@@HakuuOfficial I believe Curtis is referring to when you start learning a champ (0) and when you know the champ well enough to consistently climb and play well without having to think about abilities, matchups etc (75)
We are so lucky to have someone like you taking the time to make all of these educational videos. Your content shines the brightest among a sea of clickbait "TOP TEN CHAMPIONS TO PLAY RIGHT NOW", "YOUR TICKET TO DIAMOND", "TRY THIS BROKEN BUILD TO CLIMB" and the same usual BS titles. You watch those videos once and you're done with it. However, with your content, we can watch the same video again and again and you'll always learn something new that will ACTUALLY help you get better and inevitably help you climb. Thank you for all that you do!
Hey Coach, Im from Germany and started to play League of Legends in May. In the beginning I played very very bad but then I found your Chanel and now I get better very fast. Thank you for this
@@shadowtale123 But the one who has practiced a 10000 times knows exactly how you intend to avoid it, and also how to use it in situations you don't expect - like on the ground That is the point of that quote. He may known only one thing, but he always knows how to apply it and how people think to counter it While the one with 10000 moves lacks the deeper knowledge of any of them may actually use them wrong half the time
@@MinorZero that makes no fucking sense first of all at the highest level lets say some guy practiced 10000 kicks the other guy has problay mastered it simillariyl with 5000 kicks and 5000 punches and 5000 wresting moves like at the highest level lets say pro play in league, the one trick riven main and the pro riven player are simillar in skill with the one trick riven only being slightly above which doesnt mean anything cause u can just ban his riven and the other guy is still good at everything else at a pro level
Do it!! I did this last month and I have already climbed so much and she’s so fun to use! If you get an early lead from your lv3 all in you literally shit on everyone
I was a pro fighting game player before and your "learning other fighting games"analogy really resonates with me for learning a new champion This video has helped alot 🙂
Pumped for this video. One of the thing I enjoy most about League is picking up and learning the intricacies of a new champion. I love the learning, building knowledge, watching vods, reflecting, refining strategies, and breaking narratives of how a champion should be played. So cool.
Great video Coach! Only thing I would add that has personally helped me *tremendously* with learning new champs, is after spending some time in the practice tool, to just spam intermediate bot games for an hour or two. They only last 15-20 minutes (which you always say is very important) and the queue time is literally 1 second most of the time. You can limit test balls to the wall, and dying on a level 2 all-in doesn't doom the rest of the game, you can still get fed and just see how it feels in general to carry etc. Now after watching this video, I believe why doing ~2 hours of bot games gave me some practice cs'ing, combos and all that good stuff. But probably more importantly let me experiment and get things down well enough so that I wasn't spending my first 5 to 10 games on a new champ more or less just running it down because if I was behind I didn't want to just play it safe under tower in a normal match, I wanted to test out the champ. If things went too poorly too many games in a row, I'd start thinking things like "Oh, well I guess I'm just not good enough to play Sylas" .. So I reckon the reason it helps me so much when learning a new champ, is I get the agressive all-ins and crazy flash+ult plays out of my system, I know I can double/triple kill and do successful tower dives on bot enemies, so I don't try to force near as much for sake of "learning", which means I feed less when I do go into normal matches, and then I prevent getting a lot of those negative emotions and mental blocks you talk about. Anyways thats my 2 cents and a little anecdote on how some of the stuff from this video applied to something I had tried out on my own and found that it helped a lot. I first did bot games to practice a full jungle clear into ganking top, which will be a 1v2 lane in a bot game if are jungling. It helped so much that I did it for laning champs now as well and its so simple and effective and less "boring" than just the practice tool. Good luck climbing anyone who read all of this :)
I recently switched from jungling an an Udyr OTP to playing Cassiopeia and LeBlanc mid because I have too many mental blocks around jungling. Something that has really helped me learning is creating an excel sheet for matchups. In this matchup spreadsheet I keep track of Trading Patterns, Wave Location, Jungle Impact, Runes / Itemization (Could add sides and back timings). I have found skriming the matchups on repeat against my higher elo friends has proven really helpful. I've actually found that high elo vods aren't normally that useful since they focus on hard carry performances that usually require early solo kills that aren't repeatable (IE lvl 1 invades). Also I disagree with the stance that you should play easier champions first to learn the fundamentals. The basic fundamentals of CSing and specifically trading are champion specific and micro based. It therefore makes sense to play what you enjoy (or intend to play in higher elos) so you can get the basics down and then learn the more general macro concepts which you'll need in higher MMRs such as roaming. But that's ultimatley my personal opinion and I may be slightly biased given I refuse to play Annie :) . All in all very good video. Keep up the good work!
You are such a fanTASTIC teacher. Your natural use of repetition and doing this all in like what, 1 or 2 takes? I haven't seen a single cut yet. This is just so good dude. Bravo honestly
The fighting game examples were so big for me in this video. As someone who came to league from a fighting game background, I can relate to everything you mentioned about mental stacks, priotization, and small victories because of the amount of fighting games I have learned and the videos I watched over the years. I see that you're a Sajam fan or at least have watched his videos because the way you talked about these concepts are the exact ways he has discussed them. Especially the "deep thinker" mentality which iirc was talking about Leffen learning Tekken 7. Great video coach. I'm a jg/supp main but the quality of info in your videos is just too good to pass up. Wish I could join the discord but I don't really play mid so oh well lol
Not only did I pick up a few League Of Legend trip. But I learn a lot on how to learn many other things besides games. These points can easily be applied to so many new skills one it trying to learn. Thank you so much for sharing
Man that first half of the video, it sounds like you're giving advice on picking up new skills in general. I wish you'd given yourself the credit while addressing it, you deserved it.
I freaking love, how all of this, also works for other types of skills other than games, If you are learning to play an instrument or learning to draw, it works sooo similar to this you just explained in 30 mins.
Very late reply, but as a fighting game player who only just got into league recently, what you’ve said mostly checks out. Overall it’s super cool to see you taking lessons from the comparatively small fighting game scene. Mental stack is a very good way of describing how held back someone is when they’re new with the champ and focusing on basic ability cooldowns etc. Regarding the part of playing the situation a bunch of times, idk if I would exactly call it mental stack but it is relevant information. People say top fighting game players have godlike reactions, well it’s less that and more that in the game they’re playing, they(and even any experienced good players to a lesser extent) can tell from the situation they are in(ranges, health bars, stage positioning etc) what moves are most likely to come out. Then the reaction is actually faster, being a huge deal for league in particular as many of the skillshots are balanced around being “reactable”. I think you touched on that fairly well with the Graves smokescreen example, if you’ve played against Graves in that position/range of the skirmish before, it’s much easier to avoid rather than only relying on your reactions in a vacuum. Lastly regarding the 4 players example, I’d say it’s pretty on point. Just that for the most part, smash bros scene and other fighting games scene are kinda limited in shared player base (I play many fighting games including smash bros as well but that’s exception to the rule, even at pro scene). At the top level, it’s mostly just the traditional 2D fighters like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Marvel vs Capcom, Dragon Ball Fighterz and Guilty Gear where players jump around each new title. The skillsets between smash bros and Tekken and 2D traditional fighters is just too different at the top level with only a few exceptions. But the fundamentals thing makes sense from what I heard :)
Really liked this video and your last one on gladiator mindset. I am a systematic learner and find league confusing to learn because there are so many factors in any given game You've helped show things to work on which don't change one game to the next What I got is this: 1. Before you can master the game you need to master your role 2. Before you can master your role you need to master your champion 3. Before you can master your champion you need to master your mindset Mindset -> Champion -> Role -> Game I never used to give much credit to mindset but you really showed how important it is with the last one. This one helped really show how things like teamfighting and mid/late game should not be the first priority which is huge for me as I focus on them too much Thanks
best thing to do while taking a food break from league is watch a video from Coach Curtis :) thanks for the awesome content once again! The mental boom happened to me too, I got tired of feeding with a champ I wasn't good at, went back to my main and kept losing, even got demoted and was wondering what the hell am I doing wrong??? The more desperate I got to win, the more I lost... Then I decided I will go back to my mains only with the intention to learn more about the game overall, and it's working great right now... He advised in a different video to stick with one champion in the beginning, to be able to learn the game, which will improve your overall play. Because if you keep switching champions, you won't get to the level where you can focus on anything else other than the mechanics of your champion and you will be always stuck at the same rank.
Watching this in 2024 as a jungle main. I've capped D1 with Graves ever since I first reached D2 watching BBC and Coach Curtis way back 2021. I was literally losing my mind today trying to learn Hecarim and Lillia. It's always nice to hear Coach's advice to stay grounded and stay in reality.
I am quite the fighting game guy and yea; a really common sentiment I see shared with alot of newer players is: My reaction times aren't good enough. Many people watching fighting games think that being able to react on a dime is integral to success, when that coudlnt be further from the truth. "Reacting" in fighting games, as well as league, is mostly about KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR and having the correct response trained so it happens without you thinking about it. If there's a malphite with ult on the enemy team; with not too much practice, an adc player can easily dodge his ult with flash AS LONG AS THEY'RE LOOKING FOR IT.
the note one and the reward yourself one.. now i know why i enjoyed playing yorick a long time ago, cause i loved seeing my scores at an all time high, like 10+ csm & stuff. and as the result i played more confidently and carried a lot of games cause i voiced my thoughts about the given situtation of the game. for the notes, seems pretty solid to me. ty for reminding &stuff
Some stuff to add (not sure if you are still reading this) When I started playing Sett last season I wanted to cheer myself up after bad games and so I created small snippet videos for myself on youtube (privately since they aren't super great, but still kinda good enough) to show myself that I don't always suck and it actually helped me feel more confident in the game. The bigger problem I have is: I go into lane with to much confidence, with to big balls, taking dumb trades, thinking I can outplay although I should know better. This usually doesn't happen during the first games, but during the next few games. No idea why. I also use the notes and a kind of ranked diary where I write my problems with the matchup and how I did in an excel spreadsheet so I can keep track of how good/bad I am doing. I tried using LoLalytics for this, but it feels kinda bad to use imo. Also there is an interesting phenomenon that I sometimes observe, where I play much better (on a champion) if I took a small break. Helps a lot against autopiloting, so I am really happy that you mentioned the kind of schedule that you should look after. Great video with good concepts. Thank you so much for it!
Fascinating topic! I have a great tip on a topic that relates to this video: how to find new champions for your champion pool. Essentially, my method of finding new champions to play (and be mindful, that this has very little on learning the champions for real) is to go play a few ARAM games and play champions you would not pick in normals. When in game, don't focus on winning, but rather using then champs abilities and reading tooltips and trying flash-ults and stuff like that. Basically think about it being a sandbox. Of course you still want to play the game and try to win, but it's not the most important thing at least for me when doing this. This way, I've found many champions (Kassadin, Diana, Zac, Galio, LeBlanc and so on...) to work on in normals. Plus it's a ton of fun especially with friends!
I one tricked Yasuo from bronze 5 to plat 3 and one thing that was a big help in terms of my attitude was the fact that most of the time I played to improve instead of playing to win which ironically is better for climbing, because of this loss streaks didn’t degrade my morale as much. Another huge help was that since I loved playing him I was never demotivated to learn him so burnout from playing him was very very rare (tho there were still times I was frustrated with how bad I played). I’m currently learning akali to two trick her with yasuo and I really appreciate u uploading this ik this will be a good help. Keep up the fire uploads
Yes yes and YES! I have been trying to figure out how to explain all of what you said to my friend group cause they keep doing all those wrong things and they just don't believe me when I say to not do all that because it's screwing them over. Thanks a ton for the vid and I'll be posting this in my server!
I think the small victories thing is a big thing working against me right now and something I should starting rewarding myself for. I moved away from mid lane to practice in the jungle on the off season because it’s a role I’ve always wanted to have known as no other position comes close to the fun of mid lane and jungle. So, I started weaving in alternate blocks for jungle practice in between playing with the new items. Since I am an assassin addict, I play Evelynn. I don’t win anywhere near a positive amount of games. I just have wins in my loss streaks. I recently got into the habit of sharing my vods with my friend. It was a few days ago that really drove your last point home when I was showing a lost game cause I wanted to share a few plays when he started complimenting a lot of thing I’m doing. I realized that the progress was so gradual that I was still seeing myself as a jungle newbie who knows nothing yet but power spikes carried over from mid lane. I’m reacting to the enemy jungler when they make a move. I’m staying healthy in my jungle, I’m coordinating for objectives, I’m relieving pressure off my laners, I set up ganks. I’m often doing these things without thinking and I never give myself the credit for what I’ve picked up. I was so laser focused on all the things I’m getting wrong, messing up, or don’t know that I didn’t see the list get smaller. Now my reviews are three-fold: What do I keep doing wrong? What have I done right? What did I learn? This has changed how I approach learning and has helped with dedication and confidence to where failing or losing feels less like either and more like learning. To where after the disappointment of a loss hits, my mind immediately goes, “Well then there must be stuff to note, let’s hit the vod”
When I want to learn anything about league, I come to Coach Curtis. This channel is the only one I truly trust and actually learn quality information from. So grateful, thank you so much, Curtis!
I remember when I was learning Riven; she was actually the first champion I decided to pick up right after starting the game, and I hovered at a ~30% winrate with her. It was disheartening, but I pushed through with it until I finally got to the point where I can consistently play her well. Needless to say, it took so many hours in the practice tool and so many losses and toxicity from my teammates, but it was quite fulfilling. Now only if I had this motivation for school.
I love how happy and excited you look when you deliver this content. Very cool to have a coach so passionate about the game. Thank you for all your hard work!
Huge respect to you bro. No one can do this without the necessary passion for the game. I learned so much from this from the usual "tutorials" here on yt. You deserve more subscribers!
I am a jungle main but I still watch every one of his vids because they have so much valuable information that can be translated to other roles. Plus the videos are so well made that they are just fun to watch.
Man, I'm so glad that i found out your channel. Your videos are VERY helpfull in improving. After TF guides and this video quality of my gameplay has dramaticaly increased. Keep up the amazing work. P. S sorry for my english I've been learning it for a year now :P
I am confusion, RU-vid! I searched for how to finish writing an essay on time, why did you recommend this video? Explain, RU-vid, explain! I don't even play LoL, but this vid made for nice background noise, so thanks :D
OMG I been THROUGH it lately with my ADC Main, Jhin... too many losses to even fathom that I was proficient last season. Finally broke the streak today and hopefully we are rounding the bend. Good video dude!
I think "mental stacks" are the are the mental counter part to muscle memory. The rundown is the exakt same: If you wanted to learn juggling you will have to start with how to throw a ball, then how to catch a ball. Once you dont have to think about it anymore, you can start to think about how to add another ball and so on. (This is a very simple example) But this idea seems to also work with thinking processes. For example I held a 3 weeks maths course and at the very beginning, people would make a lot of obvious calculation errors. Once they started to calculate on a regular basis, they stopped worrying about it and could keep goin with harder problems and eventually calculate things, that would need all the basics they were failing with the first days. I guess a thinking process is just another muscle huh
I am new and this is pretty much correct, aalthough its much harder on new players since yor forced to juggle like 5-10 balls at the same time and dont have a choice not to
Played MK1, Tekken and DBFZ, after 1 month of playing MK11 got top 5%. So about the "mental stack" you are indeed corect. You have to pick your battles and wich combo sequense needed to mby even live though a disantvantage, sometimes even cheese the enemy or repeat same combo (repeating combo might be a downfall bcus enemy can realize and counter it" . So in those close close combat where you both are 100 hp for example, you either have to give them a suprise attack wich they would not EXPECT or an op move or "ult" . Take practise ofc to remember 20 combos with different strings and outcomes. Sometimes the tiniest miss touch can make a play bad or unfortunate. Most of its practise or you are a quick learner. Or just mby good at videos games. So yeah some have bigger mental stack and good at knowing when to use good string combo or to predict enemy movement and punish them. Thank you for the videos. Really interesting and fun stuff :) !
Hey everyone I just played a game of shen and I got the best R I have ever done, I saved an azir from a neeko ult and an urgot and got the double, this video has really helped me a lot
I went from bronze to diamond over 4 years by playing Camille and finding many things out about, and I'm a mechanical player and have good understanding of matchups. And i think I'm on champ mastery 80 or something
Trying new champions is a rollercoaster, first couple of games you fuck around have fun, and then you get demolished get tilted and go back to your OTP. That's me trying new champs in a nutshell xD Although I stuck to irelia so I'm finally not an OTP the irelia vid you posted a while back helped a lot ^-^
OMG Curtis, such a helpfull video! I am hardstuck in iron/bronze, because of my lack of confidence. I have a lot of bad deaths, and often play one loosing game after the other, often chaining 5 losses one after the other. I think I will try some of your Tips right away
These videos have turned my 35% wr into 65% wr. I started to play few months ago and now preseason im more focusing on improving my gameplay rather than climbing.
21:20 I once read a champion of Super Smash bros wrote in a short book used the term: "Presence of mind" to describe how the pros by somehow think of future combo and counter and "fumi" for "by somehow predict the opponent move and counter it right away".
In regards to fighting game players: generally speaking pro players play one game professionally, and play most of the other ones somewhat recreationally/casually. For example, Daigo Umehara is a professional Street Fighter player, and he basically only plays Street Fighter (though he was known for playing other fighting games like Darkstalkers and Guilty Gear X early in his career). There is some overlap, however, such as Poongko who plays mostly Street Fighter but also placed highly at a Tekken tournament, and SonicFox, who is seen as an exception in the general trend of pro players, due to the fact that he has mastered many different fighting games quickly. I definitely appreciate the references to the FGC, by the way, as someone who plays both League and fighting games, and was familiar with the "mental stack" concept, it really helped me get a better understanding of what you were trying to say in this video. I didn't know that there were other members of the audience who were familiar with competitive fighting games and FGC theory, but it's really cool that there is some overlap between the FGC and LoL. And of course, as always, thanks for the insights :)
11:12 This is often overlooked, and not only in Games. It is so important to understand WHY you are doing something. Why does Rengar benefit from Conqueror, and what makes Conqueror on him better in x situation than electrocute? Or perhaps, why are you using the past tense in the sentence you just used? Understanding why we do something is such a crucial part in the general learning process.
This has been me with Kayle lol. Won 20 games in a row at the start then after first round of nerfs ive been losing a ton and almost made we want to give up. But I've been learning her power spikes and matchups and doing much better now. Praying her second round of nerfs doesn't kill her
This is why I stay away from champions at release or when they're S+. That heightened power kinda corrupts your realistic expectations. And if you could choose, you should be getting used to dealing with being UP rather than OP, the former develops you as a player more. Would you agree?
@@thefierce definitely agree. After the nerf its like learning the champ all over again, but if you know the nerf is coming you can manage expectations. I still think these new items will keep Kayle an A tier mid choice. The second nerfs shouldn't be as bad. The first round nerfed three of her items and her passive.
Hey just found your videos today and have learned so much already. I have a lot of fighting game background in Tekken and used to participate in tournaments for many years. I used to do decently well in tournaments; the Tekken scene is mega behind League but I was probably around an "Academy player" in skill when I used to compete. The idea of the mental stack is something I'm highly familiar with but didn't really define or create a term for before. When I think about it, you're not really reading too much into it because that's exactly how it is (for fighting games at least lol). When I play Tekken there's so much going on but I'm able to hone in and focus on doing "what I need to do" which is only a few things (from my perspective). For someone who is new to Tekken there is so much minutiae but since I am a seasoned vet the minutiae "isn't in my stack" and I'm prioritizing win cons instead. Right now I'm trying to leverage my fighting game experience into League but it's been slow because it feels like I lack game knowledge and also correct instinctual decisions i.e. champ mastery
Great video! Also, your last podcast was straight up inspirational! When Jonathan said “Focus on what you CAN do vs what you can NO LONGER do” that really hit me. I can tend to struggle with this in both my League journey and my life, and that quote really was fantastic. Great stuff.
The pyramid of what things to focus on and learn really resonated with me, it was really easy to understand and there was a bit of a lightbulb moment of why I struggle to learn new champs. Great video as always Curtis!!
I appreciate the effort that goes into these videos, as well as your unique ways of thinking about things. I've heard a lot of "watch your games back" from people, I never even thought about taking notes or doing spreadsheets, I think I'm gonna try this out starting tomorrow 😎.
I feel this train example. I was someone who only played control mages & was basically an Anivia otp for 2 seasons straight. It is so damn tilting to learn other playstyles + champs but extremely rewarding once u mastered them. In the start I lost legit 19 out of 20 games. -> next 20 games : I kinda learned how to lane but couldnt play them in teamfights (like 12 losses out of 20 games). -> In my next 20 games, I felt like I finally got it and for some reason stomped nearly every game on Sylas & won like 15 out of 20 games. On the next day I played with so much overconfidence and went on a huge loss streak. I remember loosing 23 games in a row over 3 days. Now I got questions in my head about nearly everything possible but I couldnt figure out whats the problem... it was rlly painful. But trust me guys - its the best feeling in the world when you finally mastered this shit xD :D
The most valuable videos are the timeless ones. I love curtis's videos because I can go back months later and refresh on trading concepts, or trading fundamentals.. ect. My favorite channel 💙 I'm also a top main. Cheers 🍻
I have been getting into league a lot lately my mains are chogath and urgot both are what I considered slow champs they can't gank consistently till level 6 but I know one thing they are great for learning top lane because you are forced to learn last hitting wave control wards and how to not be ganked by the jungle that likes to camp you consistently And this video has given me a better idea on how to improve with them before I try out champs like fiora and shen
thank the heavens ive been needing this video, im determined to learn new champs but havent found the way to do so. I just sat through it while finding my jungler but i adore a lot of the midlaners so im making it my goal this season to figure out how to lane again
The video is really helpful, I've been in that losing streak sometimes and it feels awful. I just want to add something that helped me a lot when learning champs, I call it "learning by proxy". It is simply watching streams of people that are good at the champ I want to learn, not playing the champ. I feel like by simply watching a lot of games my champion mastery increases to 30 (using Curtis' terms) which increases the value of the practice games since game 1 and avoid frustration since you're never new to the champion.
And now i realize why i gradually developed an ego and became an overall worse person that before. Life and league have made any feeling of success depressing. It feels scary to continue playing my main after a few win streaks cause I feel like my train will start going downhill. I could only stop getting overly depressed by blaming my teammates and thinking it does not matter if i played well, even now i think it des not. I thought of leaving. But after witnessing the truth of the fact that I spent a lot of time spent resources and how much I love this game I can just look back. Coming back again to it. When I queue up these days I get a feeling that maybe my team might hate me. Maybe i will lose and get depressed again. Now it does not matter. Looking at it again I am very happy you made this video. Mostly because it explains most things that was wrong in my mental.
Easily the best lol content out there. Althought the videos are long and detailed, Curtis always covers the in depth concepts I feel other content creators tend to ignore. Almost as if they make their videos a little over 10 minutes just to collect ad revenue. Hands down my favourite lol educational account!!!
Love the good deaths vs bad deaths concept. Wonder if it might be worth expanding upon in a future video. How to approach situations in game with intent.
I thought i’d chime in since it seems really relevant. When talking about «mental stacks» and how good players prioritize, i couldn’t help but think about chess. Many think that great players have extremely great memory, when in fact they have experience. The experience allows them to chunk huge amounts of info into little stacks. Pro chess players don’t remember random chess boards without rules better than an average person, yet they remember infinitely better if the chess board is set up with the rules of chess. This is because of chunking. For example, they have names for different openings, which essentially chunks many moves into one state with a name. Imagine a beginner playing qiyana looking for a solo kill lvl 3. He sees 50% hp, he doesn’t rlly know whether he can kill but he thinks so. In reality he would have to check so many numbers to be sure, so he goes with the info he has and believes it to be a kill, focusing his energy on the difficulty of simply executing the mechanics to land the kill. A onetrick on the other hand has seen this hp on that champ so many times, he KNOWS e-flash-q-w-q with ignite is an instant kill, and he can flawlessly execute it. This entire play is therefore chunked into just «I have a kill window», this opens up his mind to think about wavestate, jungler position and all the other things that us lowly scrubs aren’t able to process. Experience brings with it great intuition. So either practice one mechanical champ and spend the time to chunk all the mechanics, or play easier champs that allow their entire kit to be chunked in just a few games if you want to improve at other parts of the game. Keep in mind, chunking works for macro and all other parts of the game as well. However, you need to go through the process Curtis outlines to gain the intuition.
this video is really good, it helped me understand some concepts that were not obvious to me at first, also the mental stacks theory is fantastic! i really liked it and i believe it is true
Honestly this has helped me a lot to know what to think about when I want to improve in a champ or, in general, at the game . Thanks you for your time Curtis :D
Goodjob man when i started watching your videos you had less than 10k subs now youre getting to a 100k keep it up man youre helping alot of us to grow and you deserve it goodluck
Yo, my man you are amazing. You just recapped my whole league experience in this last like 2 months. I am usually a support main and I wanted to have a strong second role in midlane so I started playing Lux since I just really like her kit and in the beginning it felt good. Then the loosing streak came and then on top of that the new season. S11 just screwed me over and I don't know when I won midlane the last time, I am perma stuck in that loosing streak and I gave up just like you said many would and just started playing support again (morgana is so broken). But now Coach you motivated me to get up on my feet and try again and I just want to thank you for your fantastic both educational and inspirational videos. Thanks from all of us and keep up the good work Coach.
As someone who played a lot of Fighting Games I must say the analogy was quite interesting. When picking up a new character or game you can't rely on having a perfect answer or combo any time because you litteraly don't have any idea what's going on. Instead, focusing on spacing, punishing enemy's mistakes and having a gameplan ahead of time can be something that you learned from another game or another character but can be translated in a new situation. Like in league, you don't know any combo or specific match-up interaction but what you've learned from your main champ or past game need to be the starting point that anchor what you're tryin to learn at the moment. I don't know if this make any sense, I'm bad as expresing myself in my everyday language so it must be much worse in english. That said, pretty good video, very interesting from the beginning to the end, cheers mate.
