Am I even actually decent at this game?

BigMilkCows·9/21/2017, 12:54:49 AM·2 votes·486 views

In ranked play my MMR is all over the place where sometimes Ill go with a full team of silvers or just a mish mash of silver and bronze(Im bronze 2) And I pushed so easy to B1 then I just tanked and I cant win anything lately and my winrates are dropping. I played maybe 100 games this season when I was new and my god I was horrible and had a 30 something winrate. Then I started just playing norms for like six months and have recently started playing Ranked and went easily got to B1 and suddenly now Im just tanking. I feel like Im playing well but no matter what I do I lose like most of my games. Looking at my recents can anyone voice any opinions on my rank because I feel like I should be higher and my MMR is higher but lately I cant win.

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bleufromage9/21/2017, 1:24:21 AM2 votes

I'm gonna be honest I'm not looking at your win rates or your champs or any of that shit but I can tell you right now low silver is no different that bronze 1 or 2. If you think your better than silver I'm going to assume you have good mechanics and can out play your opponents most of the time but still lose. Your problem is likely that you don't have a lot of game sense/knowledge. These areas are not measurable by your kda or winrate (though it would be likely they are highly correlated). If you can't play the map better than your opponents (or your teammates for that matter) you have less than a 50%chance of winning. Where should you be at any given moment. Where should you ward. Where/when should you sweep vision. Are you building correctly for your champ and against the enemy? Are you tracking the enemy jungler early game? Do you know anything about wave manipulation? When to push when to last hit how to set up a slow push when to swap lanes? Are you aware of the meta not just the champs but what items are op what strategies are op? And of course are you playing tilted? If you think oh I just had a bad game I'll make up for it by playing another, you are setting yourself up for a losing streak.

1wolfpack9/21/2017, 1:25:03 AM2 votes

being a main support in bronze is hard, especially when your playing a utility support like bard. my advise to you is:

when u play, concentrate on "NOT DYING" dont worry about getting kills, just try to not die

sometimes that means u have to leave ur team-mates to die when they get caught out

if your open to it, consider play a different lane where u can carry or play a different support champion that has more carry potential (ie. AP supports like BRAND, ANNIE etc)
if u go on a losing streak 2-3 games in a row, stop playing, take a break, do something else, maybe play normals or Aram.

jwebb01139/21/2017, 12:59:57 AM1 votes

well your current mmr ( according to op.gg which can be off ) is 1086 which is bronze 3

you have a 89w 107 l record for a 45% win rate.

your best champ is bard ( nearly a 1 trick) having a 60% win rate on bard

your runes arent optimal ( but i know the rune rework is coming, soo it kinda is pointless now )

i would say over all you are below average... at your rank/ win % etc clearly there are lots of things you can improve on .

tophit9/21/2017, 2:56:43 PM1 votes

The most annoying thing about ranked at low elo is:

No-one wants to play tank.
No-one wants to play champions with reliable CC.
No-one wants to take traditional mid lane mages for teamfights.
No-one is ok with getting an assist and not a kill.
No-one wants to learn the good and bad matchups of their lane
No-one wants to ward or buy sightstone
No-one considers the needs of their team when fighting (peeling for squishies, etc).
No-one is willing to accept they need to improve and would rather blame somebody else.
No-one actually cares about objectives, kills are most important.
No-one actually realises this is League of Legends, not Call of fu*king Duty.

Yes, this definitely does not apply to everyone. But unfortunately these 10 points explain why low elo is just so terrible and why the meta is so annoying. Champions like Master Yi and Vayne are played a lot because champions like this thrive on the inability of teams not being able to work together, of people feeding from bad mistake after bad mistake, and bad team comps.

At this level, your best bet is to find the middle ground, the champion that can potentially carry in 1v1's but also have a place in teamfights. I myself like playing Orianna, but sometimes I really regret it when I get jumped on by the fed assassin, or whatever. For these cases, I would play Ahri, not useless against assassins, can be played aggressively and safely, has a very good time early against immobile picks that will come your way, but can also wait out a bad early game for decent late game. Plus, a really nice piece of CC that can easily punish a dive or misplacement, in lane or in late game fights. I can't say much for other lanes, but I'm sure that there are champs in every role that, with a little skill, have the potential to carry more reliably.

Besides good champion selection, obviously practice with maximizing your warding potential (placing more as well as placing them in better spots), map awareness (knowing when you're safe to trade or when you seriously need to back off), as well as general knowledge regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the champions you regularly face (the best way to learn being to learn how to play those champs yourself).