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Well, I started a thread back in August (https://forums.joeuser.com/411269/) that's seen a lot of activity and actually had quite a few good bits of information for new and old players alike. I figure it's time to start a new thread and perhaps keep the OP up-to-date with useful information, etc. Feel free to use this post for any LoL discussion, etc.
Super fast background: I played a lot of Demigod as pacov/cheesuscrust. Back in August 2011 or so, I started getting heavily involved in LoL and folks have been kind enough to chime in with tips and links to various sites that have been quite useful to me. In addition, I've been able to keep up with folks that I've played Demigod with in the past and meet some new folks that play LoL and frequent these message boards.
Here's some of the things I've learned in the previous thread:
New Player tips
Great site I visit every day for LoL related news - http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends
pacov's misc info
Here's a guide I made
pacov's Guide to Improving at League of Legends and Moving Up in Elo
k - so I'm just going to put down some of my thoughts. I'm not amazing at this game, but I do certain things that improve my odds of winning in ranked and so far its panning out just fine (bronze 5 to gold 5 in about a month or so). We all have varied skill levels, so some of this might be useful and some not. Caveat complete.
Prerequisite- you need to know how to play every single role. You don't have to be a god at every single role (more power to you if you are - I'm certainly not). You need to be able to play at a serviceable level in every single role and excel at least at 1 role (preferably 2). In my case, I'm good at support and adc. I'm not great, but have serviceable mids and jungles and so so tops. Knowing what you are good at and bad at is very important. If you don't know, I can probably tell you - but you really should know... Anyway, you need to have enough champs to make solid picks in any role and you need to be able to cover any role if it comes down to it. I'll talk about how to get better at specific roles in a bit.
Champ select advice - Don't be the "fill" guy unless you really feel like you are awesome in all roles. Call your preferred role immediately when you hit the lobby. Say "adc pref." Do this as soon as you hit the lobby. Some people believe that if you call a role you magically get it. This is stupid, but if you call something out, folks will often accomodate your request. If you are feeling wishy washy for whatever reason, call out multiple roles in order of what you want to play - "adc/mid pref." In my experience, you generally do not want to call support. It's a very important role, but you want to be in a position to carry every single game if possible. If you aren't calling out a role, you are hoping that other players can carry you. If you are hoping that folks will carry you, you don't deserve to win. You need to know your best roles and you absolutely should request them.
Solo or duo in ranked? - Well, my 1st thought here is that you should solo. If you solo, you have to rely on yourself. IMO - its a much bigger test of skill to play solo and win than to duo. Do you want someone to carry you or do you really want to know that you are actually good? That said, provided you have the right duo partner, you can increase your odds of winning quite a bit. The simple math is that instead of having 4 teammates as unknown quantities, you only have 3. If you have a good duo teammate, you know what you can expect. When you duo, you get the most bang for your buck by having complimentary roles. Support/adc is good; jungle/mid also works. Even if you don't have direct symmetry in roles, if you are an amazing mid and I'm an amazing adc, our odds go up quite a bit if we both get those roles. Our odds go way down if we can't get those roles and are forced to play out of positions that we are weaker. For example, Bryff is a good mid. If he duo's up with me, the only way he will get to play that role is for me to call mid, take it myself, and then put myself into a position like support where I can't carry out of (I'm always 1st pick, Bryff is always last pick when we duo)... that and I have to show the mid I'm picking at the start which means Bryff gets hard countered. In short, we can expect that we will be a disadvantage when duo queuing. Now, if Bryff queued up with someone at a lower elo than himself that was solid, he'd likely be 1st pick and be able to get mid and have a better chance of carrying the game. Anyway, you need to keep in mind where you end up in pick order when duoing if you aren't looking to go adc/support. If you want that, you can usually get it.
How do you get better in roles that you are not good at? - Well, here's what I do. And this is really what I do on a regular basis. I think about what I'm good at and what I'm not good at. For instance, I realized that I don't play any hyper carry ads. So, I read up on hyper carries like vayne and kog maw. I look for guides on how to build them (most adcs are the same btw ), I look for vids on how people play them (eg how do I all in with a specific champ - is there a combo - when do I all in - what's the best way for me to burst - how should I behave in lane with this champ). Then, I fire up a custom game and try out the mechanics of whatever champ vs AI. Usually I learn a few tricks during that custom on how to position myself, etc. Then, I'm off to normal games where I'll request the role or character I'm trying out. Now, people still report your for being awful in normals, but it really is where you need to try out characters to see if you are any good or not as the bots are useless for proving your skill level to yourself. So, fire up that normal and ask to play a role (again - after you've tried out the champ against bots). If you don't know anyone you are with and you are quite awful, I suggest muting everyone at the start of the game. Then, do your best. Continue with this until you feel like you have a serviceable skill level in whatever role. And keep in mind what you need to work on. For me, I noticed I didn't really have alot of mids for ranked, so I started practicing some with gragas against and karth. That way, I'll be able to get the job done if I need to play mid. The next thing I need to do is put more time into being better top lane. Again, because while I prefer adc/support, I might need to play top for the team. So, best to be ready for it. Put your time in and practice roles.
One last thought - there are certain things you can generally expect in ranked. 1 - if you are 1st pick, you generally can call whatever you want. Common knowledge, I'm sure - but I'll add - CALL WHATEVER YOU WANT. 2 - if you duo queue, you generally can lock down both adc and support. It works best if your adc is 1st pick, ofc. I've bumped into like 10 random dedicated supports in all of my games of LoL. People generally aren't going to call support. So, if you are 1st pick and duo'd, just call adc and then your duo partner can almost always get support.
Lol King profiles for ranked tracking
I'm not going to update this regularly, so just consider it a snapshot (I'll add a date when I update them). Anyway, I enjoy seeing folks progress through ranked and keeping tabs on that sort of thing from time to time.
Snapshot updated 05/28/2014
Character guides
VICTORIOUS ELISE WHAT???!?!?!?!?? aWESOMEhttp://beta.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/features/announcing-end-season-3-rewards
Well that is one way to make me play ranked again. Hopefully I won't have much homework over the next few days.
Copy/paste of that link
Bronze or higher: Season 3 Summoner Icon You’ll earn a Summoner Icon that displays your accomplishments. There is a different icon for each tier.
Silver or higher: Profile banner trim, Loading screen border, and Victorious Ward Skin From your profile banner to your loading screen, reach Silver or higher to earn the corresponding trim. Each tier has a different colored trim. At Silver tier, you’ll also pick up a new permanent Victorious Ward skin to light up the jungle your way.
Gold or higher: Season 3 medal for Buddy and Team invitations and Victorious Champion Skin Should you climb to the highest ranks of competitive play, you’ll greet new friends and teammates with a personalized invitation badge that shows off your success in shiny style. You’ll also earn the permanent Victorious Ward skin and a unique Victorious skin.
Actually, I'm a smidge disappointed with this. Been bustin my arse in ranked with an eye on plat this season - no really cool bonus for plat... so I get w/e I get at the gold level. I like the end of season rewards... just think it would be cooler if they did something special for the other tiers (or at least plat). Cool to get a unique character skin anyway.
was able to send that skin to grendelgod though
not sure why you thought you would get anything significant for Plat. You never have.
You get an upgraded loading border, icon, and account banner. The new thing this season is an upgraded "invitation" border.
The only new thing you get from Gold -> Plat is that you get a forum badge on the official forum whereas gold gets no such thing.
We are the 1.5%
well... to be fair... I never was plat (or had a shot to be) before... so... didn't pay a ton of attention.
I will be back but not soon. Sounds like I should try to get to gold huh. wlpbrbl
yeah I didn't expect anything new hedgie I just though I would share!
in as much as I'm able (or you'd like), I'd duo w/ whoever and put some time into helping whoever hit gold using my alt account. It's silver I atm (though now I wonder if I get elise for free if I hit gold on that acct). I have at least 1 champ for every role on that account, though my champ pool is likely best for top/adc/support. Anyway, if you want someone to duo with to get there, let me know. Pretty sure I can help carry around that level at this time in those roles.
hedgie was responding to my comment re: boo hoo I don't get anything awesome if I go plat.
OH haha I didn't notice what you posted at the bottom of your post!
OK - so I'd like to have a conversation re: skill levels with the folks we typically run with as it pertains to ranked level. Specifically, I'm thinking about limited role specialization: is that good for ranked or is it better to have a wider specialization (eg I main 1 role and fall off a bit in others or I'm great in most roles but fall off in 1)?
A caveat - the degree that I've played with an individual colors my perception of their skill level/role specialization. For instance, I've played quite a bit with bryff/karl. I can speak with a reasonable level of clarity re: what they are good at and what roles they typically play. Bryff was a solid mid and then focused a ton on top irelia. His top game improved a ton and now he's a reasonably solid top. His mid game fell off some as a result of all the top time. His support is decent. Karl's a great jungler and has a serviceable support. If I had to put either of them somewhere, I'd put bryff top and karl jung pretty close to 100% of the time unless we had a god tier top or something to that effect.
Now, these 2 guys in particular are currently in silver (hopefully will hit gold before the end of the season). The thing I'm trying to figure out is why they'd still be in silver. Karl has had the curse of the karl on and off for losing promo series to the point where I'd be punching walls anyway. Yet we all know karl's a really solid jungler. Is his lack of diversity in carry roles holding him back? In my experience, jungling enables your to get your carries carrying (if you will). Even if you hook them up and they get fed, lower skill level on those adc/mid/top can still mean you lose a game.
So, then I think about other folks that tend to stick to specific roles (again, this is based on what I've seen... not based on what actually might be true - so grain of salt and all that). Cow's plat IV. He seems to main mid. I don't know what other roles he strong in (not support ). Zen is gold I. From what I've seen, he's strong as a top laner and so so as a mid, but seems to main those 2.
I guess I don't have enough data to draw a conclusion. I think it's more difficult to gain elo as a jungle main without having a strong carry fallback role. I personally think its very difficult to main support unless you are duo'ing a bunch and rank up... both of those roles count on your teammates a ton.
Anyway, I'll put out this question - is it better to specialize in 1 role SPECIFICALLY for the goal of gaining elo? If so, do you think the role needs to be one of the 3 carry possibilities (top/mid/adc)?
My take is that its good to specialize in 1 and be strong in multiple others. I've got 3 roles that I call in ranked and typically get 1 of them (adc/jungle/support). I almost always prefer adc as that gives me the most carry potential, but I've put in a ton of time on the other roles to be pretty solid there as well. I'd think that if I only played support/jungle at a competitive level, I'd have a much harder time gaining elo - and that not being due to my skill level. It would be due to not having a role that I can carry out of if my teammates aren't getting it done.
Well, there is no question that some roles are stronger than others for gaining ELO in solo queue. Mid is the strongest, then its ADC/top, then jungle, then support. Historically top has been stronger than ADC, but ADC might be stronger now since the role in general has been buffed above its historical baseline.
A big part of the reason that I was gold for season I and much of season II is that I started ranked as a mostly mid/top player, which made ELO gaining easier. It is substantially harder to move up from jungle. You can mitigate the difficulties somewhat by playing carryish junglers like Hecarim and WW, but playing a carry from a position with more gold/xp is always going to be stronger than playing a pseudo carry from a position with weak gold/xp.
With regards to why I'm so low: Well, I haven't played that many games, and I've had really bad luck with when I win my matches. Also, I decayed 2+ tiers due to inactivity. And then pacov trolled me HARD in two separate promo series, which didn't help either.
Re: Karl
Aside from his bad luck in promo series and being trolled by friends and elo decay, I think one of his main issues is that he plays junglers that have some hard counters. I remember he posted a game where he got fed as hell as WW and still lost. I thought to myself "That's not going to matter if they have a Lulu on the other team. Or their fed carry buys a QSS and he's playing a 2nd in champ like WW as an initiator cause his team doesn't have anyone else to do it." I think if he ever got to Gold, it would be a quick trip to Plat since he'd have consistently competent teammates to help get fed with his obscenely skilled jungling, but in the meantime he just can't carry games with his stable of junglers where he's the best player on his team.
I disagree on him being a serviceable support. He mains Taric, a Tier 2 (that's generous) support who provides an armor aura in a heavy AP meta. He rarely plays the position and only uses a specialized champ for it, so it's not a great situation when he can't play jungle in Ranked. It is better than forcing the last pick who called "anything but support" into the position however.
Re: Bryff
Bryff is a great top now, but that doesn't matter if he's forcing a better one out of the position in a game. If he gets to play top with someone Irelia goes well against, he's going to do very well. But how do games go where he can't top? Ranked seems to be a balance of playing what you're strongest at, while maintaining flexibility to play other roles so your teammates don't have to play roles they're awful at. Bryff has more flexibility role wise than Karl, but not that much as far as I can tell.
Re: Roles
It's just like Karl said, but I wish I actually knew exactly how good my allies were before I picked a role. If I'm the worst player on the team, I want to be the support. If the ADC is the best player on our team, I want to be the support. If the opposite is true, I DON'T want to be the support.
Didn't I help you get to silver I one day? At any rate, definitely sorry if I actually trolled you in a ranked game. I mean... I'll troll you verbally in ball busting fashion, but that's pretty shitty of me if I'm throwing games being a douche. Sorry!
re: what you said overall, though, karl - I know we've talked about this briefly, but is there a reason you don't go deeper in your pool of junglers? Is it more of an "I just enjoy certain champs" or "these champs are good at counter jungling",etc sort of thing? Also, if you know its going to be much tougher to rank up in elo, why do you still choose to stick with jungle instead of spending more time working on the carry roles? You do get a lot more bang for your buck as jungler at higher elos (eg that time you spent camping or ganking a lane pays off more consistently if you get someone fed than it does at lower levels in my experience). It's still a bit of a crap shoot... good fed players can still get worked by not as fed, more skilled players.
Also, I don't get why you choose not to get on the OP bandwagon here and there. For instance, there was a time when nunu was ridiculously strong as a jungler. And zac is still kind of in that spot. But you don't have much interest in using them. For me, I learned how to use them well and got on the elo bandwagon and profited.
well.. serviceable means he gets the nuances of the role and can typically get the job done. I'm sure as heck not comparing the skill level of his jungle to his support. I think more depth in the support role would be good now that taric isn't enjoy the elo either.
I generally agree. BUT - lack of depth outside of the jungle hurts more and more if you don't get that role the higher up you go. If he gets to jungle, yeah - I think it will pay off more and more and be much easier to win by about the time he hits gold IV.
yeah - taking that example and applying it to our in house games, I often think I'd be the best support on the team, but I won't play that role unless we have someone better to take over jung/adc. I'd apply the same sort of logic in ranked, but yeah... you don't always know what you are going to get. So, I just typically default to requesting adc or jungle if I'm 1st or 2nd pick.
I'll add the following to the OP later - suggest you folks try this out. Just an ini change that makes it so your health bar is easier to see in fights, etc. Looks like pic below.
download zip file here: https://app.box.com/s/1me9fqkqs7tybll8kpsw
Place file here: C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\RADS\solutions\lol_game_client_sln\releases\0.0.0.240\deploy\DATA\menu\hud
Taric is still a very good support, just more situational than he used to be. If your opposition goes mainly AD, his value is good. If you've all got characters that scale with AP, his value jumps even further. 35 AP and AD is nothing to scoff at, play a bursty ADC that has some AP scaling, and you've got a pretty dominant lane with high sustain that can take a bit of harass before pouncing on someone to dish everything out at once.
I would not recommend first picking Taric in solo. Odds are you'll get an AP heavy team with a tard ADC that picks one of the all AD champs that only get half the benefit, instead of say Tristana or Miss Fortune. When the circumstances are right, he's fantastic.
Eh, I don't think that WW is particularly counterable if you know what you are doing.
I mean, how many junglers are going to do more than WW if fed regardless of counters? You are basically looking at Hecarim and nobody else (Jax doesn't count because he is too risky - any competent counterjungler can completely take him out). I'll give you that I should probably know how to play Hecarim, but the fundamental problem is that there just aren't many junglers that scale with gold. That's just how Riot has decided to balance jungle - make them strong for having no gold, but weakly scaling with gold.
Nullifying WW ult with Lulu ult isn't all that devastating to WW late game (it just does suck in lane). You still probably got a second of suppressing in by the time Lulu reacts and everything, and you are still on top of their carry even after being knocked out of the suppress. WW not getting full value out of his ult isn't that devastating late, especially if you force the other team to buy relatively low efficiency items like Mercurial.
Now the fact that WW isn't a real 1st-in initiator is a problem, but the list of first in initiators who jungle and can carry is once again limited to Hecarim and not much else.
I think Taric is good in solo queue. He is my second highest win % champion after WW historically.
In lane, he is probably one of the most general supports. He doesn't require a certain style - he is effective defensively or offensively, and the aura is always really useful. So I play him because he is almost always a very strong laning choice.
Now he does fall of late against many comps. I'll definitely give you that there are a lot of other supports that are stronger in teamfights right now. But in a meta that is very favorable to ADCs right now, I think that its worth taking Taric in an environment where you don't know what you are going to get from your lanemate since he gives you a great chance of doing as well as possible in lane. If you do know what you are going to get from your lanemate (both in terms of pick and in terms of playstyle), there will be better choices probably.
Basically, I think that he is strong in solo queue because of his flexibility in lane, but he isn't what I would take in organized play.
I'll also grant you that I might be biased for Taric because junglers love Tarics in lane (he is so good for ganks with the short cooldown, non skillshot stun).
But I would say that the stats back me up - Taric is one of the most played supports and has one of the highest win rates as a support. He is actually more played than Lulu, at a much higher winrate. Granted that is skewed due to low ELO (since he is so easy to play). But even in say Plat, his pick and win rate is basically the same as Lulu (pick rate slightly lower, win rate the same or a bit higher).
So yeah, you are probably right on Taric in terms of organized play or even a duo queued bot lane, but in solo queue I think he is very solid.
"Deep pool" is not a winning strategy for moving up in solo queue. Go look at high elo people, and you are going to see a lot of players who specialize in a few champions. That's the most general winning strategy - take a smallish set of champions that cover all situations you are going to see and learn them really well.
I don't really care enough about ranked to train up in other roles that much. Plus, I'd probably train up mid again, but thats our most congested role given the people we play with. The freest role is probably top, but I hate top.
I don't really play enough games to keep up on the FotM treadmill effectively for ranked. It takes me 25 games or so to work up a champion into ranked shape, and given how much I play, that just takes too long given the nerf cycle. Also, jungle is the most banned position, so trying to play FotM is difficult since you will be banned out a lot.
I also think that you vastly overestimate how OP those champions are. A lot of those champions are more "easy to play" than truly OP. I'll give you that Zac is very strong right now, but I don't really want a non carry jungler for ranked right now.
Just some quick stats on taric, janna, nami, and sona for instance. Data from past 30 days for ranked only.
Thing with stats like these is getting that a single percentage point does mean a bit considering the sample size. If we are talking 4 percentage points, its worth considering other options as something is going on.
re: karl's comments directed towards me - I think you explained yourself and I get where you are coming from.
I think you miss the boat on some opportunities to use strong characters before they become BAN THAT GUY. You explain why you miss those opportunities, but I don't think you and I will see eye to eye re: "OP" champs. I see win rate percentages and get very interested in why such and such is dominating. Then I often attempt to emulate that style and see if it works for me.
i disagree with a lot of what is being said here. Support is the best way to carry yourself to plat. (which is why i suspect i was forgotten in the OP).
In silver/low gold support is basically completely an un-contested position. That means you can play your best role 80-90% of the time. Bad ADCs are rampant in these brackets and if you abuse the strong supports and strategies (eg, Red Pot Ignite Sona) you can completely take advantage of them. If you look at what DotA2 pros who have switched to LoL this is exactly what they do to climb through the early ranks of ranked while still getting used to the game.
While a support ban typically takes one out of the six (usually one support is obscenely OP every patch) every other support is basically never banned and rarely contested so you don't have to worry about "shit they took Ahri/Kass/Caitlyn/Zac/Shen".
Now, if you are with a group of friends who repeatably and consistently defer a particular position to you over and over and over again for weeks/months, then it's a lot easier to carry with another role that gets more gold. Because you get really good at that role. (#Cow). i think that we are a bit of an exception rather than a rule when it comes to that.
I meant that in more of a way that a fed WW isn't going to bring enough to the table on a bad team, because I realize that he scales extremely well and having a fed WW on a competent team is a beautiful thing. Even though tanky/utility junglers like J4 and Naut don't scale as well as WW later, if they're doing well they can force feed kills pre-6 better and can cause enough disruption during a mid game teamfight, that they have a lot more possibility to turn things around for a bad team IMO.
It's not just Lulu's ult that ruins WW's day. When he's a squirrel, he's not Qing and if he's not Qing he's not healing. And he has to run through her Q slow to get to someone to heal off. And if it's not Lulu, it's Janna doing the same damn things pretty much. Or Fiddle putting the fear into him for 3 seconds. I'm not saying he's not a good champ (specially when you play him!), I'm just saying that he's not a jungler that can be counted on to carry the game every time he gets fed since there is so much that can be used to deal with him.
I think Taric is good in solo queue. He is my second highest win % champion after WW historically.In lane, he is probably one of the most general supports. He doesn't require a certain style - he is effective defensively or offensively, and the aura is always really useful. So I play him because he is almost always a very strong laning choice.Now he does fall of late against many comps.
Historically. Were most of these games played back when Taric was already the God Tier support, and then Riot buffed him right before the patch where they nerfed him? Your recent win % from the last month with Taric isn't as high as your historic, but it's too small of a sample size to really draw any concrete conclusions.
Let me tell you where Taric stands with other players right now at Gold/Plat for the last month, which is where I assume you want to get to:
Pick Rate - 3.35% Win Rate - 51.5%
A good win rate but he's the 8th most popular support and his pick % is a big drop off from the popular supports. 5th most popular is at 11% for instance, then 7.5, then 5, then... Taric.
So what I take away from these stats is that people tend to do well with Taric, but only pick him when there is a reason to like team comp synergy or lane counters (Go on and grab me Blitz, I dares yah!) or whatever. If you're always picking him every time you support, you're going to run into a lot of unfavorable matchups I think. The two most popular supports right now (Sona and Janna) soft and hard counter him respectively, according to the stats I looked up anyway.
Quick, name junglers that can be counted on to carry if they get fed. The only jungler you could claim is much better than WW is Hecarim. Riot has "balanced" junglers by making it so that pretty much no standard jungler scales well with gold. So while WW might not dominate every time he gets fed, he sure as hell does more than fed J4 or Naut or Shyvana or Udyr etc.
Don't know where you are grabbing those stats from, but in August, Taric pick rates are over 8% in plat and over 10% in gold according to Lolking. He is reasonably heavily played with a winrate over 50%. That means in terms of pickrate he is in the same tier as a Lulu (behind the Nami/Janna/Sona tier) at a pretty good winrate.
This is completely not true in silver. Support starts to become somewhat better in gold.
In silver, you can get your ADC fed all you want, but there are consistent enough positioning problems that it doesn't matter. Its still a crapshoot on whether or not they can position themselves in a teamfight, and if they can't, you are going to lose no matter how strong your laning phase is. In gold you can start to count on your ADC to not get insta blown up in teamfights, so support is better.
There's a reason that it took Thunder 500 games to get to gold maining support despite the fact that he is a very good support. I mean, there are a lot of people who we play that are higher ranked than Thunder but are much lesser players (some of them feed pretty much every in house...). But they got higher in solo queue because they don't main support.
dat hedgehog
This is how I have had success on getting into plat. I had some personality/attitude problems earlier this season that kept me out of plat. I would get on tilt after losing a few games and continue to play crappy the rest of the night. This would result in instead of losing 1-2 games in a row I would lose 6-10 games in a row. After looking at my losses more closely I came up with this philosophy:1. The game was lost because of something I did. 2. The game was completely unwinnable for various reasons (teammates, trolling, disconnecting)If I misplayed I would look at the mistakes I made and try to fix them and get over it. I distinctly remember one game I played as grag. I missed 5-6 ults straight. COMPLETELY missed. If I hit a few of those we would of won team fights and won the game. On the other hand there are games that are just impossible to win and you need to move on and not dwell on them. Games where you have a twisted fate mid on your team that thought it was a great idea to play him for the first time against a Kassadin. Or you have teammates that decide it would be fun to go annie support with a kogmaw. These type of situations you have no control over and you just have to move on to the next game. ---------------------------------------------The other side of my success has been playing champions I like and knowing there strengths and weakness. Brand is bad versus AD Bruiser mids but Gragas dominates them. I also have rune pages and builds that I use versus specific champions. If I am facing a fizz (god forbid) I take barrier. If I am against a Zed I rush zhonyas. If I am against a swain I build Morello's. etc... etc... You need to know your match ups SPECIFICALLY for your champion. I can also jungle very well. So having a back up roll is also important. I have had a lot of success with udyr (7-3), mao (10-6), and hecarim (6-4). ---------------------------------------------The final thing that I have done differently in the past few month is avoid doing Baron in ranked unless you are losing. I find if you are winning a game that if you try to do baron and the opposing team steals you have put yourself in a position to throw the game. Its best to leave baron alone unless there is a glaringly obvious chance to take it.
So I guess in short: 1. Play what you like and know what you are doing with that champion2. Try to have a positive attitude all the time3. Don't do baron One quick note on jungling in ranked:I find it very risky to do invades..... You are basically relying on your teammates to help you without the use of voice chat. This is a very dangerous thing. Numerous times I have watched junglers die when invading because the other team wards and spots him invading. It can be very rewarding but if you want to win games I think it is better to play safe and just gank lanes and stay in your own jungle.
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