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@@stephenburton9506 If by looking down you mean "thinks the vast majority of players are bad at the game" then you are correct, as does every challenger player, because they are bad, even GMs in comparison to challengers. Regards, ex challenger thx to skillcapped, whom's services you are declining because facts are too harsh :/
@@masaboih he's right I've been a diamond player for years in and out of low master. Recently Grand Master. Listen everyone is bad at this game, me included. Here's the trick tho. Are you happy at being a gold player? If yes then who the fuck cares what some challenger says. If no, recognize you're bad at the game and do something about it. Again goals people If you are just looking for diamond you do not need to be the best. You just need to be trying to improve. It's a game have fun. If grinding to challenger isn't fun don't do it. This game is worthless in the grand scheme. Make friends have a good time. After this season if I stay GM I'm going causal no cap. Friendly pre-mades and ARAM for life. I don't want to, or have the skill to become challenger. I'll cap GM if I can
@@Negativity808 Ofc, I totally agree and I don't know why anyone should take offence if challengers think someone is bad lol, silver players say bronzes are bad, and every game someone tells you how bad you are lol. Ofc challengers think everyone below it is bad. Everyone should only play if it is fun for them, whats the point otherwise? I myself haven't played high elo soloQ in over a year because I got bored of tryharding alone, so nowadays I just play for fun with my silver-gold friends!
@@enricov9185 Yes. That’s why I watch, so that one day I can tell Hector how poor his macro is and outthink my way to Worlds. *exclaims in hardstuck silver since season 3*
Make sure you're getting enough sunlight, exercise, hydration, healthy food, good posture and healthy environment (nothing else to worry about besides league of legends, humidity, fresh air, clean body, clothes and gaming room). I reckon that not maintaining those would raise your stress levels, making you overall much more prone to toxicity, bad plays and etc.
Speaking from an exercise physiologist stand point, a lot of points you guys touch on for gamers in relation to mental and decreased performance can also be attributed to a something in sports science we call relative energy deficiency syndrome, where by inadequate nutritional intake can result in a host of adverse physical, physiological and mental health issues. As its no secret a lot of "hardcore" gamers tend to undereat during gaming sessions especially if they're grinding elos I can imagine there's a decent correlation between gamers experiencing symptoms of red-s during these grinds. Definitely something worth understanding and ensuring you're not experiencing.
This video was so useful for me. It really shows why we get stuck even when we don't have any reason to. Yeah, i will not be a challenger player but at least i am sure i will be much less angry at the stupid plays my team makes.
@@1Akanan1 xPetu the challanger shen main has coined the term "The Challanger mindset" which entails thinking that, if you play flawlessly and I mean, to the perfection, you deserve the win. But if you make ONE single mistake. You no longer deserve the win. Which is, so damn true.
iam literally considering to get a month subscription just to watch this "hector series" because hector is such a sympathy and talented and a good teacher kind of guy. like an older brother you love to learn from
I think it's time we all quit adc, it feels too coinflip in certain elos, we have the mechanics and the game knowledge, but our role is too reliant on other players also having them
0:55 "I wasn't really upset by it" *immediately zooms back in and out which shows signs of tilt* Hector Darling I don't think you're being honest in this relationship
lol. fair point point. but i think he just means even though it was tilting, it wasnt major tilt, it was the followup death which is what made him quit adc. I think that's what he means. whether or not its the real cause i think he thinks that.
i remember faker saying something like that too, like you need to do the call you know is better and play foryourself, you dont teleport to a coinflip tf for no objective, just keep pushing and get ahead if your team ints is their fault and you can still carry
Alot of really good players have said this for years. I used to watch a challenger jungle main, forgot his name, and he says fuck if your team rages at you, if they are inting in a skirmish you know they'll lose, there's no point rotating just to be there, just farm the three camps u have. Except if you're not experienced enough at the game you may take this to heart too much and be a brain dead auto piloting split pusher or don't rotate to the RIGHT rotations. Like its a coinflip tp if you have no vision and its a chaotic even fight, but if say there's 3 low hp targets on your bot lane and you're a top laner with a deep ward behind them, that's free real estate.
Lol the Leona. I played adc the other day, Vayne, with a Lux. Lux decided it was best to last hit my minions, spam spells from half a screen away then back off during any fight because cooldowns. She complained I wasn't getting kills. I asked her politely to pls stop stealing my cs, save spells for after I engage and stand near me (not even block formation) so I could safely set something up. She flipped out for the rest of the game, the team sided with her that I was trolling, and they all reported me for a 2/5/8 game and refused to acknowledge that a sup who runs away from mid when they saw me heading there isn't playing the role. A week ago was similar, Varus with Cho sup, who was adamant he didn't need a sup item. Then he flamed me for him being stuck under turret while I control warded drake pit, said he constantly needed gold (hence the cs stealing) and blamed me for letting him die to dives when his actions was what caused us to be under leveled. He then rage roamed topside jg, fed, and rage quit when I asked him to pls ward Rift while he was up there. IMHO it's a lack of maturity, an inability to take responsibility and look for ways to improve. The problem with that mindset is when it drags everyone down with you... as evidenced low elo.
I do agree, playing "properly" in low elo does not give you what you need to win games most of the time since the "correct" play might end up not being efficient enough to carry a bunch of apes
As a former low-grandmaster player (i just got g4 in this season cuz of the lack of time) it feels good to be called low-elo. Im feeling like i still have a lot to go
@Mike Yea, actually compared to a masterful player like Hector, we are fcking low-elo. I think he is a soloq god, just bcs of his incredible game-knowledge from having above average knowledge on all champions in the game.
I loved this vid. It shows the struggle someone has to climb really well, aswell as how effective small adjustments can be without using any individual highly mechanic punishments or plays either. The mental edge is really good, because you even expect your team to not be that great, aswell as the enemies, so you just do your own thing, while not beeing really tilted about the mistakes your allys do.
For years people have criticized me for having a mindset like this. I'm glad that you of all people agree. I was going crazy trying to figure out if my mentality was wrong or not and all the negative comments from friends and acquittances alike made me feel like something was wrong with me. Their main argument has always been that you can never play a team game while expecting nothing from your team. I also often get told that if my jungler wasn't bad I'd win midlane and I'm just sitting there like "Stop blaming the jungler because I know that if you were premade with said jungler, you'd be flaming me. Also the jungler shouldn't win my lane for me, I should."
Bro, trying to grind for plat, last 15 matches played in adc, second role, even tough i put mid as my first role. Its ridiculous what this game is. Just dont want to play anymore. Cant even play in my position in ranked games. Outrageous
On one hand it's a bit snobby but this isn't about us. It's about Hector. And if thinking this way improves Hector's ability to climb then that's what matters. Hector, I've learned a lot from you. I wish you all the best on your climb. After being hardstuck in silver 4, falling all the way back into bronze 2... I started a new account and I'm now in silver 2 with s1 in reach. (it helps that sona is broke as **** atm)
I played lol for the 1st time like 2 years ago because my friend wanted me to try, then my boyfriend asked me to try again but I didn't really had fun so I dropped it. This summer I tried to learn the game and I can see I got really better at it after watching guides from this channel and also some others. It's not like I got good, I'm not some prodigy or even a typical player, just a girl who played minecraft and some mmorpg games in middle school but stopped cause she didn't have enough money for a working PC and her parents turned the wifi off if she played too much. So it was kinda refreshing to have fun playing something again after almost 10 years. I started without knowing how to ward and now i have 50-70 something vision points every game, I learned how to roam and when to, I'm bronze IV now so as I said, I'm not good, but I got degraded to iron like, a month ago and I was on losing streak for like 10 games so I almost dropped to Iron II but somehow I played more drafts to train what I thought I was lacking the most in and got back to Bronze IV. Of course it's almost lowest of low elo and everyone is crying that they are stuck there but I'm looking realistically at my capabilities. If I could climb back to Bronze from Iron now, then I can try to climb to Bronze I or Silver IV next season if I really try. I had a cold series lately and lost 4 rankeds in a row so that's why I'm trying to understand my mistakes by watching some guides instead of just going back to game and playing while being flustrated! I'm not gonna be as good as someone who never had a break from playing games or has better sense than me without trying but I can be good enough for me to feel content and have fun rather than not knowing how to play or being too stressed about my rank :)
I enjoy these videos with Hector. He always reminds me that in a way it's ok to be selfish in league. Most times in game, I come with the approach, 'it's ok that I died, our whoever got another kill can carry this game.' Sometimes they do.... most times they don't. Then yesterday, I played a support game as Rakan with a Jinxs. She disconnected after needlessly dying twice, all within the first 3 mins of the game. I decided to stop playing support to see if I could carry the game since the MF I was playing against wasn't good. We won that game.
watching this vid gives me ptsd legit, I climbed 2 divisions feel happy then I have 5 games in a row where it was free af but we int throw or do not end its just frustrating and now im pretty much back where I started
If you want to see this in a more positive mindset: "If i enable myself to win, i enable the entire team to win." Kinda good way to look through life too. "Being my best self lets me help others be their best self." So know that being selfish can turn out to be a act of selflessness.
Personally the mindset of "I don't care about those apes trolling, I will carry them and then have the satisfaction of saying: np for free lp guys" works better for me :D
The part about junglers inting at early crab deciding games feels so relatable. It's as if they genuinly don't care about matchups in lanes or your allies vs enemy champions powers and just require you to move to crab no matter what even if lanes have 0 prio and they are sure to die against 1v2, 1v3. As a laner it's so tilting, especially since I play mid-late game champions, and them spam-pinging afterwards is driving me mad when the situation could be avoided easily had they more than a single braincell and thought about the game. Vid is cool tho!
dunno, the other day i saw a coaching of a midlaner in master and the coach told him that its his fault that the jg died because a range champ shouldnt lose prio against a mele champ in mid for the first crab (dunno if aplicable for every matchup, but it was an orianna vs fizz, so he did have a point) and that he should have been able to secure that crab
Hector is raging over junglers that do not punish people overextending enough. In my elo i have to deal with junglers that flash into the enemy turret, give double buffs to the enemy laner, followed by flaming me to kill myself and then immediately ragequit. You have barely seen darkness, man, but i was born in it! Molded by it!
Just like episode one of this series, I love it, and will do my best to apply these understandings and mindsets to my own games. Thank you so much Hector and Skillcapped.
As someone who was knocking on Silver last season, but has had one bad game after the other this season, landing me in Iron (yes, I know all the jokes and condescending remarks), this video makes me feel a bit better about the situation. I've actually started getting back into form doing this very same thing. I just realize that everyone on my team is bad and play around them accordingly. I think we subconsciously expect someone else on the team to carry us, but the fact is - ESPECIALLY in very low elo - the "carry" is a coinflip. I've seen some extremely bad Master Yis carry an enemy team just because they got a few lucky kills and no one knew how to counter him. As a result, I've actually had a few games playing Sona, where I was the actual carry because I'd catch enemy champs overextending and just obviously bad mechanics. I've also learned to recognize champs that should be reserved for high elo players (e.g. Akali) being played in Iron and just acknowledge that they're not really that scary because the player doesn't know how to use the kit. Sometimes, they get lucky, sure. But most of the time, it works out in my favor because of the other player's ego. Thanks for making vids like this to keep us encouraged. I will eventually pay my penance in this purgatory and when I do, I'll say it was all because of Hector. :)
Hector thank you for this video when you were explaining aggression this happened to me recently alot when i was practicing riven top and i would get camped so thnx for showing me not to always play aggressive and showing me how to improve a bit
Honestly since I've learned and applied the MIRROR RULE in low Elo, I'm averaging a 40cs lead over my lane opponent, plus plates, and most of the time I have more kills too because they DONT know when a roam is a bad roam and they die roaming
blame the nunu snowball bug soon as you see nunu come out of fog with high ms, snowball pops into existence 500 units closer to you it's like ghosting in, into a free flash that comes with damage and cc your tilt is understandable
This is almost exactly the mindset that helps me get elo gains down in gold-ish. Don't respect the opponent EVER, assume your teammates are bots and you'll get no help, play as selfishly as possible, and consider the risk more than the reward with each decision.
Also: Mute all chat (/all and allied) and mute all pings (but keep using pings yourself). Your teammates pings will always affect you even if you think they don't (As a jungler I realized this early when I would alter my game plan because some droolie was spam pinging asking for ganks, and I would end up helping him not lose lane instead of focusing on my Draven+Leona bot). Also takes away their power to tilt you by spam pinging you question marks.
@@davethebarbarian4419 I don't do this every game, I try to see if my teammates will be cooperative first. I also leave all chat on to shittalk and get into their heads. The two best examples are: if an enemy complains about their teammate in all chat, stoke the fire and pit them against each other, trying to seem reasonable yourself; when your lane opponent is clearly a one trick, esp w/ 1mil+ mastery points, first blood them and say "why are you first timing a champ in ranked, that's pretty rude". If these aren't options, I'll mute.
@@1337slic3 That talk is poor sportsmanship though. You should win based on skill, not on how well you can bully other people. If you're only climbing because you're tearing others down instead of out playing them, well, you need better skills. But that's just my opinion on why this game is as toxic as it is, no class or sportsmanship and everyone is 1v9 because everyone's looking to flame and destroy everyone else's confidence... aka be a villain.
Hector calling grandmaster low elo pierced my soul and ego directly. But it makes sense, it's the equivalent of a God calling Kings peasants. I'm not even considered a speck of dust then at Plat :') I aspire to be as powerful as Hector one day
I'm plat too and rewatching this video made me realize he is simply right. If you know you can carry, you should be getting as much resources as possible with the lowest risks. If you follow an enemy roam or engage in a fight with a 50-50 chance 100% of the time, turns out you will win 50% of the games. But if you maximize your income and only go for plays where you will benefit more for going, as time passes you'll get to the point where you can carry the game. Let's say you're a good sidelaner. Here comes dragon. If your team is winning, they don't need you, right? Split and bring one enemy to you and it's a win-win situation. If your team is even, you're not to blame for repeating it. If your team is losing, than you NEED to split. That's it. You should only group if you can wipe them all out, not a coinflip 50-50 fight for second dragon. Exceptions would be if the objective they are trying to take is a win-condition.
So, all I have to do to get out of iron is call everyone "low elo"... done and done! ... I think my issue is, how can I become more than a monkey when I'm always playing with monkeys against monkeys?
to make people understand why its ok to consider GM and even chall players "bad" is because league is such a complexe game, that people will, regardless of complexity climb. BUT it doesn't mean they understand the game like they should. The more complexe the game is the more you can see the big difference between top elo soloQ and pro players. They are great and excellent, looking at the ladder overall, but looking at it from a competitive POV, they're bad. a real example would be me looking down on 2.7k+ players on WoW arena 3v3. they're top 0.2% or so depending the season, and if you take into account the whole playerbase, theyre probably top 0.01% and rank 1 is high challenger. They are excellent players, but only compared to the general player. Looking at it with real understanding of the game, they're like noobs, on the way of being good. And that's how you can describe GM players in league, once you reach this level of understanding and skill A bit hard to explain but thats the gist of it.
I thank u for all the knowledge I got from u but the thing is I know that I can carry every game but the thing is I get very bored that every game I have to sit and play for 20 mins to 30 cause of my cows I always win lane and be lvl 18 whilst my team and enemies are 14 to 16 but it still takes more time to carry ur team when they are 0/20
Makes sense. You don't know what your allies will do. They could be doing the right thing all game, then when elder spawns run tp top and die trying to solo baron. Only you know you're not silly, so only trust you. If everyone plays selfishly, and doesn't tilt, then you win more.
lol i was bot as lucian farming and my team were aram mid for 0 reasons and they were flaming me for afk farming they were loosing 4v5 mid and after dragon and it was my fault bruh
Dude I'm bronze, every time it's a teemo or sett pick I basically get auto tilted because I KNOW my jungler isn't going to touch my lane and they are going to get a free game because my jungler decided to be a dumbass. Fucking hate toplane sometimes
So basically in laning phase let my oponent play aggro since they r on autopilot and after laning phase dont do alot of rotations like first pish a sidelane then rotate or just continue apply pressureis that how its is
This just goes to prove that the whole league ranked system is basically garbage - you have the same issues at grand master as you do in silver or bronze. People aren't map aware and every game is more or less a coin toss. Feels bad man.
I like this video. I just feel so useless as a support. I feel like my wins are a coin toss. I can play so well in lane and look at the stats and see my top is 0/5 and the opponent top is fed and i just get discouraged cause now i know ppl will just give him more kills cause they want a shut down so bad.
it's funny how in low elo, it's not the better player who wins, it's the player who is less bad since good and bad players aren't opposites in low elo because everyone is bad by default. the team that ints less is the team that wins. there's no reverse to that statement using the word "better". they're all garbage, but they smell bad on different levels.
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Hector looks down on the vast majority of players. Glad I didn't buy that membership now. Good luck in life once this well dries up.
@@stephenburton9506 Why wouldn't he? If he's challenger then he is superior to something like 99.98% of players.
@@stephenburton9506 If by looking down you mean "thinks the vast majority of players are bad at the game" then you are correct, as does every challenger player, because they are bad, even GMs in comparison to challengers. Regards, ex challenger thx to skillcapped, whom's services you are declining because facts are too harsh :/
@@masaboih he's right I've been a diamond player for years in and out of low master. Recently Grand Master. Listen everyone is bad at this game, me included. Here's the trick tho. Are you happy at being a gold player? If yes then who the fuck cares what some challenger says. If no, recognize you're bad at the game and do something about it. Again goals people If you are just looking for diamond you do not need to be the best. You just need to be trying to improve. It's a game have fun. If grinding to challenger isn't fun don't do it. This game is worthless in the grand scheme. Make friends have a good time. After this season if I stay GM I'm going causal no cap. Friendly pre-mades and ARAM for life. I don't want to, or have the skill to become challenger. I'll cap GM if I can
@@Negativity808 Ofc, I totally agree and I don't know why anyone should take offence if challengers think someone is bad lol, silver players say bronzes are bad, and every game someone tells you how bad you are lol. Ofc challengers think everyone below it is bad. Everyone should only play if it is fun for them, whats the point otherwise? I myself haven't played high elo soloQ in over a year because I got bored of tryharding alone, so nowadays I just play for fun with my silver-gold friends!
The "We could never fire Hector. He's too cute" is so funny. And true. Please never fire hin.
Hehehe
"if I'm in Grandmasters elo, I'm in low elo"
Me, hardstuck in Silver I: *CONFUSED TIM ALLEN NOISES*
I'm old enough to know what that sounds like! 🤣
First time hearing a comment.
Omg I miss this noise
"diamond is the bronze of high elo, the only difference is with mechanics" - some challenger player.
And me trying to stay out of Iron 1. Always a smaller fish.
Hector: "Just wanted to remind you all how much better I am than you"
"And how trash I think you all are"
isnt that kinda the point of the channel
@@enricov9185 Yes. That’s why I watch, so that one day I can tell Hector how poor his macro is and outthink my way to Worlds.
*exclaims in hardstuck silver since season 3*
he's playing on NA so its irrelevant anyways
@@lionurek So true.
Make sure you're getting enough sunlight, exercise, hydration, healthy food, good posture and healthy environment (nothing else to worry about besides league of legends, humidity, fresh air, clean body, clothes and gaming room). I reckon that not maintaining those would raise your stress levels, making you overall much more prone to toxicity, bad plays and etc.
dont worry bud. l always pull out a kira sleep method, eat properly and get enough sunlight
You can also have a girlfriend and go to school, play the guitar... Having a life you know haha
@@viniciomonge3960 I work a job and play guitar. No girlfriend though. That would require interaction with humans. Pass
Wise man
@@viniciomonge3960 nah dont get a girlfriend. She'll just break your heart and make you int every game after 😭
Speaking from an exercise physiologist stand point, a lot of points you guys touch on for gamers in relation to mental and decreased performance can also be attributed to a something in sports science we call relative energy deficiency syndrome, where by inadequate nutritional intake can result in a host of adverse physical, physiological and mental health issues. As its no secret a lot of "hardcore" gamers tend to undereat during gaming sessions especially if they're grinding elos I can imagine there's a decent correlation between gamers experiencing symptoms of red-s during these grinds. Definitely something worth understanding and ensuring you're not experiencing.
How long does it take from having a meal for the effect to occur? What an interesting thing, have never heard of it
This video was so useful for me. It really shows why we get stuck even when we don't have any reason to. Yeah, i will not be a challenger player but at least i am sure i will be much less angry at the stupid plays my team makes.
you can be even less angry if you remember that you also do stupid plays sometimes.
@@1Akanan1 xPetu the challanger shen main has coined the term "The Challanger mindset" which entails thinking that, if you play flawlessly and I mean, to the perfection, you deserve the win. But if you make ONE single mistake. You no longer deserve the win.
Which is, so damn true.
iam literally considering to get a month subscription just to watch this "hector series" because hector is such a sympathy and talented and a good teacher kind of guy. like an older brother you love to learn from
Did you get it ? Would you advise me to take one ?
Hector: calling Grandmasters low elo and rage quitting from the ADC role
Me: Shifting back and forth Dia1 and Dia2 on ADC **sad crying noises**
I think it's time we all quit adc, it feels too coinflip in certain elos, we have the mechanics and the game knowledge, but our role is too reliant on other players also having them
Meanwhile me shifting between Bronze 1 and Silver4….
What I learned from this vid: He is indeed too cute.
0:55 "I wasn't really upset by it"
*immediately zooms back in and out which shows signs of tilt*
Hector Darling I don't think you're being honest in this relationship
lol. fair point point. but i think he just means even though it was tilting, it wasnt major tilt, it was the followup death which is what made him quit adc. I think that's what he means. whether or not its the real cause i think he thinks that.
@@Free.Spirit1 You took my comment too seriously this is just me messing around
Doublelift's "everyone is trash" suddenly gets whole new meaning xD
In my opinion only the 5 players that win Worlds are High Elo, everyone else is Low Elo.
Imo 2nd team has 2 high elo players, and worlds team had 3
True, others are just bronze with better mechanics
i remember faker saying something like that too, like you need to do the call you know is better and play foryourself, you dont teleport to a coinflip tf for no objective, just keep pushing and get ahead if your team ints is their fault and you can still carry
Alot of really good players have said this for years. I used to watch a challenger jungle main, forgot his name, and he says fuck if your team rages at you, if they are inting in a skirmish you know they'll lose, there's no point rotating just to be there, just farm the three camps u have. Except if you're not experienced enough at the game you may take this to heart too much and be a brain dead auto piloting split pusher or don't rotate to the RIGHT rotations. Like its a coinflip tp if you have no vision and its a chaotic even fight, but if say there's 3 low hp targets on your bot lane and you're a top laner with a deep ward behind them, that's free real estate.
Lol the Leona.
I played adc the other day, Vayne, with a Lux. Lux decided it was best to last hit my minions, spam spells from half a screen away then back off during any fight because cooldowns. She complained I wasn't getting kills. I asked her politely to pls stop stealing my cs, save spells for after I engage and stand near me (not even block formation) so I could safely set something up. She flipped out for the rest of the game, the team sided with her that I was trolling, and they all reported me for a 2/5/8 game and refused to acknowledge that a sup who runs away from mid when they saw me heading there isn't playing the role.
A week ago was similar, Varus with Cho sup, who was adamant he didn't need a sup item. Then he flamed me for him being stuck under turret while I control warded drake pit, said he constantly needed gold (hence the cs stealing) and blamed me for letting him die to dives when his actions was what caused us to be under leveled. He then rage roamed topside jg, fed, and rage quit when I asked him to pls ward Rift while he was up there.
IMHO it's a lack of maturity, an inability to take responsibility and look for ways to improve. The problem with that mindset is when it drags everyone down with you... as evidenced low elo.
I do agree, playing "properly" in low elo does not give you what you need to win games most of the time since the "correct" play might end up not being efficient enough to carry a bunch of apes
As someone who has recently started playing in mid to high master this sort of content is very useful.
As a former low-grandmaster player (i just got g4 in this season cuz of the lack of time) it feels good to be called low-elo. Im feeling like i still have a lot to go
being first time gm in years (climbing rn) can confirm there are no good jg players they're all braindead or something
@Mike Yea, actually compared to a masterful player like Hector, we are fcking low-elo. I think he is a soloq god, just bcs of his incredible game-knowledge from having above average knowledge on all champions in the game.
*They could never fire their cute masochist guinea pig*
Doesn't matter where you are hector, we love ur content and will keep watching you!
I loved this vid. It shows the struggle someone has to climb really well, aswell as how effective small adjustments can be without using any individual highly mechanic punishments or plays either.
The mental edge is really good, because you even expect your team to not be that great, aswell as the enemies, so you just do your own thing, while not beeing really tilted about the mistakes your allys do.
For years people have criticized me for having a mindset like this. I'm glad that you of all people agree. I was going crazy trying to figure out if my mentality was wrong or not and all the negative comments from friends and acquittances alike made me feel like something was wrong with me. Their main argument has always been that you can never play a team game while expecting nothing from your team. I also often get told that if my jungler wasn't bad I'd win midlane and I'm just sitting there like "Stop blaming the jungler because I know that if you were premade with said jungler, you'd be flaming me. Also the jungler shouldn't win my lane for me, I should."
Bro, trying to grind for plat, last 15 matches played in adc, second role, even tough i put mid as my first role. Its ridiculous what this game is. Just dont want to play anymore. Cant even play in my position in ranked games. Outrageous
On one hand it's a bit snobby but this isn't about us. It's about Hector. And if thinking this way improves Hector's ability to climb then that's what matters. Hector, I've learned a lot from you. I wish you all the best on your climb. After being hardstuck in silver 4, falling all the way back into bronze 2... I started a new account and I'm now in silver 2 with s1 in reach. (it helps that sona is broke as **** atm)
I played lol for the 1st time like 2 years ago because my friend wanted me to try, then my boyfriend asked me to try again but I didn't really had fun so I dropped it. This summer I tried to learn the game and I can see I got really better at it after watching guides from this channel and also some others. It's not like I got good, I'm not some prodigy or even a typical player, just a girl who played minecraft and some mmorpg games in middle school but stopped cause she didn't have enough money for a working PC and her parents turned the wifi off if she played too much. So it was kinda refreshing to have fun playing something again after almost 10 years. I started without knowing how to ward and now i have 50-70 something vision points every game, I learned how to roam and when to, I'm bronze IV now so as I said, I'm not good, but I got degraded to iron like, a month ago and I was on losing streak for like 10 games so I almost dropped to Iron II but somehow I played more drafts to train what I thought I was lacking the most in and got back to Bronze IV. Of course it's almost lowest of low elo and everyone is crying that they are stuck there but I'm looking realistically at my capabilities. If I could climb back to Bronze from Iron now, then I can try to climb to Bronze I or Silver IV next season if I really try. I had a cold series lately and lost 4 rankeds in a row so that's why I'm trying to understand my mistakes by watching some guides instead of just going back to game and playing while being flustrated! I'm not gonna be as good as someone who never had a break from playing games or has better sense than me without trying but I can be good enough for me to feel content and have fun rather than not knowing how to play or being too stressed about my rank :)
I enjoy these videos with Hector. He always reminds me that in a way it's ok to be selfish in league. Most times in game, I come with the approach, 'it's ok that I died, our whoever got another kill can carry this game.' Sometimes they do.... most times they don't. Then yesterday, I played a support game as Rakan with a Jinxs. She disconnected after needlessly dying twice, all within the first 3 mins of the game. I decided to stop playing support to see if I could carry the game since the MF I was playing against wasn't good. We won that game.
watching this vid gives me ptsd legit, I climbed 2 divisions feel happy then I have 5 games in a row where it was free af but we int throw or do not end its just frustrating and now im pretty much back where I started
My Tiny Gold 3 Brain translate this video for improving into two words. "Get Gud."
Broze-Plat: Low elo
Diamond-Grandmaster: LoW eLo WiTh MeChAniCs
Challenger: *"BASIC COMPETENCY"*
*confused screaming*
In 10 quarantene in Greece rn but still wont stop watching this
If you want to see this in a more positive mindset: "If i enable myself to win, i enable the entire team to win."
Kinda good way to look through life too. "Being my best self lets me help others be their best self." So know that being selfish can turn out to be a act of selflessness.
Personally the mindset of "I don't care about those apes trolling, I will carry them and then have the satisfaction of saying: np for free lp guys" works better for me :D
The part about junglers inting at early crab deciding games feels so relatable. It's as if they genuinly don't care about matchups in lanes or your allies vs enemy champions powers and just require you to move to crab no matter what even if lanes have 0 prio and they are sure to die against 1v2, 1v3. As a laner it's so tilting, especially since I play mid-late game champions, and them spam-pinging afterwards is driving me mad when the situation could be avoided easily had they more than a single braincell and thought about the game. Vid is cool tho!
dunno, the other day i saw a coaching of a midlaner in master and the coach told him that its his fault that the jg died because a range champ shouldnt lose prio against a mele champ in mid for the first crab (dunno if aplicable for every matchup, but it was an orianna vs fizz, so he did have a point) and that he should have been able to secure that crab
Road to Challanger Episode 2: How to smurf in Grandmaster
Hector is raging over junglers that do not punish people overextending enough.
In my elo i have to deal with junglers that flash into the enemy turret, give double buffs to the enemy laner, followed by flaming me to kill myself and then immediately ragequit.
You have barely seen darkness, man, but i was born in it! Molded by it!
What did Leona do around 0:57-1:08 to troll Hector? I've watched it like 5 or 6 times now, and I can't spot what the issue is. Could anyone clarify?
I love hector dude he is so selfaware
Just like episode one of this series, I love it, and will do my best to apply these understandings and mindsets to my own games. Thank you so much Hector and Skillcapped.
idk why but i´m getting tilted from what you are saying yet, i totally agree with you
Hector is my favourite anime character
As someone who was knocking on Silver last season, but has had one bad game after the other this season, landing me in Iron (yes, I know all the jokes and condescending remarks), this video makes me feel a bit better about the situation. I've actually started getting back into form doing this very same thing. I just realize that everyone on my team is bad and play around them accordingly. I think we subconsciously expect someone else on the team to carry us, but the fact is - ESPECIALLY in very low elo - the "carry" is a coinflip. I've seen some extremely bad Master Yis carry an enemy team just because they got a few lucky kills and no one knew how to counter him.
As a result, I've actually had a few games playing Sona, where I was the actual carry because I'd catch enemy champs overextending and just obviously bad mechanics.
I've also learned to recognize champs that should be reserved for high elo players (e.g. Akali) being played in Iron and just acknowledge that they're not really that scary because the player doesn't know how to use the kit. Sometimes, they get lucky, sure. But most of the time, it works out in my favor because of the other player's ego.
Thanks for making vids like this to keep us encouraged. I will eventually pay my penance in this purgatory and when I do, I'll say it was all because of Hector. :)
9:29 chat :
Jax : "Not sure if i should go wits or blade 2nd"
Ziggs : "Im a ziggs main"
Him: I never typed
Also him after seconds of video: watr
WATR
Hector thank you for this video when you were explaining aggression this happened to me recently alot when i was practicing riven top and i would get camped so thnx for showing me not to always play aggressive and showing me how to improve a bit
watching this 3 years later, people got these mechanics in literally plat games damn
Honestly since I've learned and applied the MIRROR RULE in low Elo, I'm averaging a 40cs lead over my lane opponent, plus plates, and most of the time I have more kills too because they DONT know when a roam is a bad roam and they die roaming
Calling grandmaster low elo is so based LOL
Waiting for the day Hector goes pro so he can actually try to beat pro players on the big stage and fail
Does Hector stream on twitch? If not, do any other skill capped content creators beside mcbaze stream?
Hector's road to Challenger sounds more like a road to depression and bitterness. Oh wait.
blame the nunu snowball bug
soon as you see nunu come out of fog with high ms, snowball pops into existence 500 units closer to you
it's like ghosting in, into a free flash that comes with damage and cc
your tilt is understandable
We‘re all in low elo and challengers are barely human. I like it
This is almost exactly the mindset that helps me get elo gains down in gold-ish. Don't respect the opponent EVER, assume your teammates are bots and you'll get no help, play as selfishly as possible, and consider the risk more than the reward with each decision.
Also: Mute all chat (/all and allied) and mute all pings (but keep using pings yourself). Your teammates pings will always affect you even if you think they don't (As a jungler I realized this early when I would alter my game plan because some droolie was spam pinging asking for ganks, and I would end up helping him not lose lane instead of focusing on my Draven+Leona bot). Also takes away their power to tilt you by spam pinging you question marks.
@@davethebarbarian4419 I don't do this every game, I try to see if my teammates will be cooperative first. I also leave all chat on to shittalk and get into their heads. The two best examples are: if an enemy complains about their teammate in all chat, stoke the fire and pit them against each other, trying to seem reasonable yourself; when your lane opponent is clearly a one trick, esp w/ 1mil+ mastery points, first blood them and say "why are you first timing a champ in ranked, that's pretty rude". If these aren't options, I'll mute.
@@1337slic3 That talk is poor sportsmanship though. You should win based on skill, not on how well you can bully other people. If you're only climbing because you're tearing others down instead of out playing them, well, you need better skills. But that's just my opinion on why this game is as toxic as it is, no class or sportsmanship and everyone is 1v9 because everyone's looking to flame and destroy everyone else's confidence... aka be a villain.
@@Undomaranel lol
@@1337slic3 LMAO „to get into there heads“
Made my day
Hector best man
"lesson: if I was in Challenger, this wouldn't work."
Hector calling grandmaster low elo pierced my soul and ego directly. But it makes sense, it's the equivalent of a God calling Kings peasants.
I'm not even considered a speck of dust then at Plat :')
I aspire to be as powerful as Hector one day
I'm plat too and rewatching this video made me realize he is simply right. If you know you can carry, you should be getting as much resources as possible with the lowest risks. If you follow an enemy roam or engage in a fight with a 50-50 chance 100% of the time, turns out you will win 50% of the games. But if you maximize your income and only go for plays where you will benefit more for going, as time passes you'll get to the point where you can carry the game. Let's say you're a good sidelaner. Here comes dragon. If your team is winning, they don't need you, right? Split and bring one enemy to you and it's a win-win situation. If your team is even, you're not to blame for repeating it. If your team is losing, than you NEED to split. That's it. You should only group if you can wipe them all out, not a coinflip 50-50 fight for second dragon. Exceptions would be if the objective they are trying to take is a win-condition.
Dr K Watcher is a top tier summoner name
I'm literally dying from the " low low elo" thing XD
Just how that leona makes u feel is what my adc's makes me feel.
What I learned from this video, unless you're challenger, everyone is garbage
So, all I have to do to get out of iron is call everyone "low elo"... done and done!
... I think my issue is, how can I become more than a monkey when I'm always playing with monkeys against monkeys?
1:18 'dr k watcher'
ah man of culture, i see
Hector renamed the account to "dr k watcher" im ded LOL
to make people understand why its ok to consider GM and even chall players "bad" is because league is such a complexe game, that people will, regardless of complexity climb. BUT it doesn't mean they understand the game like they should. The more complexe the game is the more you can see the big difference between top elo soloQ and pro players.
They are great and excellent, looking at the ladder overall, but looking at it from a competitive POV, they're bad. a real example would be me looking down on 2.7k+ players on WoW arena 3v3. they're top 0.2% or so depending the season, and if you take into account the whole playerbase, theyre probably top 0.01% and rank 1 is high challenger.
They are excellent players, but only compared to the general player. Looking at it with real understanding of the game, they're like noobs, on the way of being good. And that's how you can describe GM players in league, once you reach this level of understanding and skill
A bit hard to explain but thats the gist of it.
More Hector! ❤
I can't believe that that is how people play in grandmaster elo, which means that that elo is reachable for me if i put in the work needed
"I am a very understanding player"...
I thank u for all the knowledge I got from u but the thing is I know that I can carry every game but the thing is I get very bored that every game I have to sit and play for 20 mins to 30 cause of my cows I always win lane and be lvl 18 whilst my team and enemies are 14 to 16 but it still takes more time to carry ur team when they are 0/20
I'm d3 now so if I get masters (or higher?) before end of season, I'll come back to thank this video (and Hector) lol
How is it going Blake
@@YoXeV its going, whatsup with you
Me in Bronze 2 with a full team of 0/10 teammates every game trying to see helpful info in this video: I wonder if DOTA 2 is a good game?
Yorick laughs when seeing rule #3
great video bro
Oh hey, that first game you showed where the graves was spam pinging you, you played with foggedftw2 :D
MORE HECTOR!!!!
10:53 i'll prove you wrong one day god damit
how to climb: be selfish, don’t care what fights your team engages, refuse to elaborate
The last tip is actually good, but you should mute all before that, you know, for ur mental health
Makes sense. You don't know what your allies will do. They could be doing the right thing all game, then when elder spawns run tp top and die trying to solo baron. Only you know you're not silly, so only trust you. If everyone plays selfishly, and doesn't tilt, then you win more.
"dr k watcher" ya love to see it
Here comes hector with: positive toxicity
And i like it!
My god I thought i was the only one who had this mindset
lol i was bot as lucian farming and my team were aram mid for 0 reasons and they were flaming me for afk farming they were loosing 4v5 mid and after dragon and it was my fault bruh
hector always played the strongest champs
I now can show my gm friend this video and call him low elo.
So if i wanna climb i need to incorporate qiyana's personality?
finally I can leave my low elo and get to something not as bad, rank 1 challenger here I come
Waiting for your viral league video "Why anyone below Rank 2 challenger is low elo"
@@MrLastlived lmao yeah but I would still be low elo in hector's eyes
Diamond-Grandmaster players watching this: You understand you just insulted my entire race of people... But thank you.
Try to play in your best mood. I often play when I'm burnt out after work and I make awful decisions in the game.
Dude I'm bronze, every time it's a teemo or sett pick I basically get auto tilted because I KNOW my jungler isn't going to touch my lane and they are going to get a free game because my jungler decided to be a dumbass.
Fucking hate toplane sometimes
Garen as well, pain in the ass.
But what do I do when the enemy team just 5 stacks mid because they are so bad they don't know what else to do.
They need to ip ban all smurfs, it'll make the game so much more playable and def better for climbing
So basically in laning phase let my oponent play aggro since they r on autopilot and after laning phase dont do alot of rotations like first pish a sidelane then rotate or just continue apply pressureis that how its is
This just goes to prove that the whole league ranked system is basically garbage - you have the same issues at grand master as you do in silver or bronze. People aren't map aware and every game is more or less a coin toss. Feels bad man.
How is it the system fault if players don't look their map lol
I like this video. I just feel so useless as a support. I feel like my wins are a coin toss. I can play so well in lane and look at the stats and see my top is 0/5 and the opponent top is fed and i just get discouraged cause now i know ppl will just give him more kills cause they want a shut down so bad.
it's funny how in low elo, it's not the better player who wins, it's the player who is less bad since good and bad players aren't opposites in low elo because everyone is bad by default. the team that ints less is the team that wins. there's no reverse to that statement using the word "better". they're all garbage, but they smell bad on different levels.
It was the smell part that broke me xD
Instructions unclear, my team reported me for flaming
I've found that games, across most elos, have been lower in quality recently overall. It's pretty frustrating at the moment.
Does he play in EUW or NA ?
when is the next hector torture challenge
In my view somewhere in Plat is High elo - since the player base is only few %.
its so helpful that hector is a mid main, thanks hector :) also really nice to learn from someone who is appropriately self-critical
Bro called grandmasters " low elo"
Theres no hope for us down In hell bois