@@Jetashii not really it definetely helps but u don't really need it to play well and be consistent look at yamato for example although he rages very frequently his fundamentals are still very good so he naturally just climbs
"who gives a shit about potential?' i absolutely love that quote. i had a football coach in high school that used to always say "potential just means you haven't done anything yet." Potential means absolutely nothing if you dont live up to it.
I agree that you don't want to use that word (potential) to make you feel like you accomplished something or the journey of improvement has been completed, but when I'm down in the dirt, remembering that i have potential, not only to reach my goal, but potential to get my ass moving towards that goal, is a shining light in a dark corridor.
@@pentabuzz149 exactly my point. Drives you to get up and go do something. But you don’t want to be left with nothing but potential when it’s all said and done.
40k games in gold isn’t free even if he didn’t flame. There is no way my mental could handle that shit, and whatever remained from this player after this more than me cuz I’ve left the game multiple times after having been hardstuck plat for 6 seasons before I Uninstalled realizing I’m wasting my time without further improvements.
@@yasserraghib3045 Lets flame everyone who isn't faker for not being faker, and also flame faker because he's somehow not absolutely perfect. Yeah, that seems perfectly logical.
to be fair maining a champ dosent mean that you think that said champ is well designed. i mained lethality yi when it was a thing, i would never say that this lethality yi build was well designed
Rav is a low elo league content creator who used to be pretty popular, I still like his skits/commentary but he's definitely lower than plat. He's an ADC main and his recent video tested the theory of "adc being coinflip in low elo." He hired a high elo duo ADC and soft inted on support in order to prove his point: Neeko supp purposefully take terrible trades, going afk, missing abilities, etc. Guess what happened... He got carried by the high elo duo partner and the guy was even having fun! Rav's take got totally destroyed.
I loved that video, it really showed that there's more to the game than just "being skilled". The high elo guy he paid had a good mindset and KNEW he had the keys to unlock a victory.
@@fiethsing9988 I am mechanicly one of the best players at my champion because I onetrick him but I can also say that I play only like 50 games a year now which is way to little to get any high rank I just get into plat and stop playing I also have been D1 when I actually played 2000 games instead of 50 games a year but that might be because I avarage like 1 death a game on my onetrick
yes, because according to every metric he knows or cares about, he is a good player. kills, trades, matchuls etc. But he simply doesn't know how much he doesn't know. Macro, farming, wave manipulation, proper roaming, realizing that gold and impact don't just come from kills. this guy could learn a lot from the baus
I really enjoyed and benefited from this episode. I was G4 (am now P2) last season, and I had an atrocious relationship with the game, making boatloads of mistakes every game. Your podcast helped me greatly with attitude towards the game, and now I'm improving steadily each week. Thanks for all the content!
@@MrCotter99only a few more games and he will reach t1 levels of games played, difference is t1 gets payed for it and he's challenger or high masters level even on the line he hasn't played in a while
I'm a GM player on EUW and watching this gameplay and how this player thinks about the game opened my eyes to a whole 'nother world of viewing the game. Like I had no idea someone can be, and I don't have another word for this, dense and stupid in their way of thinking about the game, or anything in life, really, thinking they are at the level of a challenger player when very obviously they are in the exact rank they belong into, not admitting to any flaws in their gameplay and thus never having anything to improve on, according to their thinking. I guess I thought maybe this was possible with people who played the game for 1-2 years. But with 40k games - jesus. It's like the only thing he learned in those games is how to operate champions mechanically and that's it, he has the macro-level knowledge of a beginner bot.
I think that the problem here is that it does not matter how many games you are playing if, ultimately, you are not intentional about improving. If you study how grandmasters in chess improve at their game, you see that 80% of their time is studying, practicing tactics, game endings, playing against themselves, and the other 20% is actually playing those games. In League I think this is more difficult (sure, you can practice combos, last hitting, clearing jungle camps, review your own games, watch other people play and take notes) and most people learn by playing many games. People like this show you that you need some self-reflection to become good at anything.
Just as a side point, now you also understand the massive flaw in democracy, when you realise how many people are fickly in their thinking, which is why socrates and greeks thought that universal democracy was so flawed.
👏👏👏👏 It is sad that it seems quite lot of people share that kind of.... persistent stupidity . You can recognize thrm in game : they ping YOU because you actually do the good thing 🙂. That's 1 red flag 😆
It is crazy how little some players respect cs as a way to win lane. You don't have to over force solo kills if you consistently can have a 10-20 cs lead by farming and forcing bad backs.
Some champions farm better. And if all players gonna farm it would be boring and nothing will be changed but the scaling properties of the late game. You need to trade in order to win. For some champions.
@@qazweriopkoilj xd iron take any champ should be able to perfectly cs if you are not bad, as a early game champ you can win by denying cs xp and getting huge eco and pressure advantages… kills are actually worth not much
@@qazweriopkoilj No, what he meant was, if you are a champion with an early advantage, you should use that advantage to gain a cs lead. The match-up in this specific game is a very good example, he should NEVER be behind in cs to sol.
Cs is the king in this game , its above all else , above mechanics , above jungle tracking even above macro it doesnt matter if you have all these things if your farm is shit then you wont have the damage or stats to capitalize on them , as a varus mid main i start cull every game and prioritize wave above all else, those dumb river fights bot and jungle keeps taking? You just have to ignore it and focus on you no one is going to help you if your not going to help yourself , farm well make smart decisions and carry the game league is that simple
He says it doesnt take a lot of games to learn a champ but then he does this: 48:49 I played a ton of akshan, and his E is a never ending learning process. You cannot ever learn everything about his e, the way it interacts with the environment and how to angle, it is just too hard to master it entirely, but the more you play the better you get. For example, at this timestamp, if he puts his E on the left wall, and swings with his body towards them instead of away, he gets both easily. And if they flash away you can easily hop of your e (you get a tiny dash when you let go) and kill them into a reset. -> This just showcases that his idea of "champs are easy to play" is just invalid. An akshan with more games will get a double there, 99 times out of 100. Also 55:00 is a perfect example of him never using his single passive to kite. When akshan attacks and cancels his second auto, he gets a lot of movement speed. If he attacks xayah once and Qs her, he can just outrun her and never die. He never does this all game. Good KDA and no good winrate means you don't know your wincon, and while he is right, that a champ is easy to learn mechanically, knowing how to best pilot the game it'self and close the game, takes a lot more games on that champ. 21:10 is giga high risk since aurelion still has flash, you never kill without dying. But his e shoulda hit the wall too instead of the tower so he would rotate closer to aurelion. Played a ton of aksha, climbed from gold 4 to plat 1 with it last season (100 lp but failed my promos xd) Either way, one thing I learned was that solo kills are sometimes not even worth it. Often times I'd get a solo kill, then back and find that my jungler is fighting and I'm not ther ebecause I needed to reset. It gets even worse if I brought ignite and enemy mid brought tp. The kill suddenly becomes a net loss. So I played more patient and usually just played for prio. So instead of diving, I'd hover my jungler.
Aside from the obvious mechanical issues too, he doesn't seem to understand the champion's identity on a broader scale (which the guys touch on). Champ mastery isn't just "can i press 4 buttons" its about knowing what your champ wants to do and when. When you're strong, your power spikes, your identity, how to play teamfights... he seems totally lost on all these counts. The sad part is akshan is probably one of his BEST champs since he mained it a few years ago. If this is his level of mastery on akshan, i dread to imagine how trash he is on the 60 other champs he's played 1 time this season. And wonders why he can't climb, lol.
yea i spotted that frrom the first play at 21:10, any akshan whos done their homework on the champ knows you don't hook the tower there, you hook the wall, and he would brush right up aghainst asol and melt him, even with flash would prob get the kill
I don't even play akshan and I recognized that's what he should've done because geometry. I understand that people make mistakes in the heat of the moment but with him being an Akshan main with THAT much ego? He's an idiot.
@@Sepums came here to say exactly this, it's not just knowing Akshan to some extent, it's also your intuition and ability to detect certain patterns in unknown/unexplored environments
Blaming others for things that go wrong in your life is a miserable way to live. I just hope this delusional attitude is confined to his game. Gotta take a long hard look and do some self reflection my guy. Try and take some responsibility. Blaming his team, blaming Riot.... You'll realize that taking responsibility for outcomes in your life will be fullfilling and empowering, because these things are actually not all your teams fault and not all Riot's fault. Some? Sure. All of it? No. They're not the reason you're stuck in silver and gold with 40k games my man.
"not all your teams fault and not all Riot's fault. Some? Sure" I think in these cases you shouldnt even say to them that some of it might be his teams fault or riots fault. just don't mention that and keep it all on self reflection. They might remember that sentence best of all. And in the end I think if you look at the bigger picture you have 0% of it to blame on teammates or riot. Sure if you really focus on a specific time in a particular game for example your team makes a bad dive or there is a bug that makes you lose a fight you are not to blame (which you shouldn't mention to delusional people I think) But when you look at a whole season or your whole rank in general you just cant blame anything else besides yourself But that's just my take on it and I'm willing to change my stance
I have good mentality have never flamed anyone in league because I understand we all make mistakes only thing I can get pissed about is if someone bans my champion which I am howering from my team I just play then Soraka mid or top I still try but that is my reserve champion if the player on my team bans my champion only if it happens from my team.
@@IamnotfromUSA "I have good mentality" "if someone bans my champion which I am howering from my team I just play then Soraka mid or top" these two sentences cant be combined
@@edofluit6568 They can be if you are only Supportive champion player my main is Zilean so Soraka is just my backup I dont die on her at all if I play her and it is only thing which I do which might tilt my teammatws I dont write or spam ping I use her ult us Karthus ult for teammates on bot top if they need it which is very usefull to have
Ah yes, the "Don't mention my champ pool, champs are easy to learn" guy. Meanwhile, I can't even consistently CS properly when switching between champs because the auto attack wind ups are different. Also, I find it hilarious that after all this talk about champion mastery not mattering...the first thing he does is E around the turret and not hit ASol with it at all.
@@catwif as a former gold Akhan (gold 1 though) I think his mechanics were horrible. for me the mechanical mistakes are never the issue, it's my awareness and taking stupid ego fights and then (I guess this is where the mechanics come in) not dodging abilities
This actually really helped me to realize the coin flippy-ness of certain ways of playing. It didnt really super occur to me before that even if something happens to work out in your favor doesnt mean it was a good idea/playstyle, and that if you habitualize decision making like that itll make your game outcomes way more random
Your rant at the end was an absolute banger. I've had a rough couple of days in solo queue. Now I'm excited to get home and take one step at a time and really simplify my way back into the goal of consistency. Tonight will be all about getting farmed up getting all the exp I can, and looking for opportunities rather than forcing them. Thanks again, boys!
hey man I have some ADC vods in my youtube profile playing in masters tier, feel free to add comments if you want to take a look at them and have something to add - or any questions about the decisions I made in the game
As a low elo top lane main who understands how valuable gold and xp are, i regularly face opponent's who play like that Akshan and I always thank them for creating chaos while all I do is get solo xp and gold and end up being 1-2 items and 3+ levels ahead of everybody else so I can then just 1v5.
This guy needs a reality check...but my main issue with him is that he's toxic, he was toxic to all of the people who commented under his post, the people here (when he started to argue and be rude first) and Curtis and Nathan themselves. That's not how you interact with other humans. He's just lashing out a lot. Nobody gives a damn abt some Season 5 game, focus on the here and now and stay realistic about your level of play. If there's one thing I learned in the MLS, it's that.
I played with this person 3 days ago, he was playing rumble and I was playing jhin ADC. He was extremely toxic and was nonstop typing about how if he got on a Smurf account he could easily get to diamond. We ended up winning but woah to see him in an episode from 4 months ago is crazy.
i mean it is and it isnt. game balance is a significant factor, so the champs u play, the role u play in league determines your rank for most ppl playing, if i play annie instead of ryze my elo will be inflated. also u can get lucky or unlucky on a climb, like neace for example. u may get elo inflated by your teammates (short term), your champ pool and your role... thats alot within the meritocracy. not everyone has enough hours to grind out their "true" rank or elo if they are temporarily handicapped by game balance and unfair matchmaking
@@mortystraphouse5077 Statistically, only in extremely rare cases will you get "unlucky" matchmaking for a long series of games. And game balance and champ choices might make a difference, but the truth is league is a fairly well balanced game maybe a champ makes you go a few hundred lp higher but on the whole journey your skill is gonna make orders of magnitude more difference. And the role stuff is just pure cope.
@@anotherrogue8371 sure but lets say support and jungle have high impact. If the support and jungler on the other team also have high impact how does that make it easier for you to win?
As a player who has achieved both Rank 1 PvP titles and Hall of Fame on retail raiding, the difficulty between WoW and League is not even close. League is the harder game.
Idk how you can say that league is harder. They are DIFFERENT. One is a moba, the other an mmorpg. You CANNOT compare them. As a good player, you should know this.
Yes its harder, ignore the other comment. If you compare diablo 4 and starcraft 2, them are two different things but clearly one is harder that the other because the skill ceiling and limit, his point is not right. I like to compare league with chess that also u need skill to move your piece.
@@huggablepenguin1465you don't need to compare them to say one is harder, league is just objectively harder. just like CSGO is objectively harder than COD
itd be a shame if yukineko felt like they were enemies after this essentially just got a bunch of free coaching Id love to be the next subject of one of these haha
@@ardvarksimmons Well people don't like being told they are wrong especially if they have not asked Hell a lot of the times if you want experience on shot calling spam pings and eventually people will follow or listen to the pings. Actually it is a good idea to spam ping anyways to climb AS LONG as you are not being toxic about spam pinging such as question mark above someone that just died
You know there's a way to play League with 80+ champs a season, mechanics max, constant fighting, and no objective or win cons already built into the game. It's called ARAM. I bet if Riot added ranked ARAM he would switch to that. But as is his ego is getting in the way because he wants the rank attached. Or maybe he should just accept playing the game for fun only. Either way he'd probably be happier.
I have 7k arams played and i would never ego pick a random champ in ranked only because i might have 100+ games of that champ in aram because the rift is COMPLETELY different, i wouldn't fucking know how to win the game with that champ apart from how to skirmish and teamfight with it because that's all what aram is about, i don't understand how he has this immense ego, i could probably be better at his entirely champion pool than him considering the time i invested but holy shit i would be delusional to consider myself better than any serious champion X main.
As a fervent ARAM player, I say YES to ranked ARAM :D. It is cobstant fights, it is no problem to die, and make you focus strongly on mechanics... ! But it has its own strategy and their is manner to play to be able to win. Exemple : you have to master the timing to die. Exemple : at 20 min +, after a push ending with 1/4 life, it is way better to die undertower of ennemy base. You will respawn right in time to defend yours. But if you don't die and stay 1/4 life... you can make the team lost the fight, and the game, because at min 25 you can often finish in one push after an ace. Bref, ARAM is life :)
40,000 games!? At 30 minutes a game, that’s 1.2 million minutes! That’s almost 900 days or almost 3 years straight of constantly playing games, not counting queue times! Did this guy really have 40k games!?
I did nottt know about the stream for akshan passive, i just thought it was putely if u kill a marked target you get the revive. This passive does so much 😂😂😂
Whooo boy, I'm glad I clicked on this recommended video. As someone that spends far more time on the League subreddit than I should, this whole thing was cathartic as all get out. I'm trash at this game. I know I am, I have no desire to improve. I can accept that this is my spot on the ladder cause I have no hands and no wrinkles on my brain. But if you're in a game with me, there's a reason for it, dawg. You belong in my game. The bit at the end there is something I needed to hear because I'm currently going through that guilty, down period. I see it for what it is, I can deal with it and come back from it now. Thanks, dudes.
Champ mastery (the stat tracked by league/riot) is not an accurate representation of champ mastery (the abstract concept). There's a reason why there is a 1000000+ singed onetrick in every division. Those hours spent can only maybe correlate understanding, but in no way do they dictate it. Some hours that a person will spend on a champ will mean more or less than others' hours.
being in iron is fair, you are just not good at the game yet - problem is when you think you are better than everyone in your games but somehow you can't climb out of your rank
@@VigilTheProtogen bronze and silver is not being experienced at the game. In my life i met 1 guy irl thats actually iron and he is like top 5 dumbest people i ve seen. Like i get if you are a complete beginner or new to video games as a whole, so u cant get out for a while, but to be stuck in that elo you have to be a bit different ngl. Think about it, on a fresh account, your starting mmr is around silver, to reach iron you have to drop 2 whole ranks from your starting point, i dont think i would be able to lose that much if i tried without getting banned. i know people who sell iron accounts and struggle for weeks to drop to iron by constantly trolling and inting games.There is a youtuber called JaySea or something that said it was harder for him to drop to iron(him and his friends were trying to lose games for months) than to reach challenger for the 1st time, thats wild. Maybe im wrong but i just dont get iron elo...
This was interesting, this feels like the polar opposite of how I approach the game. They seem to over-focus a lot on kills and KDA, while I over-focus on minions and map pressure, and generally under focus on kills as I just find it more interesting & fun to try and create advantages in other ways. So it's super weird watching this and being unable to relate to their gameplay at all. I'm used to watching much higher level gameplay, from people who I assume have a more "balanced" mindset when it comes to things like kills vs CS and the risk vs reward and all that stuff, so I can usually relate to their decision making on some level, even if I am significantly worse. I'm not really a great player myself, probably a bit worse than this guy tbh (I just play for fun, so I'm not worried about it), I was already fascinated by how differently high elo players can approach the game, see Baus and other off-meta enjoyers for good examples, but I don't think I ever realized just how much more different it can get in lower elos.
Locked screen led to critical missed information about mid wave states and bot roams, really holding them back in losing out on critical information constantly.
Those parting words about the highs and lows really sang to me. This podcast is very high quality in terms of being able to break down the minute to minute mental effects of league and I am so glad I found this. Thank you, Curtis. Thank you, Nate.
bro this is inception level algorithm to me, i had forgotten about coach curtis until a video popped on my feed and made me think of a guy who had a similar quality of videos for jungler, i couldn't remember his name though. i remember watching his nunu and olaf guides, so glad i found him (nathan)! and it's awesome they're doing collab efforts lol
to the player who's the subject of the vid, don't take the comments made to heart, it was quite brave to upload ur gameplay w/ those claims and imo i see at as ur own unique cry for help. however! you must shed your old attitude. it was disrespectful to generalize the game when people playing in masters are nit-picking their own miniscule mistakes, what the coaches said about "know-it-all" mentality is very true - u will not grow if u do not give urself room to do so. you have more than alot of learning to do and, not to be rude but, i am shocked u managed g4 playing locked camera and getting 40 cs at 15 mins. if ur response to this is anything besides accepting that this is a massive red flag in gameplay means u will not progress no matter how many thousands of games u grind. challenger players consistently hit dia/masters with insane w/r because they have all of the fundamentals down perfect and are able to abuse that gap in skill and knowledge to turn around 99% scenarios in their games. u quite literally do not understand the rules of lol, which is completely fine and u should not be belittled over it; however, it is ur ego that is causing u to not improve. a few things that i feel r generating this hyper inflated ego (which u surpassing is vital to ur ability to get better at the game) are: 1) u seem to have won a lane phase or two against some high elo players, i guarantee with 100% certainty u would not be able to consistently win lane in challenger based on ur pov. 2) u have been very close to dia and fallen down to s4 which is a massive hit and i can only imagine how tilted u must have been. this tilt over loss of lp is what is causing u to play w emotions and not brain. 3) u have thousands of games played and cannot progress - this means u have built up many, many really crucial negative habits and, equally as important, many negative emotional responses (hence ur passive-aggressive typing). 4) u've played alot and seem "bored" causing u to play sloppy and have a poor mental. if u want to win u need to play every game like its promos for chall. my advice: 1) turn on experience number displays in settings so u can learn exp distance and remind urself when ur not in exp range. 2) when the game starts /deafen. when negative plays happen do not comment or ping on it. focus on ur own gameplay i guarantee u make a hundred mistakes/game 3) when disappointing losses like this one occur u MUST go and watch replay and figure out the critical mistakes u made that caused u to be unable to 1v9. 4) play just one or two champs. getting high elo is alot harder than u think. u may feel as though u have mastery over many champs but in reality u do not, this is just the reality of a game with as much variability as lol. ur biggest problem by far is ur mindset. feel thankful. i have seen ppl in with the right mindset and willingness to improve, unfortunately physiology holds them back. even though coaches lowkey roast u, u should feel blessed that the have shown u a very, very clear path to improvement. plat/dia is not out of ur reach if u just /deafen and focus on self.
I love coming back to this one. I’m trying to pass my Masters peak last season, and I play norms to warm up. A lot of guys flame me after a norms game saying stuff like: “Diamond??? That’s trash bro!” While being plat IV “You abuse --, you aren’t good!” “Getting your rank is just luck” People are hilarious. Dunning Krueger in full effect
No communication with pings combined with locked cammera. Even on league of graphs statistics u can see he never pings. Even if his teammates were mindreades it would not help because he himself probably does not know what his intentions are. Could explain all the coin-flip plays.
First video I've seen from you guys and enjoyed it. Very clear constructive criticism for lower elo players without being demeaning. I'm a D2 JG main so while I didn't learn much from this I found it entertaining and will check out your content.
Love this, please more of those. This is really interesting to see for me as a gold player but I wonder because I'm not doing the mistakes he does but I'm in the same elo. This probably means I make different mistakes I can't really put my finger on but I also don't spam games as he does.
It does mean you make different mistakes. I'm gold 3 and my issue is that I'm hesitant on macro in the mid game. And I play too many champions. I'm now trying to main 2 champs (gwen and ksante) exclusively for now and trying to take notes on replays of what I should've done
@bullettime1116 Just got a notification of you replying to him. It's funny because reading my own comment after a few months I now see how much I really improved. Back then I still was gold but shortly before Emerald got introduced I hit plat for the first time. I then ranked into emerald and I now hover between Emerald 3-1. This video was probably the start of the change in my mindset and how I view the game, it took me a long time to get to this point but constantly telling myself that I deserve to be in the elo I am and that I'm not someone special who riot picked out to keep stuck really helped. I now am able to see my own mistakes and recognize them earlier, I stopped getting mad over my team and started observing the game from a broader sense. The game has been so much more fun thanks to Curtis and Nathan.
Getting gold purely from kills is also really terrible for team economy. In the sense that shut down bounties go insanely high from kills. You could be up only 100g on your opponent, and have a 600g bounty, if your gold is all from kills and his is from farm and plates. And then you die with the bounty and now you are behind 500g in gold, dead on a long timer, and your opponent still has no shut down bounty. And you could be 9/2/3 stats, thinking you are so fed and ahead. And then go sprint it down at them without realizing they are now in the lead, and die again.
I love how Asol said Akshan was 3 levels behind because of permaroaming. His problems are so obvious people who aren't even on his team can see it easily.
I would say those individual losses where he only plays the champ once and loses, those 20-30 games with no wins or low w/l ratio would have a massive effect on his climbing. That is the equivalent of a whole division, so low gold could have been low platt if he stuck to the champs he excelled at. I had the same thing as him, as i like to enjoy trying all champs (except draven and qiyana feel so clunky to me) but when i climbed very quickly i was spamming ww nocturne amumu and trundle jungle with very high winrates and climbed very quicly and found the higher elo games easier due to better teamwork, which is another thing i have in common with this guy, as we both are very teamwork orientated, so relying on bad or tunnel vision team mates would naturally be a disadvantage for us. Looking forward to the analysis.
I really like this commentary. You two clearly know what you're talking about, and are able to analyze the game at a macro level, which is pretty impressive. The only slight criticism I have is that you keep saying the guy "got lucky". Don't get me wrong, he definitely got lucky a bunch, however, I don't feel like "the stars perfectly aligned" the whole game for him. When he got some kills in bottom lane, he went there when the opponents were overextending to his team's tower, that's not really luck. It was also mentioned that "he's taking all the kills", and I'm sure he took a few, but in a lot of the clips it looked like the adc died, and then he finished the fight by killing people solo or with the support. In one of the fights after caitlyn died, he finished the fight killing 2 people, and because of his passive, caitlyn got rezzed. There's a big difference between stealing/taking a kill from someone else (and depriving them of gold), and getting kills by finishing the fight. Just my 2 cents.
- fight with 1 level diff - no wave/camera control - Use E not to Escape/ finish but to poke - Miss at least 1/2 little items for lack of minions - Is aggressive with no sums - No sinc ping with his jun to really fight him Bro this is a bronze player that brute forced his way on gold with huge amount of games, nothing else to say
Playing on locked screen (immediate red flag) and playing a ton of yuumi in gold, there are your main issues to nip in the butt. Playing way too many champions and acting like you mastered them in 3 games, THAT is disingenuous.
"league isnt a complex game and playing the champs isnt hard" > proceeds to fail the most basic tasks in lane and fails a dive level2 due to lack of champion mastery > "how was i not in range"
Another point is that he doesnt even play usual Akshan secondary runes which are Shield Bash to Boneplating, in this case rather Second Wind which would also help him to play super aggresively as he apparently wants to. I honestly believe he would be able to kill Asol in 27:22 with correct set of runes, especially because he wouldnt be as chunked as he was if he had Second Wind with Shield Bash in those bad trades before the incident happend. Saying from a perspective of a 400LP master player on EUNE, who mained Akshan for a whole season.
@@TYFLOL I didnt see if he had 2 adaptive force or attack speed I just reacted on main runes, but on Akshan you usually want to take Presence of Mind because of lack of mana with multiple uses of E in teamfights and also Triumph was quite drastically nerfed so I dont agree with that one. Also he shouldnt need biscuits in this match up, especially because it doesnt give you any value after the early game ends. Shield Bash and Second Wind have use in whole lenght of a game.
He has been playing since season 5. Thats 4k games/year. Almost 11 games a day. That is absolutely insane. This guy doesn't need coaching, he needs therapy...
Its so weird, bcs when your read this guys comments about the game, I had a weird deja vú feeling. THey all kinda sound the same (game isnt complex, people are just abusing broken champs/duo, etc.)
Holy shit 40000 games is an unthinkable amount of time. League has been out, what, 14 years? Released in October of '09. If we call it 40 mins per game (avg 30 min game plus queue time, champ select, and load screen), that's 26,667 hours. In that many years, there are only 131400 hours. That's like 1/6 of all the time since release. Are we sure this wasn't a typo or something? 4K instead of 40K? Cuz goddamn how do you not figure out you're ass after that much time
Sol was basically gettting a free lane with almost no contest and he was allowed to just farm and scale. And this Akshan thinking he's carrying, that's funny
Often times players, high or low elo, know the "textbook" play. But when they are mentally disrupted, from teammates pings, enemy emotes, being ganked, being solod, etc., they start to play with ego instead. Taking coinflip trades and sometimes even obviously bad ones. The most obvious one is when one of your teammates die from a really stupid decision. The cost fallacy induces many players to take risks they otherwise would not take. Cut your losses and leave. This is what pro teams are so good at doing, even though small advantages matter so much more at the professional level. Its shocking to see how dreadfully unaware some people can be of their own decision making skills and the various factors that affect them.
This guy is actually beyond delusional . There is no way , you have 40k games in Gold 4 and you blame external/other factors for your rank instead of yourself . Literally no point in arguing with that guy , if anyone did , because whan can you really tell him when he doesn't seem to understand that 2+2=4 .
Remember, kids, statistics in any competitive game are only a part of the story. Anyone got a current primer on all league heroes. Something with timestamps would be amazing. Things like how each hero uses their abilities, maybe the most common tricks, and explanation of strengths and weaknesses. I know there are a lot of heroes but if someone made a long form video just covering it all for new players to at least see the hero once it would help lower the barrier of entry.
I hate everyone who plays like this. I’m just as bad but in a complete opposite way where I’m obsessing over every wave and often times giving up on plays where I might have been able to get a kill if I chased like a monkey for a couple more seconds. I hate team death match and it feels like some of the “rules” of league only apply when everyone else agrees to follow them. Managing waves correctly feels like a fools errand when the game has 20 kills at 10 minutes and the relative gold advantage you’ve created with careful wave manipulation is completely dwarfed by the gold gained by “I see fight I run to it and mash buttons”. 30 CS up means a lot more in a 5-8 score game than a 13-22 game. Caring about the wave state feels like being stuck inside studying for an exam while your friends are out getting drunk, only for the professor to postpone the exam anyways.
losing cs from waves doesn't matter but the xp is very important. always try and manipulate the wave to be crashed or have it crashed to you when you think a play is going to happen.
I was getting close to have this type of relationship with the game a time ago. I was sorta aware i was doing something wrong but focused more on tue others than myself. Had the luck to find Nathan's academy and realized all the bad things I had. Nowdays I can finally say im a healthy spot with the game. League is just not for me, still I wanted to perform at certain level with the character i lile the most and I did it this season. Even if I no longer play it, I love all the discussion about it.
I don't really mind people like that because if you reframe it, they're basically just farming reports against themselves. I might comment in game about how typing isn't helpful every once in a while, but for players like that, I usually just mute report and move on.
something i've noticed about low elo games is the second anything goes wrong at all (or even if it didnt go wrong they just think it did) they immediately take to chat and type out a whole novel
He wins that level 5v6 fight if he just ya know... cancels his e and just autos him. He had bypassed all of A-sols abilities and just had to dodge ult at that point. Wild this guy can misplay so hard and then say that its the devs poor balancing. Know your limits... lol wait you dont bro you play every champ in the game.
i dont know how you can call this player mechanically good to me his mechanics seem horrendous both of those tower dives the one on mid and the 2v1 on bot could of been successful if he pressed his e closer to the tower also his spacing and movement is really awkward and he reacts kind of slow and i know hes gold but this is below average gold mechanics and on a champion like akshan mechanics are really important so i think its kinda of bad to delude him into thinking his mechanics are good
I think when people talk about mechanics there is often a confusion between 2 different skill sets. The first, which is what I believe is being referenced which is that he has fast/coordinated hands, when it comes to clicking where he wants to click, he has a degree of proficiency in that department. The other part of mechanics is understanding the specific mechanics, so its more knowledge based. I don't have the fastest hands, but I have played a good deal of Diana mid and know how she works and what a lot of her matchup are like. Example: when I go up again an ahri, I know she is gonna try to charm me when I dash in, so I pre-emptivly side step after my dash. It looks like I'm responding with crazy timing, which is technically mechanics, but its just knowing the matchup and knowing what to expect.
@@waymondboyd6195I'm pretty sure it's relative to your rank, I might be wrong tho. Also if that's the case it's likely a different issue that keeps us in the same rank as this bum
I still not understand how he is gold 4, he plays like a fkin bronze 1 max in what i saw. Idk who carried him to gold. He does literaly everything wrong and knows nothing about the game lol
He's mostly a bot/support player. Mid is not his primary role so its possible that he would be lower if he had less support/bot games stabilizing his rank.
the guys did a great episode a while back (episode 68) where they talk about this (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KXRD5SACUUk.html) tl;dw he's probably good in some areas (mechanics and skirmishing), and horrible in other areas (roaming, fundamentals, tilting/mental booming), so his average rank is gold 4. yes he is definitely bronze/iron level in some aspects of his gameplay (like when he ditched that mid wave to roam to bot lane when his Caitlyn had no mana and the enemy bot wasn't even there)
He is mechanically better than a bronze lol and those roams are terrible but its also coinflip and it will work sometimes. I think you are overestimating bronze players
Yea it's kinda crazy to me. Because porofessor tells me I am in the top 9% of cser with tristana and I often get 9-9.7cs per game. Somehow i am the same rank as this dude. yunggodscarecrow is my acct name in na. I think I must be making some mistakes somewhere else
Look into Bwipo, he does very very high quality educational content, and also offers some rather expensive, but worthwhile one-time coaching sessions that last a few hours
in the 40000th game, there is only war. John gold is stuck in perpetual elo hell. With Lp threats from every corner of the rift. He has to go to crusade for the LP emperor of manking: Phreak ☠☠☠
