Not gonna lie, some of these gave such an easy and fresh perspective on the game. That was the point of those answers, but its weird that I never thought of it that way. Thank you Hector, bless your work
Massive respect for answering the question of "Is Skill-Capped worth it" and being willing to point out a couple weaknesses of the platform. I was a subscriber for a bit and honestly I'd still be one even though I don't play League these days - just because I like watching the videos - but, money's tight now. I'd definitely recommend Skill-Capped to anyone who finds these videos helpful or entertaining, because there is so much more to see on their site.
I mean true, but they haven't really pointed anything out. I bet there are issues they know about, that they haven't pointed out, that are worse, but I don't blame them for that. It's a business like any. Don't forget that guys.
@@morosov4595 they pointed out most of the only real issues. The only thing they didnt mention is that they dont have enough champion specific guides like combos and such. But maybe they've fixed that since I was a subscriber last year.
@@theSato I think by far the biggest problem, that they even point out in this video and in the "new player guide" is the clickbait. The tierlists are useless for low elo. So are a lot of videos, where they say. "This one thing is losing you games." Where in the video they show a highly specific scenario, where most of the time, you wouldn't do that play in any other circumstances.
@@morosov4595 I don't think clickbait is a major problem relevant to the s-c platform - on RUclips of course there's clickbait and sensationalizing, but everyone does that.. gotta do what you gotta do to lure people in to give you a shot. When I was a subscriber, I didn't really see any of that on the platform itself. But yeah, I can see how someone would be annoyed by it. And some people wont have that much to gain by being a subscriber, it's much more worth it for a true bronze-gold beginner player
@@theSato I don't have a problem with "legitbait" (See Veritasium video, great explaination), but when the content of the video is just so you can make a title is where I draw the line. Yes the clickbait is everywhere, that doesn't mean anything though.
Yeah let’s go ahead and make this a series please 🤭 I learned more in 15 minutes than I have all week, even having watched dozens of hours of SC content
This is one of the best videos you guys have made. Hector your work helps people and pays the bills so it’s just as legitimate as anything else. A chess coach, music teacher, or sports coach has no more value than you
I barely play league. But legit just stay subscribed to skill capped for Hector. Also this was very concise. I appreciated how direct the answers were. My question is, is there a way to accelerate knowing when to break the rules? Or another way, how do i recognize play patterns in the game to know what i should prioritize past the laning phase.
I don’t play at all anymore, haven’t for a while. I still love watching Hector because he is usually miserable and it makes me feel better that i’m not playing.
In LoL, as in other competitive games, I assume just limit testing is best Play 200 games on a champion you want to play to see what works, what doesnt. One good advice is don't ban anything in ban phase, just ask if your team wants ban for themselves You want to have enemies at their best to see what they can punish, so dont ban for yourself Another thing is ask friends of higher rating, if you have any (ideally Diamond 2+) whether what you try to do is punishable. Explain to them what you want to do and whether it can work out. But also dont take it too close to heart, my D2 friend when I was first week in LoL thought Morgana had 1.5s before stun in ult, not 3s so he made wrong calls
I'd say for past laning phase in particular don't prioritize drakes unless they are free or if you want to trade Nash/Herald while enemy is already taking either. If enemies take Drake you may want to just take Nash/Herald in return, it's called mirrored pressure, but you have to do it simultaneously or enemies will come (put a transitional ward in mid in one of the 4 paths leading to river and maybe mid river bush, this way you will see if enemies are coming) The paths leading to river from mid give you a lot of time to prepare for an attack and prevent multiple crossroads from being compromised with wards/enemies coming. A lot of people ward the long bush in river next to mid, but its last notice ward and doesnt show you enemies anywhere else, while road wards give you 3-6 directions with 2 wards
The best ward informarion wise per game is river small bushes next to Drake Pit and Nash Pit Ideally keep Nash and Drake warded with pink, this will make it so enemies cant push until they have ward there or you can take objective for free. Also dont try to take Drake or Nash in 5v5 and try to avoid 5v5 alltogether if you can pick enemies off in 2v2s or similar
@@ArkeniusTV Thank you i'll do my best to apply this. Though do you know when to prioritize towers over teamfights? My current understanding is, apply crossmap pressure or pressure in general whenever possible. Gold is more important than anything else so do whatever gives you more gold more consistently. Don't go into dangerzones/passed vision unless you're in an advantagous position of know where the enemy teams threats are and that you can avoid them. So any general rules of thumb that can help me choose when to better apply or neglect those rules would be greatly appreciated
I recently got coached by a friend and this video just further convinced me that League is not complicated. There are very simple ways to explain every fundamental concept. My friend explained things to me that I never understood, but he said it so concisely that all of the sudden it clicked and I'm climbing again.
The thing I love most about this video, compared to almost every other coach and coaching service, is your honesty about the usefulness of your service. You wouldn't in a million years catch Neace admitting that he has flaws when it comes to coaching high elo.
Not gonna lie, this video was more helpful than any other video you guys have put out. Simply because it puts your mind at ease regarding some topics players tend to overthink. I'd love to see more of these videos.
Hi, really nice and informative video. If there is a second part, here is my question: How do I ward/defend myself as a midlaner vs an invisible jungler e.g.: Evelynn, shaco or maybe even nocturne. Thanks for the content
Hi there!, i'm a master midlaner myself and i tend to struggle with that a lot back in the day. What i would advice is try to ward their camps, for example and the most likely camp to do that on is raptors, evelyn is not in stealth when she is is doing her camp so that gives you a lot of information, most likely she will walk towards the next camp in the other side of the jungle, which gives you even more information. Hover the side of the raptors now, You know she is probably not there anymore so that gives you way more safety. And if she puts her W (her charm) on to you a minute later, walk towards the side of the raptors. the chances of her being there is almost 0. which means u should be quite save. For nocturne on the other hand, Ward deep. the still concepts apply tho. But you just need to know the R range, look that up in the practice tool and make sure to ward 1 side of your lane and if u can, as deep as possible. Same goes for high movement speed junglers like hecarim and rammus. For shaco, try to ward behind the small river walls on mid, so you can see the area between the vision plant and the raptors, they mostly gank by jumping over the wall in stealth, but if you can see them beforehand, you can walk away with no issues. this also applies for twitch. Hope this helps you!
I take in so much of your content that I didn't really expect to learn anything new, but the losing castor minions and afk support mindsets really blew my mind. Very good wisdom Hector, much appreciated. P.S Your job pays (I hope) while having a massive positive impact in your community = WIN WIN
literally my last game we did exactly what you're saying at 07:55 and won effortlessly - got top inhib and they couldn't contest either Baron *or* Dragon Soul because they had to defend their base. put a little smile on my face when you told me something I did completely by accident can win a game. thanks!
This was one of the best SC videos I've ever seen! ( I watch every video that isn't about jng ) I think in general it is easy to start playing league, then sort of figure out what to do and then try to incorporate advanced or average concepts but rarely do people focus on the actual fundamentals. League doesn't tell you a lot of details, some of which are quite important. My questions that I would love to see answered, would be simar to this: Could you please explain the absolute basics of the game that are rarely talked about, like gold acquisition, timing windows and itemization? how important is missing cs that you could've gotten, how much gold do you get from plates or from roaming or farming normally or farming super minions for X minutes? how fast do waves come and take to bounce back after a crash or when they are pushing away or if a lazy enemy only farms two waves when it crashes? how does this change with supers, how long does it take to walk to midlane/toplane or roam, and with boots? About itemization: what items combine well and which do you buy depending on what factor (how for example do I know how effective a less used buildpath is without having to test in game or even practice tool)? Beginners but also proficiant players may know some or most of these, but then still hearing concepts like this clearly explained by someone who really mastered these topics could help greatly to see the game more clearly and from a new perspective, allowing us to prioritise better and better recognise opportunities that arise! It's like hector always shows us in his challenges, that he understands the game so well that he knows what other game mechanics/systems to rely on to still pull ahead.
I am around plat 1, I win my lane (top) consistently and my playstyle is split all game until I have to tp to the fight but i still only have a 55% winrate. And often it really sucks having 0/5 bot lane at 14 minutes.
I really love this type of video, I will enjoy it more once you get the most common questions that you guys covered in your videos already and we get some nuance and specific questions.
12:35 For me the huge problem is as a jungler, what do i do when if my lanes lose and still PUSH THE FCKIN HELL OUT OF IT and still die so there is no laner to gank ?
12:50 If all three lanes are losing, you cannot usually "just go kill them for overextending". Your allies are losing because they are passive and bad. You will almost always just die alone if you gank losing lanes. Best plan is to save your limited mental stamina and go next.
i can't exaggerate how helpful that felt like changing my mindset to see things in better perspective and surely would like more of this type of videos thank u guys
My ego and impatience loses me more games than my team ever can. “I’m bored, I wonder if I can outplay this warw…… nvm…” “I want dragon, I shouldn’t but I want it. Risk it? Fk it…. 💀 “
Love this concept. Would love to see more. My question: if you are playing jungle and one of your lanes turbo ints and the other team now has a massively fed threat that starts roaming and pressuring other lanes. how do you respond? do you avoid them and let them do whatever they want? do you try and shut them down so they dont get bigger? would love an answer, great content 👍
I've found, as a top laner, I will just start chewing through jungle minions and side lanes to catch up, even if my JG doesn't like it. They are usually less effective anyway, when the team is behind, than a top laner. I can get myself up to 10-12 cs per minute each game by doing this. That is a lot of cash. Might be different at higher elo, but in Silver, it has secured the win, even after losing 3 inhibs, on multiple occasions.
I relate so much with point 6 about the team araming mid, because it happens EVERY SINGLE GAME. Bot takes first tower and instantly shifts mid and start taking cs wherever they can, setting me as a midlander even further back.
Watching more than playing is actually true. I thought I would never make it into gold but I did when I finally started watching a ton of spearshot (i main pantheon) and then I got into gold. Watching how they play the matchups was far more efficient than if I were to try and keep playing
the problem I've been having with splitpushing is that setting up a lane for split pushing takes time. Let's say I was splipushing as my team do dragon and the enemy team comes to stop me. I get a tower, a kill, my team gets dragon but I die for it. When I respawn every lane is once again pushed into our towers and someone else in the team is dead. I'll go to one of the lanes and start pushing it out. Meanwhile 2 of my teamates are randomly invading the enemy jungle on the other side and both die for free. Now the enemies are pushing 5v3 in mid, which means I have to back or inhib dies, and then nexus, and I haven't even reached a tower yet. scenario 2. I never died, but my teammates weren't pressuring anything and the entire enemy team is missing. They only have inhib turrets left. If I just keep pushing the lane until I reach a turret so that I am ready to spplitpush, I will get 5man ganked and die, and my team won't do anything with that pressure. so I can't really push it far past the river, and then when it's finally time to splitpush, by the time I reach a tower, my entire team is dead and the enemy team will end the game by the time I get an inhib
I would appreciate videos on decision making and how to better watch the map as a mid laner. My map is actually really big. it's just hard to get into the habit of looking at it. I often find myself and my team not looking at the map, which ends up making us make bad decisions. If there is a video or course already, let me know. Also, I do have a sub to your site. Otherwise, I would like a video on pathing to another lane. I started out iron 1, went all the down to iron 4 75 LP, and am currently at bronze 4 56 LP with my peak at Bronze 3 80 LP.
Q and A seems really efficient since most people just wanna climb. Spécific vidéos are good but global vidéos like this. And especially this q and a format is amazing. Really learned essential tips quickly here
@skillcapped What to do in case if you are low on resourses and wave statement is bad? You have to crush it and there's high chance of being ganked. What is better - try to fix the wave and probably die or let it go, back and come to the freezed wave?
The important thing you need to understand is everything in this game had an opportunity cost. And all macro play is playing to your team’s strengths, and making your opponent uncomfortable. When someone freezes the lane, it may seem like the lane is free and easy, (and that’s cus it kind of is.) but the opportunity cost is that their not actually putting any pressure on the map. If you were to roam mid as an example, the freezing top laner is now forced to hold the freeze and cant punish the plates, or they will crash the wave again so they can back or follow you. If they decide to leave immediately they lose more gold. They are saying putting you behind is more important then being on the map
Nice video. Here´s my question: Situation -- I play camille and i'm against Darius. I play safe during lane phase, but what happens is that Darius freezes against me. In 10 minutes i'm like 50 cs and he''s 100 cs. So he's strong and when jg ganks me he dies and Darius now has a bounty -- What should i do ? If i try to break the freeze he kills me with ghost.
This has to be one of the best videos so far, just to add a some questions, the obvious is what happens if all my lanes are pushing, as this is one common question, also maybe another set of tricks for jungle tracking? After Laning phase it always becomes a mess and also if the enemy jungler doesn't really have a "path" how to punish
Hello! Just leaving my question here: How do you stay motivated? It feels difficult times to keep grinding after bad games, and was wondering if you have any advice on this. Thanks!
I’m main adc I play different depending of who I use so lately I been playing a lot of Nilah and with her I’m more reactive than proactive, so I wait till opponents make mistakes, I been getting a lot of flame lately from really crazy supports that want to dive towers at level 3 or engage in bad fights were I chose not to participate. I do feel that I’m doing it wrong tho cause last season I was plat and this I’m gold but is so much easier for me to be aggressive with Ashe or my main varus than to be aggressive with Nilah, I have 53% wr with her and I feel that the lost matches has been cause I forced, I win more when I wait till cooldowns are off and then I enter tf, when I wait for the error, so I feel I need to use it a bit like an assassin
I get it, macro is laning phase works for people who fully grasp that concept.. but it doesn’t help those people who don’t understand why I’m pushing lanes instead of contesting the 3v5 at dragon.
This was a really great and informative video! My question is: How do I get better at understanding when I can invade as a top laner, or take my jungler's camps, when I hard shoved a wave and nothing is really going on?
I've watched your content for more than 2 years and one thing that I've realized is that you should always question your decision like when some of your videos asks us, viewers, which one are correct choice. I've bern watching my replays win or lose so I can understand where I did wrong and whether I did right decision, most of the times if I cannot remember/explain why I did the things in game I'd assume that that's a wrong decision to do.
I'm glad to hear that you guys are adding a search function. I'm a big fan of skillcapped content but I feel like the structure of the site is definitely holding in back.
Make a series please. My question: How do I increase my chance of winning when my champion is terrible against a certain team comp? It is really rare I admit, but you have to admit too, that playing katarina against a full stun team comp is pretty bad. Everyone gets their worst case scenario teamcomp in the enemy sometimes, how do we play those games to have the best chances?
I started playing league like 2 weeks ago. But years ago I’d play smite pretty competitively. And low Elo league games are pretty funny bc ppl are ez to piss off, impatient, and can get kited like the trainer npcs. Started iron now I’m plat
Now the hardest question: what should I do if I play the game since season 2, put in several thousand hours, watched all your videos and tons of streamers and still the highest I ever peaked was Silver I? ... probably just quit, right? But please admit that your guides won´t fix every ones issues if the mechanics and multitasking skills are just toooo bad
I've had laners die pre 3-camps and spam pinging for ganks before. Tbh muting them and keeping a calm mental is one of the most effective ways to have a chance at winning the game. Granted you'll almost always have at least one game where someone decides to grief due to their own frustration, and all I can say is play around the team members who are calm and still have a chance of winning
Several reviews say that the guides on skill capped are not up to date. When were the guides last updated, and how often can we expect for them to updated? Thanks
how do i keep my damage up, when my team expects me to be at every teamfight AND solo objectives WHILE they're not pushing their towers? Do I focus those Epics or do I focus on helping knock down towers? I've often used the analogy of "catching the golden snitch" to end the game by at least knocking down towers to get closer to the nexus as pressure. I have won so many games because I made sure to push because I noticed my laners not pushing even after ace-ing the enemy.
15:00 Well, i learned it by myself ... My team has pressure midlane and botlane. So i was like "cool, let's take this drake ! it's free !" ... my pyke just suicide himself undertower chasing morgana, his MF stay under tower and was so low that she needed to recall, and during this time, Vi just came stole the drake and kill me. Same game, i'm thinking "ok, we don't have pressure mid but the enemy ahri just recall, it's free.", i help pyke and MF pushing under tower, they don't move with me so i make sign. Pyke coming with me but ahri return, i go attack her to force her to recall again and take drake buttt ... well ... pyke suicide himself under tower AGAIN. (well, In fact he was very low and got one shoot by Vi while i was taking drake) ... i was dumb enough thinking MF will help me, so Vi killed me again. Then, Pyke was flamming me, that i was feeding Vi (i did die two time against her, but morde die once, pyke once too (and once against morgana), MF too. So i didn't feed her much but whatever.. Now, i just think "ok, did i have 80% chance to take it without help ? no? then i don't do it !",i ward and farm until the enemy jungler take it, so i can invade or take other objectives or gank
The low elo ADC support experience: your support uses all of their abilities on the wave, denying you CS and then proceeds to overextend with all of their abilities on cooldown and dies. How do you deal with that?
Great video. Question for you : as an botlaner, i try to fix lanes (crash at tier 2 or else) before i wanna group to fight or to do an objective (so the team doesn't loose too much if the fight goes bad). But it can be hard sometimes, when there's a global ult such as panth or TF that could one shot me, or an assassin roaming the whole map (i can't ward everywhere). It leads to guetting caught before a teamfight or to pressure alone while my whole team does a 4v5 anyway and loses it. How to fix it ?
What do you do if I try to split and one or two teammates keep following me and fighting to get the cs but leaving objectives? Even when I ping that I’m going down a lane or say hey I’m going to split, over and over I’ve watched like our support trudge down the lane after me like it’s not going to ensure we get jumped 5v2 and they die even if I get out because I was playing to split If if I’m a bad team fighter but fast tower taker and my team is FOLLOWING ME around making sure it’s a 5v5 we lose not a coin toss 4v4 and a 1v1 I win
I main Senna for the purpose of being a damage threat in the later teamfights in case my ADC messes up. As a Senna DPS, how do I split push effectively and snowball my laning phase lead?
In the video you discuss what to do if your laners are perma pushed in, but in my games i seem to have the opposite problem, How do i properly towerdive bot lane without getting cc'd under turret. I feel like i lose a lot of my games due to laners perma pushing, then dying by jungler and then i get hit with the jungle diff...
This Q&A was really enjoyable, but I felt like a question wasn't really well interpreted, I mean you analyzed hard matchups assuming both players were of equal skill/mastery but in my experience this never happens. In almost 95% of my games there's a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge difference in mastery as I have enemies 100-200-500k when I am (at my best 30k) and in average 10k and the difference in term of game experience is so depressing (you see them moving like hell clicking around their character, or hitting every skillshot), I'd be glad to hear some advice vs that gap in skill.
Omg hector you opened my eyes with the 70% watch 30% play rule😳 tell me what player to watch to carry from jungle with j4, vi, sejuani, zac etc I want to wach a educational stream not just content creators
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ALWAYS THE BEST CONTENT OUT THERE FOR YEARS
Proper Content . . . you're doing your part to put NA players on the map
u guys shoul stop coaching because the players are too good
Not gonna lie, some of these gave such an easy and fresh perspective on the game. That was the point of those answers, but its weird that I never thought of it that way. Thank you Hector, bless your work
Massive respect for answering the question of "Is Skill-Capped worth it" and being willing to point out a couple weaknesses of the platform.
I was a subscriber for a bit and honestly I'd still be one even though I don't play League these days - just because I like watching the videos - but, money's tight now. I'd definitely recommend Skill-Capped to anyone who finds these videos helpful or entertaining, because there is so much more to see on their site.
I mean true, but they haven't really pointed anything out. I bet there are issues they know about, that they haven't pointed out, that are worse, but I don't blame them for that. It's a business like any. Don't forget that guys.
@@morosov4595 they pointed out most of the only real issues. The only thing they didnt mention is that they dont have enough champion specific guides like combos and such. But maybe they've fixed that since I was a subscriber last year.
@@theSato I think by far the biggest problem, that they even point out in this video and in the "new player guide" is the clickbait. The tierlists are useless for low elo. So are a lot of videos, where they say. "This one thing is losing you games." Where in the video they show a highly specific scenario, where most of the time, you wouldn't do that play in any other circumstances.
@@morosov4595 I don't think clickbait is a major problem relevant to the s-c platform - on RUclips of course there's clickbait and sensationalizing, but everyone does that.. gotta do what you gotta do to lure people in to give you a shot. When I was a subscriber, I didn't really see any of that on the platform itself.
But yeah, I can see how someone would be annoyed by it. And some people wont have that much to gain by being a subscriber, it's much more worth it for a true bronze-gold beginner player
@@theSato I don't have a problem with "legitbait" (See Veritasium video, great explaination), but when the content of the video is just so you can make a title is where I draw the line. Yes the clickbait is everywhere, that doesn't mean anything though.
Yeah let’s go ahead and make this a series please 🤭 I learned more in 15 minutes than I have all week, even having watched dozens of hours of SC content
This is one of the best videos you guys have made. Hector your work helps people and pays the bills so it’s just as legitimate as anything else. A chess coach, music teacher, or sports coach has no more value than you
I barely play league. But legit just stay subscribed to skill capped for Hector. Also this was very concise. I appreciated how direct the answers were.
My question is, is there a way to accelerate knowing when to break the rules? Or another way, how do i recognize play patterns in the game to know what i should prioritize past the laning phase.
I don’t play at all anymore, haven’t for a while.
I still love watching Hector because he is usually miserable and it makes me feel better that i’m not playing.
In LoL, as in other competitive games, I assume just limit testing is best
Play 200 games on a champion you want to play to see what works, what doesnt. One good advice is don't ban anything in ban phase, just ask if your team wants ban for themselves
You want to have enemies at their best to see what they can punish, so dont ban for yourself
Another thing is ask friends of higher rating, if you have any (ideally Diamond 2+) whether what you try to do is punishable. Explain to them what you want to do and whether it can work out. But also dont take it too close to heart, my D2 friend when I was first week in LoL thought Morgana had 1.5s before stun in ult, not 3s so he made wrong calls
I'd say for past laning phase in particular don't prioritize drakes unless they are free or if you want to trade Nash/Herald while enemy is already taking either. If enemies take Drake you may want to just take Nash/Herald in return, it's called mirrored pressure, but you have to do it simultaneously or enemies will come (put a transitional ward in mid in one of the 4 paths leading to river and maybe mid river bush, this way you will see if enemies are coming)
The paths leading to river from mid give you a lot of time to prepare for an attack and prevent multiple crossroads from being compromised with wards/enemies coming. A lot of people ward the long bush in river next to mid, but its last notice ward and doesnt show you enemies anywhere else, while road wards give you 3-6 directions with 2 wards
The best ward informarion wise per game is river small bushes next to Drake Pit and Nash Pit
Ideally keep Nash and Drake warded with pink, this will make it so enemies cant push until they have ward there or you can take objective for free. Also dont try to take Drake or Nash in 5v5 and try to avoid 5v5 alltogether if you can pick enemies off in 2v2s or similar
@@ArkeniusTV Thank you i'll do my best to apply this. Though do you know when to prioritize towers over teamfights?
My current understanding is, apply crossmap pressure or pressure in general whenever possible. Gold is more important than anything else so do whatever gives you more gold more consistently.
Don't go into dangerzones/passed vision unless you're in an advantagous position of know where the enemy teams threats are and that you can avoid them.
So any general rules of thumb that can help me choose when to better apply or neglect those rules would be greatly appreciated
For point 3 I think adding "deliberate practice" into the play part is important too. Great Video!
I recently got coached by a friend and this video just further convinced me that League is not complicated. There are very simple ways to explain every fundamental concept. My friend explained things to me that I never understood, but he said it so concisely that all of the sudden it clicked and I'm climbing again.
The thing I love most about this video, compared to almost every other coach and coaching service, is your honesty about the usefulness of your service. You wouldn't in a million years catch Neace admitting that he has flaws when it comes to coaching high elo.
Sell your liver for good coaching seems better 😂
Not gonna lie, this video was more helpful than any other video you guys have put out. Simply because it puts your mind at ease regarding some topics players tend to overthink. I'd love to see more of these videos.
Hi, really nice and informative video. If there is a second part, here is my question: How do I ward/defend myself as a midlaner vs an invisible jungler e.g.: Evelynn, shaco or maybe even nocturne. Thanks for the content
Let's add Twitch to that since he's really popluar botlane right now.
twitch and eve can be seen with control wards so put them in bushes
As Phat Ho already said, cobtrol wards against Eve and Twitch. Against Shaco you need to ward deeper so you spot him before he yses q
Also, if you get a ward on their camps you can see them clearing, that's helpful
Hi there!, i'm a master midlaner myself and i tend to struggle with that a lot back in the day. What i would advice is try to ward their camps, for example and the most likely camp to do that on is raptors, evelyn is not in stealth when she is is doing her camp so that gives you a lot of information, most likely she will walk towards the next camp in the other side of the jungle, which gives you even more information. Hover the side of the raptors now, You know she is probably not there anymore so that gives you way more safety. And if she puts her W (her charm) on to you a minute later, walk towards the side of the raptors. the chances of her being there is almost 0. which means u should be quite save.
For nocturne on the other hand, Ward deep. the still concepts apply tho. But you just need to know the R range, look that up in the practice tool and make sure to ward 1 side of your lane and if u can, as deep as possible. Same goes for high movement speed junglers like hecarim and rammus.
For shaco, try to ward behind the small river walls on mid, so you can see the area between the vision plant and the raptors, they mostly gank by jumping over the wall in stealth, but if you can see them beforehand, you can walk away with no issues. this also applies for twitch.
Hope this helps you!
I take in so much of your content that I didn't really expect to learn anything new, but the losing castor minions and afk support mindsets really blew my mind.
Very good wisdom Hector, much appreciated.
P.S Your job pays (I hope) while having a massive positive impact in your community = WIN WIN
Nice video, would like to see a series of this answers!
correction: Hector's job is to suffer for our amusement. Going through the seven circles of elo hell on a daily basis. God rest his soul.
literally my last game we did exactly what you're saying at 07:55 and won effortlessly - got top inhib and they couldn't contest either Baron *or* Dragon Soul because they had to defend their base. put a little smile on my face when you told me something I did completely by accident can win a game. thanks!
This was one of the best SC videos I've ever seen! ( I watch every video that isn't about jng )
I think in general it is easy to start playing league, then sort of figure out what to do and then try to incorporate advanced or average concepts but rarely do people focus on the actual fundamentals. League doesn't tell you a lot of details, some of which are quite important.
My questions that I would love to see answered, would be simar to this:
Could you please explain the absolute basics of the game that are rarely talked about, like gold acquisition, timing windows and itemization?
how important is missing cs that you could've gotten, how much gold do you get from plates or from roaming or farming normally or farming super minions for X minutes? how fast do waves come and take to bounce back after a crash or when they are pushing away or if a lazy enemy only farms two waves when it crashes? how does this change with supers, how long does it take to walk to midlane/toplane or roam, and with boots? About itemization: what items combine well and which do you buy depending on what factor (how for example do I know how effective a less used buildpath is without having to test in game or even practice tool)?
Beginners but also proficiant players may know some or most of these, but then still hearing concepts like this clearly explained by someone who really mastered these topics could help greatly to see the game more clearly and from a new perspective, allowing us to prioritise better and better recognise opportunities that arise!
It's like hector always shows us in his challenges, that he understands the game so well that he knows what other game mechanics/systems to rely on to still pull ahead.
I am around plat 1, I win my lane (top) consistently and my playstyle is split all game until I have to tp to the fight but i still only have a 55% winrate. And often it really sucks having 0/5 bot lane at 14 minutes.
I really love this type of video, I will enjoy it more once you get the most common questions that you guys covered in your videos already and we get some nuance and specific questions.
12:35
For me the huge problem is
as a jungler, what do i do when if my lanes lose and still PUSH THE FCKIN HELL OUT OF IT and still die so there is no laner to gank ?
I love all Hector’s content. I’d love more answer videos like this one!
12:50 If all three lanes are losing, you cannot usually "just go kill them for overextending". Your allies are losing because they are passive and bad. You will almost always just die alone if you gank losing lanes. Best plan is to save your limited mental stamina and go next.
i can't exaggerate how helpful that felt like changing my mindset to see things in better perspective and surely would like more of this type of videos thank u guys
Great video! This is way nicer than waiting for answers to questions on the commentaries.
This is amazing, really love hector's mindset and been using it for a long time
This video is honestly very helpful would love more of this type of content
i usually dont watch this stuff, but tbh this video really helped me a lot
Always enjoy Hector breaking it down!
This was a great format.... Greatly appreciate the real answers to real questions. Well done
My ego and impatience loses me more games than my team ever can.
“I’m bored, I wonder if I can outplay this warw…… nvm…”
“I want dragon, I shouldn’t but I want it. Risk it? Fk it…. 💀 “
Love this concept. Would love to see more.
My question: if you are playing jungle and one of your lanes turbo ints and the other team now has a massively fed threat that starts roaming and pressuring other lanes. how do you respond? do you avoid them and let them do whatever they want? do you try and shut them down so they dont get bigger? would love an answer, great content 👍
its so nice to see a company earnestly, put great content out there. Don't lose your touch. We love you :) - a toxic league player
Great video, waiting for more :) learned something today
I've found, as a top laner, I will just start chewing through jungle minions and side lanes to catch up, even if my JG doesn't like it. They are usually less effective anyway, when the team is behind, than a top laner. I can get myself up to 10-12 cs per minute each game by doing this. That is a lot of cash. Might be different at higher elo, but in Silver, it has secured the win, even after losing 3 inhibs, on multiple occasions.
Guys. Your video quality is soo good. Editing, narration, content. You'all are awesome.
Really good video! Gave so much info in short duration. Especially the 70/30
I relate so much with point 6 about the team araming mid, because it happens EVERY SINGLE GAME. Bot takes first tower and instantly shifts mid and start taking cs wherever they can, setting me as a midlander even further back.
You are the one at fault then
Watching more than playing is actually true. I thought I would never make it into gold but I did when I finally started watching a ton of spearshot (i main pantheon) and then I got into gold. Watching how they play the matchups was far more efficient than if I were to try and keep playing
I appreciate the variety and quality of those tips. Great video 📹 👍
Thanks for these vids. This one was really helpful.
The answers are perfectly tailored towards low elo players and that makes them fresh, understandable and genuinely helpful, thqnk you!
This video was awesome. Please do more of these.
Thanks for the video! I would like some advice on how to close out games fast
the problem I've been having with splitpushing is that setting up a lane for split pushing takes time. Let's say I was splipushing as my team do dragon and the enemy team comes to stop me. I get a tower, a kill, my team gets dragon but I die for it. When I respawn every lane is once again pushed into our towers and someone else in the team is dead. I'll go to one of the lanes and start pushing it out. Meanwhile 2 of my teamates are randomly invading the enemy jungle on the other side and both die for free. Now the enemies are pushing 5v3 in mid, which means I have to back or inhib dies, and then nexus, and I haven't even reached a tower yet.
scenario 2. I never died, but my teammates weren't pressuring anything and the entire enemy team is missing. They only have inhib turrets left. If I just keep pushing the lane until I reach a turret so that I am ready to spplitpush, I will get 5man ganked and die, and my team won't do anything with that pressure. so I can't really push it far past the river, and then when it's finally time to splitpush, by the time I reach a tower, my entire team is dead and the enemy team will end the game by the time I get an inhib
I would appreciate videos on decision making and how to better watch the map as a mid laner.
My map is actually really big. it's just hard to get into the habit of looking at it.
I often find myself and my team not looking at the map, which ends up making us make bad decisions. If there is a video or course already, let me know. Also, I do have a sub to your site.
Otherwise, I would like a video on pathing to another lane.
I started out iron 1, went all the down to iron 4 75 LP, and am currently at bronze 4 56 LP with my peak at Bronze 3 80 LP.
This was one of the best informative League videos I've ever watched.
Q and A seems really efficient since most people just wanna climb. Spécific vidéos are good but global vidéos like this. And especially this q and a format is amazing. Really learned essential tips quickly here
One of the best lol improvement videos on this channel
@skillcapped What to do in case if you are low on resourses and wave statement is bad? You have to crush it and there's high chance of being ganked. What is better - try to fix the wave and probably die or let it go, back and come to the freezed wave?
The important thing you need to understand is everything in this game had an opportunity cost. And all macro play is playing to your team’s strengths, and making your opponent uncomfortable.
When someone freezes the lane, it may seem like the lane is free and easy, (and that’s cus it kind of is.) but the opportunity cost is that their not actually putting any pressure on the map. If you were to roam mid as an example, the freezing top laner is now forced to hold the freeze and cant punish the plates, or they will crash the wave again so they can back or follow you. If they decide to leave immediately they lose more gold.
They are saying putting you behind is more important then being on the map
Really informative video thank you for making it would love to see another
Nice video. Here´s my question: Situation -- I play camille and i'm against Darius. I play safe during lane phase, but what happens is that Darius freezes against me. In 10 minutes i'm like 50 cs and he''s 100 cs. So he's strong and when jg ganks me he dies and Darius now has a bounty -- What should i do ? If i try to break the freeze he kills me with ghost.
This has to be one of the best videos so far, just to add a some questions, the obvious is what happens if all my lanes are pushing, as this is one common question, also maybe another set of tricks for jungle tracking? After Laning phase it always becomes a mess and also if the enemy jungler doesn't really have a "path" how to punish
good video. more questions plz. i feel they appeal to more players than the more specific videos.
Need more videos like this i actually have a membership and i feel like there is more content updated on RUclips rather than skill capped
Hello! Just leaving my question here: How do you stay motivated? It feels difficult times to keep grinding after bad games, and was wondering if you have any advice on this. Thanks!
This RUclips channel made me learn about wave management and singlehandedly got me to gold
6:23 NUNU! Exactly what I thought of when you said snowball
3:52 Lol I just watched this clip from the DWG Kia channel xD
Thank you Hector, very nice and informative video!
More Hector please
I’m main adc I play different depending of who I use so lately I been playing a lot of Nilah and with her I’m more reactive than proactive, so I wait till opponents make mistakes, I been getting a lot of flame lately from really crazy supports that want to dive towers at level 3 or engage in bad fights were I chose not to participate. I do feel that I’m doing it wrong tho cause last season I was plat and this I’m gold but is so much easier for me to be aggressive with Ashe or my main varus than to be aggressive with Nilah, I have 53% wr with her and I feel that the lost matches has been cause I forced, I win more when I wait till cooldowns are off and then I enter tf, when I wait for the error, so I feel I need to use it a bit like an assassin
I get it, macro is laning phase works for people who fully grasp that concept.. but it doesn’t help those people who don’t understand why I’m pushing lanes instead of contesting the 3v5 at dragon.
You should do a video where you int on purpose and then try to come back from it
This was a really great and informative video!
My question is: How do I get better at understanding when I can invade as a top laner, or take my jungler's camps, when I hard shoved a wave and nothing is really going on?
i love how honest this feels
We love you Hector, keep doing your thing
I've watched your content for more than 2 years and one thing that I've realized is that you should always question your decision like when some of your videos asks us, viewers, which one are correct choice. I've bern watching my replays win or lose so I can understand where I did wrong and whether I did right decision, most of the times if I cannot remember/explain why I did the things in game I'd assume that that's a wrong decision to do.
I'm glad to hear that you guys are adding a search function. I'm a big fan of skillcapped content but I feel like the structure of the site is definitely holding in back.
Make a series please. My question: How do I increase my chance of winning when my champion is terrible against a certain team comp? It is really rare I admit, but you have to admit too, that playing katarina against a full stun team comp is pretty bad. Everyone gets their worst case scenario teamcomp in the enemy sometimes, how do we play those games to have the best chances?
I started playing league like 2 weeks ago. But years ago I’d play smite pretty competitively. And low Elo league games are pretty funny bc ppl are ez to piss off, impatient, and can get kited like the trainer npcs. Started iron now I’m plat
Now the hardest question: what should I do if I play the game since season 2, put in several thousand hours, watched all your videos and tons of streamers and still the highest I ever peaked was Silver I? ... probably just quit, right? But please admit that your guides won´t fix every ones issues if the mechanics and multitasking skills are just toooo bad
"sometimes your jungler does connect to the game" oh ma gawd, i giggled
Thanks Hector but I'm still trying to figure out what to tell my mid when they spam ask for a gank and I haven't finished my first camp
Mute Pings and decide what is the best course of action for your pos.
Oh, that was a rhetorical question? Oops
@@nekrosis4431 I've definitely started muting everything this year 😅
I've had laners die pre 3-camps and spam pinging for ganks before. Tbh muting them and keeping a calm mental is one of the most effective ways to have a chance at winning the game. Granted you'll almost always have at least one game where someone decides to grief due to their own frustration, and all I can say is play around the team members who are calm and still have a chance of winning
Several reviews say that the guides on skill capped are not up to date. When were the guides last updated, and how often can we expect for them to updated? Thanks
Very good video indeed. This kind of content is very welcome!
how do i keep my damage up, when my team expects me to be at every teamfight AND solo objectives WHILE they're not pushing their towers? Do I focus those Epics or do I focus on helping knock down towers?
I've often used the analogy of "catching the golden snitch" to end the game by at least knocking down towers to get closer to the nexus as pressure. I have won so many games because I made sure to push because I noticed my laners not pushing even after ace-ing the enemy.
Does Mr and armor matter when you have a shield..? Isn't a shield just extra health but you take true damage?
Resistances apply to shields and true damage hurts shields before health, think of it as just an extended healthbar👍🏽
15:00 Well, i learned it by myself ... My team has pressure midlane and botlane. So i was like "cool, let's take this drake ! it's free !"
... my pyke just suicide himself undertower chasing morgana, his MF stay under tower and was so low that she needed to recall, and during this time, Vi just came stole the drake and kill me.
Same game, i'm thinking "ok, we don't have pressure mid but the enemy ahri just recall, it's free.", i help pyke and MF pushing under tower, they don't move with me so i make sign.
Pyke coming with me but ahri return, i go attack her to force her to recall again and take drake buttt ... well ... pyke suicide himself under tower AGAIN. (well, In fact he was very low and got one shoot by Vi while i was taking drake) ... i was dumb enough thinking MF will help me, so Vi killed me again.
Then, Pyke was flamming me, that i was feeding Vi (i did die two time against her, but morde die once, pyke once too (and once against morgana), MF too. So i didn't feed her much but whatever..
Now, i just think "ok, did i have 80% chance to take it without help ? no? then i don't do it !",i ward and farm until the enemy jungler take it, so i can invade or take other objectives or gank
Good video! I enjoyed it a lot
Love this Q&A!
What is your best advice for a person that is already masters+ and trying to improve to grandmaster/chall?
The low elo ADC support experience: your support uses all of their abilities on the wave, denying you CS and then proceeds to overextend with all of their abilities on cooldown and dies. How do you deal with that?
Great video. Question for you : as an botlaner, i try to fix lanes (crash at tier 2 or else) before i wanna group to fight or to do an objective (so the team doesn't loose too much if the fight goes bad). But it can be hard sometimes, when there's a global ult such as panth or TF that could one shot me, or an assassin roaming the whole map (i can't ward everywhere). It leads to guetting caught before a teamfight or to pressure alone while my whole team does a 4v5 anyway and loses it. How to fix it ?
1:00 that's such a rude thing to say.
What do you do if I try to split and one or two teammates keep following me and fighting to get the cs but leaving objectives? Even when I ping that I’m going down a lane or say hey I’m going to split, over and over I’ve watched like our support trudge down the lane after me like it’s not going to ensure we get jumped 5v2 and they die even if I get out because I was playing to split
If if I’m a bad team fighter but fast tower taker and my team is FOLLOWING ME around making sure it’s a 5v5 we lose not a coin toss 4v4 and a 1v1 I win
This is surely one of the best videos
I main Senna for the purpose of being a damage threat in the later teamfights in case my ADC messes up.
As a Senna DPS, how do I split push effectively and snowball my laning phase lead?
Well counter roaming can be good sometimes you just have to make sure you have vision and know where their jungler is
I liked this kind of video. Thanks for your efforts.
In the video you discuss what to do if your laners are perma pushed in, but in my games i seem to have the opposite problem, How do i properly towerdive bot lane without getting cc'd under turret. I feel like i lose a lot of my games due to laners perma pushing, then dying by jungler and then i get hit with the jungle diff...
Thank you Hector! We appreciate you!
Now do a video on this for each specific role and then each specific champ. Content for days
What do you do if a teammate turbo ints. Should we switch lane? Roam there to help?
This Q&A was really enjoyable,
but I felt like a question wasn't really well interpreted, I mean you analyzed hard matchups assuming both players were of equal skill/mastery but in my experience this never happens.
In almost 95% of my games there's a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge difference in mastery as I have enemies 100-200-500k when I am (at my best 30k) and in average 10k and the difference in term of game experience is so depressing (you see them moving like hell clicking around their character, or hitting every skillshot), I'd be glad to hear some advice vs that gap in skill.
ty for the advices !
Best advice - give wing tower early if you are massively behind in lane and protect mid at all costs
Omg hector you opened my eyes with the 70% watch 30% play rule😳 tell me what player to watch to carry from jungle with j4, vi, sejuani, zac etc I want to wach a educational stream not just content creators
2:10 hahahahaha I'd never expect that by you guys 😂
I love how you guys featured Kesha as the face of "fun" then immediately got attacked as a Shaco OTP XD.
hey hector your work is valuable
I want a 2 hour version of this