General DiscussionNeed guidance to reach legend rank

Other might blame yourself that you are the actual cause that you are still an archon yadayadayada

But As an ex archon that joined the legend on this season and previous one, my tips is to
- get independet heroes (doesnt need much help from team to secure your dominance)
- tanky enough to be in the front line
- deals tons of damage, not just distracting enemies (like KOTL for example)
- buy smoke to force team to make a push

back then i just spam Viper during recalibration phase and i got legend 4

Lycan. Bye.

On your LS game:
Your item build : phase boots armor vs Venge + solar crest + dazzle + medallion + LC desolator
=> All this armor reduction destroys your weak STR core

Your pick : LS is weak against illusion picks in general and your ennemies have most likely armor itemization builds, hence, reducing feast dmgs the more the game goes on (the % dmg given by hp don't grow as much as they get more and more armor):
=> Try to have more early impact instead of going rad
=> Either go for armor + armor reduction build to negate their debuffs and reduce their armor
=> Either go for anti CK build as both cleave and crits synergize with feast and his low base armor. works only in early scenario before he gets AC+manta/skadi/talent

TLDR: adapt your build, must win early game, try to finish earlier as your pick's scaling is negated by theirs.

@pride~: thanks for the suggestions.

CK was 9th pick. After I picked LS. Even though my offlaner should have taken ES as I suggested, he went for kunkka.

About radiance build, I had a strong laning phase. So I thought I may go radiance which will make CK miss some hits. But good suggestion by you regarding armor calculation.

Thanks

@St.inciii: thanks for suggestions.

But I prefer safe lane. And viper is not particularly safe lane material hero. Can you suggest some other hero. I like spectre but her laning stage is very weak. Do you think WK is good? I have very much success with that hero

Without looking too deep you have a pretty good winrate so logic would say with time you will get there

@algodz: thanks. It is good but not as good as yours. (Wink)

Finally a player who isn't filled with delusion, let me point out why most people like you can't get out of the trench.
> Not familiar of what you or you enemies heroes are capable of doing at any stages of the game, you need to have an idea of how the game will go according to picks and so on.
>why did you lost your naix game you ask? Simple, your itemization is pretty horrible. Never ever farm a midas in a losing game where your farm gets pressured even more and proceed to farm a radiance. If i was you i would go for smth like an armlet deso so i can contribute more in the fights early on instead of letting your team play 4v5.
Anyways you have a pretty good winrate like most people have said here keep it up and you'll make it out eventually 👌

@injustice, great advice dude. Thanks a lot.

I will pay more attention to itemization and counter conters........

if u want replays i think these arent expired, theyre around guardian-crusader-archon level

at the time i was rusty and not attuned to the meta, but the fundamentals were still mostly there

and ya 55% winrate is actually excellent

@stucked..... Thanks man

I do replay analysis and live coaching during my free time if you're interested u can add me and we can set a time for it if you're interested, you're also welcomed to join my discord and play with us cheers!

@Injsutice: Sure, I would love to play with you. I will add you. Also, can you please provide your discord ID?

Do you charge for coaching or is it your hobby?

Its purely a hobby and I've sent u an invite

Cool!!!

I'll point out some things that helped me climb 600 MMR:

(note that i have really bad win rate, and i'm only legend 5 - trying to get out of legend hahaha)

1. Focus on 2/3 heroes;
2. Farm more efficiently;
3. Fight in the right times;
4. Awareness of the map.

Let's grind. Good luck my friend.

Thanks @aTr.

hit the buildings

@kowareta: I was wondering, why haven't you commented yet.

Thanks for stating the obvious anyway!!

hmm sad then. its obvious and u have avg 1k building dmg in ur last games

Saddening indeed. Can't do much. I am afk farming because I get safelane pangolier or hard support tiny or a fucking offlane sniper.

Just gets the shit out of me........

oh i see
next time just mention u need arms not gameplay suggestions

it must be hard winning crusader games with tiny pos 5 or pango pos 1, i understand it, its very related.
good luck

Thanks. I am trying. Before the mmr changes and match making update. I was actually legend 2. Time was good then. I was 2200+ on solo and 2500+ on team mmr.

But then shit happened. And rest as they say is history!!