I like this, because it's basically just final proof that top is completely useless - When the best strat is to simply queue top and play everywhere on the map but toplane.
I dont think its that, its about the nature of the game. Two or even one carry have enough damage to kill anyone, if carries have 2 or 3 supports instead of one then quite often they are untouchable. Support champs can keep enemy top in one place for long enough that they wont be able to do anything, so it doesnt matter how powerful they are in comparison to roaming no cs top. You could swap mid with top and result would be the same. Two/three supports + 2 carries is just a much stronger comp than one supp+rest. We saw it clearly in funnel era. Its just better to have one or 2 strong carries and support them than having standard comp with 4 moderatly strong champions.
Literally true, if some guy can go 0 cs perma roam taric top and win, yeah, he has a good idea, but it mainly means the game design is dogshit as fuck.
I think you are not that far from the truth, but, i think you are focusing on the wrong part of it. Basically what this proof is that you can win a lot more when you play for and with your team, too many top laners are playing farming simulator top and hoping they get feed enough that once laning phase is over they can win alone, but if they fail at that they are completely useless for the rest of the match. What Ady is doing is exactly the contrary of that, he is letting enemy top laner win the lane if needed and focusing on helping the team. He is showing LoL biggest problem is the same as it was on day 1, they are asking 5 randoms to trust in each other and play as a team.
@@gamn6834 well yeah, he is doing that, and then the game puts a massive shutdown on the enemy for having a "CS lead" becaue shutdowns in this game are fuckng stupid. Playing for your team is cool and all, but a big part of his success probably lies in a fact that the game punishes people for winning... when they are not really winning
"You shouldn't get too upset or take things too seriously" Well it's been a good run League community, we have been asked to enjoy things and that's a hurdle we cannot overcome.
@@lordhallibel3604nah unironically mobas are so good that they feel bad. There's so many variables and potential options. So many factors and so much investment that people lose their minds.
To conclude, Ady enjoys playing his favourite game in the way he wants and doesn't care about the sub-optimal ego plays. Embrace fighting against the norms of this game and just have fun.
the guy just loves the game, but is really smart and undersanda the game completely, and thats the reason he is able to play these "suboptimal" picks that look troll and make them work. he probaby has reasons for picking these champs, imo people like him and baus are the best players in the game without a doubt because they just do whatever they want, play strictly off meta and make it look op.
It always puts a smile on my face seeing people talk about dangerousboy ady. I remember discovering him and his Shyvana top on s9, and after struggling for the longest time with getting out of Diamond and feeling like i hated league, i tried some of his strategies and had lots of fun with the game. I'd eventually hit Masters and become Rank 1 Shyvana top on my own minor server and i cant state enough how much of that i owe to this guy, i hope he gets more of the spotlight he deserves!
The passage around the end when you say "If something catches your eyes, go ahead and try it" is the best thing i can suggest to anyone no matter their main, it's so good when you manage to find something that is truly you in a near-pure form in gameplay For example, i'm the only person i know of to play almost exclusively Poppy with Conqueror and Goredrinker/Stridebreaker, and it allows me to both have fun and be a problem for the enemy team because they have never met someone play Poppy the way i do :)
Taric Jungle is criminally underrated in Solo Que. The best junglers are usually the ones that require the least amount of resources to be impactful. That's why standard picks in pro play are usually champions that have easy CC combos and decent clear speed. Taric fits this mold almost perfectly with Ghost instead of Flash. You generate so much value the instant you hit level 6 while still having a really good clear speed if you use his passive correctly. I think LoL needs more people who are willing to try out weird picks or at least be more ok with them in their games.
I remember playing hots with a couple of mates, and i got into an argument with one of them because i played my main a certain way that wasnt the meta choice and he didnt like that. I remember feeling dumb about how i handled it, but i deffenetly don't regret standing my ground, because whats the point of playing a game with choices, if you aint gonna make any and follow what the meta says? "its just a game" became a sort of enraging meme but at its roots its true,and people keep playing a game that makes them unhappy, frustrated, and they normalise it.
The issue is when you play ranked or a competitive game with your dogshit build, end up throwing for your team, when you can play a perfectly viable meta build. Saying "it's just a game" when you flip the table is just sad.
@@aromatic8565 I mean yeah, if you build 6 dorans you get a report from me, obviously. But as long as you dps as dps, heal as heal, or tank as tank, who cares what you build? And man don't act like the entire team wasnt blind as mole rats, greedy like they needed money for the operation, reckless like they were Indiana Jones mentaly ill evil twin, and as foul as your grandpa who still doesnt understand why he can't say the n-word no more. 9 games out of 10, theres 1, maybe 2 actualy good players who dont make stupid mistakes, and 95% of us arent them, so lets just have fun shall we?
go experiment and int in normals though, why play a competitive ranked game if youre obviously not trying to win i hate that crappy attitude. There's multiple game modes for a reason. It's not even about playing meta sometimes people are ahead of the curve too, just come and play to win as aromatic says dont run it down then justify it with "its just a game" whilst youve literally wasted 30 minutes of the only life i have. I value my time
@@tzc9309 My dude you aint reading clearly, first off who said anything about not wanting to win? Ranked is where people try hard (usualy) so of course thats where you wanna try that new build you thought up, since thats where it'll be best tested (and i'm not saying you shouldnt do a couple norms before to see if it even works). And again, why do you assume that i was defending trolling? The build i played with my mates was something i played numerous times and was performing well with, won often too, but like you he didnt wanna hear anything about preference, comfort, or familiarity, he just wanted me to look up a build the pro's played and shut up. So i told him it was just a game and to grow up lmao. Still won btw, just another proof you guys need to touch some grass and smoke some weed, with your oH sO vAlUaBlE tImE... lol
I reached D2 this season with Singed and Ivern and I am tired already. After this Elo most of the games are based on "meta champs" that are very op and it gets very boring so I am quitting for the moment. I had a lot of fun with Ivern support as it made the games very chaotic so I understand why Ady wants to play something else to have fun and not to play only Maokai, Zac, Gangplank and other stuff
I find it quite funny that I was building spear of shojin and ability haste stacking on Panth for a while now. Its nice to see that its definitely a viable build, even though I felt it already was pretty successful in my own games.
I've been playing league for about 8 years myself now, and last week I had finally had enough of all Tilting players and what not, to the point I was seriously thinking about stopping. league is my favorite game and passion, that I've put so much joy in learning and improving. I decided to take a break from it for a few days to let my own ego cool off a bit lol. But I genuinely needed this video, its not all about rank, being the best, its a game, that I enjoy. And this Video helped with reminding myself that its okay to have fun in the games you love. Keep up the awesome work and videos Exil. Cant wait to see more
good video as always! i never get angry or tilted playing league and i find it weird that there is so much of it in the community. I dont get why so many people play a game that makes them mad? its also weird knowing that my teammates and opponents get genuinly angry and rage quit and stuff, while im just enjoying myself. so hearing about this guy was fun!
Well I get angry but i never rage quit or troll anything like that. But I do like to win just because u find it fun to lose doesn’t mean most of the people do. Which I don’t understand ur type of people.
played LoL from season 1 to season 8...i was maining proxy Singed and i never used flash in my life for 8 seasons! Everyone was flaming to me until we were breaking the enemy Nexus. I can confirm that LoL is a versatile game and you can win in many unconventional ways
I used to play Ashe supp 2 years ago, she worked the same way as today, but people were malding for me picking Ashe supp. However she's been one of top picks for quite a while. A few months ago I played Kennen supp with Glacial and Evenshroud + Zhonyas for a few games. No mana issues, has good CC, yet people malding in normals.
Buying a support item as 2nd or 3rd item is legit a good idea and I'm shocked I didn't think about that. IF you're team fighting only, having a support item pays it's self off and gives free wards which can win games.
I loved learning about this guy, something my friends and random playerrs notice is that I'm really calm while playing, never asking for ganks or anything (I'm a support main) and Ady kinda inspired me to try playing toplane because I enjoy playing exactly like him
One of the biggest problems with league is not that it's inherently toxic/abusive, but the community is somehow conditioned (perhaps by the in-game 'recommended' algorithm, prior to and still including external data websites) to see unfamiliar or 'non-meta' items purchased as griefing and/or trolling. And it's cyclical, because this fuels negativity, toxicity and abuse, with people pinging items and typing unnecessary things in the chat. Yes there are times when players genuinely build bad items for their current champion and purposefully lose games, but to me at least it's real sad that innovation and problem solving is frowned upon entirely. The game should have a larger item shop, maybe even more item slots in your bag - at the least players should be appreciating the thought process and concepts explored to make such a simple game a little more complex and exciting, because the guys making and balancing the game clearly don't have the capacity to. Thanks for highlighting this idea at the end
I'd love to see your spin on the history of URF and what the first URF was like! I remember Sona being banned because she was just unbeatable, and I swear at one point there wasn't a limit on how many shrooms Teemo could lay down, it was so fun.
i reason i come to the game is to theory craft. the devs never consider every detail, and there is often something hidden OP they overlook, it’s just waiting to be found by some korean challenger before it’s seen as OP. double adc botlane? DONT MAKE ME LAUGH. i’ve been playing vayne support for years. hexflash into other bush with hail of blades for a free proc. everything can work if you get creative. it’s why as an adult the only video game i still play is league. I can sit down and look over the patch notes after not playing for 3 or 6 months, see that there is a new tank item (heartsteel was this years) and go through every champion in the game and see which one procs it the most. play 20 games of it and try something else. league is interesting because anything can happen every game. I’m a bard main and some games i build AP. some games i build full tank and be a frontline. sometimes if i’m playing with a tristana or vayne i rush mobi boots and never come back. it’s all about the process of getting to the end screen as you mentioned. sustainability. the way to climb is not any tech or secret, it’s an attitude. play more games climb more. if you win games playing darius but find it boring as hell to win like that (i know i sure do) you quit the game and get bored. could i reach plat playing darius only (i’m gold 1). i’m pretty sure. could i play the 100 games necessary to get to plat 1 of darius tryharding? fuck no
Man what you said about trying to have a little fun at the end really resonated with me. Time to take that attitude into my next game and then immediately get tilted and forget all about it.
I absolutely adore off meta champs and playstyles, and that's exactly what both keeps me playing the game and makes me sad when I play off meta in ARAM and get called troll and idiot
I asked my friend the other day to remind me to play thresh more because i can never tilt on that guy. i really wish league designed its champions to be more like him where you can never get so far ahead that it's ok to turn your brain off but you can also never get so far behind that you're just stick twiddling your thumbs for 20 minutes. And where a lot of getting good with the champion has to do with creative applications of his abilities, good fundamentals, and that kind of stuff. But yeah, have fun when you play the video game, that's more important than either climbing or winning.
I think the most impressive part about this is that generally the korean servers are very toxic towards anything that isn't straight up "meta", so to hit challanger multiple times and stay up there with a whacky playstyle he enjoys is awesome
That's the video I was in need to diminish my tilt percentage. I was so tilted those days that I've got a chat restriction for 3 days, something that never and I say NEVER happened to me before. I'll manage to get over my tilt and start grinding again. Thanks exil for the great content love your vids!
My favorite off meta build. Conqueror ahri with a liandries and rylas and a bunch of cdr. Keeping champs that have a hard time sticking to you at arms reach only for them to never be able to disengage, by the time help makes it your conqueror is stacked
That is actually cool to see! I was flamed a while for playing what i have fun with (for example trying Lissandra or Riven jungle just for the fun of it). Enjoying the game in your way, is something we all can learn from Ady.
this is an awesome mindset. currently I don't play league, but a less complicated mobile clone. honestly i feel its a little too simple for wacky innovations. this reminded me of how i used to play that game early on. I've lost my way after spending a lot of hours carrying my friends up to top rank. great video, saved
Hope you do a video on Sechepo one day. The rank 1 KR Poppy. He was also rank 1 this season playing Poppy mid. In the past he plays mostly Poppy top and support. I think he is friends with Ady because I've seen them on the same team before and the synergy was there. He also plays Warwick, Sett and Ekko.
I dunno if it's listed. But the first music track is "While we sleep" from runescape 3. It's one of my favourite video game tracks and i wanted to make sure anyone who likes it too can find it.
I remember when Senna with Guinsoo's was a thing, I made a short pitch to my friends and they sort of just brushed it off as my insane ramblings. I tried it in a game and it was broken, they spectated me (unbeknownst to me at the time) and said the damage from that build was hilariously OP. That interaction got removed :) I love Riot sometimes.
I really support Exil's point of trying builds that you genuinely think is good. I am a Varus main in Wild Rift and have tried all sorts builds, from full Crit to Hybrids (AD and AP) Support and full AP. Coming from my experience, it is very rewarding. You get to learn what is good and what is bad, improve with the champ you are trying to play, and sometimes have fun. When Riot buffed Varus in Wild Rift I immediately started experimenting Varus AP and haven't changed my items since. Also, this video made me want to do better in my games which is quite rare.
Love that you made a video about Ady, it's mind boggling how he competes with the some of the best players of the world with his crazy picks and builds. Also, good title!
I remember coming across a vid of ady playing Rakan top like a year ago, and he was giga smurfing in a KR challenger game. His micro is top tier as well as his understanding of game mechanics. Truly one of the GOATs
6:52 Shyvana is supposed to be low income and high utility? That you have to explain to me. In my experience, she was always one of those champions that kill a whole team by herself if she has items but is utterly useless once she falls behind.
He played Shyvana in a very strange way that made it able to work on low income. Shyvana's E base damage scales very well with each rank, Ady would play on top as Shyvana farming until 6, get Frostfire Gauntlet, usually farm until he got Warmogs, and then he'd buy support item and perma roam. Shyvana doesn't use mana, so he's run around the map with support item catching waves that'd otherwise crash and just keep working up Fury for R, fight a little bit, run off and heal with Warmogs, rinse and repeat. He'd then buy a Demonic once he got the money and rarely if the game lasted long enough he'd get a Titanic Hydra. PTA (Shyvana can proc is quickly with AA + Q) combined with good base scaling on E damage and no mana + warmogs is what made it work. I don't think he plays it as much anymore as Riot nerfed her health stacking playstyle when they nerfed her E mark %on-hit damage, as well as the nerfs/changes to how support item works for support champs (because of the whole roaming Janna top lane fiasco). It's not as good as it once was. Simply put, Ady is so cracked he found a way to make utility out of Shyvana's extremely low utility kit by a smart combination tricks and support item (specifically Spellthief's Edge) being overtuned.
I’m exactly like that guy, just zen, it was so hard to find a group of League players that wasn’t super toxic though. 80% of the community needs professional help
As someone who picked up Taric Jungle a few months back and got M7 with him from 0 mastery score, and with an over 80% win rate over the course of about 60 games, I can confirm that his utility is nuts, and he also had surprisingly strong 1v1 potential to boot. Now that Sunfire isn't a Mythic with an on-hit component, it's a little weaker than it was, but it's still a very solid pick into any kind of dive comp.
it seems that the constant updates to league doesnt just keep it fresh, it keeps players playing more or less the same way for years at a time. so when someone devotes serious time and skill into playing something different it's a genuine surprise when it works it makes me wonder what league would be like if they stopped patching it today and people were forced to really explore the depths of the game as they exahust conventional wisdom and start experimenting. decades old games still have evolving metas and make new players appreciate new playstyles, it stands to reason that league would be no different if it just enjoyed some stability for once
9:25 my biggest piece of advice for this is as follows: don’t be afraid to die. I’ll gladly die to engage if it means my team gets 4 kills and a baron. Don’t play for the KD, play for the win. Obviously you have to know when to go in, but it’s crazy how many people are afraid to die for their team to get a baron or dragon. When my team does baron and I’m alive I’ll often angle myself to block the Jinx Ult from the enemy fountain, because I don’t want to risk it
Yeah man, I agree. When I play as Support I think of deaths as part of the job I always tell myself whenever I die and look at my gray screen "At least we got the objective and they're ending" I just sort of smile even though I mostly feel bad because I also want to be in the limelight when the enemy nexus is destroyed. I could also say the same thing for other roles I'm an ADC but I'll flash in to end the game or steal objectives.
@@fonzymaningat2324 I know the feeling, feels good to get the big MVP play. But if you really just care to climb you gotta be able to take the death with your chin up and keep going!
This is leading to a video i watched before about keeping your utility despite lane phase. Like chaos like blitz can be behind and still be useful. I've also heard of support Rammus like with knights vow and that other one you can link to others.
I'm not gonna claim I'm on the same level of Ady, I'm not, but we seem to be similar types of players. What matters is winning, no other statistic matters. Help team over yourself as long as it's overall beneficial. Don't play greedy. Don't do things just to make yourself look better. Do things to win. I'm also someone who very rarely tilts, which helps loads. I do sometimes get frustrated, but I mostly just try to have fun.
Watching this vid after seeing how Tyler1 flames current broken jungling system is just pure gold. As Tyler1 said, with counter jungling being so nerfed, you can just half clear and camp bot forever. Hence hearing Taric jungle making more scenes than anything else kinda just rings true to what Tyler1 said.
This video has made my day I just got suspended last night because I had a terrible mental break in game and just ran it down the mid lane after watching this it makes me want to get back to having fun when my accounts back up
Super valid. This game got good for me when I started playing like a kid at capture the flag. Having fun, laughing at my mistakes, joking with others. Accepting that there will still be games when players flame, call others trash, compare kda’s and race to claim diff. Then politely letting them know how the game could have been better.
I really like this video, I didn't realize there were other people that played in similar fashion. It's all about the win at the end of the day but a lot of people in ranked don't seem to feel that way if they lose lane. It's what makes the grind so boring in ranked.
He's the definition of all the old early days of league players, theorycrafting builds to maximize one niche mechanic he they interesting and somehow it works and everyone is left scratching their heads how it works
Thank u for this video, it shows me again that I don't have to give up my dream to be ahri support Noone is perfect and noone has to play perfect, and sa to say, this is what everyone mostly forget, even me. Hope many people will see this video and will keep the mentality from it to themself :3
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I dont see any league of legends on there :(
@@vik3493 Yup same here
supports doesnt work on low elo people just to stoopid to know u want help them u must carry or lose
good job advertising for something that doesnt even exist
Exil’s storytelling ability is actually too good for a League youtuber. Loved the video once again!
Hi Petu!
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So do your maths
Greetings dear Petu, I agree! :3
Its easy when you hire people to write your scripts and edits.
As one of the greatest league players once said: "League is as wholesome as you make it"
true that
‘Life’
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yo what microphone model/name do you use Exil ? tnx in advance @@Exil22
I like this, because it's basically just final proof that top is completely useless - When the best strat is to simply queue top and play everywhere on the map but toplane.
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I dont think its that, its about the nature of the game. Two or even one carry have enough damage to kill anyone, if carries have 2 or 3 supports instead of one then quite often they are untouchable. Support champs can keep enemy top in one place for long enough that they wont be able to do anything, so it doesnt matter how powerful they are in comparison to roaming no cs top. You could swap mid with top and result would be the same. Two/three supports + 2 carries is just a much stronger comp than one supp+rest. We saw it clearly in funnel era. Its just better to have one or 2 strong carries and support them than having standard comp with 4 moderatly strong champions.
Literally true, if some guy can go 0 cs perma roam taric top and win, yeah, he has a good idea, but it mainly means the game design is dogshit as fuck.
I think you are not that far from the truth, but, i think you are focusing on the wrong part of it.
Basically what this proof is that you can win a lot more when you play for and with your team, too many top laners are playing farming simulator top and hoping they get feed enough that once laning phase is over they can win alone, but if they fail at that they are completely useless for the rest of the match.
What Ady is doing is exactly the contrary of that, he is letting enemy top laner win the lane if needed and focusing on helping the team. He is showing LoL biggest problem is the same as it was on day 1, they are asking 5 randoms to trust in each other and play as a team.
@@gamn6834 well yeah, he is doing that, and then the game puts a massive shutdown on the enemy for having a "CS lead" becaue shutdowns in this game are fuckng stupid. Playing for your team is cool and all, but a big part of his success probably lies in a fact that the game punishes people for winning... when they are not really winning
"You shouldn't get too upset or take things too seriously"
Well it's been a good run League community, we have been asked to enjoy things and that's a hurdle we cannot overcome.
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"I refuse to enjoy myself!"
- Me and many league players probably 😂
@@htspencer9084 league is bad.
@@lordhallibel3604nah unironically mobas are so good that they feel bad. There's so many variables and potential options. So many factors and so much investment that people lose their minds.
Crazy how we’ve arrived at a point in history where a player can become well known, famous even, for their rare ability to have fun in video games 😂
As usual a fascinating and well made documentary. I've never heard of this man up until now, and will definitely study him. Please keep it up, Exil!
:) I am really glad you enjoyed!!!
To conclude, Ady enjoys playing his favourite game in the way he wants and doesn't care about the sub-optimal ego plays. Embrace fighting against the norms of this game and just have fun.
and that's why i play alistar mid full ap, shaco top, shyvana supp n stuff like this
the guy just loves the game, but is really smart and undersanda the game completely, and thats the reason he is able to play these "suboptimal" picks that look troll and make them work. he probaby has reasons for picking these champs, imo people like him and baus are the best players in the game without a doubt because they just do whatever they want, play strictly off meta and make it look op.
@@zezanje1 well tell that to his ap irelia and 3 bans
and get banned
@@zezanje1 no
The true definition of "its a game so play it like a game" mindset
But he’s good at the game though….
It always puts a smile on my face seeing people talk about dangerousboy ady. I remember discovering him and his Shyvana top on s9, and after struggling for the longest time with getting out of Diamond and feeling like i hated league, i tried some of his strategies and had lots of fun with the game.
I'd eventually hit Masters and become Rank 1 Shyvana top on my own minor server and i cant state enough how much of that i owe to this guy, i hope he gets more of the spotlight he deserves!
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"Today on the super server" honestly deserves more subs. Really nice macro and micro explanations of how niche picks work.
The passage around the end when you say "If something catches your eyes, go ahead and try it" is the best thing i can suggest to anyone no matter their main, it's so good when you manage to find something that is truly you in a near-pure form in gameplay
For example, i'm the only person i know of to play almost exclusively Poppy with Conqueror and Goredrinker/Stridebreaker, and it allows me to both have fun and be a problem for the enemy team because they have never met someone play Poppy the way i do :)
Taric Jungle is criminally underrated in Solo Que. The best junglers are usually the ones that require the least amount of resources to be impactful. That's why standard picks in pro play are usually champions that have easy CC combos and decent clear speed. Taric fits this mold almost perfectly with Ghost instead of Flash. You generate so much value the instant you hit level 6 while still having a really good clear speed if you use his passive correctly. I think LoL needs more people who are willing to try out weird picks or at least be more ok with them in their games.
Played fiora jungle and alot of other weird picks. Had 2 buddies play teemo and shaco bot. Stuff like that.
I remember playing hots with a couple of mates, and i got into an argument with one of them because i played my main a certain way that wasnt the meta choice and he didnt like that. I remember feeling dumb about how i handled it, but i deffenetly don't regret standing my ground, because whats the point of playing a game with choices, if you aint gonna make any and follow what the meta says? "its just a game" became a sort of enraging meme but at its roots its true,and people keep playing a game that makes them unhappy, frustrated, and they normalise it.
Anyone who is permanently frustrated and angry at league, but still continues playing the way they do, should not be taken seriously :)
The issue is when you play ranked or a competitive game with your dogshit build, end up throwing for your team, when you can play a perfectly viable meta build. Saying "it's just a game" when you flip the table is just sad.
@@aromatic8565 I mean yeah, if you build 6 dorans you get a report from me, obviously. But as long as you dps as dps, heal as heal, or tank as tank, who cares what you build? And man don't act like the entire team wasnt blind as mole rats, greedy like they needed money for the operation, reckless like they were Indiana Jones mentaly ill evil twin, and as foul as your grandpa who still doesnt understand why he can't say the n-word no more. 9 games out of 10, theres 1, maybe 2 actualy good players who dont make stupid mistakes, and 95% of us arent them, so lets just have fun shall we?
go experiment and int in normals though, why play a competitive ranked game if youre obviously not trying to win i hate that crappy attitude. There's multiple game modes for a reason. It's not even about playing meta sometimes people are ahead of the curve too, just come and play to win as aromatic says dont run it down then justify it with "its just a game" whilst youve literally wasted 30 minutes of the only life i have. I value my time
@@tzc9309 My dude you aint reading clearly, first off who said anything about not wanting to win? Ranked is where people try hard (usualy) so of course thats where you wanna try that new build you thought up, since thats where it'll be best tested (and i'm not saying you shouldnt do a couple norms before to see if it even works). And again, why do you assume that i was defending trolling? The build i played with my mates was something i played numerous times and was performing well with, won often too, but like you he didnt wanna hear anything about preference, comfort, or familiarity, he just wanted me to look up a build the pro's played and shut up. So i told him it was just a game and to grow up lmao. Still won btw, just another proof you guys need to touch some grass and smoke some weed, with your oH sO vAlUaBlE tImE... lol
I reached D2 this season with Singed and Ivern and I am tired already. After this Elo most of the games are based on "meta champs" that are very op and it gets very boring so I am quitting for the moment. I had a lot of fun with Ivern support as it made the games very chaotic so I understand why Ady wants to play something else to have fun and not to play only Maokai, Zac, Gangplank and other stuff
Hell yeah, Ivern support sounds like fun!
singed is disgusting broken in soloq tho
@@delitta he is pretty fun to play with
@@Dankster8814 ye
Ady is just a gigachad who genuinely love the game
But he’s also good at the game. Just because u find it fun when ur 0-11 doesn’t mean we will.
Might be my favourite video on your channel. Great job and can't wait to see more :)
More to come!
yo what microphone model/name do you use Exil ? tnx in advance @@Exil22
Love the WoW music. I am playing WoW while watching this but was confused why it was the wrong music for the zone im in haha
I find it quite funny that I was building spear of shojin and ability haste stacking on Panth for a while now. Its nice to see that its definitely a viable build, even though I felt it already was pretty successful in my own games.
I've been playing league for about 8 years myself now, and last week I had finally had enough of all Tilting players and what not, to the point I was seriously thinking about stopping. league is my favorite game and passion, that I've put so much joy in learning and improving. I decided to take a break from it for a few days to let my own ego cool off a bit lol. But I genuinely needed this video, its not all about rank, being the best, its a game, that I enjoy. And this Video helped with reminding myself that its okay to have fun in the games you love. Keep up the awesome work and videos Exil. Cant wait to see more
good video as always! i never get angry or tilted playing league and i find it weird that there is so much of it in the community. I dont get why so many people play a game that makes them mad? its also weird knowing that my teammates and opponents get genuinly angry and rage quit and stuff, while im just enjoying myself.
so hearing about this guy was fun!
Well I get angry but i never rage quit or troll anything like that. But I do like to win just because u find it fun to lose doesn’t mean most of the people do. Which I don’t understand ur type of people.
played LoL from season 1 to season 8...i was maining proxy Singed and i never used flash in my life for 8 seasons! Everyone was flaming to me until we were breaking the enemy Nexus. I can confirm that LoL is a versatile game and you can win in many unconventional ways
0:42 hearing this isolated really makes me realize how painful it probably was to make that. He does not sound "his regular self" at all.
8:00 that runescape music so nostalgic omg
I used to play Ashe supp 2 years ago, she worked the same way as today, but people were malding for me picking Ashe supp. However she's been one of top picks for quite a while.
A few months ago I played Kennen supp with Glacial and Evenshroud + Zhonyas for a few games. No mana issues, has good CC, yet people malding in normals.
Thanks for the great videos! I hope you have a great rest of your day
Buying a support item as 2nd or 3rd item is legit a good idea and I'm shocked I didn't think about that. IF you're team fighting only, having a support item pays it's self off and gives free wards which can win games.
I loved learning about this guy, something my friends and random playerrs notice is that I'm really calm while playing, never asking for ganks or anything (I'm a support main) and Ady kinda inspired me to try playing toplane because I enjoy playing exactly like him
One of the biggest problems with league is not that it's inherently toxic/abusive, but the community is somehow conditioned (perhaps by the in-game 'recommended' algorithm, prior to and still including external data websites) to see unfamiliar or 'non-meta' items purchased as griefing and/or trolling. And it's cyclical, because this fuels negativity, toxicity and abuse, with people pinging items and typing unnecessary things in the chat. Yes there are times when players genuinely build bad items for their current champion and purposefully lose games, but to me at least it's real sad that innovation and problem solving is frowned upon entirely. The game should have a larger item shop, maybe even more item slots in your bag - at the least players should be appreciating the thought process and concepts explored to make such a simple game a little more complex and exciting, because the guys making and balancing the game clearly don't have the capacity to. Thanks for highlighting this idea at the end
I'd love to see your spin on the history of URF and what the first URF was like! I remember Sona being banned because she was just unbeatable, and I swear at one point there wasn't a limit on how many shrooms Teemo could lay down, it was so fun.
Kayle, Ryze and Karthus were part of the first URF, that chapter in league history was my Vietnam
don't forget hecarim, my god he was OP in URF before they tried to balance it
Ezreal was OP, too, and Evelynn. Their Q spam was insane
lately i’ve been playing Ahri support… my team usually tilts during the draft phase but it actually works really well when the game starts.
Hello fellow ahri support main
I just enjoy that using a W maxes Spellthief for a bit lol
@@dork-ishdoll271 wow! i didn’t even know that… now i want to play ahri support even more
i reason i come to the game is to theory craft. the devs never consider every detail, and there is often something hidden OP they overlook, it’s just waiting to be found by some korean challenger before it’s seen as OP. double adc botlane? DONT MAKE ME LAUGH. i’ve been playing vayne support for years. hexflash into other bush with hail of blades for a free proc. everything can work if you get creative.
it’s why as an adult the only video game i still play is league. I can sit down and look over the patch notes after not playing for 3 or 6 months, see that there is a new tank item (heartsteel was this years) and go through every champion in the game and see which one procs it the most. play 20 games of it and try something else.
league is interesting because anything can happen every game. I’m a bard main and some games i build AP. some games i build full tank and be a frontline. sometimes if i’m playing with a tristana or vayne i rush mobi boots and never come back. it’s all about the process of getting to the end screen as you mentioned. sustainability. the way to climb is not any tech or secret, it’s an attitude. play more games climb more. if you win games playing darius but find it boring as hell to win like that (i know i sure do) you quit the game and get bored. could i reach plat playing darius only (i’m gold 1). i’m pretty sure. could i play the 100 games necessary to get to plat 1 of darius tryharding? fuck no
"I can still wake up the next day and watch vods"
"It's my daily routine"
My man, that's called an addiction
Thank you so much! Love your videos! Always look forward to the next one
Glad you like them!
Man what you said about trying to have a little fun at the end really resonated with me. Time to take that attitude into my next game and then immediately get tilted and forget all about it.
I absolutely adore off meta champs and playstyles, and that's exactly what both keeps me playing the game and makes me sad when I play off meta in ARAM and get called troll and idiot
Who else got a massive burst of nostalgia at 9:30 with the Elwynn Forest music?
I asked my friend the other day to remind me to play thresh more because i can never tilt on that guy. i really wish league designed its champions to be more like him where you can never get so far ahead that it's ok to turn your brain off but you can also never get so far behind that you're just stick twiddling your thumbs for 20 minutes. And where a lot of getting good with the champion has to do with creative applications of his abilities, good fundamentals, and that kind of stuff. But yeah, have fun when you play the video game, that's more important than either climbing or winning.
Dunkey's video from 2015 is still relevant in 2023 ...
It really is
The same people who hit like at the end of this video go into games and say "ez"
I think the most impressive part about this is that generally the korean servers are very toxic towards anything that isn't straight up "meta", so to hit challanger multiple times and stay up there with a whacky playstyle he enjoys is awesome
You put WOW music in the background!! :O brought me soooooo many memories!!!
i just love how the most replayed feature will point you to the end of sponsors
That's the video I was in need to diminish my tilt percentage. I was so tilted those days that I've got a chat restriction for 3 days, something that never and I say NEVER happened to me before. I'll manage to get over my tilt and start grinding again.
Thanks exil for the great content love your vids!
:D
Do not waste your time on league.
@@AlHanief just got into a team to play on stage next month
The wow music brought back so much nostalgia I couldn't focus on the video :D
Anyone who plays or thinks outside the box (meta) is something I can highly appreciate!
My favorite off meta build. Conqueror ahri with a liandries and rylas and a bunch of cdr. Keeping champs that have a hard time sticking to you at arms reach only for them to never be able to disengage, by the time help makes it your conqueror is stacked
Love the idea, imma try it. I'm on a CDR kick on Ahri/lux atm and it's working really well
For me what make me still appreciate the game is the characters and there stories, so its the games lore it self that makes me keep loving this game
Bout time we got some Ady on this channel. I've been tracking him since the end of s9
That is actually cool to see! I was flamed a while for playing what i have fun with (for example trying Lissandra or Riven jungle just for the fun of it). Enjoying the game in your way, is something we all can learn from Ady.
So you're telling me this guy has been playing smite top Janna before smite top Janna was a thing... Damn.
this is an awesome mindset. currently I don't play league, but a less complicated mobile clone. honestly i feel its a little too simple for wacky innovations. this reminded me of how i used to play that game early on. I've lost my way after spending a lot of hours carrying my friends up to top rank. great video, saved
Fantastic work. Ady is my spirit animal. Right now I’m workin on PTA Klee and Navori Quickblades
Hope you do a video on Sechepo one day. The rank 1 KR Poppy. He was also rank 1 this season playing Poppy mid. In the past he plays mostly Poppy top and support. I think he is friends with Ady because I've seen them on the same team before and the synergy was there.
He also plays Warwick, Sett and Ekko.
I dunno if it's listed. But the first music track is "While we sleep" from runescape 3. It's one of my favourite video game tracks and i wanted to make sure anyone who likes it too can find it.
Never knew I needed a video more than this one, thanks for the content Exil keep up the good work.
I remember when Senna with Guinsoo's was a thing, I made a short pitch to my friends and they sort of just brushed it off as my insane ramblings. I tried it in a game and it was broken, they spectated me (unbeknownst to me at the time) and said the damage from that build was hilariously OP.
That interaction got removed :) I love Riot sometimes.
This is exactly how i play my other rts games like total war. Sept i lean harder into the memes. Dude is a legend in the making for sure
I really support Exil's point of trying builds that you genuinely think is good. I am a Varus main in Wild Rift and have tried all sorts builds, from full Crit to Hybrids (AD and AP) Support and full AP. Coming from my experience, it is very rewarding. You get to learn what is good and what is bad, improve with the champ you are trying to play, and sometimes have fun. When Riot buffed Varus in Wild Rift I immediately started experimenting Varus AP and haven't changed my items since.
Also, this video made me want to do better in my games which is quite rare.
Love that you made a video about Ady, it's mind boggling how he competes with the some of the best players of the world with his crazy picks and builds.
Also, good title!
I was so ready for the dunkerton quote at the beginning to be "spaghetti and meatballs" or something
he understands how unbalanced the bot lanes affect is on the game, so he makes sure they eat
An entire documentary on the main protagonist of Happy chime noises videos? Hell yeah!! 🥳
One of your best videos so far, loved it.
I have never seen one of your videos… BUT dammm it was a Good one! Am gonna subscribe fr! Keep going buddy👌
Nice video, i also like the use of elwynn forest/stormwind ambiance music
I remember coming across a vid of ady playing Rakan top like a year ago, and he was giga smurfing in a KR challenger game. His micro is top tier as well as his understanding of game mechanics. Truly one of the GOATs
6:52 Shyvana is supposed to be low income and high utility?
That you have to explain to me. In my experience, she was always one of those champions that kill a whole team by herself if she has items but is utterly useless once she falls behind.
He played Shyvana in a very strange way that made it able to work on low income. Shyvana's E base damage scales very well with each rank, Ady would play on top as Shyvana farming until 6, get Frostfire Gauntlet, usually farm until he got Warmogs, and then he'd buy support item and perma roam. Shyvana doesn't use mana, so he's run around the map with support item catching waves that'd otherwise crash and just keep working up Fury for R, fight a little bit, run off and heal with Warmogs, rinse and repeat. He'd then buy a Demonic once he got the money and rarely if the game lasted long enough he'd get a Titanic Hydra.
PTA (Shyvana can proc is quickly with AA + Q) combined with good base scaling on E damage and no mana + warmogs is what made it work. I don't think he plays it as much anymore as Riot nerfed her health stacking playstyle when they nerfed her E mark %on-hit damage, as well as the nerfs/changes to how support item works for support champs (because of the whole roaming Janna top lane fiasco). It's not as good as it once was.
Simply put, Ady is so cracked he found a way to make utility out of Shyvana's extremely low utility kit by a smart combination tricks and support item (specifically Spellthief's Edge) being overtuned.
I’m exactly like that guy, just zen, it was so hard to find a group of League players that wasn’t super toxic though. 80% of the community needs professional help
To be fair a lot of toxicity is thanks to Riot especially in recent years.
Bro this video just basically said top lane is a bull shit lane and a top laner should ultimately just focus on roaming and helping other lanes.
As someone who picked up Taric Jungle a few months back and got M7 with him from 0 mastery score, and with an over 80% win rate over the course of about 60 games, I can confirm that his utility is nuts, and he also had surprisingly strong 1v1 potential to boot.
Now that Sunfire isn't a Mythic with an on-hit component, it's a little weaker than it was, but it's still a very solid pick into any kind of dive comp.
it seems that the constant updates to league doesnt just keep it fresh, it keeps players playing more or less the same way for years at a time. so when someone devotes serious time and skill into playing something different it's a genuine surprise when it works
it makes me wonder what league would be like if they stopped patching it today and people were forced to really explore the depths of the game as they exahust conventional wisdom and start experimenting. decades old games still have evolving metas and make new players appreciate new playstyles, it stands to reason that league would be no different if it just enjoyed some stability for once
9:25 my biggest piece of advice for this is as follows: don’t be afraid to die. I’ll gladly die to engage if it means my team gets 4 kills and a baron. Don’t play for the KD, play for the win. Obviously you have to know when to go in, but it’s crazy how many people are afraid to die for their team to get a baron or dragon. When my team does baron and I’m alive I’ll often angle myself to block the Jinx Ult from the enemy fountain, because I don’t want to risk it
Yeah man, I agree. When I play as Support I think of deaths as part of the job I always tell myself whenever I die and look at my gray screen "At least we got the objective and they're ending" I just sort of smile even though I mostly feel bad because I also want to be in the limelight when the enemy nexus is destroyed. I could also say the same thing for other roles I'm an ADC but I'll flash in to end the game or steal objectives.
@@fonzymaningat2324 I know the feeling, feels good to get the big MVP play. But if you really just care to climb you gotta be able to take the death with your chin up and keep going!
@@JimTheBananaBoy It's always better to get a W than an MVP Play.
The world of warcraft music was really calming for me. thank you.
This is leading to a video i watched before about keeping your utility despite lane phase. Like chaos like blitz can be behind and still be useful.
I've also heard of support Rammus like with knights vow and that other one you can link to others.
reminds me of the original secret GOAT: SilSol. The guy who back in season 2 used to run ignite/heal on every single champ and still got Rank 1.
I love your content, keep it up 👍
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3:45 Stopped folding laundry to say - you literally just answered your question. Read his name lmao
When Jax said "imagine if I had a real weapon". Ady is like Imagine if I had a real build"
I'm not gonna claim I'm on the same level of Ady, I'm not, but we seem to be similar types of players. What matters is winning, no other statistic matters. Help team over yourself as long as it's overall beneficial. Don't play greedy. Don't do things just to make yourself look better. Do things to win.
I'm also someone who very rarely tilts, which helps loads. I do sometimes get frustrated, but I mostly just try to have fun.
Watching this vid after seeing how Tyler1 flames current broken jungling system is just pure gold.
As Tyler1 said, with counter jungling being so nerfed, you can just half clear and camp bot forever.
Hence hearing Taric jungle making more scenes than anything else kinda just rings true to what Tyler1 said.
I hear Elvyn forest sound track. I hit the like button. Simple as that.
Enjoyed the video @Exil
Thanks for making a video about me! :)
Epic vid. Exil is the best.
:)
Came for the content, stayed for the WOW OST in the background ❤️
Amazing video! The WoW osts made my day
Mans playing League like it's 2012. What an absolute fucking chad
He's my hero
I love your videos, i hope you never get bored of league and bring us more amazing content like this
:)
This video has made my day I just got suspended last night because I had a terrible mental break in game and just ran it down the mid lane after watching this it makes me want to get back to having fun when my accounts back up
Amazing video to an amazing player.
Pls keep up with the passion you put in your videos 🙂
:)
Super valid. This game got good for me when I started playing like a kid at capture the flag. Having fun, laughing at my mistakes, joking with others. Accepting that there will still be games when players flame, call others trash, compare kda’s and race to claim diff. Then politely letting them know how the game could have been better.
I really like this video, I didn't realize there were other people that played in similar fashion. It's all about the win at the end of the day but a lot of people in ranked don't seem to feel that way if they lose lane. It's what makes the grind so boring in ranked.
He's the definition of all the old early days of league players, theorycrafting builds to maximize one niche mechanic he they interesting and somehow it works and everyone is left scratching their heads how it works
I think Exils appreciation has finally depleted for this game. Rip league videos.
Fried Ady, the real main character of Thebausff's Korea climb ❤️
Amazing video, and great positive conclusion!
Thank u for this video, it shows me again that I don't have to give up my dream to be ahri support
Noone is perfect and noone has to play perfect, and sa to say, this is what everyone mostly forget, even me.
Hope many people will see this video and will keep the mentality from it to themself :3
Ady is the definition of "Hold up....let him cook...."
Man plays team game as a team, community in flames.
I like how every video on Ady is the same 5 games with almost the same exact timestamps.