User blog comment:Mr Christmaseve/Low Elo mistakes./@comment-5194571-20130410004046

I have to disagree with some. I play exclusively late game or early game champions, depending on which phase of the game I want to dominate in. So knowing how to play those champions isn't low elo mistakes, it's simply playstyle and unadaptability.

Counterpicking I also disagree with. I'm nearing gold (placed in Silver 1) and know fairly little about counterpicking. I only know a few obvious ones like Cait counters Kog hard and how Kassadin gets screwed over by sustain, because they heal everything back up unless he 100%'s someone, but if he can't do that, he can't get fed enought to do that later. Other than that, I could see a Ryze being picked for mid, then I would not know what to pick to counter him, I would just pick something I feel comfortable on.

You also forgot minion vision. Imagine this: The enemy team is scattered over bot lane, you make the call to go for Baron and your team rush to it. You take the safe path going through the jungle, but getting there later. Your team rush over mid lane with enemy minions there. Enemy team sees 4 people running to Baron. You then lose Baron because Fiddle Homeguard/Teleport/Ult ganked over the wall. Because your team gave vision of themselves running to it, effectively telling the enemy team where you were. Makes me SO mad...

Another mistake: Not letting late-game champions scale. Ever have those games as Vayne/Kog/Nasus/Veigar where you dominated your lane really hard, but someone else on your team fed? There's you that's fed and someone else on the enemy team equally fed. It's only 20:00, so you haven't scaled enough to cancel out that enemy feed and at the moment, just die because you need to get to 4+ items instead of 2 - 3. But NO, your team surrenders before you even get a chance to hypercarry..