The SoloQ Secrets of a 2,154LP Player

[@Rivalrvn]

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?

[@folkenberger]

Why didnt youask him anything about ksante?? Still dodging that topic?

[@McVirre]

thanks for the timestamps

[@libertybelllocks7476]

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.

[@jacktatterosn4245]

Great interview g, but stop saying um 😂

[@whsxmfks]

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)

[@adamzelazowski9439]

be top 10 or you wont climb because of redside blueside lp gain difference

[@tabletennisstars1227]

@@adamzelazowski9439u are challenger?

[@fotis3v480]

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 😂😂😂.

[@Rivalrvn]

This is great! Good work

[@zaster500]

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

[@neilgrover9113]

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

[@scorcherking1076]

Men go on KZbin men see Rival upload men happy.

[@ravindupadmanath2802]

MEN GO IN!!!

[@DazaiSan9150]

no

[@TheCrazydude147]

Women, not happy

[@bladeprincess]

@@TheCrazydude147 op's comment: normal crazy dude: psychotic

[@Charuid]

Men. Meaning humans, right?

[@LOLPengu]

Imagine your friend taunts you for never getting silver and you go ahead and break the record of the most LP

[@siemie1631]

His villain arc has suceeded

[@cenb215]

Thanks for the tips! now i'll climb to Platinum 3.

[@izretrooo]

Good luck bro!

[@Tonirel]

Great interview, I really like seeing positive mentality being spread around!

[@yessir4878]

Watched his stream and the guy is super toxic, talent is unreal though

[@Static27o]

Thank you Rival. Great content.

[@ronals2]

reaction times go up dramatically when a sound cue is involved compared to without so ive heard

[@abbasnadiri3031]

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

[@SilverStarGG]

yeah. It's actually based on research that we react faster to audio cues rather than visual cues :)

[@ronals2]

@@abbasnadiri3031 zen fishing

[@kali359]

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.

[@libertybelllocks7476]

He abuses ranged top laners. Thats all that really needs to be said, dude needs an asterisk by his rank.

[@kali359]

@libertybelllocks7476 so does the rest of challenger so who cares. I can't go 3 games without going against a ranged top lane

[@kali359]

@@libertybelllocks7476 also ranged top takes skill, like personally I can't play ranged top, unless you count jayce, I just lack the spacing.

[@thestoebz]

@@kali359not really. As long as you have good fundamentals you’ll win with counterpick ranged top

[@libertybelllocks7476]

@@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.

[@Dyna1One]

Didn't know I did a thing was so good at League

[@thestoebz]

He’s great, but it’s a little ridiculous about the red side bug and always gets counterpick. Riot really needs to fix that.

[@bigbilly29]

Cool interview, would love to see more of these in the future.

[@Jojifans]

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.

[@zan6585]

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.

[@ChooChooToValhalla]

Also he plays on 0 ping. The guy lives in St.Louis.

[@NyangisKhan]

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.

[@SuperJonteman]

@@ChooChooToValhalla if u think a little ping difference is the reason hes 2k lp and ur silver, then ur completely delusional

[@SuperJonteman]

@@NyangisKhan someones extremely jealous LMAO

[@supertaakot]

Just be red side. Wonder when Riot will fix this.

[@jakayun4035]

Wintrading helps as well.

[@dragomaster2422]

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.

[@antoniomaldonadovega9155]

This was a fantasti. Interview/interviewee. I hooe to see more like this in the future

[@Gormezzz]

Great vid rival. You, midbeast and tilterella making us proud

[@xXG3TPWNEDXx]

RED SIDE WARRIOR

[@richlordachillesportillano7661]

Bro's favorite anime is probably classroom of the elite

[@Duva_]

a 40 minutes rival banger? today must be christmas

[@aboba2095]

the secret is: be on the redside and counterpick enemy toplaner. GG ! Like a freaking Baus !

[@samuelmangold2236]

.5 seconds after he’s done talking ‘Yup’ counter: 104

[@bloomd6320]

40 min when you could've just said "get red side"

[@Iam18]

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.

[@NyangisKhan]

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.

[@olle1153]

SR?

[@wtkprol]

How you gonna use a weird ass abbreviation accusing someone of nepotism. Spell their name.

[@NyangisKhan]

@@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.

[@chriswho12345]

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

[@TheRealIndube]

TLDR, master the top role.

[@thundergod4242]

I thouh that everyone does that? Listens to animation insted of watching for it

[@H0m0f1rST]

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.3835]

Your elo is as high as your ego. Kind of impressive

[@EditorSecimi]

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)

[@jacksonmorira6276]

Solo queue secret NO.1: dodge off red side

[@hagalathekido]

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

[@Arcvx]

Even if Aus is smaller regionally in Lol, it sure has some great and informative creators like you, Coach Curtis & Nathan

[@Rivalrvn]

Thankyou I appreciate that ❤️

[@fancen]

sicky

[@8itesize]

basically; play the op shit

[@midcrank]

And now I will reveal my SoloQ Secrets of a 11 LP player: Live, laugh, love. Even if you are 11 LP Emerald 4.

[@elgopniko7458]

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

[@yuumijungle548]

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-ib8qn]

No, if last season your challenger, you’ll easily get to gm in 20-40 games

[@yuumijungle548]

@@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.

[@NyangisKhan]

@@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.

[@yuumijungle548]

@@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.

[@NyangisKhan]

@@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.

[@hoodedbeta3593]

very good vid

[@kylon1235]

Omori is a goated game

[@Momo_momo222]

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

[@imoutochan5954]

i love how he knows that its futile to try to hit yone q on kallista and he just autos her instead

[@griffinvolner7121]

I went to SLU, lets go

[@Leon-eq6ei]

Stp one: only get redside for an mmr advantage of 500 lp and get a free win every game because of a riot bug.

[@Hylofear]

I love Coven Camille for the same reason! The Q sound effect is satisfying and very audible even in teamfights.

[@stomnenth]

31 seconds ago is crazy

[@joeh6587]

the secret is be rank 1 have best mmr get red side toplane counterpick

[@MichaelAverage]

9:40 "What was first skin you ever bought?" Are you trying to steal his account or what the fuck is that question

[@BLM.MASTER]

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

[@inbar9731]

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.

[@munchygaming3886]

because he also plays on NA and sits around high master low gm

[@happymogu6772]

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??????

[@SkitZHitZ]

is that the support item on camil? 20:01

[@gurgodarkk]

OMORI?!

[@soul0172]

didn't know he played Ekko

[@Vinoyl]

Subtitles would be great for this kind of video

[@Rivalrvn]

I’ll remember that for next time, so sorry!!

[@hagalathekido]

bro has to practice by visualising fighting himself because grandmasters and challengers arent good enough. that's crazy

[@JwowDickens]

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

[@seroxd9]

Let's see

[@khaiminhnguyen2275]

the omori gameplay overlayed a solokill :(

[@user-kg8bc6vq7v]

So the biggest secret is playing in NA i guess

[@RadagastTheBrwn]

OCE>NA

[@Rivalrvn]

🤌🏻🤌🏻

[@dp1488dp]

NA

[@nickservidio3399]

Brother, the questions in the beginning…. Who in tf cares just talk about the game 😂

[@PocketORitoshine]

I mean grats but... League. 😂

[@Barcodeuser123]

Srtty IS A GOAT. MY DEMON AHHHHHHH

[@HanTian777]

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

[@Maukkaaaa]

So all i have to do is play redside top and counter pick to get rank1 Thanks youtube comment section. Jesus christ….🤦‍♂️

[@rawin7459]

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

[@spicyspicyhot]

If you want to abuse this just get to challenge 2k LP and then you can play redside every game. Easy

[@moonage_]

I love how people lose respect for Srrty because he plays top vayne

[@libertybelllocks7476]

as it should be.

[@tafi7433]

he is playing on korea level ping, ofc he can reach high ranks.

[@psy__guy__9884]

Wow that intro commentary was so cringe 😅

[@JoshDoes]

delete illaoi 11:26

[@Fiercehowler]

k'sante is just a abomination of a champion

[@gmyrek31]

i aint watching all that , will run down soloq game then

[@primoztrubar66]

grasp jax🤮🤮

[@zaster500]

. i expected more ... No secret ...

[@flinksx1746]

1 sec ago no views? Fell off

[@jaylen5273]

14 seconds ago pog

[@DraphEnjoyer]

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

[@lordvondraco6712]

"The SoloQ Secrets of a 2,154LP Player" have parents to leech on.

[@Halosar]

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.

[@mushroomsparadise]

worst possible fucking take

[@kardnails8729]

"leech on"? Tell me your parents don't support you in life without telling me your parents don't support you.

[@lordvondraco6712]

@@kardnails8729 They did , now is my turn , i'm not gonna go to uni just to play league and then work at McDonald's

[@ThePadaOne]

Okay, so until 15 minutes the questions are completely useless, literally no one cares about how he came to league lmao

[@Rivalrvn]

Good thing there’s timestamps so you can go to whatever question you want! :)

[@Halosar]

Not useless whatsoever, your attention span sucks.

[@IronRider]

I care, thank you Rival 🫶🏻

[@Rivalrvn]

@@IronRider 🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@ABStriker]

a lot of people care LMAO

[@Upiii951]

good insight tq @rivalrvn

[@BabyImSelfish]

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