Boards›Gameplay

Just a little friendly advice to the bronzies to increase win %

K54··9 votes·1,172 views

1st off I want everybody to know that I do acknowledge myself as a bronzie, noob player with no hope if ever even becoming averagely decent at this game. I've been flamed, down voted and offered a different perspective that is better than mine (or just flat out proves me wrong) a countless amount of times. On rare occasion though, everybody agrees with what I post and supports it. With that said, I think this is one of those rare occasions.

My advice/tip for today: It's OK to let the enemy recall. When you see an enemy champion emit a radiant aura as the clouds part and caress them in a beam of heavenly light, this should not be confused with reaching an extraction point, in which they completted their mission and are victorious. They are simply returning to their fountain.

This means it is not necessary that you must chase them down to the end of our flat planet and push them into the abyss. Believe it or not, the only place they're probably going to go, is to their fountain and then return with full health.

Even if they have TP, you can make use of those precious seconds by pushing the lane, believe it or not, killing those cute little creatures that travel down the lane often lead to victory. Those missile shooting thingies... not indestructible, destroying them are also a key factor to winning the game.

Example: It was a 5v5 situation at dragon. It turned into a 4v1 situation. The last champion flashed away, my 4 teammates went into pursuit. It then became a 2v1 situation after 1 of my teammates got killed. I saw this as an opportunity to push top while my teammates chased and failed to capture the last champion. I managed to destroy the top 2 outer turrets. The enemy champion ran through the gate thingy between lanes and escaped. By this the enemy team had respawned. I recalled from attacking the top inhibitor turret and my team 2 teammates recalled. This left dragon uncontested for 5 enemies. Congratulations enemy team. So not only did my teammates not get dragon, but they also didn't push their lanes at all, because they were chasing the enemy champion. (I could have solo'd dragon, but it would have taken too long, I figured the 2 turrets were a better trade off).

Regardless, this unskilled, super noob bag of failure carried his team to victory even though his KDA and team KDA were negative. How? Because while the enemy team was doing the same thing my team was doing when they had a low health champ on the run... I was pushing top lane... all the way to fucking NEXUS!

What happened in the final 4 minutes of the game? We could see through wards in the enemy jungle red jungle, they were going to baron. My team went to meet them. I realized we were out of position, and went around. As a 4v5 was happening, they killed 2 of my teammates and lost 2 of theirs. This left a 2v3 as the 2 players from my team retreated. The enemy would have won the game if they didn't have tunnel vision. None the less, the caught both teamates, and killed them both. Then they recalled and I recalled. Unfortunately for them, due to this happening multiple times in the game, I had destroyed all 3 inhibitors literally a full minute prior so winions finished off their base.

My team begged and pleaded for the other team to report me for trolling, said I never helped in team fights. At the end of the match I didn't really have any kills or assists, but I did destroy 8 fucking turrets. YES! 8 FUCKING TURRETS! I repeat, 8 FUCKING TURRETS! While 9 idiots were running around trying to kill each other.

Should every game be played like this, fuck no. But when you see the opportunity to push lanes, take it. I'll take 2 - 4 minion waves and a turret over a kill anyday.

9 Comments

Critmaster Garen5 votes

youre not supposed to all in them, but poking at them to disrupt their recall costs them valuable time or forces them to stay in lane at a point when theyre clearly not comfortable with it.

if they still recall, it means a couple of extra seconds you can use to farm or whack at their turret.

or they might just want to recall to grab an item that gives them a powerspike against you. if you already have the upper hand it might be more beneficial to force them to stay.

Olath Quortek2 votes

Damn good advice! ;)

CheftoniFTW2 votes

This is a perfect example why our TAB screen needs a Turret KDA, showing off who ACTUALLY did the work on the team. Since preseason, I feel like I'm litterally the only one taking towers.

Perfect exaample: I was top Mundo, pushing towers because it's what I do best. The last top inhib tower only needed a single hit for it to go down and we would have full access to their inhib. My entire team felt like since they were at half-health with Mundo dead was an amazig time to go bot lane to farm (yes, all 4 of them went bot lane to get FARM, the enemy was backing) While I was pinging the top tower, telling trist to just mosey her fat ass over to top lane and land a single auto on the tower, but NOPE that one minion wave she has to share with Ahri, Blitz and Nidalee was super important. (Note: Their tower didn't have a single scratch on it). I tped down their after they died in a pointless teamfight, me taking top, tp down and take 2 more towers.

Legit, Riot, please put a tower KDA on our screen to emphasize the importance of towers.

Miku Lv992 votes

Yeah, objectives are dreadfully underrated in bronze and whoever is better at making use of any opportunities to take them often has a significant advantage in bronze.

Really what I hate the most in bronze is the end game, when everyone is full build. You know what your team likely does when it gets 2 kills? They chase all over the map to get a 3rd. But by that time, the first 2 respawned. You know why this is so bad? There are 4 enemies left, and there were only 3 before. You can't even use the gold or XP, so it's just harder for your team to take any objectives now that there are 4 enemies instead of 3. But they'll act like they just owned the world because they got that new kill. And you know what they'll do with their 4v5 for 60 seconds? Recall to try to buy items, then settle for an elixir while the enemy respawns, and they're right back where they were 3 kills ago, with little to even nothing really gained even though their team got 3 kills.

So really, good job to you, since you recognize objectives as important. Not doing so is probably the number 1 way people lose in bronze.

Lost In Time1 votes

WTF do you mean, if they back, they can buy items and it's GG because we're incapable of going back unless we die because of our noob teammates

TroyTheUnconquer1 votes

Also, don't fill... never ever fill in a ranked game, i realized i'm a vastly better sona support then anything else (i had originally did support in my promo's and got dropped off at Silver V, then i started filling because i realized how glorious Olaf is, ended up going to Bronze V)

Well in a single night i got to promo's for a rank up, i only lost 2 games that entire night, and ended up losing my promo's because i accidentally fell asleep waiting for the game to load, and i lagged out during another one (Sigh, the glories of my internet connection)

but yeah, Objectives are normally more important then a team fight, so good job

The Rewritten1 votes

I'd say this is different for every person.

Don't fill if you aren't equally as good at all your roles would be a better statement.

I've gotten to Plat by always typing "anything but top" in chat. I could go mid, adc, sup, or jg regardless of whatever anyone else chose and still win.

TroyTheUnconquer1 votes

Fair enough, but if i may ask how often did you still get stuck with top?

And its not like i can't play top or mid or jungle or adc, its just that out of all my possible roles, i enjoy and can play the best when i'm a support, which is why i don't type fill into the chat now adays

The Rewritten3 votes

Never. When I am that lenient with roles, every time my team would accommodate for at least one of them.

Literally "ANYTHING but top". A team that's actually trying would be stupid to give me the one thing I asked not for.

It's a different story for choosing 3 roles or choosing 2. At those points you are becoming more and more choosy. As you know, choosy players (especially last pick) are not viewed favorably by other players. With 4 available roles, that's a sign to other players that you really really really don't want that role, and are willing to play anything else to avoid playing it, and other players are usually fine with that.

Of course, I do have to add that I am proficient in all four of the roles that I ask for. It's not like I'm super good at mid, mediocre in everything else, and bad at top.

More from Gameplay

3 Refunds per season, upvote if you want 3 refunds per season.
Gameplay764 comments
7,167
votes
3 Refunds per season, upvote if you want 3 refunds per season.
Gameplay156 comments
3,510
votes
UPVOTE FOR URF
Gameplay606 comments
2,440
votes
Yes plz.
Gameplay456 comments
1,721
votes
3 Refunds per season, up vote if you want 3 refunds per season.
Gameplay114 comments
1,716
votes
When is ANYONE at riot going to address the awful new player experience?
Gameplay634 comments
1,383
votes

More by K54

FINALLY HAD AN ADC THAT LISTENED TO ME!
Gameplay9 comments
6
votes
Dear Bronze 5 and Diamond 1 players
Gameplay14 comments
6
votes
RIOT's system
Player Behavior35 comments
6
votes
How I Changed My Toxic Behavior
Player Behavior14 comments
6
votes
Nasus needs change
Gameplay14 comments
5
votes
Yasuo is the only champ I've ever complained about.
Gameplay26 comments
4
votes