Boards›Gameplay

How do skilled people "carry" in silver to get to higher ranks?

Ok sure but why··2 votes·360 views

I won't say I'm challenger material, but I know how to win games based on what champion I'm playing and who I'm playing against, when I should just farm, when I reach my power spikes, what to build to counter enemies (MR, Armour Pen, etc.) etc. I'm knowledgeable and all that. I've been able to carry games, and no matter what happens, I always try my hardest to make comebacks.

#But silver is a fucking shit-hole.

Last year, it took me forever to get out of silver. It was my first year playing ranked, and I only started because my "Kennen is toxic" post got met with nothing but "Lol ur unranked." When I hit Gold, I was completely astounded by how much better players are in general! Less trolling feeders, and less newcomers in their provisions! It was amazing, and I actually felt happy playing in gold.

But oh, no. The new season hits, and my 8-2 provisions shit me down to S3. And now I gotta deal with it all again!

#TL;DR So I just want an answer from some Diamond elitist. When you're playing ADC, and your top lane goes Draven and feeds 0/10 in the first ten minutes, your jungle takes skarner with ignite (so he's basically ignorable), and your support goes Malphite and never ults, doesn't buy a Knight's Vow and leaves you to fend for yourself (leaving you in a 1v2 lane, underfed and over-harassed),

How do you carry that? What are you supposed to do about that? I survived that shit-storm in a 54-minute-long game, because I was the only one of a 5-man team that felt the urge to put some effort into it. But every minute that passed made my team all the more determined to want to lose.

Please, I just wanna know what it takes.

4 Comments

Altaria2 votes

That's a lost game, what you're describing. You cannot help someone who already fed, you can only try to shut down the people they've fed. You need to win the games with macro play, and the best role you can carry in is the Jungler. If you're playing solo, pick Jungler. If you think you can carry, that's the best role to do it with in low ELO.

Macro play is what wins games, and thus you need to focus on it. If you're 16/5/1, you're doing something wrong. You should be 10/5/7. Feeding your entire team rather than just yourself is going to result in a win for sure, I can tell you that much. You have to get your team fed or shut down their fed laners, and that can be done through ganks and controlling the earlygame as well.

That's really all I can bother to type.

Ok sure but why1 votes

When I play tanky junglers, I always make sure to do that.

I just wish 50% of my games weren't "lost games" from the beginning. I've gone up to S2 and down to S3 about 7 times so far. It's tilting as hell.

Darkknight5122 votes

Hope and pray beyond everything that the enemy DCs and you get a shutdown while they stay gone forever.

There is nothing else you can do, I know exactly what you mean.

Ok sure but why1 votes

And the Draven never got punished, because he managed to ks some of my hard-earned kills at the 40-minute mark. I wish LP gains/losses were determined by performance. They have the technology and capabilities to determine what it would take to be a good player. But instead, they just settle for the classics: "I fed, but my team carried me and boosted my MMR," and "I carried, but my team fed hard and lowered my MMR."

More from Gameplay

3 Refunds per season, upvote if you want 3 refunds per season.
Gameplay764 comments
7,167
votes
3 Refunds per season, upvote if you want 3 refunds per season.
Gameplay156 comments
3,510
votes
UPVOTE FOR URF
Gameplay606 comments
2,440
votes
Yes plz.
Gameplay456 comments
1,721
votes
3 Refunds per season, up vote if you want 3 refunds per season.
Gameplay114 comments
1,716
votes
When is ANYONE at riot going to address the awful new player experience?
Gameplay634 comments
1,383
votes

More by Ok sure but why

Can Amumu have 1 more base health?
Gameplay74 comments
269
votes
What's the difference between autofill and support?
Memes & Games56 comments
163
votes
This needs to STOP.
Gameplay60 comments
149
votes
Just had a sad moment in my last game
Gameplay70 comments
115
votes
Anyone else think Kindred would be a more interesting champ if Wolf was just as relevant as Lamb?
Gameplay69 comments
91
votes
You know what's better than a successful report feedback?
Gameplay123 comments
86
votes