I've been in silver since last season and I've been trying to improve into gold but the amount of skill required is enormous and the toxic players are making it even harder. Any tips or recommendations would be helpful. Thx.
-Scrub player
thx guys i'll take try what you guys mentioned
Shorten your champion pool for starters. Single most helpful thing for me.
The champions I played filled at least two of the following criteria:
These were chosen since mid-game was the most volatile time, which would decide whether a team won or lost. If you were capable of dominating this portion of the game, you could easily transition is to a victory.
Nasus and Irelia were especially good picks for me in this environment since they are quite capable of crushing most matchups if they don't fall behind early (and players in Silver often don't know hoetc.w to gank, rotate, or deny them farm properly) and split-pushing until the game ends, killing anyone who comes to stop them.
I found that games would often devolve into both teams standing awkwardly beside objectives (i.e. baron, dragon, mid tower) for long period of time. Eventually, one team or another would get caught or sloppily engage a fight.
Varus (ADC) and Ziggs (mid) worked well in this environment since they could easily poke down the enemy team before fights, catch someone out, or disengage for their team. They dealt large amount of AoE damage, providing good CC, and had high waveclear/poke. They are were both also quite strong in the mid-game as well.
Gragas (jungle) worked quite well to since he could poke/waveclear (Q), engage/disengage/catch (E, R), had strong early ganks and good scaling, and could use his passive to mitigate poke damage.
Also, it may be a good idea to work on your item builds. While they aren't necessarily horrible, they could stand to be improved in a few areas.
i.e. You built Ravenous Hydra instead of Hextech Gunblade on Jax, Infinity Edge and Death's Dancer on Fiora instead of Black Cleaver against WW and Shen, etc.
i was gold mid season, placements put me back into silver, now im trying to climb out. The things that got me out in the first place:
*** use the "anonymous ping**", as in instead of pinging directly on drag/ tower/ etc. ping near it. They don't know who it is. So if a certain teammate may have something against you, they are more likely to follow the ping because it may be coming form their duo or the at the moment carry.
Those are a few things I don't see brought up alot which helped me climb.
