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All right, let's start with one that I can guarantee you weren't aware of
You can actually bind items so they will always be in a specific location in your inventory
That means no more smashing your keyboard trying to get your zhonya's to work only to realize it's in the wrong inventory slot
So this is how you do it in your Li client go to collection then items
at the bottom
Choose a champion you want to create an item set for make sure you have summoners rift as the map selected and hit the create
button from here
You can set up what items will be recommended to you in the shop when you're in game
This feature alone is fantastic at speeding up your ability to get back onto the map by opening the shop and buying the items you
Need and something we highly recommend you use now when you're creating item sets
All you have to do is hover your mouse over one of the atoms and you'll see six small boxes appear over it
Click on it and the game will ask you for your preferred slot for that item
Now when you're in game and you purchase that item it will automatically be assigned to the item slot that you've chosen
All it takes is a minute or two to set up and you'll never die in Lane because your health pot was on the wrong
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All right, so we have 19 more settings to go through and a lot of ground to cover to make things easier
We split them up into three distinct sections. The first is the mechanic section
This will focus on settings and hockey's that will turn you into a mechanical god as you cut your way into challenger
The second is video settings
this will teach you all the ways you can get an edge on the opponent just by tinkering with a few in-game options and
Lastly we'll be covering some valuable settings that are often hidden inside the menu causing them to go underutilized
All right
Let's jump into the mechanic section where the first thing we'll be covering is quick casting
Quick casting is when upon pressing the hockey for an ability it instantly casts it
this is opposite to normal casting where you press the ability an indicator appears and then you have to left-click the
Advantage of quick casting is the response time by using quad casting you'll immediately improve your reaction time being able to dodge better be more
accurate and land ability combos faster
One of the biggest reasons players don't feel comfortable quick casting is because they lose the ability to see indicators that help them line up
Their skill shots and see the range of the spell one solution to this is to enable the setting
Replace quick cast with quick cast with indicator
This is kind of an in-between of true quick casting and normal casting now
When you press the ability
You'll see an indicator and the spell won't be cast until you release the key the problem with using this is that you lose some
Of that super valuable reaction time since the spell will be cast until you release your key
Compare this to true quick casting where the spell is casted immediately. Once the key is pressed for this reason
We don't recommend using this setting instead. There's a different set up the majority of pros use to get around this problem
First you want to quick ask all your spells
So you have the fastest reaction time possible then head into the in-game settings to the hotkeys tab here
You'll see the ability to bind ha keys to the normal cast function
Go through and set everything up. So it's bound to shift + that spells hockey. So shift cue Shift W
So you have to E + Shift R. So what does this do for you?
Well, let's say you get into the game and are playing re by default. You have everything quit casted
So you have super fast reaction times. Thanking combo spells like a pro
That being said sometimes you're in situations where you want to line up your charm and make sure it hits the opponent
well
If you press shift + e then we'll bring up the indicator for you to do that
Letting you left-click the casted as if you're normally casting there are a ton of different benefits to this
for example
You may want to hit Shift + Q to bring up the indicator so you can be sure to hit the entire minion wave with
It this way by default you have super fast reaction times
But in those unique situations where you need to line up your abilities, you can do so by using the shift key
This is how the majority of pros use quick cast. Alright now that you're using your spells like a true challenger
let's fix that ever embarrassing issue of accidentally gold carting a minion s Twisted Fate stunning a minion is Renekton or
Flashing to use your forth Auto as gin only - you guessed it hit a minion
There's a setting called target champions only that makes it so that your auto attacks will only target champions
For example when I'm holding this hockey down you can see it's impossible for me to click on minions
Click on the tower or click on a jungle camp. I can only auto attack a champion. This is insanely helpful
Like we mentioned it makes it so that the key abilities that are tied to auto attacks such as Twisted Fate gold card is now
impossible to accidentally miss click
however
It's more than that something as simple as trading in Lane becomes easier to accomplish
No more Auto attacking a minion by accident. You can be certain you're going to hit the enemy champion
The same thing can be said when you're cutting through a minion wave no more accidentally clicking on a minion
Stopping your champion in place
when really you want to be running to escape
Something even cooler than all of that though is how it interacts with jungle camps allowing you to get into positions you'd otherwise be unable
To access without outgrowing the cam this can help set up ganks over walls or simply facilitate a sneaky escape
To use this hockey go into your in-game settings
Then hockey's then open abilities and summoner spells scroll down to the bottom and you'll see target champions only by default
It's bound to the atill de key which most players find to be quite difficult to hit
So we'd recommend rebinding it to something more comfortable. I personally have rebounded to the X key next
We have the most flashy of all the mechanics attack moving
This is the mechanic that will let you kite around like doublelift and get you friend requests after the game asking you if you want
To do o at its core all attack moving allows you to do is auto attack a target
Despite clicking on the ground beside them the main benefit of using a tag move is that you don't need to be a hundred percent
accurate
Clicks when you're kiting if you have to always right-click on the enemy champion when you're kiting it's far too easy to miss click on
The ground and accidentally walk forward attack move prevents this mistake from happening since when you attack move the ground
It will target the enemy
anyways
The best way to attack move is to go into the in-game settings
Hockey's an open player movement and use the player attack move haki by default
This will be set to the a key
the reason for this is if you go into the interface tab
You can enable a setting called show attack range
Now when you hit the a key to send an attack move command, it will bring up a range indicator
This will show you your character's auto attack range. This is insanely valuable
If you're trying to improve at League of Legends as it ties into an advanced concept called spacing
What spacing refers to is keeping the maximum distance from your opponent?
for example
Let's say I'm playing Caitlyn against Vayne Caitlyn has 650 Auto Attack range to veins 550 a 100 range advantage
To use this advantage you would have to space properly Auto attacking Vayne at your maximum range to prevent her from being able to Auto
Attack back if you don't know your maximum range and instead move too far forward
You'll put yourself in range of Vayne and trade Auto attacks
This is why using the a key along with enabling the SHO attack range setting is so valuable as you can make sure you're constantly
Spacing like a pro. There's another setting you should enable as well
If you go into the game tab, you'll see an option called attack move on cursor when this is enabled
Can you send an attack move command on the ground?
It will make your auto-attacks target the closest enemy from where you clicked on the ground. This is extremely valuable
This is because if you have this disabled then instead it will target the closest enemy from your champion. Not your cursor
The reason why this is a problem is that if you're cutting an enemy while in a minion wave for example
You'll end up just Auto attacking the minions in front of you when you have attack move on cursor enabled it fixes lists
And when you send an attack move command on the ground next to the opponent
It will correctly focus the enemy champion since they're closest to your cursor
a lot of players know about attack moving but what they don't know are these
optimizations that professional players and challenger players alike use to make attack moving that much more effective and easier to use
Alright, that was a lot to process
So let's move on to a simpler mechanic the stop command
The stop command will make your character stop on your current position and prevent it from auto attacking or move
This is far more valuable than you might initially think first. It makes the last sitting is so much easier
You see when you auto-attack your character sends out a missile
This missile doesn't do damage until it arrives at the enemy you selected the act of last hitting is simply trying to time this missile
To hit a low health minion at the right moment
What a lot of players don't realize is that this can be more difficult to do the further away
You are from a minion since it takes your auto-attacks missile longer to hit the minion
One trick you can do is move really close to a minion then hit the stop command then once the minion gets low
Right-click to Auto Attack it since you're standing so close to the minion your auto-attacks missile
It has almost no travel time making it far easier for you to time the last it this is an especially valuable
Technique when you've built up a big minion wave as a speed in which our minions kill the enemy minions makes it super hard to
Time last hits by using the stop command you can get in close and make last hitting in these scenarios so much easier
Plus you can do this cool trick when you spam the stop command and right click to repeatedly make the start animation of your Auto
Attack to law. There's absolutely no benefit to it
But it makes an annoying sound and your opponent will wonder what the hell you're doing
Which is fun now the stop command by default will be bound to your s key
Which is what we'd recommend you to keep it as since it's in a very natural position for our next mechanic
We have the F keys the F keys make checking your teammates lanes and getting a read on the map super slick and fast
normally
You have to manually move your mouse and left-click on the map on each one of your teammates to see what's happening the problem with
This method is that it can just be so slow instead when you hit the F keys
It will instantly jump to your teammate allowing you to cycle through them so much faster
If you go into your settings under hot keys and then camera control
you'll see that F keys bound to select self select Ally one all the way to a life or we recommend rebinding this so that
F one is bound to ally 1 F 2 to ally 2 and so on
This is because by default f 1 is bound to yourself and you already have a hockey to jump the camera back to yourself
Which is spacebar now the F keys are valuable for all roles
But is especially valuable for junglers since when you're doing camps you can quickly hit F 1 F 2 F 3
To cycle through each one of your lanes and see the health mana and minion wave position
this is incredibly useful since you can help identify gank opportunities for yourself as well as better identify where the enemy jungler will gank and
Lastly in the mechanics section we have movement prediction
This is a setting you can enable if you go into the game tab and scroll down to the bottom
This specific setting used to be far less known but has recently gained a lot of attention
One of the reasons for this is that well-known professional players have the setting enabled it such as SKT t1 faker and g2 caps
So what is it? And it said something you should also enable
Well what this setting does is make it seem like you have zero ping
Everything will suddenly seem far more responsive your movement commands your ability caste, etc
However, it will only seem that way to you
You see the enemy opponent won't actually notice any difference in your movements or ability cast
So what this actually does is cause a desync from what you're seeing and what's actually happening on the server
For this reason, there isn't any tangible competitive advantage to enabling this instead
It completely comes down to player preference and whether you like the feeling of zero ping
Despite it not being an accurate representation of what your character is actually doing on the server
Some of you may be wondering then well, then why do some of the pros enable this?
Well, like we said it's mainly because they just like the feeling of it but one other thing to keep in mind
Is that when these pros play professional matches they're playing them on land where they have zero ping
So for them, there's a tangible benefit to enabling this setting when they play in soloqueue
Since the champions are controlling will feel the same as when they're on stage with a zero ping that being said first non pros it
Doesn't offer us that advantage on one hand it can make the game feel like it responds faster
but on the other hand is giving you inaccurate feedback on what's happening in game in the end is completely player preference and there's no
Competitive advantage for us regular players. All right. Now let's get into video settings to start. There are three smaller settings
You should adjust first. You need to disable eye candy. This will get rid of superfluous visual information that's not needed
It will also help your computer run the game faster while also removing extra visuals that can distract you and trying to focus on dodging
skillshots
Next we have the mini-map scale. You want to increase that to 100 you would be surprised at how often?
professional and Challenger players are looking at the mini-map instead of the game in front of them by maximizing its size that not only be
Reminded to check it more often
but when you do you'll be able to take in more detailed information to quickly get a read on the map and
Lastly turn HUD scale all the way down to zero
This will increase your vision of the area read your character giving you better spatial awareness at the same time
The HUD will still be there for you to see anything on it that you need to now this next one is player preference
Color blind mode obviously if you're color blind you would want to enable this. However
Many players find it beneficial to have this innate
anyways
This is because it can make health bars champions and abilities stand out a lot more against the map
you can see how with color blind mode enabled friends W stands out a lot more compared to when it's disabled it can have a
Tangible benefit since if you can recognize what's on the screen faster
Then you can also react to it faster at the end of the day though still personal preference
Try out a few games with that enabled and see if you find it helpful
And if you are one of those people that found enabling color blind mode helpful
And you can take this a step further if you have Nvidia graphics cards
You can right-click on your desktop then select an Nvidia control panel from here
You'll see an option called digital vibrance
If you turn this up, it will make all the colors more vibrant and stand out a lot more
This can be especially helpful to see smaller skill shots that can blend in with the ground
So like we said if you found the colorblind mode helpful, then try increasing the digital vibrance as you will definitely notice a huge difference
Alright, so we covered a lot of video settings
But one of the most common questions players have is what should they set the quality level to?
As a general rule the higher your FPS the better
So typically you want to have your quality settings as low as possible to maximize your FPS
This is because the more frames that are being displayed per second means the more up-to-date you are with what's happening in the game
Essentially it can mean you see the enemy casting and ability slightly sooner than if you have lower FPS
However, this is only partly true in reality
It has to do with both your FPS and your monitors refresh rate
Your monitors refresh rate is the number of times your monitor updates new images each second. Most monitors are set to 60 Hertz
Which means it refreshes 60 times per second a simple way of understanding the relationship between FPS and monitor refresh rate is the following
Let's say you had 300 FPS in game
if you have a 60 Hertz monitor
You are only able to see 60 of those frames since your monitor can only update
60 times a second the same problem exists in the opposite scenario if you had 60 FPS and game but
144 Hertz monitor even though your monitor updates 144 times a second
You're only getting 60 frames a second in game
Essentially both your FPS and your monitors refresh rate can limit you you want both as high as possible
So you're being updated with information in game as fast as possible and thereby increasing your reaction times
So lower your settings to maximize your FPS
but also consider investing in a monitor with a higher refresh rate to take advantage of your higher frames per second and
As silly as this sounds a lot of play actually have monitors with a higher refresh rate
But haven't enabled them as a higher refresh rate isn't enabled by default
To check your monitors refresh rate and make sure you're at the highest setting possible
Right-click on your desktop and select display settings then scroll down and select advanced display settings and then select
Display adapter properties for display 1 this will bring up a new window click the monitors tab and here you'll see your monitors refresh rate
Click the drop down and select the highest refresh rate available for your monitor. Ok
So now you've optimized your video settings one thing a lot of players don't do though is optimize their sound settings
The thing is many studies have been done to prove that
Your auditory reaction time is actually faster than your visual reaction time and in league of legends
We actually use a lot of auditory cues for things such as when an enemy is casting an ability for this reason we'd recommend it
That you get rid of all unnecessary. Sounds that only serve to create distractions
This means muting the music volume the voice volume and the ambience volume
This way you can clearly distinguish when an enemy is casting a spell and increase your speed to react to it
Next we have a couple of easy settings to enable that will give you an immediate advantage
First is champion highlight on camera Center
This will make it so that when you hit your spacebar to Center the camera on your champion that it highlights your champion
This is super useful as it can be easy to lose track of your champion in teamfights
And with this enabled you simply have to hit your spacebar and be immediately refocused on yourself
This can be found in the interface tab under notifications. Second is show spell cause this is found in the same place
Just slightly below
This will make it so that the cost of your spells are displayed on top of them in your casting bar
This is great
As you can use this to do quick math and evaluate whether you have enough mana to land a kill this helps avoid you awkwardly
Flashing in for a kill only to realize you ran out of mana in the middle of your combo
Third is the area's warded ping by default. This isn't bound to anything. So you'll need to choose. What's most comfortable for you
This will allow you to ping areas of the map
The enemy has warded letting your teammates know where to clear vision or areas to avoid in addition to this you want to enable show
Timestamps this will put a timestamp at the beginning of everything in the in-game chat. This is super useful
for example
If you see an enemy use their flash you can hit tab and ping their flash
Then later on once you've recalled or in a position we have extra time on your hands
You can check the chat and see what time the flash was paint
Since flash is a 5-minute cooldown
You can then type in chat when that newsflash will be back off cooldown and speaking of the chat
Here are two commands. All players should have memorized. The first is slash mute
all this will mute all messages from your teammates and the enemy and
The second is slash full mute all which will mute messages pings and emotes from your teammates as well as the enemy
These can be very useful if you're someone who gets tilted by teammates blaming them as a tendency to argue with them in
Fact you can even take this a step further
You should disable all chat as there's no competitive advantage to seeing the enemy's chat and can only serve to tilt you or throw you
Off your game from the enemy trash talk
Additionally riot has recently added the option to disable team chat as well
if you find that the mute commands we mentioned don't prevent you from being tilted by your teammates or
Arguing with them then consider enabling this so you don't even have to think about it
All right, that's going to do it for this guide
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