Hi everyone! News video soon but today it's an interview with Srtty! Here are all the question timestamps. It starts with background/personal questions in the first half before progressing to gameplay related questions in the second half: 00:00 Intro 02:38 What got you into League / Where does your name come from? 03:50 Were your parents supportive? How do they feel about your career now? 04:59 Do you play any other games outside of League? 06:01 Your first main champion/role and why Toplane? 08:31 Hobbies outside of League 09:30 Favorite skins? 11:13 What champion would you delete? 12:10 How did you transition from OCE to NA? 15:35 What's your general advice for climbing in SoloQ 18:10 How do you deal with tilt? 20:12 Can you hit Challenger on any champion? 21:34 What are your most important Gameplay principles? 23:30 How do you establish gameplans? 26:18 How to 1v9 28:40 What champion do you play to win? 30:15 Is there anything you did that you noticed a huge improvement? 32:22 SoloQ Non-negotiables 33:40 The best players you play against 36:30 Best competitive player you've ever played 38:30 What's next?
@folkenbergerАй бұрын
Why didnt youask him anything about ksante?? Still dodging that topic?
@McVirreАй бұрын
thanks for the timestamps
@libertybelllocks7476Ай бұрын
Who cares if this OCE scrub got rank 1. he abuses ranged top lane and only plays hyper-carries. Skill isnt involved after a certain point.
@jacktatterosn4245Ай бұрын
Great interview g, but stop saying um 😂
@whsxmfksАй бұрын
TLDR for Solo Q Tips: - limit champ pool to 1 or 2 champions - always give yourself direction in the game for how to win - win condition thought process (ex. your bot is behind, need to make a play or enemy bot will take over, cannot just farm lane) - if tilted, need to take a break, go do anything else for a bit - can hit challenger with any champion, but meta champs will be easier - let the one tricks or other solo q players break the meta, focusing on fundamentals more important - your individual gold income is the most important thing in the game to 1v9 - don't give up a good trade for perfect cs numbers, these trades will give you gold leads anyways (plates, denying cs) - to 1v9, need to impact the game fast and in an explosive manner to stop counterplay from enemy (accelerated gold lead -> faster item spikes) - sometimes teammates need to sacrifice their resources to help you carry, teammates listen more when you're ahead - many deaths are avoidable, try to objectively see which deaths are actually your fault (ex. bad trade before a stacking wave = your fault)
@adamzelazowski9439Ай бұрын
be top 10 or you wont climb because of redside blueside lp gain difference
@tabletennisstars1227Ай бұрын
@@adamzelazowski9439u are challenger?
@fotis3v480Ай бұрын
Back in my day we did two things. Pray. Make a smurf to bypass the elo hell that was D4-D5 where your lp gains pretty much automatically got cut in half the moment you hit d5. Funnily enough on my main account which climbed from bronze during the points era till diamond 1 when i got to d5 the first time i got like 15lp per win. Made a smurf played the exact same champions and gameplan and i got to d1 in 100 games.. meanwhile it took 100 games just to get the OG account from d5 to d2 😂😂😂.
@RivalrvnАй бұрын
This is great! Good work
@zaster500Ай бұрын
Useless comment ... .. this is the most basic stuff, if u are Iron und u start playing Ranked, this is the same stuff waht youre silver / Gold friend is saying .. Min Maxing
@neilgrover9113Ай бұрын
Minishcap talked about using laugh in lane to bait out Fiora w, because players will listen for Singed's fling audio which goes off ever so slightly before the CC. Once the w is down, you're more free to commit
@scorcherking1076Ай бұрын
Men go on KZbin men see Rival upload men happy.
@ravindupadmanath2802Ай бұрын
MEN GO IN!!!
@DazaiSan9150Ай бұрын
no
@TheCrazydude147Ай бұрын
Women, not happy
@bladeprincessАй бұрын
@@TheCrazydude147 op's comment: normal crazy dude: psychotic
@CharuidАй бұрын
Men. Meaning humans, right?
@LOLPenguАй бұрын
Imagine your friend taunts you for never getting silver and you go ahead and break the record of the most LP
@siemie1631Ай бұрын
His villain arc has suceeded
@cenb215Ай бұрын
Thanks for the tips! now i'll climb to Platinum 3.
@izretroooАй бұрын
Good luck bro!
@TonirelАй бұрын
Great interview, I really like seeing positive mentality being spread around!
@yessir4878Ай бұрын
Watched his stream and the guy is super toxic, talent is unreal though
@Static27oАй бұрын
Thank you Rival. Great content.
@ronals2Ай бұрын
reaction times go up dramatically when a sound cue is involved compared to without so ive heard
@abbasnadiri3031Ай бұрын
it's true. back when I was chain fishing shinies in pokemon white i'd always close my eyes and listen for the sound cue instead of watching for exclamation mark bubble, it let me react so much faster
@SilverStarGGАй бұрын
yeah. It's actually based on research that we react faster to audio cues rather than visual cues :)
@ronals2Ай бұрын
@@abbasnadiri3031 zen fishing
@kali359Ай бұрын
As someone who has played against Srtty couple times I wouldn't say hes the best top laner in challenger mechanically, but he is by far the most consistent. Like I dont think among the 20+ times I've played against him he's died in lane more than twice. He also has solid sidelaning and good teamfinding. Solid top laner all around. Consistency is key to climbing :3 edit: I also want to state I am not downplaying srtty's acheivement I just think that alot of low elo people get the misconception that they have to be a mechanical to climb.
@libertybelllocks7476Ай бұрын
He abuses ranged top laners. Thats all that really needs to be said, dude needs an asterisk by his rank.
@kali359Ай бұрын
@libertybelllocks7476 so does the rest of challenger so who cares. I can't go 3 games without going against a ranged top lane
@kali359Ай бұрын
@@libertybelllocks7476 also ranged top takes skill, like personally I can't play ranged top, unless you count jayce, I just lack the spacing.
@thestoebzАй бұрын
@@kali359not really. As long as you have good fundamentals you’ll win with counterpick ranged top
@libertybelllocks7476Ай бұрын
@@kali359 melee into ranged top takes more skill. The rest of chall doesnt. I watch super high elo streamers. It does happen, but not how you are describing. Prolly some emerald dog THINKIN its the same as chall. LMAO.
@Dyna1OneАй бұрын
Didn't know I did a thing was so good at League
@thestoebzАй бұрын
He’s great, but it’s a little ridiculous about the red side bug and always gets counterpick. Riot really needs to fix that.
@bigbilly29Ай бұрын
Cool interview, would love to see more of these in the future.
@JojifansАй бұрын
He gets RED SIDE in 90% of his games if you click on ranked only. He basically gets to counter pick every game as a pro player.
@zan6585Ай бұрын
The reason is League used to have a blue side advantage because of the map layout and camera positioning. As players learned to navigate this, the buff slowly dropped; However, Riot, in order to balance this, gave red side an MMR advantage. When you're the rank 1 player, you always have that MMR advantage because to put you on blue side would mean to throw you with a ton of GM players so it's unlikely the balancing system can confidently place you without significantly lowering your teams MMR. In other words, it's more convenient for the high MMR players to be red side because the net MMR is always higher. This leads to a snowball effect though because like I said earlier, people adapt to red side over time. Players -- especially high ranking players -- aren't as affected by these differences and know how to play around them. Thus, red side is now the stronger side.
@ChooChooToValhallaАй бұрын
Also he plays on 0 ping. The guy lives in St.Louis.
@NyangisKhanАй бұрын
Also in the NACL he isn't that impressive. He's an LCS level player for sure but IDK if you can rank him above *resident* toplaners like Dhokla, Impact, Sniper, Licorice, Bwipo and even Fudge tbh. Because he always had a hard time dealing with Niles and lately he hasn't looked that good at all against other top teams. He's had his moments like any other LCS level player in the NACL. But compared to even some of his teammates like Sajed, he's just very inconsistent. There's a reason why he didn't get MVP last split. People are overhyping him a lot. He deserves a *chance* in the LCS but the LCS isn't going to lose much even if they don't pick him up. EDIT: I do think he'll get picked up eventually unless younger and more hype players like Zamudo and Crimson catches up to him before his promotion.
@SuperJontemanАй бұрын
@@ChooChooToValhalla if u think a little ping difference is the reason hes 2k lp and ur silver, then ur completely delusional
@SuperJontemanАй бұрын
@@NyangisKhan someones extremely jealous LMAO
@supertaakotАй бұрын
Just be red side. Wonder when Riot will fix this.
@jakayun4035Ай бұрын
Wintrading helps as well.
@dragomaster2422Ай бұрын
It would be awesome to see Rival do an interview like this with a Rioter! Whether it’s a Champ Product Manager like Riot Lexical, an old head like Riot August, or the balance pod leader himself, Phreak.
@antoniomaldonadovega9155Ай бұрын
This was a fantasti. Interview/interviewee. I hooe to see more like this in the future
@GormezzzАй бұрын
Great vid rival. You, midbeast and tilterella making us proud
@xXG3TPWNEDXxАй бұрын
RED SIDE WARRIOR
@richlordachillesportillano7661Ай бұрын
Bro's favorite anime is probably classroom of the elite
@Duva_Ай бұрын
a 40 minutes rival banger? today must be christmas
@aboba2095Ай бұрын
the secret is: be on the redside and counterpick enemy toplaner. GG ! Like a freaking Baus !
@samuelmangold2236Ай бұрын
.5 seconds after he’s done talking ‘Yup’ counter: 104
@bloomd6320Ай бұрын
40 min when you could've just said "get red side"
@Iam18Ай бұрын
I have too much to say, I really respect and admire srtty's mindset towards League. It definitely inspires me. I love his struggles with tilt and keeping clear mental - it's the same struggles we all have. I've been on several reforms over a decade+ of League and lately the whole 19:50 just knowing I'm better has really kept me from spiraling into toxicity lately. I hope srtty keeps succeeding, dude is mad wise for his age. It's players like him, Rival, Faker, (Viper and 5tunt are also solid boys) and some others that make me proud of the community League has.
@NyangisKhanАй бұрын
At 39:25 he's talking about *nepotism* if any of your heads are filled with question marks. At the moment the biggest offender is SR.
@olle1153Ай бұрын
SR?
@wtkprolАй бұрын
How you gonna use a weird ass abbreviation accusing someone of nepotism. Spell their name.
@NyangisKhanАй бұрын
@@wtkprol In a lot of previous podcasts lots of coaches and players alike mentioned how the LCS and the LEC is full of nepotism. Famous examples are the previous DIG coach(who was fired thank god), TSM coach(who was exposed and fired) and Papasmithy. Currently the biggest offenders are SR. Even in the latest episode of hotline league, around 2:12:20 cubby mentions how the team was formed. Which he also mentions isn't good. If you're too lazy to check, 80% of SR's roster are friends with the coach. And Tomio replaced Bugi because Tomio's a friend of Reven's even though Tomio plays *only* Maokai and Sejuani... In an AP jungler meta... And the community's wondering why Fakegod isn't getting replaced by either Fudge or Srrty. EDIT: Also when LEC players get mad they kinda expose each other. Like how a player recently flamed Armut. Claiming the only reason he got picked up by DIG was because of nepotism.
@chriswho12345Ай бұрын
rival did you have a list? you were like "yeah i guess someone get get value from it" and "yeah sure" a lot and your questions don't follow a logical sequence. maybe others enjoy it but i couldn't watch past 14 minutes
@TheRealIndubeАй бұрын
TLDR, master the top role.
@thundergod4242Ай бұрын
I thouh that everyone does that? Listens to animation insted of watching for it
@H0m0f1rSTАй бұрын
I think not many unironically believe there is an actual "LosersQ". When people say that they most often mean engagement based matchmaking. Basically that matchmaking gets tampered with for the sake of player retention. Also theres the blue side, red side issue, and the unbalanced mess that is new accounts and emerald.
@marcelsi.3835Ай бұрын
Your elo is as high as your ego. Kind of impressive
@EditorSecimiАй бұрын
It is just funny, How similar me and his league journey (not the part that he hit high elo and go pro). I started playing botlane at bronze, then played midlane at silver1. Now, I play toplane being emerald (without emerald, I would be plat)
@jacksonmorira6276Ай бұрын
Solo queue secret NO.1: dodge off red side
@hagalathekidoАй бұрын
red side favours these peak elo top laners because they always pick later and the matchmaking places the better team on red side to begin with
@ArcvxАй бұрын
Even if Aus is smaller regionally in Lol, it sure has some great and informative creators like you, Coach Curtis & Nathan
@RivalrvnАй бұрын
Thankyou I appreciate that ❤️
@fancenАй бұрын
sicky
@8itesizeАй бұрын
basically; play the op shit
@midcrankАй бұрын
And now I will reveal my SoloQ Secrets of a 11 LP player: Live, laugh, love. Even if you are 11 LP Emerald 4.
@elgopniko7458Ай бұрын
can anyone explain how in the screenshots at 20:00 he got grandmaster at 216LP? was it at the beginning of the split or what's going on here
@yuumijungle548Ай бұрын
wait how do you go from unranked to grandmaster in just 19 games, there must be some sort of mmr abuse going on there, so much for his accomplishments
@Roman-ib8qnАй бұрын
No, if last season your challenger, you’ll easily get to gm in 20-40 games
@yuumijungle548Ай бұрын
@@Roman-ib8qn he did it on a new unranked account, else the accompplishment wouldnt make much sense in the first place, thats the entire point of it.
@NyangisKhanАй бұрын
@@yuumijungle548 You can duo even if you're a master now. And even before then you can duo with a friend with a high MMR to increase your MMR. The thing with these people that has hit high ranks multiple times is that they basically got it all figured out.
@yuumijungle548Ай бұрын
@@NyangisKhan yes but this means that this guy just made a billion accounts until he won the solo queue lottery, and if you just have to win 19 in a row that isnt that difficult. for example, why isnt the account in that first screenshot the same as the current whitespace account? he probably played on that other account, got a bad losstreak and made a new account, he did that so many times until it worked, the proof is in the video itself. his real solo queue secrets seem to be how to mmr abuse, and that isnt mentioned anywhere in the video.
@NyangisKhanАй бұрын
@@yuumijungle548 Yep! They all got this MMR thing figured out. I mean Agurin's been rank1 and maintained it on a server with way more competition and he even hit rank1 in Korea but no one hypes him up like he's the next Canyon lol.
@hoodedbeta3593Ай бұрын
very good vid
@kylon1235Ай бұрын
Omori is a goated game
@Momo_momo222Ай бұрын
bro really thinks that i would watch 42 minutes of a short documentary about a challenger player life story, and what is that filler dialogue, were your parents supportive? LUL, hobbies outside of league ?, is that a dating show ??!!, no one cares about all of that
@imoutochan5954Ай бұрын
i love how he knows that its futile to try to hit yone q on kallista and he just autos her instead
@griffinvolner7121Ай бұрын
I went to SLU, lets go
@Leon-eq6eiАй бұрын
Stp one: only get redside for an mmr advantage of 500 lp and get a free win every game because of a riot bug.
@HylofearАй бұрын
I love Coven Camille for the same reason! The Q sound effect is satisfying and very audible even in teamfights.
@stomnenthАй бұрын
31 seconds ago is crazy
@joeh6587Ай бұрын
the secret is be rank 1 have best mmr get red side toplane counterpick
@MichaelAverageАй бұрын
9:40 "What was first skin you ever bought?" Are you trying to steal his account or what the fuck is that question
@BLM.MASTERАй бұрын
Bro why does no one ever pay attention to Stepz he has been Rank 1 on LAN for weeks now and recently hit 2257 LP just 43 off of 2300 LP. I swear he never gets any attention and the guy is just as good as Srtty
@inbar9731Ай бұрын
A lot of people here are liars, but I tested out LAN to NA elo difference and here are my findings (can support with evidence that it was me)- Last season on LAN I reached almost 600 LP grandmaster to end the split. On NA I currently reside in D4 with about a D2 mmr as I haven’t played too many games yet. I might be able to hit master on NA but that would still be a 600 LP difference.
@munchygaming3886Ай бұрын
because he also plays on NA and sits around high master low gm
@happymogu6772Ай бұрын
0:56 -not even point blank W -Ahri has no other abilities up so he only needs to focus on his R How dafuq did pob not react to that fiora W with R given 3 to 5 business days??????
@SkitZHitZАй бұрын
is that the support item on camil? 20:01
@gurgodarkkАй бұрын
OMORI?!
@soul0172Ай бұрын
didn't know he played Ekko
@VinoylАй бұрын
Subtitles would be great for this kind of video
@RivalrvnАй бұрын
I’ll remember that for next time, so sorry!!
@hagalathekidoАй бұрын
bro has to practice by visualising fighting himself because grandmasters and challengers arent good enough. that's crazy
@JwowDickensАй бұрын
There's no secrets. He abuses Camille who is one of the most consistent hyper scaling anti gankable Champs in the game. Same with gragas players. I'm one of them
@seroxd9Ай бұрын
Let's see
@khaiminhnguyen2275Ай бұрын
the omori gameplay overlayed a solokill :(
@user-kg8bc6vq7v24 күн бұрын
So the biggest secret is playing in NA i guess
@RadagastTheBrwnАй бұрын
OCE>NA
@RivalrvnАй бұрын
🤌🏻🤌🏻
@dp1488dpАй бұрын
NA
@nickservidio3399Ай бұрын
Brother, the questions in the beginning…. Who in tf cares just talk about the game 😂
@PocketORitoshineАй бұрын
I mean grats but... League. 😂
@Barcodeuser123Ай бұрын
Srtty IS A GOAT. MY DEMON AHHHHHHH
@HanTian777Ай бұрын
ok but man, 19-0 gm 100% w/r does NOT count as 100% w/r gm. he started masters 0 lp at that point. do unranked to gm let's see your w/r lol
@MaukkaaaaАй бұрын
So all i have to do is play redside top and counter pick to get rank1 Thanks youtube comment section. Jesus christ….🤦♂️
@rawin7459Ай бұрын
so basicly red side is broken and we have a huge problem on soloq when he plays every game red side and wins every game on redside
@spicyspicyhotАй бұрын
If you want to abuse this just get to challenge 2k LP and then you can play redside every game. Easy
@moonage_Ай бұрын
I love how people lose respect for Srrty because he plays top vayne
@libertybelllocks7476Ай бұрын
as it should be.
@tafi7433Ай бұрын
he is playing on korea level ping, ofc he can reach high ranks.
@psy__guy__9884Ай бұрын
Wow that intro commentary was so cringe 😅
@JoshDoesАй бұрын
delete illaoi 11:26
@FiercehowlerАй бұрын
k'sante is just a abomination of a champion
@gmyrek31Ай бұрын
i aint watching all that , will run down soloq game then
@primoztrubar66Ай бұрын
grasp jax🤮🤮
@zaster500Ай бұрын
. i expected more ... No secret ...
@flinksx1746Ай бұрын
1 sec ago no views? Fell off
@jaylen5273Ай бұрын
14 seconds ago pog
@DraphEnjoyerАй бұрын
So basically -get redside 90% of your games -pick overtuned broken champions Anyone still queueing ranked in this broken clown fiesta of a game is truly delusional
@lordvondraco6712Ай бұрын
"The SoloQ Secrets of a 2,154LP Player" have parents to leech on.
@HalosarАй бұрын
He still goes to school? Leeching would be a grown man with no foreseeable future/schooling sitting at home playing League depending on their parents money.
@mushroomsparadiseАй бұрын
worst possible fucking take
@kardnails8729Ай бұрын
"leech on"? Tell me your parents don't support you in life without telling me your parents don't support you.
@lordvondraco6712Ай бұрын
@@kardnails8729 They did , now is my turn , i'm not gonna go to uni just to play league and then work at McDonald's
@ThePadaOneАй бұрын
Okay, so until 15 minutes the questions are completely useless, literally no one cares about how he came to league lmao
@RivalrvnАй бұрын
Good thing there’s timestamps so you can go to whatever question you want! :)
@HalosarАй бұрын
Not useless whatsoever, your attention span sucks.
@IronRiderАй бұрын
I care, thank you Rival 🫶🏻
@RivalrvnАй бұрын
@@IronRider 🫶🏻🫶🏻
@ABStrikerАй бұрын
a lot of people care LMAO
@Upiii951Ай бұрын
good insight tq @rivalrvn
@BabyImSelfishАй бұрын
Sounds like OK guy but his advice for climbing being know your win condition is shiet. I swear even my master teammates and sometimes me dont know what it is. Best tip for climbing is to stop focusing on winning but on self improving. Watch videos, watch replays. Try to enjoy and try new stuff for urself. Set ur goals for CS, deaths etc. Thats how i went from being hardstuck gold to dia1 in one season and the next to 80. Challenger. Really, just enjoy the game and focus on improving ingame- i got mad if i had less than 180-200cs in 20min as adc and thats all i cared about as challenger adc. Ofcourse its one step, next was exact things you need to do with your role - as adc i scrimmed, watched hundreds of vids of real korea pros VODs not midbeast/nightblue kind of bullshit. Test out any ingame minmax cheesing you can get. soloq is really only about consistency and cheesing to climb. Thats it. You need to make plays at challenger, but for majority for up to diamond2 you dont need hands really