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How in god's name can I climb in ranked (silver)

HyperiumVortex·7/5/2018, 3:24:30 PM·1 votes·1,894 views

I've looked up every guide, video, tutorial on how to get better at the game but I'm so prevented from doing so. Every time I start winning and improving getting my stuff together, bad things start happening to me and all my hard work goes down the drain.

I don't know how to deal with teams that think they're faker's sons I HAVE knowledge on where the enemy jungler is. I TELL MY TEAM that the enemy jungler is in this location. My team proceeds to ignore me then flame me because they died from a gank.

I don't know how to deal with surrenders I'm only one person. When my teams tilt they go the whole 9 yards and they surrender before I can really pop off

and most of all: No one understands what a gank/countergank even is. 60% of the time I'll go in to gank after spam pinging it and my laner will. still. be. farming. minions. to top it all off they don't even finish with more farm than the enemy.

I know the stop dying advice. I get it, I die a lot. But how am I supposed to A) play tanky champions without dying B) deal with the 15/0 mid laner that my team fed.

19 Comments

Madsin257/5/2018, 3:35:06 PM1 votes

Switch to mid lane. Get good with the champion over plenty of normal games. Would be better to play someone who can just clear and go gank.

Doing this you do 2 things.

  1. You still act as a jgler for the team by ganking lanes(forcing your laner to follow you and miss CS or leave his bot lane defenseless) and helping your jg when needed.

  2. You are 90% insuring your mid laner will not feed, because it will be you.

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Unstoppable Monk7/5/2018, 4:20:33 PM1 votes

Funnel / Snowball duos when you can.

Most people are unreliable jerks in the elo and they'll ruin the game or your lane.

redniwediS7/5/2018, 4:21:27 PM1 votes

You use Predator a whole awful lot while in the Jungle. Yes it's good to go fast sometimes, and works really well with Warwick's ultimate, but it doesn't actually help you win a fight, it only helps you get into the fight faster. Have you tried other keystones? You don't seem to play much Yi, but if you play him more I recommend trying Conqueror instead.

You also almost always seem to rely on Titanic Hydra for your damage. Yes it's good, and allows you to build a lot of health and still do damage, but it's still less damage than a real damage item or two would give you. Have you experimented with full offensive items on your tanky builds? I see one game where you went Ravenous Hydra and Warrior, and even though the game was a loss you got 11 kills. How did that build perform, and did you learn anything from it?

Your wards placed seems to be around 8-12 wards per game, with an average of one control ward and around zero to three wards destroyed. That's a clear point to improve on, with you either needing to make better use of your yellow trinket or you needing to switch to a red trinket and focus on denying vision over supplying it. Why do you normally stick with your yellow trinket?

IP Masquerena7/5/2018, 4:43:23 PM1 votes

Currently I'm silver 2, but climbed from bronze this season, so I can give you a bit of advice not on what to do but on what NOT to do:

  • Don't focus on helping a losing lane as a jungler, focus on getting the winning lanes even more ahead. This is a mistake many low elo junglers do, me included, they try to help a team mate that has it a bit hard, while the enemy junglers gets one of his other lanes even more ahead.

Thing with that is like this, if you get counter ganked, you'll lose, as you can't 2v2 since the enemy is more ahead, while even if you win, the enemy loses little, while your team gains little, if at all.

  • Don't focus on shutting down the enemy jungler. You can't believe how many games I've won as a jungler because the enemy jungler focused on shutting me down while barely ganking. In the end of the game, it doesn't matter if you went 1000-0, if you lose, you lose. If you get something for free from the enemy jungler do it, but most of the time don't try to make it your main objective.

  • Don't gank too much. Another mistake done by players is trying to make stuff happen around the map, don't do that. If you can gank, do it, but don't try to be one that ganks too much, then realise you're too behind because your ganks failed or had no opportunity and waited like 30 sec in a bush stealing xp and getting nothing do.

  • Don't focus only on farming. Yea, on the other hand, there are players that focus too much on farming, and not realizing how many free ganks and kills exist.

A few things to do would be:

  • Do return ganks. That's simple, you see a laner pushed, you gank, get a kill for your team, then tell your team mate not to push and stay in lane. As soon as the enemy gets back, via teleport or walking, you jump on him again. That accomplishes two things: first, it tilts silver players, second, it makes the enemy scared to go ahead, especially if your laner doesn't push and stays in lane a bit more. Like, he got ganked and died twice, will he try a third time?

  • Be everywhere while also managing your farm. This is the hardest thing to do, and for that, you need to abuse the minimap. Look at the hourglass symbols, positioning and objectives and make your path in the best way to get your there. Scuttler spawns top with a gray symbol? It gets there in less than a minute, so you go from base to bot jungle, farm that and path top.

  • Early game smite, even upgraded can be tossed aside for extra speed. If your cooldown is like 3 sec remaining and you wait for that to clear a camp, but your minimap tells you that an enemy is close and you can do a fast gank, just smite the camp, because unless you're already full hp, the smite will also heal you, and those 2-3 extra seconds will make or break kills.

  • Learn that not all ganks must be kills to be successful. Blow a flash or a summoner, or even forced the enemy laner to back? That's a good gank. If you blow a summoner, he won't have it next gank, so that will lead onto a kill, or even if your laner can get a solo kill because of the extra summoner, or it can even make your laner escape death because the enemy can't flash onto him to get the kill.

  • Place deep wards, not shallow ones. Tribush, river bush, mid lane side bushes, those are shallow ones, so let others ward those, you focus on deep wards, like the buff bushes, wolf/raptor camp, jungle entrances, closer to the enemy than you. Yes, some of these wards may get your killed sometimes, but those wads can give much more information than shallow ones, allowing you more options.

SwiftKitten887/5/2018, 4:51:55 PM1 votes

in silver? you dont... you wont climb out of silver, even diamond smurfs have a hard time climb out out of silver.. you are better off making a new account and placing directly into gold and climbing from there.

you will certainly be able to hardcarry some of your game.. but only about 5% of them. if u are consistent in your play".. it is simple math.. you become a "constant"

and the only other variables become your teammates and the enemy team. the vast majority of the games are not decided on the rift at all but my matchmaking and the rest by champ select.. if NOBODY feeds then winning is easy. but you can't control other people. you can lead a horse to water, but u cant make it drink. and your your trying to do the oregon trail with reallyt dumb horses.... your fucked..

i mean statistically you WILL climb, but the amount of games u can affect and how long it would take and how miserable it would be to do so make its a joke compared to just starting a new account and placing directly into gold. you CAN climb.. until riot stopped putting brand new players in silver.. its always going to be a crap shoot.

crispy667/5/2018, 8:03:12 PM1 votes

Hello it looks like you play on NA, after playing a bunch of ranked games on NA myself i noticed the "time" i play on greatly effect the team mates i'm matched with thus effecting my win rate, this is probably impossible for some to do due to work/school or their schedules but if you try playing at around 4AM to 10AM est time you will notice a dramatic change in your team mates skill level than the ones you get matched with when you play around your afternoon time.

BLACK REALM GOD7/5/2018, 8:04:48 PM1 votes

please dont use my name in vain

that is all.

Subdue10/2/2018, 5:15:35 PM1 votes

Step 1: Blame yourself.

Seriously. For everything that goes wrong in the game, the question isn't "Why did X teammate do that?" but rather, "What could I have done to prevent that, or to have claimed something in return for that."

At the end of the day, there's only one thing you have control of every single game, and that's what you do. You are the recurring factor in all of your games.