Just from P vs AI and I see pp farming 23 kills to 0 deaths with 27k dmg how do you get all that dmg buff wileme being the same lvl as him I get 1kill 2death 4 assist and 7k dmg how do you do that idk its againist bots but before I understand the league system micro and macro dos and don'ts I am just curious at the dmg part is is it like items buy or custom build and etc if so I need assist on this matter thank you :)
Might be late, but whatever :P Some champions deal damage better than others. In P vs AI it's often assassins, mages, marksmen. For example: Brand, Miss Fortune, Yasuo. Also people know how to trick AI. After many games you'll notice that bots are predictable. Easy to land skillshots, easy to win trades (because they waste spells), easy to grind kills. Don't care too much about KDA and damage. End "the PvsAI phase" simply when they get boring. I ended it with average 10 kills per match - not 20'ish - and I'm fine with that.
One thing I wanted to add to the bot games part, is that you should create a custom game, fill out every slot on both teams with bots (pref intermediate on enemy and beginner on ally bots). By doing this, no one else is going to win the game against enemy bots. YOU have to carry the game with your champion. Love this type of video Curtis! This stuff needs to be talked about more and it would reduce a lot of toxic expectations pushed on to new players by reddit, streamers or discord groups. Killer start to the year
@@CoachCurtis And big thanks for you and Nathan for helping the league ppl have a better experience with the game! I would have quit ages ago if not for your podcast.
Your understanding of the game is world class. Your ability to see a topic from a birds eye view and then breaking it down to small essential yet digestible parts is even more impressive. I've been playing league for 10 years now and I managed to learn a great deal about the game from your video for beginners, sometimes we need to take a look at the root of the problem to understand the bigger picture, that's why I LOVE your holistic approach to coaching. You are a treasure for the league community and I thank you for investing your genius in this field. You are a first-rate coach and student of the game, you gave me insight to league, I saw it as a game, but failed to understand the science and the art in it. Ten years in and I still have a ton to learn. Keep us educated coach!
This is so weird. I was JUST thinking yesterday how there aren’t many updated guide videos for absolute beginners, like starting from level 1. Videos like this are important for brand new players to have fun playing the game.
This is me. This is still for me, _thank you._ No one else talks about these things, no other guide makes sense before this, and seeing how complex league was through them was so daunting I was scared to play and learn organically even though I wanted to
This video helped me realize how unhealthy my friends' mindsets were about League and that I kind of needed to strike out and try thinking and playing for myself more if I wanted to improve. Their obsession with meta and counters and optimization really doesn't make sense with us all being bronze and silver. To them, League is a science. In reality, it's an art. Your video did a fantastic job of helping me realize that. I want to get really good at this game one day. I'm about level 50 or so and am loving Syndra and midlane in general. Lux bot drills and LoLDodge have been helping me tremendously and I can finally start to feel myself get a natural feel for my champs and focus on the game itself and, very crucially, focus on having fun while I'm learning. This stuff is fantastic. Some of the best League content around.
love the video as always curtis. i’d like to mention that this guide is hard to understand for complete beginners as you use terms like squishy, macro, cs’ing, snowballing, etc. without defining it. also, using examples such as mentioning specific champions or items is hard to understand for a complete beginner, because they neither understand the champions nor the items of the game. this is definitely a video that brings up confusion for someone who never touched the game and is trying to get into it. it’s more like a video for a beginner who at least played 100 games and understands all the basic league language such as the mentioned above. all in all, great summary of all the topics mentioned in the bbc podcast. i just think it is not a video a complete beginner to league of legends will understand, because they don’t understand certain points you use that need preknowledge (e.g. knowing what a malzahar does, what a lux Q is, etc.)
I definitely feel that! Really great advice overall, and very helpful, but as a level 16 who’s been playing for less than a month, I still don’t know what a lot of the terms mean 😅 and trying to pick up from context or having to look up each term individually can be daunting
Love this so much and I cannot wait to leave a better painting on the rift and make it a place that everyone can enjoy. I have been playing for a couple years and am stuck in Bronze. But I have no regrets and have been making huge strides as I strive to get better. You have helped me a ton Coach Curtis and my appreciation is yours.
I remember my first normal as support with my friend. (I started shortly before Aphelios) He always talked about finishing my Support quest. I always asked him: "What quest? Quests were pop-ups in the tutorial and i didnt get one for this game" Or the moment i started to understand, that wards give vision and can warn you from ganks. Or what jungle tracking was. Or that i even played some jungle to track the enemy jungler better. Or how trades in a duo lane in general work. I came from a RTS background, so the movement wasnt that difficult to get into, but the game fundamentals alone are very big. Add that nowadays most people never played a RTS or a MMO before, you can easily see, how newer, younger players would severely struggle. Riot made it somewhat easier in some regards looking at itemization, runes and jungle pathing (the updates this season werent all that bad tbh.) But even spacing and using abilities is a lot for a beginner.
I returned after an 8 year hiatus to see my main mid duo moved to jungle. Curtis and Shok's videos got me in silver when 2 months ago i couldn't even control the camera and i never played mid before.
I've been casually playing League for a few months now. Always wanted to play a moba but I didn't for these reasons: I was hella intimidated by the sheer amount to learn, the long patch and update history of these games and how often things change and cause new players to have difficulty with constantly changing information, and lastly the infamous toxicity to new players in these games. I finally said fuckit and got into League (instead of HotS bc it seemed Blizzard was giving up on it at the time, and Dota the characters I found a bit too generic and heard it was even more difficult than LoL was to learn). And I was surprised how fun it was even though I was hella intimidated w/ all the information there was to learn. Upon first starting, I was constantly watching and saving beginner league content on learning how to play, what every role does, and also learning beginner guides on the first few characters I chose to learn. ALSO, whats helped me as a beginner player is mute all lol. There is absolutely NO value as a new player in listening to toxicity or the random shot call comments that ppl in my elo type. If something is htat important ppl ping anyways. I ping. I respond to pings. My brother plays with comments on and he has arguments with his teammates often and its so dumb. I keep telling him to mute all but he just wont lol. Then I took a bit of a break bc OW 2 came out and I had friends to play that game casually with. None of my friends play League. However, I got my brother to play League with me so its fun in that regard. Now, after a few months of playing casually, I'd say i'm probably a bronze player (not a surprise) since I still have SO much to learn in this game. I am avoiding playing ranked bc I'm still a bit intimidated. Now I find my research has changed. I'm finding that even though my muscle memory and combos are slightly improving, the current roadblock I have are: knowing how to control the wave states and how they work (i know the wave states but im still not sure exactly how to control them), learning my power spikes and keeping track of enemy champions and when and when NOT to engage if they have item advantage over me, learning how my runes work and synergize (though I still struggle with knowing how to procc certain runes and also knowing when enemy champions have their runes procc and how it affects skirmishes), but the biggest thing I'm constantly researching is Champions I'm facing and have NO IDEA how to fight against. I think thats the biggest roadblock for this game for someone wanting to improve. I hear people say keep your champion pool low and maybe even one trick to climb rank but hte problem i see with this is that its difficult to know how to fight against champions that you have NO IDEA how to play yourself or even know how to fight against. I currently try and read quikc guide counters on a champion I'm facing against just before a match but it still doesnt feel the same as learning a champion yourself even for a brief amount of time, because now you know how the character combos, moves, how their ult works at a basic level, how their kit works...etc. I won't have time to learn every single champion nor do I want to, but having played around and learned a handful of champions in each role I find has helped me tremendously in being able to FIGHT against said champions. So ya I find thats the biggest roadblock to new players is the sheer amount of matchups and matchup knowledge you need to learn. The game gives you absolutely no idea and you have to look it up yourself.
im a new player, only lvl 18 rn still have NO clue what im doing and its so intimidating but im determined to keep learning bc i actually enjoy it, and the best thing i learned to do so far is to /mute all tbh
I could write an essay here but it would end up being a cry for help. Essentially I’ve been playing for 3 years while working full time so never got to really dive in, after 3 years I still feel like a beginner and lost in the game, I’m at a point in my journey where it feels like I’m too dumb to identify what it is I’m doing wrong…
@@CoachCurtis what do you think that entails? I didn’t think a coach would help me per your personal rule of not coaching below gold players so they can have a crack at experiencing the game holistically. Should I look for a higher elo mentor to pose questions to about my gameplay/process? Personally I think I consume too much league content, I started playing jungle immediately (before I even knew about summoner spell smite) and I think it has negatively affected how I play the game because I never experienced laning prior. I’ve played games as a laner since then but I can’t say I have any confidence in it.
Curtis, you are a phenomenal coach. I love the way you encourage us in our enjoyment of the game while still pushing us to grow as players. There was so much good content, but my biggest personal takeaway is making peace with the fact that a steady 52% winrate is how I will climb. When the game isn't going my way, I need to focus on fundamentals rather than trying to force a win (and throwing harder). Let the enemy make the mistakes in games that might otherwise be my losses; but respect their victories when they play better League of Legends than my team. After all, it'll happen about half of the time.
I can't even imagine what is to learn League nowdays, there is so much going on and so many people will rekt you during your run... good vid as always!
i just started lol last week. im such a noob..everything is overwhelming. this is the only video i relate so much..finally someone who understand someone w no league background. i feel that you are welcoming me to this community.. thank you for this.. i felt heard..
Hello, you probably won't see this, but I am a recent gold, former mid lane main, current jg main as I try to reach platinum on my climb going from B2 to G4 at the moment. Your videos were made for laners but so many of your past video's I found to be integral to my climb with jg and my improvement as a player. So much of what you say translates to the jungle so well, especially your mentality videos. I appreciate your video's so much, and I look forward to reviewing them as I continue to climb and better myself as a player and a person. P.S you should maybe start a twitch channel where you talk and just chat about the aspects of league and common conceptions by low and top tier players alike, kind of like Sajam in his exploratory videos with fighting games. Thanks for the video's and thank you for helping all of us.
Easier method of muting all but still seeing pings is go toyour settings and uncheck the show allied chat and show all chat, you wont see any typing but it still enables ALL PINGS, now if you type /mute all it will just mute the pings too.
Are you ready for ranked? Go to the Bot Gym: Set all bots on your team to beginner. Set all bots on the enemy team to Intermediate - include Mundo, Zyra, Morgana, Karthus etc. (stuff with powerful skillshots, game-altering abilities). Make sure Taric bot is not present (bugged). Pick any champ/role you want. Mid and jungle are easiest. Support champs with low damage are hardest. You are not allowed to take any dragons/herald/baron. You are not allowed to complete more than 3 items. Win the game with no more than 3 deaths, ideally 0. If you can do this with almost no chance of losing, congrats! you are ready for ranked at a high Bronze to mid Silver level on EUW. This will teach you basic control of your champion and camera, what important abilities to anticipate from certain champions, itemisation, how to create pressure using waves. Be aware, bots do not play like people: trading in lane is different against people, you will not learn jungle tracking, you will not learn split-push warning signals, you will not learn the pattern of objective timings and when to group with team - these will be major gaps in your play and you will need to play normals or ranked to acquire these skills. Regarding normals: your level of play in ranked is likey to be a full rank below whatever the rank of players you typically get matched against in normals (assuming you are playing your most comfortable champions). Most people playing normals are experimenting with new champs or builds or teaching their nooby friends - which acts as a considerable handicap.
I'm a self-taught Lux mid player who's unfortunately addicted and have accumulated 1 mil on her. I've always played for fun but it's become a bit of an obsession. Today during a bad game, someone asked, "1 mil and that's it?" I'm ashamed to admit that this brought me to tears. I found your Lux video and then this. I feel like I should probably stop playing but I can't because I have nothing to show for all the time I spent and I'd be content if I can just make it to gold but I'm stuck. Here's hoping I can reach my goals with your help. Thanks for the video.
This was heartbreaking it read. It sounds like you've put in an enormous amount of effort into the game only to get very little in return. I have no doubt in my mind that you try very, very hard. When you say you're "unfortunately addicted" I think about someone who is no longer extracting enjoyment from a particular thing. It's like, "this time will be different" and it almost never is. Instead, you just feel empty, hollow, unfulfilled. So you keep doing it again. And again. Hoping that the feeling will just go away if you do it enough. But then comes the tragic irony: the thing that made us feel a certain kind of way can never be the cure. It's the poison. I think you allude to that when you say that you feel like you should stop playing. Your body knows this is harming you, and it's trying to communicate that to you through feelings. You should never be made to cry while playing a video game; unless it's the good kind of cry that games like Nier:Automata give you. I don't know what the path forward looks like for you, but I suspect anything to do with ranking up and getting good is trap-it's just more of the stuff that's harming you in the first place. I hope you can heal and find spaces where you're valued and treated with respect. League is a brutal game with a brutal community to match it. I did want to share one last thing with you. There's a channel on here called @HealthyGamerGG (you might've heard of it) that has a lot of great videos on mental health related stuff. I don't know if it will be of any use to you but it's helped me tremendously and I just wanted to put it out there.
@@success9271 Thank you so much for taking the time to read my story and reply. I joined the MLS (Curtis' coaching program) and I'm begin to reset my thoughts and relationship with the game. The toxic community is definitely one of the things that made me feel worse and doing something as simple as muting them has made a world of difference. I think I was also "stuck" in the sense that I would do things over and over again (e.g. play a certain way) without truly understanding when and why something worked and when it didn't. I've started to review my games now and try to understand my decisions as well as get a sense for when I'm getting tilted. I've also tried to play normals. I'm competitive by nature so ranked puts me in this pressure-sort of mindset to just get results. I think for the first time, I'm starting to enjoy my journey and go along for the ride. Thanks again and I wish you all the best with all your endeavors! :)
@@TeddyBearItsMe Wow, Thanks for checking in! It's been a crazy 6 months on the life side of things, so I just couldn't play as much as I wanted to. I have made some progress though! Finally found a main champ and have gone from playing mostly normals to focusing on ranked! Looking to make it to bronze this split! I should be able to do it!
I've been playing on and off since Season 2021 and am in Iron, and I realised I went about learning the game so wrong (I never played this kind of game before, although as a child played MMOs on PC). I basically went straight into ranked at level 30, had like a 75% loss rate lol. I've definitely improved a little since then but not efficiently. Because im still in Iron obviously I don't know the fundamentals well and so I'm tempted to return to the bot and normal games for a while :) Thanks for the video
I just have chat turned off from settings, have saved my nerves. It also helps because it doesn't allow me to write in chat as well, so I can't be toxic when Im angry (I got chat restricted few times)
I remember starting off league of legends back in pre season 8 and I started playing as a support for my "friend" group I didn't learn to CS untill this year just gone because I was the friend who played support It's taken me 4 years to learn how to CS to even a basic level because of this
I never related to a video more in my life! I used to be a console gamer and I mainly played magic the gathering for the past ten years and it’s been so hard to start playing league for all the reasons you mentioned! I feel seen and heard and this will be the best video to lead to my improvement in league! Thanks again!
Perhaps for the new players but playing premade 5v5s can be incredibly fun and fulfilling. It's in many ways a completely different game when you are working towards a common goal and there's no random elements that affect the end result. The outcome is dictated solely by your game plan and your ability to pull it off as a unit. Took me a few seasons to get into it but it's the time in league I remember the most fondly even many years after. It also unlocked a completely new angle to watch pro games through. Trying to work out why they picked certain champs and what they chose to do with them to gain an edge over the other teams game plan is fascinating -- especially if you've ever played against a significantly better team who completely stomped your best strategy in a way that felt unfair. It's a whole another game on that level.
Just starting my League journey. I’m excited - but terrified. This game and community has one hell of a reputation. Though, to be honest - I’ve really enjoyed my time so far 😊
This idea that "there is no macro" just because people don't know what they're doing, I think, is very, very wrong. You *have* to understand what split pushing is, because your teammates *will* split push because a guide said to do it, and you have to know how to behave when they do it... you can't afford to just lose a series of 4v5 fights every time you have a stubborn split pusher. You also will have a huge advantage if you take cross-map objectives. There's no point running across the map to a fight you will be late to when you can take a tower or two right now. Especially not when you have an obstinate split-pusher and your team can never do better than 4v5 at objective fights. Also it's nice to deny the same to the other team if you can recognize when you have the priority to take an early dragon or baron. I mean, absolutely, you only need the basics, and even then any high elo player *could* ignore all that, just farm up and fight well with their team and just win fights anyway because they got fed from early farm and early kills, but if you have one-rank-higher micro and ignore macro *completely* you won't climb from Iron/Bronze/Silver to Silver/Bronze/Gold until your macro is also one-rank-higher, or until your micro is *many* ranks higher and makes up for you just giving away objectives for free.
How my first normal game went: playing ekko mid leashing jg at red only to steal it because I didn’t know it would ruin the jg game. Took me 10 minutes to convince him it was actually my first norm lol
41:30 Totally agree with that. That is the reason that I never try to have another account. Playing on any account else is just like erasing something from me. Meanwhile, everything that happened in the account of mine is not only the progress of my improving but also means what I am and how people might see me. Even I sometimes hard stuck in low elo or keep having toxic teammates, I know that it is how the world works. We cannot prevent frustrating things from happening, the best thing we can do is to record them down and become stronger, both technically and mentally.
You really underestimate how hard the stuff you already know is. We played the Bang! card game with some friends who didn't know it yet, and it was brutal. I had to explain what every single card did. Every single time someone wanted to use it. Needless to say, we had no fun. It wasn't until then when I realized how complicated the game is. You have discard cards, steeling cards, range 1 cards, normal range cards, infinite range cards, then cards the shorten or prolong your distance, then weapons that buff your range. And that's all the extra stuff on top of the base mechanics of shooting a bang at someone. Not to mention even more complicated cards like dynamite or barrel. Sure, they seem simple to me, but that's because I played dozens of games with them. To a new player, it's probably all arbitrary nonsense.
dude i'm not new to the game and the max ranked i've reached is gold 1 and got stuck losing my promo plat over and over and quit ranked but still play the game but never the less i've a really good understanding of the game and i've played it a lot and my mechanical aspect is pretty sick i play osu and type and play many pc games and i win a lot of normal games to the point where it's now boring because i'm just that good but still I'VE LEARNED A LOT FROM THIS VID AND OTHER VIDS IN THE CHANNEL AND NOW MY LEAGUE OF LEGENDS ADDICTION IS BACK.
Hey Curtis, awesome video, and I thought I'd add some (hopefully) constrictive criticism 1. When I was first learning league almost 3 years ago and using your channel and others to help speed me along, I found it distracting during 'lecture' style videos like this to have gameplay in the background, unless the presenter was talking directly about the clip and using it to prove a point. It's not inherently a bad thing and it makes the video look more professional, but also maybe distracting for a total beginner. 2. Your sections seem to switch back and forth between gameplay stuff, mentality towards the game, and mentality towards your journey as a player, in an order that didn't quite make sense to me All the content is bang on though, just as it's almost always been for the past 3 years
Hey Curtis I think a new jungle tracking guide would be a good idea. The last video has many outdated info like machete/talisman clear, jungle timings, etc Btw love your videos! I've been with you since 2020, where I got Diamond for the first time. So Keep it up man :) (pls let me in MLA lol)
And with my champion that I picked to main or to fully understand is Lee sin obviously I’m sort of a new player for about a few months yk not giving league a 5 year break and Lee sin reallistically be the character I play kinda forever I don’t see myself playing anything else unless I’m forced to ofc or if I wanna play Aram or a different role than jungle but I love him so much and I understand him down to the runes different builds certain matchups how to play against different champions understanding my damage knowing which objectives to take at which time when to farm or what items to buy for certain characters debuffs whatever
I want thank you for this video. I have been on and off with League since I started around when Kled was released and haven't even tried ranked outside of by accident thinking it was a normal game(I won two matches for some reason). I have decided to come back but its still the same problem of not having the fundamentals and the overwhelming anxious that stopped me from playing for a long while. Hopefully I can make this work after all.
really like your content even after I stopped playing league alot I wonder if you covered the learning debt concept I feel like it makes alot of problems for people who are in gold or silver or even plat I am gold and I still can't learn and pick up on the fundamentals easilty because of how much time I played without learning the fundamentals in a proper way I was just picking up random things from youtube videos but there was never a focus on the fundamentals as a whole and I didn't know anyone who played the game at a high level to guide me. it's so hard to forget everything wrong you know and replace bad habits with good ones so it's better to and start fresh the right way that's the learning debt concept I think it's interesting to cover it and how should old player deal with it.
Thank you for great video! Not sure if it's ok to ask here, but do you still planing on doin ahri guide? I'm really curious how your journey goes with her, and wanna improve my own ahri.
Ive been playing strictly jungle since I started since when I started my friends forced me into it. I got pretty decent at jungle, I had goals to gank more (like gank at least 6 times per match) get my cspm up (I was barely peaking 5, started practicing and got it up to 6 cspm) and I noticed that I haven't really played a lane. Mostly because I was so tied up in learning jungle. So I tried mid lane on annie, and my god am I bad at laning. I die, throw cs out the window, and just generally don't know how the game works. It's odd because I played jungle decently well, but I just can't lane for the life of me.
hey coach! thanks for the video. i'm a basically brand new player who looked at your video for bronze and silver players a year or so ago (yeah, i'm still new - no time to play). i watched that video a lot to internalize it, and you had suggested to only play one character and get familiar with them. here, you say to start by playing everything. you also said that was the only video you were going to make for low elo players. what do you think has changed your advice to those of us in dirt league, and what caused the change of heart? love the vids. thanks again!
i think the duoing argument doesn't really apply to real beginners. i think having someone else there that you can learn the game with together can absolutely help you to improve up to a certain point. yes the bad advice you mentioned was about climbing with a duo, which i do agree with, is bad advice. but for absolute beginners it can help a lot because it frees up your mental stack and just makes it more fun to play in general.
Unrelated to league but I started playing on pc back when fortnite was at its peak it was a few months after the first Christmas update and literally it took me 3 months to fully understand my mouse buttons not looking at my keyboard to do literally anything and sensitivity on my mouse or the dpi from the pc itself which apps to install for quality of the games I play and so so so so so many things more examples like my arm or fingers hurting after minimum play from how clunky it was and I understand completely why it seems difficult just to even start pc gaming in general
tutorial was stuck so i had to reopen it, but it skipped the tutorial and i dont know how to find it back, the menu is confusing and doesnt show where to find a match or tutorial is, it still says downloading, is that what i have to wait for? very confusing 10 minutes
I've been playing this game for around a year now and I just can't decide on a type of champion to play, not because there isn't one that doesn't click but because I feel like there are so many. I love split pushing and taking towers, doing the massive teamfight damages of adc and mages and assasinating squishies and I feel kind of lost. I really want to stick to just one champion but I have an extremely hard time choosing and dont know what to do.
May sound like a weird suggestion but take all the champions you enjoy playing and put them through a lottery (a randomizer of sorts). Whatever you get, stick with it for a little while (like 2 weeks or 20-30 matches) and see how it goes. If it sticks, great, if not, do it again and find someone else. It could be super fun because you will also gain more intimate knowledge of those specific champions and their general role in the game, which will feed into whatever else you decide to do with the game next. As Curtis said, just make sure you have fun with it :D I've been playing for over 10 years and I've swapped champions many times. What fundamentals I learned when playing those champions long, long ago sticks long after, so it's never wasted effort and allows you to come back to them if you ever so choose to do so. Good luck~!
i'm level 27.... so close to being able to play ranked! EVERYONE told me not to play this game and it would take me yeeeeeears to get to gold. So far I feel like this is pretty easy.... I've only played Pokemon unite before this (moba wise) and stardew and dreamlight valley before this.
This sounds like a really well thought out approach to starting your league journey. Meanwhile, my approach was to just watch various coaching and advice vids for two months straight before deciding that I was actually interested in playing and wasn't just going through a curious phase. Then I try to immediately establish a small champ pool and try to apply "correct macro" in all my games before reaching level 30, then start duoing once my friend shows an interest in the game. I really love split splushing, so I immediately feel my body resisting the idea of "just group after lane phase." I really don't like mindless team fights in mid or deep in the enemy jungle for no reason. It reminds me of being a kid trying to play soccer or hockey when 20 children all gang up on the ball in a circle creating this mad melee to kick it past the enemy team. I always chose to just stand a foot away from the chaos and 60% of the time the ball just rolls right to me so I can kick it hard down field without any resistance to worry about. The other 40%, my team managed to kick it past theirs, so I didn't need to do anything since I was playing defense. My mind just keeps saying "Why go where resistance is strongest when I can just grab free farm/towers?"
This man is a Blessing for the entire community
Just from P vs AI and I see pp farming 23 kills to 0 deaths with 27k dmg how do you get all that dmg buff wileme being the same lvl as him I get 1kill 2death 4 assist and 7k dmg how do you do that idk its againist bots but before I understand the league system micro and macro dos and don'ts I am just curious at the dmg part is is it like items buy or custom build and etc if so I need assist on this matter thank you :)
Might be late, but whatever :P
Some champions deal damage better than others. In P vs AI it's often assassins, mages, marksmen. For example: Brand, Miss Fortune, Yasuo.
Also people know how to trick AI. After many games you'll notice that bots are predictable. Easy to land skillshots, easy to win trades (because they waste spells), easy to grind kills.
Don't care too much about KDA and damage. End "the PvsAI phase" simply when they get boring. I ended it with average 10 kills per match - not 20'ish - and I'm fine with that.
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One thing I wanted to add to the bot games part, is that you should create a custom game, fill out every slot on both teams with bots (pref intermediate on enemy and beginner on ally bots). By doing this, no one else is going to win the game against enemy bots. YOU have to carry the game with your champion. Love this type of video Curtis! This stuff needs to be talked about more and it would reduce a lot of toxic expectations pushed on to new players by reddit, streamers or discord groups. Killer start to the year
GREAT piece of advice man
@@CoachCurtis And big thanks for you and Nathan for helping the league ppl have a better experience with the game! I would have quit ages ago if not for your podcast.
Your understanding of the game is world class. Your ability to see a topic from a birds eye view and then breaking it down to small essential yet digestible parts is even more impressive. I've been playing league for 10 years now and I managed to learn a great deal about the game from your video for beginners, sometimes we need to take a look at the root of the problem to understand the bigger picture, that's why I LOVE your holistic approach to coaching. You are a treasure for the league community and I thank you for investing your genius in this field. You are a first-rate coach and student of the game, you gave me insight to league, I saw it as a game, but failed to understand the science and the art in it. Ten years in and I still have a ton to learn. Keep us educated coach!
Wow, what a beautiful comment. I really appreciate the kind words man...
This is so weird. I was JUST thinking yesterday how there aren’t many updated guide videos for absolute beginners, like starting from level 1. Videos like this are important for brand new players to have fun playing the game.
This is me. This is still for me, _thank you._ No one else talks about these things, no other guide makes sense before this, and seeing how complex league was through them was so daunting I was scared to play and learn organically even though I wanted to
We really need an ADC coach like you in the community man. :(
Saber is ok
Wasn't there a samira player that was good ?
Man I love how you put everything to basics and tell it in a way I can just feel understanding and love for. Thank you!
This video helped me realize how unhealthy my friends' mindsets were about League and that I kind of needed to strike out and try thinking and playing for myself more if I wanted to improve. Their obsession with meta and counters and optimization really doesn't make sense with us all being bronze and silver.
To them, League is a science. In reality, it's an art. Your video did a fantastic job of helping me realize that.
I want to get really good at this game one day. I'm about level 50 or so and am loving Syndra and midlane in general. Lux bot drills and LoLDodge have been helping me tremendously and I can finally start to feel myself get a natural feel for my champs and focus on the game itself and, very crucially, focus on having fun while I'm learning.
This stuff is fantastic. Some of the best League content around.
"league isnt a science, it is an art" very well said.
love the video as always curtis. i’d like to mention that this guide is hard to understand for complete beginners as you use terms like squishy, macro, cs’ing, snowballing, etc. without defining it.
also, using examples such as mentioning specific champions or items is hard to understand for a complete beginner, because they neither understand the champions nor the items of the game.
this is definitely a video that brings up confusion for someone who never touched the game and is trying to get into it. it’s more like a video for a beginner who at least played 100 games and understands all the basic league language such as the mentioned above.
all in all, great summary of all the topics mentioned in the bbc podcast. i just think it is not a video a complete beginner to league of legends will understand, because they don’t understand certain points you use that need preknowledge (e.g. knowing what a malzahar does, what a lux Q is, etc.)
Appreciate the feedback, definitely noted!
I definitely feel that! Really great advice overall, and very helpful, but as a level 16 who’s been playing for less than a month, I still don’t know what a lot of the terms mean 😅 and trying to pick up from context or having to look up each term individually can be daunting
Love this so much and I cannot wait to leave a better painting on the rift and make it a place that everyone can enjoy. I have been playing for a couple years and am stuck in Bronze. But I have no regrets and have been making huge strides as I strive to get better. You have helped me a ton Coach Curtis and my appreciation is yours.
as a league vet (season 4) this is probably the most understandable guide for people new to mobas in general
I remember my first normal as support with my friend. (I started shortly before Aphelios)
He always talked about finishing my Support quest.
I always asked him: "What quest? Quests were pop-ups in the tutorial and i didnt get one for this game"
Or the moment i started to understand, that wards give vision and can warn you from ganks.
Or what jungle tracking was.
Or that i even played some jungle to track the enemy jungler better.
Or how trades in a duo lane in general work.
I came from a RTS background, so the movement wasnt that difficult to get into, but the game fundamentals alone are very big. Add that nowadays most people never played a RTS or a MMO before, you can easily see, how newer, younger players would severely struggle.
Riot made it somewhat easier in some regards looking at itemization, runes and jungle pathing (the updates this season werent all that bad tbh.)
But even spacing and using abilities is a lot for a beginner.
This is the most important League video.
I returned after an 8 year hiatus to see my main mid duo moved to jungle. Curtis and Shok's videos got me in silver when 2 months ago i couldn't even control the camera and i never played mid before.
I've been casually playing League for a few months now. Always wanted to play a moba but I didn't for these reasons: I was hella intimidated by the sheer amount to learn, the long patch and update history of these games and how often things change and cause new players to have difficulty with constantly changing information, and lastly the infamous toxicity to new players in these games.
I finally said fuckit and got into League (instead of HotS bc it seemed Blizzard was giving up on it at the time, and Dota the characters I found a bit too generic and heard it was even more difficult than LoL was to learn). And I was surprised how fun it was even though I was hella intimidated w/ all the information there was to learn. Upon first starting, I was constantly watching and saving beginner league content on learning how to play, what every role does, and also learning beginner guides on the first few characters I chose to learn. ALSO, whats helped me as a beginner player is mute all lol. There is absolutely NO value as a new player in listening to toxicity or the random shot call comments that ppl in my elo type. If something is htat important ppl ping anyways. I ping. I respond to pings. My brother plays with comments on and he has arguments with his teammates often and its so dumb. I keep telling him to mute all but he just wont lol.
Then I took a bit of a break bc OW 2 came out and I had friends to play that game casually with. None of my friends play League. However, I got my brother to play League with me so its fun in that regard. Now, after a few months of playing casually, I'd say i'm probably a bronze player (not a surprise) since I still have SO much to learn in this game. I am avoiding playing ranked bc I'm still a bit intimidated.
Now I find my research has changed. I'm finding that even though my muscle memory and combos are slightly improving, the current roadblock I have are:
knowing how to control the wave states and how they work (i know the wave states but im still not sure exactly how to control them), learning my power spikes and keeping track of enemy champions and when and when NOT to engage if they have item advantage over me, learning how my runes work and synergize (though I still struggle with knowing how to procc certain runes and also knowing when enemy champions have their runes procc and how it affects skirmishes), but the biggest thing I'm constantly researching is Champions I'm facing and have NO IDEA how to fight against. I think thats the biggest roadblock for this game for someone wanting to improve. I hear people say keep your champion pool low and maybe even one trick to climb rank but hte problem i see with this is that its difficult to know how to fight against champions that you have NO IDEA how to play yourself or even know how to fight against. I currently try and read quikc guide counters on a champion I'm facing against just before a match but it still doesnt feel the same as learning a champion yourself even for a brief amount of time, because now you know how the character combos, moves, how their ult works at a basic level, how their kit works...etc. I won't have time to learn every single champion nor do I want to, but having played around and learned a handful of champions in each role I find has helped me tremendously in being able to FIGHT against said champions.
So ya I find thats the biggest roadblock to new players is the sheer amount of matchups and matchup knowledge you need to learn. The game gives you absolutely no idea and you have to look it up yourself.
Incredible video, Curtis. Next level knocked it out of the park with this one.
I appreciate that man
im a new player, only lvl 18 rn still have NO clue what im doing and its so intimidating but im determined to keep learning bc i actually enjoy it, and the best thing i learned to do so far is to /mute all tbh
this video is super helpful thanks so much man
I could write an essay here but it would end up being a cry for help. Essentially I’ve been playing for 3 years while working full time so never got to really dive in, after 3 years I still feel like a beginner and lost in the game, I’m at a point in my journey where it feels like I’m too dumb to identify what it is I’m doing wrong…
Sounds like you need to get some assistance in your journey man.
@@CoachCurtis what do you think that entails? I didn’t think a coach would help me per your personal rule of not coaching below gold players so they can have a crack at experiencing the game holistically. Should I look for a higher elo mentor to pose questions to about my gameplay/process?
Personally I think I consume too much league content, I started playing jungle immediately (before I even knew about summoner spell smite) and I think it has negatively affected how I play the game because I never experienced laning prior. I’ve played games as a laner since then but I can’t say I have any confidence in it.
@@xBrayJay I have a below gold coaching program coming out, check out the Mid Lane Academy site.
I've been playing since 2011 and I still found this video insightful. You are never above going back to basics.
Curtis, you are a phenomenal coach. I love the way you encourage us in our enjoyment of the game while still pushing us to grow as players.
There was so much good content, but my biggest personal takeaway is making peace with the fact that a steady 52% winrate is how I will climb. When the game isn't going my way, I need to focus on fundamentals rather than trying to force a win (and throwing harder). Let the enemy make the mistakes in games that might otherwise be my losses; but respect their victories when they play better League of Legends than my team. After all, it'll happen about half of the time.
I can't even imagine what is to learn League nowdays, there is so much going on and so many people will rekt you during your run... good vid as always!
My friends wanted to start taking ranked a bit more seriously this year sending this to all of them such a banger video thanks Curtis
My pleasure!
i just started lol last week. im such a noob..everything is overwhelming. this is the only video i relate so much..finally someone who understand someone w no league background. i feel that you are welcoming me to this community.. thank you for this.. i felt heard..
Hello, you probably won't see this, but I am a recent gold, former mid lane main, current jg main as I try to reach platinum on my climb going from B2 to G4 at the moment. Your videos were made for laners but so many of your past video's I found to be integral to my climb with jg and my improvement as a player. So much of what you say translates to the jungle so well, especially your mentality videos. I appreciate your video's so much, and I look forward to reviewing them as I continue to climb and better myself as a player and a person.
P.S you should maybe start a twitch channel where you talk and just chat about the aspects of league and common conceptions by low and top tier players alike, kind of like Sajam in his exploratory videos with fighting games. Thanks for the video's and thank you for helping all of us.
Easier method of muting all but still seeing pings is go toyour settings and uncheck the show allied chat and show all chat, you wont see any typing but it still enables ALL PINGS, now if you type /mute all it will just mute the pings too.
Thanks coach, the dojo analogy is really good! goodbye ranked anxiety
Watched this and tried it with my friend who’s new to the game, he found it really helpful! Thanks a lot mate, much support :D
Are you ready for ranked?
Go to the Bot Gym:
Set all bots on your team to beginner.
Set all bots on the enemy team to Intermediate - include Mundo, Zyra, Morgana, Karthus etc. (stuff with powerful skillshots, game-altering abilities).
Make sure Taric bot is not present (bugged).
Pick any champ/role you want. Mid and jungle are easiest. Support champs with low damage are hardest.
You are not allowed to take any dragons/herald/baron.
You are not allowed to complete more than 3 items.
Win the game with no more than 3 deaths, ideally 0.
If you can do this with almost no chance of losing, congrats! you are ready for ranked at a high Bronze to mid Silver level on EUW.
This will teach you basic control of your champion and camera, what important abilities to anticipate from certain champions, itemisation, how to create pressure using waves.
Be aware, bots do not play like people: trading in lane is different against people, you will not learn jungle tracking, you will not learn split-push warning signals, you will not learn the pattern of objective timings and when to group with team - these will be major gaps in your play and you will need to play normals or ranked to acquire these skills.
Regarding normals: your level of play in ranked is likey to be a full rank below whatever the rank of players you typically get matched against in normals (assuming you are playing your most comfortable champions). Most people playing normals are experimenting with new champs or builds or teaching their nooby friends - which acts as a considerable handicap.
I'm a self-taught Lux mid player who's unfortunately addicted and have accumulated 1 mil on her. I've always played for fun but it's become a bit of an obsession. Today during a bad game, someone asked, "1 mil and that's it?" I'm ashamed to admit that this brought me to tears. I found your Lux video and then this. I feel like I should probably stop playing but I can't because I have nothing to show for all the time I spent and I'd be content if I can just make it to gold but I'm stuck. Here's hoping I can reach my goals with your help. Thanks for the video.
This was heartbreaking it read. It sounds like you've put in an enormous amount of effort into the game only to get very little in return. I have no doubt in my mind that you try very, very hard. When you say you're "unfortunately addicted" I think about someone who is no longer extracting enjoyment from a particular thing. It's like, "this time will be different" and it almost never is. Instead, you just feel empty, hollow, unfulfilled. So you keep doing it again. And again. Hoping that the feeling will just go away if you do it enough. But then comes the tragic irony: the thing that made us feel a certain kind of way can never be the cure. It's the poison. I think you allude to that when you say that you feel like you should stop playing. Your body knows this is harming you, and it's trying to communicate that to you through feelings. You should never be made to cry while playing a video game; unless it's the good kind of cry that games like Nier:Automata give you. I don't know what the path forward looks like for you, but I suspect anything to do with ranking up and getting good is trap-it's just more of the stuff that's harming you in the first place. I hope you can heal and find spaces where you're valued and treated with respect. League is a brutal game with a brutal community to match it.
I did want to share one last thing with you. There's a channel on here called @HealthyGamerGG (you might've heard of it) that has a lot of great videos on mental health related stuff. I don't know if it will be of any use to you but it's helped me tremendously and I just wanted to put it out there.
@@success9271 Thank you so much for taking the time to read my story and reply. I joined the MLS (Curtis' coaching program) and I'm begin to reset my thoughts and relationship with the game. The toxic community is definitely one of the things that made me feel worse and doing something as simple as muting them has made a world of difference. I think I was also "stuck" in the sense that I would do things over and over again (e.g. play a certain way) without truly understanding when and why something worked and when it didn't. I've started to review my games now and try to understand my decisions as well as get a sense for when I'm getting tilted. I've also tried to play normals. I'm competitive by nature so ranked puts me in this pressure-sort of mindset to just get results. I think for the first time, I'm starting to enjoy my journey and go along for the ride. Thanks again and I wish you all the best with all your endeavors! :)
@@CNCiel That's really refreshing to hear. I'm so happy you've found a way to enjoy the game. Thank you for your well wishes and I wish you same :)
As a new player currently in Iron, I'm so happy to find this video thank you Curtis and im so excited for my solo queue journey this year!
Its been 6 months now, how u doing now?
@@TeddyBearItsMe Wow, Thanks for checking in! It's been a crazy 6 months on the life side of things, so I just couldn't play as much as I wanted to. I have made some progress though! Finally found a main champ and have gone from playing mostly normals to focusing on ranked! Looking to make it to bronze this split! I should be able to do it!
@@bowmain1577 good luck
Excellent work Curtis. You talked a bit about this video on the podcast I think this was one of your best ones yet!
I've been playing for league for 7+ years rarely played rank
i literally 1 hour ago checked your chanel for new uploads and not you actually uploaded ty :)
ty coach, always happy when you upload
coming from competitive fps background and struggling to get into league this vid helped a lot, thankyou!
I've been playing on and off since Season 2021 and am in Iron, and I realised I went about learning the game so wrong (I never played this kind of game before, although as a child played MMOs on PC). I basically went straight into ranked at level 30, had like a 75% loss rate lol. I've definitely improved a little since then but not efficiently. Because im still in Iron obviously I don't know the fundamentals well and so I'm tempted to return to the bot and normal games for a while :) Thanks for the video
I just have chat turned off from settings, have saved my nerves. It also helps because it doesn't allow me to write in chat as well, so I can't be toxic when Im angry (I got chat restricted few times)
I remember starting off league of legends back in pre season 8 and I started playing as a support for my "friend" group I didn't learn to CS untill this year just gone because I was the friend who played support
It's taken me 4 years to learn how to CS to even a basic level because of this
I never related to a video more in my life! I used to be a console gamer and I mainly played magic the gathering for the past ten years and it’s been so hard to start playing league for all the reasons you mentioned! I feel seen and heard and this will be the best video to lead to my improvement in league! Thanks again!
My pleasure mate
In 10 years Curtis is gonna be a motivational speaker at our children's high schools
Perhaps for the new players but playing premade 5v5s can be incredibly fun and fulfilling. It's in many ways a completely different game when you are working towards a common goal and there's no random elements that affect the end result. The outcome is dictated solely by your game plan and your ability to pull it off as a unit.
Took me a few seasons to get into it but it's the time in league I remember the most fondly even many years after. It also unlocked a completely new angle to watch pro games through. Trying to work out why they picked certain champs and what they chose to do with them to gain an edge over the other teams game plan is fascinating -- especially if you've ever played against a significantly better team who completely stomped your best strategy in a way that felt unfair. It's a whole another game on that level.
This has got to be the best timing ever because I recently started league
Just starting my League journey. I’m excited - but terrified. This game and community has one hell of a reputation. Though, to be honest - I’ve really enjoyed my time so far 😊
This idea that "there is no macro" just because people don't know what they're doing, I think, is very, very wrong. You *have* to understand what split pushing is, because your teammates *will* split push because a guide said to do it, and you have to know how to behave when they do it... you can't afford to just lose a series of 4v5 fights every time you have a stubborn split pusher.
You also will have a huge advantage if you take cross-map objectives. There's no point running across the map to a fight you will be late to when you can take a tower or two right now. Especially not when you have an obstinate split-pusher and your team can never do better than 4v5 at objective fights. Also it's nice to deny the same to the other team if you can recognize when you have the priority to take an early dragon or baron.
I mean, absolutely, you only need the basics, and even then any high elo player *could* ignore all that, just farm up and fight well with their team and just win fights anyway because they got fed from early farm and early kills, but if you have one-rank-higher micro and ignore macro *completely* you won't climb from Iron/Bronze/Silver to Silver/Bronze/Gold until your macro is also one-rank-higher, or until your micro is *many* ranks higher and makes up for you just giving away objectives for free.
How my first normal game went: playing ekko mid leashing jg at red only to steal it because I didn’t know it would ruin the jg game. Took me 10 minutes to convince him it was actually my first norm lol
41:30 Totally agree with that. That is the reason that I never try to have another account. Playing on any account else is just like erasing something from me. Meanwhile, everything that happened in the account of mine is not only the progress of my improving but also means what I am and how people might see me. Even I sometimes hard stuck in low elo or keep having toxic teammates, I know that it is how the world works. We cannot prevent frustrating things from happening, the best thing we can do is to record them down and become stronger, both technically and mentally.
this video is fantastic. I sent it to everyone I know that is fairly new to the game
Outstanding as always
Gotta love that Jean-Jacques Rousseau reference
Appreciate the video. Helped me a lot as I am a complete newbie. Thanks
You really underestimate how hard the stuff you already know is.
We played the Bang! card game with some friends who didn't know it yet, and it was brutal. I had to explain what every single card did. Every single time someone wanted to use it.
Needless to say, we had no fun. It wasn't until then when I realized how complicated the game is. You have discard cards, steeling cards, range 1 cards, normal range cards, infinite range cards, then cards the shorten or prolong your distance, then weapons that buff your range.
And that's all the extra stuff on top of the base mechanics of shooting a bang at someone. Not to mention even more complicated cards like dynamite or barrel. Sure, they seem simple to me, but that's because I played dozens of games with them.
To a new player, it's probably all arbitrary nonsense.
dude i'm not new to the game and the max ranked i've reached is gold 1 and got stuck losing my promo plat over and over and quit ranked but still play the game but never the less i've a really good understanding of the game and i've played it a lot and my mechanical aspect is pretty sick i play osu and type and play many pc games and i win a lot of normal games to the point where it's now boring because i'm just that good but still I'VE LEARNED A LOT FROM THIS VID AND OTHER VIDS IN THE CHANNEL AND NOW MY LEAGUE OF LEGENDS ADDICTION IS BACK.
Your channel is underrated
I heckin' love Coach Curtis and Broken by Concept
Always good to go back to da fundamentals
Wish this video was uploaded 3 years earlier when I started my League journey. Also, wish there was the Coach Curtis of adc.
Hey man, thanks for that video - it was of great help to me as a beginner!
Hey Curtis, awesome video, and I thought I'd add some (hopefully) constrictive criticism
1. When I was first learning league almost 3 years ago and using your channel and others to help speed me along, I found it distracting during 'lecture' style videos like this to have gameplay in the background, unless the presenter was talking directly about the clip and using it to prove a point. It's not inherently a bad thing and it makes the video look more professional, but also maybe distracting for a total beginner.
2. Your sections seem to switch back and forth between gameplay stuff, mentality towards the game, and mentality towards your journey as a player, in an order that didn't quite make sense to me
All the content is bang on though, just as it's almost always been for the past 3 years
Appreciate the feedback, definitely noted!
Great video! Cleared things up for me.
New facial hair looks clean coach!! I like it!
Happy New Year Coach Curtis!!
I would've killed to have a guide like this back when I started in pre-season 11.
“Below master elo” balancing is very common at Riot so there is more to it than just playing not optimally 36:23
Hey Curtis
I think a new jungle tracking guide would be a good idea. The last video has many outdated info like machete/talisman clear, jungle timings, etc
Btw love your videos! I've been with you since 2020, where I got Diamond for the first time. So Keep it up man :)
(pls let me in MLA lol)
Good stuff. What you said is a good reminder for experienced players as well
And with my champion that I picked to main or to fully understand is Lee sin obviously I’m sort of a new player for about a few months yk not giving league a 5 year break and Lee sin reallistically be the character I play kinda forever I don’t see myself playing anything else unless I’m forced to ofc or if I wanna play Aram or a different role than jungle but I love him so much and I understand him down to the runes different builds certain matchups how to play against different champions understanding my damage knowing which objectives to take at which time when to farm or what items to buy for certain characters debuffs whatever
Thanks for showing some love for the low elo players Curits :)
I want thank you for this video. I have been on and off with League since I started around when Kled was released and haven't even tried ranked outside of by accident thinking it was a normal game(I won two matches for some reason). I have decided to come back but its still the same problem of not having the fundamentals and the overwhelming anxious that stopped me from playing for a long while. Hopefully I can make this work after all.
really like your content even after I stopped playing league alot
I wonder if you covered the learning debt concept I feel like it makes alot of problems for people who are in gold or silver or even plat I am gold and I still can't learn and pick up on the fundamentals easilty because of how much time I played without learning the fundamentals in a proper way I was just picking up random things from youtube videos but there was never a focus on the fundamentals as a whole and I didn't know anyone who played the game at a high level to guide me. it's so hard to forget everything wrong you know and replace bad habits with good ones so it's better to and start fresh the right way that's the learning debt concept I think it's interesting to cover it and how should old player deal with it.
Thank you for great video!
Not sure if it's ok to ask here, but do you still planing on doin ahri guide? I'm really curious how your journey goes with her, and wanna improve my own ahri.
I will this year yep
This video promises one thing and forgets about it within 2 mins to become something completely different.
Ive been playing strictly jungle since I started since when I started my friends forced me into it. I got pretty decent at jungle, I had goals to gank more (like gank at least 6 times per match) get my cspm up (I was barely peaking 5, started practicing and got it up to 6 cspm) and I noticed that I haven't really played a lane. Mostly because I was so tied up in learning jungle. So I tried mid lane on annie, and my god am I bad at laning. I die, throw cs out the window, and just generally don't know how the game works. It's odd because I played jungle decently well, but I just can't lane for the life of me.
It’s ok bro whenever I play this bs I just click all the buttons and yell at the computer sometimes even slam it
hey coach! thanks for the video. i'm a basically brand new player who looked at your video for bronze and silver players a year or so ago (yeah, i'm still new - no time to play). i watched that video a lot to internalize it, and you had suggested to only play one character and get familiar with them. here, you say to start by playing everything. you also said that was the only video you were going to make for low elo players. what do you think has changed your advice to those of us in dirt league, and what caused the change of heart? love the vids. thanks again!
I'm trying to break my ranked anxiety with the three block method
Your videos have to appear in lol client “home” tab
i think the duoing argument doesn't really apply to real beginners. i think having someone else there that you can learn the game with together can absolutely help you to improve up to a certain point. yes the bad advice you mentioned was about climbing with a duo, which i do agree with, is bad advice. but for absolute beginners it can help a lot because it frees up your mental stack and just makes it more fun to play in general.
Unrelated to league but I started playing on pc back when fortnite was at its peak it was a few months after the first Christmas update and literally it took me 3 months to fully understand my mouse buttons not looking at my keyboard to do literally anything and sensitivity on my mouse or the dpi from the pc itself which apps to install for quality of the games I play and so so so so so many things more examples like my arm or fingers hurting after minimum play from how clunky it was and I understand completely why it seems difficult just to even start pc gaming in general
9:23 I can think of several other things in league that are drillable, miss fortune for example (:
tutorial was stuck so i had to reopen it, but it skipped the tutorial and i dont know how to find it back, the menu is confusing and doesnt show where to find a match or tutorial is, it still says downloading, is that what i have to wait for? very confusing 10 minutes
Thanks for the knowledge, coach.
I've been playing this game for around a year now and I just can't decide on a type of champion to play, not because there isn't one that doesn't click but because I feel like there are so many. I love split pushing and taking towers, doing the massive teamfight damages of adc and mages and assasinating squishies and I feel kind of lost. I really want to stick to just one champion but I have an extremely hard time choosing and dont know what to do.
I cover this in the video :)
May sound like a weird suggestion but take all the champions you enjoy playing and put them through a lottery (a randomizer of sorts). Whatever you get, stick with it for a little while (like 2 weeks or 20-30 matches) and see how it goes. If it sticks, great, if not, do it again and find someone else. It could be super fun because you will also gain more intimate knowledge of those specific champions and their general role in the game, which will feed into whatever else you decide to do with the game next. As Curtis said, just make sure you have fun with it :D
I've been playing for over 10 years and I've swapped champions many times. What fundamentals I learned when playing those champions long, long ago sticks long after, so it's never wasted effort and allows you to come back to them if you ever so choose to do so. Good luck~!
@@SiMeGamer thank you sm will try this out!
i'm level 27.... so close to being able to play ranked! EVERYONE told me not to play this game and it would take me yeeeeeears to get to gold. So far I feel like this is pretty easy.... I've only played Pokemon unite before this (moba wise) and stardew and dreamlight valley before this.
miss you man
I share this video with my little sister. SHE SHALL KNOW PAIN!
I wish I had seen this video when I started last year
I LOVE U COACH CURTIS
Curtis i feel like you answered this question before but i cant seem to find it, can you recommend anyone who teaches jungle like you teach mid?
Nathan Mott his friend they also have a podcast together it's called Broken by concept
Good job 👍🤘
To me this sounds like that if you want to be good at this game you have to treat it as a second job lol
Starting ranked this week for the first time ever…I’m 29 help!
i feel so old when he said "early season like season 5"
im not new played for `1 year, but still stuck in bronze after 2000games
watching Curtis lane is intimidating
This sounds like a really well thought out approach to starting your league journey.
Meanwhile, my approach was to just watch various coaching and advice vids for two months straight before deciding that I was actually interested in playing and wasn't just going through a curious phase. Then I try to immediately establish a small champ pool and try to apply "correct macro" in all my games before reaching level 30, then start duoing once my friend shows an interest in the game.
I really love split splushing, so I immediately feel my body resisting the idea of "just group after lane phase." I really don't like mindless team fights in mid or deep in the enemy jungle for no reason. It reminds me of being a kid trying to play soccer or hockey when 20 children all gang up on the ball in a circle creating this mad melee to kick it past the enemy team. I always chose to just stand a foot away from the chaos and 60% of the time the ball just rolls right to me so I can kick it hard down field without any resistance to worry about. The other 40%, my team managed to kick it past theirs, so I didn't need to do anything since I was playing defense.
My mind just keeps saying "Why go where resistance is strongest when I can just grab free farm/towers?"
itd be cool if the bots for league got powered by ai to make them alot harder to beat.
What about sending the videos to sisters, mothers and aunts?? Us women want to play league toooo
I asked my friend how’s you get into gold meanwhile I’m getting destroyed in iron and he said “oh I just click buttons and poof gone”
does anyone know when the mid lane school releases?
Next week