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Can't impact lane as support, think about roaming:

Haven't played support in a while. Got to do some a few nights ago and I was noticing that I was watching the flow of the lane more and when we had good ward coverage but there was no kill potential I was looking to make roam plays to try and impact the game in other ways beside dominating the lane.

Use the F keys (mentioned below) to check out Mid lane. Check to see if your laner has mana, what their health is, and the where the minions are positioned in the lane. If you are on voice comm with them ask them if they want a gank.

Clearing tip with Shyvana:

With Shyvana when you are taking the Raptors on your first clear, make sure to walk into them before turning on Inferno Aegis. This way Burnout will kill all the small raptors in one cycle. If you start it up before you are in the midst of them, one or two will live requiring you to take time auto attacking them individually to finish them off taking focus off the large rapt…

To start this isn't about invading and killing the enemy jungler.

While related that is beyond the scope of what I want to discuss, which is what do I look for to know I have a good chance of getting in and getting out of the enemy jungle?

So first thing, if you don't know where the enemy jungler is the answer is no*. Stay out except for shallow excursions to steal their raptor camp and quickly drop shallow wards. Even when you do this watch the enemy midlaner's position. If they start moving toward you turn around.

The main time I go into the enemy jungle is when they are ganking on the opposite side of the map.

Why?

Because they aren't going to surprise me in their jungle.
Because I can't get cross map in time to help my laner.
Because the jungle camps on the opposite side of the map are probably up if they are farming efficiently (e.g. Clear 3 camps on one side of the map and gank).

What do I ask myself?

• Do I have any wards to drop?
• Do I have a good escape mechanism if I d

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Everyone here, at the boards, is looking for team members purely for ranked play. We are not. Not yet anyways.
If you are a basic everyday player, can speak proper English and would like to be part of a regular crew whom to play with, we are probably looking exactly for you.
We are fed up with the toxic atmosphere of the game (especially when playing with random teammates) and really want to find fun and laid-back teammates to play with. The randoms make playing hard and unbearable - can't try any organized tactics, everyone fights and throws around blame, nobody listens and some even more or less intentionally feed the opposing team when our team start losing. That is not even half of it.
Naturally the most important quality you need is having a sense of the game and about how things work (or at least should work, should everything go perfectly). Our goal is to improve our gameplay not only as a team but also on an individual level. This means a certain level of commitment to the team…

Tilt basically amounts to a pattern of making poor or less than optimal decisions.

I see tilt as a matter of degree. Sometimes you go off the rails and sometimes it is subtle.

From a jungle perspective I often feel the pressure to match the enemy jungler in terms of number of ganks especially if they are getting kills.

This can cause me to deprioritize farming to try and gank more. I also tend to take more risks or tunnel on a target when my team is behind.

If my efforts go poorly, then I'll probably end up on tilt. There may be nothing to be done about that game, but on the other hand I am sometimes able to sort myself out by going through my checklists.

That gank didn't work. Why?

I didn't ping before going in so my laner wasn't close enough to add their CC.

I didn't notice that their laner was an item up on my laner meaning I should have let my laner bait, but not expect them to stay in the fight once it was under way. Did I even have enough damage or CC to make a situat…

So i'm starting this 'blog' because of boredom.
Here are the rules:
Ship champions from the games: Vainglory, Dota 2 and LoL with eachother.
(Not 2 champs from the same game.)
If you play them all, or any of them, Feel free to also tell your main and why you love that champion.

First ship:
Fiora (League) & Blackfeather (Vain)
Both duelists, And BF is my main on Vain.

The age old adage. Don't play mechanically intensive champions until you understand the game better. However, what is often lacking in that advice is a good description of what understanding the game better means.

Let's take Lee Sin as an example. Lee has a ton of ways to gank or effect plays around the map.

One combo that I've seen described is to hit them with a Sonic Wave (Q), place a

While perusing LOL Reddit Summoner School, I found a link to this streamer and some coaching sessions he had done with players right around my level (Silver).

https://www.youtube.com/user/EdgeismTV

The content centers largely around decision making which is definitely something I struggle with around jungling where your time is super important as you constantly have to make decisions around farming, ganking, and counter jungling.

E.g. If you are blue side and you've just taken dragon and you've got jungle camps up on both sides of your jungle where do you go? Answer likely Top because Rift Herald or Baron are the key objectives now aside from towers if they are still up.

Or where to place wards before committing to a gank as if you don't know where the enemy jungler is or they are able to converge before the gank has played out, you may be in for a nasty surprise.

Good stuff presented in a way that I found easily digestible.

Something I picked up while watching a Pants are Dragon video though I've added some of my own why and what to do instead to the thought process.

As a jungler if you successfully gank a lane (get a kill or push the enemy laner out of lane) and your laner is low you will want to help them clear any enemy minions that are present so that your laner can go back to the Fountain to recharge and buy. This also has the effect of speeding (typically called shoving) your minions into the enemy turret to be killed forcing the enemy laner to miss getting the gold and XP from those minions and doing a little damage to the turret.

One exception this is if the enemy laner has Teleport up. Because this allows them to port back to lane as soon as they respawn. If you shove your minion wave under their turret in that scenario you will leave your laner in a poor position. Low and pushed, which will make them an enticing target that the enemy jungler will likely want to gank.

If your laner is hea…

Step 1: You paid attention to their team comp in champion select or during the load screen, right? If not you Fd up. Because if they have anyone with a hook you probably have a better than 50% chance of getting invaded. Hooks are practically a guaranteed Flash during level one invades, though a Blitzcrank

Hey there guys,
just signed up to mobafire and linked my account. Made a signature using a weird signature maker, I guess it's all right. Been named Jon Snowe, ImOnYourCase and Adrenaline Sol. But I think I'll stick with this name for now. Will be making guides, especially for Caitlyn. Would like to know how to make a "guide" and not a "build". Is there a certain amount of chapters I need to make? Anyway I hope you look forward to my stuff and I will be snooping around commenting and voting ect.
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