Diamond II Player: Ask Me Anything

[Mafiaclan]

Starting this AMA thread to help answer some questions for you guys. I was 1700 in Season 1, 2100 in Season 2 and am now Diamond II.

I have a lot of knowledge for junglers, adc and support roles but can answer some of the more general questions for all roles.

This is your chance to ask about matchups, builds, warding or anything else that comes to mind.

Please structure your post like this

Current Division:
Years of Experience:
Question:

Example Post

Current Division: Silver 5
Years of Experience: 1
Question: I play a lot of Rengar, who is he weak against and how do I counter such matchups?

 

[Billionaire Boyz]

A sad level 28 (close!)
3-4 months
I need Ezreal tips! Love him, love his ult, but seem to only go even at best even using build guides.

 

[Haurro]

Division: Silver I
Years of experience: 3
Question: Does hidden ELO exist? Or it doesn't matter how much someone lose when he's in the lowest division with 0 LP?
Question 2: How to jungle Hecarim when you get red stolen? Once enemy team had stolen my red and I realised that I'm more than useless till late mid game - without a chance of ganking (early low dmg and no slow, red was boosting my dmg and giving me strong slow), without dmg and almost 0 possibility of counterjungling. Usually I'm rushing SOTEL to increase my dmg output but it's difficult to get enough gold if my ganks are not giving my gold.

Regards

 

[Jay Zee]

A sad level 28 (close!)
3-4 months
I need Ezreal tips! Love him, love his ult, but seem to only go even at best even using build guides.

Don't use blue build ezreal it requires decent mechanics and a team comp who know what they're doing to be used most effectively.


Edit: Topic steal!

Division: Silver I
Years of experience: 3
Question: Does hidden ELO exist? Or it doesn't matter how much someone lose when he's in the lowest division with 0 LP?
Question 2: How to jungle Hecarim when you get red stolen? Once enemy team had stolen my red and I realised that I'm more than useless till late mid game - without a chance of ganking (early low dmg and no slow, red was boosting my dmg and giving me strong slow), without dmg and almost 0 possibility of counterjungling. Usually I'm rushing SOTEL to increase my dmg output but it's difficult to get enough gold if my ganks are not giving my gold.

Regards

Hidden ELO = MMR (matchmaking ratio). If you lose a lot of games when you're in Gold V against other gold players you'll start to find yourself being matched up with silver and bronze players, because your hidden MMR goes down. So yes, it kind of exists

With regards to Hecarim - You can start red and get help from your team on it if you need to. Try for a smiteless, then immediately go and do blue. If you're not getting any gold from ganks, try other lanes or alternatively just farm the jungle creeps until you've caught up - Hecarim is a more than adequate jungle clearer.

 

[Haurro]

With regards to Hecarim - You can start red and get help from your team on it if you need to. Try for a smiteless, then immediately go and do blue. If you're not getting any gold from ganks, try other lanes or alternatively just farm the jungle creeps until you've caught up - Hecarim is a more than adequate jungle clearer.

I don't like starting red especially playing Hecarim because he's mana dependant and at the beginning he burns mana quickly. Probably I'll have to recall after blue (even with smiteless red). Going path Smiteless Blue -> Red allowed me to solo red without a big loss of health so I could gank without a fear. That's why I asked, maybe after losing first red buff I build wrong.
Usually I'm prepared to gank the second lane after the first one so even after unsuccesful gank I can try again with different enemies but I realised that red buff is too important for me and without it my early game is poor.
Unfortunately farming early in my jungle means being reported by players who feed without my help - that's Silver League way of thinking :/

 

[Sypherz]

Current (Top) Division: Platinum I
Years of Experience: 1.5
Question: Why are Diamond Vs such horrible people?

 

[x0i]

Why arent you diamond I

 

[Mafiaclan]

Current (Top) Division: Platinum I
Years of Experience: 1.5
Question: Why are Diamond Vs such horrible people?

Depends if the Diamond player has low mmr. You can thank elo boosting (me) for that problem. We boost people into Diamond who can't handle the tough matchups and end up losing every single game.

Why arent you diamond I

I don't play on my main for anything other than custom games. ELO KINGS is my life.