requilith it doesn't matter if all 5 enemies are bad. They're still significantly better than all 4 of my teammates. And thanks to my teammates, all the enemy players are now FED. And even if I outplay them, I lose because I get stat checked since my team gave them a 7000 gold lead
What you say seems impossible but please bare with me when I guess some possible reasons why you feel this way:
1. Winning line is very loose term, do you mean going 10/0 or just few CS up? See for example if you play mid and play Yasuo vs Azir and you went 1 plate up and 10 CS up you might claim you won your line but in fact due to scaling difference you accualy lost line
2. Winning the line is just an aspect of the game, a part of big picture. Even if your line would be challanger lvl but you map awarness, teamfights, macro and roaming will be iron you will be a bronze player at the end.
3. Game splits are 30/40/30 imo, meaning 30% you autolose, 30% you have to just not suck to win and 40% is up to you beeing better than your opponent. So if you are always better you should have 70% WR.
If you would be willing I'd be happy to look at your op.gg and try to find some glearing problems
@@zetsu12344 i am pretty much 10/0 in lane every single game unless hardcounter match up + massive jungle and support babysitting gap to the point i am playing 1v3 the entire game cuz my team sucks.
Winning lane is the most important part of league. If my teammates played like me and won their lane, 3 winning lane is automatic GG. Impossible to lose with 3 winning lane.
Your game split theory is a completely nonsensical fallacy.
Also to you saying that winning line is everything....
Lets say team blue has Panth top, Talon mid and Kalista Adc
While Red had Ornn, Kassadin, Jinx
Blue is 1k gold up on every line at 20 min ... Who is winning?
gattsu is that you?
Same accent I guess 😅
@@Dakkych lolololl
20% skill based 80% luck, my last 6 game were lost on my 30 game 76% win rate sona in emerald.
NA catching strays 😭
crazy i will make a video complaining about riot putting me in teams with afk 0 20 bot ,then i will wait for riot to see and give me good team so they will not look bad on the internet
Ok but what if i analyzed my 100 matches and acording to deeplol in avarage my teammates were worse than enemy? The biggest difference is on top bc i have no impact while i play bot. My score was much higher than avarage. ALWAYS riot can say that score (depends on objective, kda cs..) say nothing. But still these data are more real than their magic mmr. Here i can only believe them that everything is related to good mmr system. Just play more xd yep
Holy anecdote
Even platinum dogs can’t farm properly wtf u saying silvers can farm
Your individual skill matters a lot, in fact, when 4 individuals have skills that matter that you need in a 5-man team and they don't do their part. Well. Do the math.
You're right. It's a skill-based game. The issue is that the skill base is required for all 5 team mates. lol
You're basically saying nothing. The matchmaking is still broken.
Ok I'm just gonna say it if no one else wants to. Emerald players are worse than bronze players.
Rn i feel no matter what i do ill lose like most of em played 4 games 2day and i was rly playing well like beyond my gameplay and i just lost all 4
Idk if it'll help but maybe it's because you play too much. I think it was in a video of xPetu where he said a lot on the environment you play in and how you feel when you decide to play. When you loose 2 in a rows stop playing and if you really wanna climb you review. But yes as many said you have to keep in mind that some lost games are just a team diff (roughly 20%) I think. Finally, it also depends on the impact the role and the champion you play have on the outcome of the game.
ahhh man too much effort, just let me win and get to MASTER already !!! >.>
the problem is i was hardstuck iron/bronze at 69% wr. made a smurf and went to plat. The skill needed to play plat games didnt change from bronze games games one bit. yet on my main i've never gone above silver 3. even now on a few hundred games hardstuck i still have about 55%wr. This is the real problem with ranked. it doesnt matter if you are faker. If you have been cursed with having to play on an old account with bad mmr you just dont climb. +5lp -25lp for a solid year with 69%wr is stupid.
your story doesnt make sense youre allowed to passively climb with the current system
@@Vel5697 exactly.. it doesnt make sense! Yet its the reality for anyone not smurfing cause the ranked system is messed up. I've seen iron players better than me and grandmaster players worse than me. Im in no way "good" at the game, but this is ridicolous.
@@hjfeldt4998 i was doing + 18 and - 30 in gold in last split , i climb to diamond with close to 80 wr in like 60 games while doing + 15 - 32 when i was close to diamond , now next season I peaked master with 80wr , and im doing + 25 - 25 in high diamond . If you play well , you win more , if you win more you increase the lp and the mmr , but the lp goes faster so your gains will be less positive , the more stuck and old is your acc , so longer it takes , but if you was lets say bronze 4 with + 25 - 25 and you climb to silver 4 with high wr lets say 70 , now you are doing + 18 - 30 even tho you have positive wr , it doesnt mean that you are stuck , you got + 400 lp , but maybe + 200 mmr , so you actually did + 200 the visible rank doesnt really matter . Also , smurfs goes higher way faster but it doesnt prove that you are better than your main acc rank , riot tries to place smurfs as fast as possible having few games to analyse , sometimes they place you higher that you should be , sometimes lower , but it adjust quickly , like everything in league rank system , its all about time , no one can be placed correctly if they dont play much , the moment you are hardstuck is finally the moment where the game puts you on your skill level . Also stop with the cope " doesnt matter if you are faker " I just saw a streamer taking an IRON 4 acc with NEGATIVE GAINS all the way up to master in weeks . On the long run , it really only depends on your skills and this has been proven by high elo players litteraly THOUSAND of times already .
@@hjfeldt4998you will hit your ceiling once you make that account with the new gains, the rank system works when you put in the games. Your story fucking sucks when explaining the ranked system because its one analogy. And if you are better than you elo you WILL climb, which is why the ranked system works. Saying ive seen iron player better than me and grandmaster players worse is just ridiculous because while that may be true, iron player will INT at ur elo 90% of time and the grandmaster player will STOMP 90% of the time. Stop the fucking cope and either lock in or quit.
Lol this is 100% a lie
Great video!
if ur the lux in this video, you have horrible mechanics lmao
Yeah I know 😂 I was incredibly rusty that game because I haven't played for a week but I needed some footage so...
What is the website or software on the right side of the screen at 11:21 ?
It is match analysis by op.gg
Not rly, ur method does work, but that's ofc depends on the champs u play and the team u get. I know how to win every game, but in that process I need to avoid ppl stealing my stuff and that's impossible, since my champ will lose SO MUCH if I got stolen from a kill, a jgl cs or a minion. And since Riot will never bann ppl who troll by stealing others, neither will I give a fk to improve my rank. The game is so much focused on champion diff, if u play op champs like Syndra who has FKING TRUE DMG in late, so there is no need for brain and magic penetration or u play vayne who just max hp true dmg or Draven who walks with attack speed 4th shot from Jhin kind of dmg. Then ur method will make these champs easily win almost every game adn improve.
But if u play weak champs like Kalista, Kayn, Aurelion sol, etc... Those champs that relies so much at getting a head to carry, its impossible.
russian science has gone too far
Not quite russian 😂 but you are close
Such a good video