How to carry silver / low gold?

dakota saturn··1 votes·1,431 views

I rocked my placements, rocked the first couple of dozen of games.

As soon as I hit gold, I hit a wall. People seem to just be uncoordinated, don't gank properly, feed in laning phase like crazy, and teamfights are too risky.

The most consistent thing I've found is to press /mute all, mute pings, ignore my team, and split while everyone plays ARAM mid lane. I have to ignore the "?" ping spams on me, and I know that my team is likely raging to report me for not helping - but it feels like every. single. time. that I try to play as a team, I regret it.

Two games ago, I was 12/0 as LeBlanc, and was hard carrying. I was juking a Zac through the jungle and saving my GP.. when he shot a knockback plant for no reason and killed me. That ended up costing us the game since while I was dead, the enemy got baron and hard pushed mid.

Anyone who is higher elo than G3, please tell me - is there any point in actually trying to play as a team? It feels like no matter how fed I get, or how much I feed my team in the early game, nobody knows what to do.

My op.gg says I'm now a silver 4 ELO with a gold 5 rating, and literally every single game devolves into a /allchat report fest where it's all but guaranteed at least 2 people AFK every single game.

4 Comments

Cocho2 votes

You gotta use your lead for towers or baron while you have it. From what you said, you seem like you get it lol

I don't really care about dragons period. I've heard streams say that dragons and rift herald are often not worth the time. A drag isn't going to help a bad team. I usually just use drag to make a fight happen (that I know we will win).

This dude provides good tips https://www.youtube.com/user/bingegamingdottv

Touch My Box1 votes

play jungle and you can control and direct everyone elses lane.

dakota saturn1 votes

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play jungle and you can control and direct everyone elses lane.

I play mid lane, which arguably has more influence over the map.

But no matter what lane you play, you're only 20% of your teamcomp.

If your teammates are retarded/won't fucking listen/waste their ults on the support blitzcrank, there is nothing you can do. It doesn't matter if you're a 8/3/10 shaco, your team is fucking uncarryable.

Sorry for salt. Just had an extremely frustrating match where WW ulted Blitzcrank, everyone decides to immediately blow ults on the fucking blitzcrank, despite my constant back pinging, then as soon as he dies, annie walks up, 4 man stun, gg lose.

..........................................

It is just impossible to fucking do anything.

Asayake 5150glow1 votes

Mid assassins are usually pretty bad at helping top kill the tank and may not be able to oneshot a fed ADC either. I prefer playing duelists who can and are meant to 1v1 anyone and perhaps 1v2/3, and as a top main the best way to carry is probably to split push if you can 1v1 anyone. Wards are a must, though and your team has to not be too hard behind, and you have to push fairly fast or they'll just ignore you.

I'd recommend roaming the enemy jungle. It's a pretty good way to get some kills and also tilt the enemy.

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