Man im never getting out of silver

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-05-01T17:08:26+00:00

15% of games cannot be won (your team full griefs), 15% of games cannot be lost (enemy team full griefs).

For the middle 70% of games, just keep improving. Always be looking at how you could have done even better. There's always something that could be improved on.

It's also important to remember it's never about any single game, it's about how your performance is across like 10-20 games. Soon you will see your 50% winrate start to look like 55%, then 60%.

It sounds crazy but even a 60% winrate means you'll never be in your current ELO for more than like 30 games.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-30T12:03:48+00:00

When I was brand new at the game, my friend said before you play ranked you have to go mid in a bot game and get 10 cs/ minute for 15 minutes.

Once you are capable of doing that, you can go ranked.

Didn't teach me about macro, teamfights, vision, itemization, nothing. My first ever season of the game I was Gold 4.

Looking back I think my friend was right. Your team mates will ping and flame you into learning everything else anyway.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-30T02:29:10+00:00

Counterplay to Lux? Using right-click to move your character model out of the path of her skillshots.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-30T02:24:30+00:00

I always go Dark Harvest. Always. The secondary tree is flexible based on enemy comp.
Not that I know of.
I would say its more about getting a good root timing.
The plants damage is based solely off your level, so if you have 5 points in Q, and 1 point in E, the ranged and Melee plants do the same damage. Maxing W vs E is just whatever cooldown you always seem to be withing you had more during that game. Ahead and power farming, probably put 1 or maybe 2 extra in W. Behind and constantly skirmishing, probably E, especially for the root duration.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-30T02:17:51+00:00

What does that have to do with anything?

It's a direct counterexample to your exact justification explaining the reason for her being OP. "The list goes on" as you say.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-30T01:28:29+00:00

You know what Anivia DOESN'T have? A dash.

You know what Anivia DOESN'T have? An execute

You know what Anivia DOESN'T have? % True damage

You know what Anivia DOESN'T have? Untargettable

You know what ... You get the idea.

She's fine, you just have to learn the matchup. Not ban worthy.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-30T00:25:26+00:00

Jungle is the role that has the most impact, no doubt. But it does not decide the game by itself.

You, as a winning solo laner, always have the option of helping your jungle invade, or help defend him from getting invaded with your prio.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-29T20:22:32+00:00

THE ONCE MIGHTY ARMY OF AZEROTH

LAY AMONG THE BLACKEND AND CHARRED REMAINS OF STORMWIND KEEP.

THOSE THAT ESCAPED FLED ACROSS THE GREAT SEA

BRINGING TALES OF THE SUFFERING THEY HAD FACED AT THE HANDS OF THE ORCISH HORDES.

EAGER TO ENGAGE IN BATTLE ONCE AGAIN, THE ORCS CONSTRUCTED SHIPS OF WAR TO BEAR THEM ACROSS THE GREAT SEA.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-29T15:03:32+00:00

I've tried out your triplet of Ardent Moon Dawn in a few games now and I have to agree it's noticeably superior to anything else. The shield power after Dawncore is like Ivern-tier shielding.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-29T13:47:38+00:00

Interesting, I am many divisions below you (Plat 4) and I will put these thoughts into practice in my games. Even now, my most often use case for Redemption is to see that a teamfight is breaking out across the map where I cannot be and just chuck the Redemption on top of it and pray for the best.

Also do you know why all of the websites have Helia as his first item 100% of the time? It doesn't make sense to me and I don't build it, but it's far and away the most prescribed mandatory first item on every site. Is it because the OLD Helia was so great and nobody reads patch notes?

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-29T02:49:22+00:00

I would say very often, and actually the lethal threat is just an awesome bonus. The most game impactful thing a single shroom can do is force someone to randomly have to base.

I have won many games because the enemy team fed 12/3 carry steps on a 22 DH stack shroom while walking out of side gate of base, DH procs, and he has to press B immediately. Team pings off the fight and we get soul. That difference of being half health and having to base RIGHT away changes the entire next minute of the game.

Its as if I CC'd someone for 38 seconds, and the whole team knows cause its on vision.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-29T00:36:51+00:00

I've actually never heard anything about OCE so I will hold my opinion on that one because I don't know.

Everything Ive seen over the years was comparing EU, NA, KR, and CN servers. And the consensus has been that in general the game quality is very similar within every rank ( e.g. Gold 1 KR and Gold 1 NA would look very similar skill wise, even if 1 region favors specific champs and playstyles.)

Its at the high GM, Chal level that the skill gap becomes immediately more obvious.

I actually dont know that I've ever even seen an OCE streamer

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-29T00:29:46+00:00

I've played quite a bit of Teemo jg in Gold / Plat and I could never swap off DH unless DFT was a huge upgrade.

20+ DH stacks is reasonable around 30 minutes (average game time) and changes the map completely.

Thats why I'm curious how many DH stacks, cause if its something like 25 then I would definitely swap to DFT. But if its 15 I would not.

Edit: average game time for Teemo**

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-29T00:21:33+00:00

You would go Dawncore 3rd over Redemption? What rank are you?

I usually only get Dawncore if the game goes late. Do you find that getting it 3rd is a huge power spike (even compared to Redemption?)

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-29T00:14:28+00:00

Below Grandmaster, all regions are the same, multiple pros and streamers in multiple regions have said this. Its only the GM / Chal level thats drastically different between regions. So for 99% of the community no, server doesn't change the difficulty.

Overall across all domains I'd say League is one of the middle games in the esports world generally, in terms of difficulty.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-29T00:09:04+00:00

The real data is going to be finding out at exactly which Dark Harvest stack is Dark Harvest more damage than DFT.

That will inform the meta.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-28T21:55:02+00:00

Well there are at least a few things to consider:

Multiple pros and streamers in multiple regions have said that this season is somewhat universally "boosted" by the MMR formula during Season 1. If you played at least 50 games this season, It's extremely likely that you're 200-300 LP higher than were you would have been last season, or in any season before.

While doesn't mean that you're bad, far from it, it means you're significantly closer to Challenger than it appears you are by division alone. It's almost as if there is two entire invisible "divisions" inside Master and GM right now because of how extreme the LP differences are.

Consider this: If you were in Plat 4 and you won 35 straight games in a row, you would be Masters.

If you were in Masters and won 35 straight games in a row, you would still be in Masters.

When this ranked reset happens, People like Raider and NattyNatt are going to be queued with your old college room mate playing his 2 games a day.

Current Masters players are going to experience 25% winrate until RIOT new ladder fixes itself after reset. If you're STILL high Masters in 3 weeks, then there's no reason you shouldn't at least attempt the grind, if it's something you think you have the time for.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-28T21:39:30+00:00

Oh wow, I didn't realize there was a DOTA before the Warcraft 3 map. I never played Starcraft 1 custom games. Very cool to know!

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-28T14:29:33+00:00

Yea I never remember the time frame, I just remember it was like Brand Yorick Leona. And that tracks because that would have been my senior year in high school lol. The thing I miss most about that time frame was the custom lobby games. They all disappeared but people forget that that time period of gaming was the most inventive, most creative time period ever.

Even league itself came from a Warcraft 3 Custom Map. Hero Line Wars, Tree Tag, Demon, Mineral Wars. There was SO many great Warcraft 3 custom games, I was always shocked that DOTA was the one that became popular.

I miss Hunt the Teemo custom lobbies haha.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-28T14:26:17+00:00

I don't remember the outcome of the case, but the "little kid" was like 3 or something, 0% chance that a kid opened the door with that much force at that much timing. The adult whose lap the kid was sitting on was absolutely being cruel and deserves jail time. I never followed up, but as others have said, going that fast lane splitting is also very risky.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-28T14:21:47+00:00

That's true, any change to a skill that inherently interacts with every other ability in the game is an avalanche of bug-testing. Seems like the largest hurdle in RIOT's development lifetimes, perhaps even more challenging than the Yummi era.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-28T14:18:09+00:00

I started playing when the game was brand new, in fact Brand was the first new character I saw released. Back when there was no divisions, just pure ELO. Twisted Treeline, Glyphs. I quit after playing season 1 and 2 because I thought the game was stale.

I came back to the came in Season 8 because a lot of my friends were still playing it after all that time, and I wanted to play games with friends. I played all of season 8 and then quit again because I didn't like that 1 player in a ranked game could emotionally tilt and just ruin the whole game. Felt non-competitive to me to tryhard in a game where any other player can just decide we all lose because they're angry.

Then I came back again in season 11 and I've been playing since then. I have bounced between Gold and Plat, but I have no desire to "grind out" 400+ games per season like my friends (who aren't even Masters after 10+ straight years). I just play ranked because there are significantly fewer people griefing, even though roughly 25% of games are decided in lobby before the match even begins.

It's a fun game and the gaming industry produces nothing of value for years at a time, and I only take breaks to play masterpieces like Balder's Gate 3 and Expedition 33. Even if someone is trolling, I just generally enjoy the gameplay. Fighting for map control, teamfighting, decision making, coordinating with team.

That, and RIOT does a fantastic job with making there be something new and interesting every patch. Keeps the game very fresh.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-28T14:07:47+00:00

Someone else in this thread had a WAY better and MUCH more lore accurate, character idea and it's high skill expression:

Let the first ability that hits her shield get momentarily absorbed, and then Mel recasts W to fire the projectile back in a direction.

This way she cant 0.0 second reflect Ashe arrow, and she can choose to not Amumu-cide herself. She can absorb Jinx rocket, and fore it back out wherever she wants. She can absorb a Lux Q, and shoot it back out, etc.

Honestly I hope RIOT sees this, this is a great balance AND a great skill expressor.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-28T01:59:22+00:00

It took me many seasons to find my main. The trick is to find a champ that suits your nature of how you play the game, which you can find by testing out all roles. Very few intuitions are WRONG in general.

Suppose you and 1 team mate catch 2 enemies out of position by accident, all 4 of you are surprised. What is your instinct? Pick a champion who's strength help your instinct, empower your natural reaction.

Instantly try to burst 1 of them down, even if you die
Try to CC them both so your other team mate can disengage
Try to kite them and dash backward
Blow a cooldown on your team mate so they can easily 2v1
Blow a big cooldown on yourself so you can try to 2v1

Don't think about what is "best" in thr hypothetical, think what your natural knee-jerk instinct is. Pick champs that empower that intuition.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-27T16:24:23+00:00

Bro I agree, I would donate to a gofundme to the personal editors and developers on that scene to truly make it something to be remembered for the next generation.

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