CoreJJ Teaches Carrying As Support

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CoreJJ

Introduction

Lesson 1

Zirene provides background on CoreJJ's career and Core explores key topics including:

  • His journey from climbing solo queue in high school to establishing himself as a world-renowned champion

  • The responsibilities and huge carry potential of the support role

  • The importance of work ethic and application

  • Core's thoughts on champions queue and the NA amateur scene

  • The importance of learning from others

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Aimlabs Challenge

Using Core's mindset for improvement this week, make a note of one small thing you learned from others in your next 5 ranked games. This could be anything; the playstyle of a monster 1-trick you encountered, or trading techniques that won or lost you the laning phase. Push yourself to apply a few of these things in any subsequent games this week.

Lessons

Introduction
Lesson 1

Zirene provides background on CoreJJ's career and Core explores key topics including:

  • His journey from climbing solo queue in high school to establishing himself as a world-renowned champion

  • The responsibilities and huge carry potential of the support role

  • The importance of work ethic and application

  • Core's thoughts on champions queue and the NA amateur scene

  • The importance of learning from others

Vision
Lesson 2

CoreJJ covers his thought process for maximizing the effectiveness of you and your team's vision placement with these key concepts:

  • The relationship between vision and your team's ability to play aggressively.

  • Making sure every ward you place has a job

  • Vision control as a team objective and maintaining pink wards on the map

  • The importance of refilling your sightstone wards and not overstaying on the map

  • When to swap between warding trinket and sweeper

  • When and how to defend your team's vision

Ranked Advice
Lesson 3

Core covers ranked tips that help him consistently reach rank 1 on the solo queue ladder including:

  • Maximizing the potential of your champion’s intended role and playstyle

  • How you should approach your ranked champion pool

  • Staying up to date on the meta and picking OP champions

  • Core’s take on the differences between players in each ranked tier

Roaming
Lesson 4

Core teaches you how to identify your roam timers and different ways to create advantages for your team around the map.

  • How to visualize what will happen on the map before you roam.

  • Different ways to impact the jungle and other lanes without only going for kills

  • The symbiotic relationship between the support and jungle roles

  • Viewing your role as impactful beyond only supporting your ADC

Turn-Based Game
Lesson 5

Learn how a world champion support thinks about vision and the macro game, including:

  • How to simplify team strategy into “turns” on the map

  • Identifying which team’s turn it is and different ways to play accordingly

  • Using information denial to apply pressure to your opponents

  • Properly take vision and information back from the enemy

Early  Game & Lane Phase
Lesson 6

In this laning-focused segment, Core gives you in-depth explanations and demos on how he thinks about and executes during the early stages of each game including:

  • The importance of brush control in creating fog of war pressure in bottom lane

  • How to play around Jungle and Bot-lane synergies

  • When and where to roam when you don’t have anything to do in lane

  • Different ways to translate bot lane advantages into the rest of the map

Mid to Late Game
Lesson 7

Moving into the later stages of a game, Core covers key concepts such as:

  • How to keep a cool head during the early to mid-game transition

  • Key characteristics of the mid and late stages of the game

  • How to identify when to group (“NA ARAM!”) or not

  • Why supports need to understand side lane matchups and determine which laners they should invest vision for during the mid to late game

Decision Making & Objective Control
Lesson 8

In this team and objective-focused lesson, Core addresses common in-game dilemmas faced by players in every rank including:

  • How to decide whether or not to contest a certain objective on the map

  • When and how to set up vision properly for an objective

  • Using champion knowledge to identify fight triggers and identify your teamfight approach

Creativity And Adaptation
Lesson 9

Known for his in-game X-Factor and ability to consistently defy enemy expectations at the highest levels of play, Core gives you insight into different elements of his unique playstyle including:

  • Different ways he pushes himself to be creative in and out of game

  • How Core adapts to new metas and champion picks

  • The importance of tracking enemy cooldowns during a teamfight to identify fight triggers and opportunities to capitalize

Practice & Mentality
Lesson 10

Learn a world champion support player’s approach to winning and improvement. Core offers critical advice for aspiring player including:

  • Using a growth mindset to address fear, tilt and ego

  • Why it's important for players to “be a robot”

  • The value of seeking out constructive criticism and other perspectives from other players and coaches