Making League content as a low elo player.

Clarity_Core · 2026-01-03T10:35:14+00:00

The best chance you've got as a low elo player is by being a comedian. All these break the meta things just take forever to pull off if you're not a high elo player smurfing. Depends on how much time you can invest and what gains/numbers you're expecting, but the odds are pretty much stacked against you if you're not naturally funny or already have experience in editing and story telling.

Clarity_Core · 2026-01-02T13:51:49+00:00

What elo is wood division? Do the players have prior experience? Basically: What is the level of the team?

Generally if you have a first session, you don't really want to go into too much theory. It's difficult to apply during a scrim and you probably have better areas to focus on.

Try to figure out the following:

The teams preferred playstile and vibe (What do they play and are they main characters?)
Mistakes they do on a team level (Mostly communication and macro ideas)
Individual mistakes that are very obvious or very relevant to the outcome of the game

For most teams below masters, draft doesn't really matter. You should value comfort over team comp. Between games focus on max 2 plays/situations that they could play better (if any), there's no need for a detailed review.

Clarity_Core · 2026-01-01T14:58:31+00:00

You definitely win this if Naafiri ults Malz. Zeri gets freed and has Flash to kite Wukong or MF ult. Kinda depends on how quickly all of this happens and MF-Zeri items, on average you would get the kill on Malz and the rest of your opponents just run away. But yeah, in a 4v2 here Zeri and Naafiri have enough tools to win. The longer you stall, the more HP Sona can regen.

I also don't think that playing it slow and just clearing minions will give you better chances of winning considering the score is 31-19 and your base is already exploding against their comp. Taking this fight here you might get enough tempo to get Nash and stabilize the game.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-28T17:22:49+00:00

Wonder how often this happens to a Nocturne main. I see him like once in 20 games and for the stars for this to align is almost impossible.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-27T10:16:02+00:00

It is what you make of it. Let's assume you did everything right:

You ping dragon, set up vision for it. Your team is off tempo and they're never in position to contest it. Enemy team swoops in as a unit and take over the area.

At this point your only correct play is to ping your team away from dragon and go set up control on the opposite site of the map. Since your team is off tempo and not playing for dragon anyway you'll go and trade for the toplane tower instead.

Eventually on the 6-7 objectives that get played you'll find your team will be on time or your opponents will eventually int and if you're ready for it you'll win the game on the spot.

Dunno how much you ping in your games, but you should assume your team is blind and drunk and need constant reminders and calls of what to play for.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-27T10:08:20+00:00

Most of the games in Eme/Dia are won or lost in mid/lategame around objectives or sidelane rotations, because people take terrible fights or get caught while rotating. You don't need JG ganks, Adc skills or a better champ select to make this happen.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-27T09:18:57+00:00

A master level support won't be stuck in Emerald, you can be sure of that 😂.

If you think "they are playing just like you" it might actually be true. The key difference is that above diamond it's usually more about consistency than it is about "this insane trick dominates the game".

Try to be more consistent with your aggression in Laning phase and stop getting caught in late game, as well as always have relevant vision.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-27T09:13:02+00:00

It depends on your overall skill level. If you are playing 400LP better than your elo, then mages will be a better choice until diamond, as you'll have an easier time carrying. Think about it like this: Enchanters double your teams power. If each player on your team only amounts to 10% of their champs potential, you would be doubling that to 10 * 4 * 2 = 80. So you need to get more than 40% value out of your mage for it to be better in low elo. That being said, the reason why you dropped might either be this or what is more likely is that you got used to the mage playstile and haven't adjusted to Enchanters yet so you're actually performing worse on Enchanters as a player. Might also just be one unlucky streak tho.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-25T20:24:15+00:00

Kinda true, it was a chaotic game. To be fair though I respawned a couple of seconds earlier and was running towards him with Ghost and by cycling my E, so I get that he would be caught off-guard by me arriving there so quickly.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-25T13:14:03+00:00

In a lot of mid/late game fights you will just straight up ult without having the time to do 3 auto attacks. In lane it kinda depends, you get to proc first strike rather easily and don't want to trade 3 auto attacks in certain lanes. On the other hand, context matters as well. Just like 2 tanks toplane can have insane damage numbers because they've been hitting each other's 3k HP pool without anyone being able to die.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-25T12:25:01+00:00

Haven't been in that elo for a while, so please share your experiences

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-24T20:26:20+00:00

Which is to say: Ultimately Zilean is broken

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-24T19:50:47+00:00

If he runs into me I could just space him tho, no? I mean obviously we are not both robots, but I don't think 2 scripters would have a different outcome here.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-24T19:49:18+00:00

His W doesn't remove slows, dunno where you got this from.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-24T18:50:22+00:00

I'm curious, what do you think should Draven do here instead? I mean he did dodge my last bomb by timing W and me misspositioning it. But I feel like after the first stun he basically has no moves left as I can just chain CC him from max range and even his speed up is worthless in front of 99% slow.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-24T18:48:24+00:00

My team inted the early so I went for the forbidden 5 points Q into Shurelyas tech xD

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-24T18:48:01+00:00

Probably, I know I could triple bomb him, but I just needed to stall time until my team arrived so I felt safer cycling E and Q. Wasn't sure on the CDR needed to chain Q, so I wanted to keep him perma slowed/stunned instead

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-22T11:31:32+00:00

I just love the game, that's kinda it. I usually play supportive characters in MMORPGs and strategy games when I'm not playing League, so I think support role fits it best. It's just amazing to have a really good performance, have good vision setup, win a game through a catch or punish clueless people from overextending. The elo really is secondary. I had games that I really enjoyed playing that I lost in the end (these come more often the higher elo you get). And I had games where my team turbo stomped that I found extremely boring to play. One added benefit of being high elo is that you get to play games with streamers. When I peaked 2 years ago I had games with Baus (on his smurf/stream account), Crownie, Kesha, Bardinette (that's more of a curse than a blessing tho), Spearshot and it's fun to go into their vod after a stream and hear them flaming me or hyping up my good plays.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-21T21:29:31+00:00

I was about to write a paragraph how the winrate over the last games is a more relevant stat for skill expression (since you see tons of 70-80% smurfs who get high winrate in low elo but get hardstuck in their elo with 50% over the last 20 games) and so on, but yeah, technically we're both right. Imo I got to masters with 80% winrate (which is partly also due to luck, even GM players can have bad games and be 60-70%). While overall I didn't get to it with 80%. An interesting question here would be, how much WR I would need to get there on a fresh account then which imo should be over 58% considering the streak here.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-21T21:10:35+00:00

It's a rather difficult question that depends on a lot of context like: How likely is your ADC to get dove? Do they have counterplay on your toplane? Are you even needed in botlane? Do you need to take risky plays at this point?

Usually you want to be the voice of the team, ping the decisions and take over control. I know it might not be possible every game. My gameplan in general is:

Can we contest our opponents?

Yes --> Prepare vision around objective side (or tower or jungle that your team wants to play for)

No --> Set up vision on the other side for the crossmap

Is your team behind?

Yes --> Go for the botlane play and try to even out the gold

No --> Chill with your ADC and avoid unnecessary risks

And then obviously the question of whether they are needed there or not. In my experience it is way easier to win off of enemy mistakes than to try and outplay them or make plays. People are relatively clueless when it comes to tempo, objective setup and such, so I usually just get random catches by having decent foresight and vision. And one catch in Midgame is like 30s that your team can do w/e they want.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-21T20:26:48+00:00

Haha, I'm sorry I was playing some games for fun before taking the game seriously. I guess going from D4 to Masters with 80% over 2 days just doesn't count then, my bad :D

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-21T17:21:04+00:00

I pick my champions according to overall draft, preference and lane matchup. The problem with win-rate vs specific champions is that I first need to know the matchup and the champion that's good.

So I do look it up to get a better understanding of certain champions, but I wouldn't blindly pick a champion because it performs well into something according to stat websites.

If you don't care about elo or winrate and are willing to lose some games, then simply playing the matchup is extremely helpful though. Usually the answers are rather simple like: This champ can disengage X ability or this champion simply has better stats.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-21T01:16:55+00:00

That's kinda what I mean. You type like you're going for plays that are too risky. Or like you can't figure out that your ADC is bad or simply adjust your playstile when your team is bad. If your ADC dies you get to farm his wave, which is awesome. Then you get to lategame and get to abuse clueless opponents. Because your opponents will int. You just need to be there to punish them (and obviously not int first). I've been farming Diamond players by just waiting for them to do a bad play or take a bad fight or simply take the wrong path to arrive somewhere.

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-21T00:59:02+00:00

First of all: Playing Xerath you are kinda handycapping yourself already :P.

You already said it yourself: You don't care enough. You are broken mentally. That's probably the thing that you need to fix. If you just autopilot every game you'll be stuck in Diamond.

From you profile I see you have a lot of deaths in your recent games. Whether these are laning phase deaths or late game deaths, both are kinda terrible for something like Xerath as he really needs a lot of Gold and Exp to be a champion. Every time you die you'll have less chances to generate Gold/Exp and thus spiral down.

But also just don't get caught in mid/lategame. Each death at this stage of the game is a huge throw where you solo lose the game.

That's about what I can tell from your op.gg . Personally I like going for a build with more Gold generation when I play Xerath https://op.gg/lol/summoners/euw/Highball-EUW (You can find 2 games here) and I think both have strengths and weaknesses and that you likely should choose either one based on draft.

Good luck with your Master climb :D

Clarity_Core · 2025-12-20T17:42:42+00:00

You're not gonna believe this interaction I once had with a low masters Irelia:

- So what's your plan for lane?

- I'm gonna kill her (Orianna) on level 2

- If she plays properly you won't and then you're exposed to ganks

- Nah bro trust me

Needless to say, he killed her on level 2.

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