HOw to win from behind in silver
Do you ever feel like you are always getting the losing feeding team in ranked? Because I do. Do you know how to play from behind and maximize chance of winning, or are you at a loss for what to do most games? Take a close look at the video and watch what the red team does. The difference between them winning and losing (like a typical silver team these days) is teamwork and a few simple things most silvers ignore.
- Ward as a team. Vision means not facechecking into an enemy death brush. Vision means perfect timing to interrupt an enemy baron instead of rushing in blind. Vision means recognizing when the enemy is greedy and you can pick off a splitpusher to get
yourselfyour team back in the game. - Communication. Recognize who is tilted/having a bad game and if that is you, listen to people who are doing better/less tilted. Make good shotcalls. Chasing blind is a good way to die or burn summoners you will need later - it loses you the game. You need to make low risk, high reward plays -- like SKT does. Part of this goes back to having vision. If you have vision, you have information to work with. You can see enemy rotations coming and move accordingly. BE on the same page as your team. If you cannot group to defend a tower or 2 people are dead, give up that tower or inhib and don't die for it. Instead of crying "toxic" for a teammate asking you to help ward or to back off of a certain area of the map, listen to them if they know what they are talking about. Kda doesn't mean they do/don't know what they are saying. Logic means they know what they are saying.
- Positivity. Sure negative/salty players lose more games. People who are ignored when they make logical requests also lose more games. If you are or join the 5% of people in silver who will still listen to logic and take intelligent low risk high reward plays rather than fight whenever you see someone and stand out where you give the fed enemy team an easy 5v3 engage, you will win more games -- provided your teammates are also part of that 5%. If you are going to get after someone for repeatedly making the same dumb mistake that is easily fixed, tell them how to fix it; don't just insult them. Take advise with humility rather than get salty - either their advice is solid and you should listen even if it was said rudely, or it is flawed/illogical advice and you can ignore without arguing back with them and starting a debate that distracts your team from actually playing. Encourage your team. Point out all the good stuff they do no matter how small. Like: "thanks for warding that" or "nice escape".