How Do I Get Better At This Game?!

69944531DEL1·12/5/2016, 6:29:52 AM·3 votes·960 views

I am Bronze 5, the lowest of the low. I don't know how to increase my skill. I'm lost. 100% clueless. PLEASE, if you have any way of helping me, do! I really want to increase my skill at this game! Thank you!! <3

Edit: I know I won't have a massive skill increase over night, and that it takes work to get better. I'm willing to just slowly make my skill better. I want my skill increased at this game.

This is my replay.gg if it helps:

http://www.replay.gg/search/na/TherianSeal

Also, I really prefer Top or bot (Top more so than bot) If that accounts to anything. I can play some games of champs I enjoy so anyone can see them on replay.gg. (My best friend irl is my support when I bot usually, but I still greatly enjoy adc in soloq)

18 Comments

BlazeLegacy12/5/2016, 10:09:04 AM2 votes

Here are the fundamentals. Play with your most comfortable champs. Csing impacts your late game. Try to focus farming early. Last hitting when minions are very low. Your minimum CS goal should be 120-140 in 20 minutes. Learn to zone. (Poke when your enemy tries to go for the last hit.) Learn to freeze lane. (Best time to recall is when your minions are pushed to their tower and denying whatever gold income and experience. Or if you really need to recall make sure both yours and their minion meets at the center of the lane. If minions are pushed to your tower you will lose gold income and experience.) Don't feed. When you are low like very low 25% health or lower. Just back so your enemy can't gank you, even if you think you can last. Always ward. Map awareness is key to winning game. I don't give a flying crap if you aren't support. You still have to contribute for the team with your free trinkets or buy a C-Ward, since you will be earning more gold than the support at least get a C ward. It's only 75gold. Know what to build against your enemy. Go Mobafire.com. Know your counters so you won't have a hard time in lane. In Teamfights, try not fight to the death. If you are going tank make sure you tank some at least until 50-60% damage. When you think you have at least 30-40% health left, back immediately. If you are a fighter you should at least have 2 tank items in your inventory. DEADMAN PLATE AND SPIRIT VISAGE is ideal or take Omens instead of Deadman plate for late game for more CC. Fight when team is around you. Don't chase or overextend to the point that enemy are coming to gank you. At least expect getting ganked when you are overextending. That is what wards are for. Watch other lanes for MIA's. Always call MIA. Overextend means free kill for the enemy team.

ModKnightsKemplar12/5/2016, 9:45:30 PM2 votes

You can always watch some streams. Watching the pros helps a lot, too. I've also seen a lot of tutorials on youtube on specific topics. Realistically, I think watching the pros helps a lot with understand the macro game. In order to get specific techniques down, watch vids on youtube. That's my recommendation.

Calabok12/5/2016, 6:50:21 AM2 votes

Buy Steel Armor and Weapons
Put on weapons and armor
Go out in the woods and strike trees with sword over and over
You are now ready to win League of Legends

Zelorxon12/5/2016, 1:24:36 PM1 votes

Watch pro player streams, learn from them, reverse engineer them, look at what they do and try to figure out why they behaved like that, focus on what's necessary for winning, learn the mechanics (how good you are at clicking buttons physically) and train and improve them.

FioraWillCarry12/5/2016, 8:20:03 PM1 votes

I've been looking through your replay list and I noticed you don't have any ranked games, at least not recently. While I could look at one of these replays, it wouldn't be as helpful as seeing a replay of one of your ranked games.

This is because normals are where people go to try shit out. A lot of people play new champs there and such. I need to see how you fare playing against people that are balls to the wall for a victory. Also, normals is a mixed bag. You can have a mix of Golds and Silvers, even Plats in normals which changes the game a bit from playing vs an all Bronze 5 team.

Another thing that is very important is that I need to know your main. If you don't have one, get one. Maining one or even two champions is by far the best way to climb. It doesn't make sense trying to climb while playing 10 different champions. It just won't work.

bleufromage12/5/2016, 9:45:00 PM1 votes

you dont. the game gets better at you

Talisid12/5/2016, 6:44:51 AM1 votes

Pick a small pool of champions, 3-6 typically spread across two roles, and focus on improving with just those champions. They don't have to be top-tier. Just something you enjoy playing. If you pick something just because it is strong you'll probably quit before you get anywhere.
Play the game a lot. Like a LOT. If you're a beginner then other players have years of experience on you, so you've got quite a bit of catching up to do.
Try not to stress out when your team loses you the game. It will happen sometimes. Focus on your own play and your own improvement.

Judge Steven12/6/2016, 11:13:01 PM1 votes

I'd recommend watching some of N3ac3y's videos on youtube in your spare time: https://www.youtube.com/user/bingegamingdottv/videos.

He's a Master level player that has some great advice (and dozens of coaching/gameplay review videos) about climbing ranked from pretty much every role. I've been watching his videos (specifically the ones about top lane) for a bit now, and taking his advice has already helped me improve my gameplay. I think if you watch his videos with an open mind you can learn a lot and improve rather quickly.

Since you mentioned that you prefer top, I'd recommend learning champs that can duel and splitpush well and playing those in ranked ( Jax , Gangplank , Tryndamere , Kayle ), because as N3ac3y mentions, a lot of times at low elo your team will be a bunch of monkeys you can't rely on to make the right decisions. Using them as distractions to take objectives elsewhere is usually the best strategy.

Hope this helps!

FioraWillCarry12/5/2016, 9:18:29 AM1 votes

You haven't played nearly enough games yet. It took me something like 1300 ranked games this season to go from struggling in Bronze 5 to now struggling in Silver 5. I'll take a look at a couple of your replays later on when I got the time and see if I can help you out a bit.

WhaiiSoSerious12/5/2016, 1:20:04 PM1 votes

I think the core things to master as a new player is cs, warding, map awareness, helping the team when needed, build orders depending on their comp and if you're winning/loosing.