The "Just one more ..." problem
I am a Nasus main currently working my way through silver 3. I started the season (and my ranked career) in bronze 4 and have been working my ass off since.
There are many problems in low elo from what i can see. I know I have many as well seeing that I'm not challenger in Korea. The biggest problem by far that I see is not warding, csing, or even feeding a lane after losing it. It is the "just one more" mindset.
What do I mean by this? Have you ever had a game where you just got baron and have recalled, then you see a juicy wave of minions about to hit your tower. Fair enough. You go to clear it and push it about halfway, because that means they cant be on your doorstep soon. Then you see your blue buff is about to be up, and being a caster mage, that blue buff could supply much needed mana. Then you see your master yi just gone bot after getting his red. By the time he finally joins you for the push, your baron buff is almost gone. You just experienced the "just one more .." problem.
I see this all of the time trying to put together splitpushes. One or two people say to set up a 0-4-1 splitpush (0 top, 4 mid, 1 bot), while the enemy team is in disarray. But, by the time the people actually come to the lane (if they ever) then the enemy team has already regrouped and are pushing mid with a much better teamfight than yours has.
How do you break this dreadful habit? As in the words of Shia Labeouf.. DO IT! JUST DO IT! Unless you are starving for mana after clearing the wave that could have destroyed your tower, don't go for the blue buff. If you are a melee champ and your red is about to come up, just give it to your adc, and clear the bot wave before going mid. The adc can take it on his own (I would hope), and you can clear the wave to get to mid, unless you have another splitpusher, then just let him clear the wave.
It's not that hard, but I think the main cause is everyone wants the perfect setup so they feel like they can't lose, but in doing so, they miss opportunities in taking advantage of the enemy team screwing around or in limbo on what to do.
The reason why I believe this is the biggest problem is because it affects so many things. Could be the reason why you are csing badly, to where you are trading and think to yourself, "Just one more auto on him" and two minions die for that one extra auto. I know this can be classified as greed, but greed cannot classify my first example (I don't think anyways).
Another reason could be you are less than half health against a 3/0 renekton, and a juicy cannon minion wave comes while your teleport is down. You stay and die to the renekton because his ignite and ulti are up. He just straight-up tower dove you.
That's all from me. Thank you for taking your time to read it and appreciate feedback.
