Everything You Need to Know About Coaching

If you want to get better at anything, the best way is to get a teacher or coach. League of Legends is no different, and because of the desire of so many players to get better at the game, LoL coaching services have started emerging.

However, there are many questions surrounding these LoL coaches. What are their qualifications, how do those qualifications make them fit to teach other players, and how exactly are these people supposed to make your league gameplay better?

Worry not, as we’re here to tell you all of this, in addition to everything else you need to know before you purchase the services of a coach and start your journey to becoming a better league player.

What is coaching in League of Legends?

Have you been getting ganked way too much when playing league? Perhaps you just can’t get the hang of working together with support in the BOT lane to dominate as an ADC. Or maybe you just don’t understand the mechanics of being a good jungler, when to gank appropriately and how to farm without the enemy jungler stealing your buffs. What better way to get better in various League of Legends mechanics than by getting direct and real-time coaching from a highly skilled player?

Many LoL players out there have immense skill in the game and want to help others achieve it while earning some money on the side. As such, boosting sites, freelancing, and other services buying sites have started offering LoL coaching services. After all, the popularity of this game doesn’t look like it’ll be dwindling any time soon, meaning the market and demand of players wanting to get better is ever increasing.

One thing to remember is that just like when purchasing any service online, it’s important to ensure that the site you hire the coach from is legitimate and trustworthy if you want to get your money’s worth.

What do LoL coaches teach?

LoL coaches teach players the ins and outs of how to get better at the game. Not only do they teach you how to be better in specific lanes or roles, but if you ask them to, they’ll also help you in perfecting your favorite champion. Want to be able to play Yasuo in the big leagues? They got you covered.

It’s also possible to ask them just to cover the basics of the game, such as how to farm properly, what the best time to go for a dragon is, or maybe what tenacity is. Well, the last one, we already have a guide for What is Tenacity, but everything else is easier to understand when a skilled player explains it to you.

What’s more, in addition to individual sessions, it’s possible to hire a coach to teach your entire team at once. After all, League of Legends is mostly a team-based game, and the secret to reaching higher ranks and winning games is having a strong and cooperative team backing you up. This also has the potential to be lighter on the wallet if you divide the cost among each other.

What makes Eloking coaches qualified to teach you?

Now you might be wondering what guarantee there is that a coach is even qualified to teach you. What if it turns out that you’re better than the person that was hired to help you get better? We can’t speak on every coaching service, but we can tell you that the coach's skill level is guaranteed if you’re hiring a coach from Eloking.

We can confidently say this because Eloking’s coaches are only selected and hired after extensive background searches to ensure their high rank and skill level. Because of this, you’ll only be coached by the best of the best, and who knows, you just might get lucky and get the chance to learn under the best Yasuo, Draven, or maybe some other champion in the world. (wink-wink)

Not only this, but our coaches are experienced in all skill levels, so it doesn’t matter whether you’re an Iron player or a Gold one, as our coaches can coach you regardless. Most importantly, the coaching service by Eloking is trusted worldwide by numerous customers. Don’t believe us? Just check some of our reviews on Trustpilot.

What language do Eloking’s coaches use?

As for what language the coaches use, all Eloking coaches are speaking in English as their default language for orders. However, because our coaches are from all over the world, there’s the possibility that one of them might know your preferred language. As such, it’s best to ask our 24/7 customer support agents (by clicking the purple button at the bottom right of our website) before making your order if you would like the coaching to happen in a language that is not English.

What methods do coaches use?

Let us move on to the most important thing about hiring a coach, the actual coaching. Eloking professional coaches have a variety of methods they use to better the player they are coaching, but which one they actually go for depends on certain situations. For example, if the coach feels you need good support to learn how to properly ADC or BOT lane, then he or she might hop in a game themselves.

Replay analysis

The most popular method of coaching is replay analysis, where the person you hired reviews the replay of your match (or matches) and points out what you did right, what you did wrong, and in what aspects you could improve if you want a competitive advantage against other players. This is extremely efficient in catching bad habits that you might not even know you have, such as forgetting to ward or not checking the mini-map often enough.

Real-time coaching

The next coaching method has the coach get on a call with you and ask you to live stream your match so they can guide you in real time. While this method is efficient in most cases, sometimes the added pressure of having a professional player judging your every move might keep you from making rational decisions, in which case the coach won’t be able to judge your regular gameplay properly.

Alternatively, the coach can stream themselves playing a match and ask the customer to watch them. This gives you a feel of the action, and the coach can guide you in a way you might better understand.

Additionally, as mentioned above, if the coach feels that them being on the same team as you is the best way for you to get better, they might queue up with you. This is most commonly used when the customer wants to be either a better bot laner or a better support player because those two roles typically have a partner.

Training plan

Finally, if the coach whose services you purchased feels like you might need extra continuous practice, you can ask them to piece together a training plan specifically suited for you. This plan can span for as short as three days or as long as several weeks, depending on how much practice the coach feels you need.

As for how many hours of coaching you need, it depends on your current skill and how much in need of assistance you are. If you aren’t sure about this, then we recommend you purchase one or two hours and have the coach evaluate your skill level, along with you telling them your goal or what you’re expecting from their coaching.

When should you hire a coach for League of Legends?

There are many reasons you might want to hire a professional League of Legends coach, with the most widely given reason being that the player was just feeling fed up. Fed up with losing matches or lanes, fed up with staying in the same rank, fed up with being called out by the team for feeding. Being fed up with being fed up and deciding to finally change something.

Other players say their reason for hiring a coach was a genuine desire to improve in the game. To be good enough to climb the ranks on their own skills without anyone’s help, or maybe to be good enough to carry the team through every match towards victory.

While those two reasons were related to getting better, some feel like they’ve already reached the skill level required to call themselves a professional. As such, they hire coaches to get a second opinion from an actual professional player.

Lastly, some just hire coaches because they want to experience firsthand what it is like to be tutored by the best of the best. What it feels like playing alongside those who have the skill to call themselves professionals.

If you feel like any of these aforementioned points apply to you, then maybe it’s time you hire a coach for yourself. Of course, after doing the required research on where you should purchase one and for how long. After gathering enough information, we're certain you’ll conclude that Eloking is the best place to hire a League of Legends coach!