If you want to test your skills as a normal player in League of Legends, you can compete in the rankings in Solo/Duo mode, also called SoloQ. This creates awareness, even outside of the professional sector. One of the best known is the German streamer Agurin.
Who is Agurin? Muhammed “Agurin” Kocak is a German LoL streamer who mainly streams his SoloQ matches. Many people will also know him from Team NNO, which consisted of well-known German streamers. This also included Tolkin, NoWay, Karni and Broeki.
He is known in the scene for his skills within SoloQ. He regularly reaches first place in the rankings. He managed to reach rank 1 and 2 in EUW a few weeks ago (via YouTube) and a year ago he reached rank 1 in solo queue in South Korea (via reddit)
For many LoL players, the jungler is one of the best SoloQ players in the world. And that despite the fact that he streams live without hiding his map. It’s easy to stream snipe and yet it’s so successful. He has his own style of play that leads him to success.
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Agurin’s playstyle revolves around maximum efficiency
What is Agurin’s play style? As a jungler, you have to try to use the time between camps efficiently, and hardly anyone does that as well as Agurin. The Myth channel explains this in a YouTube video.
Many players think of the jungler as having to gank often. But when you watch Agurin, you notice that he doesn’t gank as often as you think. Most of the time he does a full clear of the camps and then takes care of possible ganks afterwards.
He always makes the decision about what is most efficient at that moment. Just because you gank doesn’t mean it means more experience and gold than farming in time. He has such extensive experience that he can usually tell you what the safest and most efficient next step is. It’s not about a single match, but how best to behave in hundreds of matches.
That sounds pretty strange for a team game, but SoloQ is the mode in which you don’t know how good your team members are. He is a master of macro play, i.e. the larger whole of a match, not individual mechanics that you master.
Sometimes it’s just better to not make a play and farm stupidly.
Agurin, with his champions, knows exactly what he is doing
Agurin makes really good use of the resources he has. If you look at how he approaches the camps, you can tell that he wants to make the best use of his time there too. He tries to make the different camps as timely as possible so that the respawn of the different camps happens at the same time. He wants to farm efficiently with it.
His main champions are also an important factor. He has a fixed pool of champions from which he chooses. These are usually Elise, Jarvan and Kah’Zix. But even with champions like Brand or Neeko he has shown that he is not dependent on a particular meta.
In summary, Agurin does a lot of things really well:
Does something like this also work in the professional sector? No, in the professional world you can rely on your team, you can communicate and you know what your teammate can do. In SoloQ, chance is an important factor that Agurin tries to counter with his playstyle.
What is the status of agurin today? He had some trouble getting out of diamond this season. But as he wrote on x.com on October 15, 2024, he has reached Challenger again. Apart from that, he likes to attract attention with toxic behavior. A freak out this year meant that his NNO colleagues were also denounced: LoL: A bad freak out by their friend leaves leading German streamers on Twitch in need of an explanation