Any guesses as to why I'm shit?

RookPusher·11/1/2018, 6:32:47 PM·1 votes·1,055 views

I've been Bronze for several centuries. This is the account I play on, and the most recent piece of feedback I was given was "You play too many champs" which lead me to only play Poppy and Maokai top. Maokai being my main, and Poppy being (imo) and unstoppable killing machine.

I'll only respond to ask clarifying questions as a courtesy to anyone responding, and as an incentive for more vicious feedback. If you had to tell me to stop doing something, what would it be?

9 Comments

Crispy0Snake11/1/2018, 7:06:56 PM3 votes

Hey dude I was hardstuck Bronze 5 for months, I'd play Soraka support and pretty much run it down because I had no idea what I was doing lol. I had a diamond friend who kinda taught me the basics of the game and now I'm Gold 5, so I have some experience in what you're missing I think.

I mean buying coin item 3301 on a toplaner, especially a tanky melee champion like maokai is a bad idea. This is because when you go to get minions a Dorans shield would give you far more protection when your laner goes to bash you for getting the creeps. You can't win short trades because you don't have the Doran's Shield regen and your passive is no benefit in short trades as you'll only get it off once, and you can't win extended trades because you deal no damage outside of your abilities and without the hp from dorans shield you'll die 2 auto attacks sooner. Also D Shield makes it easier to cs, which is a good help to you.

For advice: A game you recently went 4 3 7 in you should have probably won but you built Spirit visage vs a full AD team which is bad because it's an MR item. Ultimately you only got 450 hp, health regen and cdr for 2,800 gold. That's really bad considering you don't get a large amount of cs because you can't contest the wave because you start coin, so it's a large percentage of your income. Instead of Spirit visage, an AMAZING item for maokai is righteous glory item 3800 . If your team is ahead, you can initiate a fight with it and win the game with a good initiation. It still gives you health regen, hp and cdr but it also gives mana, which you can use to cast abilities to get your passive up more often so it also gives you sustain. It's also very cheap.

Only consider spirit visage vs AP toplaners Teemo Viktor Akali Vladimir Mordekaiser or later into the game if you have a soraka on your team that can heal you.

BluePenguin911/1/2018, 7:02:32 PM2 votes

Its quite difficult to dig out of deep bronze because you will get many teammate feeders. You will have to be the one making the big plays. If you played top carries like Fiora or Jax I would say you need to get ahead in lane and split push and snowball. But as a tank, this is what I got for ya.

Consult ProBuilds.net for runes and item builds. Example Maokai really wants to get a Righteous Glory.
Try to always buy a ward and place it after you back.
In lane, focus on CS and not dying instead of fighting/trading or chasing for kills.
If you get behind in lane, sit under turret and last hit. Do not feed any extra kills and try to catch up in teamfights.
In teamfights, use your cc to protect your carries from divers.

If you consistently do all this you should win more than you lose and move up.

Elite4Runner11/1/2018, 7:05:46 PM2 votes

Because you like to take top lane tank champions into the support position, and you seem to always start with coin?

Am I close?

giannishannibal11/1/2018, 7:06:13 PM2 votes

Well since you have restricted the champion pool, you can imporve further your skills. Firstly try to farm cs , even if you have 0 kills with cs you can be always relevant and a constant threat plus you will always push a lane and help destroy towers. Try to have 9-11 cs per minute. Hard but if you do when the laning phase is done you will be strong just because you have so much gold to spend on items. Secondly , dont stick to one build path every game, i mean u may need to rush a item 3155 or the item 3211 before you go for item 3068 or item 3025 as Poppy. Not every match up is the same or the opponents skill is the same. Eg i played a game vs a bad teemo and i was killing him every time. So i rushed item 3078 asap for more damage to snowball. But the next day i played vs a way better teemo player who could kite me for ages so i went for item 3065 and item 3111 so i could stay in lane and absorb his trades. Thirdly, ward the river close to to enemy jungle entrances so you always have vision to avoid gank. After laning phase buy a item 2055 and put it in crossroads so you can observe enemy movements and ping/write in chat to warn the team. Fourth, try at least to trade objectives. Eg your enemy laner TP to bot and you couldnt catch him to stop his TP and you dont have yours up? Then at least hard push you lane and do damage to tower. Another example is you are getting camped at top lane- do not flame omg noob jungler come gank enemy has come a gazillion of times already and you 0- try to convice the jugler to go to the bot side and either steal camps or take dragon or set up ganks for mid and bot. As long 2 lanes win and you build tank items you can win easily. Its not the jungler job to win all 3 lanes for you. His job is objective control and maybe gank overextending enemies. Fifth, for the love of god, DO NOT ALWAYS GROUP MID AND FIGHT LIKE YOU PLAY ARAM. Its not aram is ranked and its SR. You have to make sure to have side lanes pushing and sometimes because the enemies have better teamfight potential or they are ahead you should splitpush and convince your team just PASSIVELY FARM AND DEFEND UNDER TOWER. Sometime if you are behind but you have better teamfight you can force a fight but only once every 3 or 5 mins. Sixth, follow the 10 sec rule: Can i kill the low HP enemy IF I CHASE HIM FOR 10 SECONDS? IF the answer is YES or you are 85% sure that this statement is true then chase him for 10 seconds, not 11 second, not 10.5 seconds, just 10. IF you the answer to the question is NO or you have already spent 10 secs chasing then stop, probalbly enemies will surround you and kill you or it FAR FAR FAR better to take to push a lane get tower, get dragon, get rift herald or take baron - OBJECTIVE>>>>>>>>CHASING KILLS FOR MORE THAN 10seconds. Seventh, dont care what the chat is writing, complety ignore them, dont type any responce to comments omg noob or why you didnt do this etc , or to random flaming. You spend enetgy and mental strenght to type and answer to trolls, not worth. Its better to formulate a plan about your next 2-3 moves. Lastly, when you are in the loading screen fomulate a general game plan for the specific game so you know that you will go b at 1300 gold and get iteam and pots and wards.

ORlANNAGRANDE11/1/2018, 7:31:18 PM2 votes

I used to be Diamond 3.

Here’s what worked for me:

Farm. This game is not a fighting game. Aim to get 70-80CS by 10 min and maintain that ratio.
Watch the mini map 80% of the time
Something new I did: turn off all chat lol

Gryzaldr11/2/2018, 1:02:09 AM1 votes

First piece of advice, don't limit yourself to only 2 champions. Try to make a list of 5 champions you are either comfortable with or that you want to learn/master and only focus on those 5. Poppy and Mao'kai are strong, but try tossing in 3 others to still keep that variety while keeping yourself focused. Being a 1-trick is not a good thing. Also, if you are being placed in another role for ranked try to make 2 of that specific role to your 5 that other role. The main reason for this is so that it is difficult for you to get banned out and it makes it so that you HAVE champions of that off-role. If you like Tanks/heavy bruisers, consider adding Sion/Olaf/Fiora/Jax to your top lane roster, if you play support, take Alistar/Braum/Leona. Variety is not a hindrance, but specializing in a select champion pool will help you in the long run.

Second piece of advice, at the beginning of any game MUTE all members of the enemy team (both Chat and Emotes). This will make it harder for them to Tilt you and also keeps chat clear for your teams pings and call-outs to be seen.

Third piece of advice, watch a few videos of CURRENT gameplay for the champions you play or want to play to see how others: Position themselves in trades/ganks/teamfights, vision placement and map awareness, CD's of your opponent in lane (ult/engage abilities + summs), Roaming/counter play on OBJ/tower/teamfights, Core Items vs situational items, and how they CS vs oppressive/passive lane. I know this is a lot to understand and check all at once, but a lot of it will become instinctual as you play more.

Fourth piece of advice, always assume the person/team you are against is better than you are. This sounds dumb, but you will play more cautiously if you do and you will be less likely to died from overestimating yourself. I can't tell you how many times I've watch a teammate lose lane simply because they though the lane was "easy". Even if you are in a favorable match up, if your opponent understand their mechanics and potentials of their champion better than you do they can still win.

Fifth and final piece of advice, keep a cool and calm mentality while playing. Don't over hype yourself after a win, don't get depressed after a loss. try to only play games in sets of 3 or 5 and never more than that. These "sets" are simple to follow, if you win 2/3 games in a set of 3 you had a good gaming session and you can keep going, but, if you go 1/3 stop playing for an hour or so and allow yourself to "reset" your mentality on the game and try again. Same holds true for the sets of 5, 3/5 or bettter keep rolling the games if you want, 2/5 or less stop playing for a little while and come back. This holds true for the game as a whole, regardless of gametype you played in.

Keep all of this in mind as best you can and I'm sure you will at minimum reach high Silver / low Gold.