Getting Out Of Silver

Tøys·Apr 3, 2016·1 votes·8,764 views

Hi, I was in silver last season and now I finally climbed back in to it. I want to aim for gold this season and wanted to know if you guys could give me some tips on how to climb out of silver quickly. I want to know general things like what champions I should play, what things I should be focusing on doing, or what I should do before a game, general stuff like that. I also want to know if in silver you should start to pick a main champion and or role and how to choose a main champion/role. If you could share some of your knowledge with me that would be great. Please help. Good luck in solo que and a have a wonderful day. Thank you.

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Little Stick ManApr 3, 20161 votes

just pick the champs you know you're good with, remember that objectives (towers, dragon, baron) win games not kills, ward, and watch the map. the biggest problem I've faced when climbing is not knowing how to finish a game, so getting your team to 5 man to push down mid or go for baron then mid after a good team fight will really help finish games and avoid those random 50 min throws

HongChongDongApr 3, 20161 votes

Practice farming: If you can get to a level of around 85 CS or so at 10 minutes then you're already farming at a challenger level.

Find your champion: In ranked you have to assume you have to carry or no one will and to do that you need a snowbally esc champion to steamroll your lane and potentially get to the end game goal of winning.

Play nothing but your champion: Know their in's and out's, understand every build path and why you build the way you do, understand you matchups and how you play them, and most importantly understand how you can use this champion to carry.

Find a back: find a back up role that you have no issue playing in ( mine is top) then learn about 3 back up champions for that role to use incase you don't get your main.

Finally attitude: The basic idea is to always look at the game from a neutral stand point and understand how things happened and why. It's not as simple as "Bot lane is bad and fed". Look at what happened and analyze it. Did the enemy hit level 2 first and cheese them? Was the enemy simply far ahead of them in skill level? Did the enemy have an advantage in bot comp? then once you understand that there's always more to your teammates losing than them simply being bad. then understand your own mistakes and fix them. And double finally understand not every game is winnable, sometimes you will lose and you have to accept that and simply think about why you lost your last game and move onto the next without letting yourself lose your cool as you will lose games regardless of how skilled you are.

kasfasApr 3, 20161 votes

No way is 85 cs at 10 minutes challenger level, I've gotten some 90 -95 cs in some games by that time and I'm in s4.

I mostly play Sion top, but have several backups in poppy, Darius, GP and Nautilus.

I play jungle secondary, but I just never feel like I do enough or do it right. I'm never where I need to be, or where I can get a kill. If you can help me with that, it would be very much appreciated.

The rest I already do, as well as trying to tp ganks when it can turn out well. Maybe sometimes I'm having a bad day, or am in a mood where I blame my team a lot, but 99.99% of those games are norms, because I know I can't win a game with that attitude.

HongChongDongApr 3, 20161 votes

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No way is 85 cs at 10 minutes challenger level, I've gotten some 90 -95 cs in some games by that time and I'm in s4.

I mostly play Sion top, but have several backups in poppy, Darius, GP and Nautilus.

I play jungle secondary, but I just never feel like I do enough or do it right. I'm never where I need to be, or where I can get a kill. If you can help me with that, it would be very much appreciated.

The rest I already do, as well as trying to tp ganks when it can turn out well. Maybe sometimes I'm having a bad day, or am in a mood where I blame my team a lot, but 99.99% of those games are norms, because I know I can't win a game with that attitude.

You are able to farm more against lower skilled players as it's typically much easier to lane against them but that 85 CS score is based around people who are worlds apart from low elo in terms of how they play so of course it's bound to be lower than the absolute max you can get.

kasfasApr 3, 20161 votes

Y'know, I forgot about the fact that at higher Elo people punish you for csing to a more effective degree (meaning they actually punish you). That's something I've also been trying to work on.

Sariat1Apr 3, 20161 votes

How I climbed out of Silver in 6 simple steps.

NEVER play support. Playing support is fine when your team knows what they are doing, but in silver, they don't. Play a role that will be able to deal damage.
Screw teamfights, push lanes. In silver, wave management wins more games than lost teamfights. Buy a ZZrot or a Banner and stick it in a side lane. If you haven't managed to push your lane to the inhibitor turret at least once, you haven't done your job.
Play someone with waveclear, not only does it make CSing a lot easier, it also makes it much harder for you opponent to CS and you will have a natural lead.
Play an AOE damage oriented champ. This way, you will be able to deal lots of damage to their whole team, and be able to effectively carry games much easier.
Ping. Wear out your ALT key, because it takes way too long to type something. Team games are all about communication, and most people in Silver have very poor map awareness. Ping their jungler when they cross a ward, ping to attack Towers or Objectives, ping the most fed person on their team in fights.
Play a select group of champs. Don't queue fill ever, and only play 3-4 champs in your main role. This way you will get very good at them and be able to start making outplays. Playing only a few champs is also much easier on your IP pocketbook, as you don't have to have different runes for all your champs.

For reference, here are the Champs and the lanes I played them in that carried me out of Silver:

Mid: Velkoz Lux Top: Rammus Ryze Garen

EndlessSorcererApr 3, 20161 votes

I wouldn't necessarily recommend maining a champion, but I would suggest narrowing down your roles. I would suggest picking 3-ish champions per role of your two selected roles so that you have options to counter your opponent, adapt to team compositions, or handle your preferred option being picked/banned.

I would recommend you stop playing champions your aren't winning with.

If you are doing badly with a champion, just accept the fact you don't play well with them and stop playing them. Identify the champions you are winning with and play them more frequently.

Taking a quick look at your na.op.gg profile, you have a 27% win rate on Ahri after 11 games and a 33% win rate on Yasuo after 15 games.

On the other hand, you have a 70% win rate on Jinx after 20 games, a 67% win rate with Elise after 6, and a 80% win rate with Jihn after 5. Those may be champions you should play more of.

From what I recall of my time in Silver last season, I identified four main weaknesses that I sought to exploit:

[1] Players typically have poor general skills in lane.

Players don't really know how to manage minion waves, trade proficiently, shut down opponents or roam. Due to this, it's really quite easy to get ahead as a mid- to late-game scaling champion (i.e. Wukong, Nasus, Irelia) without falling behind and even snowballing early.

Also, players often overextend or ward poorly so you can often get fed rather quickly when jungling if you have strong early ganks (i.e. Volibear, Xin Zhao, Kindred).

[2] Players tend to group around objectives constantly and/or at bad times (they don't rotate well).

Honestly, a lot of my matches devolved into essentially ARAM. Both teams would group around an objective (i.e. a tower, inhibitor, dragon, baron) and proceed to spend the next couple minutes walking around it and exchanging poke until somebody gets caught out or sloppily engages a teamfight. I got a lot of use out of Ziggs (mid) and Varus (ADC) during these times since I could easily disengage fights, poke them down, or pick someone off.

[3] Teams tend to lack durability and CC

This isn't always true but I ran into many teams composed highly of squishy, high-damage and low CC champions in Silver. To compensate for this, my champions would usually at least have one strong CC ability and/or some durability to fill this gap.

It's hilarious how having even one durable fighter/tank and/or some AoE CC can change a fight against a team of carries. The ability to engage/disengage fights or pick people off is massive.

[4] Very, very few people know how to support properly.

Support seems to be the role that people are usually forced into playing (at least before dynamic queue). As such, it was typically filled by a player inexperienced with the role and a good support could be extremely influential (since they didn't have to worry about the other support countering them).

As such, an experienced support player would (even with a poor ADC) be able to dominate bottom lane. After crushing the enemy bottom lane and when their ADC is back, supports can roam mid or support their jungler during an invade to spread their lead and get their other allies ahead while shutting down their enemies.

Obviously, I would recommend playing champions you love and who you are experienced with. However, I would recommend you take a look at what mistakes or trends appear during every game and think on how you can exploit them.

I typically played fighters, CC tanks and siege casters during my time in Silver to exploit these weaknesses. It still worked through Gold and into Platinum too.

VexfulApr 3, 20161 votes

-Silver games run between 35-40 minutes per game. Something that scales well is recommended. Most people cannot close out an advantage down here.

-You want someone who can teamfight well. You can splitpush all you want but if your team is dying 4v5 guess who is at fault? Look for somewhat tanky, aoe damage, and/or high damage characters. MonkeyKing for example.

-Know why you're in silver. ------------:Do you have a hard time with mechanics? Aka do you know AA cancel, orb walk, landing majority of your skillshots? If this is your problem, play easy champions that require decision making instead of mechanic prowess. Garen ------------:What is your decision making like? Are you the guy who knows they are stalling under their mid turret and you take a side lane out? Maybe you grabbed drag during this? If this is your issue, you'll have to carry on being fed. This is the hardest tbh because you need to consistently get out of control. This person should play snowball champions. Khazix Draven You're betting that your level of mechanics can substitute for not taking dragon when the enemy is trying to stall under their turret. Also that you'll out play the enemy consistantly. ------------: Game knowledge. Are you building optimally? Do you keep track of timers and cooldowns? Do you know the matchups? This you really just need to fix by looking at guides. For example: if you play a lot of lux and you get item 3041 every game even if you're 1/3, then just smack yourself.

-Once you know you're weakness you can choose a handful of champs to play. Since we only have to pick two roles know, find 6 champs that you can play (3 per role) and just get really good with those 6. Make sure they fill multiple styles to be effective with multiple comps. For example: Picking top as Nasus MonkeyKing Malphite .