Reign of Gaming

Anyone else just sees crossed cartoony eyes on the dress at boobs level -.- (bottom left image when zoomed). Warning : you won't be able to unsee it

This was also the time where TF could ult from base to base to "backdoor" if they had no towers left :)

For the jungling I learned a LOT from RoG Stonewall. You can check his stream here: http://www.youtube.com/user/stonewall008 . I don't use any timers or anything, you just get to know them the more you play. Also currently, this is about only Warwick that jungles at full hp i think. 

He's the one that made me realize i was jungling... like a noob. I went from 1300 to 1500 jungling lee sin mostly in S2 just be changing the way i jungled. 

For the baits I just meant fights that look even but you know will swing your way (example you're low health, just killed the enemy mid as Malz, but you still have your ult - which you can be damn sure won't be communicated to their jungler at low elo or even mid elo). So their jungler (A diver, say, Xin) comes for you hoping for an easy kill, but he's low hp too (say 50%). So you play like you're scared, bait in to tower to "get that last hit on you" and bam just QR him under tower.  Btw that works even at 1500 :P.  Not always, but the greed in general is pretty strong :P.  I guess that's my point; expect greed and play with it - while trying to control yours :P.

Regarding the "im  the shit attitude", make sureyou're using a champ that imposes respect (Darius, MF Ez, Cait, etc.  - in short, playing strong lane champs vs playing strong late game champs makes your life A LOT easier. 

I recently hopped on a friend's account who is lvl 30 but never played ranked before, so my matchmaking was around low-level 1200 (My main hovers between 1550-1650). The one thing (after everything that's been said here already!) that I feel makes a difference is your goal in lane.  At 1000-1200 its SUPER easy to bait people into getting killed. At 1700 ELO players get really fast (well sometimes :P) and super aggressive. They can manage to harass non stop AND last hit non stop (that's currently my choke point/flaw) very well.

At low ELO (up to 1500 or so) if you play in a lane to KILL, and behave aggressively (not stupidly), you'll stress your opponent and he'll most likely start making mistakes. Attitude swapping (farm one creep wave, go aggro next wave, farm the 3rd, 4th, go aggro the 5th ---- all this while monitoring their jungle's route ofc) can make you win those mind games. 

Knowing your timers --- especially if you jungle -- is crucial to "real" jungling. Jungling 101 is farming your creeps and ganking when the enemy sits on your tower.  Next level you should be aware of the enemy jungler's path (he's Lee Sin, we're at 4 minutes and didn'T gank yet = he's level 4, got double buffs, just backed to finish his madred or got boots and will be looking to gank. Where?  Top? If I go top I can get a counter gank going easy). Or if you play a counterjungler (example, at 2:20 amumu will be doing his wraiths, with 50% hp - good time to slam him if you're lee sin/Xin Zhao, etc.).  7m20? Blue respawn - ward it, and go steal it with your mid!

Etc. etc. :P

I was about to post a reply about all these too.  I'm not even native English speaker either and whenever I read "your" instead of "you're" (which throws me into a fit when I have to correct the game designers working under my supervision who make this mistake) in a "professional" space, this diminishes its value by a lot. You did mess up professional though :P

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What ELO are you using this build at?

Edit; Was aimed at Aeonx651

I'm a Caitlyn lover and really wish more support would play Janna :). I think Nami's got great synergy with Cait too (slow + extra damage on harass), but there's nothing like harassing with 50 extra AD and 320 HP!  You guys make me realize I should just ask for Janna more, maybe one will come out of the closet :P

There's a difference between learning a champ's intrinsic values (his starting stats, how he evolves, the kind of gear that suits him best, YOUR playstyle with that champ, and how he interacts with other players on your team (example: learning the defensive value of Xin's ult doesn't require ranked), How much damage he can take/dish out at each stage of the game, how he transitions from early to mid to late (again, you don't need ranked to realize that Trist's mid game is oftentimes lackluster). You also get to see and get a feel of various matchups that you wouldn't necessarily see in ranked, but when they do happen you have some grounds to rely on.

Of course the next step are Ranked, where as you mention, real "skills vs skills" come into play. But in ranked the first thing to do is test your opponent and see how much he knows his champ (confident/habitual Orianna's, for example, have such a distinct playstyle from that other player who just looked up Elementz Tier list and decided to play her in Ranked to learn her. Seeing the lack of champ mastery is usually called in chat for everyone to abuse, and rarely doesn't pay off :P.

TL:DR: A two-step approach to a) learning the champ and its interaction (not in ranked) and b) bringing this knowledge in ranked to hone your skills = win!

Recent experience: I got from 1400/1500 (early S2) to 1600 (end of S2, S3) by working on my game A LOT - and truthfully, a lot of it came from readings I did here, so props to everyone at RoG!

I just had the recent opportunity to play on a friend's account (no ranked games played ever, blank slate) so that I could duo with another unranked friend.

Happens that I can be a game changer from any position (going stuff like 17-1 on Akali, or 9-0 on Cait by the 12:00 minute mark, etc.) with little to no effort up to 1450 ELO range, and even if 2 other members of the team feeds (3+ gets hard).

And I'm really not special or that good. Pretty certain all 1600 + ELO players already know/did what I'm talking about. But that was the first time I could assess the gap between where i started and where I'm at now. It feels great and gives perspective.  

So really, once you get games where your "flow" (State of mind, you don't make mistake, you stay cool in fights and don't mash buttons, are the driving/leading force in your team and inspire them confidence, you know you're below your real ELO.  As long as you're struggling, you're probably in your ELO range give or take 100.

Small thing on the confidence: Typing ALL game (from champ select), stuff like "Let's win this guys", "No raging please, even if we fall behind early, lets group up and win those team fights", etc. etc. WILL help you win games. And if you really are below your real ELO, once you get 3-0, 4-0, etc. your team will instinctively trust your judgment. So from there, use it to take leadership, make calls to go to baron or dragon, to engage or disengage fights. If your team follows your lead and you lose, you will ONE single person to blame: yourself.

Best of luck to you!!