Newer players to league of legends
This is a post if someone is curious about Ranked at the Gold + Level
So you're wondering about Ranked?
Typically, everyone says to avoid ranked until you get good at a role or champion. To tell you the truth, I didn't learn what leashing was until I did ranked, and to me it made no sense for me to leash at all, so I didn't even leash my first ranked games for maybe 50+ games.
For those of you scared of ranked
Just jump into ranked, you'll learn more that way.
Since it's ranked people are "usually" trying to win and you'll see things you would have never seen in normals happening, dragon calls for instance.
People are scared saying it'll screw your elo and bring it down, actually I believe not, the system is very quick at adapting, if you start winning games they'll quickly bump up your elo.
Starting TIPS
People say, learn 3 champs for each lane/role a counter to your main and a counter to your counter incase one gets banned and another picked, so you're not screwed. Honestly, if you don't know ranked, you don't know what you're doing. Just do whatever you want. Learn all the roles, what being mid means, you're the play maker, what junglers do, what support and adcs and the flow of bot lane.
You'll need to learn ALL of it if you're serious about ranked. Eventually you'll have to do all the roles, and this provides a strong base to start from.
The role mechanics and responsibilities are so different in the meta game and how you make decisions that my brain actually needs a few games to readjust and recall what I need to do.
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1. Example: When you're jungler, you watch the movement and predict which starting buff the jungler has taken judging by when each enemy player arrives to their lane. If you're blue side (bottom left) and you notice their bot lane arrives to lane at 2:15 you can safety assume they helped leash blue, regardless if the champ is lee sin who preferentially takes red usually.
From that you can assume he'll go to red and complete it around the 3 min mark and gank top around 3-4 mins, so if you wanted to counter gank you can position, that's also an opportunity for you to safety gank bot, while all this is dependent on which way the lane is pushing and who is winning lane, as well as maybe he decides to gank mid, or maybe you want to go in and try to steal his wolves.
But with the current meta and jungle camp respawn timers it isn't really beneficial to you or really as detrimental to the enemy jungler to steal camps anymore.
2. Switching to ADC: First thing is looking at at what champs they select in champ select (actually junglers should start there as well) what's your teamcomp? what's the enemies team comp. Certain champions do better against certain comps. If they have a nasus, leblanc, khazix, it might be better to go with Sivir for the spell shield or a Caitlyn or Ezreal for the mobility.
If your team has hard cc and tankline with a Kennen, Malphite, Sona, Jarvan it might be good to go with Miss Fortune whose ult would work great.
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It gets more indepth with looking at items, runes, masteries, and more which I plan to cover in later pages.
Ranked can be something like the ride of your life with so many things to keep track of and so many mechanics and little things to work on and once mastered one at a time, make you a better gamer.
Remember, this game is meant to challenge you, and enjoy your own growth as a League of Legends Player. Ranked Brings the Competitiveness.
So you're wondering about Ranked?
Typically, everyone says to avoid ranked until you get good at a role or champion. To tell you the truth, I didn't learn what leashing was until I did ranked, and to me it made no sense for me to leash at all, so I didn't even leash my first ranked games for maybe 50+ games.
For those of you scared of ranked
Just jump into ranked, you'll learn more that way.
Since it's ranked people are "usually" trying to win and you'll see things you would have never seen in normals happening, dragon calls for instance.
People are scared saying it'll screw your elo and bring it down, actually I believe not, the system is very quick at adapting, if you start winning games they'll quickly bump up your elo.
Starting TIPS
People say, learn 3 champs for each lane/role a counter to your main and a counter to your counter incase one gets banned and another picked, so you're not screwed. Honestly, if you don't know ranked, you don't know what you're doing. Just do whatever you want. Learn all the roles, what being mid means, you're the play maker, what junglers do, what support and adcs and the flow of bot lane.
You'll need to learn ALL of it if you're serious about ranked. Eventually you'll have to do all the roles, and this provides a strong base to start from.
The role mechanics and responsibilities are so different in the meta game and how you make decisions that my brain actually needs a few games to readjust and recall what I need to do.
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1. Example: When you're jungler, you watch the movement and predict which starting buff the jungler has taken judging by when each enemy player arrives to their lane. If you're blue side (bottom left) and you notice their bot lane arrives to lane at 2:15 you can safety assume they helped leash blue, regardless if the champ is lee sin who preferentially takes red usually.
From that you can assume he'll go to red and complete it around the 3 min mark and gank top around 3-4 mins, so if you wanted to counter gank you can position, that's also an opportunity for you to safety gank bot, while all this is dependent on which way the lane is pushing and who is winning lane, as well as maybe he decides to gank mid, or maybe you want to go in and try to steal his wolves.
But with the current meta and jungle camp respawn timers it isn't really beneficial to you or really as detrimental to the enemy jungler to steal camps anymore.
2. Switching to ADC: First thing is looking at at what champs they select in champ select (actually junglers should start there as well) what's your teamcomp? what's the enemies team comp. Certain champions do better against certain comps. If they have a nasus, leblanc, khazix, it might be better to go with Sivir for the spell shield or a Caitlyn or Ezreal for the mobility.
If your team has hard cc and tankline with a Kennen, Malphite, Sona, Jarvan it might be good to go with Miss Fortune whose ult would work great.
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It gets more indepth with looking at items, runes, masteries, and more which I plan to cover in later pages.
Ranked can be something like the ride of your life with so many things to keep track of and so many mechanics and little things to work on and once mastered one at a time, make you a better gamer.
Remember, this game is meant to challenge you, and enjoy your own growth as a League of Legends Player. Ranked Brings the Competitiveness.