Freelo tips: Patience is a virtue

Hi all, I am a jungler / support main playing in platinum since season 4. I prefer those role because I think they are the most influential in the macro game in solo queue. I wanted to share this simple tip for summoners who try to climb: be patient. Micro-play and macro-play is often won by being patient. I am not saying "be passive". I am saying, for example:

Wait for the enemy to do a mistake, and punish it. You don't have to always try to outplay your opponent out of nowhere.

Set up objectives in advance (remind team that fire drake is up in 2min, set up vision around it).

In a fight, don't always use all your ability at the very beginning. Say you are Alistar and you get ganked. Use your w, then if needed, use your q, then maybe exhaust, then maybe flash. Later in the game, items active. Be patient, keep something in reserve. You play Malphite. You don't have to ult right in, unless you have a very good opportunity: keeping his ult means you still have a huge threat, enemy needs to be careful. You may save the ADC mid-fight or re-engage.

Don't over-extend or engage fights or force objectives because you feel like the game is too slow.

Don't always chase; if you have no vision, if many enemy are not seen in the minimap, etc, what are the chances of getting caught? Think about it.

You won a team fight, only grab the objective that you can, don't overstay. Reset, be patient. Usually, baron nashor > towers; because in many cases, if you rush towers / inhib and stay too long, you may have to back when enemy respawn (or even get caught and die) then enemy will get baron nashor and maybe turrets.

Just my 2 cents advice. From low gold to low diamond, which is usually the range of my hidden MMR, I can tell that the biggest mistake of most is being impatient, not a lack of skill or macro game knowledge (it is also, despite being aware of it, my biggest mistake). I'll say it again: being patient does not mean being passive. Being passive may be the second biggest mistake at low gold to low diamond elo. Being passive is, for example, not punishing an enemy for a mistake, or go back to base during a teamfight because you are low health (you should stay until the end, despite being low health you may have an opportunity). Or always stay way behind, safe, in fights, when you could do much more -that's being passive.