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Everyone knows what a good splitpush looks like, but nobody in low ELO ever seems to understand what they need to do in order to get there. We've come up with 8 of the most important things to keep in mind when you want to splitpush. Listen up,
Laning is complicated, multifaceted, and confusing. It's also the most important thing you need to master if you want to improve in Solo Queue. This week, we give you 8 laning tips we feel are underappreciated and under-discussed in the League
Picking up a new champion can be pretty overwhelming, and seeing only minimal improvement as you grind out games can be pretty disheartening. This episode, we discuss the optimal methods for picking up and mastering a new champion.Also: Vasi
From champion select to in-game mentality to control wards, this week we outline ten things you're (probably) doing wrong in solo queue. How many are you guilty of?Also: The Fire Beneath the Mountains, Patch 7.16, and holding Champion Sele
How exactly should you communicate with your team? What's the best way to utilise pings and messages to make plays, call for ganks, and give feedback in a clear, friendly, and sincere way? The tilt monster is real, and this episode will focus o
This week we discuss decision making in the jungle! There are so many factors that play into when you should and shouldn't gank certain lanes, and we discuss them at length. Should you try to help out your tilted losing lanes, or leave them out
Main topic begins at 21:05Jungling is all about gaining little edges. Effective routes and planning can help you build up a multitude of tiny advantages that combine to make you a much better and more effective jungler. This episode, we talk
Where should you gank from? What do you do if counterganked? How should you save and use your abilities in ganks? When is lane ganking useful? When should you run away from ganks? We answer all these questions and plenty more in a comprehensive
For our third champion guide episode​, we look at Zed! Eoin has a ton of experience on the champion, and in this episode he guides us through everything about Zed. He goes into his laning, his combos, his teamfighting and everything in between.
This week is a bit different from our usual. So much has been happening in the league community that we just let it overwhelm us like a big wave of spicy, spicy news. New champion reworks! New honour system! Runes reforged! LCS overhauled! 10 b
Who gets blue buff? And who should take that botlane wave? Should you prioritise taking resources for yourself, to better allow yourself to carry your teammates? Or is this bad advice? We go over resource allocation this episode; who should get
You're 15 minutes in, 26 kills down and your toplane Riven has gone afk after she died to their jungler for the fifth time. There seems to be only one thing an optimistic League player says at this point: 'It's fine guys, we scale'. But what do
Please consider subscribing!You can't control what teammates you'll be matched up with, but you can control how their lanes play out! Roaming is a key tool in maximising your impact in every game you play. This week we discuss when to roam, t
We ALWAYS see people asking about champion pool online. Everyone seems to want to know what they should play, what's good at carrying, what's the best role for them, how big their pool should be. We made this episode as a definitive guide you c
Please consider subscribing!Mentality is easily the biggest, most important, and most difficult topic to master in League. This week, we take a look at a major aspect of it: ego. We all have one, and its size is very relevant to our ability t
This week, we take a look at the brand new Practice Tool. We talk about why it's great, what sort of mentality you should approach it with and list a bunch of different exercises you can use it for. It's an invaluable tool, if you put in some e
We try something a little different this week. Now we have a bit of time to look back at the Assassin Update, we ask: Was it a failure? Andrew argues one side (that it was a success) and Eoin takes the other (that it was a failure). Due to tim
How exactly should we be playing carry champions in teamfights? What do people mean when they talk about Doublelift's insane teamfight mechanics? It's all about positioning. We go through how to position based on your champion, enemy champions,
We talked last episode about how much we hate throwing, and how to avoid it. We turn the tables this week and look at it from the other perspective: how do we come back when we're behind? Also: Nightblue scrapping with Imaqtpie, burning our e
We really, really hate throwing. Nothing feels worse. The behaviours and play patterns that cause us to throw are insidious, and we need to be aware of them. However, we don't want to become so scared of throwing that we don't know how to close
What's the best thing that can happen to you in a lane, and what's the worst thing that can happen to your opponent? Tower dives! There's a lot of muddled thinking surrounding the concept, and there's a lot to be gained by focusing on improving
Why do you hate losing ranked games? Why do you like winning games? Why does it feel like you wasted an evening if you spend 4 hours of your free time and lose 3 out of 4 games? How can we turn that wasted, frustrating time into a more fun expe
Sure, we have lots of fancy new assassins to play, but what do they all have in common? What should we be thinking while playing these assassins? How much roaming is too much roaming? Who should we be focusing in teamfights? How important is vi
Assassins! Items! Jungle! Plants! So many new things, yet so little time in our busy busy lives to make sense of it all. Thankfully, Andrew and Eoin are here to delve deep on these changes and explain what they all mean. Was the Rengar rework a
'Breaking Point', a documentary following the trials and tribulations of Team Liquid, was released this week. What can we learn from it? How can we best interact with the Dardochs and Matts in our teams in Solo queue? To what extent are we all
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