Just because I am in bronze does not mean I cannot give good advice.

Great Ozymandius·7/31/2017, 11:36:21 PM·265 votes·9,206 views

Here are a few things I've learned.

  1. ADC's are very useful to have on your team. Because they are so squishy, the other team will target them. They make excellent bait. Hide behind your ADC's and wait until the other team blows all their cooldowns on your adc. Then engage.

  2. Some champions are very effective at cleaning up after a fight. Take malphite, for example. His ultimate does like 300 damage (!) and has a very long range. So you can guarantee that that pesky support doesn't leave the fight alive after everything is said and done. Also, his ult is a very strong escape tool, so if it looks like your team is taking a lot of damage, just ult away from the fight (Dyrus was my inspiration in this regard).

  3. The team with more damage wins. So you want to build as much damage as possible, especially on supports. Don't buy an early sightstone. In fact, don't buy one at all. You might need to take some of your carry's farm for you to rush that Deathcap.

  4. In laning phase, whoever's wave is most pushed is basically winning. Push your wave as hard as you can from the very start of laning phase. Use all skills off cooldown until you are out of mana. For example, you can tell a good nasus from a bad nasus based on how pushed his lane is. Is he at the other player's tower? That is diamond material.

  5. Relatedly, if you are jungle, you might need to help your laners push their waves. Often times, top laners will be stuck with the minion wave just in front of their tower, which basically means that they are stuck losing the lane. I've helped many a Nasus by hitting enough of those minions so that the wave pushes back to winning territory.

  6. People need constructive criticism to get better. Is Nasus still farming minions at 10 minutes when he should be grouping? Tell him he is an idiot. He will thank you later. Also, use that question mark ping on top of whoever is being an idiot and do so as often as possible. He will concentrate better if he knows his team is paying attention to him.

  7. Black cleaver shreds armor, so all physical damage dealers do more damage to the target. This is why it is often a good idea to have full ad team comps -- you can make better use of that armor shred.

I'll post more advice once I get promoted to Bronze 4.

166 Comments

Eedat7/31/2017, 11:56:30 PM95 votes

Fuck. You almost got me

Marshbouy7/31/2017, 11:40:06 PM46 votes

This is the greatest thing I've ever read. Hands down.

Mecha MaIphite7/31/2017, 11:48:20 PM28 votes
  1. Some champions are very effective at cleaning up after a fight. Take malphite, for example. His ultimate does like 300 damage (!) and has a very long range. So you can guarantee that that pesky support doesn't leave the fight alive after everything is said and done. Also, his ult is a very strong escape tool, so if it looks like your team is taking a lot of damage, just ult away from the fight (Dyrus was my inspiration in this regard).

I find it's also useful for ulting their frontline so you can assert your dominance over their tanks. They will respect and fear you as the alpha, and then you can have your way with them whenever you please.

Dominick Destine7/31/2017, 11:58:20 PM18 votes

I hear last hitting minions is a very good strategy.

aZ3R0n7/31/2017, 11:41:17 PM15 votes

kek

Bârd8/1/2017, 6:15:13 AM14 votes

Actual low level players, attention please

Please don't do any of these things, except for #5, but even then ONLY DO IT AFTER YOU KILL THE LANER.

FB Ospraey7/31/2017, 11:41:37 PM10 votes

Bless you, hashinshin and vvvortic had a love child

Eraenis8/1/2017, 1:18:32 PM6 votes

To sum it up: From now on i should only play ad-Cleaver-roaming-assassin-Malphite support!

Road to Master, here i come.

deadlychuck8/1/2017, 1:07:31 AM6 votes

When was the last time you saw someone concede a point, or openly take advice, because someone who was a higher rank disagreed with them?

You don't. It's because people just use that as an ad hominem.

Though, I've got to say

3) The team with more damage wins. So you want to build as much damage as possible, especially on supports. Don't buy an early sightstone. In fact, don't buy one at all. You might need to take some of your carry's farm for you to rush that Deathcap.

This is true of most people, even up through plat...

DeerGreenwood8/1/2017, 1:42:54 AM6 votes

this should be in memes and games

Bronze Demon8/1/2017, 2:31:04 AM5 votes

number 1 actually does work tho

Gelmous8/1/2017, 10:00:15 AM5 votes

your thread is a good example for why bronze players shouldn't give advices

KawaiiShroom8/1/2017, 1:39:21 PM5 votes

I thought this was memes and games for a sec. Those are all bad advice. You are confusing new players that might take it seriously.

PokladnicaZla8/2/2017, 7:26:21 AM3 votes

Translation: ˝Just because I'm white,doesn't mean I can't say the N* word˝

(I apologize to anyone who's offended by this)

Hoox0rz8/1/2017, 4:19:30 PM3 votes

"In laning phase, whoever's wave is most pushed is basically winning. Push your wave as hard as you can from the very start of laning phase"

To be fair, that's how _some _ champs are meant to be played.

Umbra Z8/1/2017, 7:38:54 PM3 votes

Imagine the new players reading this and doing this in game*[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]*

BIue Monk8/1/2017, 11:56:34 AM3 votes
  1. When mid inhib is down, the creeps are stronger, go back and keep pushing mid as 5. :)
WinBoat7/31/2017, 11:45:32 PM2 votes

Exactly. These "high rated" special people think they are good when they don't even get paid.

I'm Silver 5 on this account and can easily, EASILY get to Gold 5, and i will when I return to rank in a few days, and then maybe even get higher than that probably.

This account went from Bronze 4 to Silver 5 just playing Skarner averaging 15 kills a game lol, and having over a 70% win rate on Skarner at the time. I'll probably do Skarner up until Platinum 5, and then probably go with Jax until Diamond 5. Simple stuff.

Anyhow, yeah you can give good advice at any elo really if you got a brain. Just look at the League LCS, the commentators and casters are low Diamond, and not even challenger, but here they are watching a lot of challengers play.

JustSmileGuys8/1/2017, 3:10:49 PM1 votes

No that statements very accurate. If your bronze you should not give advice on this game. However if you are an accountant irl you should give advice on things youre actually good at. Thats life.