[Patch 3.02: Fake Quinn] General Discussion - Page 27

I think improvement in League is fairly simple.

Don't die. Try to do as much as you can without dying. Make every potential play possible (if it ends up worth it). If you never die and never miss CS and you autoattack the perfect amount that you can without dying and you never miss a kill because you don't capitalize on having an advantage, you will become the best player in the world.

I think unless you have some sort of code, you will feel lost while trying to improve. You have to climb the hill if you want to see the mountain.

Mechanics is something that improves by playing. You don't start playing BW for the first time and get 300 apm. You play a build over and over and over and over and then you reach 300 apm. Once last hitting and harassing becomes second nature to you, you will be able to do it without thinking and become able to focus on everything else (like map awareness). The more you think about the process of learning, the more complex it is, but it's in essence fairly simple, like I said above.

First try to get good at everything that you can imagine yourself doing, then take a look at your play and decide if you have somewhere else to go.

I think (but this might just be my opinion) that the easiest role to improve at is AD. If you want to get really in depth:
Managing to use every single auto attack cooldown to harass or hit a creep (while hitting every creep).
Every single death as the AD is a mistake (unlike the other roles).
You should always be farming, unless your team needs to take a fight (like defending Baron/dragon or hitting a timing where it's better to push towers than farm).
In teamfights, getting in as many auto attacks as you can and surviving the fight with 1 HP (unfortunately, realistically this cannot always happen, because damage taken doesn't come in sustained bursts and depends on positioning; the gist of it is that you should auto attack as many times as you can and still live)

It's very simple, really. Nobody is at that level of perfection, though, not even Weixiao. It's this perfection that every player should be striving for. Improvement never ends, not even Wx is perfect (yet).

And sure, sometimes it's better to give up a creep to get 50 free damage on an opponent, but if you're able to use every attack cooldown, you will be able to beat diamond AD carries easily. If somebody beats you by sacrificing creeps to harass, that is the time to learn it. I realize that improvement shouldn't be just comparing yourself to other plays, it should be a self analysis thing, but if you lose track of how to improve, then it's not worth it. I think it's better to improve your mechanics to a good level, see where they take you, and then try to improve everything else. You don't want to end up like Saint who doesn't know how to improve his mechanics, do you? The thinking part of the game is something everyone can do. Especially as an AD carry, you don't require too much game sense because killing their turret and then going to push mid is usually the best choice.

I wonder what it's with me today. I wrote so many detailed posts that many people aren't even going to read. I guess I have to do this from time to time. If somebody disagrees with some of my points, feel free to say so, but obviously experiences and opinions will always be different. This is my best way to improve.