I've been playing a lot of ranked recently and out of 12 games, I have won one. I'm not getting what I'm doing wrong. Every game, I have tried not flame or tilt and yet I keep losing. Any tips would be appreciated to help my situation out.
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http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2196588503/1?tab=overview Details of Jinx match, examine the buildings destroyed over the timeline.
This is a very basic truth everyone knows but argues against anyway: You must destroy the enemy towers in order to reach the victory screen.
From what I'm seeing you're dying a lot. But these stats don't correctly reflect your gameplay. This can be a multitude of things, do you get dragons? Do you stay with the team not make risky plays? Are you warding enough? Are you listening to pings and watching your map. There are a ton of things you can do to improve your game. Always make sure you're warding, don't risk things. If your playing ADC and your support is obviously dead don't try to save them by putting your life at risk. Make smart trades and don't tunnel on a kill. Also never dive unless you've got at least two other people with you.
Wave Control: When I lane (I usually go mid, but this works for ADC too), I'm looking to push fast and roam. I rarely freeze the lane unless it's just beyond my turret range and I know my jungler is coming to gank. If there are no incoming ganks to my lane, I feel like it's generally better to hard shove the wave to the enemy turret and then roam. You're not missing much farm, since you wouldn't have been able to farm under their tower anyway without being overextended. You force your enemy to choose between farming under their tower or following you. Also, if you get a good gank off yourself, you can often tilt the enemy team against your lane opponent for not stopping you.
Jungle Kiting: Kiting in the jungle won't save you any significant time or health but it helps you become more difficult to hit with skill shots just in case that particular camp is warded and someone is gunning for you.
Ganking Lanes as a Jungler: I unintentionally touched on this in the previous paragraph. The "Just in Case" attitude. This "just in case" attitude is what allows you to react in time to enemy plays. For example, if you see that your top laner is overextended, and he still has a chance to win his lane (like he's not 0-3 in the first three minutes of the game), you know he's likely to get ganked by the enemy jungler. Just in case he does, you should already be heading towards the top lane for a counter gank, especially if you can't see where the enemy jungler is. If you get a good gank off, then camp that lane hard. You know the enemy laner will be looking to redeem himself, so he will like be aggressive and overextend. Just in case he does, you're still there. Gank him again and again and make him tilt.
Also, if you're the jungler, do yourself a favor and mute your laners. You can't be in three lanes at once, and ultimately, it's up to you as the jungler to decide which lane to gank, not your laners. It's not your responsibility to win their lane for them.
Predicting the Enemy Jungler: Suppose you were at the bottom side of the map, and you see your toplaner getting destroyed by the enemy jungler's gank. Obviously, you should already be running up to the top side to see if you could possibly help. But halfway there, your toplaner dies. Don't turn around and resume farming just yet. Look at the enemy jungler's health. If he's low, but not low enough to recall, he'll probably do another camp. Just in case he does, you should head towards the camp you think he'll do. If he's there, great, it's a free kill. If he's not, then just take that camp instead and deny the enemy jungler that little bit of experience and gold.
Predicting the Enemy Carry: If you see a large wave of your minions building up, you can bet that one of the enemy team's carries will head over there and farm the wave. Just in case he does, you should be waiting nearby, ready to ambush him.
Im pretty low elo so Im not gonna give you any techincal advice or anything, but I will say it seems like your trying to play a lot of different stuff and several different roles. Go into normals and figure out which 2 roles you want to play. Don't try and be a jack of all trades, just pick 2 and focus on them. After you have your role pick 2-3 champions for each role and work on really learning the champions kit. Its a lot easier to climb when you understand your champion and have a good sense of mastery over the champion. Once you know the champion it becomes easier to try and carry every game because you don't have to focus on your own play has much and can focus on helping out the team. I like adc and my main champion is tristana. Anytime I play her I don't have to worry has much about using my skills correctly or making sure Im building the right thing. I understand her build and alternatives to build depending on the situation. I have played her enough matchups to know how I need to play the lane and what I need to do to carry myself. Obviously not every game is winnable but when you really understand how a champions kit works inside and out, you set yourself up to carry more.
As a sorta side-note, If you feel like experimenting or playing a bunch of different champs do it in normals. I like playing different champs for a while and then not playing them for a long time so I play mostly normals and hardly play any ranked. i have like 8 champions at mastery 5 or above and about 3 or 4 that are getting close to 5 if i grinded some games on them but i havent played several of them in atleast over a month. If i took them in to ranked right now i wouldn't be able to carry has well vs. if i played a champion i have been playing most days when I get on league. Having a diverse champion pool is fine but it doesn't help you climb in ranked until you reached a high elo where counterpicking is a much more valuable asset.
Use it. Live by it. Sacrifice a daily fap to it.
You're pretty much in Bronze elo right now, so you don't have to get too technical about it. League fundamentals will carry you out of Bronze.
Here's my best advice to you friend. Ignore your team. They don't matter. Only you matter. If you see someone making a mistake like chasing into a 1v4, let them die alone. Don't go trying to save them, because you dying too will only compound the mistake. You can't save them. The enemy team is just gonna get more kills.
Play greedy. You're trying to carry games right? Then act like it. Don't give your blue to the mid laner. He's not going to carry this game. Who's gonna carry this game? You are. Take that blue, all game long. Never die to save a teammate, you are worth more than them. You will never die to save an idiot from his own mistake.
Take all the kills. You need it, because you're gonna carry right? Well you need gold to carry. You should aim to top the Gold Earned stat every single game. Why? Because you're a boss.
And don't play champs that rely on teamwork, like tanks and supports. Play carries and assassins. Get fed and dominate hard.
People are gonna try to tell you, but we need a tank. Ignore them. They are not going to carry you. Take matters into your own hands and snowball the entire game.
Last but not least, access the situation before making a decision. Try to think things through, and never just autopilot decisions. For example, if your top laner is asking for a gank, access the situation. Where is the enemy jungler? Is the lane warded? If I gank this lane, can we get a kill? or will it be a waste of time? Does the enemy top laner have Flash? Can he kill me? If you're not going to get a flash or kill out of the gank, it's a waste of time, and you're probably better off doing just about anything else.
Simply tell your top laner, "I can't gank that," then proceed to look for ways to get yourself fed enough to be able to 1v1 the enemy top laner later on.
It depends who you like, and have consistent success with. I wouldn't be too wrapped up in meta picks or team compositions at this point. Play what you win with. Those factors will only come into play as you climb higher.
If you play Yi well, play him. He's a terror in low elo. Jax is good too. Nasus, while being more of a bruiser, is more than capable of carrying games if games last long enough to get him farmed enough to 2-3 shot towers.
For me, what works best at that particular elo, are champions that scale well into the mid and late game, require very little teamwork to be successful, and have to potential to solo carry games. Those 3 champions I mentioned scale very well with gold, levels, and items.
