The Pro Player Plan: Grounding the Dream in Reality
(Part 1/8)
Hello Summoner School,
After doing lots of planning I have created a solid 10 month plan with the goal of preparing a Gold level player for a future in the competitive League of Legends scene. The plan is tailored to allow for improvement, learning, networking and of course lots of fun. I split up the plan into 8 manageable steps where each step focuses on a different major aspect of the path to pro.
The general idea of my plan is to make the process of becoming a pro-player a lot less clouded. By guiding players through the process one can feel more confident that they are not wasting their time with meanigless tasks. The main ideas of my plan are:
- To get to high Diamond rank.
- To find other high level players who have the same goals in mind.
- To create exposure and networking
- "Getting serious"
- To create a fan base
- "Getting corporate"
- LCS!
The first step, getting to high Diamond rank, has the most time allotted to it and with good reason. For any Gold player reaching Diamond will take a lot of work, no matter what skill level you are. I have decided to give 6.5 months of my ten month plan to step one. Here are the details of the first step:
Step 1: Get to High Diamond
- Practice ____ hours a week in solo queue to continue to build upon individual skills and learn about lane match-ups. Basically use your solo queue time to build up your own league knowledge while using what you learn to influence and improve your play. This is where most of your daily practice time will fall.
- Practice ____ hours a week with a group or team. It is very important that you find some outside source to be able to actively critique your play. Without having someone or a group of people to do this for you, your improvement will be much slower. It is a lot harder to notice your own mistakes when analyzing your play. Having someone who has to actually deal with your mistakes in game will help you to never miss a single mistakes.
- Browse Reddit for a few minutes each day to stay up to date with the league scene. If you are going to be a professional player it is pivotal that you stay up to date on the meta, current league trends, league news and team openings. Usually you can find all of this on the league reddit page but I also like to check out Reign of Gaming and Cloth 5 for different view points.
- Watch one replay everyday (preferably a loss) and look at what you could have done better. Being able to see your own mistakes outside of game can help you think better about how to deal with those mistakes in the next game. Bashing yourself for mistakes in game usually isn't beneficial and most of the learning happens after the game when you can break down your play.
- Watch LCS/Pro game footage and attempt to emulate that in future games. This is quite important because the LCS players are the best and you should try your best to learn as much as you can from the public videos of their struggles and mistakes so that you don't have to make the same ones.
Hopefully I will be able to post the rest of the steps soon and I hope you have enjoyed reading the information I have posted so far. If you have any suggestions our recommendations you think I should add don't be afraid to send them to my inbox or add them as comments. Thank you for reading and have a good day.
Finally, I wanted to thank all of you for the help that you have given me over the past few months. By making all this amazing information available on this subreddit, I have been able to make drastic improvements in my play and I couldn't have done it without all of you.
See you on the rift,
Ryan "Goat Bot" Julius
My name is Ryan "Goat Bot" Julius and I am Plat V solo laner who has been playing league for around 2 years now. I have spent the bulk of my time playing, creating and learning about the many different strategies and meta shifts. I have also followed the professional league of legends scene since its official inception and have closely analyzed the changing tactics. I have always prided myself on my almost encyclopedic knowledge of the game and I could probably answer any question you might have.
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