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There is one thing I want to add to this posting, this is from personal belief:

If you see an enemy champ somewhere, ping it, FFS. I can't tell you how often I died at top when starting with a  ward and I was too focussed on lasthitting or looking at my enemy so i still got ganked even though the enemy ran through my ward.

Don't assume your mates see the champs running through the wards. Ping it, really. Make sure about it.

Don't simple just call out ss. instead, also look where they might wandered to. Top pushed, maybe not even warded? Ping 2-3 times with V so your top laner might retreat in time.

Don't gank without saying anything. As written above, sometimes you are just focussed too much on other things to see the mate being near your lane. Ping the gank. Hell, maybe even write it in chat - I do so. Simple to make sure my laner knows about it.

And there is another advise I can give. I think sometime ago I sometimes missed even things even though they were pinged because I didn't look at the map. My advise is too take a quick look at the map every fucking time you hear the ping sound. Every. fucking. time.

Comments, opinions on this?

I'm getting used to smart-cast, but the A to Attack move click I haven't, it's difficult bcuz you don't attack until your champions stops running, I dont know it just feels slow for me, I like clicking

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I'm getting used to smart-cast, but the A to Attack move click I haven't, it's difficult bcuz you don't attack until your champions stops running, I dont know it just feels slow for me, I like clicking

This happens because you're too much out of range and your champion loses too much time walking towards the target. It gets a bit of time to get used to it, just run a custom game and practice  it a bit.

Here some tutorials (they are lackluster but I couldn't find anyone better):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Evp8zST2A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8c7x-wtuBA

Some general tips:

• if you use Attack-Move-Click on the ground, it will target the closest enemy target, but if you click it on an eligible target, it will specifically target that one no matter if others are closer to your champ; this is useful to do Stop/Attack-Move-Click last-hitting.
• you can click backwards and then use Attack-Move-Click forward on the ground to constantly kiting and staying at max range whilst you're teamfight or lasthitting (mostly for ADCs but not limited to them).
• you can use Attack-Move-Click to stop some champions from abusing brush-juking (Nidalee for instance)
• Hold command works exactly like Stop, the only difference is it should stop your champion when you press the button until lift the finger. Unfortunately it's as buggy as hell and sometimes it takes fast double press to trigger; also, when you lift the button, it won't target back the target you were attacking before pressing Hold, but will simply reset and your champion attack the closest target to you, so if meanwhile minions move you will just lose last-hits because of that. In short: always use Stop, never use Hold, because it's bugged and suck.
• you don't have to use the default keybindings, usually customizing the setup to fit to your needs helps a lot in maximizing the benefits they provide.

I had it wrong all the time haha I binded the A to Player Attack Only Click lololol Now I got it right its so easy to kite with ashe that I feel im cheating, its gonna take some games to get used to it, thank you, I appreciate it :)

No problem ^_^

An advice about smartcast: don't limit yourself at smartcast only, it hampers your option quite a lot. Keep your abilities on Q,W,E,R, D,F (or those buttons with a key modifier) and bind the other options to other modifiers, then try to use some champions to learn to master all the different options how to utilize them optimally.

For instance I have normal cast on Q,W,E,R,D,F, Smartcast+Selfcast on Shift modifier, normal Smartcast on Alt, Selfcast on Shift+Alt, level up spell on Control, Attack-Move-Click on on A and Shift+A and Stop on S and Shitf+S; also, along with normal move bind to mouse right-click (default), I  have it bind to Shift+Rightclick too, so I can use it without lifting the finger whilst I use Smartcast+Selfcast; I have Target Champions only on mouse button 4 and on \).

This all may seem kinda stupid at the beginning, until you get used to it and notice that you can do a superfast combo on Morg or Ori just hovering your mouse on the target, because you use selfcast to shied yourself whilst smartcasting the hell against it). Target Champions Only as well is very useful (so you can avoid fail-hitting minions), and proper switching from smartcast to selfcast is absolutely mandatory on some supports (particularly Lulu, Janna, Soraka, etc) and some AP mids packing high utility (Morgana, Zilian, Orianna, Galio, etc).

So good luck practicing, takes a bit of time if you're not used to high micromanagement but it's totally worth it.

Not Sure about the SmartCast-System because u dont see the range of Spells or do you?
Could be a Problem if ur play Lux .... or so (not sure if enemy in range of ult or not)
What do you think?!

I think that Smrtcast Range Indicators may solve you problem. I also think that Smartcast Range Indicators suck, because they slow down your combo times since your spells fire when your lift your finger from the button instead than when you press it. Still you can cast those spells normally. For instance every good Veigar player smartcasts every single spell of your arsenal except Event Horizon, and they always cast that one normally, to be able to stun their target or even multiple people.

In short, something like smartcast is good but you don't have to use it every darn single time even if it's totally wrong to do it: try to use Smartcast+Selfcast in every situation with Morg, or Orianna, or on supports such as Lulu or Janna: you will always shield yourself instead than the ally you wanted to, and you'll fail. You have multiple options, they are not mutually exclusive, learn to use them all.

In Options>More Options you can activate to see the smart-cast range, in champions like ryze, annie, etc its great to have smart-cast.

The smartcasting seems to be the best advice at least on a personal level. My games have significantly increased and my bursts with leblanc are incredibly faster ever since I've been smartcasting.

Sorry but people spam pings dozens of times on stupid shit like if you extended for a half-second they'll spam the crap out the map for 5 seconds to make a point. Or if you're closing in on a 1v1 that your teammate may lose, they'll spam the crap out of you to get away because they think you're KSing. Pinging is just as easily a hate mechanic. Being passive-aggressive is even more annoying than flaming in chat.

My advice for LoL. Play whatever champion you enjoy and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. If you aren't playing this game to have fun, I'm very confused by your motivations. You only get better with skillshots by using skill shots, and if those are your favorite abilities, don't play Ryze to grind elo. Playing LoL shouldn't be like "putting in time" on a job to grind out a living. Go play Brand, Lux, Amumu jungle or whatever else you enjoy. If you have fun, you will put in more time, and if you put in more time you will be making the skill shot plays that get on Protato monster highlights.

Ok you guys finally convinced me I am gonna start smartcasting eveything.

Edit: Ok I have played 4 games with smart cast on as well as the new binding for attack move and I even bound my t key to make my attacks only affect champions (helps when you are trying to land your targetable q on a champion surrounded by minions), and I am really impressed. I immediately noticed a big bump in my play with certain champions. I mean garen and kayle are pretty much the same, but Galio and Xerath seem way better now. I even noticed an improvement in Caitlyn. I don't know why I waited so long to try it.

^_^ Smartcast is definitely a step ahead, they help so much.

New steps are learning to use smartcast, smartcast+sefcast and selfcast in different situations (for instance in most situations it's almost suicide to use smartcast+selfcast with Zilean -just try and you'll immediately understand why, yet normal smartcast works pretty well with him- but it's totally worth on say Nida or Galio).

Additional space for improvements is learning to use the Target Champions Only button along with smartcast (very useful on supports, if you don't wanna heal a minion when you ally fights standing inside a minion wave) and using Stop/Attack-Click_Move (click on target) to lasthit minions without moving around like a squirrel non-stop just to reset the champ AA timer.

Speaking of not being a solo q hero I think a big thing I've been noticing from golds (and silvers I guess but I barely see silvers) is that when they get a lead they like really wanna make "plays" except they have no idea how, and they usually just end up throwing leads. 
We do that a lot at plat as well tbh (you see it a lot in streams) but usually the difference is we usually know when to stop and how to close out games when we want to.

The amount these two golds kept trying to make plays dying on their own and then yelling in chat about how we're not grouping when they were the only ones not grouping just >_____>, I eventually organized them and we won though.