(keypoints + examples for friends) 5:00 - not letting assassin mid not roam + explaining enemy solution 5:50 - map awareness 11:27 - punish/prevent roams 14:04 - more map stuff 18:20 - watch map for tp 19:52 - downtime, how to make efficient plays with waves 20:40 - forcing enemy to make difficult decisions (pulling and pushing pressure) 25:03 - first death 25:34 - play around numbers disadvantage (don't start fights or overextend)
Your wave control video against Irelia is the gift that keeps on giving. I have been smashing game after game against melee mid champions. I never have to worry about a Yone, Irelia, Sylas, or Yasuo again
ive been thinking about lb builds a lot recently. I think the new items made mage itemization very interesting. What are your thoughts on lich bane on LB second item, or shadowflame? my problem with shadow flame is it can make your third and fourth item purchases feel a little awk imo.
Great video Shok. Can we have a video where you explain the concept of counters in lane? Like when and why to pick certain champs into certain matchups, and if it so happens that your counter picked how should I play my lane? I don't want to be op.gg-ing counter picks every time in champ select lol.
@@ShokLeague Just as a suggestion; maybe you can go through the commonly played mid lane champs in this meta and discuss their counters? Possibly covering why and how they counter them and how the lane dynamic might change depending on the junglers and support situation. thanks for the reply!
One question about drafting: In many Drafts vs high threat jgl/support its probably by far the best to play a mobile Champ like Ahri or Leblanc but I'm almost exclusively playing Cassio so do you think that taking Phase Rush can compensate for her lack of mobility? Especially since the mid lane got wider I feel like its really strong because I can just proc Phase Rush and Q one enemy and run away. For example if they come from bot side I just walk towards Top and try to W and Q them, if they come close enough to me I will E once to get Phaserush and the ms from Phaserush and Q will often be enough to just outrun them
Yeah I think if you're vs stuff that's easily kitable like Xin or Olaf Briar etc then phase rush can be good, but a lot of mid jgs (like lets say syndra + lee) I don't think the phase rush is going to help much
Hey shok ,i really need your help I have been watching all of your previous videos and I have learned a lot. Currently I am on 10 lose streak on my 2 accounts, both of them in plat ,No matter how I played the lane it's always a Loose game I can't understand what is going on it's always my team I know this is not a good sentence for you but I really can't figure out what is going on why I am always losing even if I play the lane more than perfect. I always lose can you please tell me anything
Hello Shok! As a main Master Qiyana player i think that the champ is great and she doesn't need particularly to snowball to win. The think is she needs to play the laning phase safe with tp and she should only look for jg skirmishes where she is very strong. To be as strong as possible she needs profane hydra with dirk and ulty. In my opinion Qiyana can get blind picked but she needs a good jg that synchronizes with her. Wanna hear your thoughts on my opinion. Have a nice day! :)
I think there are ways to make it work like you said, if you take specific fights and have the right jg pick around you etc like it's definitely viable. I think it's a lot easier though to just pick a stronger AD mid (like jayce) that has more winning matchups, can pressure earlier, viable with more JGs etc. tldr yea I think she's not bad but I think compared to other AD mids she just isn't as strong
@@ShokLeague Just thought because of the r cooldown. Example karma has insane r cdr with it so I thought it could work the same with lb to just perma poke.
hey shok, i like to play immobile mages like taliyah, syndra, hwei, etc. i find myself often dieing around first/second dragon and grub fights. Do you have any tips on positioning? is it worth dieing for these objectives? thanks!
Normally not worth dying, if you don't have flash around these fights you need to play a lot safer. If you do have flash then you should be able to survive most things that happen unless you really disrespect an engage like blitz hook or something
when u did your first back @3:00 wouldnt it be good if you sold the 2 red potions and buy refil since you did not use them? dk if its worth , whats ur opinion?
You usually want to buy refillable if you're going to need a lot of sustain. In this case, it is unlikely he will need his 2 potions very often, I believe he clicks on it more by muscle memory (if you look at many of his videos, he often takes D-Seal + Pink ward + refillable on those early backs). In general, selling 2 red pot to buy a refil wastes a lot of your money (you lose almost a 3rd potion of gold just by selling the 2 you had)
