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Stuck in bronze. Really need advice

River Shen NA·2/26/2018, 11:13:13 PM·1 votes·537 views

So, I've been playing a few ranked games of league a week. I'm new, ish. Last season I got placed in silver 4, and I was doing well! games were good, I had an alright win-rate, and it was fun to play. But, now this season comes, won almost all my placements, 6 in a row from start, yet boom. got down to bronze 2. I thought "Yeah, alright. That's fine. I could work my way up in solo queue" I was wrong. Most games I do well, going positive, winning my lane, and calling everything I see. But, the thing is, my teammates don't care. Even when I tell them to rethink something, or say fall back, they go in, and essentially suicide. I know you're going to say get better, or it's not just the teammates. And I know, it's not. I could play better too, and yes, I do sometimes feed, and destroy the game. But, that's not often.. and I'm trying to play the best I can.

It's not just this one game though, it's EVERY game I play now. Today, I went 15/12 with galio mid. it was alright, I was against a lux. It was a bit difficult, but I was managing. Managing until every lane started feeding, then all ended up flying to mid to slaughter me, time and time again. So now, after that horrible loss, I'm demoted to bronze III.

My question is, how the hell do I get out of this? I've heard to play with friends, but, I haven't anyone that plays league, much less would duo with me in ranked. So now, I plan on not playing anymore ranked this season, and praying that I can manage to get placed higher next season, even though it just started. I really REALLY don't want to be in bronze five. But it looks like that's where i'm headed..

7 Comments

ricardo20102/26/2018, 11:17:02 PM2 votes

You need to enter a game with the mindset that you're not going to fuckin die no matter what. And if you do die then don't let it tilt you, but for you to be consistently winning games, u gotta have like 3 deaths or less per game. You won't carry or help ur team feeding back shutdown gold and just dying all over the place.

Kaioko2/26/2018, 11:19:00 PM2 votes

What most low ELO players can't manage to do is turning a winning lane into a winning game. You were crushing the lux that's great -- did you then snowball the other lanes?

IMO -- You play too many champions. Focus on a few that can hard carry and are good at low ELOs and climb using those. You only need 2 per role at most.

rework trundle2/26/2018, 11:23:02 PM1 votes

What Ricardo said, an average of 10.2 deaths per game in your last 14 games is ridiculously high.

You should limit your champion pool to 2 in total. Everyone who says you need 2 champions per role is straight up wrong. Play one mostly and the other one as a backup if banned, picked or bad matchup. Speaking of champion pool, don't play things like Vayne or Yasuo. They are too mechanically demanding for a Bronze player, you should pick easier champions. You need to learn the game to climb, the less time you spend on learning a champion, the more time you can spend on learning the game.

If you're playing adc, mid or top, try to consistently hit 7 cs/min. More gold = more items = more stats = easier to carry.

HouseOfSin2/26/2018, 11:28:35 PM1 votes

Run the low ELO meta: hypercarries. Shit like Yasuo, Riven, Zed, or any AD carry, really. If you are truly worth your Silver, than you should win your lane, then get a lead on every other lane, and then win the game.

RenownedWheat422/26/2018, 11:33:39 PM1 votes

Try Kayle top with either klepto to get your build quicker, or PTA.

I personally run Klepto, boots, biscuits, approach velocity, then tailor secondary runes to my matchup (but manaflow/scorch is pretty good).

item 3124 item 3115 item 3085 item 3091 then whatever last item + boots you think are necessary.

Max E, then Q or W depending on need.

Kayle can hard carry like a motherfucker and once you get going she really is hard as hell to take down without at least 3v1. Somewhat susceptible to ganks as you're basically always going to be pushing in lane, but with a slow on Q, a heal+movespeed increase on W, and invulnerability on ult, you should be fine for a while. Her splitpushing is pretty godly and people always underestimate Kayle in lower elo.