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What is this ****? Stutter step ? Attack move ? Sounds like a magic trick or new dance game, but it's actually really useful tactic that it's killing me not to see people using these. I think this is quite commonly used among silver at least. I don't know about below 30 lvl or bronze, but I'll just address this to anyone.

Attack move in the other hand I don't think is commonly used at all, which also burns me a little from the inside. I'll explain the following 2 strategies however, so no problem if you are not using them at this very moment. These are basically ADC strategies, but can be applied to all ranged-characters. Melee is not so effective with them.

Stutter step/Orb walking

This is really easily explained and won't require wall of text. The general idea is to attack between attack animations. Some of you already know, but you can release basic attack before attack animation is finished. This means you get more time to move between auto attacks. To put it really simple…

AP Soraka mid!
http://puu.sh/43kmk.lrf

Easy game if I recall. I press starcall and ppl cry and piss themselves. **** always gets better when you finish your seraphs/zhonyas


Lee Sin support!
http://puu.sh/43krJ.lrf
Fun game, super easy. dumb cow. They made me support, I made them some coffins.

So, I've been smurfing my gf up to gold and I've accumulated a buttload of various replays in the Bronze 2-Silver 4 region. All of them I completely faceroll, but a few take a bit more effort than others. I would like to make them available to the masses, and I'd like to know what format you'd like them in. Here are the options;

1. Blog posts
I upload like 3-4 replays with brief descriptions in blog posts every few days.

2. Forum thread
I maintain a forum thread and upload replays to it. I'm not sure what section I would put it in.

3. Guide
I could make a 'mechanics guide' and put replays there along with timers and descriptions and builds and a brief summary on "what i'm doing" in each game. This would be very time intensive and replays would become obsolete with new patches, so I don't know about this one

4. YT videos
Making youtube videos are a bit out of my league and I don't think my commentary would be interesting, and I don't have the tech and I'm quite busy, so this would b…

All the points below will be from bot lane point of view once again.

Let's start off with a story first to make my point clearly. I've been wanting to climb ELO and I wanted to see what I didn't do properly. I took the chance and played few matches with and against few Diamond I/Challenger bot lanes. I obviously lost every single time more or less, because of positioning.

I was playing quite fair lane Draven, Thresh vs

Here is my ADC tier list, which includes my opinion. Please do post suggestion if I have made a mistake or you think X should be in higher/lower tier and I'll reconsider it.

Godlike
Vayne

Tier 1
Varus,

Karma has always been one of my favorite champions. Ever since the buff spam riot has been giving her since her rework she has had a huge power spike as a top laner and has become one of my go to top lane champions. I have been thinking of making a top lane karma guide but for now just decided I should get done her TOP FACTS.



Karma is a Support-Mage. She starts the game with very high damage numbers which allows her to be an aggressive bully (especially against champions with no range). Karma is a very strong duelist due to her amazing kiting abilities. When you factor in mantra to the karma equation Karma's kit becomes really strong. Karma will scale well into the late game due to her support style abilities.

Gathering Fire(passive)- Damaging enemy champions with abilities refreshes 2 seconds of Mantra's cooldown, and half that amount on basic attacks against enemy champions.

Karma's passive reduces the CD on her mantra by a few seconds …

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Bot lane is not dependant on support and ADC taking kills. Since S3, junglers have played a huge role in the meta and is propably the best role to carry games at the moment. I'm going to talk and advice little of junglers presence in bot lane and how do you avoid getting ganked or how your lane gets more effective ganks. Read further for ward examples also, but let's first learn quickly about predirecting jungler ganks.

Predirecting ganks

1. Over-aggression
2. Sudden trades/ unfavored initiation
3. Contesting (cs for example)
4. Mispositioning --> Baiting
5. Pink wards
6. Sudden hard lane pushing / backing / Freezing

These points apply as mistakes also and you can't back-off everytime, because you are afraid of jungler popping by just because someone decided to do a bad trade. It takes map awarness and experience which you will get within time, but as said do look at your map. Did his jungler just go toward bot lane from mid ? Was top just ganked ? Was he low hp ? All these exa…

My name is Locke and I'm a toxic player.

Doubt it? Well don't.

I don't really intend to be, but I know in the end it's my fault. I get so frustrated when I perform poorly... and I get even worse when a teammate makes what seems to me to be an obvious mistake, walks into a trap or the like. The pinnacle of me raging can be seen when I perceive a pattern of bad results from an action but the team continually partakes in (for instance: for some reason we keep engaging in the jungle. They continually team wipe us. So we keep engaging in the jungle.) It... gets me seeing red faster than you can say 'Surrender at Twenty.' Unless I'm really tired then it just induces the urge to immediately 'surrender at twenty.'

This game is competitive, it's fun and it gives my brain a workout. Yet I've constantly been failing, been playing below what I know I can and letting my team down. It's strained and ended friendships, admittedly those based mostly on gaming anyway. I'm a toxic player. I admit it.…

First, I'd like to introduce my support tier list, which may differ from your opinion.

Godlike
Thresh, * Sona
(* = Really good and well mastered, high elo. Is much different than normal

After a long struggle I finally made it back to Platinum. Though yes, as the title of the blog implies, I really haven't achieved anything for myself. The goal this season is Diamond and it's a long road ahead with limited time to go, so let's see if I can do the trick once more.

A fun fact, I lost the first game of the series with Viktor, my current main champion. Can't say that game was my fault though, I had the enemy