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Tips and Tricks to Success in Bronze

Jhin UItd JFK·8/9/2016, 11:52:32 AM·4 votes·600 views

Now I do realize that the title sounds like a clickbait article but hear me out :P I've learned a lot during my time in Bronze and how to abuse the lack of "skill" in the elo. Some of it is also usable in Silver. I use the term skill lightly since some players are actually decent mechanically, but lack in other aspects, i.e. map awareness. I won't go in depth to the "usual" tips you see in guides and stuff, aka CS and map awareness etc...

  • Learn your Champion's matchups. You don't have to go through every single possible matchup, but you can take 5-10 minutes to read up on current meta picks in your lane and assess how your champion fares against them.

  • Play dynamically. Adding onto the point above, if you're against a lane opponent that your champion does well against, press your advantage. Also pay attention to power spikes. A level 2 powerspike on certain champions should be respected, unless you spike harder.

  • Don't be afraid to test your limits. A lot of game knowledge comes with experience, so don't be afraid to test what you can and can't do, such as diving towers.

  • Get your opposing laner to burn their summoners first. The laning phase is like a game of chess; whoever makes the first mistake and gets capitalized on usually loses. From what I've learned playing mid/bot frequently, getting your opponents to burn their summoner(s) first gives you a huge advantage over them, increasing your kill potential and the chance to snowball your lead.

  • Roam, roam, roam! If you're ahead in, say, mid lane, extend your lead to other lanes to help them snowball and further your own lead. It's an overall benefit to the team, and opens up possible Rift Herald/Dragon grabs.

  • Sometimes you can't play the objective game. The game is vastly different from low elo all the way up to high elo and pro play. It's usually seen in higher elos that objectives are valued much much more. Because of this some people try to "force" the objective game, which always doesn't end up well because, most of the games are a TDM. If you can't play the objective game, then try to get ahead by playing the TDM.

  • Practice! Practice makes perfect. By implementing certain things into your gameplay on a game by game basis, you end up getting much better using the mechanic and it ends up becoming second nature.

7 Comments

Dukues8/9/2016, 1:28:00 PM2 votes

I like the post. Bronze is a strange elo. The way I have approached bronze since getting out in season 3 is by playing roles/champions I feel I can get a lot of kills with and snowball with. Csing is important and a lot of players in lower elo don't understand how important it is if they fall way behind in cs. But like you said, roaming is also important. If I jumped into a bronze game today playing say mid i would be aggressive and try and kill my lane opponent. If I am vs an average bronze player I should be able to get a lead fairly easily. I would then keep farming/fighting lane opponent and looking for opportunities to roam. I love roaming bot lane as a mid laner because 2 players bot and maybe even the enemy jungler. Last season I was getting like 20 kills a game with Annie messing around in bronze games by getting a couple kills in lane then continuously ganking bot. A lot of games I would end with most cs and most kills and basically 1v5 the enemy team. Not every game may go that way but bronze definitely more about being able to win the TDM part than the objective game.

I am very aggressive in lane in bronze games because I can usually dodge my lane opponents skill shots and usually not afraid of the enemy jungler. Your average bronze jungler is going to use a poor gank path or gank at a poor time. Usually I will be up a few kills in lane and then the jungle will try and gank and I will get a double kill. So I would say play aggressive unless the enemy laner is stronger than you or the enemy jungler seems to know what their doing.

Kaioko8/9/2016, 4:48:47 PM2 votes

I'll add another to your list - play champions that are consistent in what they do, and are easy to achieve their potential:

For example playing an Annie mid or a Garen top, a Caitlyn ADC, a Soraka support, and a Vi jungler. These are not exactly the hardest champions to master and will be nearly as effective as really hard champs to master. What you trade for guaranteed success is the flexibility with that champion and not the power. In bronze you don't need that flexibility.

lilpokfluf8/9/2016, 12:13:07 PM1 votes

I've found that actual extremely aggressive play is not punished often by junglers. Obviously when it does it sucks but you can often push the enemy out of lane and literally stand on their side keeping out gold/exp and rarely does the enemy jungler come and kill you. You need to be confident to do this though and be comfortable playing aggressively and this works less and less the higher up you move in the ladder. I often get punished in silver 3 for playing like a dick but sometimes it still works and I almost always give it a shot.

Good advice btw moving out of bronze is more understanding your favorite champs than it is your ability to cs and take objectives because all you do is team fight over and over after 20 min

ABSINTHEged8/9/2016, 2:41:37 PM1 votes

So,something to add and something to disagree on here

I would add that bronze level play is not really a team game. Bronze is 1v9. To get out of it you really need to take every advantage available to you. Take kills. Take farm. Take towers. Win game. Don't worry about trying to pass on blue to your mid laner as a jungler. You'll just lose half your health waiting for them to show and then have to back.

That being said? The ONLY way to carry games at low level is to play the objective game. The objective game is the only way to play. In bronze especially. I've noticed the lower MMR you go the less people are aware of Windows they have to take objectives after fights. Sometimes people have a 5v5 fight, ace the enemy team, and then take nothing for it.

You know what would be better? If your team 4v5d without you, wiped, but you took an inhibitor turret because the enemy team has no map awareness.