How To Climb as a One Trick (OTP) in League of Legends

The best way to climb in League of Legends is to be a one-trick.

This opinion is widely held by high ELO players and content creators online, but is this actually true? Today, we're deep diving on the topic of OTPs and answering two questions.

Should you be an OTP, and what is the best way to climb as a one-trick? Charlie, where are we going with this one? Okay, to start with, on the topic of OTPs, we need to talk about the OTP journey, right? And when most people think about one-tricks, your mind immediately goes to the top of the ladder.

We start thinking about names like Phantasm, Z99, famous one-tricks, right? But this is an immediate gaslight that the League of Legends community needs to cleanse themself of because most one-tricks are not challenger.

We are actually thinking about the top 1% of 1% of players, and that is not the reality.

The term one-trick, one-trick pony or OTP does not mean you are a good player.

So we need to just get that out of the way.

Being a one-trick doesn't mean you skyrocket to the top, it is merely a way you play the game.

Yeah.

I, I, I think it's a massive misconception, right? And I, I think it's quite a, a, quite a pervasive take, right? Mm-hmm.

Because if you think about it, people think, "Oh, well, if I'm an OTP and if I'm not climbing, then I am just a bad player or a bad gamer," right? Yeah.

When in reality, you know, we're gonna be going through this, but there's a, you know, there is not...

It's not like being an OTP is definitively better than potentially having a pool, right? Mm-hmm.

There's arguments and pros and cons for both, which we'll explore throughout this episode.

Yeah, 100%.

I, I think just to get into the meat of it, right? Like, the most important thing when considering the a- first question we're gonna answer this episode of should you be an OTP is to understand the journey.