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Here's my short blog post about my first two videos, if someone is interested to something new / different content made in the practice tool:
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Starting out here so the quality itself isn't special, but you get the idea :]

Finally made it out of Silver and into Gold for the first time ever. I started playing late Season 2 - Started playing ranked Season 4. Silver 2 was the highest I've been ranked in any previous season.

Note this is my experience. The formula for you might be different.

Game knowledge (including mechanics)
Playing
Playing champions you click with
Short circuiting losing streaks
Focus
Luck

Every piece of knowledge about the game or game theory adds up to gestalt that lets you develop a formula that increases your odds of winning. The most mechanically sound player is going to struggle when they run into the limits of their knowledge.

It is a layer cake and the reason you experience so much variance in your games even when the participants are of roughly equal skill level is that they all have different and incomplete pieces of the puzzle that is League in their heads.

You've got the kickass laner that rotates to your lane only to dive your lane opponent under their turret while t…

Watched a couple of Edge's recent videos, specifically the 7.4 Rengar and 7.4 Kindred vids. Jungle focused, which is what I want.

Edge - YouTube

This is a bit of an amalgamation of things that he said in the videos and other things that relate or tie together from other sources.

As an assassin sometimes you just have to kill whoever is out of position on the edge of a team fight. You don't always have to dive hip deep into a fight (something I can take away for

I was considering starting a thread, but I play so many ranked games at a time (in both solo queue and flex queue), usually, that it would be very hard to properly update such a thread. So I am going to give brief blog updates instead. This one won't be so brief and I'm sorry.




At the moment I am actually ranked the same, approximately, in both queues. It should be noted, however, that I have played more than twice as many games in flex queue (after being placed in Bronze there) because I wanted to give solo queue a chance to even out a bit. It's somewhat hard to really get an idea of what my champion pool has really been this season if you check somewhere like lolskill, as it doesn't differentiate between flex and solo queue picks. My solo queue champions have primarily been Nami,

I have been having some good success with Shyvana out of the jungle of late so I wanted to talk about what is working for me.

For starters Shy was my main for the majority of last season though I backed off on her after patch 6.6 when they nerfed Twin Bite which hurt her dueling and slowed her clear speed a bit. They also lowered the amount of stacks you could get from the Rift Herald from 2 to 5 for

Introduction
Well, before I start to discuss things, i want the readers to know that I am just new to the game and I want to learn things that will make me a good player in LOL. I want to learn new things and tricks. Right now, I am focusing to the champs Ashe, Amumu, Poppy, Warwick, Nunu, and Abbie. Well, I just thought if I'll play I want to get keys so I can open boxes and I can only do that if I use my owned champs. Also I want to focus on improving my handling of champ Ashe. The reason why I am writing tihs is because I want to know things and tricks from other players, especially when it comes to runes and mastery of the champs.
Runes/Mastery
I wanna a lot of things about runes, since it helps a lot in the game and you'll have a lot of advantages in the game. I wanna know the runes that suits for Jungles and Ashe. Next thing is mastery I also wanna know things about. How does it affect the champs in the game and how can I be able to make one mastery useful for me.
Ending
That's a…

I first set out to write a guide with the goal of proving my friends wrong. They got a good chuckle when I said I wanted to write a guide for League, and I have to admit I honestly had no expectations myself. A week or two later, however, the first iteration of "Ye Olde Pantheon Top" was published to MobaFire.

Months passed. I dropped by every once in a while to make updates, but I wasn't what you would call an attentive guide creator. The guide accrued some comments and votes, and I soon reached the milestone of 10,000 views! I started paying more attention to the guide. I taught myself to use GIMP from scratch and banged out some passable banners for my guide sections. More views came. What do you know, I said to myself, people actually give a sh*t about the stuff I wrote on here!

Fast forward to January 2016; the guide had around 1 million views, and I was content to update every month or so. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, I got an email from MobaFire: you've won a prize in the G…

Some impressions from my foray into E, Spirit Fire, max Nasus.

The point of the build is, IMO, twofold.

1) It lets you lane and possibly have kill pressure in some match-ups that are impossible if you are trying to Q stack.
2) A Q stacking Nasus is stuck wherever he is stacking, which can lead to the "never leaves Top lane Nasus syndrome" that prevents many Nasus players from impacting the rest of the map. E max for wave clear alleviates this problem by giving you a way to quickly clear a wave.

To be clear, you do stack, you just don't prioritize it over lane pressure.

I've been doing some work trying to understand the game beyond just clearing your own jungle.

In most games on Blue side you will start Red to get a leash from your Bot lane. Then you will do Wolves and then Blue. Gets you level 3 and gets your two buffs. And on most viable champs it leaves you in a healthy enough position to gank, countergank, or invade.

In probably 75% of my games on Blue side if I drop a Stealth Ward ward in the tri-bush after blue I will save my Top laner from getting ganked and also be in position to countergank. If however, I do Gromp before Blue I will be late to the party. So, instead of doing Gromp before Blue, I go up and drop that ward. If your laner is pushing you might even want to hang out right near Top lane for a couple of seconds. If the enemy jungler doesn't show then go eat scuttle ****. Then go check the enemy raptors to see if they are still up. If they are still up you may have finished fast enough that your Top laner is now getting gan…

Hey guys,

Most of you probably won't know this, but a long, long time ago (November 24th 2011, to be precise), I wrote a blog on MOBAFire (now deleted) in which I said that I was planning on using my blog to write League of Legends fanfiction, because I enjoy writing and I had (what I believed at the time was) a pretty good idea for a story.

As those of you who do remember this happening will know, that never ended up actually happening. Like with all of my attempts to write a guide in the past, I ultimately reached a point where I felt like I simply didn't know how to improve my story, and yet at the same time it wasn't good enough.

Fast forward 5.5 years into the future, and you might be able to guess why I'm writing this blog now (and why it has the title it does). The other day, while searching for something on my old laptop, I ran into a text file which contained said story, still 90% done. Though I still feel it could be (massively) improved, I'm also at the point where I feel…