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arcinex··3 votes·523 views
Top 10 Ways to Throw A Solo Queue Game

"Begging For Ganks While Losing - If you're losing your lane horribly, don't ask for a gank. Let your tower die and farm at second turret. By the time you're 0-5, if your jungler comes you're both going to die. You should have started playing passive by 0-1 and it really doesn't matter if they're tower diving you at this point."

Although I feel strongly that you can turn around a losing bot lane if your teammates are competent enough to follow up with the gank.

In general, tips 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 are the bane of low elo ranked solo queue. I cannot for the life of me understand why my teammates will ping dragon endlessly during an unfavorable time. It's like they don't understand that losing one or two dragons is okay. I've even had teammates say GG after losing only the first dragon. Smh.

I am guilty of #3 at times, but I am working on it.

I need a partner for #8: "If you're a big rager, try duo queuing with a friend (or fellow rager) on Skype. This way, you can safely rage to each other and your team will remain blissfully ignorant of their pathetic ability to land skillshots."

11 Comments

warpenguin5551 votes

My team has done all of these but number 9. Number 9 i have only seen on the enemy team

arcinex1 votes

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My team has done all of these but number 9. Number 9 i have only seen on the enemy team

Number 9 is more like your teammates taking your jungler's buffs and then having the jungler complain. I can understand if a jungler complains about his/her teammates stealing gromp and raptors but red and blue should be given to teammates if it can be put to better use.

IcyPepper2 votes

The problem with that is if the laners take it too early. Second blue and red aren't quite enough to change the game, though blue can be used if the jungler doesn't need it. Third buffs, near the laning phase, should be considered beyond the jungler.

In all honesty, I stop caring after the second buffs if I'm a bruiser or tank. I'll leash blue for the mage, but in general it's a free for all on my team and the buffs are for everybody.

warpenguin5551 votes

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Number 9 is more like your teammates taking your jungler's buffs and then having the jungler complain. I can understand if a jungler complains about his/her teammates stealing gromp and raptors but red and blue should be given to teammates if it can be put to better use.

oh maybe i have had that somewhere but i can remember a game where an enemy Lee Sin is complaining about his bad luck with teams in all chat after, i kid you not, farming the jungle for 30 minutes. Even when we were taking the inhibitor turrets. The rest of his team was pretty kind in the fact that they didnt flame him as far as i know. When he finally left to help it was far too late as he had already dropped off and we were all pretty fed

BlazinHot61 votes

Lol at having a friend on skype to safely rage with, has me cracking up. Im sure that will help some people though.

arcinex1 votes

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Lol at having a friend on skype to safely rage with, has me cracking up. Im sure that will help some people though.

It really does. Nothing will help alleviate the instant rage caused by having unskilled teammates playing champions with skillshots than having someone agree with the fact that your teammates are trash.

S H A Y C 01 votes

id duo with you, but im bronze 4...i doubt im "worthy" of such an honor.

arcinex1 votes

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id duo with you, but im bronze 4...i doubt im "worthy" of such an honor.

I have bronze 4 friends that play extremely well, but are stuck in bronze because of bad luck.

disregardable1 votes

No, you really don't. If anyone has played 30 games in a row at the same elo, you're not there for bad luck. The gap between Bronze and Silver is really, really small. It's a little difficult to see where one fails and the other succeeds, but Silvers are still a little better than Bronze players some of the time.

arcinex1 votes

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No, you really don't. If anyone has played 30 games in a row at the same elo, you're not there for bad luck. The gap between Bronze and Silver is really, really small. It's a little difficult to see where one fails and the other succeeds, but Silvers are still a little better than Bronze players some of the time.

This friend of mine recently has gotten wins with scores as 28-1, 12-0, 12-1, 19-4. Still in bronze, slowly climbing but always falling in the midst. I duo'd with him once and we went on a tear. All the games were complete stomps.

Solo q is the real struggle of solo queue.

IcyPepper1 votes

I need a partner for #8: "If you're a big rager, try duo queuing with a friend (or fellow rager) on Skype. This way, you can safely rage to each other and your team will remain blissfully ignorant of their pathetic ability to land skillshots."

Wanna duo. :3

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