Thank you for this.

Just to add my two cents/personal opinion, I respect the guy's decision for offering to tutor people. Everyone should be fine with that, because that's his choice. People can choose to get tutor from him and people can choose not to get tutor from him. That's all there is to it.

Hah -- well, one thing I find lacking in many players game is team synergy and counter-picking. Surprisingly, this trend exists even at 1800++ ELO!

Just to show that I would not bull-**** my way through a lesson, I had to define many elements of MOBA games which I took for granted... (Myself also being a top hon/dota player, and achieveing 1970 Solo Que within 3 months of my account hitting 30)


When I started, (Definitions below) I felt like my Last Hitting was A+, General Knowledge was Weak, Awareness A+, and Synergy also Weak.
This carried me to 1800 Solo Que, the amount of games I played since has allowed me to drastically increase my General Knowledge and Synergy, allowing me to hit my current Solo Que rating.



Here are the major attributes that define MOBA players:

General Knowledge - The Mathcraft
Builds, champions, skills, items, runes, masteries, the map, creeps, and even obvious(perhaps not so much) winning/losing conditions.

Awareness - Fight or Flight
Awareness is summed up by -- What can you get away with? And how can you gain an advantage with what you have.

When do you start a fight? The amount of awareness needed to accurately define when starting a fight is enormous, including what levels all heroes in the game are at, where are all the heroes in the game positioned, what are the capabilities of each hero in the game, which is then defined by which items they have, and what skill build they're using.

Last Hitting - The Art
Last hitting is essential.
But there exists situations where its beneficial not to last hit! (Think of some as an excersize! should be easy)

Synergy - Insight
This is the part where I believe most Solo Que players fail in grasping.
It's about how heroes work with each other and how heroes work against each other, this element of League of Legends (as a MOBA) is actually quite poor, compared to HoN/Dota, and has much room for improvement (from the playerbase).

The inadequacy in this skillset, I believe, is because of the grind to 30, you never really had to worry about your team's picks, in fact -- most players had a hero they wanted to play in their mind before they qued into normal, at best, blind pick offered a one dimensional strategy level. aka: When I have a jungle, I win more... There should always be a jungle on my team!
Contrasting to a ranked game, draft mode offers a multi-dimensional(I hesitate to say two-dimensional) strategic layer to the pre-game. aka: They picked Amumu jungle, I know that he is forced to start at Blue, we can take advantage of this with x or y, but they picked z, and y is a better choice vs Amumu and z...

But I digress..



Assuming that each of these 4 points are equal in value, 25% each as a part of a MOBA player of any skill level. I believe most Solo Que players are ONLY well versed in Last Hitting(or the skillset that most of you are complaining I cannot teach), secondly proficient in General Knowledge, followed by Awareness, and lastly Synergy.

Little tips in improving Synergy, I feel, would improve any low-medium ELO player's skill exponentially.

you should be perfectly in your rights to tutor. Your price might be a little high =)

This seems to be a repeating theme...

Here's a suggestion for you. How about you charge people $20/h to raise their elo through teamviewer? I'm sure you would get a lengthy amount of customers and make a hefty sum of money while destroying the high elo player base.

Oh please you can barely play MineSweeper with TeamViewer, rofl.

Anything played on TeamViewer is 10x laggier than playing it on yours.

icursarcasmbtw.

oh... my... god....