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This is where you really have to start using pings A LOT. Gratz if you already are, but its always best to be pinging every 30 seconds to let your team know during later phases of the game if you go off to farm or push a lane. Ping that you're on the way and say "pls don't engage 4v5 I just need to push this lane quick" or "hold up for 1 min so I can clear bot".

Communication is vital and it's what most players lack.

This is where in solo que, you can't rely on your teammates to NOT engage if you don't tell them what you're doing. You must lead/communicate to succeed. Your jungle amumu is going to forget that you went bot lane right as everyone started to group. He is going to look for that opportunity to get a good bandage and engage. Then he'll look at the minimap after the fight is lost and see you weren't there. Simple pings will let him know to be more careful/patient and not go for the grab until you get there 30 seconds later.

As far as deciding when to split push or group up, you have to just practice assessment. Do you have the better team fight comp? Can you actually win a team fight if all 5 of you engage against their 5? Or will you just be stalling at the enemy inhib tower waiting for someone to make a bad decision? Is baron up and is it warded? If you go bot by yourself with no wards on baron during late game you're basically handing it to the enemy team.

You have to voice what you think the team should be doing at different phases. If you think your team is behind and can't win fights, you need to tell them to put lots of wards up, keep farming, and do your best to not engage the enemy OR you need to ward up and try to catch their team when they aren't grouped. This actually happens quite a lot, especially if the other team is ahead early in the game. People will be fed and get overconfident and go off by themselves. Take that extra killing spree gold if you catch them enough the other team might just fall apart by fighting among themselves.

It's a lot of calculations and sometimes the best you can do is guess. But practice and being aware of what you need to factor in will help you make consistently better decisions leading to victory.

Im so confused as to why people think vayne needs buffs anywhere. Why does one of the best late game carries need a buff early game to just make the entire game ez mode.

That's like saying Nasus should have a strong early laning phase so he can farm Q easier and destroy you even more lategame. I mean c'mon his early is sooo hard. 

You pick vayne so you can do the amazing late game that she has, and you are meant to work for it or there is no counterplay. If vayne is great early game and only greater late game, I just don't even know.

Anyways /rant vayne doesn't need any buffs imo.

I've never used LoL replay. I just try to see my mistakes as soon as I make them. I'm sure replay definitely helps, I just never put in the effort, just want to say its possible without it.

I'll add in to what has been said that learning how to work with your team is just as important, if not more so, as learning basic mechanics. If you can stop yourself from harassing teammates and being negative, you will win more games. Better yet, stop your teammates from fighting as well.

Saying simple things like "please stop fighting" a few times can work wonders. I've had games where my team was 10+ kills and multiple towers behind, but I helped stopped the fighting, we grouped up, we won a few teamfights and suddenly we were winning. 

Morale is a huge in this game, and people want to give up immediately when they die in a bad spot, and then begin to do even worse, but if you can get your team to come together at the right times, the other team is just as likely to throw at some other point, so capitalize on the other teams mistakes and next thing you know you're getting spammed in all chat, "REPORT THIS GUY HE SUCKS GGGG". Getting the other team to fight each other is a great way to win.

That was a very useful reply. Recognizing every mistake you make in games makes a huge difference. That's what I see in lower level play all the  time, people always blame everyone else, and are never like "sorry guys I sure messed up there" and go on. They just blame teammates every game instead of saying, well I could have done this, this, and this better.

You make mistakes every game, even on a 20 minute victory. If you are looking at what you did wrong, you can often see a pattern of something you do badly consistenly (maybe chasing too much, not going for objective, tunnel vission, etc.)

Once you realize your problems, you can actually improve. If you think you're on your top game, then that's where you'll stay, if you can see where you're messing up, you can fix it and move up.

Other than that, keep playing ranked, you're not gonna climb far if you only play 20 games and get discouraged from a losing streak.

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I'm in for helping you guys in practice, I'm on pretty often so let me know. I main top.

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My question is, what do you expect the other team to do if its a 4v5 all game because someone disconnected from loading screen? It's very unlikely to win a 4v5 from the start, and its not the other teams fault. They shouldn't feel obligated to play worse or whatever just to try and make it more even. When someone dc's during the game, the other team isn't even told that for like 15 minutes. Even if you can tell they have a missing teammate after only a few minutes, you don't know when they're coming back, where they are, and how do you know the other team isn't just coming up with nonsense. If the situation is reversed, do you really tell your teammates, "nah guys lets not do baron and lets all afk cuz I think they have a missing guy". So basically, it's not the other teams fault, just accept that you are going to have a disadvantage and report your teammate for afk if you feel it is right to do so. Move on to the next game, there's hundreds more to play.

If gragas can land an e on most ap mid's and auto a couple times he can kill at level 3. So if you actually get that chance, then gragas can be one of the best.

For Sion, Lichbane will proc as soon as you hit w, and only that one time, not again once you pop the shield. Lichbane procs when you cast a spell, and popping the shield is just a continuation of casting that one spell. For Rumble's E, I believe the same principles would follow, but I don't own rumble and I am not 100% sure on that one. I would think it just works off of charges and only one charge would proc for each cooldown of the entire spell.

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cloth 5 vs nidalee.

against vlad? his early game is terrible, if you are jax get level 2 before him, q and e him and he will have to b.

as for teemo.. well, simply put **** teemo. you need to kill this asshole before he gets 6, which is hard unless you are a rengar or jayce. shen is also stong v teemo.

Well said, so yeah get that early advantage against vlad. Jax can stomp a vlad easy with a q e combo, and if you can kill vlad before 6, it should be an easy lane. Also I usually go double dorans and vamp scepter against ranged like vlad, you're going to get harassed a lot, so you need to have good sustain.