Personally I like to start with the deaths. If you play an engaging champ then you may find yourself being a sacrificial lamb to ensure your team comes out on top once you’ve dumped your CC. It’s good to assume that every death is a mistake. Getting better at reacting to enemy skill shots and reading engages to optimize my shield use is a major practice for me.Īlso remember that gaining advantages in the first 10 minutes of the game means more wins in the long run, so tightening up your early game skill usage is a big deal. Extra HP and damage on your AD carry’s auto attacks makes all the difference in a trade, but I can only cast it a few times early game before I run out of mana. Mana is super precious at this stage of the game, so conserving it instead of wasting it by using at skill at the wrong time can make a huge impact on how effective you are in the early game.įor me, Janna’s E gives a good example. Watch through the first 10 to 12 minutes of each game and make a note each time you use a skill, especially focusing on the good uses and bad uses. When the replay opens, jump to 1:40 on the timeline as this is typically when laning begins.
Feel free to download it or make a copy to edit. Just in case you’re feeling too lazy to set up a spreadsheet I’ve taken the liberty to make one for you here and we’ll get into the tabs and columns in a sec. A tab for general notes and observations you come across during the game.A tab for kills, deaths and assists with a separate columns each.A tab for the laning phase with a column for each of yours for skills queue through our separate column for Summoner’s.How detailed you get in your journal is really up to you, we recommend the following: A paper notebook works great too but can get pretty chaotic. If you’d rather use Microsoft Excel, tools such as Dropbox backup info in the same way.
Set up a League journalīy setting up some kind of journal or note taking system to record your trials and tribulations in League, it’s easy to spot patterns and help the things you notice sink in.Ī Google Sheet is a great way to do this because it saves in the cloud so you don’t have to worry about losing your journal.
But, by using the right tools and the right approach, you can get through it both quickly and effectively. If you’re anything like me, you won’t find analyzing replays as much fun as queuing another game.
It’s an incredibly valuable learning technique used by professionals not only in League of Legends, but (as we discussed in our article on how to learn league like a chess and martial arts champion) by many other disciplines, too. Without watching your replays, you’ll never know.
Even if your team comes out on top, could you have done things differently to come out even more ahead? But there’s deeper understanding on offer if you watch your League of Legends replays.įor many of the details, you just don’t have time in team flights to spot everything that happens in the heat of the moment and see what you could have done better. Especially for obvious derpy moments, such as tunnel visioning on plays at the expense of map awareness or your dying because your cat jumped on your keyboard looking for snuggles. Often in League, it’s easy to say “I know what I did wrong there”.