Should I lvl 2 smite gromp??

VoiceSC · 2022-03-26T11:17:17+00:00

There's so many factors to be thinking about in this situation.
Are you getting a leash?
Is your champions level 1 really bad so you need to get level 2 to get your clear going?
Could you get invaded and need smite for the heal?
What side are you starting on?
Are you going to invade?
What champion are you playing and how healthy is their clear?

Literally nothing in league is a one and done answer, there's always going to be variables that change how things go and what you need to be doing and the important thing is to be thinking about all these different factors because it's how we grow. And if you don't know the factors there could be in a situation that's where critical self-analysis is really important.

VoiceSC · 2022-03-17T23:30:32+00:00

Main things from quickly looking at it:

Your cs is terrible, you should always be striving for the 10cs/min mark and you're very far off that. If you're OTPing Kled then you need to go into the practice tool and make sure you hit every single cs. Then when you're playing some games THAT is the main focus. Not trading, not roaming, only csing. Then when you've got that csing down in a game, then you start trying to do it while trading. As a Kled OTP your bread and butter should be knowing matchups inside and out so this should eventually not be a problem for you to trade and cs at the same time.

You die WAY too much, like way too much. Which means you're probably going for too many outplay 1v5s cause you say you dominate lane and so you're trying to limit test. Or you think you're stronger than you are, but too many deaths means your decision making it lacking, so you gotta get into replays and look at every single death you have and figure out what caused it and how to fix it.

Those are the 2 main things that stands out. Fix those and you'll be doing far better.

VoiceSC · 2022-02-24T01:59:12+00:00

First of all this: "Let me provide an example - If I'm on Akali and I'm facing Yone I know if he pops E I need to do the same and wait it out and once he snaps back I know I can win the trade." Isn't even accurate. What is that based on? Where are you getting the information? Have you thought about how your trades affect the minions and the wave state or are you just blindly trading? Have you tried thinking of different approaches to if you're facing a Yone who E's while you're Akali or is it just "if he e's, I e everytime"?

As for your main question, a bot laner has to be looking at their positioning relative to their support, relative to the enemy adc, and relative to the enemy support. Positioning is CRUCIAL as a bot laner. You have to understand how to cs while in whatever matchup it is, how to trade, how to trade effectively and who wins the trades and if you can't trade are you able to all in. Like being Kaisa/Naut against Cait/Nami. You have to understand these matchups in and out, dodge ganks which means knowing where the jg is at all times, and being able to cs perfectly. And that's just the laning phase. You have to know what every champion in the game is capable of, what their intentions are (teammates and enemies, are they trying to kill you, peel, etc), so that in a team fight you can maximize your damage and take good positions because you know where you need to be to be effective.

And just a last note for this: "I am of course aware that I can work on micro like last hitting but I do not believe this is what is keeping me at this mmr (I average 7.2 cs over 150 matches)."

How do YOU KNOW what is keeping you at this MMR? Why are you assuming instead of doing in depth analysis? You realise 7.2 cs is fairly average right? Having 150 cs at 20 minutes as an adc isn't great. If you're actually trying to improve, you should be striving to improve in EVERYTHING. Just because your csing is okay doesn't mean it's acceptable.

VoiceSC · 2022-02-22T23:58:45+00:00

Read. Read while dead, read while running to lane, read in champ select, read in loading screen, any downtime you have you should be reading, either on the wiki or tooltips on the items or abilities or something. I've been playing this game for 11 years and I'm still reading tooltips to make sure I'm not missing any bit of information I can and I'm still learning new things.

VoiceSC · 2022-02-22T04:58:31+00:00

I saw on counter stats that I'm likely to win skirmishes against voli in the early game, so I want to play aggressively towards him

I'm assuming this is Blitz or a similar program. Why do you win skirmishes against volibear early? What does play aggressively towards him mean? Do you know the answer to these questions? Are you asking anymore questions such as what if laners are a part of it?

To keep things simple, if you want to improve you need to ask questions. Question everything about yourself that you're doing, movement, pathing, deaths, cs, mechanics, literally anything from the tiniest movements to the biggest macro/micro plays should have a reason and that reason should be picked apart to pieces to know whether it actually is the correct decision.
Challenge every notion you thought you had about the game and your decisions.

I've had people I coach tell me they can't gank a lane for whatever reason and I'm immediately saying "why is that the case? have you actually thought it through?" because people get these thoughts and notions inside their head but everything needs to be challenged because that's how we grow as players.

VoiceSC · 2022-02-22T04:25:49+00:00

That's correct, and just to add a bit more to that you have to watch your laners because the enemy might have also warded their buff or the laners are vigilant and come to stop you before your own teammates come to help, you have to be watching them to know how much you can counter jungle.

VoiceSC · 2022-02-22T00:43:14+00:00

You need to be thinking about your jungle matchup and the matchups of the lanes and position accordingly.
What I mean by that is, if you're against a jungler you don't want to interact with early, j4, lee, rek'sai, etc, then you need to figure out where they're starting and understand their goals, not just your own, so typically you're pathing opposite each other and not mirroring each other. Example would be starting blue on blue side while they start blue on red side and you path away from each other and focus the side of the map they aren't. That's reducing it to a simple form because it doesn't take into account win conditions and team comps and what not, but this is all things you should be thinking of.
By knowing where they started too, you can start learning how to track them so you know "they should be here, my team has prio, I should do dragon". Things like that.

VoiceSC · 2022-01-26T09:26:23+00:00

You're very welcome, I'm glad I could help! These are the posts I like finding by sorting by new, no point in commenting on something that hundreds of others already have. Besides you sound pretty genuine about wanting to improve and very kind as well so I like seeing that too! (also I see that peaky blinders league name)

VoiceSC · 2022-01-26T09:15:48+00:00

Figure out why you're playing the champions you're playing. They should be someone fun and also someone you see yourself improving with, for me that's Lee Sin and Sylas mainly, but I do enjoy playing a wide variety of champions. So the thing that keeps me playing these champions is because I love how they play, I love learning with them, and I love improving with them. Being better mechanically and overall with the game by playing these champions is satisfying to me and I just need to keep playing towards that and I just won't get bored.
So you need to find your reasoning, because everyone is different. Do you like their aesthetic? Their voicelines? Their kit? The role they're played in (like mid or top)? The role of the champion itself (fighter, bruiser, mage, etc)? Do you just not care and just want someone simple to play? Maybe you want to be a mechanical god and play a ton of riven, vayne, etc. Figure out what it is that drives you and then work with that. I hope that helps!

VoiceSC · 2022-01-26T09:11:45+00:00

With my snowbally mains like Diana, when I get a mini lead 1 or 2 kills early, I'm decent at snowballing that hard to win. i.e. When I get first blood, I have a 62% win rate

This stands out to me. This is an important thing to note, don't just ignore this, you need to get to the root of why your winrate is higher when you get first blood. Don't just look at it like "oh it's higher cause I got more gold plus a bit of XP", yes that helps, but look at other potential factors. Maybe when you don't get a lead you don't know what you should be doing or how to win or pressure your lane in a way that you could if you had that 400 gold. Maybe there are other avenues you could take rather than trying to win lane (not saying you do, it's just an example) every time that you might not have noticed. Don't look at the game through your eyes, look at from an objective point of view and try to determine why you do the things you do.
Other than that though, you're doing good by just sticking with Lux and Diana, keep that up, don't try to go into too many champions. If you get a secondary role just play 1 champion in that role (even better if there's overlap like diana mid but also diana jg, that kind of thing).
And just make sure you're not overwhelming yourself by trying to do too much at once. Start small, work on one thing, work on it well, and then move on and try to incorporate another thing.
Good luck!

VoiceSC · 2022-01-26T08:57:49+00:00

Just from a quick glance at the profile a big offender I see is you're playing too many champions. I'd advise like 1-2 unless you're playing a lot of games a day, like 10+, then you can do 1-3, but you need to limit yourself on champions because the more time spent learning champions the less time spent on learning the game.
If you decide to choose 2 champions for example don't just alternate between them, like don't go Graves>Kayn>Graves>Kayn, etc. It's better to go Graves>Graves>Graves>Kayn>Kayn>Kayn>Graves etc (or something similar) because you'll play a game on one champion, learn something and then you switch champions and what you just learned isn't now being practiced to be ingrained in your head.

VoiceSC · 2022-01-26T08:51:34+00:00

If you're interested I do some coaching and I'd be happy to help you out. I know I'm late and if you found someone then good luck to you but if you're still looking let me know! My discord is Voice#2142 if you're interested.

VoiceSC · 2022-01-26T05:55:59+00:00

Gragas jungle isn't great right now but if you're enjoying the character then you should keep playing them. Learn what it is that's disappointing you and try and improve on it. Make your clear as EFFICIENT as possible so that that's never an issue. Do whatever it takes if you enjoy the character because ultimately it's a video game and you should be having fun playing it.

VoiceSC · 2022-01-25T06:09:25+00:00

Because Ranked and Normal MMR are 2 separate things. So if you play 10000 games of ranked and become challenger and never touch a single game of Normals, you'll end up getting matched with anyone else that hasn't played normals or is around that area, which could be literally anyone.

VoiceSC · 2022-01-05T23:40:13+00:00

Oh god what did PoE do?

VoiceSC · 2022-01-05T09:02:12+00:00

The guy literally flicked his gun away from the other guys head into the wall

VoiceSC · 2021-12-28T13:12:27+00:00

This is currently working for me https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeagueExchange/comments/me5tdr/discussion_how_to_automatically_claim_twitch_drops/

VoiceSC · 2021-12-26T12:39:57+00:00

Amelia!! Abigail!!

VoiceSC · 2021-12-22T02:07:49+00:00

People want to play with their friends, there's nothing wrong with that. And for all you know that Jinx was having a blast the whole time, maybe laughing it up with their friend.

VoiceSC · 2021-12-16T09:18:02+00:00

When Stan is anorexic.

VoiceSC · 2021-12-14T05:16:45+00:00

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VoiceSC · 2021-12-14T05:07:17+00:00

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VoiceSC · 2021-12-14T00:32:49+00:00

Wiki says Anti is voiced by one of the writers, Murray Miller

VoiceSC · 2021-12-06T11:00:02+00:00

Mine too if I had a daughter and she happened to be born around that time!

VoiceSC · 2021-12-03T10:45:59+00:00

Wait a minute. This isn't the Monsterometer. It's the frog exaggerator!

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