How to Play Graves as a Ranged AD Carry in LOL

Graves the Outlaw, a character from the online moba game, League of Legends,is one of the strongest ranged attack damage champions currently in the meta(standard) game.
The main play style of most ranged AD carries are about the same, but what makes a person average to awesome with a champion are those tiny differences you learn only by playing the champion a lot.

Are you having issues staying alive in team fights? Try this, stay in the back, wait for everyone to start the team fight, once they initiate dash in and start hitting the closest target.  If you get focused, dash out if it is up, flash out if dash is down, use your imagination.

As a ranged AD carry like graves the outlaw, you have to remember that you aren’t supposed to EVER be getting hit. I 100% believe character control and positioning are key to getting better in league of legends.

In conclusion, here are some TL:DR tips.
1. Learn positioning as a Ranged AD carry – Graves especially because of his ult and his AOE Q, he can dish out serious damage in team fights if unfocused.
2. Use dash situation-ally! Remember that dash can be used offensively or defensively, adapt its use to how the team fights are going.
3. This is kinda the same as above but save flash!  Flash can also be used offensively or defensively, it’s all about just adapting to what the enemy team is going for in team fights.

Hope these shorts tips could improve your AD carry or graves game play slightly! Keep on pwning and remember that AD carry is one of the hardest roles to play perfectly in league of legends.

Graves - Ranged AD Champion

Graves the Outlaw - Ranged AD Champion

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How to Deny XP and Gold in League of Legends

The biggest factor when comparing Dota to League of Legends is the fact there isn’t a direct deny in LoL as compared to Dota. There are ways to deny xp and gold in lane on league of legends though! This is a more advanced step, so if you just started the game, try to practice this as much as possible as it can lead to huge lane gains.

                How do you deny in league of legends? Well first thing you need is a solid laning composition.  A support/tank and a ranged AD champion bottom is always a solid choice and will make for some dominating lanes.  So, to deny the enemy you keep the minions in the middle of the lane, aka in front of river.  You ONLY last hit, or else the lane will push to the enemy’s turret.  Try to dish out more damage then you take or the enemy laning opponents may just deny you instead.

                So last hit only, have your support or tank, if bottom lane, harass nonstop while you last hit first, and harass second.  This will push the opponents back and if you stand in between the minions and the enemy you will be able to deny them the XP and last hits.

Watch this video on Denying and Zoning and it should help improve your game a lot!

Best top lane combos for double lane in league of legends?

Wondering what some good, maybe almost overpowered lane combo’s are for top lane in league of legends? Look no further!

Here is a list of good match-ups for top lane on summoner’s rift

**This isn't a pro list, just some common combos which can deny the enemy lane decently**

1. Wukong and Riven

2. Shen and Miss Fortune

3. Nunu and Ryze

4. Yorick and Gangplank

5. Yorick and Sona

6. Mordekaiser and Soraka

7. Alistar and Poppy

8. Taric and Garen

9. Blitzcrank and Wukong

10. Blitzcrank and Tryndamere

If you have a strong combo to add, please comment with it and the reasons which make it strong and I will add it to the list

Team Solo Mid: The Rain Man Kicked? New Roster?

You heard it here first!

Or maybe the TSM website, anyways, TRM (TheRainMan) has been replaced on team solo mid for league of legends.  Team Solo Mid has been a top team in the US and world for the past year, but recently they were destroyed at the IEM in Hanover, and then they replaced TRM with I believe Dyrus!

This is an exciting change, for me personally, and for the league of legends community to mix things up.  Personally I think Dyrus will take the place of Rain Man.  Dyrus was top for Epic gaming and he is a very very solid and consistent player for top lane and tanky / beefy DPS champion.

Stay tuned for more updates on Team Solo Mid!

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How to get better at League of Legends?

How to get better at League of Legends?

 

As many of you obviously know, MOBA (Massive Online Battle Arena) games have gotten huge since the release of the original DOTA (Defense Against the Ancients) on the WC3 custom game client.  The biggest MOBA game currently is League of Legends, followed by DOTA2 and HON.

With the influx of popularity more and more people are trying to better themselves and their skills in lol, hence asking the question ” How to get better at League of Legends?”.   Really, the concept and game are fairly simple as the controls are only left / right mouse and Q W E R skill buttons.  What people don’t realize until later is that the hard part is strategy and teamwork.  You can only carry your team so far unless you are super crazy fed or it is still semi-early/mid game.

Here are my personal tips on how to get better, consistently, at League of Legends.

Map Awareness – I decided to put this point first and foremost because it is what I think many people overlook.

Example:

‘You are bot lane farming against another AD + SUPPORT Meta combo, both lanes seem even, 4 minutes in and still no gank from, or spotting of, the enemy jungler.’

Noobs – Continue to farm even at half health, usually pushing their lane up towards the enemy’s tower and then get ganked shortly after. How to get better at League of Legends? Look@Proz.

Pros – Would check bush (*IF YOU HAVE 75% HP ATLEAST) with their lane partner, so that they don’t face check the enemy’s jungler and get instakilled.  If health is too low to check bush, then someone, support usually, needs to go back and get a ward and place it into the shrubby bush in river, and maybe even another above bottom tower, this needs to continue to happen all game, or at least until the laning phase is over.

With the wards in place, and map awareness, it is literally almost impossible to die early by a gank.  The ward will spot the gank with plenty of time for you to run back to the tower.

Teamwork and Communication – People need to remember that this is a team game, how many games end for you by the 15 or 20 minute mark? Probably about 5 – 10%, so you can see where the “team fight” part of the game comes into play.  DON’T RAGE AT YOUR OWN TEAM! Suggest something they can improve or try not to let happen again, but don’t belittle them for a clicking in a few wrong spots, you have done the same thing, and I’m sure have been yelled at before.  No excuses, if you want to win, try to win, be a leader, and get the team feeling like a team with friendliness and helpfulness.  You can argue this point all you want, but has anyone yelling at you, or calling you a newbie or troll made you want to play better? That’s what I figured…

Champions – Champions are a fine line between getting better and just getting experience.  The most I can say here is try to counter-pick the enemy team at champion select.  If you are still semi-new and don’t play any ranked yet here is my suggestion.  When you play ranked there are usually the same group of characters picked, at least MOST of the time for the current meta game of Solo top(tanky dps), AP mid, Jungler, and then support and ranged AD bottom.   Most of these characters can be counter by another character.  You need to learn who counters who (or just Google the matchup while waiting, if you know what lane you are in and versus who) and this will help out your laning phase really good.  There is one catch to this, and that is you need to be able to play the character semi-well.  If you are still leveling up, playing a lot of normal games or maybe just trying to find the champions you like and want to call your mains, then you need to learn some good champions now!    Good Champions aren’t “SHACO’S SO OP ZOMG NERF” champions; good champions are ones who bring the most to the synergies of the team composition.  Do a search for “League of Legends Champion Tier List”; learn two or three of each of the top tier champions, of each role

Examples –

Support ChampionsSona, Soraka, Alistar, Janna

Jungle ChampionsMaokia, Gangplank, Lee Sin, Jarvan

Mid ChampionsAhri, Fizz, Morgana

Top ChampionsIrelia, Yorick, Riven, Shen

Ranged AD ChampionsAshe, Miss Fortune, Graves, Caitlyn, Corki

 

Last Hitting – Last hit, don’t push your lane up to the enemy’s tower unless you can’t help it, example being, Mordkeiser.  There are multiple reasons for doing this.  One reason is that your lane is now unable to be ganked, and you are more likely to be ganked, because you have to run twice as far to be in a safety zone, aka your tower.  Another reason is that you are enabling the other team to farm and get experience points.   I will break this down a bit further.  If you are winning your lane and the opponent is unable to last hit without risking death or punishment in the form of harassment, then DO NOT PUSH! If you don’t push you can last hit and keep the minions in the middle of the lane in front of river, and if you stand between their minions and their tower, well you just denied them all the possible last hits, and you also denied them the XP because they are out of range.   This advantage gets huge the longer it goes on.

 

TL:DR Version

  1. Ward your OWN lane early game, unless jungler, then ward what is needed
  2. Pay attention to the map, always have a good idea of where ALL FIVE of the enemy team members are, and think of what their skills will do CC wise if they catch you and if you will survive.
  3. If you are still learning champions, pick good ones to learn, aka top 1/2/3 tier champions.
  4. In champion select, try to out pick the enemy team, if you don’t know what your laning opponent is weak against, then Google… “Best champions to lane %top% against %enemy champion%”.
  5. Act as if your team is next to you at a tournament, be nice and helpful.  You can tell them what they did wrong but do it constructively, or else they will just give up on the game just to make sure you lose because you called them a noob and who knows what else.  If someone called you a noob and raged at you for getting caught 1v2 top against two ranged as a melee, most likely you would laugh to yourself and then troll the rest of the game, or at least not help the rude person once team fights come around, which usually makes for a swift defeat.
  6. Last Hit, don’t push your lanes past river towards the enemy tower.