Charlie Bobson fucked around with this message at 07:34 on May 21, 2018

• Farm. Literally just farm. Under all conditions just farm. If you're not regularly hitting 8-9 CS per minute on every match you're not doing it right. Farm two waves, get a jungle camp in between you moving to another lane to get another two waves. If you're behind, farm, if you're ahead, farm. You never stop getting stronger with items.
  
• Learn to orbwalk. I do it by alternating a+left click and just left clicking (This is not the most accurate way but it's cleaner overall, IMO). The key is to time it correctly with your attack speed and your AA animation. It is sometimes a good idea to take longer steps to position better. The best position you can often be in is just whichever is the farthest away from other enemies that is still within your AA range.
  
• Did your lane phase suck? Is the team failing miserably at their positions? Itemize for faster clear so you can more easily clear waves with super minions on them. Conversely, if you are doing very well, get a BF sword after your first item, get IE and rush GA after it. You need to learn to play from behind to actually climb.
  
• Don't give up.

• Learn your numbers, start with mana costs by level for all of your abilities, then move on to your total mana by level, then health, then offensive stats. This is the position that demands the most game knowledge from you to be effective.
  
• Ward all the loving time. In soloq defensive wards are crucial, you can sometimes risk a deep ward but seriously just focus on warding your own jungle half the time. Ward right side when Dragon is about to be up, ward left side when it isn't and Baron is up. The key to always being stocked with wards is to recall often.
  
• Stick around people, you need to soak up as much XP as possible without actually farming, and also the less time these drooling idiots spend alone the less likely they are to die. So just stay close to wherever everyone else is.
  
• Understand power spikes. It's super crucial that you understand how far you are from the next level and how far the enemy is to their next level. You need to understand matchups and champions to understand where the advantages are, the key to winning lane is knowing when the opponent is the most vulnerable.
  
• Don't give up.

• Clean your inputs, particularly your move inputs, this applies to every character not just the really technical ones. Mid is all about taking all the little advantages you can get, and having your character spaz around after getting a minion because you're just left clicking wildly will result in a better opponent putting avoidable pressure on you.
  
• Pay very close attention to the minion wave. If you can consistently pressure your opponent when they're trying to CS you can readily kill them in lane in your next power spike. Conversely you need to know which way the wave is gonna push and how fast it is going to do it. You need to be able to CS under turret perfectly or you'll just get pushed in all the time.
  
• If you're at your strongest when roaming, push hard, then roam. If you're not, deny the enemy the possibility to roam by warding their exits with pinks, while also trying to keep up with their farm. This affects your itemization choices, maybe you want a mana crystal over an amp tome so you have enough mana to keep up with the push ability that a Malzahar or a Yasuo has.
  
• You won't always decimate your lane. Play it safe after a couple of deaths so that you can come back to a more impactful position in the late game. Minimizing your deaths should be one of your main goals.
  
• Don't give up.

• /ignore all. Leave only pings enabled, leave them without sound if you want to.
  
• Don't do things out of habit. I'm actually glad that the buff-wolves-buff-gank route isn't all that viable any more because it locked people in a single track. You can always outperform the enemy jungler by being reactive and knowing where they are and what they're doing. Unless you know you're stronger than them it's best to stay on opposite sides. If you're building the same poo poo and doing the same poo poo all the time you're going to get mediocre results. Deep ward lvl 1 so you know where they're starting and anticipate where they'll end.
  
• The way to properly tower dive depends a bit on who has the most cc, you or your laner, but generally you want one person diving and another one at the very edge of turret range. Generally you want to be on the outside so you can just let your laner dive, which means that you draw aggro first, then exit after taking 2/3 turret shots.
  
• You need to actually pay attention to the wave, don't gank on a wave that's pushing in. You want waves to be even or pushing towards the enemy turret, and you want to gank in between waves, not when a wave is about to arrive. Don't wait for longer than a single wave unless you're in range to soak XP.
  
• Don't give up.

• Idk I've never actually tried to be good at top. A lot of the midlane stuff applies I guess. Like half of the goons itt are top mains so ask them.
  
• Don't give up.

• Find a reason to actually get good at the game. Maybe you just wanna show off, or just have a competitive streak, or you wanna be a pro player (), but find a feasible goal for you.
  
• Make sure you're still actually having fun playing the game.
  
• Take frequent breaks in between matches. Queue up with the right state of mind or you're just not going to do well.
  
• Saying what you're doing out loud can help you if you're uncertain. Bizarrely enough this does actually help you make better choices, it's what programmers dub rubber duck programming. When loading, just describe your game plan to yourself. Wanna talk some poo poo? Just say it out loud as opposed to actually typing it out. Your family and friends will think you're losing your loving mind but I mean, you are playing League of Legends in 2018 after all.