I shot calling a major way to climb?

ZED G0D·Oct 31, 2016·1 votes·434 views

I'm a bronze II Mid/ADC...I do fairly well in my games, but I find we mostly lose due to bad decisions and poor choices..

Is being a good shot caller and leading your team one of the more effective ways of climbing?

6 Comments

RandomoniumOct 31, 20162 votes

Shot calling can be difficult in low elo games because everyone thinks they know what they're doing and won't listen to you even if you're right. You need to understand that even the "right" call can be a bad call if not everyone follows. If your team is too dumb or stubborn to follow they don't try to force the right call. Low elo games aren't won by who makes good plays, they are won by who makes fewer bad plays.

The best way to carry low elo is to get so far ahead in gold and experience that even if your team makes a bad call because you are so far ahead it won't matter. By practicing fundamental skills like csing and optimizing your map movements to maximize experience gain you should be able to get levels and items ahead of your opponents.

ReadyxPlayerxOneOct 31, 20162 votes

Only if you can get those apes to listen to you. Frankly I've been asking people for months now to buy a fucking ward and they won't do it.

Swiftstrike4Oct 31, 20162 votes

I don't know. Players in low Elo have a tendency to not listen unless someone is doing pretty well. I think it would be better to simply play better, personally. They also do not like being told what to do, because they are probably teenagers.

I play mostly among mid to high gold players, and really bad calls don't happen too often. I also play support and a top tank. So if I make a call most of the time people listen, since you can't do a lot of things without a tank in general.

I am very objective oriented, but I usually don't start making calls unless I am playing alright. Again, people have a tendency to not listen unless you are doing OK, although more often then not, most gold players are on the same page with calls.

The problem being with in low Elo and making calls:

You are in low elo you probably do not make the best decisions
People you are playing with are also in low elo, they frequently ignore calls or make poor choices
People tend to not listen in Bronze and Silver AT ALL unless you demonstrate through the score board that you are doing well

When I was climbing my smurf through silver I played a lot of support and I was amazed that players almost NEVER listened to a support's calls because I didn't have kills. The higher you climb the more often the support IS THE shot caller because they have a tendency to have higher map awareness.

XinCrinOct 31, 20162 votes

Don't do anything with your team. Just play a heavy split push champ and carry the game yourself.

LostFr0stOct 31, 20161 votes

I climbed out of bronze myself doing exactly this last year. Lead the Llamas/kittens and climb^^ Pings work better than typing for split-second stuff.