League of Legends (LoL) Question: Why am I so terrible?
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Why am I so terrible?
Hey guys, I've been playing league of legends since mid last year and I can't seem to improve at all.
http://oce.op.gg/summoner/userName=Two+IQ
This is my new account my last one got banned.
I really enjoy playing Teemo and I generally do decently well in lane but I find that usually my other lanes feed and then their laners roam to me and they get their toplaner ahead and I get snowballed from there. I feel like I have very little map awareness and constantly realise too late that my jungler was duelling theirs and I could've helped etc. I find myself inting alot of games where I get mad at my team for not a serious reason aside from them losing lane and I understand that it's wrong. I want to play Katarina but she's usually banned or I don't do well on here either. It's been a while and I still can't find a champion that I'm really comfortable or good on. I don't really even know where I want to play mostly. I do well early game but make constant mistakes late game. Any suggestions thank you :)
http://oce.op.gg/summoner/userName=Two+IQ
This is my new account my last one got banned.
I really enjoy playing Teemo and I generally do decently well in lane but I find that usually my other lanes feed and then their laners roam to me and they get their toplaner ahead and I get snowballed from there. I feel like I have very little map awareness and constantly realise too late that my jungler was duelling theirs and I could've helped etc. I find myself inting alot of games where I get mad at my team for not a serious reason aside from them losing lane and I understand that it's wrong. I want to play Katarina but she's usually banned or I don't do well on here either. It's been a while and I still can't find a champion that I'm really comfortable or good on. I don't really even know where I want to play mostly. I do well early game but make constant mistakes late game. Any suggestions thank you :)
First of all, the fact that you're asking this is a good first step. Improving will happen slowly over a long period of time by playing games. There are three things you can do to speed up the process, and you're likely already doing two of them.
1. If you’re playing with the camera locked on your champion, turn off the camera lock, and get used to moving the camera around, and positioning it for the best coverage for teamfights. A locked camera reduces your overall visibility drastically. Most players unlock their camera without being told it’s a good idea, but if you haven’t yet, you’ll have a couple rough games getting used to it, but it’s the single biggest success booster.
2. Surprises kill. Early on, that means not knowing what an enemy champion can do in general… eventually that turns into knowing about how long it’ll take them to kill you, or how much of your HP they can melt with burst damage, or how long their cc lasts. But even after you know all of that, surprises kill in the form of vision control. Take the time to play every champion for a game or two. Play them while they’re on their free rotation. This will also help you figure out which champions fit you best.
3. Use your replay feature. The replay feature is the best way to improve consistently. Here’s how you should use it: Watch through your game at normal or double speed, but slow things to a crawl during trades and teamfights, and keep track of how many minions you end up missing in lane, and why. Don’t focus on your allies, just you and your opponents. Have a notebook with you and write down your thoughts about things you did poorly. This exercise will improve your dueling, csing, and teamfighting.
After you’ve finished watching the replay, put it on again at either normal or double speed, without slowing it down during important parts. This time, just watch the minimap (make sure fog of war is set to your team), and without looking at anything other than the minimap, try to do things like predict where the enemy jungler is, or which lanes are going push. If you have the time, do this again, but swap the fog of war to your opponent’s point of view. This exercise will increase your map awareness, game knowledge, and ward placement.
Seeing as how you haven't unlocked your camera yet, I'd like to go in depth about the two main reasons to unlock it at your skill level.
The first is the one I touched on before: It increases your field of visibility. It's a must for certain long-range champions like Xerath, Vel'Koz, and Zoe. If your camera is centered on your champion, if you can see an enemy, they might already be too close for comfort. While watching your replays, try to use the manual camera for practice, and attempt to get the entire area of a teamfight on screen before the teamfight happens (like when people do that back and forth footwork you've probably seen before), usually your team will be closer to one side of the camera, and the other team with be on the other. You'll see enemies coming sooner and have more information during the fights.
The second reason is just as important, and it has to deal with mobility (either yours or you enemy's). Let's say you're playing Warwick (I saw he's one of the champions you said you like), and you're trying to chase down an enemy Akali. If your camera locked onto Warwick, it's going to be moving around whenever you use his ultimate or his Q, giving your target (Akali in this case, who is already pretty slippery) kind of a "ghost dash" increasing the distance you need to move your mouse to stay on her.
Another example within your favorite champions: Annie. Lots of people really like her, even in High level play. One of the big reasons is from how well she can stun entire teams by summoning Tibbers (which has an instant cast time, so long as people are in range). People like to do this by hovering their cursor over their target, and quickly pushing their
I also believe your camera lock is the reason you say ADC is your kryptonite. Once people are within your camera's view, you've got far less time to react to their movements.
Keep us up to date with your progress, and feel free to post game stats and stories on the forums here.
according to what you are saying and the stats you should improve your Macro game play and CS. The best way to improve Macro game is experience and spectate challenger players, and the best way to improve CS is practice it and learn how the waves working. For both you should play with your best champion so you could focus on them and not on the mechanics, i recommend to watch SRO's videos, he teach both.
As for mini-map you should try look at mini-map as much as possible, at least once every 5 seconds.
Good luck :D
http://euw.op.gg/summoner/userName=magnus+aurelius
WW Jungle
Teemo, Garen Top
Katarina, Annie, Morgana MID
Morgana, Teemo, Soraka Sup
I can't play adc, it's my kryptonite.
The main thing is just to watch better players, and to look back at your own mistakes and look at how could have played them differently. Communicate well with your teammates, place good wards, and practice, and I'm sure you'll improve drastically within a month.
If you are attentive then the jungle is for you. When i jungle I look at my minimap more than my actual screen and that makes it easy to predict where the enemy jungler is and als helps you to remind your laners to ward and such.
If you like to play the game passively then you might want to consider playing on the island which is also known as the top lane. You usually sit and farm and only play aggressively when your jungler wants to try help.
well thats how i think anyway, but i couldn't stop being curious about your ban, what was the reason anyhow? if you would like to share?