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It doesn't just give flat amounts for a win or loss.
It only takes one deserved silver II or higher to wipe out an entire team of middling bronzes if they play ADC, mid or top.
Even when doing my placements I could accurately guess whether they were bronze, silver or golds on either team. If you cant see the difference between them, then maybe that is a good place to start looking. Because there is differences, quite a bit. It's in all the little things.
Like, for instance: I was just in a game playing as Sejuani. It's going reasonably back and forth. We get into a fight near purple side wraith, they run up towards the red. Warwick trailing behind, Darius and Annie out front.
Ult is up. What do I do? Usually I'd just throw it as Warwick. Get that stun, victory. Except it'd miss Annie and Darius, who are the ones we want dead so we can push mid. So I pig hop over the red wall and toss it blind into the brush I knew they ran into and all 3 of them hit the slow field and the rest of the team caught up and murdered them.
Neither would have been a particularly bad choice, but playing against gold and silvers, the second one was the 'better' choice because it allowed for a better play and more important secured kills.
I would have never even considered using her Q to hop the wall to get a better shot with my ult back before I seriously started watching my replays and looking for things like this.
I guess the difference between high bronze and low silver is learning the difference between making a good/bad decision and making a good/better decision. Because you should really be trying to unlearn all your 'bad' decisions before you really get into silver. Because people are just good enough to be rough but not quite good enough to cover for each other at that point.
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True. I haven't been factoring that into my assessment. I think if I could see if I was predicted to win or lose a match this would make more sense to me. But because that is hidden it just feels like random numbers and random teams and waiting for all of the randoms to line up.
THe "blue" build or the Kite Lord Ezreal build.
tear->lizard->manamune->icebourn gauntlets, i guess you pick up a botrk in there somewhere as well.
I thinhk that it's best on Ez, then prbly Corki, but I think that Urgot with Muramana powered Q's would be absolutely evil.
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The best idea is just to forget about what league you're in and work on improving as a player. As I said before in this thread, go ahead and record your games and post them here, or PM them to people you think could help you improve. Watch them yourself learn to become better. IF you want to get better at this game you can't just play for the sake of playing. If you play to improve all the time you will advance leagues automatically with out seeing leagues as a goal, they're just a current cosmetic display of where you are right now in terms of skill. I find this has made my ranked games much less stressful and more about improving my play.
I think a lot of people right now are thinking: 'I am totally a gold player if I play i'll just get there'. Which is honestly the worst attitude to take.
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Yeah, though I hope you can see that letting people view whether they were expected to win/lose (or if it was an 'even' match) would be a bad idea :P
Honestly mate, you just gotta keep playing. Stop caring about winning or going places in ranked because at the end of the day only tosspots will genuinely go 'well your opinion is invalid because lol bronze'.
as for improving your game, there are techniques that fall under the umbrella of "purposeful practice", and I can go on a long discussion about them as they aren't just good for league, but for just about every competitive thing you do.
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It wasn't even about the mana regen. It about the right type of damage. Brut, Last whisper and manamune are key on ARAM for warcrime levels of poke post 6. Triforce is so meh on kha'zix. I mean unless you're using him to splitpush towers, which is not ARAM.
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I agree with this. I've been doing the same thing and it's reduced my "ranked anxiety" significantly.
I'm just sitting here looking at the League system and wondering why it's there if it doesn't make progression feel better than the old system. I liked the instant feedback of the old ELO system. With the League system you get to your true ELO and then the League system has to catch up to wherever that is. If your true ELO is in something like the Silver 5 or Gold 5 range it can take a while to catch up.
It also probably works on Ashe, but i suspect that its stronger on EZ because he can e away. I don't think i can get behind it on corki because he doesn't have any way to apply a slow from long range
If you don't look at all aspects of the system it can seem unfair or arbitrary, sure. But everything works together, you can't look at one aspect individually without the others and call it an issue.
You can gain 2 divisions in one promotion. You can also gain 20+ points in a single win. You can move from division to division in just a couple of days.
If the system thinks you're much better then you are, you'll rise.
Comparatively, it took Cruzer, what, 300+ games to get back into his 'real' elo even if he was rofflestomping a majority of games well into the 1600+ area?
It used to take several hundred games just to gain a couple hundred elo. You'd average, what, 10 per game? So maybe if you never lost you could go from silver to gold after what, 70+ games? Thats of course assuming you never lost.
And hell thats if you got lucky and got that much elo. Gaining 6 or whatever at a time was a real treat.
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Just a point of clarification, because this is somewhat similar to what happened to me in Silver 1.
If you are oscillating back and forth like that, at some point you are bound to have a streak happen where you bust through.
Lich Bane > Wits End > Zhonyas
Oh, or maybe something like:
Tear > Iceborn Gauntlet > Manamune > Banshies
Sorry, I was bored, carry on!
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This is astounding balance design.
Top and bottom raged at jungle Taric for fifteen straight minutes because his ganks on their lanes weren't successful, even as he camped Twisted Fate and got dragons to make sure they didn't lose even worse.
I believed in you all along gem man : (
Edit: and while she doesn't get the sheen/muramana on her w she may do more overall poke dps due the the AOE
eh, can be dealt with.
urgot could rock it, i'm pretty sure q applies everything.
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urgot q doesn't apply on-hits, just his passive
i'm still waiting for an aram queue that permabans ap yi along with lux, xerath, nidalee, soraka, sona, etc
and a 2.0 AD ratio on meditate
i just made ad yi viable
This is a problem? If you get all the kills go carrymode!
Sivir cause spell shields
His q does not apply sheen but he does make good use of the blue type build. It's just that because his AA range is so short and because his ultimate puts him in the middle of things he tends to build tanker than blue typically affords
Ezreal and Ashe don't have those issues
her sound effects are wonderful and the feeling you get when you expertly kite around the battlefield tumblin' all over the place is euphoric
They've been making noises that read like AP Yi will be going away when they do the melee carry rework. Which I'm fine with, it's a neat gimmick at times but is too binary.
Fuckin' Skarner. I want to love him because CLACK CLACK CLACK, but I can't position myself to ever do anything. Just always running and running and dying, and let's be real -- his ult isn't that impressive.
Anyway AP Yi is only really dumb because of the bounce range on Alpha Strike, I don't know why they haven't reduced that yet.
On a serious note, I played this game with the sole intention of practicing roaming, which is my weakest link in my gameplay. It went successfully
Edit: Also, never stop farming, win. That too.
AP Yi is super dumb because he has a high damage nuke from huge range with little chance to trade damage. And if you do get damage on him, he can top himself off easily.
When I was in silver 2 I was like alright no this will not do and went on something ridiculous like a 16 game win streak with only one loss from a ADC rengar
straight to gold, like a rocket
pchooooo
Except that its a terrible idea that will remove him as a support because he will be able to easily be poked out of lane with no recourse. Every other tank support has two of long range engage, free stats(for an ally), or sustain. If you take away Alistar's sustain he has zero of the three.