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can't improve no matter what

Colonell·7/7/2016, 8:43:35 PM·1 votes·1,556 views

/rant

  1. I watch my replays on replay.gg to take notes on my mistakes
  2. I choose to be more patient and wait for an opportunity rather than 'going ham'
  3. I try to be as consistent as possible
  4. I have a program that makes a little -ping- sound every 6 seconds to train me to look at the map so i'm more aware. I use this every other game.
  5. I picked 1 champion, Diana, and I'm trying to make her the champ that will allow me to carry to higher silver/low gold -> still lose.
  6. My wards are always on CD, and when I jg I buy a pink almost literally every-single-freaking-time I back and use it when trying to get another gank off.
  7. I say absolutely NOTHING in chat. Nothing at all, I communicate with just pings.

Feel free to look up my lolprofile, and laugh at how terrible its turned into. I just don't know what to do anymore. I've acknowledged that there's always room for improvement and that the 1 consistent variable for each game is myself but i'm still losing all the time! Win 1-Lose 2-Win 1-Lose 3. I've already uninstalled League so i'm not distracted by it when i get bored during my studies for the next week. I just want to take a break but it still leaves me wonder how can I improve if I'm still losing when doing everything suggested!

People think that just because i'm a low rank means I know nothing about the nature of PvP. I use to play an MMO for years, and I could roam in open-world with randoms and dominate casual pvp. When it came to serious group pvp, me and my legion of 30-some friends would deny the enemy of so much game content. We would make them feel so hopeless and miserable that they would reroll to another server, or just quit the game in general and come play a game like League of Legends. The difference between my time there and my time here is that i'm not playing with the people I normally do, but it was through playing with them I developed understanding for_ how pvp works_. It's knowing how to prioritize the targets in a fight, then knowing how/when to focus them down using the skills that are available to you and your team mates. If the enemy has [insert game-changing ults here] then do this accordingly. It's not rocket science to know that you should kill the squishy-dps targets first to remove their damage from the equation. Yet there I am, watching my entire team blow all their ults/summoners on a full tank alistar whose just soaking up all the damage while the 12/5/8 ezreal is in the back just sitting , pew-pewing away. Then my team rages when we lose a team fight. Give me a fucking break.

It was like 3-4 weeks ago when I climbed from Bronze 1 to promos for Silver 3 in like 10-12 hours of playing. I was so happy because I felt like I was getting towards a more deserving elo. If I plateau'd then I'd be okay with that to, because it would be where I belong. I got to promos for silver 3 and ended up getting trolled by a top nasus who rushed athenes, then rabadons, then hourglass. The enemy team had no AP :| That put me on tilt, and I was stupid to continue where I lose the next game. Ever since then I've just been falling and now I can't even make it past 20 LP silver 5.

/end_rant

TL;DR - No matter what I try I always lose.

12 Comments

RedPandaFury7/7/2016, 8:45:13 PM1 votes

I feel you. I'm done with feeders trolls and smurfs in bronze. I can't climb past B4 because everytime I get close I get people that don't want to play and would rather mess around. Or I get pinned against smurfs that just delete us in game because they ar ebored or want to try new things ... like I don't understand smurfing. I don't get why they need to make bronze more difficult than it already is.

Azure Hamster7/7/2016, 8:47:11 PM1 votes

I got dumped into B5 from S4 in this season's provisionals. I climbed back out in a month. Just focus on your own play. Smurfs show up on your team as often as they do on the other team.

Caitlyn

Fauxfire7/7/2016, 9:07:22 PM1 votes

You kill Weeabos? Please don't hunt me.

Anyway, I want to give my most sincere, serious advice. Just at first glance I notice that your jungle and solo cs/min is, on average, low for the mind-game power spikes the champs the play offer. I would focus quite a bit more on being relevant to your team by keeping up on cs. Also, on all the recent games you lost, I notice your KD is very low and your deaths exceed 8+ most of the time. Are you getting picked at keys moments of the game or positioning poorly in fights? I think that positioning in a team as a whole is something VERY overlooked in the average level of play in League. Your thoughts?

DænariusKhølerin7/7/2016, 9:35:05 PM1 votes

Before I even play Ranked games, I'm playing a lot of Normal games so I can learn more about teamplay specifically.

First, you're going to need chat and more pings in low elo. I see it all the time where Jungler's give an "On my way" ping to a solo lane. You may back off thinking it's a bad gank, but the solo laner may still go in and you don't even notice. In the end they die and give you passive aggressive ...'s. So tell them specifically "Bot after Red"/"Let the wave come to you"/Fall Back Ping. Ping rapidly on a target if you think that target should be engaged upon. A lot of times I find I'm the only one pinging the person to focus in a teamfight, so I make sure I ping the right person.

I started to notice thing I could do instead of just afk playing my role. Like if I play support, now I learned which times to roam, how to poke and peel, etc. If I play ADC, I know when to back off and when to flash in and make a play more often than I did before. If I play Top, I know when to back off because my lane opponent is playing stupidly aggressive and I'm going to get ganked. If I play Mid, I itemize properly according to my matchup.

I watch replays of the best players playing my role. Of course I can't be that good right off the bat, but I make sure I'm playing better each day by thinking what imaqtpie/Deft/Doublelift (ADC main) would have done there. I search specific matchups on a relevant patch on YouTube also. If 2 champs haven't been changed since before the patch you're watching, then it's still ok to watch. Sometimes I even just watch the laning phase.

To really carry your team, you need to make good calls. You need to lead. If you just Aced the other team and your team is scrambling around looking like they don't know what to do or your team is trying to recall, ping the best objective rapidly. The thing I'm focusing on right now is teamfighting with my team. Luckily I get a team that knows what they should be doing (or seem like they do) about 55% (arbitrary number I just think is right) of the time. If you notice someone feeding, tell them to play safe for the time being or something. Sometimes they end up being good in the end, but just need a splash of water to wake them up.

I also watch strict "I don't even think of that when I play but I want to" videos. Examples are Teamfight Breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIb6HQElw7g and someone maybe even more intensive, LastShadow9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZblvfOK9ajI . These alone are incredibly helpful.

And last but not least, play with a friend or two that has knowledge about the game. In normals, I've met people that are good at playing their roles. I add them and queue with them a few more times to determine if they are as good as I think they are. I have a friend who is a good ADC that has a pretty good winrate. If I had gone along with being a Support main, I would have Supported them in Ranked anytime. But now I want to be an ADC main. So what am I looking for? A good Support. A Top laner or Mid laner should look for at least a good Jungler, and a Jungler should look for at least a good top laner to play with, since when they are good you can focus on Mid and Bot.

So, I really hope this helps. Good luck climbing.

Slayerics7/7/2016, 11:52:17 PM1 votes

your major problem is playing champions that just aren't good.

Why are you playing kat still with a 37% win rate and a <2 kda?

google "Dynamic queue tier list"

Pick one of the champions from the top of the list, main them, and climb.

DeathBurst7/8/2016, 9:51:10 AM1 votes

Your list of points you're doing to improve is pretty good. Just keep like that, and you'll improve at some point.

My only suggestion/remark: why Diana? Have you tried enough different champions before choosing her? Sometimes, your style just doesn't fit with some champions, and another champion will just "click" with you and it will come easier.