What The League Of Legends Tutorial DOESN'T Tell You - Beginner Guide

00:00 - 01:10 // Intro
01:10 - 03:36 // League Is a HARD GAME + Understanding Your League Journey
03:36 - 04:36 // Disrespect For Muscle Memory
04:36 - 06:11 // Using Normals And Bot Games
06:11 - 08:11 // Struggling With The Mechanical Aspect Of The Game
08:11 - 09:17 // Game Fundamentals : CS + Farm + Item Spikes
09:17 - 10:45 // Using Drills To Learn CS
10:45 - 13:39 // Importance Of NOT Dying + What Is The Purpose Of Lane Phase?
13:39 - 15:20 // What Is A Mental Stack?
15:20 - 16:44 // Why Macro Doesn’t Exist + Towers
16:44 - 20:25 // How To Know What Champion And Role To Play
20:25 - 21:58 // Champion Identity + Learning To BE Your Champion
21:58 - 24:45 // Neutral Objectives & Adapting To Chaos
24:45 - 25:10 // Compensation (Toxic Habit)
25:10 - 28:15 // The Truth About Toxicity In League + Solo Queue Contract
28:15 - 29:55 // Why Players Progressively Get More Toxic
29:55 - 30:58 // Losses AREN’T A Waste Of Time
30:58 - 32:00 // What Will Your League Journey Look Like?
32:00 - 32:55 // Reviewing
32:55 - 34:22 // Bad Advice #1 : Duo Queue
34:22 - 35:35 // Bad Advice #2 : Buy An Account
35:35 - 36:39 // Bad Advice #3 : Play META
36:39 - 37:10 // Bad Advice #3 : Copy High Elo
37:10 - 38:17 // Bad Advice #4 : 1v9 Carry Noobs
38:17 - 39:11 // Bad Advice #5 : Use Normal Games To Gauge Skill
39:11 - 41:10 // Having A Healthy Relationship With The Game
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[@jvstmaxiii42]

babe wake up new coach curtis video

[@brunosantiago4849]

Knock it off, ure single 😂

[@miroslavstoyanov4462]

This man is a Blessing for the entire community

[@quintonnyakundi]

Just from P vs AI and I see pp farming 23 kills to 0 deaths with 27k dmg how do you get all that dmg buff wileme being the same lvl as him I get 1kill 2death 4 assist and 7k dmg how do you do that idk its againist bots but before I understand the league system micro and macro dos and don'ts I am just curious at the dmg part is is it like items buy or custom build and etc if so I need assist on this matter thank you :)

[@tangoudv]

Your understanding of the game is world class. Your ability to see a topic from a birds eye view and then breaking it down to small essential yet digestible parts is even more impressive. I've been playing league for 10 years now and I managed to learn a great deal about the game from your video for beginners, sometimes we need to take a look at the root of the problem to understand the bigger picture, that's why I LOVE your holistic approach to coaching. You are a treasure for the league community and I thank you for investing your genius in this field. You are a first-rate coach and student of the game, you gave me insight to league, I saw it as a game, but failed to understand the science and the art in it. Ten years in and I still have a ton to learn. Keep us educated coach!

[@CoachCurtis]

Wow, what a beautiful comment. I really appreciate the kind words man...

[@nyeonii]

This is so weird. I was JUST thinking yesterday how there aren’t many updated guide videos for absolute beginners, like starting from level 1. Videos like this are important for brand new players to have fun playing the game.

[@LISA.WANG.]

This is me. This is still for me, _thank you._ No one else talks about these things, no other guide makes sense before this, and seeing how complex league was through them was so daunting I was scared to play and learn organically even though I wanted to

[@smappa849]

One thing I wanted to add to the bot games part, is that you should create a custom game, fill out every slot on both teams with bots (pref intermediate on enemy and beginner on ally bots). By doing this, no one else is going to win the game against enemy bots. YOU have to carry the game with your champion. Love this type of video Curtis! This stuff needs to be talked about more and it would reduce a lot of toxic expectations pushed on to new players by reddit, streamers or discord groups. Killer start to the year

[@CoachCurtis]

GREAT piece of advice man

[@smappa849]

@@CoachCurtis And big thanks for you and Nathan for helping the league ppl have a better experience with the game! I would have quit ages ago if not for your podcast.

[@lucidcortex8444]

We really need an ADC coach like you in the community man. :(

[@JevyJ]

Saber is ok

[@saki1333]

Wasn't there a samira player that was good ?

[@nnn4376]

This video helped me realize how unhealthy my friends' mindsets were about League and that I kind of needed to strike out and try thinking and playing for myself more if I wanted to improve. Their obsession with meta and counters and optimization really doesn't make sense with us all being bronze and silver. To them, League is a science. In reality, it's an art. Your video did a fantastic job of helping me realize that. I want to get really good at this game one day. I'm about level 50 or so and am loving Syndra and midlane in general. Lux bot drills and LoLDodge have been helping me tremendously and I can finally start to feel myself get a natural feel for my champs and focus on the game itself and, very crucially, focus on having fun while I'm learning. This stuff is fantastic. Some of the best League content around.

[@catwif]

"league isnt a science, it is an art" very well said.

[@Circurose]

This is the most important League video.

[@p0rc41music5]

Man I love how you put everything to basics and tell it in a way I can just feel understanding and love for. Thank you!

[@unhaix707]

I returned after an 8 year hiatus to see my main mid duo moved to jungle. Curtis and Shok's videos got me in silver when 2 months ago i couldn't even control the camera and i never played mid before.

[@jakobfreelemba]

Love this so much and I cannot wait to leave a better painting on the rift and make it a place that everyone can enjoy. I have been playing for a couple years and am stuck in Bronze. But I have no regrets and have been making huge strides as I strive to get better. You have helped me a ton Coach Curtis and my appreciation is yours.

[@BrokeAhri]

love the video as always curtis. i’d like to mention that this guide is hard to understand for complete beginners as you use terms like squishy, macro, cs’ing, snowballing, etc. without defining it. also, using examples such as mentioning specific champions or items is hard to understand for a complete beginner, because they neither understand the champions nor the items of the game. this is definitely a video that brings up confusion for someone who never touched the game and is trying to get into it. it’s more like a video for a beginner who at least played 100 games and understands all the basic league language such as the mentioned above. all in all, great summary of all the topics mentioned in the bbc podcast. i just think it is not a video a complete beginner to league of legends will understand, because they don’t understand certain points you use that need preknowledge (e.g. knowing what a malzahar does, what a lux Q is, etc.)

[@CoachCurtis]

Appreciate the feedback, definitely noted!

[@0kieD0kiee]

I definitely feel that! Really great advice overall, and very helpful, but as a level 16 who’s been playing for less than a month, I still don’t know what a lot of the terms mean 😅 and trying to pick up from context or having to look up each term individually can be daunting

[@Ugotsomemilk]

I remember my first normal as support with my friend. (I started shortly before Aphelios) He always talked about finishing my Support quest. I always asked him: "What quest? Quests were pop-ups in the tutorial and i didnt get one for this game" Or the moment i started to understand, that wards give vision and can warn you from ganks. Or what jungle tracking was. Or that i even played some jungle to track the enemy jungler better. Or how trades in a duo lane in general work. I came from a RTS background, so the movement wasnt that difficult to get into, but the game fundamentals alone are very big. Add that nowadays most people never played a RTS or a MMO before, you can easily see, how newer, younger players would severely struggle. Riot made it somewhat easier in some regards looking at itemization, runes and jungle pathing (the updates this season werent all that bad tbh.) But even spacing and using abilities is a lot for a beginner.

[@andrewkelley9405]

I've been playing since 2011 and I still found this video insightful. You are never above going back to basics.

[@neetsk]

Excellent work Curtis. You talked a bit about this video on the podcast I think this was one of your best ones yet!

[@smayu4432]

Watched this and tried it with my friend who’s new to the game, he found it really helpful! Thanks a lot mate, much support :D

[@andrewe165]

ty coach, always happy when you upload

[@mikkriive2687]

Great video! Cleared things up for me.

[@xenoqck]

as a league vet (season 4) this is probably the most understandable guide for people new to mobas in general

[@michaelsullivan723]

Incredible video, Curtis. Next level knocked it out of the park with this one.

[@CoachCurtis]

I appreciate that man

[@weero_tmd2860]

Thanks coach, the dojo analogy is really good! goodbye ranked anxiety

[@AbstruseLoL]

Curtis, you are a phenomenal coach. I love the way you encourage us in our enjoyment of the game while still pushing us to grow as players. There was so much good content, but my biggest personal takeaway is making peace with the fact that a steady 52% winrate is how I will climb. When the game isn't going my way, I need to focus on fundamentals rather than trying to force a win (and throwing harder). Let the enemy make the mistakes in games that might otherwise be my losses; but respect their victories when they play better League of Legends than my team. After all, it'll happen about half of the time.

[@adve1s]

i literally 1 hour ago checked your chanel for new uploads and not you actually uploaded ty :)

[@DuploLoL1]

I can't even imagine what is to learn League nowdays, there is so much going on and so many people will rekt you during your run... good vid as always!

[@doktormozg]

Hey man, thanks for that video - it was of great help to me as a beginner!

[@edo27]

I've been casually playing League for a few months now. Always wanted to play a moba but I didn't for these reasons: I was hella intimidated by the sheer amount to learn, the long patch and update history of these games and how often things change and cause new players to have difficulty with constantly changing information, and lastly the infamous toxicity to new players in these games. I finally said fuckit and got into League (instead of HotS bc it seemed Blizzard was giving up on it at the time, and Dota the characters I found a bit too generic and heard it was even more difficult than LoL was to learn). And I was surprised how fun it was even though I was hella intimidated w/ all the information there was to learn. Upon first starting, I was constantly watching and saving beginner league content on learning how to play, what every role does, and also learning beginner guides on the first few characters I chose to learn. ALSO, whats helped me as a beginner player is mute all lol. There is absolutely NO value as a new player in listening to toxicity or the random shot call comments that ppl in my elo type. If something is htat important ppl ping anyways. I ping. I respond to pings. My brother plays with comments on and he has arguments with his teammates often and its so dumb. I keep telling him to mute all but he just wont lol. Then I took a bit of a break bc OW 2 came out and I had friends to play that game casually with. None of my friends play League. However, I got my brother to play League with me so its fun in that regard. Now, after a few months of playing casually, I'd say i'm probably a bronze player (not a surprise) since I still have SO much to learn in this game. I am avoiding playing ranked bc I'm still a bit intimidated. Now I find my research has changed. I'm finding that even though my muscle memory and combos are slightly improving, the current roadblock I have are: knowing how to control the wave states and how they work (i know the wave states but im still not sure exactly how to control them), learning my power spikes and keeping track of enemy champions and when and when NOT to engage if they have item advantage over me, learning how my runes work and synergize (though I still struggle with knowing how to procc certain runes and also knowing when enemy champions have their runes procc and how it affects skirmishes), but the biggest thing I'm constantly researching is Champions I'm facing and have NO IDEA how to fight against. I think thats the biggest roadblock for this game for someone wanting to improve. I hear people say keep your champion pool low and maybe even one trick to climb rank but hte problem i see with this is that its difficult to know how to fight against champions that you have NO IDEA how to play yourself or even know how to fight against. I currently try and read quikc guide counters on a champion I'm facing against just before a match but it still doesnt feel the same as learning a champion yourself even for a brief amount of time, because now you know how the character combos, moves, how their ult works at a basic level, how their kit works...etc. I won't have time to learn every single champion nor do I want to, but having played around and learned a handful of champions in each role I find has helped me tremendously in being able to FIGHT against said champions. So ya I find thats the biggest roadblock to new players is the sheer amount of matchups and matchup knowledge you need to learn. The game gives you absolutely no idea and you have to look it up yourself.

[@lewiwyd]

coming from competitive fps background and struggling to get into league this vid helped a lot, thankyou!

[@JimmyJthe4th]

this video is fantastic. I sent it to everyone I know that is fairly new to the game

[@SCIISeth]

Appreciate the video. Helped me a lot as I am a complete newbie. Thanks

[@caioteixeira1541]

Outstanding as always

[@jaimieann3554]

Happy New Year Coach Curtis!!

[@monkee2545]

My friends wanted to start taking ranked a bit more seriously this year sending this to all of them such a banger video thanks Curtis

[@CoachCurtis]

My pleasure!

[@hihigh1196]

im a new player, only lvl 18 rn still have NO clue what im doing and its so intimidating but im determined to keep learning bc i actually enjoy it, and the best thing i learned to do so far is to /mute all tbh

[@hihigh1196]

this video is super helpful thanks so much man

[@corn204]

Always good to go back to da fundamentals

[@Kittensinabox]

In 10 years Curtis is gonna be a motivational speaker at our children's high schools

[@aldwin377]

Good stuff. What you said is a good reminder for experienced players as well

[@Bestel-tu7ey]

I've been playing for league for 7+ years rarely played rank

[@sanmufa2004]

Thanks for the knowledge, coach.

[@joejoe5081]

This has got to be the best timing ever because I recently started league

[@xBrayJay]

I could write an essay here but it would end up being a cry for help. Essentially I’ve been playing for 3 years while working full time so never got to really dive in, after 3 years I still feel like a beginner and lost in the game, I’m at a point in my journey where it feels like I’m too dumb to identify what it is I’m doing wrong…

[@CoachCurtis]

Sounds like you need to get some assistance in your journey man.

[@xBrayJay]

@@CoachCurtis what do you think that entails? I didn’t think a coach would help me per your personal rule of not coaching below gold players so they can have a crack at experiencing the game holistically. Should I look for a higher elo mentor to pose questions to about my gameplay/process? Personally I think I consume too much league content, I started playing jungle immediately (before I even knew about summoner spell smite) and I think it has negatively affected how I play the game because I never experienced laning prior. I’ve played games as a laner since then but I can’t say I have any confidence in it.

[@CoachCurtis]

​@@xBrayJay I have a below gold coaching program coming out, check out the Mid Lane Academy site.

[@ElectricKatana]

New facial hair looks clean coach!! I like it!

[@Pyridius]

I heckin' love Coach Curtis and Broken by Concept

[@thomasfox9717]

Hello, you probably won't see this, but I am a recent gold, former mid lane main, current jg main as I try to reach platinum on my climb going from B2 to G4 at the moment. Your videos were made for laners but so many of your past video's I found to be integral to my climb with jg and my improvement as a player. So much of what you say translates to the jungle so well, especially your mentality videos. I appreciate your video's so much, and I look forward to reviewing them as I continue to climb and better myself as a player and a person. P.S you should maybe start a twitch channel where you talk and just chat about the aspects of league and common conceptions by low and top tier players alike, kind of like Sajam in his exploratory videos with fighting games. Thanks for the video's and thank you for helping all of us.

[@christophercarrillo4726]

Your channel is underrated

[@bowmain1577]

As a new player currently in Iron, I'm so happy to find this video thank you Curtis and im so excited for my solo queue journey this year!

[@SiOfSuBo]

Its been 6 months now, how u doing now?

[@bowmain1577]

@@SiOfSuBo Wow, Thanks for checking in! It's been a crazy 6 months on the life side of things, so I just couldn't play as much as I wanted to. I have made some progress though! Finally found a main champ and have gone from playing mostly normals to focusing on ranked! Looking to make it to bronze this split! I should be able to do it!

[@SiOfSuBo]

@@bowmain1577 good luck

[@regalia9908]

Just starting my League journey. I’m excited - but terrified. This game and community has one hell of a reputation. Though, to be honest - I’ve really enjoyed my time so far 😊

[@shinamonti2021]

Good job 👍🤘

[@renkotsu92]

I never related to a video more in my life! I used to be a console gamer and I mainly played magic the gathering for the past ten years and it’s been so hard to start playing league for all the reasons you mentioned! I feel seen and heard and this will be the best video to lead to my improvement in league! Thanks again!

[@CoachCurtis]

My pleasure mate

[@thasourosrs]

I would've killed to have a guide like this back when I started in pre-season 11.

[@periplectomenus6257]

I remember starting off league of legends back in pre season 8 and I started playing as a support for my "friend" group I didn't learn to CS untill this year just gone because I was the friend who played support It's taken me 4 years to learn how to CS to even a basic level because of this

[@zeyadib1211]

really like your content even after I stopped playing league alot I wonder if you covered the learning debt concept I feel like it makes alot of problems for people who are in gold or silver or even plat I am gold and I still can't learn and pick up on the fundamentals easilty because of how much time I played without learning the fundamentals in a proper way I was just picking up random things from youtube videos but there was never a focus on the fundamentals as a whole and I didn't know anyone who played the game at a high level to guide me. it's so hard to forget everything wrong you know and replace bad habits with good ones so it's better to and start fresh the right way that's the learning debt concept I think it's interesting to cover it and how should old player deal with it.

[@isabellarees7354]

I've been playing on and off since Season 2021 and am in Iron, and I realised I went about learning the game so wrong (I never played this kind of game before, although as a child played MMOs on PC). I basically went straight into ranked at level 30, had like a 75% loss rate lol. I've definitely improved a little since then but not efficiently. Because im still in Iron obviously I don't know the fundamentals well and so I'm tempted to return to the bot and normal games for a while :) Thanks for the video

[@KlNETlCS]

hey coach! thanks for the video. i'm a basically brand new player who looked at your video for bronze and silver players a year or so ago (yeah, i'm still new - no time to play). i watched that video a lot to internalize it, and you had suggested to only play one character and get familiar with them. here, you say to start by playing everything. you also said that was the only video you were going to make for low elo players. what do you think has changed your advice to those of us in dirt league, and what caused the change of heart? love the vids. thanks again!

[@wsbarth92]

miss you man

[@DiamonDrizzle]

Easier method of muting all but still seeing pings is go toyour settings and uncheck the show allied chat and show all chat, you wont see any typing but it still enables ALL PINGS, now if you type /mute all it will just mute the pings too.

[@Fredferrazt]

Hey Curtis I think a new jungle tracking guide would be a good idea. The last video has many outdated info like machete/talisman clear, jungle timings, etc Btw love your videos! I've been with you since 2020, where I got Diamond for the first time. So Keep it up man :) (pls let me in MLA lol)

[@L9nexah]

Gotta love that Jean-Jacques Rousseau reference

[@milebackwards]

41:30 Totally agree with that. That is the reason that I never try to have another account. Playing on any account else is just like erasing something from me. Meanwhile, everything that happened in the account of mine is not only the progress of my improving but also means what I am and how people might see me. Even I sometimes hard stuck in low elo or keep having toxic teammates, I know that it is how the world works. We cannot prevent frustrating things from happening, the best thing we can do is to record them down and become stronger, both technically and mentally.

[@meowhiskey4536]

Wish this video was uploaded 3 years earlier when I started my League journey. Also, wish there was the Coach Curtis of adc.

[@kazeryuu3603]

Thanks for showing some love for the low elo players Curits :)

[@Lilybun]

Perhaps for the new players but playing premade 5v5s can be incredibly fun and fulfilling. It's in many ways a completely different game when you are working towards a common goal and there's no random elements that affect the end result. The outcome is dictated solely by your game plan and your ability to pull it off as a unit. Took me a few seasons to get into it but it's the time in league I remember the most fondly even many years after. It also unlocked a completely new angle to watch pro games through. Trying to work out why they picked certain champs and what they chose to do with them to gain an edge over the other teams game plan is fascinating -- especially if you've ever played against a significantly better team who completely stomped your best strategy in a way that felt unfair. It's a whole another game on that level.

[@CNCiel]

I'm a self-taught Lux mid player who's unfortunately addicted and have accumulated 1 mil on her. I've always played for fun but it's become a bit of an obsession. Today during a bad game, someone asked, "1 mil and that's it?" I'm ashamed to admit that this brought me to tears. I found your Lux video and then this. I feel like I should probably stop playing but I can't because I have nothing to show for all the time I spent and I'd be content if I can just make it to gold but I'm stuck. Here's hoping I can reach my goals with your help. Thanks for the video.

[@success9271]

This was heartbreaking it read. It sounds like you've put in an enormous amount of effort into the game only to get very little in return. I have no doubt in my mind that you try very, very hard. When you say you're "unfortunately addicted" I think about someone who is no longer extracting enjoyment from a particular thing. It's like, "this time will be different" and it almost never is. Instead, you just feel empty, hollow, unfulfilled. So you keep doing it again. And again. Hoping that the feeling will just go away if you do it enough. But then comes the tragic irony: the thing that made us feel a certain kind of way can never be the cure. It's the poison. I think you allude to that when you say that you feel like you should stop playing. Your body knows this is harming you, and it's trying to communicate that to you through feelings. You should never be made to cry while playing a video game; unless it's the good kind of cry that games like Nier:Automata give you. I don't know what the path forward looks like for you, but I suspect anything to do with ranking up and getting good is trap-it's just more of the stuff that's harming you in the first place. I hope you can heal and find spaces where you're valued and treated with respect. League is a brutal game with a brutal community to match it. I did want to share one last thing with you. There's a channel on here called @HealthyGamerGG (you might've heard of it) that has a lot of great videos on mental health related stuff. I don't know if it will be of any use to you but it's helped me tremendously and I just wanted to put it out there.

[@CNCiel]

@@success9271 Thank you so much for taking the time to read my story and reply. I joined the MLS (Curtis' coaching program) and I'm begin to reset my thoughts and relationship with the game. The toxic community is definitely one of the things that made me feel worse and doing something as simple as muting them has made a world of difference. I think I was also "stuck" in the sense that I would do things over and over again (e.g. play a certain way) without truly understanding when and why something worked and when it didn't. I've started to review my games now and try to understand my decisions as well as get a sense for when I'm getting tilted. I've also tried to play normals. I'm competitive by nature so ranked puts me in this pressure-sort of mindset to just get results. I think for the first time, I'm starting to enjoy my journey and go along for the ride. Thanks again and I wish you all the best with all your endeavors! :)

[@success9271]

@@CNCiel That's really refreshing to hear. I'm so happy you've found a way to enjoy the game. Thank you for your well wishes and I wish you same :)

[@Vega01]

How my first normal game went: playing ekko mid leashing jg at red only to steal it because I didn’t know it would ruin the jg game. Took me 10 minutes to convince him it was actually my first norm lol

[@poutouellet]

This video promises one thing and forgets about it within 2 mins to become something completely different.

[@satoiify]

Thank you for great video! Not sure if it's ok to ask here, but do you still planing on doin ahri guide? I'm really curious how your journey goes with her, and wanna improve my own ahri.

[@CoachCurtis]

I will this year yep

[@tari7555]

dude i'm not new to the game and the max ranked i've reached is gold 1 and got stuck losing my promo plat over and over and quit ranked but still play the game but never the less i've a really good understanding of the game and i've played it a lot and my mechanical aspect is pretty sick i play osu and type and play many pc games and i win a lot of normal games to the point where it's now boring because i'm just that good but still I'VE LEARNED A LOT FROM THIS VID AND OTHER VIDS IN THE CHANNEL AND NOW MY LEAGUE OF LEGENDS ADDICTION IS BACK.

[@Yoshimerlin]

I wish I had seen this video when I started last year

[@anna94k]

I just have chat turned off from settings, have saved my nerves. It also helps because it doesn't allow me to write in chat as well, so I can't be toxic when Im angry (I got chat restricted few times)

[@robinandersson99]

9:23 I can think of several other things in league that are drillable, miss fortune for example (:

[@themisfitmembers]

I'm trying to break my ranked anxiety with the three block method

[@Rob-rf2xx]

THE BEST

[@Mo11usq]

Are you ready for ranked? Go to the Bot Gym: Set all bots on your team to beginner. Set all bots on the enemy team to Intermediate - include Mundo, Zyra, Morgana, Karthus etc. (stuff with powerful skillshots, game-altering abilities). Make sure Taric bot is not present (bugged). Pick any champ/role you want. Mid and jungle are easiest. Support champs with low damage are hardest. You are not allowed to take any dragons/herald/baron. You are not allowed to complete more than 3 items. Win the game with no more than 3 deaths, ideally 0. If you can do this with almost no chance of losing, congrats! you are ready for ranked at a high Bronze to mid Silver level on EUW. This will teach you basic control of your champion and camera, what important abilities to anticipate from certain champions, itemisation, how to create pressure using waves. Be aware, bots do not play like people: trading in lane is different against people, you will not learn jungle tracking, you will not learn split-push warning signals, you will not learn the pattern of objective timings and when to group with team - these will be major gaps in your play and you will need to play normals or ranked to acquire these skills. Regarding normals: your level of play in ranked is likey to be a full rank below whatever the rank of players you typically get matched against in normals (assuming you are playing your most comfortable champions). Most people playing normals are experimenting with new champs or builds or teaching their nooby friends - which acts as a considerable handicap.

[@rezamkek5328]

I LOVE U COACH CURTIS

[@beano2689]

Ive been playing strictly jungle since I started since when I started my friends forced me into it. I got pretty decent at jungle, I had goals to gank more (like gank at least 6 times per match) get my cspm up (I was barely peaking 5, started practicing and got it up to 6 cspm) and I noticed that I haven't really played a lane. Mostly because I was so tied up in learning jungle. So I tried mid lane on annie, and my god am I bad at laning. I die, throw cs out the window, and just generally don't know how the game works. It's odd because I played jungle decently well, but I just can't lane for the life of me.

[@ohdrluwhao]

goated

[@vansserafim]

Your videos have to appear in lol client “home” tab

[@vansserafim]

“Below master elo” balancing is very common at Riot so there is more to it than just playing not optimally 36:23

[@Kittensinabox]

watching Curtis lane is intimidating

[@paritybit7830]

This idea that "there is no macro" just because people don't know what they're doing, I think, is very, very wrong. You *have* to understand what split pushing is, because your teammates *will* split push because a guide said to do it, and you have to know how to behave when they do it... you can't afford to just lose a series of 4v5 fights every time you have a stubborn split pusher. You also will have a huge advantage if you take cross-map objectives. There's no point running across the map to a fight you will be late to when you can take a tower or two right now. Especially not when you have an obstinate split-pusher and your team can never do better than 4v5 at objective fights. Also it's nice to deny the same to the other team if you can recognize when you have the priority to take an early dragon or baron. I mean, absolutely, you only need the basics, and even then any high elo player *could* ignore all that, just farm up and fight well with their team and just win fights anyway because they got fed from early farm and early kills, but if you have one-rank-higher micro and ignore macro *completely* you won't climb from Iron/Bronze/Silver to Silver/Bronze/Gold until your macro is also one-rank-higher, or until your micro is *many* ranks higher and makes up for you just giving away objectives for free.

[@pypy9202]

I want thank you for this video. I have been on and off with League since I started around when Kled was released and haven't even tried ranked outside of by accident thinking it was a normal game(I won two matches for some reason). I have decided to come back but its still the same problem of not having the fundamentals and the overwhelming anxious that stopped me from playing for a long while. Hopefully I can make this work after all.

[@jackdyer83]

Hey Curtis, awesome video, and I thought I'd add some (hopefully) constrictive criticism 1. When I was first learning league almost 3 years ago and using your channel and others to help speed me along, I found it distracting during 'lecture' style videos like this to have gameplay in the background, unless the presenter was talking directly about the clip and using it to prove a point. It's not inherently a bad thing and it makes the video look more professional, but also maybe distracting for a total beginner. 2. Your sections seem to switch back and forth between gameplay stuff, mentality towards the game, and mentality towards your journey as a player, in an order that didn't quite make sense to me All the content is bang on though, just as it's almost always been for the past 3 years

[@CoachCurtis]

Appreciate the feedback, definitely noted!

[@fe4midlaner]

i feel so old when he said "early season like season 5"

[@worldboxvn8214]

I share this video with my little sister. SHE SHALL KNOW PAIN!

[@lawless7156]

It’s ok bro whenever I play this bs I just click all the buttons and yell at the computer sometimes even slam it

[@jacksquat7850]

Curtis i feel like you answered this question before but i cant seem to find it, can you recommend anyone who teaches jungle like you teach mid?

[@azhus9307]

Nathan Mott his friend they also have a podcast together it's called Broken by concept

[@sexyurgot3732]

Hey curtis I reached masters this season and reached 350 lp with a 59% win rate for some reason. Recently I have had a 30% win rate for my last 20 games with a bot lane who hasn't gone positive ONCE. Is this the game trying to intentionally lower my win rate or is there something I can do. I feel useless.

[@Dirtybirds83_TTV]

Starting ranked this week for the first time ever…I’m 29 help!

[@itsJessicaaaaa]

i'm level 27.... so close to being able to play ranked! EVERYONE told me not to play this game and it would take me yeeeeeears to get to gold. So far I feel like this is pretty easy.... I've only played Pokemon unite before this (moba wise) and stardew and dreamlight valley before this.

[@kajacx]

You really underestimate how hard the stuff you already know is. We played the Bang! card game with some friends who didn't know it yet, and it was brutal. I had to explain what every single card did. Every single time someone wanted to use it. Needless to say, we had no fun. It wasn't until then when I realized how complicated the game is. You have discard cards, steeling cards, range 1 cards, normal range cards, infinite range cards, then cards the shorten or prolong your distance, then weapons that buff your range. And that's all the extra stuff on top of the base mechanics of shooting a bang at someone. Not to mention even more complicated cards like dynamite or barrel. Sure, they seem simple to me, but that's because I played dozens of games with them. To a new player, it's probably all arbitrary nonsense.

[@Rioda27]

Wow

[@Rydal1]

im not new played for `1 year, but still stuck in bronze after 2000games

[@bogdanpetrovic2811]

Hey curtis, I recently wanted to watch bunch of your videos and improve in every single aspect of the game, but there is just too many videos and they are too random. What do you think about making a video about watch order and explaining why should we watch in that way?

[@dempfer9037]

I've been playing this game for around a year now and I just can't decide on a type of champion to play, not because there isn't one that doesn't click but because I feel like there are so many. I love split pushing and taking towers, doing the massive teamfight damages of adc and mages and assasinating squishies and I feel kind of lost. I really want to stick to just one champion but I have an extremely hard time choosing and dont know what to do.

[@CoachCurtis]

I cover this in the video :)

[@SiMeGamer]

May sound like a weird suggestion but take all the champions you enjoy playing and put them through a lottery (a randomizer of sorts). Whatever you get, stick with it for a little while (like 2 weeks or 20-30 matches) and see how it goes. If it sticks, great, if not, do it again and find someone else. It could be super fun because you will also gain more intimate knowledge of those specific champions and their general role in the game, which will feed into whatever else you decide to do with the game next. As Curtis said, just make sure you have fun with it :D I've been playing for over 10 years and I've swapped champions many times. What fundamentals I learned when playing those champions long, long ago sticks long after, so it's never wasted effort and allows you to come back to them if you ever so choose to do so. Good luck~!

[@dempfer9037]

@@SiMeGamer thank you sm will try this out!

[@Rydal1]

how do i get coaching

[@babyruz4214]

Homie... please... shave Good content btw, big fan

[@simplecliche5833]

Sending this to my gf who’s never played before xd

[@ardvarksimmons]

does anyone know when the mid lane school releases?

[@CoachCurtis]

Next week

[@maciejpszczola3078]

smurfing as per usual, great vid sir

[@Hakushodemon]

itd be cool if the bots for league got powered by ai to make them alot harder to beat.