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Gold Division Strategy?

NeptuneXI·10/24/2019, 3:55:17 AM·3 votes·2,409 views

Hi everybody and happy 10th Anniversary to you all and Riot! =)

So my question is how to get out of gold? I got heavily stuck in my gold division and i wonder how any of you climbed to plat+, if you can please share some advice.

My issue is that i usually always win my lane with high score, but when it comes to late game i lose anyway, I just can't carry, for the most part my strategy is to play top/jungle, i get kills, farm, and trying to push as much as possible, but here comes the issue, every time when i have to push towers, my team decides that it is best time to start a team fight on mid or jungle, and when i go helping them, they all die, and i am left fighting 1 vs 3. So i gave up helping team fight mostly, because i see it as useless, if my team just jumps into fight unprepared it is 99% lose, i just solo push instead(of course they flame me, but i ignore).

I don't know why, but in my gold division people still don't know that pushing is important, instead of waiting enemies to respawn so they can kill them again. So how to solo carry? Even with high score there is just nothing you can do most of the time.

I might be missing something important, so i be glad if you help! Thank you.

8 Comments

LightswornLance10/24/2019, 8:26:52 AM1 votes

Dont split push in gold dude thats actually the complete opposite of what you want to do. Pick an amazing teamfight champ because 80% of games come down to which team has better teamfight. Also as a gold player you likely do not have the knowledge to know when to split push and your teams 100% wont know how to properly utilize the pressure you give.

Sephior10/24/2019, 10:17:46 PM1 votes

I am also in gold, in my 9 years LoL history i never played that many rankeds co i couldn't climb up. I started in gold elo, and ended up in gold division cause i never played more than 50-70 rankeds per season. I lost so many games in silver/gold on eune, then i realised one thing. This is not about skill. Especially in EU NE where people haven't any idea how to play this game. You can play like challenger and you can stay in lower division, cause you play champions whose aren't able to carring games alone. That's my idea how to climb up in low rank:

Mute everyone if they start flaming.
Play jungle.
Take high mobility junglers or assasins. 4. If you are above gold you will see soo many opportunities to gank or to take some objectives. This rank is a trash, honestly. If you don't see, sorry, gold is your place.
STOMP every ducking game, it's very easy with those champions i mentioned.

What it changes for me? I am 33/27 now, but my last games were 14/6. So i was like 19/21 before i start abusing my game plan. Anyway 4-5 of those losts were close to win and if i tryhard them bit more i could make it winnable. The most important thing is to understand that gold players in both sides don't use thing between thier ears. I am so rusty right now but still, the plat+ game knowledge is enough to stomp games in low ranks. Thats it.

preternatural10/26/2019, 5:21:06 PM1 votes

just build actual teamcomps. you'll climb so fast you will start flaming people on the boards for building shit comps.

Mavëríck10/26/2019, 5:27:03 PM1 votes

Team fights. Even in low Gold it always comes down to the team that plays team fights better. All my split pushing shenanigans I used to get out of Silver no longer work. You pick a strong team fighter who can either lock down an enemy team, or AoE the enemy team like my gurl Shyvana and you will have a much higher success rate.

I've noticed there's more focus on objectives like towers and dragon/baron starting in Gold, which is nice, but people EXPECT you to group and the team that groups consistently and roams together almost always wins.