What EVERY Bronze & Silver Player NEEDS To Know For Climbing To GOLD
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#CoachCurtis #LeagueOfLegends Bronze and Silver Climbing Tips // This has been a long time coming but I thought it was necessary to make. I hope this helps you guys! Cheers :)
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00:00 - 00:58 // Intro
00:58 - 04:51 // Taking The Game Seriously
04:51 - 12:06 // Champ Pools & Champion Mastery + Champ Mastery Cont.
12:06 - 16:21 // Stop Beating Yourself!
16:21 - 18:36 // Toxic League Beliefs
18:36 - 21:41 // Importance Of Teaching Yourself + Why I Don’t Coach Below Gold
21:41 - 25:05 // Practical In Game Advice
25:05 - 26:10 // Interesting Findings
26:10 - 28:16 // Last Piece Of Advice
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#Bronze&Silver #CoachCurtis #LeagueOfLegends - Ігри
Coach gives life advice, not just league advice.
You know it! ;)
i just came home from a 14 hour shift and turned on this video. and all this can be translated to life talk. super interesting
@@CoachCurtis Thanks for this. I fell into the WR MMR, though I've avoided the other toxic things. I sometimes get frustrated that I have a 62% WR on my main and my MMR still has me losing more LP than gaining. Instead, I could use this to my advantage to understand my macro better in exploiting enemy mistakes so that whenever the MMR finally rights itself (I'm sure it will at some point) I can continue to perform better than most of the people at my elo. I would complain that I carry my brains out, win, and keep losing LP in the long haul. Well, what if I used that carrying my brains out to increase game knowledge. At some point it will balance out, and I could keep my WR when I start finally facing people that are currently on my level, because then I'd be above the level I'm at now.
The process of reviewing my deaths helped a lot as well. I found most of my deaths come from trying to compensate for teammates mistakes, or following bad calls by myself or others, rather than pushing an advantage somewhere else.
Also, the comment on time expended supported something I long have said about League. Don't worry about it so much. I'm not going pro, even if I was good enough, I have better things to do with my time, so why worry? Very few people are in a different category than I am regarding that. If you're having fun, who cares if you climb? My common comment to people who flame others in the game: "Babe, nobody here is gettin' paid to do this, chill."
Came to comment exactly this. Going through some stuff IRL. Feel better about my league rank but way better about myself. Wierd sometimes what is needed for a click in your head. Thx alot man.
The philosophical aspect of games.
Even though I'm plat+, I'm still gonna watch this.
Coach has so much to offer.
same
Same here, sometimes you just climb because good mechanics but still skipped some concepts that u will need later
How does one become plat+? I’ve only been able to achieve one rank at a time, but you’re plat AND diamond (or higher... or AND higher?)
@@lemonboy3276 For me it was playing a lot and whatch a lot of turials and guides too
That's awesome to hear man, appreciate you tuning in :)
the very first time i drove i smashed my parent’s car into a wall... and i am silver good job you made your point !
LOL
"Maybe you dont take the game serious enough"
And then there's players who cry about "tryhards", using it as an insult, while in reality they just out themselfs as careless.
Yup. "Tryhard" is a compliment in my opinion. I respect tryhards so much more because it's called "ranked". The point is to play to the best of your ability in a competitive environment.
@McCool The Asian I agree. Trash talking in normals is completely pointless. People are learning new things or just playing for fun (auto piloting). I experienced this a ton when making a new account in another region. Some people there are clearly very new to the game and others are high rank smurfs and you see that garbage all the time. It's awful. I actually understand trash talking in ranked (just like in any sport) but in normals it's just so dumb...
People that call other people 'sweaty' annoys me. It's pretty much saying, "How dare you try to win more than me!?" xD
“This video is for bronze and silver players”
Iron players: 😢😢😢
Iron Players have the most fun in League, they don't need coaching to ruin that fun
@@Imad.ElKoudi this is true. There are some videos of people going winless in placements and they couldn't get iron LOL
The best advice for low rank players I ever got. Split push. Whenever you don't see 3 enemies on the mini map, go into a bush and wait. Do not recall or go to your team. When you see at least 3 enemies on the map again continue split pushing. Repeat. If you do happen to find yourself in a teamfight, after 1 - 2 enemies die, go to another lane and split push. Do not chase. Do not push down the same lane with your team. This works for bot, mid, top, or jungle. You will be aggressively pinged by your team. Don't worry about it. They're in Iron and you're on your way out.
If the above doesn't work, your rank is correct.
@@bradleymoore2797 im in bronze i play jg what champs do u recommend
@@kryptic7693 Xin Zhao, amumu, Fiddlesticks, even if you played for a lot they are really good for low elo
Commenting more than a year later since this video has been an absolute keystone in my current climb and I need to leave behind some appreciation. Updating this timeline occasionally. Thanks so much CC and other BBC'ers.
Aug 2021: Still beating myself up for not being able to climb in Silver 4 despite watching Coach Curtis content.
September 2021: Vex is released and because she looks like a champ CC would rate highly for self improvement in low elo AND I resonate with her depressing outlook on life, I decide to try to become a maestro with her. She was intuitive to learn and I quickly got comfortable with her gameplay but still was winning games mostly through Vex being an easy, overtuned champ.
Early 2022: Climbing is going smoothly, hitting Silver 3 with Vex. Scrolling through CC videos for no apparent reason and rewatch this vid. Search up the term "loser's game." Stuff starts clicking.
Early-mid 2022: Silver 2 with amazing winrate on Vex, maybe 68%. Playing around not dying and hitting skillshots and grouping and identifying how to win lane and how to approach teamfights. Hit 5000 on loldodgegame. Durability patch lands.
May 2022: Was (ab)using Kha'zix, long-time favorite champion from years ago, as off-role when climbing, and Vex just "doesn't feel like she used to be." Drops Vex completely knowing full well how risky the maneuver is. Dedicates self to the jungle main life style. Turns out, I love the role, but my skills are lacking and my LP is quickly falling as my one-trick Kha'zix hits a 42% winrate. Confidence taken out, compounded by a busy and low-performance university finals season.
June 2022: Finals are over, so I become a student of the assassin Kha'zix playstyle. Rewatching this video pushes me to understand that I am overcomplicating my Kha'zix gameplay: adapting runes, items, and decisions too much rather than settling on a somewhat constant knowledge base. Start studying Virkayu jungle guide videos again. Huge jungle improvement: realize how powerful and easy camera panning is. Early game awareness skyrockets. Slowly accumulating champion-specific knowledge, both on how to win as Kha'zix and how enemy jungle champions play.
July 2022: Lucky streaks carrying me to Silver 1 45 LP. Kha'zix performances are generally quite bad but the LP is rolling in. Likely due to new mindset on Kha'zix as wanting to create and support ally win conditions rather than just "getting fed." Trying to internalize the Nathan Mott Rek'sai gank theory. Becoming aggressive and spamming Draktharr full lethality despite the durability patch. Learning to teamfight with a squishy melee assassin. Focusing on execution rather than improvement to test if current knowledge will bring me to gold before the end of the season.
August 2022: Hit gold 4 0 LP with Kha'zix. Euphoria. Going for more soon.
January 2023: Euphoria becomes complacency becomes careless gameplay becomes bad habits becomes lose streaks becomes illogical, negative narratives. Yeah, I completed the LoL toxicity pipeline. My first 20 games in gold 4, I won maybe 3 games? And eventually it improved to a 40% winrate, but after consulting summoner school it was clear that I needed a fat break from league. Took the break, went back refreshed. Decided to set some LoL and loldodgegame goals for myself in December 2022. As of Jan 2023: Goal of at least 1 4000+ loldodgegame score daily, success. Find small champ pool for 2023, success, result of Kha'zix, Vex, Rumble for mid, jg. Play 80% of games ranked, not so much success... Now that I've hit the gold 4 milestone, I've found that I struggle to take solo queue seriously. Really sad stuff tbh. I've been reviewing more of my preseason games and my losses boil down to this: I die in the first 5 minutes of the game, I don't play patient, and I don't let myself get carried. All of those tie together as an expression of overconfidence, which aligns with both earning my idolized gold rank and taking new medication. If I could play 100 games in row instantly with my current skill, with demotion from Gold 4 allowed, I'd probably end up in Silver 3. Hopefully placements will wake me from this stupor. Happy new year to anyone reading this btw
Grats lil bro.
Slay on King
Update this again!!!
Thank you for your dedication to updating this. It is depressingly real, and one has to wonder if this one videogame is worth that much time lol (speaking for my similar experience)
instructions unclear ended up in diamond 2 from silver 1
This video tells me I’m on the right track. I have been playing for a year now, sitting at the bottom of Bronze. I have played nearly every champion under the sun, trying to find one that I like, that is doing well, and that I can climb with. Every time I stop finding success, I look at what goes wrong, mostly see a lot of champion-based mistakes, fail to fix it, and decide that I must not be able to play it and pick another. My most played champion not too long ago was only at 20 games. I have done this process over and over all while looking up ways to improve things outside my champion mastery. Nothing was making up the difference. I thought, “How can this be so important, it takes too long to learn to not suck at a champion I wanna still improve in the meantime while I learn” It got frustrating and I started to run out of champions...except the “easy” “simple” “low elo” ones. See, since the start, I avoided them. I didn’t think I’d get a return on them. Great, do this my whole League career until it can’t take me any further then learn a new one? What if I run into counters or it’s not what the team needs? Wouldn’t it be wiser to learn a champion good at all levels and have a bunch to switch to based on needs? I get countered all the time, counters are a problem even here. I made it to Silver recently and by recently I mean I was bottom Bronze really not too long ago. but it’s due to one big change. I only play Annie. I got to Silver, having an 89% win rate all because I was no longer shackled by hard to execute skills or risky playstyles. I just sat there, waited for players to make horrible mistakes, and killed them. Over over, game after game. I just waited for inevitable mistakes, bad choices, and the more I grabbed, the easier it was to find more. I couldn’t believe it. It’s because I, in one swoop, stopped making every mistake in this video. It really showed me how many losses were up to me. How my desire for efficiency and shortcuts were really just hubris. I refused to take it step by step. I really wish I could have done this past year over again. I can’t imagine where I’d be if all those games were funneled into one champion or a tiny pool.
You hit the nail on the head with this one, hopefully now you can see the way out and continue to climb and climb. No point dwelling on the past now.
tryy to find another person to duo q its a lot easier
@@pubgcomedy4650
I have a duo and we play when we can. But I’m all about seeing how far I can make it on my own steam.
How's it going
Curious on your current rank after 7 months
Thanks for making this, Curtis!
I found that the best strategy of all for improving at League was actually to just stop playing League for about 6 months. It erased a lot of toxic mental blocks, gave a fresh perspective of the entire game, and I have an actual life instead of being mentally dead and staring at the computer screen every single day. I honestly think that is the best advice for bronze. Want to be better at League? Stop playing League and get your life together. There's something else you have to learn, that has nothing to do with League.
As with anything, you can fall into the everyday overwhelming context and being 'in the shit' as Curtis calls it. shifting your mentality to feeling on top of it and effecting the change you want is an incredible breath of fresh air
if you want to get better at something, you need to practice and put in the hard work to improve. Not playing league is the complete opposite of what you should do if you want to get better at league lmao
@@robertg420 practicing the same mistakes over and over with a negative mindset is not beneficial though, that's the same in any game or sport, sometimes taking some time away from it, is the best course of action.
I absolutely agree with taking a good break! However 6 months is a bit lol. Glad you have such great things going! Slay on King
As a Zoe main that plays once in a blue moon while also thinking of trying out Azir he destroyed me with one sentance.
Personally I'd rather stay where I am and have fun with Zoe. I don't see the point of climbing by having less fun. But for people who find climbing important this is probably 100% right.
As a mantheon main, I have the same experience when climbing. A lot of times, all I have to do is remind myself that fun times are coming after getting demoted is all it takes for me to enjoy the game again.
My point is that it also works with hurr durr champs.
Imagine how much more fun you would have playing those champs correctly. I genuinely have more fun playing in high elo than I do when smurfing. In low elo, the game knowledge is just nonexistent. Playing 5v5 where all players have a solid sense of what league actually *is*, it’s amazing.
@@lemonboy3276 I agree with you, I ve witness this through sports however I will never reach that point. Even if I won every game I don't play enough to climb higher.
@@lemonboy3276 I don't think what I do is "smurfing". I just use less of my glucose reserves if you know what I mean. From where I'm standing, any game I play in bronze now is just ego stroking while relaxing.
Spot on, and it's awesome to hear you've had that realization. It's important to know what makes you happy and brings you fulfillment.
Hello Coach Curtis, I have recently hit Diamond 3 through watching a lot of your videos and I would like to thank you for helping me understand the basics. Keep up with the videos they’re all great 😊
My pleasure!! Thanks for tuning in regardless of you being in diamond
It’s kinda hard to find that balance between having fun, enjoying myself, and taking the game seriously and focusing on improving.
Thanks for the tips on choosing one main and sticking with it, it’s increased my confidence significantly. learning to CS has helped me a lot too.
Curtis has the funniest analogies.
lmao out of nowhere 19:30
“It’s like bowling” 😭😂
Every coach is like that lol they have the most hilarious analogies
I never used it before actually, just came to my mind
@@CoachCurtis Im sorry, I dont use Annie I use Ahri for AP mid and Talon for AD mid. But I truly enjoy GP and TF because they remind me of fighting game/comic characters.
Curtis, thanks for putting out positive and constructive coaching videos. By not just watching your videos but APPLYING your advice to my gameplay I’ve noticed a huge difference in how much better my games play out. By focusing on improving I’ve won more games, but more importantly I’ve had WAY more fun. Thanks for uploading videos like these
I just recently got to Gold after being hardstuck silver 4 last season since its my first year and I fully agree with Coach Curtis, it's so rewarding and it also forces you to enforce good habits. In Iron,Bronze and Silver most people don't take ranked seriously and if you truly deserve anything above that you will get there.
I took your advice on slowing down my play, focusing on farm, and only taking fights that are good for my champion. I won 3 games in a row. The enemy outplayed themselves. One game, I got 2 kills just because they did a bad dive on me.
I also had very few deaths. 2 deaths each in games 1 and 2. 5 deaths in game 3 but I did have 15 kills.
There we go!
Thank you for the informative tips! I've been really teetering on playing ranked because I fell in love with a hard champ that I suck at because I'm a new player. This video nudged me into climbing with an easier champ. That was what really stuck to me in this video.
Thank you for taking the time to do this Curtis! Highly appreciated!
Coach Curtis with another banger. Highly appreciated man.
I finally got to Platinum! And it definitely wouldn't have been this soon without your videos Coach!
I haven't watched this video before, but I still watched it fully because it's still relatable and I can see what I did right (or wrong) with my mentality in trying to improve when I first started.
Just keep at it everyone with a mindset to improve and it's possible!
This guy is an analogy machine!
Jungle forcing gank when lane doesn’t have prior or is behind is like going fishing without bait.
You really hit the nail on the head with the champ pool for me. I literally play so many champions, and very hard ones too. Going to try to simplify it, thanks coach!
That part at the end describes perfectly how I reached gold for the first time recently. I was playing Malzahar most games, and as I kept playing, I just randomly started winning more games despite feeling like I wasn't making any big changes. In reality the biggest thing that changed probably was that my mindset was settling down, and I also did improve in game knowledge, mainly on how to throw games less.
And yes, playing 80% malzahar for hundreds of games was a lot of fun. This video made me realize I can keep going with this approach, just "learning the game", up to platinum before I even really need to consider learning new champs.
Hey Curtis, just wanted to say that it's refreshing to see a perspective like yours in LoL. The logic behind your narrative resonated with me - subscribed.
God i love your content Curtis! Im not even below gold, but I just love hearing you talk and articulate your thoughts. Keep all this wonderful content up. You are literally the best imo
Thx a lot Curtis, this wraps up pretty well all the advice you gave throughout all of your vids, with some others.
As a silver player myself I'm looking forward to make the best out of it
Thanks a lot for your content and dedication
I’ve gotta say, you and neace have to be my favorite youtubers at the moment. You both teach very well and I like both of your styles very much. Thank you!
I started playing recently, and I REALLY enjoyed what you said here. Thank you a lot for this video!
Just hit D2 last week and it was with no shortage of help from Coach Curtis. I was thinking for the longest time how to explain to my silver and bronze friends how it’s not their teammates that are holding them back in their rank and I could never find a good way to articulate it. I think I might’ve just found the perfect video. Thanks again Coach C! You’re an absolute blessing to the community as always!
Congrats on your rank man
I want you to know that you are helping me a lot with these videos and I really appreciate the effort you put into them. I started playing the game at the end of season 10 because of Corona but I am very busy and don't really have much time to play. Despite that, I am very competitive and can't stand being bad in something I really enjoy. That's why I am watching many videos about tips and how to improve. Your videos really help me a lot even though I am a jungler. This video made me realize where my priorities should lie conserning the game and it's facets. I will definitely try to watch less educational content and try to learn it mostly by myself, even if it takes longer. Hopefully, I will reach gold in the next couple months, even though I know that it will be hard to accomplish with the little amount of time I have available for the game. Thanks again
Great video! This actualy made me wanna take league seriously again and do my best with climbing!
Thanks man!! Really really good advice! Took me 2-3 seasons to climb from low silver to Gold II. Wished there was a concise informative video like this back then. Could have saved some time. Still don't really got the habit of reviewing games though. I think i'm gonna take your advice and start reviewing my in-game deaths every game 😉
Thank you so much for your advice. I have been playing Lux for the longest time and I used to suck with her but I played and played, then I got better at Qing and rooting. Just randomly predicting the person's movements. I haven't played ranked until the last two years and I have made so many mistakes but learning that the game can turn anytime can help as well. :) Thanks coach!
Thank you for your content! I have never watched things like this and have been hardstuck Plat for 7 seasons. I am at my peak right now at P2 and hoping this is finally the year.
Incredibly insightful video, not just for playing and advancing in LoL, but how to enjoy it more too.
Always happy to see some low elo climbing advices ❤️ Thanks Coach!
Thanks man. I can see myself in alot of these bad habbits and i will try to just go back to the fundamentals, and maybe actually taking the game serious. Im basically just playing with friends not really thinking of what i do/do wrong more than a few games a week and excpecting to improve.
Thanks for the video!
Woah, the "not doing anything" and that people are going to make mistakes so just take a chill pill resonated hard with me. Thanks!
Thanks, this is what I needed to hear.
Hit Gold recently. Keep up the content coach, hoping to push forward further with your help
after watching this video having just started my ranked grind in bronze i realized that my champ pool needs work but hey i love malzahar so yay. this also has so much good mindset tips.
After watching this video, I managed to go 19-6 this week going from Silver 2 to my Gold promos. About to attempt them tomorrow! This video really gave me a new perspective on ranked because coach is a G.
I love your videos and I enjoy watching them regardless of the state I'm in, rank-wise, just because of how focused they are on the mentality and the well-being of the player. I personally enjoy playing support the most, because I love making sure or at least trying to make sure every player in my team gets what they need to contribute towards the win, whether it be vision, roaming, or just playing lulu against assassins. The issues I encounter the most in-game are mostly auto-piloting and lack of self-awareness, when you touched on capitalizing and not dying, I could replay so many instances in which the players on both teams either lack the knowledge or the will to capitalize or initiate. More often than not, in lower divisions, players that aren't having a good game, would rather contribute towards a loss than a win, meaning that even if they see an opportunity to capitalize or initiate they'll ignore it, just to make the game as uncomfortable to others as it is to them. As a support player it led me to the conclusion that more than anything, your mental is the most important thing, because if you're mechanically good but you're having a bad game, and you would actively choose to ruin opportunities than give a hand to your teammates so they can do the work for you, you ain't going anywhere. You can't help people that don't want to help themselves, same as in real life issues, I guess.
The last bit about when you have fun reminds me of the dunning krüger effect. Confidence is everything and when you realize you don't really know what you're doing, that tends to kill the fun, before you can fix that. :)
This is great as new player, I've been watching you for a while but now that I started playing I can apply this to league besides other games and life.
This definitely, definitely applies to Gold too lmao. Awesome stuff. Love the idea of avoiding giving them opponent opportunities to make a play.
Hi Coach, i usually never comment any youtube video but i truely believe that u are the best quality content creator to learn league ( and i watched tons of vids). So thanks a lot for giving ur advices to us and i wish the best for u and Midlane Academy, a lot of love from France
really perfect about how to approach the game
for basically anyone whowant to climb from any elo
people should take notes
props to you Coach Curtis you always make some good content!
Thanks for the advices! Very good video.
Greetings from Argentina!
what you said about it supposed to be the most fun part of your league experience really got to me. i enjoy rank more now even if its toxic chat every other game
I’ve been playing the game for about three months now and I’m silver three on two accounts, I’ve basically watched these videos to get all my knowledge, and I’ve been slowly improving. Thanks for the content!
@Hidetaka Miyazaki Yeah, from my very limited experience it seems like some people pick it up faster than others. I came from another moba (smite) and was masters for two seasons in a row.
I learn so much from you not just in league but also in life thanks
As someone who just got into gold, I feel like a lot of this still applies to low gold. Granted gold is a lot harder than I imagine but I eventually should be able to learn how to develop the skills myself.
I can confirm the experience from iron and bronze in season 9 to silver in season 10 and now I just got into gold, it was a very sastifying and enjoyable experience. The hardship was still there but it was fun.
This is god tier because I’ve always kinda been on the fence about coaching but I recently hit this massive winstreak and I could not figure out why I was winning all these games even though they seemed impossible. ITS LIKE YOURE IN MY HEAD. So after watching this I just reviewed the two hardest games I managed to win and I played so patiently and punished mistakes and was rewarded a win for it, now I just have to figure out that consistency. I appreciate this vid!
2 years after video was made I found it… there is so much to unpack here. Thanks for giving me a ton to think about, and hopefully I can make a climb. It’s been a rough start for sure.
For real that's help me a lot, small things creat the big ones
Thank you for the great video :D i finally hit plat again after being stuck in gold last season thanks to your content!
Thanks Curtis. This video has reaffirmed that I am on the right path
I think a lot of Coach Curtis's content has helped me just relax about the game. If I want to be serious and respect the game, then he has given me tools do so, but I also love clowning around with my friends in normals and just having fun. I don't think I'll ever be really good at the game, I have other more important things in my life to do than build this skill, Soni can just chill and get what I want from it
"you must learn playing one champion"
me, a former ARAM main: 👀 what have i done
literallyyyy
Aram is fun to at least have some knowledge on some champs.
You'd be shocked how many people don't even know Skarner exists.
Coming in clutch for the push to gold tonight!
Hey Coach, I know this is a late comment, but fantastic video. I’ve always noticed I play much better when I’m in a decent mental state.
Started about 1 year ago, finished S2020 in Bronze, sitting in Silver right now and this video showed me how much my mindset is clouded and poisoned already. Just the part of learning things intuitively and focusing on learning with a very small pool and having fun doing it... it doesn't really exist anymore for me. I enjoy playing a lot of champs and I can't really get myself to go into review (usually just say I can't do better, I'm low elo for a reason after a loss). I do blame game balance, afks and a lane that gave a lot of kills over for losses in my head as well. I already got myself ranked anxiety, I rarely want to touch ranked due to toxicity, pressure to perform well (due to my own expectations, for the teams mental sake and my friends being higher ranked than I am), as well as the fear of having a 45+min game that I throw with a single mistake. I don't want to stop playing but I have no idea how to fix my mindset on this either... so I probably do what I do now and play Normals, ARAM and Rotating Modes all the time lol
4 minutes in I think sums the decision up well for me. "How serious to do you take the game?" Well it's a game at the end of the day so not at all in comparison to life but I think in the moment competitive nature can make you feel like for a session maybe gaining some ELO is important but overall day to day the practice and drive it takes is where most lack or have more important real world shit to do. Just my 2c and I agree those that take it serious enough to get coaching/really work on a small champ pool will definitely be more likely to see end results. Great way to break it down and thanks much for the video.
Also, the tool analogy makes me think of Bruce Lee's quote "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
great video man
Love your vids. Thank you
Really great video. Regarding 17:52, this reminds me of a friend of mine. His micro is really not good, he has no idea about the runes since the rework (5?) years ago and for example sometimes takes stuff like Conqueror on Zyra Support. However, he knows when to fight and when not. Just this skill alone allowed him to climb to Diamond on EUW once, he is still high Platinum every season without even tryharding.
And yet here we are, Silver and Bronze players theorycrafting about optimal runes and items in a specific matchup. Thing is: If the enemy Yasuo dashes into your turret regularly, it doesn't matter if you take cookies or boots mastery on Lux. And if you take Comet or Aery also won't matter if you miss every skillshot.
Great video! There are two things that are related to all of this that I wish you had touched on more specifically. One is the mental game of somebody who IS on track to rank up to gold but who gets hugely frustrated after losses whether they personally played well or not because they're not seeing the big picture and understanding that losses and losing streaks are inevitable. Whether you subscribe to 30/30/40 or some variant of this or not, I feel this is a huge factor for many "hardstuck" players who can't let losses go. The second thing is being able to relax and playing for the purposes of improvement rather than the sake of reaching gold specifically. A buddy of mine was in promos for gold three times, and basically psyched himself out after some tough losses, started thinking he needed to change his champion even though he didn't and would surely be back in promos in no time if he just got back on the horse. At this point it became all about reaching gold for him and he wasn't even enjoying himself, talking about how he was going to uninstall the game the second he reached gold. He never did reach gold, but he did eventually rage quit and uninstall the game. TL;DR: look at how many games Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan had to LOSE over the course of their careers. Climbing will mean suffering many, many, many losses and people need to learn how to be okay with these.
thanks, coach. im hovering right around s4 and i need to remember to relax and let the plays come to me :) also my cs is garbo...always focusing that.
I usually get to gold quite easily every season, this season has gone way slower, mostly because I got bored of my champ pool. Now I found Bard, lost a lot at first, but now i'm almost back to gold again :D Just enjoying the game while reviewing why i died and watching a few of my own vods helped, and watching some high elo bard players.
It's sooo true that you don't have to force much in this elo! I have had a lot of successfull ganks because the laners get greedy and they never expect the bard coming for some reason. Or they try to dive my adc when i'm simply next to a wall out of vision, so we often turn it around. Great tips!
Sorry if I missed if they’re any comments about what I’m about to say!
All of this is amazing!! Wish you gave out Jungle knowledge! I know a lot of this also applies to my role (jungle main) as well, in fact I know a lot of what your videos are about can apply to jungle in theory.. Would you happen to have anyone that you would recommend as far as a jungle coach (via UA-cam) that gives out the kind of info you do for laners? Thanks for all the hard work put into this btw!
Hell, it's so right about the runes and itemization - it really doesn't matter as much as popular belief says, as long as players know what runes and items do, and what they are trying to do with them :)
It's kind of frustrating to watch this because I really am trying to do all the things you emphasized, especially avoiding dying when it really is avoidable, but it seems like it doesn't do much good when everyone else on my team is playing so irresponsibly, usually looking for some easy way to cheese their way to victory and immediately becoming toxic and wanting to surrender if things aren't going their way after the first 5 minutes. Then I get criticized by higher level players for not doing enough of the things you actually said to avoid like lots of roaming or aggressive flash plays. I definitely agree with your advice about how the game needs to be played at that level, I just wish it weren't so totally contrary to what most people believe, usually something like "just be good enough to style on everyone with big, aggressive plays since the opposition should be weak".
I've felt like this alot in the past. Then I started to focus on how well I was doing in terms of my goals for that match. Focusing on yourself makes a big difference
Hey Curtis, good informative video. I never took league too serious but i climbed to gold two times in S9 and S10 while being a Kata otp. Mainly because I just got fed asf every game playing mindlessly. Since jungle was my secondary role and beside being Kata otp I played like 10 junglers to mastery 7 so I decided to fully commit to jungle now. I play Kindred only now and still stuck in silver but I'm looking forward to actually improve now.
Thank you so much, your the hero we needed!!!!!!!!!
It is ironic that I quit league for good after watching your videos. At that time I was blinded by the idea that getting good at league was only possible by "playing a ton of games rather than "reflecting, thinking and reviewing" it. After seeing your content and analysis on how hard this game was I realised it was not worth my effort to get good at this game.
Yet, I think you do not only give league advice but advice itself. Not a league success formula but a formula for success in anything. Keep up the good work man. I always love to hear and see how you cathegorize this grand scheme of things and explain them. It's expanding my perspective.
About 7 months ago I watched this video and another video. In the other video Coach Curtis speaks on how the highest you will realistically get is a 70% wr, and how I forget the wording but it was something along the lines of 30% of games are auto losses, 30% of games are auto wins and 40% can go either way depending how well you play.
That video helping with the toxic mindset I had, along with this video helped me A TON. When I watched these videos I was B4 if I remember correctly. I stuck to Syndra as my champion, and just worked on not dying, watching for enemies mistakes, and I got rid of the mindset that my teammates were the reason I was losing games.
I recommend taking Coach Curtis’ videos seriously as they are very useful for helping to keep your mental in check. I’m now g4, half way to g3. I hit a rut the past couple months or so stuck at g4, but watching his new video with the player her climbed from g1 to I believe he is masters now is helping me again. I realized I was getting so focused on the LP gain/loss, and worried about gaining 13 losing 20 type stuff. Once I stopped with that mindset, refixed my mental and kept in mind that solo queue is “chaos” I noticed I started improving again.
Pay attention to the videos, and take what he says seriously. Taking a moment to breathe and practice what he basically preaches will making improving come easier as well as make the game a heck of a lot more fun.
That’s my two bits, road to plat here I come. Good luck to the rest of y’all trying to climb. ^~^
Oh, and side note. Something I 100% agree with is to play what you have fun playing. Everyone has to start somewhere on a champion. I recently started learning azir for fun, and I’m not great at him yet I can finally start going in games and come out with positive kda on him. Choose a couple champs you love playing and just get the champion mastery. If you’re worried about just winning, and spend a couple hundred hours playing a champ pool you find boring, then you’ll eventually find league boring and start questioning why you’re bothering to play the game. - This is probably the single biggest piece of advice that I was able to take away
I know that this video is pretty old, but your advice has helped a lot recently. I've spent a couple of seasons ~Bronze 4, and after just sticking to only Annie mid, with 1 rune page, I have seen immediate results. Instead of trying to make fancy plays, just staying back, doing damage, and staying alive has given a 7 win streak in ranked already. The loser's game mentality really does help (even though the name sounds a bit demeaning).
Ik I might seem biased speaking as a moderator on the discord. BUT hear me out. I swear whoever isnt binging those guides is missing out on so much. Coach curtis genuinely changed the way I play the game to the roots. I no longer flame midlanders. I just link a coach curtis video 😂😂. I also went from silver 3 last season to gold 1 this season thanks to all this. Thank you curtis we truly appreciate you coach and keep up the brilliant work you are really really destined for greatness. Much love.
You are just the best!!
finally a video i can watch and understand
Coach is over 100k subs, loving it.
Epic great job
Ure such a great person Curtis, i wish u the best!!
My sister tried to get into league with me and she just was awful and she was having a miserable time, game after game but once she started picking it up we had our first successful team fight and she shredded tanks like a monster. The pure amount of joy on her face, just her lighting up and gushing over how cool and rewarding that was made me so happy to give that to her.
She hasn't played in a long time but I know what you mean by there is a kind of innocence to it
Old video but still, first video that actually made me accept I belong in bronze for now. So much content out there that made me believe climbing would be so easy before I started ranked, that not climbing was frustrating. I just want to have fun in ranked same as in normals. Thnx
Don't know about the rest of my silver brethren out here but I feel empowered. By far the best teacher of league of legends on UA-cam. No one else gets the message across like this man.
Hey Coach! As someone who’s been HARDstuck silver for a long time, and really trying to understand the game of league, a lot of these tips really hit home for me. I’ve been one to switch around lanes a lot, but recently decided I want to be a jungle main and climb and work hard. Out of curiosity, I’m wondering who you would say some of the more “basic” junglers are? I know you mentioned Annie, Malz and such for mid but curious your thoughts on jungle. Again, great video, thanks for the tips!
13:00 When there’s a cloud soul and you are 3-1 drakes but your team prefers to fight for the soul even if you have a free baton while the enemy team will try to prevent the soul by taking their 2nd useless drake.
I don't play mid, and I've already managed to reach plat on my own, but it's still nice to be reminded of the fundamentals, and if nothing else, this video was at least entertaining :)
Is that why you won't go on a podcast with NEACE? 18:37
I completely get that. I just want to say that I would genuinely find it interesting if you two had a talk about coaching since it looks like two opposites of the spectrum in terms of clientele. I find your content way more informative on pretty much every level but since you mostly cover Mid Lane and I don't play that role very often, I find some of the details in NEACE's videos to be a nice bonus to everything else you are teaching. Like a good spice. Love this channel and Broken by Concept. Amazing content :]
Yo Coach first of all i wanna thank you for these banger videos . Can you make video on how to Lane and how to find out how to lane against certain enemys, for example when some one starts corruption potion what that means for the lane, how to play against it, how to trade , how to manage resouces etc.
As a Silver player I find it crazy that someone would say that you don't make videos "for us". I've watched a ton of your videos and they all have had a lot of value to me. Most of the mid lane fundamentals I've watched 3+ times to get a better understanding.
Although I'm not below gold I can see one big plus for making this video later than sooner. It is your experience, the longer we wait the better the video will br
honestly I'm the person that sits down with a beer and plays 1-2 games per night after work and I needed to hear all of this lol. really helpful mentality coaching thanks man
Well i pretty much like this thing of reviewing deaths and write them down into one of category. It can be huge improvement and really interesting topic, would we ever hear more detail about this, maybe even another video?
I can maybe do a bit of a video on this :)
"enjoy the innocence you have. It won't last." BASED.
I'd also give my everything to turn back time back to season 3, when I finally hit lvl 30, and started rankeds. I've been placed silver 2, and I made my way to gold, every victory was a shot of adrenaline, every game was a new thing learnt, and when I finally hit gold, at the end of the season, it was such a pleasure, a taste of goal reach. I still remember the matchup of my last promo game, I was playing malzahar against Zed, with a J4 with me, we clutched the game together with him Ring their whole team and me W on the cataclysm area (back then, malz W was his ult, without the supress.) This memory is a trasure in a box, which is buried for a long time now.
Now I'm getting my diamond every season just for the record, by autopiloting every single game because I have nothing to take from them. I don't have the motivation and the passion to push further, I'm getting old... This innoncence is long gone. And to be fair, the game was absolutely awful back then, its so much better now. Like pokemon generations. So please, enjoy your learning, for god sake, because as Curtis said, it wont last. And you'll miss it sooner than you think.
This content is true, because when I first started the game I was silver for 2 seasons, but then I really took it serious and started to try to improve and im omw to plat
Really good vid 💯❤
1:08 : I got the best instructor in the whole world. The moment i sat in the car, and the following couple of moths were the best couple of months in my life. It was fun, exciting and instead of a necessity he made me love driving. I will take League just as seriously, that is for sure.