The surprises + Quick Pick Guide

Welcome back and thanks for reading.

So I'm going to quickly talk about the surprises from my efficiency system then move onto the quick pick guide which go hand in hand with one another.

One of my favorite champions of all time is Ashe. She was the first one I clicked with and she has so much utility and a built in red buff slow. A lot of people talk about how she doesn't scale as well as most ad carries, but in my experience I tend to disagree. I was surprised with my results.

From my system she scored 1 point. That means that in the long listed table I made of all the champions she was only mentioned once as a decent counter to any bottom lane champions. I really hadn't realised this until I did the research. My other 2 ad carries were Kog'Maw and Corki. They had 10 and 6 points respectively.

I decided to change Ashe out. But for who? The only way I could decide so i didn't fall into the same trap was to go through most of the ad carries that I lacked a counter for and see what was there. I found a hidden champion to cool my worries.... Graves. He fitted into my system perfectly, covering the counters that I lacked and came up with a nice efficiency score of 7!

On the other side of the scale I didn't realise how much top lane or jungle could be countered by one certain hairy, angry barbarian. That's right, considering him as one of my top lane champs Olaf came in with a whopping score of 27. There are 27 champions that play top lane quite often and Olaf is comfortable with all 27 of them, and hard counters a lot of them. Let's move on.

The Quick Pick Guide.

As I mentioned before I made a list of all the champions. I then put 3 slots next to each of them in order to list the 3 best counters for that champion from my list of 15. I tried to only use champs that lane in the same lane with that champ. I leave it up to my own judgment as to whether my team needs tanky or cc etc. That's how I was able to calculate the efficiency of my selection.

When it comes to champ select in ranked mode I kinda hope that I'm a few people down the list so i can counter. I always have it open and when I see a champ on the other team picked I know exactly who I want to go. No messing about.

In my next post I will share my Excel spreadsheet on the blog right after I explain one more aspect of it, tracking. If anyone shows any interest I can help them alter it to suit them or even create a blank one for them.

Until next post noobs,
MynrQQ

Efficiency is key

Hi again guys, sorry I missed a day there, I was traveling back to work, I'm on work internet for about 6 weeks so it affects my latency (sits on about 240). So, as I promised I will explain my efficiency system in this post. What efficiency system? Well.... it's one that i made up using my common sense and logic, so hopefully that doesn't make me a bad person, but we will soon find that out.

As I explained I have now chosen 15 champions that I am either comfortable with already or have decided that it is crucial to learn them in this current meta. I have all the information that I share with you guys documented in an excel spreadsheet and I will share it with you once I have explained my system.

The Efficiency System:
This was tedious, but I feel absolutely necessary. Afterall, I don't want to waste time learning a champ that is inefficient. After putting my choices of champs to the test I actually changed out one of my favorite champs for one that did better in the system.

I made a list of every single champion in the game and went through them one by one. The most useful resource for this exercise was www.lolcounter.com. That, and my own experience.

 I would look up every champ, think about what lane they usually play, and see if any of the champs I have chosen for that lane counter them. I went through them all and created a table for how many champs each one of my champs counters in their particular lane. The results were... amazing, and surprising.

I will get more specific in my next post about which champions amazed, surprised and disappointed me. I think as a LoL player you will also find it quite interesting.

Until next post,
MynrQQ

PS. Please feel free to contact me here or in the forums. Or even in-game which at the moment my name is COME AT ME LoL. Bit of a troll name but it's for fun right?

The first step.

So I've read many many posts and guides on how to raise Elo. I've tried to take all the helpful hints and put them altogether in what I think should be a good way to execute all the good ideas.

My first step was choosing champions to become excellent at, not good, EXCELLENT. That means being better than at least 51% of other players at any given Elo at these particular champions. Well at least until I hit my skill cap, then hopefully I can hold myself there and slowly improve.

So, I have chosen 15 champions. I have 3 champions from each role: Top Bruiser, Jungler, AP Mid, Support and AD Carry. I have 2 mains and 1 backup champ for each one. I chose these champs using a few factors.

• I looked at the tier lists around the web, mainly Reign of Gaming's tier lists.
• I used my own experience, I have played LoL for almost a couple of years.
• The current Meta for NA servers.
• How comfortable I am with given champs (this was taken kinda lightly because I plan to learn whoever I need to in order to succeed.
• Lastly, once I had my 15 selected I did my own check of efficiency which I will explain in my next post.

I had to buy 2 champs to make my full roster available.
The champs I have chosen are as follows:
Top Bruiser: Riven, Olaf, Renekton.
Jungle: Nocturne, Dr. Mundo, Skarner.
AP Mid: Ahri, Cassiopeia, Kennen
Support: Janna, Alistar, Soraka.
AD Carry: Kog'Maw, Corki, Graves.

Next post I'll explain my efficiency system and soon to follow is my quick pick guide for champ select! Stay with me, we will get somewhere.

MynrQQ

A League of Legends blog?

So here we go, I'll get straight to the point. I'm a big believer of Elo hell, and I believe I have been suffering from the precise effects of being in said hell. I have tried many different tactics to escape but have failed miserably. So I have decided to document my next idea. If it works feel free to call me a king and copy. If it fails.... It won't fail.