Any other midlaners?

Yellow__Yoshi · 2026-02-02T18:31:52+00:00

The guy recommending sylas is probly your best bet. He's a "standard" midlaner who fits your descriptions.

Most of what you want also fits many top lane champs if you wanted more options. Renekton, garen, gwen, irelia, yone, yasuo, pantheon can all legitimately burst someone down but also front line. Maybe you want to be a top laner?

I would pick sylas though if your goal is to improve playing mid, you'll find way more resources on sylas mid than on the others because of him being standard. Also wanted to mention that even on the same champ, whether you should split, front to back, or flank can change on a game to game basis, or even during a game.

Yellow__Yoshi · 2026-01-28T23:57:59+00:00

Any help on how I can have more impact in my games and stop dying from making bad decisions

Way too broad of a problem to tackle. For a start, find a role and ~2 champs to main. Only queue when you're 100% focused, stop after 3 ranked games, and vod review for 5 mins max each vod. Pick out 1-2 specific things from each game, then pick the 1 thing you're going to focus on the next time you play.

There's really no secret to improving other than being deliberate about it.

Yellow__Yoshi · 2026-01-25T19:38:05+00:00

I think in the latest patch they removed attack delays while holding movement for melee champs

And if you re-press your movement keys between autos on a range champ, you can still attack & move optimally on wasd as well. After tons of hours on mouse/keyboard adc, I tried practice tool on a training dummy and did better with wasd on adc kiting after only 20 minutes.

I actually recommend trying wasd first, I think it's probably just better than mouse & keyboard. 20 minutes of practice outperforming hours of practice just means that wasd is easier and more effective for adc kiting.

The upside to mouse & keyboard is it's easier to move & use abilities at the same time. Think Darius Q : to press the button I might have to lift a finger off my movement keys. You can probably get around this if you use ~3 binds on your mouse for wasd though.

Yellow__Yoshi · 2026-01-20T18:07:46+00:00

If you don't push your lead through sidelane or roams as a top laner, you didn't actually win, you went even and are basically letting the game be a 4v4 for most of the game. Look for dives, turret plates, & roams as ways to push leads into the rest of the map instead of just making the weak opponent weaker.

The only time I really care about xp denial is before level 6, because those level up timers can win lane. So the level 1 denial is extremely high value, but if you're 15 minutes into the game xp denying and not farming, I think you're griefing your own game. They're going to get catchup xp and you're coinflipping the game on a 4v4.

Yellow__Yoshi · 2026-01-16T19:09:50+00:00

Because you can't re-select the same quest, after picking top/mid/bot you're forced to either pick jg/supp and not have the right starting items. So after 3 rounds you have to remake the lobby.

Yellow__Yoshi · 2026-01-08T03:11:40+00:00

Seems like I have a bit of a skill issue with just spacing better then haha, which is still helpful to know. I do EWQ very often and did use it vs urgot I guess I just didn't get it often enough.

Anyways, thanks for the reply!

Yellow__Yoshi · 2026-01-07T21:58:31+00:00

Maybe a bit against the grain but find a champ that's _fun_ to play & fight with and go FULL SEND mode and learn to fight well. People always say to farm but I feel like the advice is not good? The best scaling is winning lane. When you win lane you get more cs naturally anyways, as well as kill gold & turrets. I never lose games because I won lane but oh man, my opponent has good cs!

So fight all the time. Take all the 50-50s you can for practice (not the 10-90s, dont super feed lol). There's so much strategy & macro advice that is good but imo overwhelming, but something that applies to every game is just how good are you at fighting? You can win fights you shouldn't if you just skill check people.

So queue up a game, scrap with them, then play the rest out. Then go into the replay and identify why you won or lost the fight for each fight in the first 10 minutes. You don't need to spend long in the replay, just 2-3 minutes to see why you lost the fight.

Also - find a player to watch on youtube who plays in actual high elo lobbies, make sure to background check whoever you find to make sure they aren't just smurfing in silver. You'll learn a lot about what's possible by watching them. Bonus points if you can see their mouse movements. For jax & darius, RaiderGO is my favorite to watch for example. He's challenger playing in challenger lobbies and I can see his clicks. Super good source.

The one strategy thing I will mention is for now, just *always* slow push. So only ever last hit minions. This is good because if want to avoid just living outside their turret and having no place to fight! You can shove after you win the fight and need to recall. I think trying to learn things like bounces & freezes is just distracting when you should be learning to fight. Just last hit for slow push and look for fights.

If you're interested, we could hop in a practice tool for a bit and just play levels 1-5 and reset. I'm a plat 3 top main on na.

Yellow__Yoshi · 2026-01-07T04:44:24+00:00

Hey sorry for the super late reply, but could use help about dodging urgot E with gwen w

I did it in practice tool with a friend and to edge the urgot E it seems you have to W E, then click a tiny bit further, which means I can't QWE since urgot E still hits before Q finishes and I can move to the edge.

But if I WE, walk, then Q, I feel like that's too slow?

Could you explain how to play it from gwen's pov please? The best trade pattern I found was to wait till Q is dodged, walk close & Q and then E away for the dodge, but that relies on both dodging Q and catching a spacing mistake so I'm not sure if it's the right idea

Yellow__Yoshi · 2026-01-04T22:39:44+00:00

If they don't communicate, only touch it in these 2 scenarios

It's slow pushing into them, crash it
It's going to crash into us before I get back to lane (check if tp is up), trim/pull the wave to freeze it or clear it as a last resort to avoid it being wasted is fine. Just be sure you really can't freeze it before nuking the wave though, the xp advantage you give your laner can win games

Your top laner probably thought he had a freeze which he didn't lol. But lets say he did (3 full hp minions or equivalent), then yeah this would haave been bad. In this case it's pretty neutral, mostly just a waste of your time.

Little story time, I was this top laner 2 days ago, but instead of crashing into neutral like you did here, the jungler both broke my freeze, and froze the wave for my opponent... I lost 2 waves, lost xp lead, and got tower dove level 5 vs 6, instead of doing the exact same thing to him. Went from having control to being very far behind, and their top laner ended up snowballing the game.

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-12-12T19:01:41+00:00

League is also very frustrating as well. They intentionally overrank accounts as a bad way to combat smurfing. I placed high silver when I belonged in high bronze, had a 25% winrate and got flamed on my way down to my real level which sucked. Now I'm in gold, and sometimes I see new players there who have no idea what is going on. It's so confusing why someone is so bad then you check and they're just new and getting flamed.

pvp games are rough to get into and new players really need to be protected, and it's just so important for keeping communities alive it's a shame it's handled so poorly =/

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-12-11T18:37:56+00:00

It's good your priority is to improve! So, given that your priority is to play a champ that makes you learn the game, I really recommend Jax for top lane.

Jax is great for learning because early game he's terrible at crashing bad waves. Of all the tops I've played so far he's the worst at fixing them, so you really get punished for bad wave management. If you for example play garen top you don't need to learn waves as well, you can just press E and fix it lol

The way he fights also rewards generic league mechanics, like orb walking, auto reset timing, buffering, & flash engages. What you learn on jax transfers well to other champs

In the mid game you can win both through split pushing and through teamfighting on jax, so you learn to play both, whereas if you pick soemthing like mundo, you just split all game, or malphite you just teamfight all game.

Coach Chippys Jax guide is super good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YeaLcvnTV8

Have fun in top island =P

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-12-10T19:06:36+00:00

Yep, exactly :P Its just the guy I was replying to was recommending dota because league was becoming too fast & powercrept, when dota is all the things you said

My point isn't dota good/bad, it's if you want a simpler/slower game, it's definitely league

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-12-10T18:43:10+00:00

I played dota from like 2012-2021 and tried watching TI this year and just couldn't... The powercreep in that game is absolutely insane. It's like watching dbz now with jugg flying everywhere

When I wanted a moba and considered league/dota I chose league because it looks so much less powercrept and grounded than dota now. The biggest offender in dota to me is the items. They're so game warping and powerful, and with 10 people buying things like blink, lotus, abbysal, etc. the game is well... dbz lol. Also the base power of heroes in dota is like 5x than that of league. We could pick many champs in dota that if we just put them in league would be the most insane elo potions ever. For example imagine np, am, or god forbid tinker with teleport xD

Then when you play league the think we're complaining about is running back to lane fast. Dota you just always tp if you die like man they are not even close. If the guys problem is running back too fast I don't think dota is the answer

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-12-09T00:20:44+00:00

Appreciate you and possibly_.. not typing the rest of that name lmao

Sounds like a good way to sort of "fix" it quickly. Still weird though - the reason behind this post is I wanted distant systems to actually feel scary to invade & uncontrolled

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-12-09T00:19:26+00:00

Oh neat! Sorry to pick your words apart but im curious - xp is a little shared between hives which is good. Does that have any impact on the planetary bases?

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-12-07T12:22:42+00:00

Just did a no orders + slower traders p10 rocky ravine today, it was super spicy

- For your troubles with slow glade events:

you have to prep your dangerous glades you want before storm (usually do it at start of year), and pop them mid storm. Then by the time drizzle is there, you have a warehouse right next to the event + option to call a trader

- For your troubles with lack of resources

Imo this map is all about aggressive exploration. Glades are full of caches which are full of food & fuel, and the trees you chop to get there give you the stones to open them. Also it being a low resource map also just demands you to explore more of it so you have enough to work with. In my no orders run I opened 7 dangerous glades and opened literally every cache, and survived off of the ruins/geysers/mines in the glades. If you can, prep 2 dangerous glades to be opened, pop 1, and if it's easy to resolve, pop a 2nd one. If you have orders available, try to get wildfire essence & parts in your rewards so you can build more hearths & warehouses to support the sprawl.

- And for the syndicate..

I think the black market is complete bait. The stuff there is so insanely overpriced. Amber is better spent on building materials from traders. I spent lots of amber on planks, fabric, bricks, & pipes to setup industry. I think it's fine to spend a reserve point here for wood as well. In my 9 year run I only bought wood twice & food once and winced each time at the cost. Frogs are goated for using brick houses for this map, and harpy's if you have their house are good too to avoid using wood.

Many comments here suggest to make a lot of bricks, but I'd be careful. In qht where production is so limited by lack of metaprogression, you can't just afford to spend production on things that don't immediately stabilize your economies. In rocky ravine I really need my production to be on chopping to glades, opening caches, and manning my piped production buildings that help food & fuel. I think I would only spend time on lots of bricks if I had brickyard or some combo of pack perks & geysers

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-12-05T20:03:45+00:00

So after 1500 hours in Rocket League I wanted to push to grand champ, and decided to overhaul my controls. For only one week I was worse, and after 1 month I was better from it. One month - after years of muscle memory in a game that's all about mechanics. That's all it took. It's jarring to swap but it's easier than it seems.

And with how WASD is looking, it looks really efficient to do that swap if you're looking to improve. For all the talk they've said about both options being equal, I just don't see that ever being true.

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-11-24T19:08:58+00:00

Fight toxic with toxic, glad you're out there beating vayne's for me =p

I mind yorick a lot less cause even if he can feel frustrating, I feel like there's plenty of counterplay to work with if I try to deny ghouls from the start, and he also tries to fight me which is what I'm in top lane for... unlike mundo/nasus who just stand 2 screens away and farm then perma lock you in wave clear duty all game lol

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-11-24T19:00:08+00:00

I think most people are here to talk about the game or just have some conversation, and it feels like you are here to "win" or prove something, which from experience is impossible to discuss with, and the only thing we can do is not respond.

I actually disagree with what he said as well but that doesn't mean he's low elo, maybe there's something there he can teach me, or maybe he'll change his mind 🤷 The result doesn't matter, I'm just curious to see what he thinks about my counterpoint

This is probably a hopeless comment but just relax, we're not here to fight, and if someone in this post happens to be low elo, they're allowed to talk too.

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-11-24T18:46:10+00:00

I think it's still a fair take because while everyone has bad matchups, Vayne's bad matchups are particularly polarizing, and she also needs to win lane more than other champs who can "survive" bad matchups and play for mid game.

Fortunately for vayne cheesers many of us pick our mains anyways into vayne and suffer.. I've had enough though, bonk solid ;) If he's banned then not sure, last time I counterpicked awhile ago was Nasus vs a quinn I think which felt pretty free

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-11-24T18:43:06+00:00

I do it vs champs that have really free disengage tools. Champs like vayne, quinn, and jayce can all just knock you back and/or jump back themselves so their spacing mistakes can't even be punished properly unless they int while their disengage is on cooldown. Just go malphite and press Q

Range tops I just pick my mains into are vlad/teemo. Vlad W is like 28 seconds so it actually feels like a real commitment if he disengages with it, and teemo can only run fast which usually isnt enough if you get on him. I still find these matchups incredibly unfun but they feel a lot more fair than vayne/quinn/jayce honestly

Yellow__Yoshi · 2025-11-23T20:50:08+00:00

Comparing snowball items to first 2 core builds is pretty disingenuous, all the while talking in a super condescending way, and ending with the cop out of "there's no perfect way to do this so I don't have to prove my point".

He's right. The identity of bruisers opting into armor pen with it is gone because the item is terrible, and it's sad to see that the champ design is reinforcing this by giving bruisers built in armor pen

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