MAP
awareness is an important basic skill in League of Legends. To become a high
ELO player at the game and reach the division where you can play with the best,
first you have to create a strong basic skill set you can build on. Map
awareness must be one of those skills to succeed in the higher tiers of the
game. Map awareness makes it possible to control the game. More importantly, it
can make it possible to win a game. The more you know about the position of the
enemy jungler and players, the better you can position yourself on your lane,
and judge your actions knowing more than your enemy knows. By maintaining map
awareness, you are making a huge step towards controlling your game, which is
inevitable in order to win most of the games in League of Legends.
Developing map awareness
The simple
way to start is, to give more importance to the mini-map on the bottom of your
screen. Some people only check it when a teammate pings it. You have to work on
that habit. Top master and challenger players, like the ELO boosters at at
BoostRoyal, check the minimap as frequent as possible. That means that some of
them even give it a look after each last-hit! They do so in order to determine
their right course of action in the following time period. By every team member
getting the most usefulness out of the minimap equals strong team map awareness
in the game. By acquiring such knowledge over the game, you and your team
slowly get more and more control over it. For example you can roam through the
enemy jungle and move wherever you and your time would like to on the map, you
know that you gained almost full control. Now the game is in your hands. You
can whether throw it or win it.
