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 Stealth Ward or Vision Ward behind them, Safeguard (W) to the ward, auto attack (AA) them, activate Tempest (E) for some additional damage, nail them with [[Dragon's... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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 Rocket Grab is the most deadly as that damn thing can pull things through walls.

Step 2: Buy your starting items and quickly get your behind out to your jungle entrances. You can right click on potions and buy them up to the maximum amount super quickly if you are... Read More

Had a ranked game recently where my Bot lane got absolutely demolished. I also made some mistakes which didn't help matters and our Mid laner was on tilt starting in champion select and my mistakes and our Bot lane's destruction didn't help their state of mind to the point that they were making poor decisions like diving in on a lost causes, which in turn caused our Mid lane to give up and AFK for a good portion of the game.

1. Even if the game is ranked, you can dodge if you see signs of problems in champion select. It will cost you 3 LP and 5min+15sec time penalty. Which is a... Read More