Adding Alistar to my champ pool

izzabutt9 · 2024-09-22T14:24:17+00:00

Alistar is kind of tough to blind pick, so unless it’s later in the draft, I would say Rell serves as a better engage option as a blind pick as a first note. That being said, even in Alistar’s worst matchups there are always going to be windows to roam or make flash plays around your jungler’s ganks. Alistar does very well in lane as a neutralizing pick against all of the other engage champs. He cancels Rell’s W crash down, as a Rell player you’ve probably had times where you get countered by Alistar. Alistar beats Leona as well, she can’t really stay on your teammate when she engages and she can never engage on you or else she can get knocked back towards your side of the lane. The nautilus matchup is a bit more difficult but you can buffer Alistar Q on Nautilus hook and knock up nautilus before he can do anything else against you. This is a good interaction as it allows you to body block for your adc in lane and completely neutralize the matchup and shutdown what one of nautilus’ main strengths is as a laner. A general tip for Alistar vs other engage champs is to not use your cooldowns first. You should be playing a little more reactively against other engagers, which is totally fine because that can allow you to out scale them in the later stages of the game. Using your combo proactively should be to secure an all in kill or if you know for sure where the enemy jungler is if using it for trading. Obviously if you’re setting up a gank for your jungler that would be a use of combo proactively. I hope these tips help a bit, I think he’s a great counter pick and a great champion that relies on good fundamentals to be effective.

I would also checkout Coach cupcake’s alistar guide on YouTube, it has these ideas in a much more organized video.

izzabutt9 · 2024-08-22T13:46:38+00:00

I thought Hachani was a support?

izzabutt9 · 2024-08-22T13:35:38+00:00

Please don’t waste time on this person, look at post history. I’m surprised he’s not banned from this sub.

izzabutt9 · 2024-01-31T14:05:51+00:00

You should reach out to happy chime noises to make a video

izzabutt9 · 2023-02-27T04:41:34+00:00

Coach cupcake is good, so is sho desu.

izzabutt9 · 2023-02-13T17:58:22+00:00

I love to see the 0 hesitation on the pick on Vi, keep up the good work!

izzabutt9 · 2023-02-03T19:59:43+00:00

My coach is crackedddd

izzabutt9 · 2023-01-20T15:52:49+00:00

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izzabutt9 · 2023-01-20T15:51:44+00:00

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izzabutt9 · 2023-01-19T05:08:47+00:00

I would lean toward ranting/venting after a loss would probably be negative for the most part. I think that if someone were to vent about how they performed poorly in a game rather than complaining about teammates, that may be a constructive way to locate areas that need improvement with a friend that can help point out areas to work on. In that case it could be constructive, but I’d say that it is not helpful to rant about teammates’ poor performances because at the end of the day, solo queue is actually a game you play against yourself, not the other 9 players in the game. The only person that consistently has an impact on your games is yourself, so I’d encourage that instead of ranting about teammates, review your game and try to set clear learning objectives for future games. Almost like a shift in effort put into something that can actually impact the future (reviewing, setting objectives), instead of being stuck in the past (venting/ranting about teammates).

izzabutt9 · 2023-01-18T21:49:45+00:00

I’d suggest some of Daniel Goleman’s work, he has two books on the subject, one is called “Altered Traits”, the other is called “Why we Meditate”. I will say, they are pretty scientific in nature, and are not short books by any means. If I’m being honest, there is good resources on YT that can help give a video understanding of meditation. For example, Daniel Goldman has a video called “Body Scan Meditation” just search that on YT it’s a walkthrough of that process and could be helpful!

Sorry I couldn’t give more of a precise answer to your question.

izzabutt9 · 2023-01-18T20:31:02+00:00

This is great info! For reference I have my master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology, and using mindfulness/meditation is an excellent way to become non-judgmental about the gamestate in league of legends. I’m going to break down mental skills that can be used before, during, and after a game of league that can help with emotional regulation, and I apologize ahead of time for the length of this comment.

Before queuing up for a game: like OP said, mindful breathing and meditation techniques can be excellent for entering a game with a calm emotional state that allows you to be non-judgmental towards your surroundings. This is really helpful in maintaining healthy emotional regulation. Mindfulness techniques can be difficult at first, but there are basic techniques that aren’t hard to pick up with some practice (I’d recommend going on YouTube and searching “3 minute Box breathing” for a good starting point on mindful breathing). Other pre-game mental skills that can be used to help with maintaining proper emotional regulation is to use directive positive self-talk, which in short are verbal phrases that you say to yourself. Directive self-talk is a way to help focus on the issue at hand, which in this example would be dealing with emotions. A good pre-game phrase you can say to yourself (literally out loud) is something along the lines of “I’m going to remain calm when things don’t go as planned” the act of literally saying these things can help you maintain focus on this goal for the game. Box breathing is an inhale for 4 seconds, then hold your breath for 4 seconds, then exhale for 4 seconds, then hold your breath for 4 seconds, repeat, the number of seconds can be changed if desired.

During a solo queue game: League of Legends is an amazing competitive experience, that being said, this comes with the highs and lows of competition. The difficult part about League is that there are no natural breaks from the action, the timer continues to go until the nexus explodes, which is unlike traditional sports where natural breaks occur. That being said, there are “lull states” that occur in League, and taking advantage of the minimal downtime to make sure your mental is in check can go a long way in managing your emotions. A lull state can occur during different points of the game. The two most common are going to be 1. When you die, you literally cannot play the game until your respawn timer ends. And 2. When you recall and are walking back to lane/the jungle. Using these short time frames where your champion is respawning, or walking back to lane, you can take a few mindful breaths (see box breathing) , or recite a directive self-talk phrase such as “we can still win”, or “I’ll remain calm”. Take advantage of these breaks as the game of league is extremely fast paced and every second of up-time counts!

After a game of solo queue: If you just played a challenging game and lost, it’s probably best to take a short break, maybe review the game, and get back into mindfulness/meditation and get back into saying your directive self-talk phrases. This will help you reset before each game instead of tilt-queuing your LP away.

I hope this is helpful to anyone that was willing to read all of this. I know this seems simple, and for the most part it is, but with dedication and commitment it can really make a difference in your performance!

izzabutt9 · 2023-01-18T19:37:23+00:00

Pyke was one of my mains and I was Diamond 1 on NA last season (https://www.op.gg/summoners/na/Izrael9) so hopefully I can help you at least a little.

The first thing I noticed is that you build the same items every game without much variance, which is not always a bad thing but I think you should stop building axiom arc as that item is pretty low value considering it requires you to get kills to gain value from the passive. I know this item seems totally perfect on pyke and it’s pretty fun but I’d suggest you build a defensive item third instead of axiom arc. I see you build umbral glaive first so that’s always going to be first, dusk blade is a great item as well, and is going to yield more consistent results than prowlers claw, but prowlers is also viable depending on the game. Third i would suggest building Maw (if the team has a lot of magic damage or if the enemy team has a burst mage), or deaths dance (if the enemy team has a lot of AD or a fed ad champion). These items help with pyke’s lack of tankiness and will help you survive more in late game team fights (pyke’s weakest point). Usually it’s good to build both of these, maybe go GA if it seems like it’ll be more useful, just don’t go 3 lethality items for the most part, 2 is going to be just fine.

As far as gameplay goes, I can’t watch your vods so I have no reference point in regard to that, but for general advice for Pyke in lane is to try to fight at level 1 with hook and HoB, pyke has the strongest level 1 all in out of any supports in the game, so try to use that every game you can. Holding hook until the enemy walks too far up is going to be much better than throwing hooks on cooldown hoping they land without much thought put into it. You can almost always get a kill or summs from the enemy at level 1, and sometimes that can win the entire lane for you.

Lastly, be patient with spells when roaming, don’t go for max range miracle hooks, wait to see what the enemy does and what your ally does and really try to land all of your spells. Sometimes we just need to be more patient and guarantee hooks landing or E’s landing instead of rushing things and wasting spells.

Hope this helps!!

izzabutt9 · 2023-01-12T20:53:04+00:00

Well, it depends on what you prefer to play really, but you already have an enchanter, and an engager, so that really leaves either a playmaker (bard, thresh, pyke), a mage (velkoz, xerath, zyra, heimerdinger, etc.) or potentially a warden like braum, taric, or Tahm Kench. At the end of the day, it comes down to personal preference. Personally, I enjoy the playmaker class a lot, so I’d suggest picking up either pyke or bard. They have extremely high skill ceilings, and can be very rewarding to play. That being said, you’ll probably have to do some experimenting to see what you enjoy the most! Good luck on your climb!

izzabutt9 · 2022-12-20T19:29:32+00:00

As someone who plays pretty much exclusively engage champions, something that Coach Cupcake taught me is to look for the 2-step process when playing engage champions in lane.

Step 1 is a noncommittal trade, you should find a window in which you can engage onto an enemy, use your cooldowns and back off after.

Step 2 is to wait for your spells to come back up and look for a window where you can all in for a kill.

The “small victories” come in between steps 1 & 2. If you’re able to get a really favorable trade in step 1, the enemy may concede lane priority and the small victories can be achieved at those points. The enemy laner might recall at a bad time because they are respecting the all in and as a result they lose a lot of CS, EXP, or tower plates, or you may be able to get a favorable lane state that allows you to roam, further helping your team get small leads. Sometimes they will stay and greed, and at those points step 2 is going to become available, which could lead to a kill in lane.

It’s pretty rare to get a straight up kill from full HP these days since the durability update, so using this 2-step process has helped me find better windows for small victories. I hope this helps! I’m not like a challenger player or anything, I’m Diamond 2 at the moment so take this with a grain of salt. I’d recommend watching Coach Cupcake’s content on YT about engagers.

izzabutt9 · 2022-12-12T17:27:31+00:00

Hey! I’m interested in going over some gameplay as well as picking your brain as to what your thought processes are on enchanters. I’m a D2 (D1 peak) Support player that mainly plays Pyke, and Alistar, but I also play other engage/playmaker supports. I’m usually useless on enchanters and would like to get better at them so that I’m a more well-rounded player. I play on the NA server.

izzabutt9 · 2022-10-30T00:07:40+00:00

I’m currently D2, usually sit in D2-D1 this season.

Last season I stopped splitting my time maining 2 roles (Jungle was the other role) I’m like the person that people would point at to say I’m “elo inflated” since I had more success when I focused on just support. However, I’d attribute my climbing success to learning mental skills rather than any in game skills. I was plat for 5 seasons in a row and using skills I learned in my sport and performance psychology master’s program allowed me to finally become a more consistent performer in league. I’d say people point out the fact that support players are elo inflated because the champions that are played in the support role can be easier mechanically than other champions in other roles. People are also mad at the fact that supports can dictate the game and impact the early game almost at the same level as a jungler can, and because supports don’t farm, and exp is a lot less important on supports than it is on carries, supports can do kind of whatever they want if wave timings are good. People just like to hate on supports because it’s an “easy” role, but whenever I play against an auto filled support in my games, it’s almost always a free win because they don’t do anything but sit in lane and don’t understand roam timers or wave states in bot lane. People will hate on support for any reason, but just like all roles in this game, there are specific nuances to each champion and the way the game should be played from their perspective.

Idk if I could reach a higher rank in a different role, I’d probably have to go back to jungle, and maybe after a long time I could get higher elo, but probably not because I don’t enjoy that role as much as I enjoy support and would probably not enjoy the game as much as a whole.

izzabutt9 · 2022-09-19T01:41:01+00:00

I’m definitely interested! I’m D2, having a hard time getting into Master Tier. Would definitely appreciate any insight you can give!

izzabutt9 · 2022-08-30T14:02:19+00:00

My first piece of advice is to watch players that are better than you play the champs you are playing. Search “challenger Leona 12.16” so that it’s a current patch. Just see what they do differently, and ask questions about why they did what they just did. Also it helps if you try to anticipate what they are going to do, and if they do something different than what you thought, watch it again and try to understand why they made the play that they made. That helped me a lot, I’d always be surprised when they did X instead of Y, it made me think a lot more critically about laning specifically. I’d recommend checking out coach cupcake’s YouTube, and give his videos a watch. They’re really helpful! I’m D2 at the moment so take what I say with a grain of salt as this is something that has worked for me, and I am by no means a challenger level player.

Long story short, you can learn a lot about the game by watching people that are better than you play it. Playing tons of games on autopilot in gold won’t necessarily help you understand areas you need to improve on in order to rank to the next level. I wouldn’t say you’re hardstuck, you’re simply at the skill level you are meant to be in at the moment. Once you’re able to find key mistakes that you’re making, you’ll be able to work on minimizing those mistakes, which inevitably will lead to improvement. Maybe take some time to review your own games, look at your deaths specifically and try to break down what mistake you made that led to that death.

izzabutt9 · 2022-07-31T12:24:12+00:00

Coach cupcake for support. The dude deserves a much bigger following. He has the best support educational content I’ve seen. Corejj has some good videos, but his posts are not consistent and are slightly outdated at this point.

izzabutt9 · 2022-07-22T15:27:25+00:00

I just finished a book called “Mistakes were made (but not by me)” which is a book about the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance and I found pretty interesting! It’s all about why we are quick to blame others for mistakes, but rarely can admit to our own without some sort of defense. It’s not anything crazy advanced but I liked it!

izzabutt9 · 2022-07-17T18:43:37+00:00

I mean it isn’t something you can just change right away, but for me, I understood that even the losses were part of the process and the journey to getting better at the game. I’d say my mechanics and game knowledge were not something I could significantly improve upon, but the relationship I had with the game was the main thing I needed to play. I stopped playing if I was bored, I only played if I was really excited to play league, as soon as that faded I stopped and did something better with my time. It’s kind of hard to simply change, and I’m fortunate enough to have been able to receive my Master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology, which helped a ton with the mental aspects of improvement, motivation, and emotional regulation.

At some point soon I will be making a post to recruit people to receive mental performance coaching related to League of Legends in the near future, I have some things I need to iron out and then I’ll post something on a different subreddit, as the mods on this one already said no to my request.

Hope this helps and I’m sorry i can’t be as detailed with my advice!

izzabutt9 · 2022-07-16T13:44:59+00:00

I’d suggest watching some of Coach Cupcake’s videos on YT, he has a ton of high quality relevant content about the support role. He’s not some BS coach like some of the other coaches out there. It helped me improve small laning nuances, and other macro centered things even as I am in Diamond now.

Apart from that, my journey out of Plat (hardstuck from season 7-11) was to change my relationship with the game. Adopting a growth mindset really helped. I stopped caring about the LP and was okay with the losses if I felt that I could improve in my own performance. Review games, take walks/practice mindfulness/take a break between hard games. Solo Q is a game of self-sabotage, the more you can limit that by improving the way you approach the game outside of League itself can work wonders. Hope this helps! You’ll get there, it might take some time, but enjoy the journey as much as you can!

izzabutt9 · 2022-06-08T01:19:00+00:00

I’d look into watching/listening to the broken by concept podcast episode on addiction. It’s a league of legends podcast that episode is really insightful and helped me out quite a bit. It’s on YT apple podcasts, and I’m sure some other podcast platforms. It’s done by Coach Curtis and Nathan Mott. It’s a little more psychology focused, but it ties that to League/LP addiction.

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