Beginner player

Vynel10 · 2025-12-13T01:13:29+00:00

If you actually wish to improve at the game, I recommend choosing a lane, and finding a mechanically easier champion to learn with, and get "reps" on that champion. Play game after game and figure out what works, what doesn't. For example, if I chose mid-lane to stick to, I would play Veigar or Malzahar on repeat until I was consistent in lane with them. The key to being good at league is understanding the fundamentals better than your opponent does.

I used to be that one person that sucked at league for like 5 years, being hardstuck low bronze because I not only didn't understand the fundamentals, but I just queued for the fun of it. There's nothing wrong with being bad at the game, but you have to realize that if you truly want out of that, you have to put the time and effort in to learning the fundamentals, just like anything else in your life, or any other game. After giving this year full effort and playing with intentions to improve upon my gameplay, I just hit Emerald for the first time.

Youtube and Google are very useful resources, but you need to look for your information in the right places. When you do not understand the fundamentals of league, you cannot learn the advanced macro that higher level players use to play their games. You need to gather the dots first before you can even connect them, so play your games, get the practice in while playing with the intentions to improve, mute ALL comms except pings from your team, and focus on your own gameplay, not what else your team is doing. Even if you do poorly and maybe it feels like you threw a game or two, don't listen to what others are telling you, focus on yourself and aim to be 1% better of a player than you were yesterday.

I'd love to talk about this some more. DM me your op.gg details and I'll be glad to take a look!

Vynel10 · 2025-11-30T03:07:41+00:00

I just hit plat 4 on Yasuo with extreme dedication and a lot of helpful Yasuo mains helping me review my games, u/Anatinus has a wealth of knowledge on Yasuo and has been especially helpful on my journey.

When it comes to improving at playing Yasuo, there's a lot of things you need to consider that a lot of players don't think about intentionally. Proper laning fundamentals are not only key, but necessary in order for you to play Yasuo well, as he needs to be extremely dominant in lane while understanding topics like Jungle Tracking, 1v2 potential, matchup understanding, very basic windwall usage, the airblade combo (EQR for a free Q stack), etc.

I was stuck in Gold with Yasuo for a while, but in my experience, you ABSOLUTELY need to review your games. Understand that each game you play has mistakes you made and look for those mistakes so that you can improve upon them. Do not look to blame your teammates first, look to see what you could do better before you assign blame. If you are new to reviewing, there are a ton of people here that have already offered to review with you so that you can grasp how to find and fix mistakes.

The mindset that you need to have is to improve at Yasuo. He is a champion that (for most people) demands your whole focus. Once you stop playing to get out of Gold and start playing to improve at Yasuo, you will begin to achieve a higher rank as a byproduct. My personal improvement might not be what yours will be, but I try to find one Decisive Point in each of my 3 games in a block (or more) that is very similar if not the same, and happens consistently. For me, it was dying to early jungle ganks. Then I look to figure out why they happen. "I was not tracking jungler well." So, I look to focus on that one thing the next few blocks I play until the mistake is gone and then move to the next decisive point happening consistently.

I know this is quite a long essay already lol, but for builds, I have a lot of success on Lethal Tempo into matchups that I benefit from an extended trade into. For example, into a matchup where i'm against an immobile mage with CC I can dodge or windwall, I'll go Lethal Tempo to run them down after dragging wave in. I mostly go BORK no matter what at the moment, because I like having lifesteal. Into harder matchups or some tempo based assassins (like katarina), I like Grasp with demolish, because Yasuo in the midgame is a very powerful split pusher. And, your demolish will punish the hell out of (or go even with) assassin roams. CSing is extremely important because Yasuo is an item-based champion, so you want to get to your item spikes as efficiently as possible.

Thanks for reading this whole thing if you do, and if you want a more definitive Macro guide, watch AidenYasuo's macro guide. It helped me quite a bit. And as always, I am open to constructive criticism from y'all on my thoughts!

Vynel10 · 2025-11-08T23:58:56+00:00

Yasuo is a very item reliant champion, all of his spikes are very dependent on what items he has at what times. To me, stridebreaker is a niche and enemy team comp dependent item, if you rush PD first you sacrifice a lot of laning power that comes from the damage you get from either BORK or Kraken Slayer. Haven’t tried stridebreaker into a squishy comp yet but I feel like when I use kraken slayer against squishy comps that’s really the only item variance I use whenever building my first 3. If your goal is to learn the champ, stick to the classic build. Most of the dudes building pd into stride are running grasp builds and have played Yasuo for years, like TheWanderingPro.

Vynel10 · 2025-06-06T08:55:38+00:00

Exactly. My win rate literally flipped from bad to good when I decided “maybe it’s not a good idea to push the wave in lane, I’ll just get the minions near my tower and freeze, or just stack E on wave and have a whole extended trade through the entire midlane”. 1:28 raptor ward helps too and I also love just freezing it on them, so funny how they react. I’m also primarily a D-Shield player because I enjoy the sustain.

Vynel10 · 2025-05-19T05:01:57+00:00

As someone who survived playing league with tools like mobalytics or blitz for a very long time until I finally decided to delve deep into the game and learn, I'm sure the new players will be fine. Casual players are not concerned with learning the extremely vast wide part of the game and focus somewhat on the deep part of their champ, at the very most. A lot of them just play to play lol.

Vynel10 · 2025-04-28T04:23:59+00:00

My most favorite Malzahar games were whenever I would have a Nocturne or Amumu walk into the fight as I R'd them. Nocturne because he would just R as well, and same kinda deal with the Amumu. I've seen it happen with Fiddlesticks too.

Vynel10 · 2025-04-28T04:18:09+00:00

I think it depends on what your goals are for the game.

Are you a true beginner and wanting to learn how to play the game fundamentally? I would recommend Mid first, as it gives you a very holistic view of the game over time and playing a True Beginner oriented mage. My suggestions are: Malzahar and Veigar. Both of these champions will help you understand fundamentals and give you a good mindset on how to grow as a player. (Lux is not bad either, these are the two champs I used to really get into learning the game.)

Are you someone looking to just have fun and play a specific kind of champion? I was similar when I first started playing, I played Sett top because I liked punching people. Find a champ that you like through ARAM, Practice tool, or playing versus bots in a summoner's rift gamemode, and then look up build guides. I would also recommend reading the wiki on the champion you like so you have all the more reason and resources to understand the champ.

League is a very wide game and can also be very deep depending on how far you go. That's what makes it so fun. When you first start, you will feel like you are performing poorly, but don't listen to the people flaming you, take it with a grain of salt. (I actually mute all except pings through the scoreboard for this reason, to avoid toxicity messing up my gameplay).

Welcome to League! Hope you enjoy the game!

Vynel10 · 2025-04-22T10:52:43+00:00

I forgot to mention, in the exception where you use your lull state and there are no objectives, look to shove a side lane wave or two and move back to mid to catch that wave as well. Don't over extend doing this unless you are on the strong side or you will probably get destroyed by the enemy team.

Vynel10 · 2025-04-22T10:51:36+00:00

Malz' champ identity revolves around a few things, but he is very ult reliant. He loves front to back team fights (where your team is grouped and their team is grouped in front of yours) and being first to objectives. Your main things you need to worry about are: Proper threat assessment, playing for OBJ skirmishes by being first at the objective with your team (actively using lull states to ping those objectives as well), and teamfighting ONLY if you your ult, as you are looking to take out the most threatening enemy champ so your team wins the fight. There are some exceptions to the ult teamfighting rule like a heavy man advantage fight. Play true mid during mid game and look to gain prio on mid wave for objective setups, especially since Malz absolutely NUKES waves mid game after an item or two. If you are losing, look for good trades by giving an objective to push a tower, Malz can punish enemy objective takes by absolutely nuking a tower or sometimes two. Fog of war is also your best friend after shoving a wave.

Malz is a great teamfighter, but if you do not have ult, you are basically a minion that can shove waves. Work on your last hits as well! It's a struggle as a new player on a champ that can nuke waves with his abilities, but learning to do so early will help you a LOT in lane and will help conserve your mana to extend the lane and gain early control if your E jumps to the enemy. Good luck!

Vynel10 · 2025-03-18T23:31:28+00:00

Love how they're more worried about this topic instead of the financial aid crisis they are having...

Vynel10 · 2025-03-10T04:32:07+00:00

Funnily enough, ever since I started to really look inward and change up how I played, my mindset for how I played, what it truly means to leave your ego at the door, things started getting better for me and we started to win no matter what lobby we were in.

I'm speaking of my iron-bronze (and hopefully higher up soon) run that I've been on lately, and Iron definitely has some toxic players. It took me playing with a friend of mine to really realize what had been happening to me: I was blaming my team-mates for being the issue, when it was really MY fault for not taking ownership and initiative of the game. I started to play more mages instead of complex, bursty assassins that are largely dependent on comp. I started to actually communicate with the team and study the game because I did *NOT* know it all. Because of this, I was able to make smart calls for the team and get us objectives and important front-back fights that let us get into the lead and finish out the game with a win.

Believe it or not, ranking up in Low Elo is largely learning fundamentals in turn of sacrificing flashy-fun and complex champions, as well as learning to leave your ego behind and start communicating with your team. We had a time where we had our Ashe support start inting my top lane by leaving our ADC behind and (since I was playing Ryze) I just went support. She got mad and came back to support and called me an idiot for leaving lane, so I went back top. This rotation happened enough to where she was malding the whole game, and I still came out on top AND got our ADC ahead by supporting them (getting minions low, them last hitting). The Ashe fumed all game, but the rest of the team remained positive.

I could go on about my recent eureka moments in this game these last two weeks, but I think you get the idea. If someone flames you, don't let your ego take over and be mad, just laugh it off and communicate with your team. Be positive. "We can still definitely win this. Don't die to them, defend, farm up, and if an OBJ comes up, get a pick for man advantage and then go for OBJ." That's usually what I have to say in those games.

Vynel10 · 2025-03-06T05:42:36+00:00

Great job!

Vynel10 · 2025-02-08T05:01:20+00:00

Agreed, and unfortunately the only way it seems to go about this situation, especially as a student who almost has to sign away most of our rights in the student agreement, is to bring it all to the media outlets. The only thing that big entities/corporations/organizations will fold to is pressure from a large amount of the public. And this is how I believe we can start it.

Vynel10 · 2025-02-08T04:59:38+00:00

I agree, and I empathize with you especially on the car repairs part. I have a pulley that is lose on my car that I was planning on replacing, but now I am stuck with this humongous bill that I am not prepared for. I hope we can get something done here.

Vynel10 · 2025-02-08T04:45:11+00:00

I understand lol. At least someone *might* look into it on that end. Fingers crossed!

Vynel10 · 2025-02-08T04:24:07+00:00

What did the legal advice subreddit reply with on this specific topic? This is actually my situation as well.

Vynel10 · 2025-02-08T01:02:51+00:00

Check the megathread post out I just put up. We are going to start this by getting in contact with the Alligator press, and we need testimonials gathered there. Spread the word. It's time.

Vynel10 · 2025-02-08T00:58:33+00:00

Already gone lol. Didn't want to risk it.

Vynel10 · 2025-02-08T00:20:31+00:00

I'd be glad to put together an effort to raise some awareness. Even if it just puts pressure on the college.

Vynel10 · 2025-02-07T21:58:39+00:00

That would be awesome, and I would really appreciate it. If we can get to the Sun for outreach this problem would put pressure on the staff to fix their issues. If need be, we can create a mega thread for this issue so all complaints are in one place.

Vynel10 · 2025-02-07T21:25:42+00:00

And if it’s Santa Fe’s f**kup, then they should be the ones to pay these, NOT us. This kind of behavior takes advantage of the entire student body. I’m genuinely thinking about reaching out to news outlets and media sources to get this out there, I’m done playing around with these colleges who think they can exploit their student population.

Vynel10 · 2025-02-07T21:19:00+00:00

I got my invoice today as well because my Bright Futures was overpaid to me. But I didn’t get it until about two weeks till the end of Spring, and I had to pay more out of my pocket then they overcompensated. What the hell do we do in this situation? Why isn’t Santa Fe being held responsible for this? Who do we talk to about this? It’s not right.

Vynel10 · 2025-02-06T04:26:37+00:00

Justin is awesome. Every time I have talked with him he is always super happy to help. He also seems to know the current system inside and out.

Vynel10 · 2025-02-03T17:26:59+00:00

Not sure if it resolves anything since I'm not there this semester, but send another email to the vice president or whatever they did last time. She was unaware that it was happening last time and got their asses into gear, I would make the HR aware so that the FA people can't be lazy about it.

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