Getting Better at Solo Ranked

JuggernuatFlash·Aug 21, 2016·1 votes·296 views

I have been playing ranked games for a while and I have 7 wins and 40 loses. I WANT TO GET BETTER. I have looked at champion guides, tips on how to climb, I even looked at some Diamond level tips. Do I just suck at this game naturally? If I do then please, anyone, give me tips on how to climb. I just got demoted to Bronze 5 and don't know how to climb back up. Please I want to get better. And don't be a jerk and tell me to quit playing league. I want to continue playing this game.

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Baby GhoulAug 21, 20162 votes

You're probably playing too many champions.

Pick one champion, and learn to play them well. Then pick two back ups that you play decently, one for when you get your secondary and one for when your main gets banned or picked. I would say the more versatile the better. Sometimes wins come down to team composition.

Another good one is focus on farming, not fighting. Anytime spent out of lane is not worth it. It doesn't ever matter how close you were to killing a champion, if you die, you're losing a lot of time and gold. You also won't be winning another trade with them unless they mess up or dive you. If you die once, don't try to duel them again. You'll most likely die again. One death is easy to come back from, two and so on is much more difficult.

Also know when you're playing against a champion that is especially oppressive when on a killing spree, so like Yasuo or Riven. You really want to take care against those types of champions, and make sure your teammates know when they're roaming.

Finally know your priorities.

Nexus > Inhibitors > Turrets > Dragon/Baron > Farming > Kills

Turrets and objectives like dragon are situational. It depends on where everyone is on the map, and which you're closer to. I will say I like to get first dragon when possible, and that usually happens after the first death bot. However if it's a situation where a tower is about to go down, take that first before going to dragon. Know that when you have a lock on your priorities, you will get more kills and win rather than just seeking out kills.

Grouping is important too, but in lower ELO it's left up to fate even into Gold. All I can say is don't be that player that's split pushing when the team is winning and fighting, and don't be that player that is charging into fights when the team isn't grouped.

Everything else you just learn through playing the game.

JuggernuatFlashAug 21, 20161 votes

Thx Baby Ghoul. I have been roaming and helping my teammates a lot. And me and my teammate always die either to mid coming to help or jg diving us with their teammate.

JuggernuatFlashAug 21, 20161 votes

This isn't just for my sake but for anyone who's having trouble climbing.

Michael702Aug 21, 20161 votes

Ranked is a joke this season. If you really want to climb, abuse dynamic queue like everybody else.

Rito GumsAug 21, 20161 votes

You trying to say that any solo queue player will have like 15% winrate like OP?

Swiftstrike4Aug 21, 20161 votes

I was going to leave a post but Baby Ghoul pretty much hit it.

Just focus on 2 roles and 1 champion at each role with 2 backups just incase.

Play low skill cap champions. TF is a pretty high skill cap champion compared to other mids. You may want to try someone else.

Your Annie looks OK. You may want to continue to play her mid and flex her to support.

Your CS is really low. Just focus on farming and not attacking. Learn how to farm under tower. At your Elo you should be able to just win through farming and being stronger than the enemy in later fights rather than killing in lane.

JuggernuatFlashAug 21, 20161 votes

So no playing difficult champs. I haven't found TF as difficult but now I'm seeing it. And I never thought that my CS was so low. I normally start to roam to other lanes at lvl 6 and snowball. But I forgot about my CSing. Thx

JuggernuatFlashAug 21, 20161 votes

These tips are great guys thx. But what should you do if your team is tilted and flaming each other or your tilted yourself. Third to last game I got tilted because I died three times to a Viktor. One to his ultimate. Other two I got ganked.

JuggernuatFlashAug 21, 2016

Whole team was mad and tilted at me.

Swiftstrike4Aug 21, 20161 votes

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These tips are great guys thx. But what should you do if your team is tilted and flaming each other or your tilted yourself. Third to last game I got tilted because I died three times to a Viktor. One to his ultimate. Other two I got ganked.

At lower Elo, players often blame each other for mistakes. Quite frankly, they are immature and have a very low understanding of the game, while they think they understand how to play.

Here is what you should do:

Focus on your game, not your teammates. You can't stop the bot lane from dying several times, but you can focus on winning at your position
Never respond to flamers or people arguing with you about your play. Mute them. There is no point in responding to them unless it is to tell them to relax or assure them that the game is still winnable. If they continue then you can mute them. Low Elo is FILLED with players that do this and this largely why they cannot climb. They simple get easily upset or discouraged after a few deaths/mistakes. In Bronze EVERY game is winnable because NO player in that Elo outside of a smurf knows how to push a lead.
Never take out your anger towards your teammates or at least don't type it to them. You can talk out-loud if you want when players make mistakes and sometimes saying it to yourself helps as a release to get it out of your system. Don't dwell on the mistakes though.

Some other tips:

Don't chase kills ever.
Farm, you should try to average 5-7 CS per minute of game. No lower than 5 in your Elo even in losing games.
Avoid trading in general, just go all-in if you see an opportunity. Farming is MUCH more important than trying to poke at this Elo. That's why I think is a good champion for you to play mid. She is a champion that just blows people up and then you don't have to worry about trading in lane, you just have to determine if you can kill someone or if you can't.
Take teleport mid. If you get lower than half health and have used up your potions just back and TP back to lane.
Respect level differentials. Low Elo players don't do this at all. If you are level 6 and they are level 8 DO NOT try to fight them. Two or more levels suggest that they are very strong, have more items and gold than you, and they have better base stats. I would even go as far as saying do not pick a fight with someone who is 1 full level ahead of you when you are level 10 or lower.