Stuck in Bronze League?

Presizhen·Nov 1, 2015·1 votes·630 views

Bronze IV, win 2, lose 1. back to 0 points, same thing everyday, despite carrying the team..

Just been Demoted to Bronze V, with like 400+ CS and Positive K/D in last two games.

Any Advice?

6 Comments

Mecha MaIphiteNov 1, 20151 votes

heal > ignite on adcs

upgrade trinket. all i see are yellows, and sometimes there isn't even a trinket

generally speaking its blue trinket for adcs, red for jg and support, yellow for top, whatever for mid (depending on who ur playing).

Flyer BeastNov 1, 20151 votes

Trinket generally depends on who youre playing wherever. My favorite trinket play is item 3363 + Xerath Ult, if you don't have vision of the area you're going to be ulting in. Fiddlesticks always buys item 3364 , so he can be sure that he isn't being seen. And if you're in bronze/play with bronze it's always gonna be 5 item 3340 vs 5 , unless there are some smart item 2049 Thresh players, and there are not many of them. I don't think item 3363 is a very popular item choice for Low Elo ADCs.

kapre23Nov 1, 20151 votes

I was put into bronze 4this year and took me about 3 months to get to s3. I played about 3 games aday. I would say don't worry to move up to silver this year (ends less then 2 weeks) just work on CSing and winning lane/roaming for next season.

StephenizgodNov 1, 20151 votes

Hmm i don't play Marksmen so i can't help you get better with them. I can say that heal is better in like 99% of all situations, it offers you protection when your support and tanks cant. Better to die 1 less time than kill them 1 time, at least you can keep farming. Farming is important, you can always improve that. Positioning is key for Marksmen, as a support player, i hate when they are out of position or all alone. Warding is not your Supports job, they need your help so make sure to use your Yellow trinket as often as you can in the correct places (bushes where enemies tend to go into or come from). I would recommend getting a Blue Trinket, but i don't do it because i suck pretty bad at ADC and instead just ward a bunch for my teammates.

I once asked a pro how to improve and they told me: Try to never die no matter what, if you try to not die you actually will die less. Once you've practiced that try to last hit minions better. The more you CS the more gold you have, the more gold you have the better items you can afford. Once you have both of those down, try to kill your enemy. Once you can kill your enemy without dying and missing CS, you try to push objectives.

or something along those lines. Basically try to master one step at a time until you can do it all all of the time. Something i try to do but fail quite often at... hence why im silver...

SKG BlueNov 1, 20151 votes

Champion Pick. You seem to be very aggressive by your K/D ratio. You're dying too much and that's never good as an ADC, but you enjoy going ham, so I would recommend a Graves or Draven pick because they fit an aggressive play style more than a Sivir. Graves is a good blind pick, while Draven has more counter play against certain match ups.
Item Build. Your item build isn't synergizing very effectively. For Sivir, the standard is Infinity Edge because AD and crit are your most essential stats, followed by attack speed for more chances to crit. This should lead to a Phantom Dance or Stattik Shiv as your second item about 90% of the time. Trinity Force isn't too good on Sivir because you're not realy getting a good Sheen activation and 30 damage just isn't helping your AD ratios on your abilities. The rest of your build should be rounded out with a Blood Thirster, Last Whisper, and a defensive item. (Blood Thirster is better than Blade of the Ruined King for the most part unless they have more than 2 health tanks, which is rarely the case)
Masteries. Your Aatrox masteries are overloaded in offense, and you have a point in Arcane Blade. Whether for Sivir or Aatrox, you don't need that there. 21/9/0 is far better because it gives you all the damage you need, plus added defense. I would recommend you take all of the second row (only 1 or 2 point(s) on Warlord) and Frenzy from the first row. If you put 1 point on Warlord, I would recommend Spell Weaving as well from the first row because it is really strong on Sivir. Nothing from the third row, and everything except the last one (Arcane Blade).
Runes. All AD isn't that great. You will see that your yellow and blue runes are giving you FAR less AD. 1 Yellow and blue combined gives you less AD than 1 red rune. To counter this out, it is recommended to take Health or Armor yellows (since you fight AD Carries bot lane, I would recommend 9 yellows) and Magic Resist and/or Attack Speed Blues. I like to run I run 2 different pages for my ADCs in regards to runes, but they are near identical. The only difference is that one page has 7 Attack Speed blues and 2 Magic resist because my ADC playstyle is heavy on kiting, where the other page has 9 Magic Resist for when they have an AP heavy support like Annie or Brand. For Quintessences, it's honestly up to you. You can run 3 AD for more damage, Attack Speed, Life Steal, or a mix of all 3. I like to run 3 Attack Speed Quintessences because I like to focus on kiting with more Attack Speed. (This is a bonus extra, but getting one red Critical Chance rune can help you land a very lucky 1% crit in lane, which can be VERY devastating at level 1. I personally don't run this because I don't wanna sacrifice 1 AD since I have a lot of Attack Speed.) This is of course, purely based on how you play, but 30 AD runes isn't a playstyle, it'll just mean the enemy will kill you faster and a dead ADC deals 0 Damage.
Trinket. Keeping the yellow ward trinket is good in lower divisions, but you have to remember to ward. If you do, remember to upgrade it because you get a free pink OR 2 wards! Really worth the 250 gold for infinite wards. A better option if you have very good map awareness is the blue orb, which will let you scout an area and see if the enemy is there or if they're coming to gank you. I would recommend > ONLY IF YOU HAVE GOOD MAP AWARENESS!
In-Game Decision Making. I can't comment much on this one because I'm not personally viewing your games, but your high death count leads me to believe that you're not too proficient in kiting or that you travel alone through the jungle. You have really good CSing mechanics for the most part, but always remember that alone won't win games. If you don't have vision and there is no tower in sight, don't push too far because the enemy may come and 2, 3, 4, or even 5 man gank you! Never be alone without the help of anyone when there is no tower nearby because you will get caught and, more often than not, you will die.
Final Thoughts. If you can fix your Runes and Masteries, I could almost see you climb up to high bronze just through that alone! I was in Bronze 2 and climbed to Silver 2 in just 2 weeks because I understood my faults, not because I felt I could play better. I am very bad in the laning phase, I always fight from behind, but I'm a very good kiter, so with that, I revolved my playstyle around surviving, keeping up in gold and then outshowing the enemy ADC in teamfights. This last part was just my experience, so know that you don't have to play like me, but finding your playstyle and playing it well is by far your best bet.

EDIT: I forgot to talk about summoners, so I'll make this part short. Generally, Flash and Heal are the top 2 and Cleanse is the third best on an ADC if the enemy has something like an Ashe/Sona lane. Ignite would definitely be 4th best on an ADC because you're not really looking to deal that extra little bonus damage and you'll survive longer (especially with a short ranged ADC like Sivir) if you have some kind of sustain.

I have no idea why I took the time to write all this, but hey, it kept me busy ^.^ Good Luck and Have Fun!