Carrying Low Elo Games Is Just Teaching Low Elo Players

Playing and carrying games in low elo more so feels like teaching your teammates how to play League of Legends. A lot of people who get up to level 30 or are at a Silver or Bronze level have learned the basic concept of the game and possibly champion mechanics, but they haven't learned how to play league yet.

I used to think all it takes is winning lane and winning team fights to push and win the game. Everyone does well in lane, everyone wins. But that's just the icing on the cake and I feel like a lot of people in low elo still think this way. They get tilted when a lane loses, they get mad when the jungler doesn't help them snowball. They greed to get a lead, but don't know what to do with their lead. They get fed, and then what? Push mid? What about after you took mid inhib? Wait for the jungler to call baron, or dragons? What if they don't call? What lane should they be in? They don't know. They just know the mechanics to do decently in lane and that they're supposed to take the nexus.

When I play ranked solo, I know I'm gonna have to tell people what to do through shotcalls. I tell them when to rotate and why. I tell them where not to go and why, what to build and why, when to take objectives and why, what we cannot do and why. Winning games requires me to tell people how to play the game. Low elo players don't know what to do to win games from behind. They simply give up and hope their next roulette match up has all lanes won. But that's not how you win more than you lose. Games where lanes lose aren't unwinnable games, especially when Silver and Bronze make mistakes. Especially when Silver and Bronze don't know how to end games efficiently.

In low elo, you can't expect that your team has the knowledge that you do. Because we've all, or most of us, have been at a spot in the game where we were in Silver or Bronze and didn't know these things. We didn't know macro or how to play around the situation of the game and what decisions work best. So when you give shot calls, you gotta teach your teammates that don't know what they're doing what to do. And people will listen to you a lot more if you're the one ahead and carrying. Oh and of course, if you stay calm and deescalate any tilting.

I'm not complaining or anything because I realise that someone has to teach lower level players how to be good players. I just wanted to say this for those who are stuck because they feel like they get too many players who don't know what they're doing. Someone has to teach them what to do, and maybe they'll learn and teach players in their games what to do. It's easy to win games with no game knowledge if all lanes win, if someone gets stupidly fed. But it takes game knowledge and good calls to win from behind.