I've been playing league for about 7 years and I've only been gold once... the rest of my time, i've been stuck in silver, I'm not saying it's because of my team mates because I'm equally responsible for losses, but if anyone has good advice on how to get out, I'd be happy to hear.
HELP THE JUNGLER if they are fighting in the jungle. Getting 3 more CS is not worth letting your team mate die. If the enemy laner disappears, FOLLOW THEM! there is a good chance they are going to help their jungler. it is NOT OKAY to just ping missing and sit in lane to CS.
DO NOT hold your abilities back and wait so you can use it to kill secure. It doesn't matter who gets the kill as long as you are winning. Being greedy always makes you lose.
If you want objectives like dragon or baron, DO NOT just ping it. Set your team up for it. Ping the timer early so your team can react properly.
DO NOT back to base when the enemy lane is pushing. I see a common theme of someone wanting to buy an item (which is cool and all) but it comes at the price of a free tower.
DO NOT defend a tier 1, tier 2 or a base tower when you are outnumbered. Just let them take the free tower and group up. 3(you) v 5(them) around a base tower is really iffy. use your judgement but most of the time i'd say you are screwed and dying only helps them at that point.
LANE PRESSURE is a must. I notice in this season a lot of people like to go chasing kills. If you have an attack speed champ, you can easily take turrets while your team mates are getting ganked. It's better to trade for something than try running across the map to avenge them.
it is OKAY TO DIE for your carry. it is OKAY TO LET YOUR TEAM CARRY, even if you are suppose to be the carry. Let the strong person carry. A 3/10/7 adc who wins the game is still a winner because you WON the game. Having the best looking KDA means nothing when you lose. Having the highest CS means nothing when you lose. Getting an S+ gameplay means nothing when you lose.
DO NOT try to stay alive and run in every fight. you NEED to be there for it to be a TEAM FIGHT.
yeah... a lot of salty experience. just things i notice.
You maining mid/adc atm? If not correct me :) Now you've been playing for ages so you likely know much of this. If you really want rapid results, find a high elo player willing to duo in norms to help coach you
Getting to the top of silver is relatively simple which I'll address in a sec. Getting into gold however is all about luck. From my experience you will be matched with silver 5-1's and maybe a gold V but matched against high silvers/golds, plats and even the occasional diamond. Possibly like me, you will get in by getting 2 free wins and lucking out on a solid team that carries the hell out of you.
As for you yourself. Practice the basics: last hitting, warding and awareness, decision making and roaming. Many players try to do fancy plays or go for one kill too many, the kill that generally gets them killed, tilts them and destroys their lead.
During my time in gold and brief period in plat (I lost every game and got demoted so fast XD), I played top and I preferred tanks and passive juggernauts like 
and 
. Last hitting and not feeding was the most important thing I could do up there. And so it's what I practiced and got decent at it. I'd generally out farm my enemies and even 
couldn't make my score look horrid.
Based on your matches you don't ward much at all and you seem to die, kill for kill most of the time. Possibly due to a lack of wards. You do buy control wards which is great. A different spot to place them is the blue buff side bush near, but not in river. Or the red buff side bush near dragon pit. If placed on the enemies side they will spot allot of river traffic as well as the enemy jungler as they go from camp to camp. If you want it to last then place it on your own side. Try and get in the habit of warding your lane bush every time the trinket comes off cooldown.
Decision making & roaming: A mistake you made in the zed game was delaying your seekers armguard. If you got it first then gone into lich bane you may have won lane :). I'm not sure how much you roam but it's an invaluable thing to be able to do. But that will require upping your awareness so you're constantly looking for potential roams.
Keep it simple:
Keep your champion pool compact but flexible. If you play adc mainly then your pool doesn't really matter as long as they're strong atm. But if you're playing mid you need to branch out, either into other assassins or a mage or 2.
Can make a friendly recommendation, 
is the anti everything that wants to jump on you. Yasuo, zed, talon. He will devour them all (you play safe and let them come to you, that's how urgot thrives, perfect for low elo when people focus on their KDA)
There's a reason there's a meta:
The meta is a meta for a reason. Picking for example, 
or 
doesn't make one better than another, simply a handicap. Now you're not doing this, however it's an easy trap to fall into.
I think you should play more Fizz. Your champ pool is pretty varied and it'd be helpful to lower it to a few champs, and you have a good win rate on Fizz. Despite the small sample size, Fizz is a good champ to main regardless.
Also, in some games, you have abysmal farm, going down to below 4 cs/min. Try to work on that to keep it up to 5.5-6+/min and it will substantially increase your impact in games.
make sacrifices to whatever god or goddess you believe in
Play mechanically easy champs that are meta
take tips from coaches and watch high level vods for champions you play
Practice CSing. If you can consistently get 8 cs/min you will have way more gold than everyone in your league.
I'm not saying it's because of my team mates because I'm equally responsible for losses,
You've already made the first step.
Just keep improving your gameplay and listen to better people than me give you advice.
Persistence, tenacity, and luck. Even with a 51% win rate, you will eventually make it to gold.
Jungle Udyr. Max Tiger first with Ravenous Hydra. Max bear 2nd. Split push all game.
Top lane Yorick with zz'rot (even better before BoC removal) and Titanic Hydra.
Top Illaoi 
Jungle 
Or find a duo partner to bot lane with.
OP combinations are
and enchanter
and assassin
and a counter pick
Unless you play Anivia / Cass mid, you're stuck jungling.
Every time I try to play anything else, like TF for example (my highed ranking champ) the team just sucks big dick and lets you down, regardless of whether you win lane or not, the enemy mid laner is gonna be better at raping your team.
So control mages are out of the question for mid.
Learning how to farm is probably the easiest way to climb for any non-support. There's really no reason to ever average below 7 CS/min in the early-mid game. That's 140 CS at the 20 minute mark. You get much more value farming correctly than you do going for kills.
It gets hard to keep up in farm after 20 minutes in soloQ because by then one team is typically just trying to end or the game devolves into a fiesta. But always try to hit 140 by 20 minutes as a minimum.
As someone who just climbed out of silver, I would recommend you stick to a champ you enjoy and play him to the fullest extent so you know his limits and possibilities.
Like everyone else was saying, I'd say you should play Fizz more. Fizz is a pretty influential champion, if you learn how to properly roam, you can impact the entire game and all your laners by getting them ahead if your roams pay off. With Fizz, don't be afraid to be too aggressive, but always make sure you got vision or know where the enemy team is before you commit. A lot of wins come from map awareness, keeping track of where enemies are. If you get a lead as well, always make sure to capitalize on it. You don't want to sit in lane when you're 3-0 farming when you could be punishing the enemy jungler or other lanes.
Watch high elo players to learn macro, what to do, when to rotate, when to pressure a lane, etc. It helps you predict where the enemy JG is so you can punish him accordingly or how to end games quickly by focusing objectives and splitting the enemy team up.
Also, get your farm up. Even if you're ahead, farm is extremely important and a consistent farm will become much more important as you climb.
Basically, learn macro because the majority of silver players do not understand it. Learn how to roam, as every roam you do has the possibility of setting the laner ahead. Main a champion and stick to him.
I was S6 Bronze 3.
Got to gold on two accounts last season.
Now got 2 accounts stuck in silver (I suck ass at the game)
I'd say getting out of silver is 75% luck, 20% persistence and 5% tenacity
If its silver, learn to gold funnel. It seems like you are often losing because you can't establish your lead as where. Like bot lane, there has been plenty of games where you have a good KDA and gold lead but your bot lane has a huge amount of combined deaths.
Keep playing things like Annie/Fizz because midlaners in silver from my experience misposition/have really predictable pathing/ or play too passive and get pushed in
Push and ward the enemy jungle (wraiths/blue buff/ redbuff) and try to kill them if they're low
improve CSing
If the lane is just that terrible, abandon it and help someone else (unless its like a yasuo/malzahar then you're forced to stay).
is your name a KOF reference?
You can't be playing league for 7 years and still be silver . you are trolling us
Well right now it seems like its just coming down to being lucky enough to not end up with a adc trying this new meta BS.
You see people talking about quitting this game for many reasons but I never thought about it until now.....its not the game...but these people that insist on playing these champs as adc lately and completely fail. Like no matter how I do in the game..even if i do good,,, we lose. its to the point now when i see someone lock in anything other than a traditional adc for adc role i already know the game is lost. And of course it just keeps happening......I just won 6 games in a row to get into my Silver 2 promos and then boom...1st game in promos and the adc wants to use Vladamir. I start off winning lane 2-1 (death to jungler after killing mid a 2nd time) , then after bots 2nd death i have 4 people in my lane pushing 2 towers with no response from my team and then enemy team just steam rolled from there.
I dont know what others experiences is with this but this is legit the 1st time i havnt had fun playing this game because i know when i see this new meta bot its a loss.
I recently got out of S5 and am working my way through S4 thanks to one small change - I've been focusing on being positive.
I've never been an incredibly negative person in-game to begin with; never received a ban or a chat restriction, but I'm generally pretty quiet. Now during champion select I go out of my way to be friendly with teammates. Need to switch lanes? I'm your guy. Picking something outside of the meta? I love it; can't wait to see you carry.
Seriously, go look at my win rate lately. I'm selecting "Fill" every game and playing a lot of support (Taric's ult probably deserves a LOT of the credit), but even games I'm losing aren't as difficult to stomach when the team doesn't hate each other. There are some bad eggs, but the last two weeks have made me think that starting out on the right foot is SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than I've ever thought in the past 4/5 years of playing this game.
Play a champion that you know you can stomp lane on, and begin to apply pressure while having map awareness enough to not get ganked and die. This will pull pressure off of your teammates. The other thing you need to know is there are some games that are just so heavily matched against you that it is impossible to win, and I'm not saying that you will be outmatched, your teammates will all be 0-3 in the first 5 minutes of the game. You need to just disregard these games. Try to avoid win streaks as they mess with your MMR alot and you get worse teammates as a result (this is statistically proven because of the MMR system, downvote all you want). Remember, a 49% win rate makes you climb.
Overall just play better than your lane opponent and don't tilt. It is honestly that simple, that is enough to get you a 55% win rate or more.
Learn to play the role not the champion. There's actually a lot more to the role than your champion.
ive got one,dont be bad
Just play what is op otherwise you ain't gonna make it quickly.
I skipped most of S5-S7 and never really tried to climb, and the only time I made it to Gold was S4, literally an hour before the season ended.
This, I believe, was before you could queue by roll as well.
At any rate, one of the keys to climbing is to practice and get good with a smaller pool of champions. I'm still goofing around this season trying to collect chests (so I stop playing a champ as soon as I get an S rank with them), and that makes it pretty hell to climb. Yes, I'm that guy who plays new champs in ranked...but it's Silver so whatever.
At any rate, when I decided I wanted to finish gold in S4 I did it by making sure I had a small pool of varied champs to play for each roll. I tried to make sure these champs weren't similar and had a vastly different range of strengths and weaknesses. In general, if I have 3-4 very different champs per roll that I'm very proficient with, and I play those all the time, the experience pays off. When I'm joking around with champs I'm only moderately familiar with, I'm going to have mediocre results.
stop building lich bane first item on fizz, if you used online sources you know that you shouldnt build lich bane first item on fizz
Same story bro. The one time I got to gold is Warwick all the time season 4 back then. the thing is I get bored then change my main, drop again. Stick to what you know. play aram to warm up for team fights then go play ranked. don't play when your frustrated call it a day after few wins or loses. then play for fun with solid strategy and good communication with team
I feel you so hard here. I just recently escaped Bronze and can even make it through Silver V without too much difficulty. But Silver VI is cursed. Plenty of good players. No coordination.
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