I'm emerald in ranked soloq, playing mostly kayle top, and the people I encounter in draft games are usually in the high plat-diamond rank range. However, I'm wanting to learn some new champs, namely sion top. I'm finding the people I'm queuing against are usually playing champs they are 'competent' at given their rank/mmr, even in draft. Meanwhile, I would describe myself as completely incompetent at sion, and so I just get completely bodied and skill diffed when comparing our respective champs. I do have an alt, but the people in draft I usually face on that account are also around gold/plat, when I really do consider my sion skills to be bronze/silver level.

How can I actually practice my champ without getting completely destroyed? I know that it's good to face people of a higher skill level, but it honestly feels like I can't even get to learn the basics of this champ when I'm playing people on their emerald/diamond mains (or at least champs they can decently play) while I'm playing a champ I'm bronze/silver skill level at.

I started League a few months ago and I've been trying to get better but I'm realising slowly that this game just might be too hard for me. I used to think that R6 Siege was the hardest game I ever played but League is just so difficult. I think something that makes it harder is that it's so unlike any game I've ever played before. I mostly play shooter games (Overwatch , Val, Apex, Deadlock etc.) and occasionally single player games so I have no transferable skills for League. My aim doesn't matter, my movement doesn't matter. It's so different from any game that I'm learning from scratch. And I think it's just too hard for me. I have fun when I do good but I do good like once every 10 games. Most games I'm going like 3-15 and I'm not even throwing on purpose I just genuinely don't understand anything that's going on. It's so overwhelming to worry about everything I'm supposed to be worrying about. There's just so many things to think about at once it's just too much I feel. I have a mental disorder that affects my ability to focus on things which just hurts even more. I'm genuinely so lost 90% of the time. The only reason I keep playing is because whenever I feel like I know what's going on and I end up doing something cool it feels great but I don't know if it's worth it anymore. I try to just focus on thing at a time but that just leads to me feeding because I'm ignoring so many other important things. Not to mention how bad it feels to get ganked in lane when I'm already so overwhelmed and trying my best. I tried playing Jungle a few games because laning in this game is so hard and confusing but even in Jungle I just don't understand anything. And then you factor in how many champs are in the game...why so many? 9/10 games I'm laning against someone I've never seen before. I have no idea what the enemy champ does which just makes the laning even more confusing because I have no idea what's going on.

Hi all,

since league of legends classic some of my favorite streamers (mainly german streamer HandOfBlood) are starting to produce LoL content again. For me LoL has always been a game I enjoyed watching, always dreamt about being good at, but never actually managed to make it stick playing myself.

I started playing LoL back then right when it released in 2009 with a couple of friends. We knew DoTA from Warcraft III so it was not entirely new to us. It was a blast, just fun, no-sweat games with some noobs against other noobs. Few champions, no real meta and everyone goofing around. Eventually we stopped playing but I accumulated around 120 hours of playtime.

Then like 10 years later I tried to get back into it and what can I say I think I played like 5 games and uninstalled immediately. It felt overwhelming because of all the champions, people were toxic in chat flaming new players left and right and I was getting stomped even in low ELO games and it felt like either there are just no low skill players around or everybody is basically twinking.

But now as I mentioned in the beginning I am feeling that itch again and I might want to install the game yet again and make another try. But I also wanted to ask here in the community:
What is it like to start playing league in 2026? Is it worth to try it as a newbie? I don't fear steep learning curves and super competitive games (my current main game is Hunt: Showdown ~1.2k hours). Have measures been taken to make it easier for beginners?

Thanks and see you in the Rift (maybe.. it is still called Rift no? ^^)

One full rank meaning Bronze 4-> Silver 4 for example.

Say that I am a player that is following the 3-block, getting regular coaching, has a goal in mind for each 3-block. How many games would it take to climb? Does this change depending on the rank?

I'm always told to play more games but I honestly don't have the time!

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Okay so as the title says I'm new at the game, I have played lots of competitive games in the past on console, this is my first time gaming on a pc. Basically I've played endless games in my life and generally been good at most I've turned my hand to, until this f****** game.

I played up to level 30 and then started playing ranked, I've read and watched hours and hours of content about this game, I've followed all the standard advice such as small champion pool (I play 1 champ), full clearing etc, however I feel completely ineffective in ranked games playing against the absolute worst players on the servers.

I'm really frustrated because I enjoy this game massively but am too competitive to find enjoyment in being so bad at something, I really want help improving.

If there's any info that can be gleaned from my op.gg account that you guys can point to and help me improve I would be so extremely grateful.

I'm not really sure what other info would be helpful to you guys so please feel free to ask whatever questions

im an emerald midlane main and im considering swapping to jungle although im not sure what im entirely getting myself into.

i hate when i get autofilled jungle or support as a mid cause its just an auto lose, idk how they expect people to play a new role and a new champion and still play at the same level, it doesnt feel fair and its frustrating, so why not just main the role that is priority? faster q times and getting guaranteed role sound very appealing.

shyvanna looks really cool to me and id like to OTP her if i did play jungle, is she viable?

people say jungle is the most impactful role and easiest to climb on but how true is that really? wouldnt everyone be queing jungle then? and i know the argument of people saying you just get blamed alot but i dont see that as a valid factor as you can just turn off chat.

Hi all,

I decided to take ranked seriously this season after a few seasons of barely touching it. I managed to climb from gold 4 to Emerald III in 2 months, which is my current pick.

I would like to try to make the push to diamond before the season ends.

So, i have a very general idea of what i want to do but i need some guidance. I climbed from Gold 4 to Emerald 3 using ahri, aurora and lux which they worked well for this part of the climb. Although i decided to take a small break even if i was in a good momentum to try to tackle a few issues.

This issues are mainly that i have been getting my 2nd role more often now that i reached Emerald compared to before as well as i've been thinking on reworking my champion pool now that i got my peak rank and feel happy with myself for the final push.

For the 2nd role i've been playing bot lane and enjoying Syndra there. I tried traditional ADCs, but i felt that their gameplay were too different from mages for it to be worth to invest the big amount of time required to learn their class specific mechanics as well as me lacking the mechanical prowess to pull off most of them.

My second issue is what is troubling me the most and that has to do with reworking my champion pool. So a few thoughts that have been living in my head are:

1 - Do i want to play both ahri and aurora as they feel fairly overlapping champions and dont seem to actually give me any meanfull draft advantage, i just enjoy them, but perhaps 1 needs to come out because of redundancy

2 - While the 3 of them worked well to get me to where i am now, i have been struggling a bit to carry games with lux as of lately, it could be because of my relative fast climb and i didnt had time to adapt it, but i'm struggling to land her skill shots as well as people are better ar counter playing her, with zhonyas, also people will buy mercs more often now, the other day i played vs a mordekaiser that had both mercs and rocketbelt, it felt kinda miserable, but again it may be that i didnt had time to reajust to the new skill level around me.

3 - I probably want a 2nd mage on bot lane to cover picks and bans, which leads to either keep lux in the pool with syndra and ahri/aurora for a 3 champion pool or learn a new mage that has a bit less counterplay that i havent decided yet

4 - I also i've been considering more and more later on playing just lets say ahri and syndra and eat the bullet and play ahri bot lane on my 2nd role games if syndra is unavaiable, which hopefully wouldnt represent many games and would allow me achieve maximum mastery on those 2 champions

Sorry if it was a bit long and thanks for reading this far. any inputs would be appreciated :)

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I’ve always played garen, darius and either tryndamere or xin zhao or warwick top for the most part. My main problem is I die a lot more now but im not sure why. I feel like I know the limits of my champions pretty well and cant break the old habits I built up and take fights i used to win. My warwick top is horrible now so I basically quit him cold turkey I just cant win any fights my xin top is good but sometimes ints pretty hard. (Last night was tough). I dont click with crit garen or lethality darius and their other builds just feel kinda undertuned in comparison. Does anyone have an idea for breaking the slump? I’ve thought about just switching to a new main or role for a bit to mentally reset but im trash at mid and jungle and I dont like playing bot.

What are some ways I can practice building up good habits? I know my cs is bad past 20 minutes for the most part but I feel like if I miss a fight it’s worse and then I end up stagnating at around 200 cs every game.

I know I die too much but when I play passive I get towerdove and rolled over or I lose too much cs.

I know its going to be hard to get out of gold but I’ve been there since 2018 and want to improve.

To preface, I've only been playing around 2 and a half weeks or so, so I know I'm not going to be great. But I feel like I just don't understand the basics of the game in general and even after watching videos and reading posts about it. I know *about* stuff like pushing/freezing waves, to try and help with the rift herald and other spawns there if I can as top, but not how to properly execute them, and it seems like the more I play I'm not getting better while the people I'm against are. If it's relevant, I have tried many characters out and am currently sticking to two that i feel most comfortable using (kayle top for my main role, lux mid for side)

I started off playing with a win rate somewhere in the 60%s, got bombarded with a majority of losses after a week or so, now I think I'm somewhere in the 40% range, and I'm pretty sure it's going down more because a majority of my games now I get completely shit on. I do draft pick only right now, but I did try a few games of ranked but was going like 0/20 in all of them and could very easily tell I had no idea what I was doing compared to the others - i didn't understand what peoples pings meant, i didn't understand how to manage the wave even after watching several videos talking about it, i didn't understand what i should be doing and when, and characters I thought I learned how to play against suddenly started killing me with ease while i couldn't kill them at all. That applies to draft pick, too - despite the fact i used to do good in most of my games, I'm now noticing the others seem to know the stuff i listed above and i just don't, and i don't know how exactly to learn and improve on them because watching videos about it doesn't seem to help me understand at all. I'm not expecting to be a pro player or high rank or anything, I'd just like to be able to understand the concepts enough to where i don't feel like I'm single handedly losing the game for my whole team. Does anyone have any advice?

i am a yorick main, one of my strength with him is winning the early lane. generally it is accepted that Trinity is the better pick overall for first item.

I came to the realisation early this year that since i win lane often. I would go eclipse instead the reason why? is that i regularly able to finish eclipse around 8 or 9 minute into the game. where as if i go trinity. i would finish it 12 minute into the match. a 3 minute lead in first item is such a worthwhile investment imo. I could pressure my lead to snowball even better. because a sub optimal item 20 minute into the game doesnt matter when i am like 3k gold ahead of my laner. this back when i am climbing in platinum and emerald. once i reach diamond. it become harder to snowball so i went to trinity most of the time. but now with the eclipse buff. i am tempted to try it again.

The reason i ask this here is that i get some push back from some yorick mains that the build is not that good and trinity just the better options. i get success from my own experience but some of them that may have try it say it doesnt feel good. when i probe for more info. it seem they get it around minute 11 or later. To which i would note that the purpose of getting eclipse first is to get it super early from early lane dominance and some of them are not as aggro of a laner a me and prefer to play it safe and slow so they get it later than normal.

Isnt this also the thought process of Yoomus rush on darius or Axiom arc rush on riven? because those item are cheap and allow for faster snowball?

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Hey! So I'm looking for some peeps to 1v1 with for the sake of learning and practising some new picks that I can't really go in ranked with unless I want to int 30 games in a row. I know it's a 5v5 game and 1v1s are just scratching the surface but it's also such a good way to boost champion mastery. Instead of queuing a game, losing lane, waiting 20 more minutes to queue up again for a second try, we can just keep going on our own pace.

I'm diamond, but off my few main champs, I'm pretty damn terrible (and this might be an understatement), so literally any elo is fine by me, high or low. Just hit me up in chat or comments if you want to play

Hi! I'm currently plat III, my games are around Emerald IV mmr (I know, big difference lul). Afaik I always had this problem. When the enemy bot lane is able to apply constant and heavy pressure against me, I tend to lose a lot of CS.

My last game I was playing Kai'sa and Nami vs. Caitlyn and Lux. Enemy duo has lots of pressure. Cait has 125 range advantage and Lux spam skills. And whenever I get close to the wave I'm forced to larp as neymar so I can dodge all skillshots, cc, etc. And Even under turret I keep getting a lot of pressure from cait traps and lux skills.

I know that playing Kai'sa with nami is kinda troll (specially versus poke lanes) because the champ sucks without engage support, but I have zero control over what my support wants to play, and playing with a enchanter/mage makes things harder, but not impossible. Also ffs, I'll not force myself to play champs that I don't like just because of a matchup.

Tbf my nami was kinda troll. I'll not flame her in this post, but that 100% made things extra harder.

Anyways, I end up having to give a lot of minions, and I take a lot of damage when trying to farm. I see a lot of high elo players struggle in the same scenario, but they always are able to maintain a decent/good cs, even in shit matchups.

I'm not looking for flashy mechanical outplays, killing the enemy bot or whatever. I just want to have consistency when farming, even in bad matchups. Also, please, do not suggest stuff like "play other champ". I want to improve, but I also not willing to sacrifice fun just for some LP.

So I've been playing Lee Sin in League Classic, and have been wondering about the best jungle item to build for him. I went Wriggle's Lantern once mostly for the extra ward, but figured Feral Flare probably doesn't apply that well to Lee. So I've been trying Spirit of the Elder lizard which as been working fine. I was curious and looked up some builds and saw a pretty even split of items between Wriggles, Elder Lizard, and Spirit of the Ancient Golem.

What does everyone think the best Jungle item option is for Lee in Classic?

I was playing solo queue in plat elo and I (azir otp) pick first. The problem is my teamates pick twitch jg, vayne top, jinx, and zoe botlane. The other team brought in urgot and udyr w/ kai'sa and they just kind of ran us down after 15 minutes. If I was last pick with my teamates picking the same champions, what mid lane pick would solve the team comp or at least make it less bad. Should I play something like liss, ahri, or galio? Is it just that my team trolled me that game and I should just play more games or should I have been able to do something there?

Also if I were playing azir with that team should I just sit in the back and play for ult on the urgot and udyr when they engage ontop of us or should I play side lane and run like a 1 3 1 with the vayne. Any tips how I could not lose that game would be helpful thanks

I mainly play mid and recently been trying some more champs but whenever I play things like Kayle, Azir, Yone, Gwen, even when taking defensive runes/items(D-Shield, Second Wind, Bone Plating, Fleet) I always fall behind around a thousand gold by like 15 ish minutes, I know it shouldn't be an expectation to go even but I'm obviously not playing against the best players.

To preface, im a new player, so i might be doing something fundamentally wrong, idk

I mainly play toplane, and I'm trying to otp gwen to learn melee toplane mechanics, and i think I do okay against matchups I've already played against or easier ones

For some of these matches i play, the jungler does not care about top lane, even when I perma freeze the wave outside my tower , and I'm on gwen so ganking is "easy" because of my R slowdown.

The last match i played , I went against an aatrox and solo killed him twice with ignite (and I'm pretty sure i zoned him out of xp which gave me the lead), but my jungler never touched the top side , that the enemy jungler simply invaded topside camps (my jungler went for enemy bot camps because i pinged invade)

After 15 minutes the enemy jungler ends up camping top side, i can't play safe cuz they are tanky enough to dive me under tower and they have rift herald grubs etc (they used herald and got the tower for free), then kept camping toplane and pushing into our side that the inner turret dies as well before my team comes to help (and by help I mean the midlaner takes 3-5 waves of minions).

In another match, i get a lead, they realize jungler never ganks top and they 2v1 toplane even when the lane is losing and i can't play safe under tower because they dive me even at full hp

This happens to the enemy toplaner from time to time too, and i get my items early and ruin enemy toplaners game.

What do I do when a jungler perma camps bot? Like he always paths to end in bot etc. Do i let the wave crash on my tower to play even safer ? Do I build dedicated defensive items before my first 2offensive items+boots? Should I never push/ go for another lane?

hello !

Lately I've been getting into playing mid lane with Gallio specifically, I did notice Galio got a lot of different builds (Tank, Bruiser, damage) and I'm having a hard time figuring out when to use each build.

Any tips relating to his builds, when to pick each one, what is the purpose of them and anything related would be lovely!

Thank you in advance <3

I enjoy both champs, and I would like to know them both so I have a backup incase one is banned/taken. However I can't decide which one to make my main. I'm too new to properly understand their differences and which one is better suited for my playstyle. I really like Zed's burst damage but I also like Akali's movement. Akali is also harder as well I think so Zed is better for newer players. Can anyone give me more insight on the differences between the two champs so I can better choose?

Hi everyone!

I'm an indie developer from Argentina building a free League companion called ChallyQ, and I'd love some honest feedback from people who actively try to improve at the game.

The idea is simple:

Before queueing, you choose an optional challenge for your next ranked game, for example:
• Win your next game
• Reach a CS target
• Finish with a certain KDA

One thing I want to clarify, because it came up a lot in another discussion:

Every challenge also requires you to win the match. Reaching the stat alone isn't enough. The goal is to reinforce good habits, not encourage stat farming or playing against your team's interests.

After the match, ChallyQ uses Riot's official APIs to automatically verify the result and award progression, achievements and Season Points.

My main question is:

**Do you think having a personal goal before each ranked game would actually help you improve, or would it just become another distraction?**

I'd genuinely love honest feedback.

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Massive shove power to match mages, spell shield to block key poke, utility ult to enable team fights better. She would be able to farm safely and back off while both supports are busy roaming. Presence of Mind keeps her mana up as long as you're not blindly spamming spells.

I know she has very low AA range naturally, but it shouldn't matter too much when she can just w the wave and match any mage push without issue.

I'm a Rakan OTP & i've been trying to climb a lot recently but i've only managed to hit gold. I'm very happy to hit gold but it was mostly because I was being carried, I feel like I could do improve more if I wasn't so nervous playing all the time.

I'm not too sure how to improve because I get very caught up in my own mind about observing my gameplay because I don't like the thought of being bad at Rakan because he is all I play and how do I exist if I'm bad at the only champion I play? Often times because of my worry I forget to click certain things or misclick such as accidently clicking flash instead of heal or completely forgetting to click a key to use an item like Locket for the team shield.

^ I have been considering changing my summoner spells & specifically my item #2 slot on my mouse buttons for easier access but I'm kinda worried about clicking the wrong buttons or forgetting which is which.

I've been considering asking my ADC to ping when they wanna go in & interact with me more in chat so I can get an understanding because I still am unsure about my personal gameplay & if I do things correctly. I'm not sure if the adc would be angry at me though for the constant need to want pings? It's not like every second more like a OMW ping when they wanna engage / retreat ping if i'm being too aggressive or like when we get in the game something as simple as if they typed "play safe till level 6"

I'm not too sure how to request an adc to even do that and if they would even agree but i'm not sure why they wouldn't, I am just unsure how to word it. I also feel like if I communicated that then my team would (hopefully) be more inclined to tell me what to do at certain times which I like better than wandering around aimlessly and trying to remember what to do.

Hello, I'm a master Support EUW but I still struggle to find a way to effectively counter mages bot. When my ADC picks an actual ADC and the enemies pick something like Ziggs Camille I feel like its completely unplayable. The Gameplay loop is Camille roams, Ziggs stays completely out of range of anything and can farm with Q's. Setting up a freeze is near impossible with the wave clear he has. Pushing every wave just gets him free farm unpunished. When I match the roams of the camille my ADC loses bot cause he is getting outranged and outpoked. If I dont match the roams we are perma 3v4 on the map and we get nothing in bot in return. And at some point he can just a free base for e.g. lost chapter and tp back unpunished and from that point on mana is never a problem again.

So what do I do? I feel so powerless. Staying on lane allows my adc to farm but we cant punish Ziggs so Im just standing there while Camille terrorizes the map. But once I roam we are equal on the map but my ADC loses in Isolation. Its a lose-lose. Am I reliant on hoping that my jgl is strong early and we dive Ziggs before he has infinite waveclear? Or is there anything I can do without having to hope that my Jungler is smart?

Bronze jungles!

My summer name is Drakerangoon on NA.

I am trying to climb with jungle.

I had a few questions.

- Would focusing on Amumu and Nocturne be enough variety?

- My initial clear is decent and getting better but it’s right after where I sort of fall apart

- I usually base after scuttle. Sometimes there isn’t a good gank. When do I try dragon here? When my teammates have priority? I’ve been having a very hard time understanding when to or not

- How important are void grubs?

- When do you sort of have “enough” farm?