Hi i need help. When I am in the selection, I can see the other players writing and can reply. When I am in the game and write, I get a message that I am alone in the chat. At first I thought ok the other players have switched off the chat, but it can't be that everyone in the game has switched off the chat. so I wonder if I might have a wrong setting somewhere. It would be helpful if someone could give me a solution, because you can't always give the right instructions with ping.
There's one thing you missed. I play 5 games on a alt account and I get place s1 meanwhile I do the same thing on my main account I get iron 3. Clearly there are moving parts beyond your teachings and my skill level. Please explain before you tell people just to make new accounts and cheat the system. Or maybe the states is someway biased. Actually that's a pretty good premise for content creator. Play placements games with an account in every elo. And look where you get placed. Then try to get all accounts to gold at least.
There is a saying, I do not know the source of, but it goes: The man who loves walking will walk further than the man who loves the destination. With that mindset, some might actually rather quit league and find themselves a more suitable journey.
Ill say this as someone who only started watching these videos after going from bronze to diamond, that bad teammates wont regularly lose you games. griefing teammates who are intentionally throwing will but that's not the norm. if you see your team making consistently poor choices you can STILL find a way to play around that and turn it into a game winning advantage, if you exercise the ability to critically think about what you can do to play around your team mates.
I'm not kidding when I used these exact same learning concepts to both learn fluent Japanese and climb to masters in League while taking classes full time in university. Spaced Repetition, deliberate practice, and interweaving learning objectives is the perfect combination for achieving success at learning anything. For League specially though, is actually harder than many skills because there's no easy way to just practice any scenario instantly. It takes a lot of games to see certain scenarios enough times to learn something solid from them. That's why focusing on ones that are common farming and resetting well are so important. Having common patterns down will free up the mental stack to focus on more specific issues.
Seing PubMed in a League video? Crazy. This video is actually so good, congratulations guys! Came to learn how to improve at League, learned how to study literally anything
What helped me climb to Plat II was learning the practical aspects of the game such as macro, wave control and so on. This is the most important. Generic advice such as "learn from your mistakes" doesn't help you if you don't even know what your mistakes are. I've hit a wall technically and I need to practice macro and mechanics further to improve more, but it wasn't "keeping calm" at shit teammates what made me climb, even though it helped.
Thank you for this one. I am fairly new to the game and frustrated with ranked right now. I just had a 6 game losing streak that including 2 int feeders and 1 afk teammate. 3 lost games that were close and we screwed up in the end game. The parts that really meant a lot to me were push yourself because I am definitely guilty of "dont feed" mindset but that leaves me unable to take control of the game late game. And the rule of 3 / bad streaks happen. I feel more motivated to go back and try again after this
Great video and excellent approach to improving on something (not only league). One thing that I find important and is more of a thing only for Esports is: To climb, you need to consistently win the games that you are ahead. Let me explain, cause I know it sounds stupid haha. For League, the most common thing in low elo is for games to be flipped. Players in low elo end up not winning the majority of games that they are ahead because they throw the game, as they start playing around and not focusing on the GG. This will make you win or lose this games at a 50% rate instead of a 75 to 80%. This sound really simple, but in all honesty playing games with low ranked friends it is noticeable that being ahead is entirely meaningless, as they will use that gold advantage to joke around until they start losing and get massively stressed. When you are ahead, that is the real moment you should play as correctly as possible, not the moment to loosen up.
Something I've noticed every competitive professional player of either video games or sport does is that they always watch their losses to understand properly why they lost. You can see this a lot in streams, most of the times when a top player loses a game and doesn't understand what happened he will immediately watch the replay after the game instead of queuing up for the next one, this makes a massive difference.
I just wanna say i love these kind of videos so much, mindlessly follow a pro build or abuse OP pick is won’t get you that far in the long run but analyzing, understanding and improving is just way better. Thank Skill Capped for these quality videos.
This guide is rediculously good and should be the starting point of anyone wanting to climb. Why I'm still subscribed to skillcapped and why I'm still climbing.
"Your not making a mistake, your making experiences. It is only a mistake, if you don’t learn something from it." That is something that some told me and i think it also translates well to League
What helped me improve drastically that l don't see people talk about much is watching your own replays. You picked yasuo and went 0/10? Watch every fight at 0.25x speed. Ask yourself what you could've done better/differently
i mean if you go 0-10 you were trolling so as long as you don't intentionally take bad fights because you are upset, you'll improve. but i see what you are going for and it's correct
everyone talks about that it's literally the most basic bread and butter advice for how to improve on your own without coaching can even be applied to any other game or even for example sports irl
The Broken by Concept podcast has had a big influence on improvement content, I'm glad their work is being reflected in content like this now. They deserve a shout out
This is it. This is what I needed. Dude I've been thinking about these principles in the back of my mind for so long, but having them listed out clearly, and put into league terms is SO helpful.
Honestly, you guys approaching League in a ways to not only learn but to learn how to learn and get your mental right for your won benefit is genius and extreamly important for this community
Great! Climbing is mostly about mental attrition. I learned stuff similar to this about 6 years ago and I have taken the concepts and applied them in my life, let alone League, and I see things much differently in a positive manner now. :)
Just want to go out of my way and say I have mad respect for your efforts into teaching people how to learn the game better. This shows tremendous commitment to your cause. Keep up the great work and I'll keep tunning in👌
Changing my mindset from 'i always get bad supports' to 'ill play around you, play what you are best on' has helped me climb from Bronze 4 to silver 1 in just less than a week
I have no idea why but this actually has helped me understand the game better. I shouldn't blame my teammates when we lose a fight like it said. Instead I should find out why it happened and how I could have don better instead of just complaining. I also like that 1 2 3 step of the practice, review, and adjust. its just perfect, ill have to start doing that.
idk man i need to see those p values and effect sizes lol good video dude, definitely solid advice about learning applied to league well. I haven't finished the video, but finding a champ you can really stick to helps a lot too.
This advice is great for life. However league has a system called MMR, which is intentionally tuned to have players grinding over and over. Maximum grind is the target for riot. My main /old account is stuck in iron, because the game pairs me with trolls 9 out of 10 games. It is impossible to climb. My other two accounts are gold 2. I'm not challenger, but I'm the same person as the iron account. This is only because riot tunes it MMR system for maximum grind. And that is not my fault. It is the greed of a Chinese company, tencent.
1:32 It's incredibly difficult to believe in and have a growth based mindset if like me you've played this game for over a decade and haven't seen significant improvement apart from the very first season you've played. Not from a lack of trying either, I really did give it my all and believed that I would eventually see results. But like someone at the gym realizing there's no more muscle growth, it's all for naught. At some point it's almost illogical to not think there isn't some genetic component to how good someone can get, and for some it really might just be at the average, or below. Edit: I'm not saying that what I said here is correct, but it's incredibly difficult to not fall into that mindset.
I complain that my teammates are bad because I’m not yet good enough to consistently carry them by myself. Carrying is such a hard thing to do but I have to figure it out if I wanna climb
Hey there, plat 3 support main here! I was wondering if anyone knows an exercise like in the video eg. farming, trading, map awareness, etc. that i can practise more to improve without the fear of the adc interfering with what i want to do. Ofc map awareness is one, and i already do that, but i feel like wave control can be messed with by my adc, same for trading. Vision control is really not about practise, but just general knowledge on where to place wards, when, and how to set up for ojectives which also takes map awareness. Farming is almost completely thrown out the window, and when you need to farm as support, its fine to miss some cs (support minion rule). This is not to say im not trying to improve on those areas, but i feel even if i do there can be other things to improve on which can not so easily be interrupted by what my team is up to. For any tips, thank you in advance :) (I'm genuinely seeking advice, so if you're about to write a reply hating on me, please save both of us the trouble, and time)
My issue with this is that if you are in low elo, gold or below, then this won't help you. Even if you have a mindset to learn. Your teammates might not even know what to do most of the time, don't split push when they might be able to or force dragon even when in a disadvantage. If you watch videos like this, great, it might help you improve in knowing what to do, but you still have 4 teammates who just play the game, not knowing or caring to improve further. This is critical because you would then have to find ways to 1v9 if you teammates are doing poorly. This makes winning the game significantly harder for you and it won't matter if you watched hundrets of these videos or what mindset you have. If you don't know what mistakes you make that lost the game, then you don't know how to identify and fix them in future games. Same as if you don't know how to marco, wave control, best time to reset, play for baron or tempo, then you will hit a ceiling unless you know how to utilize these things. Yes, you need a learning and grind minded mindset for league, but not everyone will have that kind of mindset in your team and let's face it, there will be teammates that think they are always the star of the show and blame everyone but themselfs "If I got more ganks top then I could've carried" type players. You just know that they already have a bad mindset, especially if they can't figure out a way to win their lane if their junglers doesn't gank there. There are way to many variables to pin this on your mindset. It's fast decision making, tactics, knowledge of your champion and thinking of solutions to turn games around to win. NOTHING will help you if your team wants to FF at 15 immediately and that is a key point I want to get across. You will have shit teammates, especially ones in low elo and you won't always be able to carry and get faster out of that hell hole. It's a bad mindset from them to see a lost cause game at 15 minutes and FF immediately because the game doesn't go to their liking. And that's the real problem, the mindset of players in League in general. Yes, this was quite negative thinking here but it's true, teammates might play like shit and you are one of the casualties as well. You can have a positive mindset all you want but playing with 4 other people who might run into the enemies one by one or run around the map like chickens with their head cut off is something that you can't fix or play around. The enemy team will have gold, item and even map advantage because of this, even if you are 5/0. And the problem is that if you are playing in those low elos, you might not even be able to know how to fix a game state like this in the first place. The best place to learn is by looking for someone to play with who is higher than you, who knows what to do. Sooner or later you'll learn from that person and that in turn will help you figure out what to do in your own games.
The person higher than you might still don't know anything about the game, because actually anyone below master tier still doesn't have basic things mastered (master tier debatable too actually xd). You see diamond players making bonobo throws that you can abuse multiple times per game and you are talking about gold and below. I don't wanna sound biased but you actually have to apply things mentioned in this video and you will climb even if you are monkey, because of how easy soloq actually is. You just don't see it because of typical low elo mentality that goes "I am 5/0 so I deserve to win", no this game was never about killing enemy laner 5 times but what you do with it.
@@szymonyoshi1523 I understand that, but the issue basically is that gold and below players don't have a grasp of basics things, not even basic thinking in some cases. The low elo mentality you mentioned is also a problem, because just because one players on the team is doing well, they might not understand how to capatilize on it and snowball enough to carry the team to win. It's just the unfortunate part of sometimes being placed in a game with players who don't know when to group, fight and don't fight because that is how the enemy team takes advantage of it which makes it 10x harder for your team in general. It's avoidable death and picking favorable fights, but sometimes you have the odd one who just straight runs at them fighting no matter how unfavorable that fight is. But yes, sometimes those higher elo players don't know very well either, but the might have some knowledge that a low elo player don't know yet, for example wave control or resetting properly, which can help.
@@KeuleFeee That can be true in some games, maybe you're not performing well that day and still play or other stuff happening, but I'd argue that if you play well in a game where this happens, you still might not be able to carry the game alone. We've all had games where we did well but have teammates not doing so great and making it harder for you (or if you are not doing great, a teammate who does) turn it around by yourself/themself. I mena, how many times do people complain about their teammates in-game for not doing things that they thought they should be doing? It's because not everyone thinks the same and has the knowledge that player might have that would turn it around. For example, some don't know how to play for Baron. If you have teammates who know how to do it, then it's easier to set up the enemy team. The more people with that knowledge the better. On the other hand, if you are the only one on the team pinging and running to Baron after a winning teamfight after losing lanes, map priority and overall getting stomped, then that prevents the game to be flipped around because they rather push towers in mid to late game, getting caught out and die, instead of pushing with the buff.
Glad it was finally mentioned how many games it ACTUALLY takes to climb. People think that if you have a high number of games played at a certain rank, you must be "hardstuck". When in reality, the ranked system is DELIBERATELY designed to make climbing a slow process (this is necessary by the way). Think about it for a second; if you have a 55% winrate and you gain 25LP per game (for the sake of the example), after 100 games you will have won 55 and lost 45, so you have 10 more wins than losses. 10 Wins x 25LP = 250LP. Each division requires 100LP so after 100 games you will have climbed 2.5 divisions (and that's not taking into account promotional series etc.) That means if you started in Bronze IV, you're now Bronze II, maybe Bronze I after one hundred games. This is necessary because Diamond is around the top 5% of the ranked playerbase, and Challenger is something like the top 0.025%. A diamond player is 1 in 20, a Challenger player is 1 in 5,000. It's not easy to reach this level of skill, and if the system allowed you to reach Challenger in a couple of days, it wouldn't hold the same weight that it does. Another way to look at it is, even if you win ten games of amateur football in a row, you don't now get to play in the EPL. You have to face opponents of gradually increasing difficulty and display your skills and prove you can win consistently. TLDR: Ranked is a grind and so it should be, because improving at anything is a grind if you want to be truly good.
The only problem that I face is bad teammates and all I'm saying is in iron they feed, continue feeding and never trying. In silver and above I've won games with feeding teammates who at least played with me and won the game
My biggest problem is that i dont know matchups or any characters for that matter fr honestly. I dont know what to build or how to counter anybody so that makes the combat even harder😂. Its already mechanically hard asf. I have 300 hours on smite so i understand the general concept of league and other stuff but at the same time its just so hard to get use to. On smite i could fight and also dodge very good. But on league i feel like if i ever try to poke someone in lane i always take so much damage. Especially if they have a ranged character. On league if u in range u automatically get hit but on smite u can literally dodge everything while also poking but like i said once i understand most of league champions then i would know how to play against them. I also dont know when i need to be rotating around the map and i have no idea what any of the jungle monsters do. On smite certain monsters give character buffs nd shii like that. League honestly just feels like a whole new game honestly 😭
Yeah sure bro, I come from work and I wanna play a game for a couple hours, I wanna get better at the game and to do that I should spend these hours in the practice tool facing bots and cs'ing. I used to be a very high (or the highest) in every game I've played in these 2 hours that I play, with League this can't be applied, not because the game is hard (it's hard when you're new, as every game, but once you understand champions and items it's pretty easy, talking about macro), but because it's a 5 people team game, and it's all around that. To solo carry games you have to perform at least like a 2 rank above your actual rank. I played tons of team games (Rainbow Six and Valorant, for example) and both these games allow you to solo win way easier than League, but still you have to be good, it's not gifted. In this sense the game is hard and takes out the willing to play to improve, for people who don't wanna spend their life on it, like me.
Hi i need help. When I am in the selection, I can see the other players writing and can reply. When I am in the game and write, I get a message that I am alone in the chat. At first I thought ok the other players have switched off the chat, but it can't be that everyone in the game has switched off the chat. so I wonder if I might have a wrong setting somewhere. It would be helpful if someone could give me a solution, because you can't always give the right instructions with ping.
All of this sound good, and you can say what you want about me, but hard stuck bronze player turned into a hard stuck Iron. The BIGGEST ISSUE that wasn't addressed, and that's you can't control your teammates. Riot needs to fix their ranking system simple as that. As of right now I'm sitting at 165 wins and 175 losses. Got to Bronze 4 to 3 times only to get sent back to the depths of Iron. When I focus and do these tactics being spoken of I get camped which is ok to me because that means other lanes get to free farm. But what's annoying is doing so and have to 1v3, 4, or 5 while you fight then die you look at your team taking their sweet time pushing waves when there's multiple people in 1 lane. People playing champs that they don't know how to play. How can I rotate to help teammates when my jungler, or others don't know how their champ works then I get flamed because im "feeding" and already feed champ. Every game without a duo is a crap shoot and it's even worse when you solo. Call me negative but NA is hot garbage and so is NA players mentals, and Riot doesn't care about the ranking system because if they did I wouldn't have had Iron 4 players in my Bronze 3/4 games.
Broken By Concept started talking about all these concepts years ago and now SkillCapped is finally ripping them off shamelessly. I'm glad that the player base is learning, though
Doesnt it feel like optimizing fun out of the game? I remember season 1 with many messed up things like 6 rabbadons annie but game seemed more fun back then.
it is luck idk what to do anymore, i win all my placements and carry hard and still get iron 4 and every game i get feeding teamates, cant do anything vs 2 enemy lanes that go 10/0
I don't think so. It's no different than learning any other difficult skills like instruments, languages, sports or other games. All of these concepts could easily apply to people trying to get good at basketball, chess, or Valorant. The game being this complex just means it's very interesting and not boring. Imagine if the only gamemode was ARAM for example, there would still be skill involved, but much less depth so people would get bored and play something else.
I wonder how people have 100+ games played a season. I legit played for a month straight and barely got to 80 while playing on Friday's -> sundays for a couple hours and everytime i see some 800+ games dude stucked on diamond lol
In low rank it is luck because of how the match making works and how players mentality is. I cant win a match if a dude come in high and feed a Vladimir top......and that happens more frequently than id like to admit...or just get somebody who really cant manage the rank they are at but you are matched with them. I've improved alot from being a Bronze player to almost hitting Plat until the system notices my 60 win rateand be like nah back to 55 lmaoo im at Gold 3 and im hitting plat before season ends but man it is a hassle with bad team mates
Why dont you finish watching the video first? All of this is covered. You cant seriously think its all about luck, If you gave your account to a Pro or Challenger player, would they still get stuck on Gold? Of course not, they don't just get better luck than the rest of world. Recognize what you could be doing to improve.
Sidelaning is awesome. I used to sidelane as a toplane Garen or Trundle almost all the time and win a lot, then figured I might win even more if I actually group up instead. But I ended up losing way more games. A lot of the time your team will die, but if you are already pressuring a tower, you'll likely take that tower down and force at least one enemy to rotate, at which point you back and try to cover / group in midlane for another teamfight, alternatively continue pushing if all enemies commit midlane and your team has time to spawn. The surprisingly many times your team actually manage to win or at least go 3 for 3 or something like that, it's absolutely HUGE as you can often straight up take down nexus towers if you are already hitting tier 2 sidelane tower. Compare that to grouping mid. If you win you'll maybe be able to take mid tier 2 unless someone killed the wave, and if you lose the fight there is no pressure anywhere else and the whole enemy team will steamroll down midlane. It's often difficult to assess how annoying you are being to enemies, and only look at what you are doing as not that important, but look at it this way. We've all played against Yorick, and isn't it the most annoying god damn stuff ever when you win a 5v4 only to look at the minimap and realize the 0/10 Yorick you destroyed in lane is hitting your inhibitor tower? You immediately have to recall, and by the time you get there the inhibitor is already gone. I hate Yorick, but he has a lesson to teach us...
Literally, don't stop autoing the objective. Any moment you still have mana and you're not on cooldown you're playing bad. Face check every bush in a 10 mile radius and you win gg ez!
Honestly, having 10 years in the game, I can say that indeed it does not matter how well you play. Elohell does exist. Ofc challenger player can carry a gold game but that doesn't prove anything for the regular people. Aby other games I can feel my impact. This game is too team-oriented. How well you go together makes the game, not individual skill. Due queue is the biggest advantage. Other than that, it's a pointless endeavor. League thrives on this lie, but fact remains, you have to grow up to see it.
Thats always my problem. The answer was said in a video of Alois. If you are ahead at top then you need to be impactful in other areas of the match. E. g. taking enemy jungle camps and roaming mid, so that your jungle and mid get an advantage of the opposing lanes. If you are not ahead then this will be your first step. Easier said than done.
@@vincentmeyer5662 Alois Videos helped me get a 70% win rate on top after 1 week. It's crazy good advice: always looks for doing the Fundamentals. Check out his Sett/Garen/Mundo videos on how to climb.
2:03 bro, my last game of week was me going 3/4 with 1/5 top, 2/6 jg, 1/4 adc and 0/3 support, by i had an even lane by all means, but just what can lux do into ornn?
I would really like to believe this but I am hard and I mean hard stuck in Iron 4. And it's not that I don't try but in all my games atleast 2 people if not more are AFK so ye that's a big chance of lossing than
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Hi i need help. When I am in the selection, I can see the other players writing and can reply.
When I am in the game and write, I get a message that I am alone in the chat.
At first I thought ok the other players have switched off the chat, but it can't be that everyone in the game has switched off the chat. so I wonder if I might have a wrong setting somewhere.
It would be helpful if someone could give me a solution, because you can't always give the right instructions with ping.
I'm currently in master and I would like to know if this rank improvement guarantee works in my elo
There's one thing you missed. I play 5 games on a alt account and I get place s1 meanwhile I do the same thing on my main account I get iron 3. Clearly there are moving parts beyond your teachings and my skill level. Please explain before you tell people just to make new accounts and cheat the system. Or maybe the states is someway biased. Actually that's a pretty good premise for content creator. Play placements games with an account in every elo. And look where you get placed. Then try to get all accounts to gold at least.
There is a saying, I do not know the source of, but it goes: The man who loves walking will walk further than the man who loves the destination.
With that mindset, some might actually rather quit league and find themselves a more suitable journey.
sam sulek said that
I love playing irelia
What are you trying to say big philosophy dude
Ill say this as someone who only started watching these videos after going from bronze to diamond, that bad teammates wont regularly lose you games. griefing teammates who are intentionally throwing will but that's not the norm. if you see your team making consistently poor choices you can STILL find a way to play around that and turn it into a game winning advantage, if you exercise the ability to critically think about what you can do to play around your team mates.
Exactly this, complement the hand you have and dont try to force a hand you dont have.
To bad many people are to stupid to see it this way
when did you start? i started 3 months ago and stopped at silver
only if you play mid/top. supp cannot carry games
I'm stuck in emerald rn as a fizz otp any advice to push through to diamond
@joyhappiness not true lmao sups diff games all the time
unironically good advice for learning anything honestly
Agreed
Totally agreed
League got so complex that you need a life coach to climb
@@mahmoudbenzarti4534 league players are so toxic that they need a life coach that makes them better at game
I'm not kidding when I used these exact same learning concepts to both learn fluent Japanese and climb to masters in League while taking classes full time in university. Spaced Repetition, deliberate practice, and interweaving learning objectives is the perfect combination for achieving success at learning anything. For League specially though, is actually harder than many skills because there's no easy way to just practice any scenario instantly. It takes a lot of games to see certain scenarios enough times to learn something solid from them. That's why focusing on ones that are common farming and resetting well are so important. Having common patterns down will free up the mental stack to focus on more specific issues.
I'm only halfway through this video, and it's quite literally a life-lesson on top of being great advice for this game!
Phenomenal content!
Seing PubMed in a League video? Crazy. This video is actually so good, congratulations guys! Came to learn how to improve at League, learned how to study literally anything
What helped me climb to Plat II was learning the practical aspects of the game such as macro, wave control and so on. This is the most important. Generic advice such as "learn from your mistakes" doesn't help you if you don't even know what your mistakes are. I've hit a wall technically and I need to practice macro and mechanics further to improve more, but it wasn't "keeping calm" at shit teammates what made me climb, even though it helped.
send opgg
I’m also stuck at that rank
Thank you for this one. I am fairly new to the game and frustrated with ranked right now. I just had a 6 game losing streak that including 2 int feeders and 1 afk teammate. 3 lost games that were close and we screwed up in the end game. The parts that really meant a lot to me were push yourself because I am definitely guilty of "dont feed" mindset but that leaves me unable to take control of the game late game. And the rule of 3 / bad streaks happen. I feel more motivated to go back and try again after this
no fun effect
Great video and excellent approach to improving on something (not only league). One thing that I find important and is more of a thing only for Esports is: To climb, you need to consistently win the games that you are ahead.
Let me explain, cause I know it sounds stupid haha. For League, the most common thing in low elo is for games to be flipped. Players in low elo end up not winning the majority of games that they are ahead because they throw the game, as they start playing around and not focusing on the GG. This will make you win or lose this games at a 50% rate instead of a 75 to 80%.
This sound really simple, but in all honesty playing games with low ranked friends it is noticeable that being ahead is entirely meaningless, as they will use that gold advantage to joke around until they start losing and get massively stressed.
When you are ahead, that is the real moment you should play as correctly as possible, not the moment to loosen up.
Something I've noticed every competitive professional player of either video games or sport does is that they always watch their losses to understand properly why they lost. You can see this a lot in streams, most of the times when a top player loses a game and doesn't understand what happened he will immediately watch the replay after the game instead of queuing up for the next one, this makes a massive difference.
I just wanna say i love these kind of videos so much, mindlessly follow a pro build or abuse OP pick is won’t get you that far in the long run but analyzing, understanding and improving is just way better. Thank Skill Capped for these quality videos.
This guide is rediculously good and should be the starting point of anyone wanting to climb. Why I'm still subscribed to skillcapped and why I'm still climbing.
Thanks, man. Great content. Actionable and practical steps.
"Your not making a mistake, your making experiences. It is only a mistake, if you don’t learn something from it." That is something that some told me and i think it also translates well to League
What helped me improve drastically that l don't see people talk about much is watching your own replays.
You picked yasuo and went 0/10? Watch every fight at 0.25x speed. Ask yourself what you could've done better/differently
i should have picked annie.
i mean if you go 0-10 you were trolling so as long as you don't intentionally take bad fights because you are upset, you'll improve.
but i see what you are going for and it's correct
No time to waste on that. Sure it helps to improve but I no longer have 14+ hrs per day to spend at the pc sadly. Good old days I guess
everyone talks about that
it's literally the most basic bread and butter advice for how to improve on your own without coaching
can even be applied to any other game or even for example sports irl
As a student learning psychology... I appreciate this lol
This might be the most important video I’ve watched thus far. Damn. Well done.
The Broken by Concept podcast has had a big influence on improvement content, I'm glad their work is being reflected in content like this now. They deserve a shout out
I thought the same thing. There's no way he hasn't been watching their podcast lately lol
This is it. This is what I needed. Dude I've been thinking about these principles in the back of my mind for so long, but having them listed out clearly, and put into league terms is SO helpful.
Honestly, you guys approaching League in a ways to not only learn but to learn how to learn and get your mental right for your won benefit is genius and extreamly important for this community
As a musician and solo que player I really enjoyed this video.
Great! Climbing is mostly about mental attrition. I learned stuff similar to this about 6 years ago and I have taken the concepts and applied them in my life, let alone League, and I see things much differently in a positive manner now. :)
"Don't think about why you lost. Think about how your opponent won."
Bro created therapy for league players
This was great! Excellent advice for developing any kind of skills
This was a really useful and informative guide
Just want to go out of my way and say I have mad respect for your efforts into teaching people how to learn the game better. This shows tremendous commitment to your cause. Keep up the great work and I'll keep tunning in👌
"GG genetics diff" - almost every low elo player in chat
I was gold stuck last year and then i started watching skill capped and now im emerald 2 best lol channel fr
Changing my mindset from 'i always get bad supports' to 'ill play around you, play what you are best on' has helped me climb from Bronze 4 to silver 1 in just less than a week
Remember to also apply this advice in life! It really helps as well!
this is actually the best league improving video ever posted on the internet not even kidding
I have no idea why but this actually has helped me understand the game better. I shouldn't blame my teammates when we lose a fight like it said. Instead I should find out why it happened and how I could have don better instead of just complaining. I also like that 1 2 3 step of the practice, review, and adjust. its just perfect, ill have to start doing that.
idk man i need to see those p values and effect sizes
lol good video dude, definitely solid advice about learning applied to league well.
I haven't finished the video, but finding a champ you can really stick to helps a lot too.
Learning psychology as a major and homeboy hitting really good points on learning in general shee
Thank you for these videos, it’s really useful for the beginners in League like me!
What is my mistake when 6 out of 10 games I have a team mate AFK at fountain?
this type of videos is really really meta when u mix between psychology and gaming
This advice is great for life. However league has a system called MMR, which is intentionally tuned to have players grinding over and over. Maximum grind is the target for riot.
My main /old account is stuck in iron, because the game pairs me with trolls 9 out of 10 games. It is impossible to climb.
My other two accounts are gold 2. I'm not challenger, but I'm the same person as the iron account.
This is only because riot tunes it MMR system for maximum grind. And that is not my fault.
It is the greed of a Chinese company, tencent.
1:32
It's incredibly difficult to believe in and have a growth based mindset if like me you've played this game for over a decade and haven't seen significant improvement apart from the very first season you've played.
Not from a lack of trying either, I really did give it my all and believed that I would eventually see results. But like someone at the gym realizing there's no more muscle growth, it's all for naught.
At some point it's almost illogical to not think there isn't some genetic component to how good someone can get, and for some it really might just be at the average, or below.
Edit: I'm not saying that what I said here is correct, but it's incredibly difficult to not fall into that mindset.
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NEVER GIVE UP NEVER WHAT?!!! 🗣🔥
Never let down~
11:25 “interleaving”
Yes that’s PERFECT!! I’d love if the inters left 😂😭💀
I complain that my teammates are bad because I’m not yet good enough to consistently carry them by myself. Carrying is such a hard thing to do but I have to figure it out if I wanna climb
You are naturally learning better, when you are having fun. If you just anxiously do a job out of it, you are missing out.
11:48 the funny thing is this is exactly how school sets up classes
Incredible video
That is what I needed to hear, thanks
Really good video good job
Hey there, plat 3 support main here! I was wondering if anyone knows an exercise like in the video eg. farming, trading, map awareness, etc. that i can practise more to improve without the fear of the adc interfering with what i want to do. Ofc map awareness is one, and i already do that, but i feel like wave control can be messed with by my adc, same for trading. Vision control is really not about practise, but just general knowledge on where to place wards, when, and how to set up for ojectives which also takes map awareness. Farming is almost completely thrown out the window, and when you need to farm as support, its fine to miss some cs (support minion rule).
This is not to say im not trying to improve on those areas, but i feel even if i do there can be other things to improve on which can not so easily be interrupted by what my team is up to.
For any tips, thank you in advance :)
(I'm genuinely seeking advice, so if you're about to write a reply hating on me, please save both of us the trouble, and time)
My issue with this is that if you are in low elo, gold or below, then this won't help you. Even if you have a mindset to learn. Your teammates might not even know what to do most of the time, don't split push when they might be able to or force dragon even when in a disadvantage. If you watch videos like this, great, it might help you improve in knowing what to do, but you still have 4 teammates who just play the game, not knowing or caring to improve further. This is critical because you would then have to find ways to 1v9 if you teammates are doing poorly. This makes winning the game significantly harder for you and it won't matter if you watched hundrets of these videos or what mindset you have.
If you don't know what mistakes you make that lost the game, then you don't know how to identify and fix them in future games. Same as if you don't know how to marco, wave control, best time to reset, play for baron or tempo, then you will hit a ceiling unless you know how to utilize these things. Yes, you need a learning and grind minded mindset for league, but not everyone will have that kind of mindset in your team and let's face it, there will be teammates that think they are always the star of the show and blame everyone but themselfs "If I got more ganks top then I could've carried" type players. You just know that they already have a bad mindset, especially if they can't figure out a way to win their lane if their junglers doesn't gank there.
There are way to many variables to pin this on your mindset. It's fast decision making, tactics, knowledge of your champion and thinking of solutions to turn games around to win. NOTHING will help you if your team wants to FF at 15 immediately and that is a key point I want to get across. You will have shit teammates, especially ones in low elo and you won't always be able to carry and get faster out of that hell hole. It's a bad mindset from them to see a lost cause game at 15 minutes and FF immediately because the game doesn't go to their liking.
And that's the real problem, the mindset of players in League in general.
Yes, this was quite negative thinking here but it's true, teammates might play like shit and you are one of the casualties as well. You can have a positive mindset all you want but playing with 4 other people who might run into the enemies one by one or run around the map like chickens with their head cut off is something that you can't fix or play around. The enemy team will have gold, item and even map advantage because of this, even if you are 5/0. And the problem is that if you are playing in those low elos, you might not even be able to know how to fix a game state like this in the first place.
The best place to learn is by looking for someone to play with who is higher than you, who knows what to do. Sooner or later you'll learn from that person and that in turn will help you figure out what to do in your own games.
The person higher than you might still don't know anything about the game, because actually anyone below master tier still doesn't have basic things mastered (master tier debatable too actually xd). You see diamond players making bonobo throws that you can abuse multiple times per game and you are talking about gold and below.
I don't wanna sound biased but you actually have to apply things mentioned in this video and you will climb even if you are monkey, because of how easy soloq actually is. You just don't see it because of typical low elo mentality that goes "I am 5/0 so I deserve to win", no this game was never about killing enemy laner 5 times but what you do with it.
@@szymonyoshi1523 I understand that, but the issue basically is that gold and below players don't have a grasp of basics things, not even basic thinking in some cases. The low elo mentality you mentioned is also a problem, because just because one players on the team is doing well, they might not understand how to capatilize on it and snowball enough to carry the team to win.
It's just the unfortunate part of sometimes being placed in a game with players who don't know when to group, fight and don't fight because that is how the enemy team takes advantage of it which makes it 10x harder for your team in general. It's avoidable death and picking favorable fights, but sometimes you have the odd one who just straight runs at them fighting no matter how unfavorable that fight is.
But yes, sometimes those higher elo players don't know very well either, but the might have some knowledge that a low elo player don't know yet, for example wave control or resetting properly, which can help.
@@Franic19 as you said, you have 4 bad teammates, but the enemys have 5. If you dont climb you are just the 5th bad teammate.
@@KeuleFeee That can be true in some games, maybe you're not performing well that day and still play or other stuff happening, but I'd argue that if you play well in a game where this happens, you still might not be able to carry the game alone. We've all had games where we did well but have teammates not doing so great and making it harder for you (or if you are not doing great, a teammate who does) turn it around by yourself/themself.
I mena, how many times do people complain about their teammates in-game for not doing things that they thought they should be doing? It's because not everyone thinks the same and has the knowledge that player might have that would turn it around.
For example, some don't know how to play for Baron. If you have teammates who know how to do it, then it's easier to set up the enemy team. The more people with that knowledge the better. On the other hand, if you are the only one on the team pinging and running to Baron after a winning teamfight after losing lanes, map priority and overall getting stomped, then that prevents the game to be flipped around because they rather push towers in mid to late game, getting caught out and die, instead of pushing with the buff.
@@Franic19 not true for "some" games but for every single one.
The only thing that confuses me is why I get severely punished for going on 10 win streaks which makes the streaks null.
Actually learned more wisdom, appreciate it bro.
Glad it was finally mentioned how many games it ACTUALLY takes to climb. People think that if you have a high number of games played at a certain rank, you must be "hardstuck". When in reality, the ranked system is DELIBERATELY designed to make climbing a slow process (this is necessary by the way).
Think about it for a second; if you have a 55% winrate and you gain 25LP per game (for the sake of the example), after 100 games you will have won 55 and lost 45, so you have 10 more wins than losses. 10 Wins x 25LP = 250LP. Each division requires 100LP so after 100 games you will have climbed 2.5 divisions (and that's not taking into account promotional series etc.) That means if you started in Bronze IV, you're now Bronze II, maybe Bronze I after one hundred games.
This is necessary because Diamond is around the top 5% of the ranked playerbase, and Challenger is something like the top 0.025%. A diamond player is 1 in 20, a Challenger player is 1 in 5,000. It's not easy to reach this level of skill, and if the system allowed you to reach Challenger in a couple of days, it wouldn't hold the same weight that it does.
Another way to look at it is, even if you win ten games of amateur football in a row, you don't now get to play in the EPL. You have to face opponents of gradually increasing difficulty and display your skills and prove you can win consistently.
TLDR: Ranked is a grind and so it should be, because improving at anything is a grind if you want to be truly good.
I tried the metronome before and it was a disaster xD I think it's better to just try to build habit of looking on map in specific events in game
“gg genetics diff” that would be an insane insult😂
This Video is so good, thank you.
sources? id love to see those studies you mentioned at the beginning.. 🤔🤧
Such a good guide
The only problem that I face is bad teammates and all I'm saying is in iron they feed, continue feeding and never trying. In silver and above I've won games with feeding teammates who at least played with me and won the game
bro watch the video at least..
My biggest problem is that i dont know matchups or any characters for that matter fr honestly. I dont know what to build or how to counter anybody so that makes the combat even harder😂. Its already mechanically hard asf. I have 300 hours on smite so i understand the general concept of league and other stuff but at the same time its just so hard to get use to. On smite i could fight and also dodge very good. But on league i feel like if i ever try to poke someone in lane i always take so much damage. Especially if they have a ranged character. On league if u in range u automatically get hit but on smite u can literally dodge everything while also poking but like i said once i understand most of league champions then i would know how to play against them. I also dont know when i need to be rotating around the map and i have no idea what any of the jungle monsters do. On smite certain monsters give character buffs nd shii like that. League honestly just feels like a whole new game honestly 😭
As a med student, seeing PubMed really gives me PTSD not mention its combined with league 😂😂
Yeah sure bro, I come from work and I wanna play a game for a couple hours, I wanna get better at the game and to do that I should spend these hours in the practice tool facing bots and cs'ing. I used to be a very high (or the highest) in every game I've played in these 2 hours that I play, with League this can't be applied, not because the game is hard (it's hard when you're new, as every game, but once you understand champions and items it's pretty easy, talking about macro), but because it's a 5 people team game, and it's all around that. To solo carry games you have to perform at least like a 2 rank above your actual rank. I played tons of team games (Rainbow Six and Valorant, for example) and both these games allow you to solo win way easier than League, but still you have to be good, it's not gifted. In this sense the game is hard and takes out the willing to play to improve, for people who don't wanna spend their life on it, like me.
Not what i expected but good advice
Hi i need help. When I am in the selection, I can see the other players writing and can reply.
When I am in the game and write, I get a message that I am alone in the chat.
At first I thought ok the other players have switched off the chat, but it can't be that everyone in the game has switched off the chat. so I wonder if I might have a wrong setting somewhere.
It would be helpful if someone could give me a solution, because you can't always give the right instructions with ping.
reality: checking enemy team, seeing we are on disadvantage, pinging back, jgler ints, adc gets snacked, everyone flames, surrender
All of this sound good, and you can say what you want about me, but hard stuck bronze player turned into a hard stuck Iron. The BIGGEST ISSUE that wasn't addressed, and that's you can't control your teammates. Riot needs to fix their ranking system simple as that. As of right now I'm sitting at 165 wins and 175 losses. Got to Bronze 4 to 3 times only to get sent back to the depths of Iron. When I focus and do these tactics being spoken of I get camped which is ok to me because that means other lanes get to free farm. But what's annoying is doing so and have to 1v3, 4, or 5 while you fight then die you look at your team taking their sweet time pushing waves when there's multiple people in 1 lane. People playing champs that they don't know how to play. How can I rotate to help teammates when my jungler, or others don't know how their champ works then I get flamed because im "feeding" and already feed champ. Every game without a duo is a crap shoot and it's even worse when you solo. Call me negative but NA is hot garbage and so is NA players mentals, and Riot doesn't care about the ranking system because if they did I wouldn't have had Iron 4 players in my Bronze 3/4 games.
The games keeps you on 50% WR no joke
Imagine being so hardstucked that you start to believe in conspiracies
how do smurfs climb with insane winrates then bud
You're just in your perfect elo. That's how elos work, you move around until you get in your elo, and then your WR hits 50%.
Broken By Concept started talking about all these concepts years ago and now SkillCapped is finally ripping them off shamelessly. I'm glad that the player base is learning, though
the way i'm about to write my masters thesis on league of legends
(no im not but could you imagine)
Be warned they advertise 6.99 a month and then you sign up and they bill you the full year 🙏 learn from my mistake lol.
Amazing video
amazing vide!
I dropped from emerald all the way down gold i lose every lane.. i wanna cry
In the guide I bet they will use Rorschach pictures and make an insanity test
Doesnt it feel like optimizing fun out of the game? I remember season 1 with many messed up things like 6 rabbadons annie but game seemed more fun back then.
it is luck idk what to do anymore, i win all my placements and carry hard and still get iron 4 and every game i get feeding teamates, cant do anything vs 2 enemy lanes that go 10/0
theres a serious problem with a game when a guide is a 20 minute psychology video
I don't think so. It's no different than learning any other difficult skills like instruments, languages, sports or other games. All of these concepts could easily apply to people trying to get good at basketball, chess, or Valorant. The game being this complex just means it's very interesting and not boring. Imagine if the only gamemode was ARAM for example, there would still be skill involved, but much less depth so people would get bored and play something else.
I wonder how people have 100+ games played a season. I legit played for a month straight and barely got to 80 while playing on Friday's -> sundays for a couple hours and everytime i see some 800+ games dude stucked on diamond lol
this is so sad, I went to test my cs/min after taking a year-long break from the game and it dropped an entire 2 cs/min ;-;
13 minutes in the video and I already forgot what the first 10 minutes were about lol
In low rank it is luck because of how the match making works and how players mentality is. I cant win a match if a dude come in high and feed a Vladimir top......and that happens more frequently than id like to admit...or just get somebody who really cant manage the rank they are at but you are matched with them. I've improved alot from being a Bronze player to almost hitting Plat until the system notices my 60 win rateand be like nah back to 55 lmaoo im at Gold 3 and im hitting plat before season ends but man it is a hassle with bad team mates
Why dont you finish watching the video first? All of this is covered. You cant seriously think its all about luck, If you gave your account to a Pro or Challenger player, would they still get stuck on Gold? Of course not, they don't just get better luck than the rest of world. Recognize what you could be doing to improve.
League ranked is a meme until you hit challenger. Every player you meet outside of challenger is playing a different game.
Sidelaning is awesome. I used to sidelane as a toplane Garen or Trundle almost all the time and win a lot, then figured I might win even more if I actually group up instead. But I ended up losing way more games.
A lot of the time your team will die, but if you are already pressuring a tower, you'll likely take that tower down and force at least one enemy to rotate, at which point you back and try to cover / group in midlane for another teamfight, alternatively continue pushing if all enemies commit midlane and your team has time to spawn.
The surprisingly many times your team actually manage to win or at least go 3 for 3 or something like that, it's absolutely HUGE as you can often straight up take down nexus towers if you are already hitting tier 2 sidelane tower.
Compare that to grouping mid. If you win you'll maybe be able to take mid tier 2 unless someone killed the wave, and if you lose the fight there is no pressure anywhere else and the whole enemy team will steamroll down midlane.
It's often difficult to assess how annoying you are being to enemies, and only look at what you are doing as not that important, but look at it this way. We've all played against Yorick, and isn't it the most annoying god damn stuff ever when you win a 5v4 only to look at the minimap and realize the 0/10 Yorick you destroyed in lane is hitting your inhibitor tower? You immediately have to recall, and by the time you get there the inhibitor is already gone.
I hate Yorick, but he has a lesson to teach us...
Damn I'm here early for once. 😂
Me too 😂
Same
Literally, don't stop autoing the objective. Any moment you still have mana and you're not on cooldown you're playing bad. Face check every bush in a 10 mile radius and you win gg ez!
Honestly, having 10 years in the game, I can say that indeed it does not matter how well you play. Elohell does exist. Ofc challenger player can carry a gold game but that doesn't prove anything for the regular people. Aby other games I can feel my impact. This game is too team-oriented. How well you go together makes the game, not individual skill. Due queue is the biggest advantage. Other than that, it's a pointless endeavor. League thrives on this lie, but fact remains, you have to grow up to see it.
Am i getting a league of legends tutorial or a guide to the psychology of life. which begs the other question, is league life?
people often think im inting when i'm genuinely trying my best lol maybe league isnt for me :p
Where is Hector? 😢
min 12 me being like would you pleeeease attack soraka already xD
You can ask me what i learned on the video right after I watch it and I would still be like a deer in headlights
Anyone else here realize these aren’t just league advice? It’s sounds like sound life advice
lol this is what i get taught about studying at uni
i just want to learn how to play against feed botlane as a toplaner, is there going to be a guide on that soon?
Thats always my problem. The answer was said in a video of Alois. If you are ahead at top then you need to be impactful in other areas of the match. E. g. taking enemy jungle camps and roaming mid, so that your jungle and mid get an advantage of the opposing lanes. If you are not ahead then this will be your first step. Easier said than done.
@@vincentmeyer5662 Alois Videos helped me get a 70% win rate on top after 1 week. It's crazy good advice: always looks for doing the Fundamentals. Check out his Sett/Garen/Mundo videos on how to climb.
"Rule of 3"
Looks over to my 4% win rate
End Result: Play more ARAM 😂😂😅
Till a 13 - 2 olaf comes at you and runs you down
Negativity Bias!;)
my teammates don't rank up because they are playing with me 😂😂😂😂
2:03 bro, my last game of week was me going 3/4 with 1/5 top, 2/6 jg, 1/4 adc and 0/3 support, by i had an even lane by all means, but just what can lux do into ornn?
Win....
I would really like to believe this but I am hard and I mean hard stuck in Iron 4.
And it's not that I don't try but in all my games atleast 2 people if not more are AFK so ye that's a big chance of lossing than