For more content check out these playlists: Road to Rank 1: ua-cam.com/play/PLQ3LQaown6zAs77yRPdmdoLpR_Mip7owl.html Mid Lane Fundamentals: ua-cam.com/play/PLQ3LQaown6zDt0D6Z8M8dgtUwVtqJhtEQ.html Champion Guides: ua-cam.com/play/PLQ3LQaown6zAloItcV31u4kdS6LIWjIBS.html
Honestly what's so good about your Road to Rank 1 series is that it consistently demonstrates what you show in mid lane fundamentals. It helps me retain the knowledge and apply it better.
Love your content, i'm a coach in another industry and your coaching method is so textbook for making genuine change in clients. Clear actionable logical advice, really good man.
Hey Shok I've been watching your videos for a while now and they have helped me so much, I was someone who couldn't even keep up in draft because I was so bad and now I'm in the total opposite of that, Thank you so much for these guides as they help alot new league players, just like me, and the amount of effort you're putting in these guides, the examples, and how you actually make it entertaining and super educational at the same time is insane to me, I hope that everything is going great for u and again tysm
honestly the most amazing and well put together guide ive seen. i wish there was something like this for junglers in particular but alot of the mid/late game still applies.
Normally when i watch some educational league content im getting kinda bored after like 5 minutes but your commentary in these road to rank 1 games is rly good and im really enjoying this. Keep up a good work King
I see a lot of videos promising what you're saying you can teach. But this genuinely is one of the best educational videos about climbing I've seen! Tysm
Honestly i would have loved for this to be the intro up till "I promis this video will be different" Followed by "just farm more die less" into blackscreen with "see you next time" written across for 18 min That wouldve been funny af
well i can say this video is really efficient! i've been doing everything said in the video for 2 years and max peaked 400 LP Master (from EUW) so if i was on OCE i would have hitted chall 100% and also i did that by playing 80% of the time Yasuo, so yeah i'm really grateful to have found this video from a talented player who is from the similar analysis quality of Coach Curtis.
I just started playing ranked league again, I was getting kind of bored of midlane and was looking to try another role, but then I remembered that Shok only does mid content, and honestly that was enough to make me keep playing midlane
Pretty insane how easily you explain something that other Challenger players fail to expound upon simply because they get lost in minute details about lane matchups or very subjective things that do are not consistently recurring throughout multiple games. Great vid m8
What a Banger of a Mid Guide, I've implemented everything you've said and ive seen pretty good results. Dont get me wrong it's not a cheat code, you still have to implement his advice properly but once I got the hang of it I started seeing the laning phase and mid game differently.
And then reality stroke. First game surrender vote goes through with aphelios, veigar, jax team and next one afk jungler leading to surrender voting again. Love this game!
I really wish someone like you, Coach Curtis or Nathan Mott for the ADC role. I have all this info, and of course a lot of it useful, but man I wish I had someone for ADC specifically.
aleksis007 got challenger with aphelios only tho has some videos on how to play lane and win from behind or ahead, chinese adc have a lot of info there too or watch some ex pro players like jakespectra xd
I'd love more insights on how to teamfight. I am a jungler myself but these fundamental videos help a lot. I find midlaners/adcs are pretty self-explanatory. Most champs play front to back and pretty much hit the first target. Some exceptions of course. Kaisa/ Nilah on Ad. Or a Fizz/Akali in mid and so on. But can you give tips for champs that need to create space but need to do it with their body more than their spell.
Hmm normally it's about knowing which targets need to be CCed and if you need to dive or just play to peel. Also trying to find angles where you can CC multiple targets rather than just one is pretty crucial. For some champs it's more about before the fight starts rather than the fight itself (e.g. alistar, find good flank and get one big engage then you're kinda useless)
this video really helps to play better specialy because its so TLDR. if it was coach currtis it would take at least 3 hours on briefing video😂. amazing as always. keep it up
Hey, amazing video as always! Do you think corrupting pot can still be relevant in some matchups after the doran's ring buffs, or should you go doran every game and maybe go biscuit if you still want to have sustain? What are the current best options?
@@ShokLeague would you say getting chall is easier or harder on certain servers compared to others or is it more or less the same across all the regions?
Hey man! Pretty good job doing this video, i have some questions, hm, i'm a top laner, i watch your content pretty often, and it helps me a lot. In the beginning of this guide, you mention about champions to play and pre-game right? I wanna know, how many champs do you reccomend for a player that is low elo, and wanna learn more about the game? Like, 1 blind pick, and 2 counter picks? something like that?
do you think you could make a video on champion identities? such as when to pick each champion, or what a champion wants in a game or how they want to play the game
I'd love to see more Cassiopeia gameplay because I feel like even though she isn't a great blind pick in theory, if i get good enough on her she can win almost every game.
Hey shok, I was just wondering about your advice on whether to push or not during the first 3 waves in your pre first base section. You said if you’re in a winning matchup, generally you should push, and if in a losing matchup, you should let the enemy push. those statements seem a bit contradictory to me, since if each player follows this advice, won’t they both be getting what they want? Is it ever worth it to let the wave push towards you in a winning matchup, for example, to get more potential poke and zoning? ik this is a generally guide but I would really appreciate some tips, thanks
Well if you're in a losing matchup you want to try hold that wave outside the tower and not let them crash, and if you're in the winning matchup you want to make sure you get the crash off. You could pull the wave immediately in a hard winning matchup, but otherwise you'd just be giving them level and creep advantage for free so you have to win hard enough that you can beat them despite that
Hey, I've developed a passion and a well rounded gameplay for late game hypercarry scaling champs (like aurelion, azir, and kayle if autofill'd top or if counterpicking mid), and i feel like my champion pool is heavily lacking a decent early game blind or counterpick, besides i find it quite difficult do play those champs with lane bullying runes. Sometimes my I feel so out of control of the early/mid game it just feels really bad playing. Do you have any recommendations regarding how to develop good early game habits or early game leads, besides by just trying out good early champs (and applying concepts you've mentioned in this and many other of your videos)? And would you have any recommendations for picks to try out based on this champion pool? I know its kind of too much for one comment but just wanted to give it a try to see if I could get any help. Your vids have helped me and the community a lot, keep it up king.
You can definitely get leads in lane on some of the hyperscaling champs (Azir, Viktor for example) they're just not very good at early skirmishing but 1v1s they're great. I'm not sure what tips I'd give you other than to watch my laning/wave control guides, maybe watch my azir games to see how I play the lane?
@@ShokLeague Thanks for the tips!! I'll be looking out for those soon then. I've watched them but its been a long time since then, and I was much worse than now, so probably now it may have a different impact to me. The vods are also something I didn't consider, thanks, fr! Keep up with the best mid lane content on the platform king!
How to climb: 1) Have a high IQ (logical/mathematical intelligence). 2) Have a high hand-eye coordination, so what you want to can be executed via hand. 3) Have a good chair with good armrest, so your input is as precise as possible. Everyone else shouldn't waste time on this game.
what are your thoughts on limitation due to rank? what i mean is, yi is perfect pick in silver, but you won´t have the same success in dia+ i feel like in lower elo you have to "force" more? thanks for your vids
From what I have learned from his videos: one tricking has two sides, it’s good to be good at one champion and master it, but the drawback is going into a match up or a team comp where you get no value. Example: an immobile mage vs 3 gank or engage champions: Say victor vs fizz/jarvian jg/rak sup. You might need to sit under tower and power farm, which is good but then your bot lane is 100% gonna get that 2vs3-4 people; if your laner roams and you need to stick to tower to not feed. In those cases, it would be optimal to watch his best blind pick guides and to learn match ups on champion selection like he expressed on this video. At the start of this guide he explains how his expertise on knowing his match up and the best pick vs the enemy composition has favor him into having a high win rate. You can’t win them all, but you can def make it easier on yourself by selecting the appropriate champion. Keeping in mind it will only be appropriate if know how to use another champion. If you only one trick, stick to them in ranked until you have practiced and watched guides on another champion that you would like to try, and preferable a champion with a diff play style, learning two champions with the same play style won’t give you more options to counter. So explore options, but ultimately pick 2-3 champions you enjoy, when you enjoy the champion, you have fun, and having fun means less tilt, and it results on more wins.
The most difficult thing about this saga of becoming a better player and moving up is that after watching the videos and trying to apply it in practice... in the first game you already have a top 0/10 and a botlane 0/15 in 9 minutes of game, the desire to kill oneself only increases given the desire to improve and learn about the game :D
Hey Shok I have been playing orianna for a bit now, but was wondering when I should go arcangel since I have been dropping it and just rush shadowflame second item mostly
My champion pool currently is Pantheon, Kalista, Ryze. I know, it looks wacky, but is it possible to focus on them to climb in the mid lane? SHould I incorporate another champion? Why Kalista? Well, it is my biggest champion mastery, almost 1kk, and I am sick of the botlane and would like to incorporate her in the mid lane.
It looks like you never really had to play off role except for one Bard game. I personally have had to play off role ~20% of my games this split, mostly AD but also autofill top a couple games. Do people role swap with you in champ select or like how have you accomplished this?
THIS VIDEO IS INCREDIBLE! This is exactly what I needed to understand how to review my games and the key points to be looking for, thank you for this incredible upload as always Shok!
Hey @shok what is your assessment on orianna's champion identity? I'm trying to pick her but I feel that I can't snowball very hard on her. But I do on syndra.
Mainly as a front to back mage but she also has a really strong lane phase, imo check my orianna videos/guide there's a lot you can do to snowball on this champ
I have always struggled with the champ pool aspect. Simply put, I acknowledge that mastering a smaller pool is better but for enjoyment/matchups sake it is hard for me to completely cut out certain champs. Don't get me wrong, I don't randomly pull out champs for the first time, I do have a "pool," it just happens to be quite large. I feel like I have decent reason to pick almost all of them depending on situation, but I can't help but think I could be so much better if I just mastered 3-4 instead. It is hard for me to find that balance. I can't really decide if I should truly force myself to narrow my pool or just embrace playing them all. It is hard to "feel" the benefit of spamming 2-3 champs, which is why it is hard to commit to that. Do you think that matchup is important enough that I can reasonably rotate through like, 10 champs? Or should I try to think harder about what champs I should truly main and stick to 3-5ish max?
@@ShokLeague Would you narrow down a pool by keeping my pool a similar playstyle, or do you encourage being broad? For context, I consider myself an artillery mage specialist. I really enjoy all of them, but I am also aware that they are similar enough that it is potentially not worth playing multiple of them if there is one that is considered better. But I also have champs to stay broad and learn other playstyles, like having an assassin to learn roaming/skirmishing/flanking which is obviously stuff I would almost never do on my artillery mages. Would you drop the assassins/conflicting playstyles and master the artillery playstyle? Or should I drop some artillery mages because they are too samey and have a more versatile champ pool? Thank you for being so involved with comments by the way, I really appreciate the replies. This is something I have struggled with for a while so it is nice for a second opinion/insight.
I would say similar playstyle is generally better for learning, then if you get higher rank you can branch out eventually. So yeah I'd probably just commit to the artillery playstyle
The truth is that all that shok said here was 'learn matchups' 'learn how to fight' 'learn where to be at the right time' and the problem most people have is they simply don't want to put in the work, they don't go into practice tool to learn the mechanics of their champ and get them down consistantly, they dont learn the best ward placements, they dont learn jungle paths, they don't learn base timings, they don't learn teamfight roles, they don't go into a 1v1 with a competative friend to learn those harder matchups and all the intracasies, the only thing they do is play ranked 10 games a day, enforcing the bad habits they have, with no discipline to truly improve and wonder why their stuck, they will plateau at diamond once they stop making basic mistakes, but will never go higher We don't even need to talk about toxicity, in my eye the moment you are toxic your skill is stuck exactly where you are, I know many 'raw talent' master tier players, who were good for the first 3 seasons they played the game due to some potential and got to master, but they slow fall down to diamond, then emerald, then plat as the seasons go on because the playerbase is improving while their stuck flaming on their 20th account
I think it's a good outline for how you should be approaching each game, and if people keep a gameplan like this in mind, it gives them many small objectives in their head to try to achieve throughout the game, it's good advice for those looking to get to diamond But there are too many decisions in league that require pre-knowledge, a stimulas and a correct reaction to it, that require game sense, the average viewer on youtube will position to the opposite side of where their opponent is standing in lane no matter where they placed their ward, because they don't realise their being played into a gank by a better player, the average viewer doesn't understand how to jungle track using cs numbers and remaining buff timers, they don't know that yasuo can windwall azir ults despite playing yasuo vs azir 100 times etc. They don't care enough, and no video guide can make them high elo@@ShokLeague
Most of my cassiopeia games are bot lane, I blind cassio bot with caitlyn ban. Normally if I play cassio mid I only use her as a counter (maybe have like 4 games of cass mid?). Liandry vs either HP stacking comps or long range comps and ROA vs comps that need to burst you down
So runes you're prioritizing making the most out of early laning phase. How do uou decide whether to focus on something like sustain runes vs something like extra punishment? (Like idk, scorch vs second wind in secondaries)
Hmm it really depends on your champ, most melees will prefer sustain runes and most ranged champs will prefer more punishment runes. Again just look up the matchup and copy someone if you're not sure
"Now I know what you're thinking...clickbait nonsense..." No actually, I'm thinking this video looks like it's in 240i, shot on a Mattel Barbie camera. It's only the first 20 seconds of the video, but it really threw me off. Good stuff, glad the whole video wasn't randomly blurry lol. BTW, thoughts on the Showmaker fleet footwork Ahri game vs GAM? I've seen things like Fleet Viktor, but the cull start really surprised me. It seems greedy. Is it because the nocturne isn't a champion until level 6 and he can just bully Akali, so the cull is basically free gold? tbh, legend alacrity over tenicy also seems pretty greedy. I'm so confused by that DK vs GAM game.
I think the cull was good, I'm not really sure about the fleet... I guess just so you can weave in more autos and disengage from the trades. I think the cull is more so because you can't really push akali out of lane as ahri so you can kinda just greed some scaling. Tenacity isn't super valuable for ahri since most of the time you can get out of any CC with your mobility and alacrity is kinda nice for getting more autos in
Any tips for top laners ? I mostly play Wukong and Garen ( ik wu-who ?) and have trundle as a counter pick for really tanky teams or match ups. I find that I can go win or go even in lane how can i expand my lead from top lane ?
i get a huge part of my gold mid late game, usaully farm camps sidelane alot and try get kills but also dies alot during those sidelanes, is it worth it doing it like that or should i allways play it safe if I have the advantage 5v5 ?
Hey Shok genuine question, ive played for years and just recently hit diamond with a 68% we but my LP gains suddenly dropped to +12 and -26 without loss streaks. Lots of people talk about getting new accounts when your LP gains get ruined but ive never had this problem in a decade. Are there real benefits to doing ranked on a fresh account? I figured after a dozen good games my mmr would fix but despite winning it still is rough.
@@ShokLeague Thanks for the response! Just wasn't sure your thoughts as I trust your info a lot more than random reddit posts haha. Ill just stay on the climb for challenger on my main, thanks for all the amazing educational content as always!
For more content check out these playlists:
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Honestly what's so good about your Road to Rank 1 series is that it consistently demonstrates what you show in mid lane fundamentals. It helps me retain the knowledge and apply it better.
Thank you for trying to minimize smurfing in your climb to the top :)
Love your content, i'm a coach in another industry and your coaching method is so textbook for making genuine change in clients. Clear actionable logical advice, really good man.
Wow thank you
Hey Shok I've been watching your videos for a while now and they have helped me so much, I was someone who couldn't even keep up in draft because I was so bad and now I'm in the total opposite of that, Thank you so much for these guides as they help alot new league players, just like me, and the amount of effort you're putting in these guides, the examples, and how you actually make it entertaining and super educational at the same time is insane to me, I hope that everything is going great for u and again tysm
Thanks for the kind words :D
honestly the most amazing and well put together guide ive seen. i wish there was something like this for junglers in particular but alot of the mid/late game still applies.
Normally when i watch some educational league content im getting kinda bored after like 5 minutes but your commentary in these road to rank 1 games is rly good and im really enjoying this. Keep up a good work King
I see a lot of videos promising what you're saying you can teach. But this genuinely is one of the best educational videos about climbing I've seen! Tysm
Honestly i would have loved for this to be the intro up till
"I promis this video will be different"
Followed by "just farm more die less" into blackscreen with "see you next time" written across for 18 min
That wouldve been funny af
ur hired
well i can say this video is really efficient! i've been doing everything said in the video for 2 years and max peaked 400 LP Master (from EUW) so if i was on OCE i would have hitted chall 100%
and also i did that by playing 80% of the time Yasuo, so yeah i'm really grateful to have found this video from a talented player who is from the similar analysis quality of Coach Curtis.
I just started playing ranked league again, I was getting kind of bored of midlane and was looking to try another role, but then I remembered that Shok only does mid content, and honestly that was enough to make me keep playing midlane
BASED
Your road to rank helped me reached Gold 1 after being stuck silver for years appreciate you man
Congrats big dog
@@ShokLeague Your channel is underrated best UA-cam out here for your work please don't change haha
Pretty insane how easily you explain something that other Challenger players fail to expound upon simply because they get lost in minute details about lane matchups or very subjective things that do are not consistently recurring throughout multiple games. Great vid m8
Great video! Didn't expect a recap episode
One of the best guide, no bs, straight to the point 🙌
Thanks for this. Your educational content is top tier and isn’t just for high elo. Thanks!
Very insightful thanks I can feel the challenger rank aura in him
What a Banger of a Mid Guide, I've implemented everything you've said and ive seen pretty good results. Dont get me wrong it's not a cheat code, you still have to implement his advice properly but once I got the hang of it I started seeing the laning phase and mid game differently.
That feels so good to hear cheers my g
As an dia 4 mid , i have learnt a lot watching your guides. Thx ❤
I actually picked up some new things for me, wow. That's a nice guide, thank you!
This is actually the best all around video at lol ever made. Thank you
And then reality stroke. First game surrender vote goes through with aphelios, veigar, jax team and next one afk jungler leading to surrender voting again. Love this game!
Soloq is like that unfortunately :/
this is by far the most useful video i ever seen in my life for a mid laner
I really wish someone like you, Coach Curtis or Nathan Mott for the ADC role. I have all this info, and of course a lot of it useful, but man I wish I had someone for ADC specifically.
Arrowlol is probs the closest thing to what you're looking for
aleksis007 got challenger with aphelios only tho has some videos on how to play lane and win from behind or ahead, chinese adc have a lot of info there too or watch some ex pro players like jakespectra xd
Shok! Thank you for your content! I would loce to see a guide of yours where you explain how to play assassins.
Even though a lot of videos like this might be aimed at lower elo players. I'm mid-high master on EUW and I really liked this video. Thank you
Glad it's still helpful :D
Awesome video dude. Feels like content I should be paying for no joke.
Great video Shok, very excited to see the rest of the games!
bro is knowledge
The shok island in lol youtube is really helpfull, thank you!
Always a pleasure, crazy value/content thx Shok
Thx a lot Shok, in the future you will be Rank 1, Stay strong King 🤙
I feel like this just might be a rapidly growing channel
I'd love more insights on how to teamfight. I am a jungler myself but these fundamental videos help a lot. I find midlaners/adcs are pretty self-explanatory. Most champs play front to back and pretty much hit the first target. Some exceptions of course. Kaisa/ Nilah on Ad. Or a Fizz/Akali in mid and so on. But can you give tips for champs that need to create space but need to do it with their body more than their spell.
Hmm normally it's about knowing which targets need to be CCed and if you need to dive or just play to peel. Also trying to find angles where you can CC multiple targets rather than just one is pretty crucial. For some champs it's more about before the fight starts rather than the fight itself (e.g. alistar, find good flank and get one big engage then you're kinda useless)
this video is super super informative thank you so much for amazing educational content!
Very educational and excellent presented - kudos!
this video really helps to play better specialy because its so TLDR. if it was coach currtis it would take at least 3 hours on briefing video😂. amazing as always. keep it up
Super useful video, thank you!
thank you shok, I'll watch and rewatch this until it sticks with me
ur a content machine lately.
Hey, amazing video as always!
Do you think corrupting pot can still be relevant in some matchups after the doran's ring buffs, or should you go doran every game and maybe go biscuit if you still want to have sustain? What are the current best options?
Pretty sure it's not worth anymore, you can get sustain from taste of blood or second wind if you need it that badly
love the videos, i'm curious have you ever played on any of other servers?
Ye I've played on EU/KR/NA and OCE of course
@@ShokLeague would you say getting chall is easier or harder on certain servers compared to others or is it more or less the same across all the regions?
Well done on consistent updates recently mr future rank one
GREAT VIDEO SHOK KEEP UP THE AWSOME GUIDES
your commentary is unmatched
I wish there was a video like this but for jungle
Hey man! Pretty good job doing this video, i have some questions, hm, i'm a top laner, i watch your content pretty often, and it helps me a lot. In the beginning of this guide, you mention about champions to play and pre-game right? I wanna know, how many champs do you reccomend for a player that is low elo, and wanna learn more about the game? Like, 1 blind pick, and 2 counter picks? something like that?
Yeah keep the champ pool pretty small, 2-4 champs with at least one blind pick. 1 blind and 2 counters is fine
do you think you could make a video on champion identities? such as when to pick each champion, or what a champion wants in a game or how they want to play the game
Kinda already talked about it in my teamfight guides/champ guides so I don't really want to do another one
Thank you so much for your content ❤
I'd love to see more Cassiopeia gameplay because I feel like even though she isn't a great blind pick in theory, if i get good enough on her she can win almost every game.
the hardest part about climbing is getting to a normal game. i swear everything other game is a troll in champ select
Hey shok, I was just wondering about your advice on whether to push or not during the first 3 waves in your pre first base section. You said if you’re in a winning matchup, generally you should push, and if in a losing matchup, you should let the enemy push. those statements seem a bit contradictory to me, since if each player follows this advice, won’t they both be getting what they want? Is it ever worth it to let the wave push towards you in a winning matchup, for example, to get more potential poke and zoning? ik this is a generally guide but I would really appreciate some tips, thanks
Well if you're in a losing matchup you want to try hold that wave outside the tower and not let them crash, and if you're in the winning matchup you want to make sure you get the crash off. You could pull the wave immediately in a hard winning matchup, but otherwise you'd just be giving them level and creep advantage for free so you have to win hard enough that you can beat them despite that
Hey Shok, hope you are still answering questions. Any educational youtubers you recommend that are toplane mains?
Coach chippys is the goat
Hey, I've developed a passion and a well rounded gameplay for late game hypercarry scaling champs (like aurelion, azir, and kayle if autofill'd top or if counterpicking mid), and i feel like my champion pool is heavily lacking a decent early game blind or counterpick, besides i find it quite difficult do play those champs with lane bullying runes. Sometimes my I feel so out of control of the early/mid game it just feels really bad playing. Do you have any recommendations regarding how to develop good early game habits or early game leads, besides by just trying out good early champs (and applying concepts you've mentioned in this and many other of your videos)? And would you have any recommendations for picks to try out based on this champion pool? I know its kind of too much for one comment but just wanted to give it a try to see if I could get any help. Your vids have helped me and the community a lot, keep it up king.
You can definitely get leads in lane on some of the hyperscaling champs (Azir, Viktor for example) they're just not very good at early skirmishing but 1v1s they're great. I'm not sure what tips I'd give you other than to watch my laning/wave control guides, maybe watch my azir games to see how I play the lane?
@@ShokLeague Thanks for the tips!! I'll be looking out for those soon then. I've watched them but its been a long time since then, and I was much worse than now, so probably now it may have a different impact to me. The vods are also something I didn't consider, thanks, fr! Keep up with the best mid lane content on the platform king!
I wish there is such video for junglers
insane video mate
48 wins chall 900 pdl, man this is the dream of every player
Giga chad shok back at it again
Nice video, I would love to see more Twisted fate game from you.
I'm not that good at TF but I'll see if I can get a game in
Great video as always! Is there a chance you are streaming any time soon again?
My internet has been fked for a month so I haven't been able to stream, still trying to get it fixed but doesn't seem promising
How to climb:
1) Have a high IQ (logical/mathematical intelligence).
2) Have a high hand-eye coordination, so what you want to can be executed via hand.
3) Have a good chair with good armrest, so your input is as precise as possible.
Everyone else shouldn't waste time on this game.
I don't even have an armrest...
Lmfao u can be an actual idiot and still be great at videogames
Great content man!
You make the best leauge videos thanks a lot! I got a lot better at the game because of you!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤❤❤❤
That's my boy
Clean vid, ty!
what are your thoughts on limitation due to rank? what i mean is, yi is perfect pick in silver, but you won´t have the same success in dia+
i feel like in lower elo you have to "force" more?
thanks for your vids
Definitely true that in some elos certain champs are stronger but at the end of the day the gameplay itself matters a lot more
What are your thoughts on one tricking? Do you think there is a limit to how high you can climb with a one champion pool in the mid lane?
From what I have learned from his videos:
one tricking has two sides, it’s good to be good at one champion and master it, but the drawback is going into a match up or a team comp where you get no value. Example: an immobile mage vs 3 gank or engage champions: Say victor vs fizz/jarvian jg/rak sup. You might need to sit under tower and power farm, which is good but then your bot lane is 100% gonna get that 2vs3-4 people; if your laner roams and you need to stick to tower to not feed.
In those cases, it would be optimal to watch his best blind pick guides and to learn match ups on champion selection like he expressed on this video. At the start of this guide he explains how his expertise on knowing his match up and the best pick vs the enemy composition has favor him into having a high win rate.
You can’t win them all, but you can def make it easier on yourself by selecting the appropriate champion. Keeping in mind it will only be appropriate if know how to use another champion.
If you only one trick, stick to them in ranked until you have practiced and watched guides on another champion that you would like to try, and preferable a champion with a diff play style, learning two champions with the same play style won’t give you more options to counter.
So explore options, but ultimately pick 2-3 champions you enjoy, when you enjoy the champion, you have fun, and having fun means less tilt, and it results on more wins.
@ciclonable basically just said everything I would've
@@ShokLeague Thank you for the knowledge Senpai =D
Great video as always
Shok, can u please do a video about how wave control may be affected by jungle matchups?
I can't remember if I talked about it in my wave control video/jungle tracking video but those might help
yeah babyy new shok video
Do you think lux is a good blindpick for midlane?
She's pretty good yeah
This video opened my third eye
The most difficult thing about this saga of becoming a better player and moving up is that after watching the videos and trying to apply it in practice... in the first game you already have a top 0/10 and a botlane 0/15 in 9 minutes of game, the desire to kill oneself only increases given the desire to improve and learn about the game :D
Smodge...
best guide out there !!
Would be awesome from u to make a eu or kr trip to show everyone how good you are
Hey Shok I have been playing orianna for a bit now, but was wondering when I should go arcangel since I have been dropping it and just rush shadowflame second item mostly
You can go archangel against tankier teams (where shadowflame finds less value) or if you just want to scale better
What are your thoughts on Akali blind being blind-pickable?
She's blind pickable but not a great blind, just average
My champion pool currently is Pantheon, Kalista, Ryze. I know, it looks wacky, but is it possible to focus on them to climb in the mid lane? SHould I incorporate another champion?
Why Kalista? Well, it is my biggest champion mastery, almost 1kk, and I am sick of the botlane and would like to incorporate her in the mid lane.
I think having a more blindable champ would be good but all your champs are solid if you can get away with them
It looks like you never really had to play off role except for one Bard game. I personally have had to play off role ~20% of my games this split, mostly AD but also autofill top a couple games. Do people role swap with you in champ select or like how have you accomplished this?
I play Syndra/Cassio when I get put adc so I did play off role quite a bit. I think I played adc like 30% of the time?
@@ShokLeague Oh okay nice! Would love to see some of those, even though you're almost exclusively a mid channel.
can you do some tips for adc aswell please-? The video informed me a lot but I don't think i'll switch over 2 mid
hmm I'd recommend checking out arrowlol!
@@ShokLeague thanks!
THIS VIDEO IS INCREDIBLE! This is exactly what I needed to understand how to review my games and the key points to be looking for, thank you for this incredible upload as always Shok!
Since 13.20 i noticed that a lot of games early game dont mean much and who scales better wins
You can win early game and scale, that's the secret
Hey @shok what is your assessment on orianna's champion identity? I'm trying to pick her but I feel that I can't snowball very hard on her. But I do on syndra.
Mainly as a front to back mage but she also has a really strong lane phase, imo check my orianna videos/guide there's a lot you can do to snowball on this champ
I have always struggled with the champ pool aspect. Simply put, I acknowledge that mastering a smaller pool is better but for enjoyment/matchups sake it is hard for me to completely cut out certain champs. Don't get me wrong, I don't randomly pull out champs for the first time, I do have a "pool," it just happens to be quite large. I feel like I have decent reason to pick almost all of them depending on situation, but I can't help but think I could be so much better if I just mastered 3-4 instead. It is hard for me to find that balance.
I can't really decide if I should truly force myself to narrow my pool or just embrace playing them all. It is hard to "feel" the benefit of spamming 2-3 champs, which is why it is hard to commit to that.
Do you think that matchup is important enough that I can reasonably rotate through like, 10 champs? Or should I try to think harder about what champs I should truly main and stick to 3-5ish max?
10 champs is a lot, I'd really try get it down to 5 or so at the most unless you have like 100 games on each of your 10 champs
@@ShokLeague Would you narrow down a pool by keeping my pool a similar playstyle, or do you encourage being broad?
For context, I consider myself an artillery mage specialist. I really enjoy all of them, but I am also aware that they are similar enough that it is potentially not worth playing multiple of them if there is one that is considered better.
But I also have champs to stay broad and learn other playstyles, like having an assassin to learn roaming/skirmishing/flanking which is obviously stuff I would almost never do on my artillery mages.
Would you drop the assassins/conflicting playstyles and master the artillery playstyle?
Or should I drop some artillery mages because they are too samey and have a more versatile champ pool?
Thank you for being so involved with comments by the way, I really appreciate the replies. This is something I have struggled with for a while so it is nice for a second opinion/insight.
I would say similar playstyle is generally better for learning, then if you get higher rank you can branch out eventually. So yeah I'd probably just commit to the artillery playstyle
The truth is that all that shok said here was 'learn matchups' 'learn how to fight' 'learn where to be at the right time' and the problem most people have is they simply don't want to put in the work, they don't go into practice tool to learn the mechanics of their champ and get them down consistantly, they dont learn the best ward placements, they dont learn jungle paths, they don't learn base timings, they don't learn teamfight roles, they don't go into a 1v1 with a competative friend to learn those harder matchups and all the intracasies, the only thing they do is play ranked 10 games a day, enforcing the bad habits they have, with no discipline to truly improve and wonder why their stuck, they will plateau at diamond once they stop making basic mistakes, but will never go higher
We don't even need to talk about toxicity, in my eye the moment you are toxic your skill is stuck exactly where you are, I know many 'raw talent' master tier players, who were good for the first 3 seasons they played the game due to some potential and got to master, but they slow fall down to diamond, then emerald, then plat as the seasons go on because the playerbase is improving while their stuck flaming on their 20th account
idk if I agree with that, I was more trying to outline a gameplan for people to follow and I feel like it was pretty structured
I think it's a good outline for how you should be approaching each game, and if people keep a gameplan like this in mind, it gives them many small objectives in their head to try to achieve throughout the game, it's good advice for those looking to get to diamond
But there are too many decisions in league that require pre-knowledge, a stimulas and a correct reaction to it, that require game sense, the average viewer on youtube will position to the opposite side of where their opponent is standing in lane no matter where they placed their ward, because they don't realise their being played into a gank by a better player, the average viewer doesn't understand how to jungle track using cs numbers and remaining buff timers, they don't know that yasuo can windwall azir ults despite playing yasuo vs azir 100 times etc.
They don't care enough, and no video guide can make them high elo@@ShokLeague
Nice Cassio win rate! How do you chose between Lyandris and RoA? You blind pick her?
Most of my cassiopeia games are bot lane, I blind cassio bot with caitlyn ban. Normally if I play cassio mid I only use her as a counter (maybe have like 4 games of cass mid?). Liandry vs either HP stacking comps or long range comps and ROA vs comps that need to burst you down
@@ShokLeague you use cassio mid to counter who exactly?
Melees or ADCs: Sylas, Ekko, Kat, Trist, Yone, Yas, Akshan etc. Basically if they blind pick badly you can punish them.
So runes you're prioritizing making the most out of early laning phase. How do uou decide whether to focus on something like sustain runes vs something like extra punishment? (Like idk, scorch vs second wind in secondaries)
Hmm it really depends on your champ, most melees will prefer sustain runes and most ranged champs will prefer more punishment runes. Again just look up the matchup and copy someone if you're not sure
NICE TIPS BRO I WAS ESMERALD 4 NOW I'M SILVER 3 THANKS YOU SO MUCH
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i know that this is some good educational content, but can this help me play in silver/gold ? thank you for the amazing videos
Definitely yeah
I would love a jayce mid guide
Wish i had this for top lane, I'd ask how'd you tackle someone thats just split pushing the whole game and your team is still losing 4v5's
Check out coach chippys! he has really good content
THAT'S WHY HE'S THE GOAT... THE GOATTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!
"Now I know what you're thinking...clickbait nonsense..."
No actually, I'm thinking this video looks like it's in 240i, shot on a Mattel Barbie camera. It's only the first 20 seconds of the video, but it really threw me off.
Good stuff, glad the whole video wasn't randomly blurry lol.
BTW, thoughts on the Showmaker fleet footwork Ahri game vs GAM? I've seen things like Fleet Viktor, but the cull start really surprised me. It seems greedy. Is it because the nocturne isn't a champion until level 6 and he can just bully Akali, so the cull is basically free gold?
tbh, legend alacrity over tenicy also seems pretty greedy. I'm so confused by that DK vs GAM game.
I think the cull was good, I'm not really sure about the fleet... I guess just so you can weave in more autos and disengage from the trades. I think the cull is more so because you can't really push akali out of lane as ahri so you can kinda just greed some scaling. Tenacity isn't super valuable for ahri since most of the time you can get out of any CC with your mobility and alacrity is kinda nice for getting more autos in
Any tips for top laners ? I mostly play Wukong and Garen ( ik wu-who ?) and have trundle as a counter pick for really tanky teams or match ups. I find that I can go win or go even in lane how can i expand my lead from top lane ?
I would check out coach chippys for top lane content
So that's how you play Zoe 16:00
Beautiful
thank you for the great content.
i get a huge part of my gold mid late game, usaully farm camps sidelane alot and try get kills but also dies alot during those sidelanes, is it worth it doing it like that or should i allways play it safe if I have the advantage 5v5 ?
Try play as aggro as possible without dying is my rule normally
Would you say Syndra is a decent blindpick right now?
Not S tier blind but pretty good
Nice video brother
Cheers big dog
Hey Shok genuine question, ive played for years and just recently hit diamond with a 68% we but my LP gains suddenly dropped to +12 and -26 without loss streaks. Lots of people talk about getting new accounts when your LP gains get ruined but ive never had this problem in a decade. Are there real benefits to doing ranked on a fresh account? I figured after a dozen good games my mmr would fix but despite winning it still is rough.
Honestly I'm not too sure, I've never really had LP gain issues, you could just try on a new account and see if it helps
@@ShokLeague Thanks for the response! Just wasn't sure your thoughts as I trust your info a lot more than random reddit posts haha. Ill just stay on the climb for challenger on my main, thanks for all the amazing educational content as always!
Can entire video be really useful for all roles or just mid lane?
Parts of it can be applied to all roles but obviously it's mainly for mid lane
this dude literally a fucking genius