HOW TO PLAY SIDELANE AS AN IMMOBILE MAGE - ROAD TO RANK 1

[@pkjohnson7477]

I will continue to say this under every single upload, but these videos are truly the most incredible videos for learning mid as a low elo player 🙏 and we truly truly appreciate all the effort you put into making these videos both educational and entertaining with your constant uptime commentary !

[@ShokLeague]

Thank you again

[@antoninfronc9756]

Shok's content is also helpful for higher Elo players, which is very rare to see. I love this guy.

[@xlightninghawk6360]

@@ShokLeague yeah, plz make a lot of them, especially Syndra videos!!! im sort of an Syndra OTP and the more videos i see of her, the more i can learn from them

[@HelsenbergFan]

holy shit i never thought of that yeah autoing people in order to land skill shots makes a lot of sense and is rlly easy to apply to my games thanks shok

[@ThreadedRock192]

This content is awesome, combining your champ guides into active gameplay really helps me understand your thought process a lot more

[@Maxwell-yg3fr]

great vids lately, I know it's hard to give commentary while playing but you're killing it. also surprised to see no comments about that outro 😂

[@ShokLeague]

Hhah the outro is there for the real ones that watch the whole thing

[@leonardhinkelmann5629]

Love the recent upload frequency. And that without a loss of quality.

[@Illmatic1994]

Another banger my guy

[@fubbsrl1573]

Thanks so much for making this I’ve been trying to learn Sandra and this really helps

[@flowsephstalin2894]

sandra

[@willscubingchannel3062]

sandra

[@willscubingchannel3062]

This is the content we love! I'm learning so much, thank you Shok!

[@johnprocrastinator]

Great video!

[@nevinico]

loved the video again, im just curious about 2 things. first thing is the itemization you explained, why did the liss have to go shadowflame second? and why were cdr boots better than mpen boots here? you said its because you have 2 ap in the team but i dont really see how that works. and the second thing is that i noticed in this one and the ori vid that in a 1v1 you ult rather early instead of using it to finish the kill off, is there a reason for that?

[@ShokLeague]

I suppose she doesn't have to go shadowflame 2nd, but normally you want to stack flat magic pen to do more damage to squishies so I was expecting either chapter > shadowflame > ludens rush or rocketbelt > shadowflame rush. Either way the MR is really OP. CDR boots imo better than mpen boots because people always buy MR when you have lots of AP, and that means that flat magic pen becomes less valuable. I like ulting early to put it on cooldown normally so I can use it again sooner but honestly it's matchup dependent, sometimes you wanna save it to try get a solokill rather than just chunking

[@nevinico]

ty alot for taking your time to answer comments, really appreciate your effort and the upload frequenzy @@ShokLeague

[@mirrorinfinite5392]

The daily uploads are sick

[@aryados1520]

Best LoL channel on KZbin, no cap. Keep it up, I hope your knowledge will get rewarded with 1000000000 views.

[@ShokLeague]

Thank you big dog

[@max-um2kn]

So sorry if you've explained this before but when do you take Liandry's vs Luden on syndra? Love the content man, thank you for actively trying to make league players better

[@ShokLeague]

Basically just if you're heavy on AP OR if they have health stackers (tanks/bruisers/ROA champs) then Liandry is better. Otherwise just go ludens. Tbh if don't want to think about it at all it's probably better to just default to Liandry

[@max-um2kn]

Thanks for the response! I'll definitely keep that in mind and I look forward to trying to improve by watching your content. Best of wishes to you@@ShokLeague

[@al-lt8pm]

Dude I can’t believe how much thought process you have throughout the whole game, like you are always thinking about threats, best moves, etc… Does that not ever stress you out or become too much?

[@ShokLeague]

For the most part it's fine because I've done this for a long time. Every now and then though it feels a bit overwhelming because there's too much happening at once but it doesn't happen that often

[@noobygames7363]

Would you consider shadowflame second here since you are solo AP on ur team?

[@ShokLeague]

I think maybeee you could get away with it but there's a lot of mixed AP damage coming from Kai'sa/Jax. It's decent but I think they will get MR at some point so it might end up sucking depending on how they itemize

[@clayexe1582]

hi mr shok isnt first strike better vs olaf and lissandra because for faster one shots

[@ShokLeague]

First strike or aery is good vs Liss but phase rush is much better vs olaf imo

[@clayexe1582]

@@ShokLeague thank you you are the best

[@xDropqed]

Yo shok after first strike nerfs what runes do u recommand on syndra

[@ShokLeague]

First strike for scaling, aery for lane or phase rush just for general. I go phase rush mostly atm

[@aliyutube]

do you have xerath games?

[@ShokLeague]

Haven't played him in a while but if it's a good game I'll try him

[@thank_u_7]

Thanks for explanations as always, they are extremely helpful Also i have a question: What do you think about syndra support with first strike, liandrys, cosmic drive and lucidity boots? I played it today and it felt kinda strong

[@ShokLeague]

It's probably ok vs other ranged supps, I'd be a bit worried playing it vs naut or rell or something

[@thank_u_7]

Thank you very much :)

[@blancismoments]

Hello Mr Shok. I really like your content and im watching all your videos. I have a question tho. near the start of the video u said that phase rush is extremely valuable, why?

[@ShokLeague]

Phase rush is OP in current meta vs all the ganking supports/JGs, very hard to play a mage without a dash with no phase rush atm

[@blancismoments]

@@ShokLeague thank you for your answer. I play a lot of Viktor do you think I should use it all the time or occasionally?

[@ShokLeague]

imo use phase rush vs ganking supps/JGs, if they don't have those then just go for FS or aery

[@empty7038]

To be honest I used to play top for 5 years then my jg elise otp and adc arc. And now I moved to midlane to onetrick azir. Im doing well, ure really helpful in that. I never thought that i should join my team inting instead of afk farming when they do. Maybe that will increase my wr lol Nice video

[@empty7038]

Please dont be cookielol of mid

[@ShokLeague]

LMAO

[@guoba6457]

how bad is it to play in high elo? I was considering trying to seriously improve past masters but a lot of posts about the state of high elo has me conflicted.

[@ShokLeague]

Just the same as every other elo imo

[@ablanomor3050]

With the new seraphine Changes, do you think she will still be played mid ? Or only support

[@ShokLeague]

I think if the changes go through it'll only be support

[@cetofox]

Finally! Educational yet funny Content in High Elo.

[@ShokLeague]

Appreciate it

[@ASmartIdiot]

Cleanest outro ever conceived

[@ShokLeague]

Glad some people noticed ahhaah

[@PliantLizard1]

I started playing league about a month ago and have been loving these videos and guides! I was confused by you saying that you are going to build MR if lissandra is rushing shadowflame though. Wouldnt MR not be very effective if they are rushing magic penetration? Or am i thinking about this wrong?

[@willscubingchannel3062]

more magic pen is required the more mr you have. since lots of mages are going to build shadowflame (including lissandra, syndra etc) the more mr you have the less effective shadow flame will be for your opponent

[@kirdiekirdie]

There is flat magic pen which subtracts a constant number from your MR and percent based magic pen (void staff) which multiplies your MR e.g. 40% means you multiply your MR by 0.6. So stacking MR is good against subtractive magic pen (they also call it flat pen in league) because I think the first points of MR are worth more regarding effective health at least if you factor in mixed damage. I'm not actually sure how it would be if the game was ap damage only.

[@ShokLeague]

As the other comments explained, the TLDR of it is that flat magic pen is good against targets with low magic resist, whereas % magic pen is good against targets with high MR. Flat magic pen is very strong against a target with say 40 MR but quickly becomes useless the more MR gets bought

[@PliantLizard1]

@@ShokLeague ah okay makes sense, thanks for explaining!

[@AtefHelmy23]

Yep top damage every game, even the ones I lose. Unfortunately I was almost single handedly carrying as Syndra yesterday but got caught in the side lane against talon

[@willmorris6260]

Seeing you play Brand would be cool

[@sirpwnsalot9]

have you already made / can you make a video about how to get back into the game on a scaling mage when your team loses the game early? I always have a lot of trouble being useful when enemy team is ahead early, they control the jungle/river and have vision control, makes it very hard to do anything. Especially when enemy team has assassins on the team like zed mid or eve jungle.

[@ShokLeague]

I have a few videos coming up playing pretty heavily from behind (some losing, some eventually winning)

[@kawaiinekoarigato]

thoughts on AP LeBlanc after her mana and stat nerfs? You said she was strong in your last video but shes currently sitting at a 45% winrate

[@ShokLeague]

I've only played 2 games of her recently but both of them felt pretty good, I think the w/r is probably just all the people that had their elo inflated by the OP LeBlanc builds falling back down to their normal elo

[@zurcarak]

"they took krugs?! WHAT!" hahaha goofy aah camp 💀

[@EdesioNeto]

Syndra is my favorite champ, but i alwasy build rabadon third item because it matches the time she gets transcended. I'm gonna try to adapt the build like you did this video.

[@ShokLeague]

Yeah rabadons 3rd is the best if you don't need void

[@Valentine_Mehin]

Ryze gameplay waiting room.

[@omerius7228]

AI Shok taking over the world

[@oeasrghjc]

Maybe yone game anytime soon?

[@ShokLeague]

Will try get one

[@kevisbanned9181]

Melee champion?

[@ShokLeague]

Have a pantheon game coming soon

[@liquidrope7063]

Damn, midlane is such a hard role.

[@ShokLeague]

Facts

[@yGKeKe]

Can I get some Ahri commentaries? Also when do you think a game becomes uncarriable? I flame horizoned a Lux, but I couldn't do anything after my team fed Ezreal and Renekton and I legitimately couldn't find any good roams to bail them out either. Similar game, I went 30 CS up on Zed before level 6, but I just couldn't find anything worth while to do with my prio and he eventually started just running down to bot lane and killing people on repeat. I don't really understand what you're supposed to do with your free prio when jungler won't play for you and the other lanes are just like...uninteractable. Like I could have played better for sure but like...at what point is it just not my fault anymore? I'll literally take an entire turret and make people miss 3 waves when they roam without prio, but the entire world burns down around me as spam ping "Danger" along the river, every time.

[@ShokLeague]

Trying to get some ahri games in! There's not really a good rule for a game being uncarriable but in general there's always more you can do, whether that's different wards or better laning or positioning etc there's just so many things to do in league and it's impossible you (or anyone for that matter) is doing them all perfectly.

[@burakgec1262]

taliyah would be great

[@ShokLeague]

She's on the way

[@shackista]

meh i always like your guides, but tbh in this one the runes are so wrong, this was so free with first strike or even aery if u wanted to stomp lane (but fs is just better rn they destroyed the rune), like if u hit q/e u re gonna be safe anyway and if u don t even phase rush won t save u (like if malph decided to press r and cancel your stun) also mercs are just too broken, like if lissandra decided to rush shadowflame/luden mercs just make that start useless cause flat pen works good under 60/50 mr and IMO mercs are a must vs syndra and liss so u don t need to take cleance and take the broken summoner spell (tp). But yeah wp to lissandra she s played really well the laning phase, considering this is a syndra favoured match up

[@ShokLeague]

I disagree. First strike or aery is 100% better in lane, no doubt about that but Q E does not keep you safe vs Olaf. and This game we didn't really get to see that interaction because obviously Olaf was really far behind. Mercs are broken, but it's still possible to die to Liss gank combo with mercs (whereas it's literally impossible to die with cleanse). I can definitely agree that in competitive you should take TP vs Liss and just try deal with it, but I think you can get away with not having TP in soloq. I get where you're coming from because it would feel soooo much better to have TP aery or TP first strike but I find it isn't the best way to play out this matchup in soloq sadly :/

[@gilbrage5024]

MF guide please

[@DEVILONBOTHSHOULDERS]

he doesn’t play mf

[@omerius7228]

​@@DEVILONBOTHSHOULDERSno he means how to be a mf like shok

[@DEVILONBOTHSHOULDERS]

real@@omerius7228