Advice?

Domination1·Aug 11, 2014·1 votes·931 views

Hey league players! If you're reading I'd like to say thanks for actually reading this lol. Recently I've been playing with a lot of higher Elo players and I picked up things strategies and tactics from them. But whenever I play solo q ranked, I get players who barely can farm. Now I'm technically silver 4 at the moment due to demotion, but for about a month now I've constantly have gotten stuck with these players who are averaging 50 cs for 20 minutes. Like I said I thought it was silver not bronze 5......any advice on how I can overcome this situation/problem I keep getting bc even though I picked up these strategies I try to use, I get ignored and then see my teams nexus get blown up in my face. Anything would be helpful and gratefully appreciated. :D

9 Comments

Sir ArmaMalumAug 11, 20141 votes

There's no way you're going to to be able to increase someone's last hitting skill with the same game enough if it's already a problem, so I suggest to simply grab a duo partner (who you know can cs) and/or pick up a carry position yourself.

You can help out a struggling carry in last hitting by giving helpful advice and tips ( like under turret melee minions can take 2 turret shots and casters can only take 1 for example), but unfortunately that effort is going to so more for their next game rather than the current one if they take it to heart. Naturally still a good thing to do, helps them out and all, but sadly it won't do much to improve your current game.

Knight SoIaire Aug 11, 20141 votes

adapt when i was silver i was doing dragons by myself allies didnt want to help cause they were to stupid, enemies didnt try to kill drake cause they were too stupid, losing lanes were geting ganks and were pulled up, didnt even notice that i pulled them up, flaming was real, enemy jungler was dying and nobody helped him cause his team was stupid, i was pushed out of my jungle and didnt het help, yet still managed to get the most buffs, noody wanted to push a tower

also my playstyle was similar to theirs, atm when my team gets a chance there is an insane rush for nexus or baron, in silver we were just killing them for funsies and nobody tried to do baron cause it was a retard magnet for silvers, you started doing baron enemy team caught you in 6v5 and gg

if you are silver there is probably a realy good role that is not picked too often and you can grab it most of the time when i was silver it was adc and jungle now when im in promo to plat i still dont play mid to often, and realy dont know the matchups when i get it, thou support is quite easy, i would not recoment support for a silver player, ppl would have to listen to you and when they will smell kills they will go full retard so it makes no sence top lane is for splitpushing so it might be quite demanding for you yet it is effective if you put wards and just back away, still your allies cant camp the base while you offer them empty map, so sticking with mid bot and jungle should pay you off, but mid will be insanely contested and by taking it you might throw a bad midder onto a role that he is even worse with

Knight SoIaire Aug 11, 20141 votes

oh and the most important part: your games wont change

Domination1Aug 11, 20141 votes

Yeah I always take jungle when I can. And if I can't I go top or support since I'm sort of that tank/split push kind of player. I tend to buy lots of wards no matter what position I play so I don't get caught. I time my buffs when I take them I time their buffs If i can. I'm playing more champs that can solo carry games and solo dragon but still at the end of the day a 50 farm mid laner and a 100 cs adc deal no damage to their apc and adc when I get focused in fights. But I will try to play more mid lane and adc and see how that's goes. Thank you for the advice!

ArtoriusIVAug 12, 20141 votes

In my experience, you want someone who has great initiation/counter initiation and lot's of CC. Leona and ammumu are great examples of this, and both build tanky. By having this ability to control teamfights you can carry the game past the laning phase.

Domination1Aug 11, 20141 votes

Oh and what junglers did you use primarily for your climb?

TuxedoBadgerAug 11, 20141 votes

The first thing I can think of is wards. Wards wards wards. It may seem unrelated, but wards can keep a team mate who is behind alive amd safe from a gank, let them catch up in cs when behind while their lane opponent is gone, and help your carry pick up that occasional kill to get them back into the fight. The worst thing lower elo players do is refuse to ward. I attempt to get 30 wards per game. I don't always make it, but it makes a huge difference. Wards win games.

The second is map awareness. If a laner doesn't call afk, throw out a ping. If you see the enemy jungle, throw out a ping. If you see a gank or the enemy run over one of your 30 wards throw out a ping. These two things will help out your team immensity regardless if your team notices it or not.

Domination1Aug 11, 20141 votes

I try to ward tons. There's times where I have more wards then the support. Which I mean is fine since I'm placing a pink in a losing lanes bush or in a position to track their jungler so the other lanes have awareness and I try to ping for them if they don't see MIA or afk, but it's still hard since in my opinion most of them only see that I signal them to be careful instead of just looking at the map of who to be careful of. But I mean I guess I could make a second ping and say the lane care for ___. I'm not perfect but I'll do my best to ward more and notify if I can see them on minimap! Thank you my man!

Domination1Aug 11, 2014

I think we all would wish for someone to just improve drastically in game lol. But yeah I'll try that thanks man!