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I'm never leaving Bronze. Any "last resort" kind of tips ?

Unholy Slayer··1 votes·1,084 views

Hello, I started playing LoL in late season 5, I was placed bronze 1 and had no chance to climb further since pre-season 6 was about to kick in. In season 6, I made the mistake of maining support. My two friends who were introduced to LoL by me (top laner and ADC/mid) made it to Gold 5 by the end of the season, while I barely managed to claw my way from bronze 4 to 1. Now I got matched with players so bad I had to double my medication intake during placement games, and I promise you they are the bad ones. I can smash lane on my friend's plat unused account but in bronze support can't simply carry. My 2nd role is jungle, but everytime I try it my support is very bad (goes full AP and doesnt ward) so I find myself compelled to play the next game as support. Besides, my jungling isnt as good as my support. My overall winrate is below 50% and I'm guessing I'm one of the small % of players who got the short end of the stick (and it's natural because players above 50% have to exist, therefore losers exist too) I'm just very frustrated with the fact that I can't do anything to help my team as support in bronze. (I do those things but bronzies dont benefit from warding and information provided like flash timers and "that bush is warded dont gank" etc...)

23 Comments

l Helios l2 votes

Focus on you and improving your game. If you belong in something other than bronze, you'll get there. If you don't, then it's probably a good indicator that you belong in bronze.

Psyrik1 votes

This is true. Back when I was Bronze 3 I thought "Man I should be in SIlver or gold easy right now." Looking back, I belonged in bronze. I had to play a lot and learn from my mistakes. Season 5 it took me 500+ games to get from B3 to S4, once you start improving as a player you will climb. Season 6 i was stuck in low silver for 300 games before I finally started to climb towards Gold 5, where I ended the season. You can always get better and improve. Platinum Here I Come!

also I would recommend playing Garen top. Its busted right now and really easy to play and easy to carry at low elo.

Blàdedancer1 votes

So Garen is actually good? What build do you go on him?

l Helios l1 votes

Probably still cleaver, sunfire, switfites, mercs, or tabi, visage, dead man's, and fill item

Only Garen I've seen went 0 13 to my Darius.

l Helios l1 votes

It's pretty hard for people to think that they aren't as good as they think they are. It took me about 35 games to get from B3 to S5. I never climbed a lot because I always got too serious in ranked and never enjoyed it. I changed that attitude and my ranked is going pretty well now. Everyone can make it to gold if they try hard enough. The people who aren't there now just don't want it bad enough.

Also was the buff that significant? I didn't think it was that big a deal

Dolasaur1 votes

Well, it doesn't get limited placement until Challenger. But it's not particularly helpful to say "everyone can get Master, they just don't want it bad enough".

l Helios l1 votes

There's a fairly obvious difference between hitting gold and hitting master. Not everyone can hit master, but gold is a different story.

Dolasaur1 votes

Yeah, they are different. But some people work 80 hours a week and spend most of their free time taking care of their children. Other people have to reduce the amount they play in order to avoid raging. Other people may have uncorrectable visual or audio impairments, or may not be able to afford the treatment. Other people are too young or too old to have their fine motor skills in peak condition. Other people only have a stable internet connection when they visit a non-primary custody parent on Tuesday nights and every other weekend (when they might want to actually spend time with that parent).

You have to sacrifice more to reach Master than you have to sacrifice to reach Gold. But implying everyone has the wherewithal to make the sacrifices necessary to reach Gold shows a lack of awareness or understanding of people in different situations from your own.

dim2a2 votes

If you want to keep maining support, find a competent adc, and duo with them. You are not looking to get carried, you are looking to make sure that if you win botlane, your adc will most of the time do something OK with it, making it more likely that your skill will win the game, and less likely you'll get a troll.

Myrmiron2 votes

Cut your life into pieces. Heard that works well.

http://fs5.directupload.net/images/161206/6ns3tse8.jpg

Pandemic Punch2 votes

No suffocation. Avoid bad positioning where they enemy can harass you away from CS.

Unholy Slayer2 votes

Suffocation, no breathing I actually give a lot of f*cks of our ADC runs it down mid bleeding

Restless Slumber1 votes

Focus less on your teammates gameplay and learn the extent to which you can carry. Supports that are good for climbing low elo are Thresh (if you're good), Karma, Lulu, Brand, Zyra, Vel'Koz, and Veigar. Main any of those champs as a support, get good at it and you will climb. Bronze elo is literally won by a single player a game like 90% of the time, so try being that player.

I am Pacman1 votes

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Focus less on your teammates gameplay and learn the extent to which you can carry. Supports that are good for climbing low elo are Thresh (if you're good), Karma, Lulu, Brand, Zyra, Vel'Koz, and Veigar. Main any of those champs as a support, get good at it and you will climb. Bronze elo is literally won by a single player a game like 90% of the time, so try being that player.

This, focus maining 1-3 champs and learn everything about them from matchups to all the tips and tricks nuances. I would reccomend douing with a compenent adc if you can find one because having synergy in that lane is everything.

RcGjWO640w1 votes

Singed Support. Best Bronze sup IMO.

Immortal spax1 votes

whatch out for the 14 day bans

RcGjWO640w1 votes

Only if you take smite.

ForgiveColour1 votes

Win games

FioraWillCarry1 votes

Good CSing almost by itself got me out of Bronze in Season 6. Aim for 80 by 10 minutes on a late game champ and you should be able to carry around 60% of your games. You won't always get 80 by ten minutes but this should be your aim. With this in mind your CS should be always be where it needs to be in context of the particular game. What I mean by this is that even if your don't make 80 by 10 minutes, let's say you hit 60, then your opponent might be at 20 or your 60 might be the highest in the game. I guess what I'm saying is, farm as much as possible. Learn how to do this and forget the idiots than wanna fight constantly without any thought. Fight later when you're farmed and leveled. Kills will come to you easy.

Escheton1 votes

Would it be wrong, would it be right? Play ZZ´Rot Singed or Garen. Just push forever, and when they come for you run away and push another lane. Win because Bronze can´t deal.

Stephenizgod1 votes

You can carry as Support, but in Bronze I would recommend playing Top lane. You just stay top and farm all game, have like 50+ more CS than anyone else. You will be stronger than everyone and then you can just push a lane and kill anyone who comes at you. Most of the time in Bronze they come at you 1 at a time or they don't respect your gold lead and jump at you blindly.

On my smurf I got out of Bronze by literally split pushing all game with Jax, Kayle, and Garen.

The Deckowner1 votes

Open a new account, the base mmr of a new account is probably much higher than your current account, and you can rank up much easier.

Kharn Skyshatter1 votes

There is nothing wrong with being bronze despite what some will say. If the bottom rung of the ladder drops out then the other rungs will shortly follow. Just focus on things you can control. 15 cs = 1 kill. Pratice CSing and you'll eventually climb.

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