How to stop being bronze TODAY!

Barkley··3 votes·1,842 views

-Stop chatting. Entirely. The only keys you need to be concerned with are the ones that make your champion do things.

-Push objectives. Always. If there's no objective to get, do something else somewhere else.

-Watch your minimap.

-Ping early, ping often, ping always.

-Buy control wards. Use them. Even if you're mid or adc.

-If you're winning your lane, push your turret. After you get your turret, help one of your team mates get theirs. Rotate your gold.

-Narrow your champion pool down to 2-3 champs per lane. Spam those champs.

-Be a team player. Heroes never live very long.

-If you're fed, hand off kills to someone else. Spread the wealth. Don't be your team's single point of failure.

-Ward the enemy jungle if you're ahead, your own jungle if you're behind, and the river if its even.

-Learn to tell when you're ahead or behind. Play accordingly.

-Learn what items do. Grievous wounds wins games. Randuins beats crit builds (Yasuo, trist, etc.)

-Buy potions. Use them when you fight.

-Learn the meta. Exploit it. Don't play assassins in a tank meta. Don't play split pushers in a team fight meta.

-Watch the pros. Find someone who plays your favorite champ, and learn from them.

-Mute toxic players. Better yet, mute everybody. There is no strategic advantage to chatting that you can't get with just pings.

-Dodge games you think you're going to lose. 5-30 minutes and -2lp is better than 50 minutes and -20 lp.

-If you tilt, stop playing. You make garbage decisions when you're angry.

-Don't worry about anything your team mates are doing. You can't control them. Play your best around what they're doing.

-Don't ever expect your team to follow your directions, and don't ever get mad at your team for not following you. You are responsible for you.

-Don't ever criticize other players. Not verbally, not in your own head. Only criticize yourself.

-Go to OP.GG and check your kill participation per game. If its below 50%, you need to make some changes.

-Check stats at the end of every game. How was your dmg? How was your vision? How was your objective dmg? Now you know what to fix next game.

-Go to OP.GG and check your win percentage on the champion you're spamming. If its 50% or worse over 20+ games, stop spamming that champion.

-Don't play with toxic players. Even if they're your friend IRL. (this is hard.)

-Don't play more than 3-4 games in a row without taking a break. Fatigue is a real thing.

-Don't ever play ranked when you're in a bad mood or having a bad day. It WILL affect your gameplay.

-Try other roles in normal draft. It will give you insight as to what you expect from your main role, and help you play your main role better.

-Save replays. Watch them. Be critical of yourself.

Just a few pointers. Hope it helps.

2 Comments

xPhantomDancerX3 votes

You forgot the one of the most important things in the game to climbing out of any tier...And that is, play safe. As a jungler, I see many players staying for that tiny little extra cs after a kill, when they're really really low on health. Guess what happened to them? They fed me, or when they're in my team, they fed the enemy jungler...every single time. The smart players backs right after a kill if they're low on health. If the other team has a diver jungler they back at a tower even further back than their current tower. Play smart, don't take unnecessary risks, take objectives whenever you can, and you are almost guaranteed to win most games.

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