Escaping Elo Hell

The Grand Dopest·4/16/2016, 1:05:54 AM·1 votes·295 views

hi i'm "J m a c b o y z" and i have been stuck in silver for going on 3 seasons now. i can easily get to silver within my first week of ranking when a new season comes about, but once i get there, i struggle even getting out of the lower divisions and am always switching up what champions/roles im doing and i seem to go on short little streaks (like 2-5 game winstreaks, Etc.) same goes for loss streaks. The main problem is, i can never consistantly stay with the same roles and/or champions and i believe that's holding me back from climbing partly, but also that i'm just not that great at the game.

my question is, how can i decide what 2 roles i should choose that fit my playstyle? I have always been a bot main til i recently started jungling and started out well in ranked and now i can't even move in LP. Any tips to picking the 2 roles that are right for me to use in the new dynamic Q system?

10 Comments

Dreadlocks4/16/2016, 1:34:28 AM1 votes

First off, ELO hell doesn't exist. Second, what is your FAVORITE role to play? Not your best, but your favorite. That is how you begin to narrow down your position and champions that fit your play-style.

Unfortunate Game4/16/2016, 2:01:35 AM1 votes

You play the most fun roles for yourself. My roles are jungle and mid, initially it was mid and bot, I also enjoy supporting, etc. but it really depends who im playing with.

So you consistently play the 2 most roles you like, and try to keep champions to 2-4 different ones on each role.

Obvious key points

Ward (buy pinks) / Deny Vision (sweeper for jg/mid/sup, mid lane if youre an assassin and you want to catch someone out)
Get map awareness / Awareness of enemy Jg
Focus objectives (Towers are worth more than kills, and focus on all the towers, not just run down mid lane like the typical player)
After you get an inhib, and if you dont think you can end, rotate to a different tower/objective, dont just sit under that tower wasting time.
Baron can be worth more than inhib, but in the end you need to decide if its worth it for you (if you have more towers, if you can secure it safely without throwing, etc.)
You want to group and stay grouped, especially when they have an assassin on the enemy team. .
Try to pick mid-late game champions for bronze-gold games, because games drag out a bit longer in this elo. (For higher elo, its all about early pressure though)
Games are never 100% won in this elo, you can throw a game with a 10k gold lead with one bad team fight in the end, so dont tilt.
You can climb with 50% win rate, so even if you win one, lose one all day, youll eventually get to where you belong till you improve further.

P.S. Ideally you want to be getting all 3 1st turrets then farming it up, but in silver its team death match aram style all game.

Kai Guy4/16/2016, 2:17:33 AM1 votes

imo, dont go switching stuff up. Invest into a few champs your good with. Get their mechanics down. Before ya do ranked with anybody i would advice spending atl east 10 games with them. How many rune pages do you have? Get a good amount of those, try and have a variety of useful pages for the champs and roles ya play. Your voli seems to be wining ya a good % play like 15 more games with him and if your win rates still over 58% you might want to keep him in rotation for a bit. Alot of folks say watch the pros, they neglect to mention you should focus on learning combos and tricks. Mechanics pros have are great with highly coordinated teams but you cant keep leaving adc as a support to gank mid if your mid has no idea wtf to do with it. Dragon and Barron are great but not worth getting aced over. Pro builds are usually hell strong for the gold they gain and if your mechanics are not the same then your hurting yourself doing a copy paste build ya saw in lcs. Play for what your can powerspike and not that guy who does not miss a single CS or jungler who consistantly stacked Devo by 18 min in. Also look and see that they adjust builds for comps remember this and dont just look at a single game as the end of it. One size does not fit all. (personally i dont watch pro play often besides worlds and enjoy theory crafting and doing my own math. Im also a huge geek soo....) That is about it apart from some on game related tips that helped me back in the day. Dont rage, dont tilt, Calm folks down. care more about how your playing and what you can improve on then your teammates. Its better to be helpful in organizing your team to relax and not freak out, or group for objectives, or focus a feed carry then to critique their entire build, if they are struggling and you really want to then fine, but be nice and i would highly recommend asking them for their permission first. Some games are won by getting the two toxic guys on your team to mute each other if they wont be civil. Even at a 10 kill lead is not over, this goes both ways.