Reign of Gaming

Wow... too much Rage Per Minute. 

Dude, you're just bad. We live in reality in which you're not as half as good as you think you are, in which games are sometimes lost and in which good people can climb out of your Wooden 9k division, because they simply understand that they're not god, they're good at this game and they understand it. 

This game is not bad, the bad one here is you. Stop QQ-ing on the forums like a little beach and move your ass to co-ops. Or maybe something else. You could play this game, but please be gone from it, you're waaaaaay too toxic. 

Nautilus has grown stronger since the last buff. However, the trend is towards tanky fighters, so while you may prefer support-type junglers, winning involves adhering to the trend. Hate it or love it, that's how it is.  

If you're going to support-type junglers, then acknowledge that and act like it: You're going to be a support tank, feed your lanes as much as possible. Call shots, do dragons, etc. 

If a lane seems lost, or seems to be doing fine, FORGET about it completely. Don't bother explaining, people won't understand and you'll lose your focus by typing too much. You can only gank two lanes efficiently. 

For example, say you were to gank all lanes. You'd have to go bottom, then top, because it is most suited to receive a gank at that time. You'd have to run all the way.

What I usually do is the following: Blue - > Red - > gank mid. Why mid? Simple: if my mid laner fails, I won't be as efficient. I'd have to focus on top and bottom, which are so far from each other. So early game I really focus on mid. After mid, I see where things need fixing and what is the situation. I can usually predict and feel what's gonna happen. Say bot's ahead in CS but they are constantly pushing, it's most likely that's what they'll do for the rest of the laning phase, forget them. I attention them to ward properly and that's all. In another scenario, say top has zoned / sent to base / killed his / hers opponent. Screw top and focus mid and bot. However, I usually tend to forget about bottom lane because it's a 2v2 and it can be easily warded ( support who only takes care of that ). 

As a jungler, you don't wanna be all over the place physically. You wanna be all over the place with your eyes. You wanna ping out if the jungler is going to come. As for ganking, you wanna focus on two lanes at a time, so you can be both efficient ( time, ganks, etc ) and accurate. League is a game where 2 seconds can determine the outcome of the game. Alas, don't waste time for ANYTHING.

Well, basically, here's how it usually goes down: 

Bronze - One out of ten people is an undiscovered prodigious pro player, who will 1v5 in the World Finals. In reality, though.... well, hey, at least they know how to que up in ranked games. 

Silver - 70% of them know how to search for advice on the INTERNETZ and 50% of them agree they need improving. The other 30% got carried over to Silver. In reality, people know they are bad, but fail to improve. 

Gold - WTF BRAH I GOT TO GOLD SCRUB! I'M BETTER THAN REGI BRAH! In reality, they're lucky we got asphalt on the streets, otherwise they be tripping each 3 steps. But hey, they're individually better than Bronze and Silver, so it's a plus. Too bad they're shortsighted. They seem to believe the team is made of 1 person, versus 5. 

Platinum - In all reality, people are somewhat decent, but they still fail to realize the importance of teamwork. Their individual skills is much better, but individual doesn't win a game. 

Diamond - MUH NIGGUH I GOTZ TO DIAMONDZ I AM BEST WTF BBQ!? In reality, the only thing that saves these guys is the fact that they actually know how this game works. And that's what Bronze people lack. Also, they stopped giving a fuck and will pick Tryndamere with Clarity and CV just because they're Diamond and they know what they're doing. And you're a scrub. 

That's pretty much how Leagues work. 

Hey Jack, 

I'm Kiyoshi. I am usually a jungler, but about 6 months ago I started pursuing ADC seriously. As of today, I can play a good, solid Kog and Fortune. I can decently play Graves and Ezreal. I am open to learning more champions. 

I would like to partake in your project, but I am only level 14. If this project is open for an extended period of time... say 1-2 months, I will level up to 30 and give a tryout. 

I usually play on NE, but NA is a fine, lag-free environment for me. 

She's only good if the player actually knows what he's doing. If the player is a starter Janna player, he's deemed to fail. 

Alas, she also awesome with a coordinated team, with people who know what they are doing. 

I don't know how accurate I am when saying this, but my personal opinions goes like this: 

1. NA are more versed towards a control playstyle. They've taken stuff from the Koreans, which are more action packed and more aggresive early, so that's an improvement. Control combines well with early aggressive behavior. 

2. EU teams are really a jack of all trades. They have aggressive and defensive matches. 

3. Koreans are more innovative in our eyes, but they're playing more aggressive and more towards strategies. 

Please remember this is largely my opinion. 

Officially, in front of my eyes, anyone who says that they are stuck in low elo BECAUSE of their team, or because of any other reason than themselves is bad. I got the proof that carrying yourself out of low elo IS possible, provided you're good enough to do it. Alas, here goes my story. 

We're at champion selection, first ban go to our team, I am the captain. I ban, they ban, so on and so forth. I keep Shen, ask for top, am given, take TP and start imagining them splitpushez. Okay, so second pick goes mid with Akali and suddenly, out of the blue, third pick goes Kassadin and we're all like.. dude, what the hell!? You didn't even write " hello ". The rest of the picks go on and get Ezreal on ADC and Lee Sin on support. At this point, I'm pretty much like " Meh, let's see if anyone dodges before I do ". Willing to give it another chance, I beg Akali to go top, while Kassadin goes mid. They agree and so we enter the match. 

First minutes of the match, quite boring. Farm, farm, farm, I gank mid lane, Kassadin's already OOM at level 3, cool story. Go into their jungle, pick off FB on Yi in a duel, get the hell out of there. Farm, farm, trying to gank mid ( Kass was against Talon ), failed. Akali's against Karma top, looks like she's losing. I finally get 6, see Akali get to a quarter HP, jump with ult, she goes back to her tower. I was like " .... the fuck!? ". 

Anyway, skipping some time, I go 5/0 at about 15 minutes into the game, I think, get my shit together, I seem to be like the only one with a brain. People feeding, entering fights, we lose miserably. I'm like ".. yeah, /ff ". Nope. /fuckthatgonnacarry. 

The game ends at about 50 mintues, if I'm not mistaken. Thing is, at the end of the game my back hurt so much !! Like hell! I was 14/0/21 ON SHEN, 380 armor, 3.5k HP, kicking ass back and forth. It is to be mentioned that my jungle runes on that account ( EU WEST Nightmare226, check match history ) were 9 AD red, armor seals, MR/level + AP glyphs and AP quints. 

Bottom line is this: I carried with a tank, I gave away kills after I had gotten my most needed items. I ignored pretty much everyone in the team and focused on what we needed to do, pinged like hell. 8/10 times they wouldn't listen, but no one from the enemy team could get past my tanky ass. I tanked towers AND players for 2 minutes straight before needing to go base. I played the match in Bronze IV, on WEST. I mainly play on EAST where I am Silver I. 

TL, DR: You're good, you get out. You're bad, you stay stuck. End of story, no more excuses for anyone. 

Gurotesque, you don't know how to carry @ support. 

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Here we go again.. Whoever is stuck in Bronze V IV III II I is a victim of their own fate. I've heard that so many times but I still can't believe it. Why? Cause a) you can't carry your team as a support b) if you're not the support there's a person who doesn't want to support and so, won't buy wards, won't do anything support-ey c) the "mid or feed" trend is a never ending experience a lot of people face in champ select d) people feed cause they feel like doing it e) ganking every single lane as a mid isn't gonna help in ANY way.

So what's your advice really? What is left to do when 90 out of your 100 ranked games have to do with the cases above? I don't like the term "Elo Hell" but yes, it's really really hard to get out of this division. For those of you that it's been easy for, you were lucky enough to not face enough trolls and feeders. That's all you had. Luck. Not a special set of skills or anything mythical. Get over yourselves.

Dodge. You dodge, not others. People don't have common sense, so most likely they won't allow you to mid if you're last pick. Alas, state first what you wanna pick, if that doesn't work and you can't pick what you want, dodge. As many times as needed.

And yes, you can carry as a support, you just have to know HOW to do it. By buying wards, getting something that CAN engage, preferably at all levels, something eventually tanky, etc. 

Don't just make suppositions based on what you presume you know, when, in fact, you don't now jack.