11 Tips to Win More League of Legends Games Now
You will advance from your division when you use what's taught in this free League of Legends guide. Please be honest with yourself by doing what is told rather than thinking you know something. Knowing is doing. By using just the lessons revealed today, I moved from gold to platinum-tier.
This is the screen we all want after a game of League of Legends and is something you will start to see more of when you complete this five-part course...
Sadly, there is no single thing you can do to guarantee a win. League of Legends is a team game with the outcome determined by 10 players.
But what you do influences the other nine players on Summoner's Rift. If NBA player Lebron James joined your local basketball team, do you think he'd make his team better and be more likely than other players to win? You bet.
Though Lebron can have great games for his team, he still loses a game here and there. Does he give up then blame teammates? No (well, most of the time he doesn't). League of Legends players blame teammates all the time to save their ego - not realizing they need to work on their game.
Stop blaming teammates for loses. Only then can you begin to see errors in your play so you get better. All top pros like DoubleLift say this was their secret to win more League of Legends games.
With the following 11 tips, you win more games right now:
1Master one role. Do you love playing top, mid, bot, support, or jungler the most? Perhaps the role you most love is what you are best at and what you should master. The queue systems makes it easier to get mastery in your primary and secondary roles.
Pros can play all roles, but pros are best at one role. My main role is support. I average a 70% win-rate with Janna, Leona, Soraka, and Taric over 600 games between the champions. If I play support, chances are we'll win. Similarly, if you are weak in one role, it's okay to avoid it. Put your pride aside - no one said you have to master five roles.
If you choose to play other roles, acknowledge it as something fun or to improve at. Don't expect to rise in the ranking system by playing any role.
2Play two champions in each role. You will not always play your best role in solo queue. If you have to play a non-preferred role, narrow your selection to two champions per position. It quickens you to mastery. At the same time it does not make you lose with counter-picks.
I suggest you pick strong champions based on who you play the best and are high on a good tier-list. A "strong champion" is weak if you are bad at him. Of the two champions you pick, make sure their styles vary so they can counter and not be countered by one champion. For example, pick up a nuking mid-laner like Taliyah and someone who likes to rotate abilities like Ziggs. For jungle, have a versatile farmer like Ivern and someone who prefers to fight in the jungle like Nidalee.
3Play at your peak time. Productivity experts advise to do your most important task of the day when you have your highest focus. For me, I do my most important task (often writing) first thing in the day. I've spoken with players who tracked when they are most likely to win. Some have a 20% win-rate in their first game of the day because they need to warm up. For others their first game is their best game because they are most rested and positive.
The best time to play is unique to you. It depends on your time zone, when you are focused, and when you have a game-winning attitude. For the next week, create a spreadsheet tracking times, kills, deaths, assists, and whether you win or lose to figure out when you play your best. Here's a spreadsheet I prepared that you can copy and use.
4Duo queue with someone better than you. This tip is thrown around in the LoL community, but I give it to you for a different reason. Queue with someone better than you that you like. Talk over a program like Skype. You will have more fun, make plays together, keep rage between the two of you (which will help your team), and learn. If they play in a division higher than you, you get paired against better opponents guaranteed to crack open your weaknesses and make you humble. This is your time to learn.
5Treat every game like a tournament. Even if you haven't played a tournament, this tip works. Your senses will heighten and you will play better. You'll also prepare yourself for big moments. Imagine 10,000 people watching you play over a stream. One day, it may just happen. It happened for the first time in early 2012 for a creator of Summoner School LittleUberGiant who was suddenly spectated by 20,000 viewers through the stream of former TSM top-laner Dyrus.
6Ward well. Good wards stop ganks, allow counter-ganks, and let you confidently make plays. All this lets you win more. I found that when I lose, I get lazy with wards. How you ward varies for objectives and what towers are up.
The graphic below (which you can click to enlarge) is a good warding guide in the laning phase when towers are up:
7Last hit better. Tell yourself to focus on last-hitting to improve your CS. Higher CS means better items and a threatening presence. The next part of this free course covers in-depth how to last hit like a world-class player so you reach 120 minion kills by 15 minutes.
8Be positive with teammates. How can this win you more games right now? You reduce the number of trolls you get and help improve your team. Any good coach or manager will tell you negative team-energy is a bad environment for performance. Aim to give at least one compliment to every teammate each game. "You're last hitting well." "Nice escape Janna." "Dude, that was a beast initiation. Good job."
9Make your decisions. If someone wants to gank, you tell him to back because an enemy is around, and they still move into gank, stick to your decision. Should you jump in then die, you will blame the ganking ally even though your death is your fault. If you think yourself to be superior than those you play with and they argue with you, keep quiet.
10Stop after three games. League of Legends is addictive! You can play for 10 hours straight, but not play well for 10 hours straight. Rest every third game. That's one 20-minute break every 2 hours. If you hate that idea, rest after two losses.
A true rest is not jumping on Facebook. Get away from the computer. The human body has hundreds of rhythms from physical, mental, and emotional that go out of whack when you skip rest.
11Have fun. Queue with a friend over Skype, make jokes, talk trash, laugh. Having fun does not make you win, but it minimizes frustration and improves your attitude to indirectly help you win. Don't get sloppy in your play though from being too relaxed. Keep focused on all these tips to win your game.
Tomorrow you will automatically receive an email for the next part of "Get Promoted from Your League in 5 Days" where you discover how to last-hit for amazing CS.
Aside from last-hitting, how do you develop all the skills to win?
How do you learn to counter-pick, pick the right runes and masteries every time, last hit, zone, harass, get kills when you gank, develop map awareness, ward, build correctly, team-fight, communicate with your team, practice better, and learn all the 30+ other skills needed to become a better LoL player?
Previously there was no guide out there to teach you all this. The best answer use to be to pick tips here and there from second-rate guides then learn most of it yourself over hundreds of hours studying, testing, and failing... but this takes so long! And after all that effort, there's no guarantee you're going to come out a better player.
The Best Way to Go Insane Trying to Get Better is Playing Solo Queue for Hours Everyday
You feel like you're trying to cut a tree with a butter knife. You skip studying, don't work, forget to eat... your life suffers.
It is possible to learn by playing endlessly, watching streams, and reading free guides, but it's not worth the sacrifice and never-ending frustration. It takes you over a year of smart learning to figure out the secrets.
You want a map to follow so you can confidently get to where you want to go - whether it is to escape league hell, become a platinum player, or make your team pro – without destroying your life.
After one year of intensive learning, I finally freed myself from solo queue hell at bronze IV. Our pre-made team held #1 on the Australian LoL ladder for most of the year winning cash, RP, and rights to play in bigger tournies. I reached my goal of diamond-tier, which meant at the time I was in the top 1% of the world according to Riot. My bros (UberGiantsBro and LittleUberGiant) got picked up by esports giant Dignitas and both became top 5 players on the Challenger ladder in Oceania servers.
You want to know something what's even crazier? LittleUber was 16 when he beat DoubleLift bottom lane on 200 ping (NA servers from Australia) while playing on an old laptop that maxed out at 10 frames per second! (Check out his Reddit AMA.)
To help you get the most complete, fastest training to kick-ass at LoL, we created the ultimate guide: Summoner School. Players frustrated in solo queue like yourself have followed the guide and reached diamond-tier.
Everything is revealed step-by-step in Summoner School so you dominate solo queue with noob teammates. Get started today with Summoner School: