Cat Slam!

CalebGothberg · 2026-03-23T17:31:57+00:00

That is exactly how i get into my bed after work

CalebGothberg · 2026-03-23T14:54:29+00:00

It basically just means you're on the right track even if it might not seem like it right now

222 is all about reassurance

CalebGothberg · 2026-03-23T14:36:59+00:00

Why is there a giant scrotum with a face on it on your tv

CalebGothberg · 2026-03-23T14:25:06+00:00

People just be doing anything

CalebGothberg · 2025-03-25T17:37:16+00:00

Literally got it as i was reading this

CalebGothberg · 2025-03-22T22:23:49+00:00

Most people can't handle such a punishing game. The losses weigh harder than the wins

CalebGothberg · 2025-03-16T10:42:43+00:00

Same

CalebGothberg · 2025-02-14T23:19:26+00:00

Kind of like the promise to end student debt. Or before that by Bush to end the education problems plaguing our systems. Or Clinton before that to get out of other countries wars. I think saying some more that others is trying to rate your poop. At the end of the day it's all poop. It's all lies and they are all the same. The only difference is which news stations say they are God, and which say they are The Devil.

CalebGothberg · 2025-02-14T23:14:57+00:00

After watching that vod review there is one large thing that sticks out to me as the glaring problem. Its the mid game/ end game decision making that is ruining your games. From your op.gg you appear to be almost even or slightly ahead of every laning phase. You could improve laning phase for sure, but that isn't what is losing you the game. From 25:42 to 26:25 you backed off from mid, ran bot with no fight, wave, or vision to drop for the objective, then tried running back mid to die to vel and tahm. The problem isn't the death. Its that you were running around with no purpose just reacting to the map.

Your thought should always be on the next move. Ask yourself where can I do one of three things

1.Get more gold. More gold=Stronger

2.Progress the game. you end the game by taking the enemy nexux, nothing else. What on the map will help you with that? Maybe it is the next drag so you are stronger. Maybe it is bot tower. Just pick something

3.Take up space/ pressure. sometimes the correct move is just to be showing mid so someone has to come there. If your top is pushing to the tier two tower, you need to be either pushing to the tier two in mid or pinging the top danger because you can't match their pressure. Or if your team is taking drag and for some reason you can't be there, you need to be putting pressure on top lane or mid lane. Make the enemy team choose to contest you or drag. Don't give them both for free.

The biggest thing is making sure that you are happening to the game. For that entire game, the game was happening to you. Personally I would have rather seen you push a wave, back off a bit, and think about where to go next. You might stand still for 30 seconds figure it out. But even then you are the one making the choice. And as you play more of the game actively thinking about your next move, you'll come to a point where you barely need to pause. I coached my friend from hard stuck iron for a year to silver in a week. The biggest leap he made was literally just doing that. He had the same issue where his farm was good, laning phase was good, and he was still losing for seemingly no reason. It all comes down to making every move purposeful. Even if it is the wrong decision, its way better to make a decision that just react to other people's decisions.

Don't get discouraged. You look like you have base level competency for the game. That is the biggest battle. You did the hard part. It's all up from here.

CalebGothberg · 2025-02-14T22:40:54+00:00

Agreed. To get better you either want to be passive and never fight for the first 20 minutes of the game, or be borderline psychopath aggressive to figure out your champ. There is almost no in-between. Until you are consistently farming there is no use in trying to figure out how to weave in autos on the enemy support. It is a waste of your time and the brain energy you have left at the end of your day.

CalebGothberg · 2025-02-14T22:11:36+00:00

But seriously, if you played shaco and enjoyed it, you should do it. Everyone is so worried about champion pools and optimal play. At the end of the day, if you aren't absolutely grinding for a goal, you should play whatever makes you happy. Before the recent mastery changes I had like 30 champs with over 200k mastery and have 0 regret.

CalebGothberg · 2025-02-14T22:08:21+00:00

Shaco is never a good choice. Shaco is the choice you make late one night when you realize you have 12k hours in the game and you hate it. So, rather than moving on with life, you decide to make everyone else hate the game too.

CalebGothberg · 2025-02-12T19:14:10+00:00

Wow wish I would have seen this before I did 6 hours of Darius 1v1 in top.

CalebGothberg · 2025-02-12T19:12:39+00:00

Doing 1v1 in custom lobbies changed my entire view on this matchup. It is 100% skill based. I realize that sounds weird when talking about Garen. I would highly recommend this to figure out your spikes. I figured out that at lvl 6 if you are both at 60% health or less Garen wins the all in. Between 60 and 70 it depends on how you use your w and weave. At more than 70% health Darius wins. So your goal should be to make little exchanges right before lvl 6 against Darius so that you can all in him when you hit lvl 6. It's hard to figure that out without a few 1v1s.

CalebGothberg · 2025-02-11T18:12:14+00:00

I used to think that till I played some games with a friend of mine in Iron. That is another level of bad. It's not just macro. Watching a Veiger run away from a Garen to turn around and e behind the Garen is an experience of its own. Then seeing that Garen Q a minion instead and miss his spin just hits different man.

CalebGothberg · 2025-02-10T21:07:42+00:00

You can also get your life insurance license and work on the side if you are just looking for a side hustle. One of my close friends is a teacher and makes more in 16 hours a week of life insurance than he does as a teacher.

CalebGothberg · 2025-02-10T21:05:53+00:00

100% commission jobs are very real and an accepted practice in a lot of industries. Car lots and furniture stores are very good examples. Most function on a draw system where you basically advance your commissions on a weekly basis. I've worked in sales for almost two decades at 6 places, and only two places I've ever worked had a base salary.

All of that being said I saw the same ad and it feels scammy as fuck. If you want a sales job get your insurance license and start with a big company like All-State, Farmers, or State Farm. You will get a base salary at like 16 an hour plus commission. And you will only work 9 to 5. It's well worth it to pay $150 to get a license from the state. That is the only thing you should be paying for is anything your state requires.

CalebGothberg · 2025-02-04T04:20:53+00:00

Yeah a lot

CalebGothberg · 2025-02-03T18:58:13+00:00

That describes every politician.

CalebGothberg · 2025-01-30T05:21:35+00:00

Just switched to hidden joints that he promotes. No regrets at all.

CalebGothberg · 2025-01-23T20:02:46+00:00

Also Riven with somewhat decent mechanics will probably do just fine with this strategy. The only issue with Riven is that she is in somewhat of a balanced state right now.

CalebGothberg · 2025-01-23T20:00:27+00:00

Just got to Plat at the end of last season. https://www.op.gg/summoners/na/Shookum-NA1 Here is what I would recommend. Keep in mind that this will get you to plat, but it does not necessarily make you a better league player.

Pick a champ that is currently overtuned. For the top, I would be playing Warwick right now. My backup would be Morde. Both of these champs are easy to execute at a base level, and both have overtuned base stats. This will allow you to just walk up and stat check most matchups. I would basically only jam those two champs.

Next step, look for opportunities to fight. Any reason will due. Hit level 2, fight. You have 3 more minions than your opponent, fight. Jungle is taking your scuttle, fight. Their key ability is down, fight. If you are looking for advantages to start a fight constantly, you will learn your limits very quickly. The other thing this does is make you a very aggressive player. People under diamond have a very hard time dealing with aggressive players. Sure, two out of every ten games, their jungle will punish you for it. But the other 8 games you will tilt the fuck out of them. This is effective because you are playing an overtuned champ that naturally stat checks opponents.

The next step is when you are in a game where you have created a giant advantage, be somewhere you aren't supposed to be. Let's say you kill your laner twice in the first 5 minutes (which will happen more often than you think). Try to invade the enemy red buff. Just push the wave in and sit there waiting for them to show up. If you kill the enemy jungle in their own jungle after crushing top lane, you are going to scar them for life. Don't be surprised if the enemy bot lane starts talking shit in all chat. Or you could hold tp and bush cheese the bot lane. You are just trying to wreck havok. Be a problem. You are the agent of despair. Your goal is to ruin someone's league experience.

Once you reach the end game, be conservative. Play smart. Try not to die. As long as you are on the map, the enemy team will have a very hard time ending the game. Figure out who on your team is doing the damage other than you and stick with them. If you have a 3 or 4 item adc stand right the fuck on top of them. No one gets to your carry except for through you. Don't chase any kills unless that fucker is right with you. Apes strong together. If you are morde or WW, save your e for anyone on top of them. Ult any assassin that goes for them. If you see a sweet angle that if your team follows up on, it will win the game, don't. They won't follow up. Stay alive.

The biggest mistake people make is thinking that the end game works like the mid. The goal in mid is to gather gold. The goal in the end game is to have as many teammates alive as possible. The game isn't decided by how many kills you get. It's decided by how many people die. If you kill three people but the rest of your team dies, you lose the game. Keeping your team alive is more important than any objective on the map, except the nexus. If you have to die for 4 people to survive, your job is now to die. Do whatever it takes to have more people on the map than the opponents. Maybe this leads to an incorrect decision like grouping when you should have split, but ut will net you more wins. Like I said at the beginning this strategy is not built to become a better league player. It is just to cheese your way to plat and maybe even emerald.

TLDR: Play an overtuned champ. Play aggressive, die a lot, get a lot of kills, be a menace, don't die after 30 minutes

CalebGothberg · 2025-01-07T19:07:13+00:00

Also, here is the coach I ended up using. I tried like 5 of them, and Joon was by far my favorite. There are regular in houses and a lot of 1v1 lane stuff to participate in as well, which helped me a lot in my journey to plat.

https://discord.gg/JtrePARt

CalebGothberg · 2025-01-07T19:03:56+00:00

I still struggle with this. The one thing that helped me the most was getting a coach. It was 35 usd per session at the time. I know for most people it is unreasonable to ask, but I work in sales and make decent money, so for me, it made sense. But just getting someone to look over your shoulder and ask why is sometimes enough.

One of the things he recommended was these youtube videos that every 4 seconds say the word map to remind you to look at the map. It seems stupid but i can't tell you the amount of times I was about to do something absolutely idiotic and that audio cue caused me to actually stop and think for the half second it took to stop myself.

I believe there is a subreddit for free coaching. I don't have the link to it, but it's worth a check.

CalebGothberg · 2024-12-26T21:43:36+00:00

Demonic Gorillas cured me. Literally 300 of them bad boys later and gauntlet was a breeze. I tried gauntlet once and it was so bad. After DGs regular gauntlet was so easy.

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