New (ish) players, feel like your hitting a wall and stuck in your mmr?

Heres stuff off the top of my head that I can remember being helpful to me when I was starting out.

1. Improve champion knowledge. If you can get on to the league wiki and just memorize all abilitys and items that's awesome. Im less good at that, more of a muscle memory fellow. Knowing more champions and what they do is a good part of improving at league. If your like me, I highly recommend you use Free week champions when ever you can. By playing a champion you get firsthand experience on when they feel strong or weak. you see how others react and can judge how effective that is. Take advantage of free week, don't get suckered into being a OTP. you can OTP, and climb, and have lots of fun. You gain more knowledge from playing other champions, and that will help you be better as a player even if your planning to be a OTP.

2. map awareness. Surprised by ganks all the time even when your not tunneled. Keep finding mean folks in bushes? Time to get aware, That mini map is your buddy, its got your back if you use it. Everybody and their dog will give you this advice, and its true. Again im mucle memory kind of guy so for me the quick and easy way to improve Awareness is simple, . TF R helps train awareness. Go to norms and play him until your getting good scores and having high impact, your will only get better playing with him at learning to read the map state. You need it to roam, you need it to live thru lane, you need it to set up kills off ganks. He is not successfully on constantly tunneled players.

3. check the post game. Look at your #s always. What ones are high value for your champion, how did you do?

4. how did we lose/win this game I don't even.... You have a match like this. Stop and check the replay. look at it again till you understand what resulted in the games outcome. Where did it shift?

5. Wards are your friend. Some times a ward is more reliable then the rest of your team.

6. do not cookie cutter, adjust to each game as needed. Runes, items, SS.

7. if your trying to climb cut down on wasteful losses. Don't FF just because your doing badly, you can try to just be usefull ot your best player and hope to get carried, Don't FF because your teams behind . FF is not bad and it can save you time, to many folks us it befor matches are decided. they give up win % to play easier or more games. Ask your self how realistic is a comeback, can we scale into the game and do we still have a viable win con? Like if your teams gonna crush them in 5v5... rather then tilt and FF, make atleast 1 effort to get your team to hit the win con. If they cant, wont, don't, and it ends up some ones so underskilled that win con is not viable, that's the time to FF. But try for a harder win first befor you roll over for the loss.

8. Avoid Tilt. First try to be tilt proof. Ignore any enemy team trash talking, like if they get to you by calling you abd trash etc? Mute enemy team. Your only hurting yourself not. Don't get frustrated and take it out on teammates, being tilt proof yourself does not mean that your teammates are. If you see some one losing it cuz of enemy trash talk politely encourage them to just mute the Flammer and point out the best way to shut that guy up is to kick his ass and win. Try to prevent your teammates from getting on others asses, your stuck together make it work. Flame loses games, flame builds tilt. Like one person afk on your team missing cs and dying to bad positioning sucks when they do it deaing with an enemy, this is only ever worse when its 2 teammates arguing. typing is less time playing, long movement, greyscreen, that's the only time ya should have lengthy conversations.

9. communicate realistically. This helps reduce tilt. "OMG YOUR SO SHIT STOP DYING." Your gonna see this when your doing badly. Be clear on what you need and that your aware. Some folks might back down and help, others are gonna be immature little shits. That said they will do so every time so all we need to care about here is the folks we can get from tilted to chill. So be clear in whats going on when you respond. "I went to ham for the kill and burned flash then died to their jungler. They are camping me cuz im down SS, I need help with lane or for you guys to pressure other lanes to get jungler off me to recover" Or example 2. "this is a really bad matchup for me its gonna be a struggle. honestly I don't know what I can do here besides try to not feed" Or example 3. "I am pretty screwed. This guy is a better player then me." A obnoxious troll, a immature player, they will be dicks to you always, often over nothing of any real significant to the games outcome. The folks who look to the game state and want to win more then lose? This is the kind of player you can work around. If you show your not oblivious and not willingly trying to be a handicap your more likely to get civil responses and assistance from your team. Losing lane to camp, Im getting camped and need help. This is a realistic reflection of the game state. OMG MY SHITTY JUNGLER LOST THIS GAME I GOT CAMPED 4 KILLS AND HE HASNT GANKED ONCE. That alienates your jungle, like if that guys at 75% of your teams kill participation and hes put 7 kills on the board for you and your bitching its not in your lane. Your way more likely to get insulted and laughed at, and you don't get the help needed either. A change in tone and vocabulary can change a matches outcome.

Whelp I hope some of this is remotely useful to some one. Yall have a good day.