User blog comment:Supernoob96/Why ELO hell does AND doesn't exist./@comment-4842032-20120301020054

First off, thanks for taking the time to write this. It takes a thick skin and charity to create content for an online community. Second, I agree wholeheartedly with the idea behind #5. I think it might be the most important part of your list.

I disagree a bit, in that I believe you think you should learn every role well, and I think it's not particularly important to do that. Instead, master one or two roles and then learn the basics of the others (don't do this in ranked, though, that's just rude.)

I started LoL as a tank role, failed pretty hard. Then I tried jungle, and lo-and-behold, I was a better tank, for the first 15 minutes. When I tanked (solo top), my jungler had better ganks because I knew from my jungling experience what a gank should be. I knew how juicy a pushed lane was and how important good ganks are. But I got bored, so I learned support. Holy cow, suddenly I was a better tank again. I knew that the carries are protected, not because they're rock stars, but because they die so freaking fast and are so important. Suddenly my teamfights got better. It continues: I've tried every role by now. Still prefer tank, though.

This kind of learning is the best way to get better as a team player. Read all you want on how your job is to sacrifice yourself for the teamfight victory, how you need to protect your carry and disrupt their assassins. But if you never try to see how the game looks through other roles' eyes, then you will never see the fine line between you failing your team and you pulling them to victory.