Bronze to Plat in one season

TragicLegend··11 votes·1,479 views

I remember season 3 when I started league of legends I mained jungle Elise. Mainly because it was the most popular jungler in the LCS. the problems that I had with my season 3 ranked play though, was that I was only good in the jungle, and I was a burden to my team if left into any other role that wasn't jungle. Season 4 I sought to improve my versatility by playing in different roles, mainly bot lane. Season 4 I was bronze but managed to start learning a little bit more about stutter stepping, learning to flash crucial stuns in 1v1 scenarios, I found myself trying to outplay anyone that crossed my path even if it meant going against a fed cass as a feeding vayne. I would like to call this phase: learning my limits. It may have been feeding but it really helped me learn what I could and could not do. Take your time when you play and after every death literally take a second and try to understand what went wrong, don't flame and blame your support, everything was on you, if your thresh didn't land that hook you made the mistake continuing to go in. At the end of season 4 I was frustrated because I felt that I had the potential, I'd watch videos and tell myself I could do that if my team would just not feed and let me carry the game. But as soon as I turned to the replay system my view of the game changed dramatically, I began to notice obvious mistakes, like making it to lane late, missing easy farm, overcommitting for poke and taking Aggro from minions. It really sounds tedious to replay a game from start to finish only to watch yourself lose but you seriously learn a lot about the mistakes you made, and you won't be making them again, you'll go into a game and tell yourself I have to watch out of this cc, that cc and etc. A huge improvement to my game was watching pro streamers. Yes they are very entertaining but do not take the advice they occasionally give lightly, ask yourself even when you're watching double lift or faker play on YouTube, "why did he do that?" Again "WHY DID HE DO THAT???" This is the way out, I'm telling you, I would constantly flame in games and the one thing it does is keep you from asking yourself "why did he do that, where did I go wrong" season 5 was a steady climb to platinum but there were some rough patches along the way, just learn that in every Elo there are toxic and bad people, Gold is no heaven, platinum probably the worst, the solution to all of them? Just press mute. I would highly advice taking a break after going on a losing streak, trust me you may be on tilt and taking the time to rest and get your mind off the past few games is very beneficial to you. Good luck on the rift summoners!

*Good place to access your replays is replay.gg

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T RexHasTinyArms1 votes

In season six "Then I just learned to play mid kind of okay and the system normally put me at jungle because there were more people playing mid. I mostly played jungle and moved up playing that, and when I got stuck mid sometimes my team carried me so it worked out because I didn't play it very much. Still have no idea what orb walking is, the cool downs of most champs, or a lot of other stuff."

ToxiCarboN1 votes

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In season six "Then I just learned to play mid kind of okay and the system normally put me at jungle because there were more people playing mid. I mostly played jungle and moved up playing that, and when I got stuck mid sometimes my team carried me so it worked out because I didn't play it very much. Still have no idea what orb walking is, the cool downs of most champs, or a lot of other stuff."

I highly recommend playing every champion a few times while they're free and slowly in a couple weeks, you'll learn the gist of every champion. Also, with the new changes, it's very important for you to main 2 roles instead of 1. Go into normal games and get your mojo then proceed to ranked cause you'll be groovy baby.

T RexHasTinyArms1 votes

Well I mean I played mid/top mostly on the way to gold this last season, and switched to playing jungle any time I could get it toward the end and climbed a few LP and a second account bc I wanted to see if I could get gold w/out duo que to get there. I played support any time those were taken, or if I was just really feeling like playing a support game/someone behind me in pick had a really good record in their recent history on a role I normally would pick.

I was just saying that with the new champ select there is legitimately no reason you would ever need to even be competent at 3 out of 5 roles. That's more than half the options in the game that you don't have to know all that much about (you need to know a bit about match ups, ie kass and fizz have weak wave clear and are melee so probably will be pushed in or bullied early and the enemy mid may leave themselves open to an easy gank). If I wanted to only play solo lanes I could just always que as mid/top and never have to touch another role. It gives you the option of playing a much more narrow game and learning fewer variables in order to still improve.

rinsujo1 votes

Replay.gg you say? What I was trying to do was record myself each game and see what mistakes I made, but that has the downside of if I didn't have my camera on it the first time I still won't see it the second time.

Riot, plz.

Celeste Benal1 votes

I'll take basic composition for $1000 Alex.

A: Reading between the lines. Q: What are paragraphs?

On topic, I wish match-maker would give me my prefered role. I haven't gotten it even once out of about 10 queues.

ToxiCarboN1 votes

@TragicLegend

Congratulations on getting to Platinum. I am glad you went through the journey of over-coming your struggles. I've seen many players go through a lot of the same struggles and it's awesome to see players climb through it. In my experiences playing League of Legends, I have learned that I can be at any ranking I am willing to work for (Including LCS). I would encourage you to try to maintain a CS amount about 9.0 per minute. I would also encourage you to eliminate your average deaths to 3. These things will help you climb your way to Diamond, Master and even Challenger. I would love to know how your progress goes throughout season 6. I use plays.tv and I thoroughly enjoy it. I would recommend trying it out if you have any dislikes in any program you use.

Also, I help a lot of players reach their League of Legends goals with coaching, improvement advice and skill development. I do it for free because I enjoy it more than playing. If you or anyone else have any interest, feel free to email me at [email protected].

Best of luck in your future ranking experiences. :)

TragicLegend1 votes

@ToxiCarboN I will definitely take into consideration your advice and completely agree with your statements. Anyone can arise to the level of play these LCS players. It's going to take a lot of self - discipline and determination but next step is Diamond.

ToxiCarboN1 votes

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@ToxiCarboN I will definitely take into consideration your advice and completely agree with your statements. Anyone can arise to the level of play these LCS players. It's going to take a lot of self - discipline and determination but next step is Diamond.

I am going to be doing a session on how to overcome the Gold + Platinum ELO very soon. If you want to stay in touch with me on any new things I come out with, http://xtoxicarbonx.wix.com/thelegend is my website. Good luck getting diamond. I'm currently working to master + Challenger this season so I understand. :)

ToxiCarboN1 votes

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@ToxiCarboN I will definitely take into consideration your advice and completely agree with your statements. Anyone can arise to the level of play these LCS players. It's going to take a lot of self - discipline and determination but next step is Diamond.

I would certainly love to help any way I can. Love the positive energy! Keep up the great work!

arcinex1 votes

Misleading title. OP has never gone bronze to plat in one season.

arcinex1 votes

Math. how to even?

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