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Hard stuck bronze, help me improve or tell me to git gud!

Mega Trixel·4/8/2018, 7:36:11 PM·1 votes·681 views
Mega Trixel - Summoner Stats - League of Legends

I'm sure you've all seen these threads pop up around the gameplay forum, or a complaint thread about bronze and how it's never the persons fault for their elo, but I'm not here for that, I'm here for real advice. I have been playing this game since before sejuani or ziggs came out, I've been a part of the heart of gold era and I'll never forget! I've been everywhere from bronze 5 to silver 1 100 LP and no matter what I can't seem to break the seal into gold, and for the first time since my ranked start years ago, I finished in bronze last season and it felt awful. I'd like to hit gold this season, but if not I'd at least like my silver border back, I don't ask for much, just some advice on how I might improve to make this happen.

Thing I'm doing currently:

  • I watch streams, look up tier lists, play to what i think are my strengths, look up optimal builds, etc.
  • Only playing a small pool of champions as to not spread my skill level across the board.

Things I feel I should be doing to improve:

  • Buy more pinks (Nobody in bronze does, including me)
  • Tilt less (If my game start isn't solid, or I die early, it can tilt me so hard I can see the under side of the flat earth!)
  • Rotate more, or find better ways to push my specific lead. (Sometimes I can get a lead, and just not know what to do with it. When I manage to though, magic happens.)

A few things about the op.gg/general play as of this post:

  • I only duo with my girlfriend and she one tricks nami. This isn't an excuse to why I lose, as she saves me more often than not and is generally a solid duo partner. Perhaps theres a champ I can play that works well with the champ?
  • My Kai'Sa win rate seems low, but it's only a one win difference. If I lose again though, I may just drop her from the champ rotation.
  • Kog'maw has a high win rate, but I stopped playing him with the W nerf, and the guinsoo changes. Is it worth picking him back up?
  • My VERY bad jungle game is just that, it's something I never do and was forced into the position so I tried, and failed. Should probably work on it in normals.
  • I'm using conquerer a lot because it seems to be working out for me more than it isn't, if it's wrong I'm sure you'll let me know but in my experience, the more damage I can do regardless of their builds, the better.
  • My builds are a result of research on sites like op.gg, probuilds.net, watching streams and youtube videos, and just general game knowledge. If they are bad, I'm sure you'll let me know.

Please if you have advice, try and be tactful because I'm a sensitive snowflake If you want to troll me, well I put myself out there so I guess I deserve it!

Thank you all for your time, even if I wasted it! [slayer-jinx-catface]

13 Comments

Dat Kat4/8/2018, 7:50:15 PM2 votes

git gud

Sp33d Zer04/8/2018, 7:52:51 PM2 votes

Your CS is surprisingly strong for someone in bronze, so you have a good gold income.

You buy no pinks. If you wanna check my op.gg http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=sp33d+zer0 you'll see me buying around 2-3 per game even on carry roles. It's important to remember that even if it just gets killed by the jungler, you denied a jungle gank and gained much more gold from it dying and you living than you spent on the ward itself. Try putting a sticky note up until you get the habit. Also, if you have a choice between a dagger and two pink wards, get 2 pink wards. That small amount of attack speed isn't worth it.

Try to get your girlfriend to help you not type in chat unless it is helpful. Also remember you WILL lose games. Even if you have a 55% win rate which is very good, you will lose 45 games out of 100.

Champions that go really well with Nami are Caitlyn Jinx Twitch Tristana Vayne Varus Xayah. They have good follow up CC or in the case of Tristana and Twitch, they can use her E to follow up a lot of punishment with auto stacking and their own personal E's. However, have your girlfriend try other enchanters. Janna and Lulu have very similar feels to Nami in my opinion and do give you a decent pool to work with. They also synergize with slightly different adcs.

Kai'sa is a new champion, but their a specific build that has been popping up. item 3812 item 3124 item 3115. It gives just enough stats to upgrade everything and also gives her a lot of damage on autos and burst. You then round it out with a item 3085 and you just roll the enemy.

Kog got rebuffed to be at 6% hp instead of 5% (still down from 7%), but the new guinsoo is actually BETTER for him because it is so much cheaper and the total attack speed is a major point of contention. He would be your Varus pick on a team where you need the damage way, way more than the utility. However, I think that if you want to play Kog, you need your GF to pick up Lulu or Janna as they are just significantly better with him than Nami.

Play things like Rammus jungle. He is easy, effective, and a solid ganker. You may also want to consider a different secondary if you struggle that much.

Conqueror on ADCs is incredibly underwhelming if they aren't named Draven. Run fleet footwork for extra kite in team fights, healing in lane OR run lethal tempo on guinsoo champions so you can abuse that attack speed cap. I run FF on everyone just because it is so powerful for that teamfighting phase. It also means you don't need a lifesteal item as much until a 4th or 5th item in most cases.

Your Jinx build is very poor. Deaths Dance for one is not very good on her, second you delayed Infinity edge for it. Your go to lifesteal item on Jinx is either going to be BT for the shield, or Mercurial scimitar for the safety. I would also generally recommend (on almost every ADC) item 1038 > item 3086 >item 3031 > completed zeal item. This isn't ALWAYS the case, but I have found this to be the best way to rush your power in the early game.

On sivir you aren't getting Essence Reaver. You need it. She spams very hard, runs out of mana very fast (even with shield) and it is often her FIRST item.

Keep in mind that a completed zeal item rush means sure, you WILL crit, but your crits will do no damage. You need at LEAST a bf sword before you ever complete a zeal item if you wanna do anything with it.

An interesting Varus build I have been using for AD heavy comps is actually:

FF, Triumph, Alacrity, Damage rune based on enemy team - Gathering Storm, Celerity for runes

item 3124 > item 3091 rush for the early mid game with a lot of magic damage, but then picking up a item 3115 to get even more magic damage, change my scaling adpative runes to AP, giving me a LOT more burst on my blight detonation and ultimate. Because the enemy team is rushing a lot of armor because of the full AD comp, this catches people off guard a lot. Round it out with item 3157 for if you get dove and item 3089 /item 3102/ item 3165/ item 3146/ item 3135 depending on the situation. Banshees makes you very safe, voidstaff lets you deal with MR stacking (if they change their mind and stop building armor for some reason), gunblade is a LOT of healing, and deathcap is a LOT of damage. Morello is obviously good versus squishies and people with a lot of in kit healing.

That said, your standard Varus build will look something like item 3124 > item 3091 / item 3153 >item 3085 and from here, you can either continue on hit (if you have lethal tempo) or build up some crit with item 3031.

iV0lt4GE4/8/2018, 7:57:10 PM2 votes

IMO, I would never run Conqueror as an adc, it's basicly because only melee champions can reset it and it also requires you to be in combat for 4 sec, basicly it's a bruiser rune. If you want damage, go Press the Attack but most people take Fleet Footwork because we barely ever build lifesteal items and just go for full crit, since the rune heals for crit it is just so much better.

Hencho1014/8/2018, 8:47:06 PM1 votes

So i am a gold ADC main, take my advice with a grain of salt, i'm not perfect. 1. Life Steal Item: You really seem to love item 3812, but on champions who use autos(Sivir Jinx for example) more than spells for damage, item 3072 is just SOOOOO much better. While others like Kaisa would be better with item 3812 2. Keystones: You seem to enjoy taking Conqueror, is fine and all, but something like Fleetfoot work helps if you want to just survive in lane, the health is VERY helpful. Or Press the attack will give you MORE damage then conqueror. And on jg, if you want a damage rune, Electrocute is just all around better, if your playing a tank, i find Grasp/Aftershock works MUCH better. 3. Vision: Vision is HUGE. If you have a ward up and the Drag Pit/Tribush/River Bush isn't warded or the other team's support is using the bot lane bushes, ward in one of those spots. Priority is River and Tri 4. Kai'sa: This seems to be an ADC you and i BOTH play. For Runes i go a usual ADC rune page: Precision primary:Fleet Foorwork, Triumph/Overheal(depending on if my support can heal me), Legend Alacrity, Coup De Grace. Then go_ Sorcery secondary_: Gathering storm(needed) and Celerity So i find that using Bang's(SKTs ADCarry) build is REALLY good. You rush the item 3508 into item 3006 then get item 3124 so you can evolve your Q into a item 3085 so you can evolve your E. After you pick up a item 3812 and item 3031, then your set. I've been able to solo carry so much with kai'sa, if you can play her, she's really good. Just play safe and ult for a SHIELD in a teamfights, NOT TO ENGAGE! The ADCs job is to do damage from the back line, not to dive into the other team to kill their ADC. 5. Heal vs Barrier: Heal is just all around better then Barrier, you can use it to save both you AND your support, heal gives you movement speed to chase or run and If you heal to escape then you regained health to stay in a fight if you need. The only time i would take Barrier is when my support is taking Heal and Exhaust won't help me. 6. Jungle Champs: If you want easy jungle champs to pick up and play, Vi Amumu Warwick. If you can just land 1 skillshot, you can play these champs, their so easy to play, and have some good ganks. 7. Farm For a bronze player, your farm is actually really good! Perfect CS is considered 10 per min, but i have a hell of a hard time getting that. I think I get around 6-8 depending on the game, and the champ. But remember that a full wave is about 105 gold with out the cannon minion, so 3 waves of minions(18 minions) is worth more gold than a kill. Hope this helps you clime! Good luck on the rift!!! [slayer-jinx-wink]