Just like the title says, I want to know how you managed to escape Silver. Did you have to carry? What positions/champions did you play? Have you had a n easier time in ranked since then?
Share your stories! Because I'm pulling my hair out.
http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2072375832/229767728?tab=overview
Commit Sudoku4 votesHonestly nothing special I just played well and I got out.
69469238DEL11 votesi like this, gives me hope
Commit Sudoku1 votesliterally just hit plat 3 and i started season 5 silver 5
Troiann1 votesVolibear and Hecarim
The Bearded Bard1 votesHmmm I think it was season 4. I had mostly positive win rates with all my favorite champs, those being Anivia mid, Nautilus jungle, and Maokai jungle. Orianna was really holding me back, 23 games played with a 39% win rate.
This season should be extremely easy to climb considering you can always get the position you want, you just have to find some champions you enjoy and play well and do you. If you've got some champions that you like playing with but don't have a high winrate with (my orianna for example) you should practice them more in normals and leave them out of ranked until you're sure you can win with them.
Also, if you're ever feeling like your teammates aren't going to pull their weight during the draft, just dodge. It's better to waste 5 minutes of your time and like 3 LP than 30 minutes and 20 LP.
69469238DEL11 voteswords of wisdom
Dehitay1 votesGetting out of silver might be weird if you just finished getting out of bronze cause it's an incredibly different style. In bronze, you get out by solo carrying the team so you need to play champs that can hard carry. In Silver, everybody knows how to carry with a champ, so you need to learn to play champs that can stop carries cause most people can't be bothered to learn something new. Start picking up bruisers and paying attention to team composition. In silver, you generally see 4 other people who go squishy cause they're too selfish to think about the team. So if you want to win, man up and pick something tanky when that happens. Carries win bronze, but bruisers win silver.
69469238DEL11 votesI was never in Bronze, but I get matched with Bronze teammates in ranked, I still don't understand how that works...
EndlessSorcerer1 votesI played champions with strong mid-game teamfighting and either 1) good poke and waveclear or 2) strong snowballing potential early- and mid-game. In addition, I recall that many players in Silver would pick champions with high damage, low durability, and low CC meaning that champions with durability and/or CC were very useful for covering the team's weaknesses.
My main picks in Silver (my first ~30 ranked games if you want to check) were:
ADC
Mid
Jungle
Top.
Both teams would often group around an objective (i.e. tower, Dragon, Baron) and proceed to stand around lobbing pot-shots are one another until someone finally engaged (for better or worse) during these stand-offs.
Ziggs and Varus were both capable of waveclearing and poking down the enemy team without any risk to themselves (and Silver players aren't the most competent at dodging skillshots). When either team eventually engages, their AoE CC and damage would wreak havok with the enemy team.
Gragas could help waveclear and poke (Q) while enduring enemy harass (passive). However, his ultimate is the most useful in this scenario since it can be used to disengage fights, pick off enemies, or split up the enemy team. Even without his ultimate, his Q and E provide good CC and his W is a great defensive steroid.
Honestly, if you really don't belong in Silver you should get out pretty quickly. You can carry in any role when you play it properly; some are just more obvious than others.
Taking a quick, quick look at the game you linked, I would suggest you work on your warding. You had the yellow trinket for the entire game but only placed 3 wards.
Also, you shouldn't have built Mortal Reminder that game. The only champion that would have been useful against was Thresh (since his passive gives him bonus armor). Trundle had no armor, Vladimir only had Zhonya's Hourglass and Thresh had a Cloth Armor; if you bought it to counter their sustain, you should have left it at Executioner's Calling until it was your last item to upgrade. You'd have done better with Bloodthister instead of it.
69469238DEL11 votesthanks for suggesting champs, I know its a different season and meta, but I'll give them a try
EndlessSorcerer1 votesI didn't make that post to suggest champions; I was explaining what qualities I was looking for in my champions, why I wanted them, and using the champions of examples of how those quantities could be used.
Use the information to determine what you should look for in the champions you pick and your general playstyle. Picking up the champions without understanding those factors won't really help you.
Noksterz1 votesI played jungle and adc and played very selfishly. I was gold 1 last season and got placed in gold 4 in the beginning of season 5. I really didnt play much ranked this season so i never climbed back to the gold 1 rank, or higher. But playing selfishly by carrying the lower elo games i how i personally did it. I realized i cant trust silver players to carry or play well....but i CAN trust my own play. So i put it on myself to carry. Also....playing strong early game champs can help to get those early kills and snowball