How can I get out of bronze?

valvalievalerie·Aug 16, 2015·1 votes·949 views

I would really like to get out of bronze, I'm having a difficult time doing so. Is there anything I need to fix? Please help! :)

21 Comments

Reaper SorakaAug 16, 20156 votes

The immediate thing I noticed from one of your recent Lux games, is you played support but picked up Doran's Ring over Spellthief's Edge. Spellthief's even without upgrading to Frostfang will pay for itself rather quickly, and even grant quite a bit of extra gold the longer you have it.

Another red flag I see is you're cs is very low on carry roles. under 100 cs at near-40min mark is a big no-no. Remember, like 20 cs is equal to a kill. Practice it in bot games if you need to, or even in custom games without an AI to play against. It is one of the most important skills to have as a carry, if not THE most important.

Train yourself to glance at the minimap often. Don't completely ignore or stare, it's rude and will often earn you a slap -- kinda like real life. (edit: you're watching your wards for enemy movments, is their jungle coming toward your lane? play safer. is their bot lane over-extended at your adc's tower? Maybe you can go help kill them. Is your laner in or heading to another lane? Choose between pushing their tower or assisting that lane.)

random support tip: Counting seconds when the opposing support leaves lane can give you an idea of how far out they walked. You'll waste less sweeper scans missing wards if you pay a little attention to their pathing and time out of sight. If you upgrade your Sweeper to Oracle's lens, and scan a common warding spot and run straight to another common warding spot, you can occasionally knock two wards down with one sweep. Be careful not to get caught out doing this. If you find one and are in danger, just let it live.

I hope some of this helps.

TheDangerousTacoAug 16, 20155 votes

master one champion and pick cheap picks that can snowball and carry games. Most lower players don't know how to counter snowball champions with heavy CC. so things like Malzahar Malphite Annie Jinx MasterYi are always my personal fun choices cause they are just annoying to deal with when played right

( speaking from someone that has to constantly face them. But I only play yi form this list )

Maximum ZileanAug 16, 20154 votes

Find 1-2 champions per role you are comfortable with and practice with them. ALOT

And if you get stuck as support, try using mage supports like Annie Zyra Velkoz . Because if your AD carry sucks, you still deal crazy damage in team fights. Also their build paths are really cheap so its not to hard to recover from a lost lane as them.

TheDeviceAug 16, 20154 votes

Yes. Cheap picks is where its at. Nasus Annie Garen Katarina Udyr

Anyone who doesn't really take lots of skill but just goes in and deals massive damage and is tankier than fuck. People who have like zero drawback.

In bronze, picking champions like Sion require too much coordination of your team to work and capitalize on his strengths. In bronze tier, lots of these champions with high amounts of CC don't really mean much since your team cannot follow up and lack of communication.

Use people who are super easy, super 1,2,3, no brain needed type champs. Garen is incredibly strong right now; no mana cost, beast early game, beast late game, low cooldowns, tons of damage. Ez. Great movement speed. Long ass silence. Just go in and wreck everyone.

Nasus if you get the chance: fk off the rest of the team it doesn't matter. Farm farm farm. You have no real fear of ganks since enemy team will not communicate well and you have your slow. Once you hit 6 its free farm till you own the game. Can't really stop it.

Annie is freelo as always. Long ass no-skill shot insta stuns with insane damage. Take her support even and dont even worry about support items lol. Doesn't matter you're in bronze. Build full ap and just wreck their entire team.

Udyr is the easiest champion in the game. Absolutely no skill shots, full of movement speed, incredible damage, tanky as fk, ez cc that takes absolutely no thought to use. Wreck everyone. Another one is trundle who just dominates any tank or carry.

P.S. Get lucky. If you're like me and have 150% more afkers on your teams than enemy teams, you're not going to get far.

MasterSomethingAug 16, 20151 votes

I tried Sion for most of my early Bronze experience. I can confirm that choosing someone like Sion is VERY VERY VERY BAD.

TheDeviceAug 17, 20151 votes

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I tried Sion for most of my early Bronze experience. I can confirm that choosing someone like Sion is VERY VERY VERY BAD.

I don't think hes a bad champion. He's surely a risky pick for low ranks since he is so team reliant. You need people to have good reaction time and cooperation.

MasterSomethingAug 17, 20151 votes

Yea, he is VERY good, and was one of my first mains. I loved dominating top with him as an all powerful lane bully tank guy. Shame I started falling off in long games due to lack of follow-up.

AkabaneKunAug 16, 20153 votes

Usually getting good.

Shroom JunkieAug 16, 20153 votes

Not exactly high elo myself, but uh...

first of all, don't flame. Ever. Like ever. Someone does something bad or trolls? Just be cool, don't talk to them except to coordinate(hoping they do), and if they'll take it tell them to play safe(assuming they're bad and not just trolling).

Secondly, ward. Ward. WARD. WAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

UltraSceptileAug 16, 20153 votes

Work on your CSing until you can get roughly 200 at 20 minutes.

Play one or two champions ONLY, i know this can get boring and you don't HAVE to do it, but it does help, because mastering one champion and knowing how to win every match up makes it really easy to climb the ladder.

Knowing when to get dragons and barons. This is REALLY important in low elo, even in high elo too. The five dragon buff is INSANELY strong and so is baron buff, can turn losing games into winning ones (altho getting 5 drag when behind is high unlikely). But sneaking a baron can always happen and is crucial in making any kind of comeback.

Map awareness and warding. Getting kills is never the answer. Not dying is. And to do that, constantly be aware of your minimap and ward to prevent ganks from setting you behind. Also very important if you want to sneak a dragon or baron in. ADC bot and we're all at baron? Do it!. Jungler top and i can solo drag? Do it!.

Linna ExcelAug 16, 20153 votes

Wards are your friend. Buy them. Learn where to put them. Watch the map.

Also, learn to CS well.

TrixoAug 16, 20151 votes

Hi! After looking at a few of your games and spectating I'd like to impart some advice; stop being trash

valvalievalerieAug 16, 20151 votes

you call that advice?

The Queen ViperAug 16, 20151 votes

Depends.

Since if you belong there, you can't ... until you improve.

At this point, there are many educational videos on Youtube about the basics of LoL. So you should probably start from there.

Zone of EndlessAug 16, 20151 votes

That's a really vague question. What role do you play? Champions in that role?

valvalievalerieAug 16, 20151 votes

I usually play adc with MissFortune and I've been playing Lux support lately.

Zone of EndlessAug 16, 20151 votes

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I usually play adc with and I've been playing support lately.

If you want to truly climb then I suggest maining a role.

But MF is a good ADC. You just have to be careful with your positioning because low elo people probably don't know how to peel. Keep your CS up. Know how to punish mistake the enemy make. Sometimes the support will stupidly be super agro and over extend. Harass him if he does it in lane. Missing one or two CS is fine as long as you do enough damage to force him back. MF is a great lane bully so it should be no trouble. Alsk keep track of your minion number and their minions as well. They do a lot of damage early on if you're not careful and try to get level 2 first as well. Getting level 2 first can be game changing. Overall, just take some practice to know how to read the situation and reacting to it. I also recommend expanding your champion pool when you main a role. You can be a 1 trick pony if you really want to earn point really fast.

Lux support suck. If you want to play a carry support just play Annie or even vel' koz. They're way better than lux.

MLDzXnRRRAug 16, 20151 votes

Play Nasus - tank masteries, cdr and crit runes. AFK farm and don't feed. Then backdoor.

TeslynAug 16, 20151 votes

socially in a game.. here is what i did when i wanted to move up a rank.

used the mute button.

if you tell people things... they want to say things back.. if you both are typing ... your not playing the game... if you want to win.. play the game.. and not spend time treating this like facebook in a IM battle...

people will flame regardless ... why do you want to lose the game because someone is having a bad game...

also.. if you jungle.. follow the jungler code: dont gank losing lanes...

darkmatchwaldoAug 16, 20151 votes

play MasterYi summoner 11 roflstomp, split push to death, win games.

Sniper 0Aug 16, 20151 votes

Find a high impact champion and use them. I recently found a high cc champion. He brings a lot of utility to the team which teams tend to lack at the bronze and silver elos. This can apply to any position and champion though. You might get by with yi but then again you might not. Bring something to the table that can give you and your team some sort of advantage.