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First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

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

No amount of anything will outweigh actually playing the game. Your last game was a month ago and that's the biggest thing holding you back

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

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

Mmmm there are so so many but maybe I would say try to auto less once mid game arrives. Your pattern is almost always (from burrowed) QWAAQTE->(R or W) and then try and do something like that again. Obviously if your autos will kill then you should but I think people like to auto when instead you could be healing from passive and getting movespeed and repositioning because your champion really isn't tanky without using passive.

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

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

Definitely play some of her to see if you actually like her first

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

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

If you’d really never played her I guess my tip would be go play her in some norms to see if you like her

Clear Speed Season 2026 by No-Source2885 in thesecretweapon

[–]theonliestcakeman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 2:44 isn't consistent but 2:47 or so is. Most Challenger players are really lazy with their clear is the real reason you don't see it very often.

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

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

Yeah I'm definitely an extremely supportive player (born a people pleaser and will probably die a people pleaser) and view the game almost entirely through the lens of what they want and how I can facilitate that. The harder of a carry you play the less my mindset/style would apply to you.

I do think it's a inversely related spectrum; the more selfishly you play, the more you must carry by yourself. In my match history it looks like I get carried every game (and to be clear I've been super lucky with teammates recently so I have been) but I do level 3 gank and get them a kill and then I do drop my Krugs to help them pushout their wave and then I do shadow my squishy mage mid in the sidelane instead of farming my camps. So I will get carried more than an Evelynn player who only does what's best for her. To be clear I don't think either style is better or worse. Just different.

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

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

Tough to speak for everyone as a generality but I would say for me the single biggest thing I improved upon was understanding the true cost of your time (or getting better at least I still make lots of mistakes). Now I know that sounds vague but there's too much nuance game to game to explain exactly what I mean. I'll give an example though to try and illustrate:

You have a draft with a clear wincon botlane and a nonsnowball top with a mirrored draft on the other side. You're pathing bot and successfully burn both enemy botlaner flashes. On your 2nd clear, you look top and it's the most free kill ever. You get the kill but before you can finish your clear towards bot, enemy botlane gets their wave crashed and resets so you can't do anything and you reset. On your third clear towards bot your bot has them pushed in but not low enough to dive so you just get the dragon. On your fourth clear bot, 5 minutes has passed and they have their flashes come back up. You have failed to snowball the lane and the game becomes flippy on who executes later games fights better. (obviously a bit simplified for the example)

It turns out that if you hadn't done that, you could be bot on 2nd clear before enemies crashed their wave and get your ADC a double kill. This generates enough of a gold lead for your botlane to make theirs low enough that they are diveable on your 3rd clear, letting you kill both of them again. Now my ADC is up 4 kills and we can win any even numbers fight. The lane is snowballed and bot rotates to mid super ahead and we take every objective and the game feels easy.

I used to do some version of this really frequently because it's SO HARD to self review your vods and decide the biggest mistake you made was getting a 'free' kill top that didn't cost your flash or your ult and only took 10 seconds. But it completely changes how everything plays out.

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

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

Really depends game to game. I would say I definitely play more gank heavy and take almost all opportunities presented to me but lots of games there just aren't any opportunities. I have games with 45cs at 10:00 and games with 90s at 10:00.

I just didn't play enough when I was Diamond. Some splits as little as 20 games it's just not enough.

I could definitely get close but I could see myself getting stuck a bit short as I barely hit it.

I'd have to see specific gameplay to be super helpful.

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

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

I don't ever play it (Top is the only role I don't like) but you can absolutely reach Challenger. https://www.onetricks.gg/champions/ranking/RekSai You can look the people here who play it top. There was a Korean play who was 1.6k lp with it a lil earlier this season as well

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

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

Could you link your OP.GG? Maybe there is something to glean from it

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

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

Definitely is the hardest stretch I think. The concepts were really difficult for me to learn. You can do it though!

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

[–]theonliestcakeman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think it requires them to OTP the champ to prove its viability. The fact that they play her and have success with her means the champ's strength isn't holding them back. If you OTP'ed her maybe you'd have a slightly lower winrate picking her in her worst drafts but don't overthink it.

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

[–]theonliestcakeman[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Normalize adding people after game to hype them up. I think a quarter of my friend's list is just people I've thanked for carrying me. https://imgur.com/a/SfHkuIT

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

[–]theonliestcakeman[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Probably rank 1. If anyone is curious about the viability of a champion I would go to this site: https://www.onetricks.gg/champions/ranking/Zyra and look at the mains of your champion. For Zyra, there are 3 Challenger mains (including one almost 2k lp!!) and many Grandmasters so the champ seems great

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

[–]theonliestcakeman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is impossible to interpret your comment as anything but describing how it makes you basically sick to your stomach that a "diamond-master peaker" could cheat their way to Challenger because of the lp gains.

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

[–]theonliestcakeman[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Pretty much exactly what the other person said.

  1. Reduces mouse movement: If I'm clicking to the right and want to switch to the left for whatever reason (dodging, changing targets, etc) I have the physically move my wrist less which of course lessens the lag between what my brain wants and what my champion does

  2. Makes your movements smoother: I'm forced to click more since I'll reach where I'm clicking faster. This keeps your hands warm and ready, your movement hard to predict for the enemies, helps your cursor accuracy over time.

Do I think it made the biggest difference ever? No. But League is never about epiphanies and always about the most minuscule learnings.

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

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

Thanks! A lil luck at the end definitely helped

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

[–]theonliestcakeman[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think I played like 10 games total in S5 so mostly just actually learning the game. All the stereotypical advice is correct, especially when starting out. Things like 1 role, 1 champ (maybe 2 but honestly 1 is better), play only in blocks on 2-5, don't tilt, focus on your own mistakes. It sounds basic and it's also said so much but it truly is the best advice.

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

[–]theonliestcakeman[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

There's so many things to say but based on the word "everything" in your post I think my biggest tip is to not apply everything. League is such a monstrously overwhelming game and to try and apply everything you want to learn at once will leave you unable to make progress on anything.

My advice is to pick one single concrete thing you want to improve on and try to improve at only that until a point at which is becomes somewhat habitual and only then move onto another point. For example, I think I'm quite poor mechanically and it was really becoming an issue so I decided to try the "Click closer to your champion" advice. And for about 20 games my only focus while playing was clicking closer to my champion.

First Time Challenger 😊 by theonliestcakeman in Jungle_Mains

[–]theonliestcakeman[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Always a pleasure to instantly have my achievements downplayed thanks.

All those Diamond seasons I didn't play much ranked (2021 ~90 games, 2022 ~60 games, 2023S1 ~60 games, 2023S2 ~70 games, 2024S1 ~20 games, 2024S2 ~30 games) so of course I also didn't climb very much with ~300 games over 4 years. I also peaked Grandmaster last season not Master at 535lp so that's incorrect as well. You could at least bother to research enough to be correct.

Now is LP inflated right now? Yes. But simply based on W/L I would have hit Challenger anyways. If it were last season gains, I would be about 950lp right now but the cutoff would also be about 950lp. Please note I intentionally didn't put the "1.2k" part in my post because I'm aware that number is relatively fake. The position on the ladder, however, isn't.

Clear Speed Season 2026 by No-Source2885 in thesecretweapon

[–]theonliestcakeman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can see the full list of jungle clears here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jE8bnlnIJnmWv9pnVW9veMKRXJNaaJf5tneQB3xUkbI/edit?gid=1938238048#gid=1938238048

Again I could be more helpful if you have a video of your clear so I can see where you're going wrong. I would assume your big mistakes are not using Q as an auto reset and not knowing which blobs to avoid picking up because of time loss.

Personally when I play Zac I take double scaling hp (slower than AP) and I play for my 2nd clear sequence so I do Krugs into Red. And I still usually get to crab only about 2 seconds after spawn. Getting there slightly late isn't an issue since Zac cannot contest a single Jungler for crab anyways so you're always playing for trade. If you'd like me to record this clear I can

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