There is no Easy Way to Climb ELO, But...

Recently, whenever I play norms with friends, I'll get added by people in bronze 4 asking me "What's the best champion to climb with" or "How do I escape elo hell,"

Now I don't think I'm some kind of elo climbing expert, even though my KDA is pretty high, I throw games, I waste cooldowns, and I'm a bit too confident in my ability to 1v1 offense based champions. But I am someone who supported his way from Bronze 4 to Silver 5, and getting close to Silver 4, end goal being high gold, hopefully plat. And as someone who escaped elo hell, I wanna say, there is no secret sauce to getting out of bronze.

There is no champion, no build, no secret Korean mid laner start that will get you to diamond in 3 days, there's only grinding the ladder, and lots of it. You can play FOTM champions, like right now with Sona and Hec, but someone who mains their champion, will beat out the level 3 Sona who hasn't been playing her for more than 2 days. You can look through my match history, as long my adc is semi sentient, it's very rare I get beat out of lane by someone who doesn't MAIN their champion.

Don't get me wrong, there are ways to make climbing easier, like maining mechanically easy champions, like Annie or Malazhar. But whenever I do tell them, "make sure to keep your champion pool simple," They'll always give me some excuse about how they're actually really good at this champion. No you're not. If you're bronze 4, and you have been Bronze 4 for awhile, you are not good at skillshot, mechanically challenging champions. Odds are, you are so god damn focused on making sure the champion doesn't sink your team like a brick, that you aren't looking at the map, you aren't pinging, you're not playing along with your team. So if you really do wan t to get better at the game, and climb out of low elo stay away from THESE champions.

Am I saying, never play these champions ever, and never try them out in a norms? No. In fact, you may have noticed that I main one of those danger champions, that's because I found Thresh after maining blitzcrank for a long time. And I love Thresh, I love how he does everything and how despite being a jack of all trades, he has a unique personality. But I didn't start on Thresh, and that's because I stayed away from him, because I knew he had a high skill cap. Don't get me wrong, I had seen the madlife montages, and I had played him during free week in norms, but I never actually toke him into ranked until I felt like I had taken Blitzcrank as far as I had wanted to go.

So if you want to play Azir because you saw a flashy play from faker, start with HeimDonger. See if the zone control archtype appeals to you, learn the basics of the type of champion, and then consider getting into someone like azir.

tl;dr stop fucking playing yasuo if you arent plat jesus