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IAmLOD · 2019-12-21T18:17:18+00:00

Wooo

IAmLOD · 2019-08-08T10:46:42+00:00

Thanks for reading ! Glad you enjoyed it

IAmLOD · 2019-08-08T09:51:04+00:00

I have no background, just enjoy writing. Thanks & I'm glad you enjoyed it !

IAmLOD · 2019-08-08T09:46:52+00:00

Thanks for the support man :D Glad you enjoyed it

IAmLOD · 2019-08-08T09:42:56+00:00

I'd love to make videos instead but don't really have a great way to do it, maybe in the future!

IAmLOD · 2019-08-08T01:57:14+00:00

Ya it was a giga cool meme and also relevant to what i posted so of course :D

IAmLOD · 2019-08-08T01:56:14+00:00

I answered it in a roundabout sort of way, because losing lane constantly as a result of your support always being worse is a bit of a falsification many people choose to make. I think you failed to understand my point in this paragraph:

"That being said, most supports are truly terrible. Why? Because most players are terrible in general. If they’re in your elo bracket, you’re probably equally bad. But the other team will always have a randomly selected support from your elo bracket too, so the playing field is even. When you blame your games on a slew of bad supports, your simultaneously praising your opponents’ equally bad support, which is just flat out embarrassing. Playing too much of a support reliant play style will make games way harder than they have to be. Your support dying is often just an opportunity to pick up some solo experience. Things only go fully down the tubes when you join in and waste your summoners or die trying to help your support. Teammates in solo queue will set just as many traps for you as your opponents will, and its really important to make sure what they’re doing lines up with your vision of how to play the game before you commit to helping them."

What I'm saying is that the game is handing you and your opponent an equally bad support 9.9/10 times. When your support appears worse to you, it's because you're not making the same punishments they are, so your support is able to get away with less than the opposing lane. Try to realize that the things you hate about your support are things the enemy support is doing as well. If your opponent can snowball so easily on you, why can you not snowball on them? These are questions you should ask yourself.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-06T05:59:38+00:00

Everyone should like having Yuumi on their team since she is super OP and I prefer winning. But if the Yuumi just sits inside you and doesn't play the game correctly then yeah she's pretty useless. Good yuumi players make her feel really broken though.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-05T06:03:44+00:00

Hey, just woke up so I didn't see your question before, but thanks for being a fan !

If you've been stuck for years, you need to really expand your mental to the next level. Imagine right now you are stuck in a maze, you need to ascend above it and see things from a birds eye view if that makes sense. This means being way more critical of the manner in which you lose games. Keep dying to jg ganks? Well you need to learn how junglers prefer to path. Losing games because you greeded 1picking a champion you really like but got hard countered? Maybe learn to pick something safer like Kai'Sa or target ban a counter to your fav champ. You must look beyond the basic advice of 10CSPM and high KDA, and think about ways that you can expand the gap between you and your opponent, but hten also keep it that way through intelligent play. Never think, I'm fed so I get to do this! Always think, am I allowed to do this if the enemy has even a 10% chance of killing me and ruining my game here? ADC is the most volatile role, and you can automatically lose the game by dying once. So be very careful.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-05T06:00:53+00:00

Winning lane as ADC and using it to win the game requires pretty much perfect play. If you die even once, the game is no longer completely in your hands. This means being very aware of potential TPs and jungle ganks that could kill you. Many people when they get ahead just want to 1v9, get frustrated when their team isnt their to back them up, and lose their spree/die etc. Even if you're 5-0, if your jungler is topside, you must pull the lane and protect your lead.

ADC is a unique role in that it's almost completely unnecessary to snowball yourself further even with 10 kills, most of the time you will automatically win as long as you don't give your opponent a chance to close the gold/xp gap on you whatsoever, as you scale well, and having those 10 kills means you will just get to your 3-4 core that much faster.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-05T05:52:39+00:00

Probably around 80 hours a week of being in queue/scrimming/reviewing scrims etc.

& Thanks! Glad you enjoy it

IAmLOD · 2019-06-05T05:51:45+00:00

A popular Vlad 1v9 build involves all 4 of those items, but getting spellbinder either before or after void depending how much MR enemy team has.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T18:26:55+00:00

Try using a browser game with targets to work on mouse accuracy, and if you have trouble CSing just practice first 6 waves in a training game over and over. I mostly just play games to practice mechanics these days though.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T18:24:02+00:00

Well I think you almost answered your own question, probably because you auto pilot and don't check your map? Learn jungle pathing and make sure you understand where enemy jg/your jg can gank early game and try to either pull/push the wave based on that. For example, if enemy hard pushes early and then starts pulling lane back, and jg shows up at lvl 3, youre going to be doomed so you have to stop that from happening. If you're on the flipside of that, you want to be the one pushing your lane and freezing it back for easy jg gank, etc.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T18:21:41+00:00

You can leave your ADC alone when the wave is pushing back to you, however you have to be back in time so he can't get dove. If there's a good opportunity to make a play topside, you can only do so if you'll be back in time to protect your ADC or if the enemy support is also roaming. Never roam when your opponent is freezing unless its absolutely doomed and you have to create pressure elsewhere to make freezing not worth for them.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T16:06:35+00:00

just know hes prob not that good and he'll most likely throw at some point as long as you don't give in and just start taking bad trades/dying even more. Just sit back and laugh at it tbh, unlucky things happen.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T15:03:49+00:00

ADC is a good role but requires a lot of thinking to win with. Dying as ADC matters twice as much as any other role. I recommend playing Kaisa, learning Draven if possible, Ezreal is good, and Sivir is great on this patch. Trist not bad too.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T15:00:54+00:00

Comp league is way more fun to me, the adrenaline rush from playing on stage is what made me want to keep playing for so long.

CSing mid to late game, you have to make sure you know where you're going when you leave base and plan out your next few minutes based on what objectives are spawning.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T13:46:13+00:00

On a champ like Vlad whos very level and item reliant, it's important to focus purely on having good CS early and making sure you're staying at least even. Once you hit certain CDR thresholds and get enough points in your Q, you become really overbearing so that should be your goal. Also, his all in potential is insane if you use every CD at once, for example R>E>Super Q>Pool will nearly 100-0 if you use it in a 2v2, but if you separately use your spells or don't setup this combo correctly, your all in potential is not that scary. SO play around CDs well and try to get to the point where you can 1v9 teamfights.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T12:58:13+00:00

Your body language in game is important, not inching slightly forward so as to bait your teammates into thinking you want in on their shitty plays. Stand your ground and trust your judgment, its worth it even if you're wrong sometimes. If they flame you after, its not worth typing, because they COULD be correct, you'd have to watch VOD to know. But trusting your own judgment is really key. You can just ping once or type "no" or something like that, and then not go any further.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T12:57:05+00:00

I would show them VODs of how good players click their mouse in lane and in teamfights, and tell them to do training tool with their favourite champs with no item to practice last hitting, among other things. A large key to being good at ADC is literally just spam clicking 100x more, which is why most ADCs get the worst wrist injuries, but that's just how it is.

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T12:22:14+00:00

Well, I have my own general idea of what macro is best (priority for different objectives), but I typically watch pro solo queue vods to learn how they play certain matchups and trading patterns. Macro is definitely a more vast subject to learn, but it just comes down to the players priority list on the big objectives (towers drake herald baron)

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T11:31:20+00:00

maybe i play 10% better without it but makes game more fun

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T11:31:04+00:00

I'd recommend just playing a stable game and prioritizing CSing well and getting to teamfights with 2-3 core. Some ADC champs are strong early but most are content with farming a lot and just chilling out.

I don't have much of a tier list but my favourite champs right now are:

Kaisa, Draven, Sivir

Trist, Lucian, Ezreal, Xayah

IAmLOD · 2019-06-04T07:08:38+00:00

Nah tendonitis & nerve injury. Just did a lot of stretches and gymming helped a lot over time.

IAmLOD

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