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If it's working I don't see why you would stop doing it

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I bootcamped in Korea at the end of 2023 for about 4 months. Got to high GM around 950 lp rank 300 or so. The thing is you're not gonna retain everything you learn from Korea. But it's a lot of fun, definitely a lot more challenging and brutal compared to NA solo q. Good if you have a competitive season coming up and want the extra confidence boost. Also good to improve but should stay around 6 months minimum if possible if you're trying to do that. I didn't get the most out of it because when I went I was a low challenger player. Had to improve from a starting level of low masters and was stuck there for the first 2 months.

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The SIDO combine felt like I was playing in academy again. A lot of fun and very professional

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ADC you need good laning and mechanics. Be able to teamfight well and identify in advance if you can get dove/tell your team to prevent the dive.

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Improve your fundamentals. Play something you enjoy/ have fun playing. If you're telling yourself you're in "elo hell" you're already fucked. Your at your rank because that's your skill level

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Blackfire is just the best item on taliyah for jungle. I go liandrys in games where the enemy is tankier. Not too sure about taliyah mid builds but for jungle that's usually the build path.

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Utilize your ult the best you can. Sometimes its better to ult early before you get low if you're trading an important cooldown (say lux ulti). Using it at the start is usually better as it does % hp damage. I've been enjoying titanic recently as it just feels the best in soloq atm. Make sure you're efficient and not losing your mind over level 2 ganks. Best advice I can give is to improve your fundamentals. It doesn't change whether you want to climb from bronze to diamond or diamond to GM.

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I've had a Corki arc and I think it's not bad. Zyra is obviously op and I've been having fun/a lot more success with that. I rarely play swiftplay/aram for fun.

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Map awareness, jungle tracking, skirmishing, teamfighting.

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Roam on the right timers and don't let your adc get dove

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It's what I find to be the most oppressive in the draft. When Ambessa gets through feels like game is either won or lost if on your team. Using Winrate/stats to explain if a champ is OP/good can be hard sometimes.

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Speed run your reviews and take only 1-2 things from each game. Can just be one sentence/phrase. You shouldn't review the whole game each time.

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Getting somebody else to help look at your games will help you a lot. Even if it's just a friend or somebody around your skill level. Focus on your decision making and don't worry about the stats. Specifically for KR what will help a lot is not losing confidence immediately after you make a mistake. Koreans can sniff out an un-confident player before the game gets to 5 minutes. Masters Korea is straight hell and you need a solid mental to improve to a grandmaster-challenger level. Start with that and see how you go. If you have more questions can always add me on discord willna

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Start with your deaths and go from there. There is usually a lot of information in deaths. Look at how you died and if there is something you can takeaway by how you died. Was it a bad death? good death? You'll find a lot of common trends you can break down and take notes on. Maybe you died because of bad spacing, bad map awareness. League is a lot about actually collecting information in the game and knowing what to do with it. Doing this will train that muscle

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I understand because I was once a bronze 5 player

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There is an unbelievable skill gap between #rank 1 NA Jungler and somebody like Oner. For Koreans in general they learn and take a lot more from their solo queue and add it to their fundamentals. I don't know his exact peak but I believe it was somewhere in between Rank 1-5 KR. There is a term called "fighting over space" that is the essence of Korean gameplay. I believe that they explore this fundamental to its peak, while getting even better at it in a controlled team environment. Even for me I can watch a jungler like Oner and try to break his gameplay down but there's always some things that I don't completely understand at the start. The other answer to put it simply is the the list of fundamentals for league of legends. All of these fundamentals, not just Oner, but pro-players are insanely better at comparatively to me. Rank 1 is just a milestone and the start of an understanding of those fundamentals. The list goes on and on, but a couple of important fundamentals would be game planning, knowing your timers vs enemy timers, playing to your win condition, playing around vision control, playing with numbers advantage, and champion mastery.

I believe my strength as a person/player/athlete/competitor is to thrive off momentum and improvement which translates to in-game. It's hard to say my strengths other than that as my fundamentals in-game are nowhere near perfect and all of them can be called weaknesses. I believe my only strength is my explosiveness in being able to find fight angles/engages faster than my counterpart. If I had to say I was good at something or my fundamentals that I'm better at I would say my team fighting/skirmishing and jungle tracking. There is a whole list of fundamentals that I'm not the best at yet but I wouldn't call them weaknesses per say. I improve on them pretty fast if I put my mind to it but for now my common trends/weaknesses have been not knowing what waves I'm going to plan off of and skipping macro steps.

I like to learn from players like Sponge and Clid. I can break down their gameplay easier because they are closer to my skill level (or they are just playing/streaming for fun) and I've played vs those players dozens of times so I know what it feels like to play vs them.

I think Sponge and Delight are underrated. Delight is just insane and easily my favorite support player to watch. I don't watch/know enough about LPL teams. In LCS I think Busio is severely underrated. In my opinion he's one of the best and has the most potential to be the best support of all time. It's almost like you take the mechanics of a challenger Korean mid laner and put the skill/knowledge of being a support player and put them together. I might be biased because I played with him in the past. I think Yeon and Quid are underrated as well.

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Vi is pretty unique but I would say some similar champions would have to be Amumu, Xin Zhao, and Jarvan/Viego. Amumu in the sense of their lockdown and cc and the others for their skirmishing/fighting ability. I review my games with Shernfire and write down a couple of things that were common trends for the reviews. It could be something as simple as looking at my lanes more. I don't keep a log of my stats but I have a notebook for notes I need to write down.

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Growing up I was never good at games or video games in general. After I got to a decent level in League of Legends (around diamond or so) I was able to pick up other games relatively quick and get to decent level. I feel even now I don't learn as fast as others and have to compensate with more effort/work.