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I have been in Silver ever since Season 2

jaykeblakk·2/16/2017, 7:33:17 AM·2 votes·1,026 views

I have tried every season to get to Gold. Just Gold. That's all I want. Just Gold V on my own merit. I know I'm still trash and I'll pretty much never be good, but that's all I want.

I can't do it.

So, I'm kinda unsure of what to do. I don't know how I'm going to get there because I literally don't see my opponents making any mistakes.

I know they do, and people tell me that we all play like potatoes, and people point out stuff that I could be doing, but at the same time, I just don't see it.

For instance, last game, I got camped really really really hard by a Lee Sin. Even if I were to ward up and play super safe, he could still dive and kick me out of my turret, no matter what I do.

And there are so many questions that I have about this game that don't make any sense. For example,

If I'm behind and I have to give up CS, how do I farm under turret without dying? My enemy laner will just harrass me any time I go for any sort of cs at all, and I can't just let all the cs go because then I'll be completely useless, no kills, no farm. So what do I do? How do I ensure that I don't die/take too much damage but not fall completely behind in lane due to crappy farm?

How do I keep my laner from getting cs without losing my own cs? Every time I harass a laner down to kill pressure, I know that I need to pressure them and force them to either back or play as safe as possible, but when I do that, I lose farm, and I end up being both vulnerable to a gank AND not farming, so I'm just basically doing nothing in my lane anyway. How do I balance this?

I've had a lot of practice, and I'm still no good at this game. I seriously think there is something that I'm missing.

This has been more of a rant and vent than anything else. I'm just so demoralized and sick of being Silver for 5 seasons in a row now, and there's no way I will ever hit Gold at this point. I'm just not good enough, and I never will be.

Thanks for reading.

EDIT: I was Gold in Season 5 because my brother played on my account. I didn't actually play that season at all. He was using my account to test builds and to try out new champions, but I never played on my account.

11 Comments

KoggyStyle2/16/2017, 2:07:21 PM2 votes

I cant get too bronze 5, thats how bad i am.

OneTrickZilian2/16/2017, 7:37:52 AM2 votes

You just unskilled or maybe you have some physical or mental limitations if you physically can't develop muscle memory or evaluate your mistakes. It requires humility but quicker you will accept it, quicker you will start to enjoy your life.

MrHaZeYo2/16/2017, 9:51:04 AM1 votes

You were gold Season 5 o.o

WEANUS PEANUS2/17/2017, 11:22:03 AM1 votes

Well the way I got out of Bronze and then Silver in season 3 was by learning a champion and role very well.

When I was bronze I decided to main Gangplank (the old GP) because he was really fun. I spammed him in normals for about 5-10 games just to get a feel for his kit while at the same time looking up what people build on him (which should just be used to get a feel for what items scale well with your champ, never copy paste builds).

Anyways after I felt comfortable I started spamming him in ranked mostly as top but sometimes as mid. I learned all the matchups as well as the basics of the game (warding, objective control, map awareness, minion wave control, csing, etc.) If someone counterpicked me, which was often, I was prepared to adjust my playstyle to that counterpick.

For example old Fiora and Pantheon were popular counterpicks for GP so I learned different item routes to deal with them as well as different skill routes. I realized that maxing Q against a Pantheon and Fiora who parried autos was useless as a poke mechanic. So i had 2 choices: 1. play safe and lose cs (and potentially get dove anyways) or 2. Itemize and skill up differently to stand a chance in trades.

I picked option 2. I found that maxing my E was much more useful in trades and if the lane was too poke heavy, maxing W gave me A LOT of sustain and I could farm for longer periods of time without having to recall.

It also helped that I had a global ult which I could use, not only to win a fight bot lane, but to just rack up assists and gold.

tl;dr: basically learn to get comfortable with the game. learn your role and a few champs you're comfortable playing, they don't have to be meta champs but don't pick stupid shit like Soraka mid or something.

By just spamming a few champs I was very comfortable using I climbed to gold in no time. I hit some sort of wall at high gold where just knowing how to win my lane wasn't enough, then you just adapt and see what you need to do (roam, make successful tp ganks, control the minion waves, pressure the enemy jungler, get deeper vision).

I mean I only made it to plat 4 last season so I'm no master tier player but that's how i did it. of course now champs are overloaded and harder to win against especially with lower tier picks (look at new Fiora's kit)

Hige2/17/2017, 1:31:02 AM1 votes

It all comes down to rhythm, most bronze players I know have no sense of rhythm and they simply mash buttons expecting a good result, in their heads that's what everyone does and that's how the enemy is steamrolling them, rhythm is probably the most important thing when playing league of legends, there's a rhythm for minions, for turrets, for enemies and of course for allies, try to figure those out before going into a fight! if you know the turret's rhythm then you can cs under turrets, if you know Lee Sin's rhythm then you can fight him appropriately, for example:

There is always something a champion does when they begin a fight with you, for lee sin you have 3 alternatives:

1- throw Q 2- put ward and hop with his dash 3- Flash ult

to all of these you have several reactions depending on your champ but generally there's a couple things you can do with any

1- First, try and dodge the missile, learn the sound of it and as soon as you hear the woosh, move... if it does hit you, DO NOT FLASH RIGHT AS Q HITS YOU, wait until he jumps on you and THEN flash out, Lee doesn't have any other reliant gap closer so he'll have to run towards you, burn his flash or place a ward and hop. Of course, if he queues his ult you'll receive a ton of damage either way but well, you can't always win.

2- this technique requires a bit more time than simply mashing Q, as soon as you hear a ward sound, FLASH/DASH OUT, don't wait until Lee appears behind you, if he kicks you to the wrong direction he'll be out of position

3- If Lee sin flashes and ults you, you can either Flash as soon as you hear his flash or accept that he played well but he burned his flash and ult just to kill you, your team should take that opportunity to get to him, if you made it out alive, FIGHT, there's no point in running because his Q is up or if he Q'd you after he ulted then he's in melee range and you have a slow to deal with, just autoattack him, get him as low as you can.

The worse thing you can do is do nothing, die and then your team kills the lee sin and you receive NO assist ._.

Kulle Aid2/17/2017, 1:39:51 AM1 votes

"i cant" is the wrong mentality.

why play norms? what do you have to lose? your rank
do you have a main? someone who can carry a team? Quinn? Mf? Ahri? someone who can make a difference
stay positive and if you lose two in a row call it quits for a couple hours, youll be on tilt and it wont help
support your team even if they make a mistake, it happens to us all.
I believe in you, we all can do it. just takes practice time and effort.
don't point blame at others, but ones self. Improve yourself. you aren't playing to improve them. That doesn't mean put them down but it also means that admit your mistakes, a lot of us low elo will not do it. A simple "mb" aint good enough. figure what u did wrong and build off it. positioning, spells, cd, items all that good stuff man.

I doubt this made any impact on anyone who reads it, but enjoy the game my friend. and ill see you in gold when I get there

im actually bad2/16/2017, 9:48:51 AM1 votes

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