https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Simply%20EthanW
Bronze 5 59 LP / 424W 453L Win Ratio 48% Sivir's Guardians
I have played the game for a full year now and have not progressed further than silver 5. Could my rank be broken?
Judging by the amount of games played, your rank, and winrate, it seems you are where you belong.
Looking at your match history it's very easy to see why you're Bronze 4 or 5 consistently.
I see one of your more recent games you played as Vayne and died 18 times in 35 minutes. That's insanity and borders on intentionally feeding. If you die more than 10 times per game you're doing things very wrong and obviously out of position far too often. Realistically, you should be dying 0-6 times in 35 minutes and absolutely no more than that.
In many of your games you barely scratch the 150 cs mark. Recent games - Vayne (35 minutes) 118 cs, Jinx (22 minutes) 125 cs, Miss Fortune (40 mins) 193 cs---although that game you did have 15 kills unfortunately also had 14 deaths, Lucian (31 mins) 81 CS. Oh my Goodness. You can't possibly ever hope to climb if you're not getting good cs values. To get out of Bronze I would suggest getting at least 130-150 cs by 20 minutes at minimum.
I see that you are one of the only people on either team that buys control wards, that's good! On the other hand you basically never use your other wards at all. I see multiple games where you place less than 10 wards in a 30-40+ minute game, that's just not going to get the job done. How are you going to have vision of the enemy team if you're not warding? I just don't understand the mindset of low Elo players.
Here's one game where you warded TWO TIMES in 31 minutes. Holy shit. How is that even possible?
But here's one interesting quirk. It seems that every once in a great while you are capable of having a crazy good game. I found a Xayah game in your match history where you went 21/5 in 30 minutes with almost 300 farm! You didn't ward that much, but everything else was amazing. How the Hell do you play that well---with amazing CS one time and then not do the same other games? I understand everyone has bad games now and then, but it looks like you're capable of playing well so I don't get it.
Ward, cs, better item builds, and good positioning (leading to fewer deaths) will help you greatly along the way.
I didn't look at your runes and masteries so I can't speak to whether or not those are in good shape, but just follow what I said and you should climb out of Bronze. Unfortunately, since you have played roughly 875 games in Bronze your LP gains will be fairly meager, but it is absolutely possible to climb out of Bronze even with that constraint.
Just get a winrate above 50% and you'll climb, Goodluck friend
You need to CS better, and you need to die less. In a lot of your losses you have double digit deaths.
You should also probably stop playing Ashe, you only have a 38% win ratio with her across 99 games.
Just looking at the amount of deaths you pile up in games where you lose, it seems like you simply don't know when you can't win fights against other champions, or you get caught continuously by being way out of position.
Additionally if you click on the button up top of the OP.GG site where it states "Solo MMR" you can see why you are having a very difficult time moving up at all. You're MMR is actually low for Bronze 5, so you're only playing against other players that are bronze 3-5, which in turn gives you small LP gains/losses.
5 cs/minute 7+ average deahts on every champ you play frequently.
Fixing your deaths would improve you a lot
The two most important things about bronze are CS and not dying. Aim for average 6+Cs/minute, learn to play safe.
I also started playing a bit under a year ago (tail end of s6) and I sucked but you can slowly improve. The problem in bronze is there are a lotta folks who dont know/care to learn how to play the game and b/c of this can't CS, feed, or troll, But the enemy team also has a chance to have one or more of these players.
The only one you can control in a game is yourself, so get yourself fed thru CS (in your control) and don't let your enemies get fed off you (playing safe) and you will see your performance and winrate drastically improve.
I still am not perfect on the playing safe (i've gotten pretty good at farming CS tho) and b/c I'm ahead in gold I will often overextend and be overconfident leading to my death, this is not good b/c i am giving back some of the advantage I gained by beating my lane opponent in farm. But theres room for improvement for everyone.
Just remember CS> kills, dont chase people (you're probably getting baited) and play safe and dont give away easy kills.
Also let me add something else.
A lot of people when you ask them for advice will mostly look at your profile and comment about something obvious like you don't have enough CS or that you die a lot. If you didn't notice that well someone told you and now you know but that;s not really important. It's very important to see WHY you are not having good CS or die a lot.
You cannot fix a problem if you don't know WHY it is a problem. Try to find out why you are not doing some things well instead of just trying 'not to do it'.
Under 70 CS at 20 minutes, 2/6/3. It should be pretty obvious that your rank isn't "broken".
It does not seem possible to not be able to climb throughout 870 games. Something has to be off because I am getting increasingly better as I play.
