Sunday, December 8, 2013

Improvement for Season 4

I ended Season 3 in Silver 1. My goal for Season 4 is to get into Gold. Since I mainly play support, it will be difficult to get myself up there. Since that’s the case I’m going to get better at the other roles. I will especially need to work on my ADC and Mid lane.  To do this I will need to pick a champion for each role to get really good at. For support I have Leona/Taric/Lulu, Top I have Vladimir/Volibear/Darius/Riven, Mid I can play Vladimir/Ahri/Diana, Jungle I have Hecarim/Shyvanna/Lee Sin/Vi/Volibear. The trickiest role for me to learn is ADC. In season 3 I played a total of 11 games as an ADC. That is equivalent to 2.64% of the ranked games that I played in season 3. Basically I never played ADC. In season 4 I will need to at least learn to play one champion for that role. It will most likely be Ashe, Caitlyn, or Quinn.  

Support:
Since most of the games I played were as a support, I pretty much have this role down. The two things I still need to work on are warding and my synergy with the ADC. The warding won’t be too difficult to get down. The only thing to learn is how the new season four vision war works. As for the synergy with my ADC, I will practice this by duo queuing with my friend more. He is one of the best ADCs I know so he will be able to tell me what I should be looking for in the ADC and their ADC.

Top:
When I did bad top lane it was usually because I lost an early level fight, or I died to an early gank. To get better at top I’ll need to work on three things. I will need to develop better map awareness as to where the enemy jungler is at. I will need to get better at trading. Basically I seem to always be either too passive or too aggressive. I need to know when the right time for both is. The last thing I need to work on is my farming. Sometimes my CS is great and other times my CS is completely atrocious.

Jungle:
There are 4 things I need to work on when it comes to jungling. The first is to gank and counter gank better. i seem to gank at random times. I need to learn to position myself at the right time, at the right place. The second thing I need to work on is my aggressive jungle. I always play tanky junglers because then there isn’t really a risk. If I can get better at the more aggressive junglers such as: Evelynn, Lee Sin, Elise, and Udyr, then I will be able to carry games. Or at the very least, help to snowball a game. The third thing I need to work on is my counter jungling. I have gotten used to protecting my jungle well, now I need to get better at stealing buffs, and small camps. The last thing I need to work on is setting up dragons. I never concern myself about getting the dragon but if I get better at that then we will be more likely to win games as a jungler.

Mid:
Mid is pretty much the same as top. I need to improve my map awareness, farming, and trading. The only other thing that I need to do better for sure, is roaming. When I play mid I sit there and concentrate on farming. If I’m doing well in lane then I need to know when the right time to roam is.

ADC:

When it comes to the ADC I don’t really know what to be good at since I never play it. I assume I need to improve on the same things as when it comes to top lane. I’ll play with my friend and hopefully he will give me advice when I need it.