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Currently not doing well in placements

JKLOLyolo112·1/10/2016, 12:48:24 PM·2 votes·793 views

What should i do because my placement matches have been so trash now from when I do blind pick. What are so tips and tricks on Ranked and how i can improve as a LoL player?

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Anu3isII1/10/2016, 6:34:13 PM2 votes

I will only write some suggestions, some of them can be more worth than the other, but they altogether helped me:

  1. Play when you feel relaxed and fresh. The big problem with ranked games is that they tilt you, especially when you meet difficulties. Also, the fact that you try to pay to almost everything kinda is making you tired, and less efficient in terms of thinking. This also leads to point 2:

  2. Don't play too many games in the same day. Stressful, annoying and disadvantageous if you lose games because you don't know your limits. Also, after a lost game, I suggest you to do anything else, like go out with a friend, play with your dog/cat/inserts weird animal species, just forget about LoL for a few hours/days. You will feel much better when you play a game JUST to win, not to repair your score.

  3. Check the champions you like.Then check the roles you can fill. Try to fill them ALL! I know this sounds partially bad, but it helps a lot more if you actually do it. Your allies may cover the roles you master, and practically your team will have a disadvantage from the start of the game. I personally found the jungler and the support roles the most difficult and the most important to learn.

  4. Check the champions you hate the most! Find counters that you like to play, or learn to play around them. For example, I hated Yasuo (and I still do it!), and I really want to wreck him. Immediately after I thought about it, a name came to my mind: Akali! I love to play her, I like to destroy Yasuo, so she made some fun easy wins for me ;)

  5. Don't pick champions just because you counter your enemy laner. Be smart! In the same example, we all know Akali likes to snowball. When she snowballs, she can end up games for her team. If you destroy a Yasuo in lane, you also make him partially USELESS! So don't look only for small wins, try to get the full picture. Try to win the whole game, not small battles!

  6. Runes and rune pages! Be sure you have the set of runes that makes you the most comfortable in specific situations. I particularly use 4 rune pages, which are more like "Do I need to be strong early game? Or can I scale into the late game easly?". Just don't forget about them, and update them everytime you feel uncomfortable with them.

  7. Believe in people! :) Sometimes... you may see weird/not easy to trust(?) champion picks like Mage Fortune, Warwick these days, Sona Mid and blah blah blah... Trust them! Most of the times, they don't pick them just because they can, they pick them because they have success with that particular play style! Just don't get nervous about it and have fun!

  8. Good luck and have fun!

vIbvdOwbko1/10/2016, 1:57:39 PM2 votes

There are so many different aspects of play that someone can improve on that it'd be hard to list enough of them. I'd suggest that you just spam play a gimmick and win with it.

Stuff like invading level 2 every game or picking talon mid and nonstop roaming bot.

RoflsMazoy1/10/2016, 1:21:07 PM2 votes

I can only really give you one piece of advice (because I'm only Silver 3) but something not a lot of people seem to know is that counter picking your enemy laner will make the lane so much easier if you know what you're doing. You should look at the champions you have and think about which champions they would do well against.

I main support in ranked and there have been so many times where I see the enemy picks something like Thresh and Kalista, a hyper aggresive botlane and I pick Soraka and they get completely shut down. They can't all in because I'll heal my adc, and they can't farm as well because of my q.

But even if you can't get that specific, you can at least look at your team comp vs the enemy team comp. If your team comp lacks cc or a front line you can't assume someone else is going to provide it or that you won't need one. Some more tips for judging team composition would be

  • If their main carries are ranged, try to avoid picking melee champs
  • If they have a lot of tanks you may need someone with more counter-engage (slows, stuns, etc.)
  • When in doubt, more cc is always good

Hope this helps, I'm not really an expert on it or anything.

xReadyPlayerOnex1/10/2016, 8:31:29 PM1 votes

I've heard that it's based on individual performance. Rather than your team needing to win, try being the guy that doesn't die and gets great cs.

disregardable1/10/2016, 12:50:04 PM1 votes

You won't lose anything if you dodge in your placements, so try to make sure you get a role you're comfortable with. If you still do badly after that, you can transition to playing normals Draft pick instead of Blind.

JKLOLyolo1121/18/2016, 12:01:01 PM1 votes

Thanks everyone!

umbraˉ1/10/2016, 1:34:01 PM1 votes

Good luck in bronzie land. N00b.

pattycakes52641/10/2016, 5:00:47 PM1 votes

Well, can't really un-do the bad placement games. However, a while back when I hit 30 and was ready to go and pre-tend I was playing the LCS, I had posted a thread basically asking what to expect, different things that can help me grow, how to deal with particular issues etcetera. There was A LOT of helpful general information about ranked in general that had helped me quite a bit. Very Toxic Jinx even posted something useful :^) (haha, just pokin' fun at the guy) But really. He did.

Here's the link to the thread; http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/tips-tricks/3O8iJnE3-preparing-for-ranked

Do with it as you will. I would go ahead and read most of it though. If you still have any questions after that, go ahead and ask me. My League specific knowledge may not be the highest in the world, but I play an absolute ton of DOTA 2, which league has many similarities to. So, with that said I do have an understanding of how things work and can give maybe a few different perspectives on things that others may not be able to. I've played a ton of MOBA's so really anything mechanically on how things work, why things work, and general knowledge that you may want to know I can probably answer. I will do my best to go ahead and help you out as much as I can! Because trust me, everyone knows how it feels through their first time playing ranked.

Enjoy the thread and your time playing through hel- Playing through the glorious ranked version of Summoners Rift! :)