BrokenBlade Teaches Mastering Top Lane

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BrokenBlade

Optimizing Your Practice

Lesson 11

BrokenBlade explores the importance of productive practice by teaching you:

  • His daily routine and warmup habits

  • How BrokenBlade personally prepares for a stage match

  • The importance of being honest with yourself and playing to your strengths

  • The role of a coach in individual and team environments

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Aimlabs Challenge

In this final course chapter, you learned the importance of having perspectives including a coach's perspective that can help you stay grounded in what you work on. For this challenge, seek out 2-3 outside perspectives from within your own social network or through Aimlabs/ProGuides services to get some constructive feedback/criticism for yourself. Apply this feedback in your next week of games and log the results.

Lessons

Meet Your Coach: BrokenBlade
Lesson 1

BrokenBlade introduces himself and breaks down:

  • The origins of his in-game name

  • His journey through various competitive environments and teams

  • The motivations for his drive and work ethic

  • Some of his favorite memories throughout his career

  • His perspective on the evolution of esports

Path To Pro
Lesson 2

BrokenBlade discusses his career and advice for aspiring players by covering:

  • His first professional games and the impact it had on him

  • The experience of competing with other aspiring players and the work ethic it took to rise above them

  • The story of how pro orgs and teams started noticing him

  • Ways he had to sacrifice in order to become the best

Flexibility
Lesson 3

BrokenBlade talks about the importance of flexibility in pro play, covering topics such as:

  • Knowing your role and being adaptive

  • How to properly think about and approach your lane

  • How to communicate with your Jungler

  • How to track enemy Laners and the enemy Jungler

  • Understanding the meta and how the patch notes impact the game

Lane Phase
Lesson 4

BrokenBlade teaches you how to properly approach your laning phase by:

  • Knowing how to manage your wave properly and different techniques for manipulating minion waves

  • Improving and practicing your matchup knowledge

  • Learning how to use your teleport efficiently

  • How to manage your resources properly

  • Understanding your power spikes and how to play around them

Cheater Recall
Lesson 5

BrokenBlade explores the concept of a cheater recall and teaches you

  • Its advantages and potential disadvantages in different scenarios

  • How to consistently execute a cheater recall

  • How the setup and results of a cheater recall may vary for different champions

Warding Top Lane
Lesson 6

BrokenBlade teaches you how to control vision in the top lane by:

  • Showing you the most common warding spots in Top Lane

  • Teaching you what to do with the information your wards provide

  • The importance of hiding your wards placement from the enemy laner

  • Explaining how to track the enemy jungler with your vision

  • Showing you how to use your control wards efficiently

Mid To Late Game
Lesson 7

BrokenBlade teaches you how to properly approach the Mid-Late game by explaining:

  • When to push side lanes and when to group

  • Where you should be positioned on the map at any given time and why

  • How to abuse your priority to get yourself advantageous windows of time

  • The importance of getting resources while maintaining tempo

  • How to understand your champion's role during this phase of the game

Strong Side vs. Weak Side
Lesson 8

BrokenBlade goes in-depth on the topic of strong side vs. weak side by helping you:

  • Understand how to identify when you are strong side or weak side

  • Maximize your lead as a strong side player and minimize losses on weak side

  • Survive when playing weakside so your strong side can get ahead

Teleport Usage
Lesson 9

BrokenBlade explains how to use your teleport properly by covering:

  • How to adjust your play to lose the least amount of experience and gold

  • The ways your teleport usage should vary from game to game and in different matchups

  • How to define good vs. bad teleports

  • How you can better secure flanks for yourself in teamfights

  • The importance of communicating your teleport so teammates can understand your intentions

Ranked Advice
Lesson 10

BrokenBlade gives you his tips & tricks for climbing the solo queue ladder by:

  • Offering his take on one tricking and top-lane champion pools

  • Explaining why you should avoid playing only "easy" champions

  • Helping you understand when to pick different types of champions for different situations

  • Helping you prioritize matchup knowledge to better handle counter picks

  • Explaining how to adapt your summoner spell choices

Optimizing Your Practice
Lesson 11

BrokenBlade explores the importance of productive practice by teaching you:

  • His daily routine and warmup habits

  • How BrokenBlade personally prepares for a stage match

  • The importance of being honest with yourself and playing to your strengths

  • The role of a coach in individual and team environments