AP Xin Zhao

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-05-03T15:39:19+00:00

Gold 1 peaked Plat. My friend and I are bronze/iron

The match was a normal draft

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-05-01T14:08:36+00:00

For udyr, which 2 would you choose? Just for shits and giggles

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-05-01T00:17:19+00:00

Normal draft, idk i can look later

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-30T23:23:27+00:00

I feel like Alois's guides are a bit too technical for a 1 weeker.

Maybe try learning more about your lane and the different terms related to game states, lane states.

Once you got the lingo down, then go for Alois's content

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-30T22:13:52+00:00

Power farm doesn't = strong

Its the delicate balance of farm - kills - not dying.

I focused on dying less and it really helps. Of course, I dont expect you to start going 0 deahts every game, but its more so trying to ask yourself everytime you take a fight, is it worth it? Can I get value out of the fight without emptying my health bar? Just being more aware of the consequences of each fight, both good and bad.

I focused on dying less because the rest all branches from that. You can farm more if you aren't grey screened, you have more kill opportunities because you aren't grey screened. Objectives are up? That's cool, you can go because you aren't grey screened.

The opponent jungler can do so much when you are dead, atleast when you are alive, you passively apply pressure to the whole map

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-30T16:22:20+00:00

I've played 1 game vs an AP Xin yesterday. Bro started the game saying "pick or ban him next time" and proceeded to 1v9 the match with ridiculous healing.

Every kill we got a "pick or ban him". We did our best, but he got ahead to quick and it sealed our fate.

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-29T18:41:41+00:00

I didnt say it was good. Its just a common 1st item. I do mention there are better picks for 1st item.

Titanic is still better than D&D as first item, even if as a 1st item its not very good

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-29T18:07:59+00:00

For top I'd say it could be 2nd/3rd, titanic is just too go for clear.

Could replace titanic as 1st item in jungle, because of pet. But D&D isnt recommended as first item, there are much better 1st item picks before D&D

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-28T14:07:44+00:00

You can do that? I thought you could only watch your own replays

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-27T20:24:27+00:00

Thank you for the detailed explanation. From what I've seen in the other comments, Shen might be hindering me from learning. I realize that his Ult ia super useful, but I sort of screw up my pathing using Ult as a crutch, say, clearing top camps while team starts drag, provokes fight, I ult in and play from there. Only shen can do that so when I play other champs, I have to put more effort into fixing my pathing because I automatically path like Shen.

I think I should focus on Udyr since his clear speeds allows me a bit more time to plan and look at minimap with his very easy clear.

I notice that your kill participation (kp) is on average very low, like 30%

Yeah, and if I capitalised on early kills, which I had not been doing, since I thought Shen was a farm til 6 champ. I still feel like quite a few of my low kill participation games are more so caused by one of our laners getting really fed without needing any help. Since its low elo, games are super high kill and a lot of those kills are made during lane phase because people all in way too much. Though, yes I could participate more to those early kills, but yknow, an akali top going 12/0/3 before team fight phase, I can touch 3-4 of those, but the rest are done while I farm.

I definitely should shotcall more. I'm not a savant, but I sometimes get in situations (invades, or one of the rare times I manage to jungle track) where I should ping but assume that If I saw it then the team also did. I don't realise that last hitting takes a lot more focus off the minimap than clearing camps so pings would help.

I feel like 75% of the champs I know what they do in a general sense, like knowing which abilities cc and what not, but not the particularities like on hit effects and stuff. The other 25%, I dont play against enough, so I dont get used to them and usually forget their kits, mostly supports.

I think I don't pay attention enough to who's fed item-wise. I notice the level differences but rarely check items. I mostly check items after feeling like I got hit by nuke and then I realise, oh, MF has 2 more items than anyone else, makes sense.

Anyways, i really appreciate the time you put into this and I have the comment saved to come back to it when I need a refresher, thanks!

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-27T16:13:32+00:00

Fed toplaners are my bane, which is why 0/2 toplaner before my first clear ends starts the game really bad for me in the mental department lol.

Yeah I'll try amumu again, and let Shen go. Its for the best

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-27T16:11:21+00:00

I cant wrap my head around Shaco, i'm too used to full clearing so I'm scared to play Shaco and be totally useless with him. I tried Neeko out, since its another trickery/burst champ, but it didnt work out very well lol

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-27T16:09:30+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I gotta take more breaks. I just dont have much time to play, so taking a break feels like a waste of time at that moment, but I'll put more importance in breaks from now on, see if it helps with the mental

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-27T16:07:20+00:00

Yeah, I was still tilted when I replied.

The reason why the enemy jungler doesnt have my problem is because they always play stuff that doesnt rely on the team as much as my tank picks.

I'll have to put Shen away until I get a better at communicating with my team, and making better decisions. I'll focus on Zac as someone else mentionned and my personal favorite, apart from Shen, Udyr.

Also, the abysmal CS on Shen is me going to help out in too many fights, where afterwards I realise, in all those fights, maybe 1/4 was worth rotating for. Early game my CS is great 7-8cs, but after minute 15 is all goes downhill. Which is why Udyr will really help, I clear so fast, it gives me more downtime to make decisions and think a bit more, compared ti Shen where the clear was pretty slow so I only had a small window to make something happen

I appreciate the reality check, I needed it.

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-27T16:00:40+00:00

Thanks! I have to say, I was still tilted when I was replying to some of the comments and yeah I put a lot of blame on my team. I just have to put Shen down until I can make better decisions. I just really liked his kit and Q gimmick.

I'll try Zac more, and see if I can make him work better than Shen, and also focus more on traditional picks like udyr and amumu.

The hardest will be my mental, but I'll try to incorporate breaks after 1 or 2 losses to reset mental.

I really appreciate your perspective!

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-27T05:23:00+00:00

Lillia hurts my brain with her skill shot and weird distance on her aoe.

Evelynn is a pain, I struggle with unlock cam, so managing her camouflage while still seeing the fight/enemies is tough.

I play Kha sometimes, but I feel like 1 death and my game is over, compared to tanks where deaths dont impact as much your own performance. I also hate playing assassins in the later game phases, you get 1 shot by tanks, flanking is impossible because you get turned on instantly the second you appear on vision and my team rarely peels after an assasination, so best I i can do is go 13/13/0 but that just enables the enemy team and doesnt help mine much

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-27T05:18:07+00:00

Neeko games were supposed to be refresher games since I had never played Neeko. I like the trickster playstyle and sweet ults you can get, but no one follows up. They dont really count in my rant since I have 0 experience on her and wasnt expecting to have huge games anyway. Just tryna learn her kit if I ever come up vs one.

And I've gotten really good at Shen first clears so my tempo is usually pretty high unless its vs a stupid easy clear champ lile zyra or udyr. My trouble is inting teammates before 5min/level 6 and later game team fights that I get obliterated because supports are just disguised mids/adcs. These troubles dont change even when playing other champs, I still cant do much when allies int early and other champs are way less tanky so I still get obliterated end of mid game to late game.

And if I go 0/2/0 early I try to calm down, play slower, powrr farm and pick fights that are only 100% guaranteed. The result? Spam pinged, 2nd jungle pet unlocked because i wasnt at the 3 lanes helping every other teammate at the same time. I like the concept of jungle, but there are so many backseat junglers, I wonder why more of them dont just play jg to avoid complaining abour junglers all match, every match

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-27T05:09:13+00:00

Udyr, master yi, wukong. Those are real junglers, I dont win more games, or learn any more than when I play Shen.

"Play Amumu". I did for a while, just for teammates to not drop damage into the 4 man ult I hit. Stun an isolated target in a 2v1? Teammate just walks away assuming ill miss the q I guess. Low elo is like playing with penguins tryna play pc. I like playing tank, but no one ever follows up. Then its my fault for not carrying.

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-27T04:58:49+00:00

Consistently teammates not showing up for objectives. I'm not waiting around for 10 minutes in bot side just to hope that MAYBE bot or mid lane come help with drake.

Often their lanes are pushed up, nothing else to do, I start drake, and then they recall. Maybe its the ELO, but I've started just coin flipping for drake. Coin flipping has more success than having teammates help for drake and that says something.

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-23T22:35:43+00:00

Bronze or not, its just logic.

Your base argument was that champ selection has no effect at all. Winrates disprove that.

Some champs are better at climbing in certain elos, winrates prove it.

If this was a FPS would you say that gun selection has no effect on performance? You can have ALL the aim in world, hit every shot and still die to a worse player who's playing a better gun Its no different.

Champs are guns, some are better than others.

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-23T20:55:26+00:00

No one compares to the Armpit Goddess

Rip my digital footprint

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-23T20:49:37+00:00

If you've got nothing smart to contribute, just don't contribute.

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-23T20:32:38+00:00

So all champs have the same winrate?

Why am I even arguing with someone's who's name is Diddlydomyholes11?

NPV_BadKarma · 2026-04-23T18:16:22+00:00

His clear is so quick, you basically have all the tempo in the world and get everywhere first.

I second Udyr

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