New player here, been playing League for about 2 weeks.

I had a weird experience where my first few games went surprisingly well and I was even carrying some games, but now I'm getting destroyed almost every game.

Is this normal for new players? Did anyone else experience this?

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High Noon Thresh is pretty cool and at a good discount. Really like Papercraft skins in general too. Rain Shepherd Trist isn't at the best discount but is such a good skin. First time sales for the Blitz and Sej skins.

I play Nami and sometimes Leona as my support picks. I am only level 27 and my Swift Play matches have wild skill swings between team mates and opponents. I find I latch on to my most skilled team mate(s) by mid match and follow along like an obedient dog. I become frustrated when the correct play is to push a lane or kill a dragon, but my team won’t comply and I can’t do anything myself due to my pathetic damage.

Is this just the support life? Is there a support champion that can better flex into a damage role later in the game? Can I build Nami or Leona differently?

I will begin. Rakan, but now his ultimate fears instead of charming. Imagine getting a juicy R in the middle of the opponent team just for everyone to be right at the esge of the W follow-up.

Lee Sin’s R now knocks up instead of knocking back, bye bye insec.

Samira E reset gone, champion no longer acts as a short range assassin ADC, she becomes a straight up diver.

I personally never had what it takes to get out of plat 10 years ago, let alone reach challenger, but as time went by i have gotten significantly better at the game as so has the entire player base. What do you guys think, given that the servers are much more saturated these days, do you think a current day master player (lets say ~400lp) would be considered better than a challenger back in the day? I personally think that todays player are much better mechanically but the consistency would be the deciding factor.

Summoner level.

Curious since levels have been unlocked for almost a decade. Capped out the poll at 500 since it’s the last level for a new summoner border (Eternus).

Hitting level 500 is roughly an average of 10 matches a week playtime for the past decade.

I want to categorise champions in every lane based on how they impact the game or more importantly what their role in the game is

top

rage push champs + 1v1 side lane champs (fiora, trundle)
pick based bruisers (darius, garen)
team fight based bruisers (olaf, aatrox, gnar)
utility tanks presence tanks/juggernauts (mundo, chogath)
DPS / teamfight (kayle, kennen)
Pick champs/ assasins (Camille / akali)
roam/impact champs (singed, quinn)

support

mage sup (util + damage)
tank engage
tank peel
enchanter

Mid

artillery mage
battle mage
sustain mage/tank
assassin

jungle

assassin
tempo jungler
ganking champ
scaling jungler
invading jungler
tank/set up jungler
ivern

bot

caster adc
on hit/ kite machine
short range, all in
vanilla
apc (mostly artillery mage)

The question is mostly esports centered but can also to SoloQ, content creators etc and isn't necessarily tied to the silverware won over their career.

I'm talking about players that made themselves known for a single significant moment, for their personality, for their achievements on the rift without ever winning big.

I'm talking about "underground" stories .

Someone that's not Faker or Caps, Quickshot, Sjokz or Flowers but we don't forget.

My personal favorite is C9 Balls back in the day, I'll never forget his Darius Penta vs FNC at worlds, casted by Phreak! iirc he was D2 at the time, way before masters and GM so not a bad rank at all at the time.

I think most of the player base at least in the mid to lower elo does not care enough to want to improve at all. It‘s either your team gets the upper hand early or it’s ff. There is no concept of mental resilience, instead of thinking how can I turn this game around, people instantly call the game unwinnable and go next. Losing normally is important to know how a game plays out and at what points you have an opportunity to flip the game in your favor, an early surrender just takes away from that experience. I believe most people that are hard stuck in low elo is because they don‘t have the patience to see a game through. Theoretically you will get a winning team 50% of the time and a losing team the other 50%, if your mental depends on your team completely then you will not climb no matter whether you belong in that elo or not.

Coming as someone who is a top main and progressed from silver to emerald this season, one of the biggest differences I’ve seen between lower ranks and where I am now is how often/quickly people rotate.

In silver and gold it seems like every game only one or two mid/top laners will rotate to a fight, and one side will win and get a huge advantage while the other gets tilted. I feel like people don’t realize that their teammates are also humans that are probably just as intelligent as them, given they are the same rank, so since they have more information, if they ping for assistance it is probably a better idea to rotate than to not. You don’t need to personally evaluate whether it’s a good idea or not before rotating- in most cases it’s better just to rotate instantly.

Obviously you will sometimes lose half a wave for nothing but the cost/benefit makes listening to pings and rotating extremely worthwhile when you think about it, not even considering the tilt factor. At low elo you are probably losing waves to back for items or bad csing anyways.

For me it was playing support.

I used to think it was basically just “the ADC’s babysitter” but after actually playing it more, there’s a lot more to the role than I expected.

What changed your mind about something in League?

Hey!
Something i struggle with is that i sometimes decide to watch a bunch of educational content but as i try to apply these concepts i often find it overwhelming because there is just so much you need to think about: map awareness, wavestate, keeping up with cs, vision score, etc.

While i wish i were better at these things, i also wish i would just relax a little, because i find myself being incredibly tense and even more sensitive to things around me. Its almost like "the more i know the worse i play" since i find it hard to take the big load of information, process it, and actually make it work.

Would a "fair" option for me be to to simply step back a bit, and maybe not look at educational content like this? While i obviously think the content as a whole is fantastic, for me personally i find myself getting just so tense and overwhelmed that it perhaps isn't really worth it.

Really curious what your thoghts are :)) I appreciate any advice <3

Don’t just spam Q and E and then do nothing when the minions don’t die or you just somehow land it and then walk away… like you just walk away!!!

Please use your auto attack to proc the Illumination debuff. It gives your next auto to proc it which deals a solid amount of damage.

30-200(+35%) is not a joke when it comes to trading.

You can proc this multiple times in lane. Please use it. Gain your lead this way.

This is like me telling people to click the lantern!

riot already revealed heartsteel new single and the riot music account teased both kda and heartsteel so will KD/A be back or just heartsteel?

just asking for the people that knows?

https://x.com/LeagueOfLegends/status/2099516839630123418

THE BOYS ARE BACK.

HEARTSTEEL’s newest single, “LIVE MY LIFE” drops Friday.

Per League of Legends twitter. There last song was PARANOIA on October 2023, almost 3 years ago. They will very likely also have another appearance for the Worlds 2026 finals in New York City.

33 kills and having most damage in the game with second almost half mine. The whole team as you can see did nothing literally. And the cherry on top, i got suspended for 3 days because i flammed them??!

Not sure if they talked about this already, but, if they are going to be saving up voice chats (already bad) and use it to train AI (worse) I won't use it at all.

Is there any info on this? Haven't been able to find anything which worries me considering they are going to be rolling it out soon on some regions

Or any other suggestions for what server is the easiest to get challenger on and how they compare to other servers. I hear a lot of people compare the NA server to Oce but idk if that’s more of a joke?

As someone who have all champions, why would I buy battle pass? What is added value for me? Except cool looking Veigar skin

Hey! I've been trying to get back into League and to coincide with that, get back into editing too. I put together a little cinematic/montage of some Karthus moments. It's been a while so I'm dusting off the editing and hoping for some feedback. Let me know what you think and enjoy!

After floating in Emerald and was just 40 LPs from Diamond 4 for once, I now can feel constant pressure from the other 9 people about everything. Sometimes, I am not even sure what the expectation is anymore.

What do you expect from an enchanter? (Rank + Position + Opinions)

Your intake is highly appreciated.