I am so sick of people thinking the only way to play this game is the way they see a livestreamer or some team in a tourny play it. Tournaments have different play styles and strategies than common games, this is a given. Anyone who thinks a team composition HAS to have one of each type every time or a champ HAS to be played a certain way is simply a noob. Stop trying to copycat others and discover your own way to play this game. Copying others and playing off of guides is for noobs, nothing more. All the fun from a game comes from discovering your own style of play, figuring out the tricks for yourself, not copying someone else. Get your own ****ed identity you scrubs

Thing is, 90% of the time you're better off copying the players who are already at the top. What better way to learn than to see what they do, emulate it, and find out why it works? Best way to learn the ropes IMO. Sure, finding out things for yourself is a lot of fun, but some things will always work better than others in a game like this. Live with it.

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
—Douglas Adams

looks like you are the noob for not wanting to adapt, this game is a sport now, so people wanna play it like one, quit being a baby and fill a role on the team there is 5 .

Sadly, this is the way the game will be played until something outrageous happens that turns up better. And these outrageous things will only be noticed in tournament settings.

but mom

Ok, so are you even considering why it's played this way? Willing to bet your playing random pick normals which mean you have no idea what the enemy comp is to counter it.

I used to do really bad in LoL, until I started looking at guides and seeing how players play in Tournaments, and now I do much better. I'm still not all too great, but I'll get there, I've only played a little less than a year.

It's not noobish at all to see how the pros play.

Gather around the campfire kids its time for papa Jester to tell you all a story. Back in the old days of season 1, I was an unranked player who thought he was amazing at the game due to years of dota experience. I played blind pick over and over thinking I was the **** and I would come up with some ingenius builds and playstyles, at least thats what I thought. Eventually I decided that I would start playing ranked games. I would get my ass kicked constantly over and over again. Unlike a lot of other people, I tend to blame myself for my own losses and not others. Every loss would seem like a failure on my part. I had to get better if I was going to climb any. More than that though, I wanted to. I learned that there was a pro scene for league and I got really into it. I would go to tournaments and see my favorite teams compete in person. I would watch streams and learn what works and what doesn't work.Without me knowing it, I was improving just from watching high level games. I learned all about positioning, map control, lane dominance and proper strategies to use on certain champions.
I eventually got back into ranked games during season 2 and now here I sit at 1700 and closing in on 1800. I plan to be plat before this season ends and I look back on that kid that thought he was amazing and I realize that I was godawful.

If I was able to make this much of an improvement from learning from others, is it really that bad of a thing? Certainly if I had stuck to what I was doing before, I would be one of the many stuck in what is known as "ELO hell" and I would probably still think I was an amazing player, when really I would have no clue how this game begins to work. I still have a lot to learn but the only reason I even know that this depth of knowledge even exists is due to watching others.

cold sorry blah