What I Learned Climbing to Diamond in 30 Days - League of Legends 

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Man, can we stop preaching this whole "you only need to master this ONE thing" stuff that every video seems to be about? Improving at this game is not easy and it's getting tiring seeing so much content pretending it is. Every example in this video showcases that there is so much more at play that just "play off your wave". Ryze gets chunked and a pot forced by Yi crossing mid, then when you Q him he doesn't just root you and auto to proc phase rush and run away; then he dies with flash up. The only reason he's stepping up is cause he wants to try gain the minion lead again to stop you from doing what this video is teaching, which he'd have been able to do perfectly well if Yi hadn't turned up to chunk him. Annie didn't take E at level 2 and also didn't W you as soon as you landed from your E, there's really no reason she should ever let you proc electrocute if she's taking W. Trade is way more one-sided than it has any right to be. Meanwhile you're dodging all of her stuff with good E usage and movement and timing it out so she has no stun as you hit 3. You actually mess up the level timing by walking back for the CS but since you mechanically outplayed her and she decided to just walk into your Q range you can just chunk her. You don't even have a minion advantage here, the E dodge on her Q and bait on her W is what won this lane - nothing to do with wave management. ASol's 80% winrate means absolutely nothing since he's played exactly 9 games of that champion. Not gonna overstate it but this is a pretty dang good match up for Fizz too. ASol honestly sprints this entire lane; lets you Q him for absolutely 0 reason, gets flash burned by Nunu after (I assume) warding for exactly that, doesn't recall immediately after to TP back. There isn't really any wave management tricks going on here, he literally just does every single thing wrong and gets ganked on top of it. The "I still won my lane off the exact same strategy and concepts" vs Irelia feels extremely tone deaf. The dodge on the E while still getting the last hit is ridiculously good movement/spacing that stopped you from getting hard traded on. She randomly leaves and misses 2 minions worth of XP (????), if she hadn't she would have hit 4 when she tried to Q the melee minion (and failed???), and likely would have been able to force you to back off if she uses W well. Then on the cannon wave she just randomly Ws for 2 backline creeps? Then she just rage all-ins you and should die if you attack move into her more. Then saying "see? I'm making mistakes too" when her mistakes are so egregiously worse and more frequent than yours is, just, ???????? Absolutely none of these lanes were won because of some crazy wave manipulation strategy; you won because you played trades either correctly or close enough to it vs players that did not know how to do that at all. "Its as simple as playing safe during the rebound", but you literally just said if a ranged champion plays safe you can just roam with prio? Surely this is a lose/lose situation for the ranged player since no matter what you either get chunked and maybe die or give full lane control to an assassin? Why would anyone play ranged champions if this is the inevitable outcome? Final point, there is so much of this video that is Fizz specific. If you tried doing those level 2/3 trades you did on Annie with any other assassin you would be hard losing those trades. Fizz amplifies the "take bad trades, as long as they get below lethal" style since he is WAY less likely to get return killed if he's below their lethal; Playful/Trickster absolutely warps the way he's able to play certain lanes. This game is difficult and pretending that these lanes were all won by some easy-to-remember "ONE wave management rule" is giving people the wrong ideas about the game and hurting their ability to improve at it.

"I played jungle, I know disgusting" *Starts playing fizz mid* LMAO

I’m ngl this was the most helpful video I’ve seen in a min, like it’s so simple I applied it and steam rolled my game

It's a good video, Really good video actually explaining wave control and how to win your lane. But just because you win lane doesn't equal a won game, There is so much macro knowledge that this guy has being challenger that isn't shown post laning phase which in lower elo really shows up to win/lose games, Depending on your knowledge of it. I'd love to hear what this guy does post laning phase and how to keep your lead and use it.

Always appreciate wave management/trading fundamental vids. Skillcapped never disappoints :)

"you will go against melees 80% of the time" me as a renekton mid one trick: Where? I go against melees 10% of the time.

And then Kata roams bot and gets a double kill (yes I am constantly shoving waves) despite me telling in champ select to respect kata roams.

Another strategy: *Ban Fizz*

As Annie spams Mastery emote she immediately rethinks her decisions

All this tells me is that you'll encounter smurfs in nearly all of your games.

Love when people simplify the game. I’ve been stuck in gold but my mmr sometimes shoots up to mid plat and these basic explanations help so much

Amazing vid, as always. But I am curious on specific guides on winning bot lanes when you're behind, different variations of match ups, etc.

This game has been rigged for years, the rank system is artificial, the matchmaking is purposely unfair to artificially stuck players (no matter what is their skill level), so they never reach their objective and keep playing. It's an Engagement optimized matchmaking (EOMM). The game is trash and still popular cuz of streamer and pro scene that are artificially boosted in a ladder that seems mystically unclimbable.

so as a range champion i have to stay at 500 units far to be safe from the 550 range assasin.. nice

So all I have to do is have a functioning brain, play assassins aggressively, and have good wave management. Oh well, 0 for 3 it looks like!

Think your maths is off with the pick rates. Melees have 80% pick rate but theres two midlaners in the game so theres more like 40% chance your enemy is playing a melee

from when nothing is troll pick nowadays? i still remember the carrying singed sad story

new account= easy climb

You can also use this strategy when you're in top lane.

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Diamond mid laners really don't understand the single most basic concept of top lane that's crazy

The more I learn about league, the more I understand its a tactical game of minions, vision and gold; not kills and teamfights. In the end just having good wave control, understanding what you can do to reacquire gold, and take objectives really changes the amount of control you have over a game. Vision helps objectives which wins you teamfights, gold helps you be strong, and wave management gets you towers and gold leads to win the game. Now I only wish league was better at teaching this sort of thing

Core Message: While Melee, engage during rebound. Play safe while enemy is pushing.

So the whole secret of LoL is Wave Management?

What i learned climbing to diamond? It's easier to climb when you're not constantly playing vs 30 lvl fresh accounts with 80 or 90% WR on their champs. Ofc they're mostly junglers or midlaners. The 50% WR force system is a problem too. I hit P II 90 LP with like 100 wins starting at silver this season with like 62% WR. Then suddenly i lost like 15 games in a row. All were stomps like 30 deaths bot lane or inting toplaners. If your mmr goes lower its way harder to climb than with fresh account.

Buy new account and get boosted to diamond :)

i like playing talon jungle, but as a melee mid i think it would be different from fizz since he doesnt really have a lvl 3 spell ?

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This is EXACTLY how I beat ranged top laners. And I don't play a dash-y champion top; I play Illaoi.

Climbing out of Diamond and up is the real challenge

I dont like this people who spaming their masterys , thinking that they are so good... if someone does that like this annie you know this person has a HUUUUGE ego The funny thing is if they are losing they no longer spam it anymore

Instructions unclear, waited for wave to crash and minions to crash, fast traded with qiyana into akali, lost the trade, died. This video is more about a challenger player knowing when he can trade and all-in. Awful video.

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Idk man I'll keep watching but first half of video is just a highlight reel. If the opposing player knew better they would play safer and know your kill potential.

its so easy to hit plat within a day when you have a fresh account, how about you try it with a hardstuck iron account? or maybe hardstuck gold (even worse in my opinion) cuz the LP gain will be so low

thats miss leading its $6.99 pre month for a year member ships its $18.99 pre month if you dont go yearly and most poeple dont have even 18.99 right now so i would say lower price abit it would help alot of people who play the game

Yo i think i will hit diamond soon what can i do with that? Like what does being diamond in league bring me except for braging rights?

I swear I see the same concepts in these skill capped videos and yet still even in 400 LP people don’t even know this haha

Terrible tips in this video, doesnt work at all. Any competent ranged mid wont let that happen.

feel like these vidoes are useless at this poin... beacuse u can so easly win ur own lane, but in low elow. u either have a toplaner afk farming or feeding. a jungler who think he is god and dies on every lane more than just once. or the botlane, witch is my biggest problem. THEY ALWAYS F FEED

Now I want know how to trade with heimerdinger safe using a melee champ

you did nothing but state the obvious for 20 minutes, congrats on a useless *guide*

Cool video on how to play a basic lane but this shit won’t win you the game by itself

That's why you always play Liss and Lulu. Come dive me, I dare you!

Simply because someone is the most picked laner in a HUGE sample size like all games does not mean you will face those matchups more often unless you ALSO play a huge number of games. Think about flipping a coin. If you flip a coin 10 times it's unlikely you will have exactly 5 tails and 5 heads. However, if you flip it 1000 times it's more likely you are close to that average. With my main champ I have around 60 games. Only 10 of those (or around 15% are against melee champs). However, I have around 30-40 games against traditional mages. The other 10ish games are against weird niche / troll picks. Interested to see where the rest of the video goes but this isn't a strong opening statement given it could drastically influence the way people approach the game and in a way that will distract them from what they are much more likely to see (unless they play tons of games).

The wave doesn't actually always push towards you after you crash it into tower. This is because if your team is ahead, your minions will be stronger and that can stop the slow push from happening. Doesn't happen early in lane but once a few towers are gone it does

i feel like the only way to rank up that fast is with an unranked account

ah yes, this will be very helpful to my azir midlane.

I just reached Diamond before the year ends. ❤🎉

Honestly if you didnt OTP Fizz you wouldnt be able to do half of these things. You cant dive that safely with other champion, you dont have that much mobility to get in and out with another champion + aa steroid. Sylas or Zed just go in and cant get out, and can get outplayed under tower and havily punished for trading in front of wave on their way back

unranked account start at top 50% or silver 2

I mean the advises are good, but to be fair, i could get to diamond in a week on any role, and just a random master player, so that part doesnt mean much when you're challenger, i wonder what was the point of such a "challenge". Ik i sound negative, but this is a bit weird no ?

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the last clip, how do you counter this? hope for a mistake and all in lux for example?

pro tip:play fucking broken assasins

This giving off Dopa view as Fizz vs TF an then as TF vs Fizz seasons ago.

the joy of playing NA server, you climb to diamond with trick that don't work on gold on any other major region servers...

What I learned climbing to masters next

we play different games, my jung will come to mid and die three times diving before I get the third level, you surely need to be at least challenger to carry in plat lol

Plot twist: Gold is high elo, Challenger doesn’t actually exist and it is just a scam to keep you playing!

This video is just so fucking good

so wt is the ranged plaeyr supposed to do? just last hit?

can you analyse how karasmai play and give a detailed guide on how to play like him for kayn mains

Cheater recall and buy a boot for spacing the melee

What's up with the Annie spamming mastery emote 🤣

What I got from this video is that the enemy is trolling most of the time even in diamond, so just abuse their mistakes

Annie main without mastery 7 lol

how the hell did you do that i have the most annoying most tilting inting team mates ever cant ever win or try to win a lane and ofc on a 8losing streak and back to plat4 i have just no words for how to win games it soooo hard soloq with these team mates and matchmaking.

fizz isnt mele fizz is broken

can we have a video about top plz

I reached D4 in 8 days on a fresh account. My peak before was D4 30 LP so I’m not Challenger either

I was ez kill at 8:23

79,8% melee, while searching platinum+. Good guide

I get it, but... fizz has a tool to engage, what if i'm garen vs teemo top, i can't even get to him since he'll be faster than me until i get stride... what can i do in this situation? Also more often than not he'll poke me so hard while i'm last hitting under tower that i can't even think to engage

do it for every lane pls

Fizz just broken in lane

Also these mu’s where kinda bad for the enemy every game, If you were at a bad mu for fizz the lane would have been much much different And since pro guides preaches one or two tricking champions to climb Then that means that we are very susceptible to getting counter picked

Sweet. Now do it from Iron 4. As an ADC.

TL:DR Play rammus mid 79.8% of the time 😂

Does these lane mechanics apply to top as well?

"i got to diamond by playing disgustingly low skill loser picks" yeah thanks i know. Getting to diamond by playing kata, fizz, ekko, yasuo, yone, zed is super easy, barely an inconvenience

I hope you remember there is 2 mid laners in one game. That's means if you add up the pick rate of melee and ranged champs, it should be 200% not 100%. 79.8% meaning you will only face melee for ~40% of your game, which is not more than ranged matchup.

This is just fundamentals of wave management. That is definitely not the one thing that´s bringing you from bronze to diamond. It much more comes down to your mechanics, how good you can play those aggressive trades once your wave bounces. Just knowing when doesn´t help you actually pulling it off. Greetings from a silver player

What about tank mid?

You guys do this then enemy mid has prio goes to your jungle scuttle crab your jungler dies and runs you down because of that ! thank you skill capped for that amazing video !

I need to rewatch this a few times, very informative!