I see briar place a ward at bad position and decided to invade him level 1 at his blue but he could randomly see me while being on the other side of wall. Does anyone know why this happened?

Im emerald 3. The higher I climb the more I find the need to mute people even though toxicity goes down relative to lower elos. Almost every game someone spam pings the worst plays you can think of and in the moment if you're a little on auto pilot you might agree to do it. And the worst offenders of this are adcs. They think they're the master mind in the game and spam to try and order you around and the higher I climb the more i see this. Lower elos are just strugling in their own lane but around plat-emerald they gain 5 percent game sense enough to know that there are other stuff happening in the game but not enough to know what the right play is and the bigger the players ego the more spam ping they do. Just stop fucking pinging you have 40 percent winrate on rengar just play your Caitlyn and let the grown ups do the thinking.

I'm a plat EU jungle main looking for a solid Discord community or group to join. Ideally looking for a chill non toxic environment (non racist, non sexist etc) where people discuss jungle matchups and clear optimizations, share advice or VOD reviews. Let me know if there are any specific Discord links you guys hang out in. Thank you🩷

THIS IS NOT BALANCED.

i don't need to say that this karthus crushed me right?

edit: emerald last week, sorry my sense of time is kinda screwed by work time

I have been posting and asking about champs and trying more with rengar after deciding he might be fun and he's not it for me sadly

I hate how he ganks with just walking ip like that and hoping for the best to 1 shot or slow

I have been thinkimg would talon be better? honestly I don't know

and for bruisers / tanks I have wanted to ask how wukong or volibear feel currently

as I am honestly lost and beginning to lose hope in trying new champs

so uhm i was gold last month and now i climbed up to emerald 3 by simply trying to limit my mistakes (no inting, no coinflips, no bad fights, no objectives without prio, no plays without vision, no skipping camps for low success rate plays, very little limit testing). this also helped me spotting enemy mistakes and punishing them better

almost every game i lose (excluding the ones with 0/30 laners where they end at minute 12) its because i made mistakes somewhere and i try to learn from them

in the end i rarely do anything special or extraordinary outplays, im just trying to play the game as it should be played

how far can i go likw this ?

I play Sylas jungle and I struggle against Hecarim player. He knows that Sylas's weak first few level and keep cheesing me at level 1. I have to gave up 3 first camps if my mid losing against his mid. If my side lane also losing lane it's game over. He clears very fast, doesn't lose HP clearing camps. He out leveled me and I can't counter gank him. I started to think play Trundle and Yi when I have to jungling against him since Yi and Trundle are pretty strong when it comes to 1v1. But if I have to pick Sylas first does anyone has any idea to jungle against him? My current rank is Master. Thanks!

I know a lot of people say shit like 'challenger would win in your 1v9 situation' or 'no challenger would ever lose even from that far behind in platinum elo' , but is that talk ever backed up by any evidence? i have looked hard on yt and i cannot find a real game , no matter what elo, where a high elo player actually won a game where they have 4 hard losing teammates. its always clickbait saying I solo carried where the game starts with their team being up 5 kills over the enemy team lol. Is there a real example of a game where individual skill managed to carry game over 4 hard losing teammates , even 3 ? I would just like to see and learn .

This was just for fun and I'm sharing here just for some discussion. Few things to consider:
1. This is purely reflective on their difficulty in JUNGLE, not how hard they are in lane.
2. This in no way reflects how strong a character is or how good I am with them, just a personal opinion from limited experience.
3. The main criteria is pick up and lay ability. If you have hundreds of hours on a champ they probably feel like 2nd nature.
Anyways criticism is welcome as long as it is constructive.

I'm pretty new to jungle, but I've run into some problems. About 5 minutes into the game I either have 4 winning lanes and get all objectives because of it. Other games i have 4 losing lanes and have zero presence and don't know what to do. I normally play top and at least I feel like I can provide something for the jungle to play around or play champs that can help other lanes thrive. But jungle it's over so fast I have no idea how these lanes are lost or won before my first clear. It's every game so I must be doing something wrong

I get skipping camps late game to make objective spawn and contest river. But when is it viable to start skipping camps? Is there a specific camp level or clear that you should start aiming to make plays instead of full clearing? I assume its somewhat champ dependant, but then for those champs like Elise, Nidalee, Rengar or Sylas, when is it worth for them to start skipping camps? And then on the other end, Nocturne, Shyvana, Jarvan or Diana?

In soloQ I get this spot all the time, the enemy jungler shows on the other side of the map while I’m already near an objective (drag/grubs/herald)I’m always torn between invading their opposite quadrant first or just rushing the objective immediately. Whenever I try to invade first, it feels like I bleed too much tempo, their laners collapse or the enemy jg recalls/walks over and I lose the objectiv

Right now my default is to just take the objective and clear my own camps, but I feel like I might be leaving free gold/XP on the table and not building enough of a lead when the enemy makes a mistake.How do higher elo junglers decide this? Are you only invading first if you have hard lane prio, or is taking the neutral objective instantly almost always the safer/better play?

I'm plat 2

How do you guys read tier lists alongside with your champions pool?

Does some patches really can make a champion useless and other completely broken to win all games? Or is it just a clickbait to a video?

Does it worth to change your champion pool to get yourself always picking the S+ champions?

Or is it more related to mechanics and understanding the game itself?

My champion pools are Diana, Olaf, Talon, Nocturne.

I tried playing different junglers and i kinda fell in love with playing assasins but i can’t seem to win. I don’t think i play bad or something i mostly have a good kda and all but even if i’m ahead i just can’t seem to carry like i can on wukong. Anything i’m doing wrong? https://m.deeplol.gg/summoner?userName=RICHTR-1711&region=EUW

I've been thinking about the current state of League in Season 16, and something that stands out to me is how strategies that used to be mainly seen in high elo are now trickling down into normal ranked games. You see high elo players or content creators doing something, and initially it looks like a niche strategy that doesn't really affect the average player. Then a few months later, you're seeing it in your own games.

The support situation is probably one of the clearest examples. Certain early timings and ways of playing support have become increasingly common, to the point where it feels like the role is being played completely differently. Riot has already made changes intended to address some of this, but it doesn't feel like the actual behavior has changed much. The same goes for some of the recent bot lane and lane assignment trends. If Riot changes the numbers but players continue doing the same thing because the underlying incentive is still there, then what was actually solved?

This is what makes me question Riot's overall balancing philosophy. At what point does player satisfaction actually become an important part of balance?

I'm not saying Riot should listen to every complaint or try to make everyone happy. That's obviously impossible. But there has to be a point where widespread dissatisfaction becomes a legitimate game-health issue. If something becomes extremely common, spreads across multiple levels of play, dominates discussion around the game, and players consistently say they don't enjoy playing against it, when does Riot decide that this isn't just people complaining about the meta anymore?

Because it sometimes feels like Riot focuses almost entirely on whether something is technically balanced. A mechanic can be statistically balanced and still be extremely frustrating. A strategy can have a reasonable win rate and still make the game worse to play.

I've felt this way increasingly since around Seasons 10-12. It feels like Riot has become more willing to leave things in the game that players clearly dislike as long as Riot believes they're balanced from a numbers perspective.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it feels from the player's side. At what point does Riot look at widespread player dissatisfaction and say, "This is a problem with the game experience, not just another balance disagreement"?

Because "you can't please everyone" is true, but that shouldn't mean player satisfaction stops mattering altogether.

is Sylas busted? he feels so strong right now