I love League of Legends. Not because it's the most popular game in the world, but how competitive it is and the huge amount of skill and intelligence it takes to be great. Like most players, I want to hit a high rank. The highest I've ever reached was Gold 3 in season 6, which was my first season. Lately I've put so much time into it. Whether it be playing the game, watching pro games, or just watching random LoL stuff on YouTube. On the bus to school, sometimes even in school when I have nothing else to do. I want to be a great mid laner as I think that's where I will shine the most. I believe myself to have okay mechanics and would rather not have a support in my lane who I may potentially get frustrated with.

To get good I must practice things that pro players and mid laners do. What are some of these things that pro players do?

Farming CS
I read a good post on reddit about farming and how important it is. Here is a quote from the post:

This is the first thing I need to improve on. Before doing anything else I have to make sure my farm game is on point. The author made up some exercises that I am going to practice everyday before I start playing League. They are 5 minute practices, so I will do it at least 3 times a day. Before that, I will record an average cs count of my games that I play this weekend. I will do these exercises at least 3x a day for 2 weeks straight, maybe more. I will post results and see how much I've improved. Since I've read most people saying to focus on one aspect to improve at a time, this will be the first thing. After 2+ weeks of CS training I will move on.

I will post my average farm per game and start doing the farming exercises on Monday.

lol you fucker whats good

Get back into leagueeee

Alright so I recorded my CS and matchups over 16 games this weekend. Climbed up a rank on flex but now for the next 2 weeks I am not playing ranked, maybe just the odd flex queue with some friends but I'll be doing just norms and training.

Results here: http://pastebin.com/raw/S51f27s1

My average farm in these games 6.3 CS per minute. Pros hit about 10 per minute after 11-15 minutes or something, not too sure exactly but point is I'm really lacking. If I could get closer to pro level farming, that alone would give me a pretty decent advantage in game. Starting tomorrow I will do the 5 minute exercises at least 3 times for 2+ weeks. Hopefully I will see some substantial improvement. After working on my CS I will work on learning matchups, roaming, map awareness, objective control, and team fighting / positioning. Matchup knowledge will come with experience and research. Everything else is practice, I will try to find or make up some exercises to work on these aspects as well.

I did the 5 min exercise 3 times on Ryze and Cass. Both against no bots while using no runes, masteries, or items. Ryze I would only auto attack to last hit or Q if I needed to. Cass I would do auto attack + Twin Fang (E).

Ryze 23 CS
Ryze 32 CS
Ryze 30 CS
Cass 34 CS
Cass 31 CS
Cass 34 CS

It's much more challenging that I had originally thought. I honestly got frustrated sometimes just trying to farm. The max CS I could hit by 5 mins is 44, so there is definitely a lot of room for improvement. I will keep doing this everyday that I play for 2 weeks at least, and as said earlier I will not be playing ranked. I'm looking forward to the end of the 2 weeks to see how much I can improve and share my results with whoever is interested in reading.

This post was edited by Bic on Feb 6 2017 07:10pm

Forgot to post yesterday's practice results. Only did 3 time cause had a bunch of friends on so we did a few 5 man flex queues.

Ryze 38 CS
Kass 36 CS
Cass 33 CS

Practice from today, got my highest CS with Kass. I just do auto and W, kinda cheese cause auto reset but eh it's practice. Going to mainly practice with ryze and probably more Cass cause I think I'm going to main those 2, plus maybe one more as a backup. Mind you these are no items, runes, or masteries so if I perfect or nearly perfect CS in here I should be able to farm a lot better in a real game. My average CS from in exercises are slowly rising, I'll keep it up

Viktor 35 CS
Ryze 33 CS
Ryze 37 CS
Kass 40 CS

This post was edited by Bic on Feb 9 2017 12:16am

Didn't post for last week's Thursday and Friday so here they are. Sat and Sunday I wasn't playing at all.

Thursday

Ryze 36 CS
Ryze 37 CS
Cass 39 CS
Cass 35 CS



Friday

Ryze 37 CS
Ryze 37 CS
Cass 39 CS
Cass 38 CS
Vitkor 36 CS

This post was edited by Bic on Feb 13 2017 06:32pm

Today... Doing pretty good. Starting to see some improvement.

Cass 40 CS
Cass 39 CS
Cass 41 CS <-- Highest Yet!
Ryze 38 CS

Cass 39 CS
Ziggs 37 CS
Ryze 37 CS