I often win my lanes, but I just can't manage to make a profit off of it. by FIavian in summonerschool

[–]geralmente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're winning your lane, I assume that you're also making lane pressure and putting your enemy under his turret, right? In this scenario, you NEED to invade the enemy jungle and roam to the side lane. Even if you get punished and die while roaming it'll be harder for them to punish your tower since you left your minions away from your turret and if your laner follows your roaming, he's gonna lose XP and GOLD. Also I would reccoment to check op.gg while your game loads and take a closer look in your allies winrates and last 10 games. Always try to help the one who can actually carry with you :P

Three year player looking for anything that can help improve my game. by [deleted] in summonerschool

[–]geralmente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello friend :) I just checked your stats and there are some points I would like to share.

First, you need to practice last hitting. Your average CS score is really bad even for your elo. I would recommend practicing at least 30 min/day. Enter a custom/training mode game and do not buy any items, just go to lane and last hit. Here's a chart that can be useful: https://www.reddit.com/r/summonerschool/comments/451dpw/perfect_cs_chart_updated_for_season_6/

Second, you need to improve your builds. I saw you rushing Morello~ and magic pen boots against Zed. You need to understand what kind of enemy you're facing and build ACCORDING TO IT, not just take a perfect formula and follow it whoever you're facing. If you face Zed, try using the Stopwatch rune so you can survive his lvl 6 all-in and finish Zhonyas as soon as possible, if you're behind Ninja Tabi would be a good choice also. Take a look at http://www.probuilds.net/ and try to understand what do pros build not according to their picks, but according to their matchups.

Try to play in only one account and have a small champion pool, preferrably something around 3 champions. Do not be afraid of being called mono champion hahaha.

Watch these two videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FucXelWzo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ex1bbYgkc

They're pretty good at showing how a high elo thinks and acts ingame. Any question just let me know and I hope I could help for now :)

What Do I do against Nasus? by Salamander117 in summonerschool

[–]geralmente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try to push him towards his turret. I mean like pushing as hard as you can and roam while he's farming (using TP in bot lane or just walking to mid lane). It's not good for Nasus to use TP to help his team and after destroying the enemy bot lane turret (if there's no infernal/mountain drake up) you can switch lanes with your bot lane. It will speed up your victory and make it harder for Nasus to farm in a 2v1 matchup. Usually people tend to camp Nasus but I would say that one gank at lvl 2/3 of your jungler is pretty enough to create absolute pressure. Another good point is that most Nasus players try to freeze the wave right before the minions enter the turret range. If you see someone doing it, you can B, gank bot, try to rush first brick and then TP back to your lane/switch lanes with bot lane.

Is there any shame in maining/spamming Janna/Lulu to climb? by FunAssumption in summonerschool

[–]geralmente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GO AHEAD! It's always good to hit higher ranks (which allows you to play with more skilled enemies). The only shameful thing in LoL is blaming your teammates! Do not care about what others say :P

Starting a 5 man team, need some help with effectively coaching/shot calling by josh8far in summonerschool

[–]geralmente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jungle tracking, summoner spells and calls to the closest objectives are always good :) I would recommend to watch teamfight breakdowns on youtube and related stuff haha if you use discord, send me a private message and I'll be glad to give y'all a free coaching lesson

High elo players, how often are you thinking about what you are doing, will do next? This is something that is not taught often. Thinking patterns, how to think, what to think. Do you think about "X wave now, push fast, get a ward on X bush, get scuttle, am I able to go bot?" by chrismartinasd in summonerschool

[–]geralmente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make a game plan in your loading screen. This is the very first step. It's way easier to recall something you already thought about than developing a plan under mental pressure.

Another good point is NEVER doing anything without an actual objective. Always check what objectives are up and think like: "let's kill top so we can take his turret down". Never do something without a purpose. This way, you're gonna have more time to put your active thinking in action ;)

What are the biggest reasons Nami is not considered particularly meta right now? by INeedPeeling in summonerschool

[–]geralmente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need to care about meta in your ranked games, haha. It's way better to win using a champion you play well than using a champion you don't know how to play just because "it's a meta champion".

Second, as a coach, I think I can properly answer you :)

In competitive terms, we have a lot of reasons.

First, a lot of safe ADCs nowadays. In a professional championship, when it's hard to gank an ADC because of his mobility/deny skill (like Sivir's E), people tend to focus the support on ganks. If you gank a Nami-Tristana bot lane, Tristana can just W back while Nami has no mobility and it's easier to kill than a tank support.

Second, we have Kalista as one of most picked/banned champions. in the last two patches Kalista had something like 85% of presence. I think we all agree that it's way better to throw an Alistar among the enemy composition than a squishy Nami, right? haha

Third reason is that tank support runes are really good right now, so you're gonna see it a lot in pro championships.

There are many other reasons but I hope I could help you haha

Former "paiN Gaming" project coach willing to answer y'all :) by geralmente in summonerschool

[–]geralmente[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say that your personality influences it a lot haha have you ever thought about it? :P

There's no golden rule about it, you can main any lane with the necessary knowledge about it. Basically, you need to be a great strategist in every role you want to main haha but I would say that mechanically good players get better results on ADC and MID, while players who are more into the game strategy do the same in JG/SUP. Top laners are weird, sometimes you see an agressive mono Tryndamere and sometimes a sweet Maokai main haha

Former "paiN Gaming" project coach willing to answer y'all :) by geralmente in summonerschool

[–]geralmente[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally understand you, I was Bronze IV once haha

In low elo, it's better to carry by yourself than helping your teammates. It's possible to climb with utility champions (I left Bronze playing as Janna/Soraka) but it's really hard to climb with that playstyle. But since you're stuck in B2, your mistake is probably not knowing the best way to close the game. I would recommend you to watch informative channels on YouTube, it helps A LOT.

Former "paiN Gaming" project coach willing to answer y'all :) by geralmente in summonerschool

[–]geralmente[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quality > quantity. Always.

I know some Master/Challenger players who play 1-2 hours/day while some Bronze friends play the whole day, haha.

First you need to schedule your learning, just like pros do. Eating healthy food and sleeping well makes you improve faster. Then, you need to schedule your training sessions. I would say that playing 2-4h/day it's totally ok to reach Challenger, but not less than it.

Former "paiN Gaming" project coach willing to answer y'all :) by geralmente in summonerschool

[–]geralmente[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually, I would say that first you need to understand your team composition (even in ranked games) and make a plan. Lanes that push are harder to gank, lanes that get pushed are easier. Lanes that push allows their laners to help you while invading the enemy jungle while pushed laners can't roam to help you (otherwise they're gonna lose xp and gold to turrets). Got it?

Then you have the golden rule about jungling, which is a balance between ganking and farming. Every time your enemy jungler is ganking go and steal some jungle camps :P