One of my favorite things about your content is that you show very well how much you love the game, especially in the bbc podcast. Ive never seen someone as passionate and respectful towards league from micro details all the way to psychology (or even philosophy) which is absolutely beautiful. Wish you all the best Curtis
I appreciate how consistently you teach how to think about the game. It’s a perspective I rarely see in other learning based content. Perpetual quality, thanks coach!
Great video; as a low-elo jungler, this was really helpful to crystallize and develop my observations and musings so far on why some games are harder than others (player skill notwithstanding), and should help me foresee not just which games are going to be harder, but why, and what I might be able to do to mitigate that (ie do I try to dive their backline, or should I be defending my own). Thank you for doing it, and thank you for bringing in a jungler's perspective.
Thanks coach. I really wanted to learn more about this because it’s helpful to understand if a game was hard because of mistakes or it was meant to be due to the comp
I personally partially agree. The steps are good but I feel like they arent necessarily elo dependent and often champ, lane or pool dependent. While playing top my biggest concern was the lane matchup. While playing support it was mostly about my adc or lane matchup. Adc was almost always how does my champ do vs their team and my support. Jungle was usually the most holistic as my matchups vs other jungler, my 2v2 with mid and how my ganks would play out in each lane. Mid has a lot of nuance compared to some other roles imo and is more like jungle where I instinctively care more about my teams picks. I learned to look at how my champ does with my comp and mostly agaisnt enemy comp because of my master elo friend BUT also because most one tricks I watch talk a lot about this. So when I played 1 tricks or mains I would often ask in champ select how does my champ do with my team and vs enemy team and is it worth picking and falling on my pocket pick. Also having a decent champ pool its easy to weigh the pros and cons of each of ur champ and play champs with different goals. If you only play divers or skirmishers then sometimes its hard to fit in the comp well. All in all its a great vid and really informative about how to get better at looking at comps. This reminded me of last game of T1 vs BLG where T1 looked like their comp was far worse but holistically it was impossible for BLG to engage
Hey Curtis, I have been reading a book called "Playing to Win" by David Sirlin over the past few days and it has given me valuable insight into what it takes to win. I was wondering if this book could be something to discuss in the BBC podcast?
I've been looking for a similar guide for a very long time, I can play a lot of champions on a decent level and was wondering if you there will be any guide in the future that can explain every champion identity overall as in "what this champion is good at" in general so players like me can make smart choices in picked their champion depending on what the team comp needs. I know it's very situational , but would really appreciate some guidance. Keep up the good work!
I'm terrified of returning to ranked play. I haven't played ranked since before iron was introduced. And i'm a support main, which is a far more influential role these days than it used to be. People are gonna see my 600 level and have expectations. But i haven't played anything except ARAM in years. The funny thing is, i dont care what tier I end up in. I just dont wanna ruin the game for anyone else.
Nobody will have any expectations. If I see a 35 level opponent I expect them to be better than the elo, if I see a 600 level opponent I know they belong to the elo we're in.
I have a feeling, this is one of the concepts I left as comment under one of earlier videos. Is there a way to view all my comments? It was rather long ago, so I dont remember exactly which video it was and I don`t know hot to do it.
Hi I wanted to ask you Coach Curtis. Almost 2 years ago I started playing league and continued to play it for half a year, but I was struck by many bad things in life and my illness which lead to being stuck in freeze response and so I kinda stopped playing, and just dropping in and out sometimes. Due to the freeze response I can't react fast enough and can't think clearly, but I need a distraction and I want to come back idk if that is wise when I was constantly playing league I was just learning everything and I never was a good player. I mained Ahri, Akali and Kai'sa. I used to play Kai'sa best, but I think I would play Ahri the best if we compare. So idk I was a noob and remained a noob. So would it be wise to come back I never wanted to like play ranked, but I wanted to play my champs best. I know you would say to like never or a little play Akali. Like I said I need a distraction so maybe I could focus on practising something for 20 min or something, I usually did like practise cs and combos, tried on bots and tried playing normals. What would you recommend, any practise drills or something else.
AFAIK he doesn't have his own channel, but he has appeared in like 3 episodes of the Broken by Concept podcast, one of them being the latest one where they analyze Ludwig's League journey
I don't understand why silver and gold players would need to know about the 2v2. They and their junglers play on locked screen and rarely look at the minimap. Until at least plat they should only be concerned about the 1v1
Disagree so hard. If u play mid OR jungle then it's rlly easy to get fed by playing off the other. Even if they don't play off YOU, you can still play off THEM
yeah. anyone can do that with enough games, it isn't a difficult thing for a normal skilled person. it doesn't make you good at the game though, which hopefully is everyone's real goal.
@@ShadowRaZeV1 How exactly does that not make me good at the game lmao? What qualifies you as being good at the game if not being in the top .1% of players?
@@ShadowRaZeV1 the reality btw, is that im already applying all of these concepts that he teaches but im just doing it naturally without thinking critically about it. It's called natural talent
@@skoodlemooseso you ARE thinking about it. He says in the video that these things will become instinctual at some point. The entire point of this video is to not have to play a bunch of games to develop good instincts, or help people who aren't making progress. Clearly you aren't masters at social skills or listening comprehension.
Also you are an OTP, which makes this entire process infinitely easier because you only have to think about champions in relation to yours, rather than holistically. This attitude is why you've never leaving masters btw.
One of my favorite things about your content is that you show very well how much you love the game, especially in the bbc podcast. Ive never seen someone as passionate and respectful towards league from micro details all the way to psychology (or even philosophy) which is absolutely beautiful. Wish you all the best Curtis
👍👍👍
Quite literally the greatest educational league youtuber in history. An intellectual.
I appreciate how consistently you teach how to think about the game. It’s a perspective I rarely see in other learning based content. Perpetual quality, thanks coach!
Man this game is so hard and complex. Coming from sc2 and fighting games it feels like I need a 2 year diploma to learn all the basics.
Great video; as a low-elo jungler, this was really helpful to crystallize and develop my observations and musings so far on why some games are harder than others (player skill notwithstanding), and should help me foresee not just which games are going to be harder, but why, and what I might be able to do to mitigate that (ie do I try to dive their backline, or should I be defending my own). Thank you for doing it, and thank you for bringing in a jungler's perspective.
Thanks coach. I really wanted to learn more about this because it’s helpful to understand if a game was hard because of mistakes or it was meant to be due to the comp
I really love these very detailed style videos.
Comment for the algo. I don’t play mid but your content is unmatched Curtis, thank you so much!
Ive been playing lol for like 4 years and your the only person i watch. Love these videos keep em up.
As a jungle main that’s obsessed with Curtis’ regular content, this is pure gold.
Great video, amazing to see Charlie in your channel
I personally partially agree. The steps are good but I feel like they arent necessarily elo dependent and often champ, lane or pool dependent.
While playing top my biggest concern was the lane matchup. While playing support it was mostly about my adc or lane matchup. Adc was almost always how does my champ do vs their team and my support. Jungle was usually the most holistic as my matchups vs other jungler, my 2v2 with mid and how my ganks would play out in each lane. Mid has a lot of nuance compared to some other roles imo and is more like jungle where I instinctively care more about my teams picks.
I learned to look at how my champ does with my comp and mostly agaisnt enemy comp because of my master elo friend BUT also because most one tricks I watch talk a lot about this. So when I played 1 tricks or mains I would often ask in champ select how does my champ do with my team and vs enemy team and is it worth picking and falling on my pocket pick.
Also having a decent champ pool its easy to weigh the pros and cons of each of ur champ and play champs with different goals. If you only play divers or skirmishers then sometimes its hard to fit in the comp well.
All in all its a great vid and really informative about how to get better at looking at comps. This reminded me of last game of T1 vs BLG where T1 looked like their comp was far worse but holistically it was impossible for BLG to engage
on 16:00 you can see a microexpression of pain when he talks about Talon's R.
Hey Curtis, I have been reading a book called "Playing to Win" by David Sirlin over the past few days and it has given me valuable insight into what it takes to win. I was wondering if this book could be something to discuss in the BBC podcast?
I've been looking for a similar guide for a very long time, I can play a lot of champions on a decent level and was wondering if you there will be any guide in the future that can explain every champion identity overall as in "what this champion is good at" in general so players like me can make smart choices in picked their champion depending on what the team comp needs. I know it's very situational , but would really appreciate some guidance. Keep up the good work!
Very informative ! Needed this !
Yo Curtis, you the best mate.
Suggestion for a new video: Interview with Star Zall (Veigar #1)
PS: Love this extended content anyways! Great Video :) Lots of good examples :)
Wow, I have never been a first viewer of anything. Wow. 7 seconds after upload!
Bless you! (thumbnail)
Very usefull! I love it
ADC academy represent!
I'm terrified of returning to ranked play. I haven't played ranked since before iron was introduced. And i'm a support main, which is a far more influential role these days than it used to be. People are gonna see my 600 level and have expectations. But i haven't played anything except ARAM in years. The funny thing is, i dont care what tier I end up in. I just dont wanna ruin the game for anyone else.
Nobody will have any expectations. If I see a 35 level opponent I expect them to be better than the elo, if I see a 600 level opponent I know they belong to the elo we're in.
GR8 as Always👍
I have a feeling, this is one of the concepts I left as comment under one of earlier videos.
Is there a way to view all my comments? It was rather long ago, so I dont remember exactly which video it was and I don`t know hot to do it.
Hi I wanted to ask you Coach Curtis. Almost 2 years ago I started playing league and continued to play it for half a year, but I was struck by many bad things in life and my illness which lead to being stuck in freeze response and so I kinda stopped playing, and just dropping in and out sometimes. Due to the freeze response I can't react fast enough and can't think clearly, but I need a distraction and I want to come back idk if that is wise when I was constantly playing league I was just learning everything and I never was a good player. I mained Ahri, Akali and Kai'sa. I used to play Kai'sa best, but I think I would play Ahri the best if we compare. So idk I was a noob and remained a noob. So would it be wise to come back I never wanted to like play ranked, but I wanted to play my champs best. I know you would say to like never or a little play Akali. Like I said I need a distraction so maybe I could focus on practising something for 20 min or something, I usually did like practise cs and combos, tried on bots and tried playing normals. What would you recommend, any practise drills or something else.
Love it
Who was the ADC coach? Do they have a YT channel?
AFAIK he doesn't have his own channel, but he has appeared in like 3 episodes of the Broken by Concept podcast, one of them being the latest one where they analyze Ludwig's League journey
The best league channel
Why should mid-jungle be focused specifically? Aren't junglers mostly going for side lane ganks?
In my opinion is because he teach mid, and also midlaners are more likely to play around both jungles
Because midlane is a roaming lane
OTPs are the worst, they always pick their shit no matter what making it harder on everyone else
I don't understand why silver and gold players would need to know about the 2v2. They and their junglers play on locked screen and rarely look at the minimap. Until at least plat they should only be concerned about the 1v1
Disagree so hard. If u play mid OR jungle then it's rlly easy to get fed by playing off the other. Even if they don't play off YOU, you can still play off THEM
i just lock in a champ and steamroll everyone. Never really gave any attention to draft and i've peaked masters
yeah. anyone can do that with enough games, it isn't a difficult thing for a normal skilled person. it doesn't make you good at the game though, which hopefully is everyone's real goal.
@@ShadowRaZeV1 How exactly does that not make me good at the game lmao? What qualifies you as being good at the game if not being in the top .1% of players?
@@ShadowRaZeV1 the reality btw, is that im already applying all of these concepts that he teaches but im just doing it naturally without thinking critically about it. It's called natural talent
@@skoodlemooseso you ARE thinking about it.
He says in the video that these things will become instinctual at some point.
The entire point of this video is to not have to play a bunch of games to develop good instincts, or help people who aren't making progress.
Clearly you aren't masters at social skills or listening comprehension.
Also you are an OTP, which makes this entire process infinitely easier because you only have to think about champions in relation to yours, rather than holistically. This attitude is why you've never leaving masters btw.