I CAN NOT rank up

Lil DustMop·Sep 30, 2016·2 votes·464 views

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I have been playing for about 1 month or 2 (after hitting level 30) and I am constantly carrying my team over and over, but I lose because they are either terrible or they feed, troll, or quit. If we lose 1 tower, i will have a player say f*** this and start flaming everyone on the team and either feed or quit( not every time). But i was really pissed off because of my last game when I go 9/3/7 (with a few of my kills being stolen) in the 35 minute mark and i am doing better than both teams, but my team follows me around and tries to start team fights instead of getting towers and i even tell them to go LIKE WTF. Thats all, but how do most people end up ranking up in this game? Please give me an answer.

12 Comments

DynikusSep 30, 20163 votes

First thing is fix your mentality. Stop blaming your team for your losses, and stop patting yourself on the back for carrying. The only thing you can effect in your games, and the only constant is you. Focus on improving yourself. Looking at your match history, it's not uncommon for you to die 10+ times in your games. Try to look back at situations where you died or where something happened and think "how could I have done that better?"

If need be, record your games. replay.gg will record your games and basically let you go back and view them as a spectator. or plays.tv will record exactly what you see on your screen. That can show you if you need to improve your mouse accuracy, cs (which yes, cs is definitely something you need to improve on), skills shots, dodging, etc. Learn more about different matchups and what every champion does, and what their possible weaknesses are. Learn when you should go for what objectives. Should you push your lane? group up mid and help push there? take dragon? learn when to do what.

on the cs thing, just go into a custom game by yourself and try to last hit as many creeps as you can in 10 minutes, and try to improve that number. if you can consistently get around 70-80, you're in an okay spot. not great, but better than most people in your elo. Try to do it with a blank rune page as it will make it a little harder when practicing, but much easier when actually playing.

If you have higher ranked friends, ask to 1v1 with them and get tips on what you could specifically improve on. It doesn't help everyone, but watch some streamers play or watch videos on how to get better.

Lil DustMopSep 30, 20161 votes

Thank you for responding first of all. I know my cs is terrible and i am working on that as I go, my deaths are always toward the end where I feel that my team will help me in team battles, but they like to back away and I like to go for some kills I think I can get but get teamed up on. And I do 1v1 all of my friends and some are Gold and some are Silver. I 1v1'd my Gold friend and i win the battles, I 1v1 my silver friend and he was slightly better, but I also won. I am not saying Bronze 5 = best players I am just saying that your teamates must really help you in higher elo if I can win 1v1's as a bronze vs a Gold. So does he deserve Gold or do I deserve higher?

WoodakoodashoodaSep 30, 20162 votes

I mute my allies every game.

I keep all chat turned off.

Also, main a champion. Don't base your pick off your opponents' picks or your allies' picks. Worry about you, not them.

EmojaySep 30, 20161 votes

Yes! I will play lulu in EVERY ROLE, and MATCHUP! (Oh wait. She does well against almost everyone, and can do well in every role. Uuuuuuuh.... Just ruined my own joke...)

Demon King MaouSep 30, 20161 votes

Not much you can do I was stuck at bronze 1 for 3 weeks before spiking into silver 3 which turned into silver 2 afterwords I went on a massive loss streak to silver 4 almost 5 and eventually got back to silver 3 now I'm hovering between 100 lp and 19 lp

Only thing you can do is keep trying :/

EmojaySep 30, 20161 votes

I'm still in placements! (Two months later) I'm still in placements!

BeeCuzSep 30, 20161 votes

The ranking system currently has some complications of interpretation in that it is most often construed as a system for sorting summoners into groups of similar skill, but there are competitions against that purpose.

The tilting can be reduced by characterizing team-mates as bots instead of incompetent or adversarial. It is not a more accurate representation, but it alleviates an over-expectation of interactive cooperation.

NaturesMayhemSep 30, 20161 votes

Play a powerful but simple carry especially since you are very new to the game. Its better to work on overall game understanding than your mechanics. The general 450-1350 champions are great as they all are very simple at the same time quite a few are broken/powerful. I suggest the usual Garen-Top, Annie-Mid, Amumu-JG, Ashe-ADC, Alistar-support. All are very powerful after you spend a few matches learning them and they all are simple and allow you to understand the game rather than outplaying the enemy. I played with friends who helped me carry and solo at the same time. Both work well but I find friends that are quite decent or better than decent to be a good way to climb. I started at Bronze 4 and climbed to silver 2. I could get to Gold but what I lack is the patience to play enough games to make the slow but steady progress. I suggest you simply play till you climb, because as long as you are not the reason your team is losing then you will likely climb like I did. Also learn key roles to carry with. I feel that Mid is the best as adc is too reliant on the support to live and top tends to be melee and not bursty enough. So learn mid lane and carry there, it is by far the most influential roles in the game on a match to match basis. I tend to lose or win based on how mid lane turned out so I try to get it fed when going jg. Also mute allies if they are arguing with you or tilting you as arguing back will only harm you as you will be too busy typing to work on playing the game properly, missing cs etc.... Also feel free to add me NaturesMayhem. Silver 2 and pretty good at not feeding and instead carrying or at least being helpful. I wont mind helping you climb as long as you listen to my advice as I deem it something that has helped me climb myself and I admit to being salty and toxic every few games and that is something that you might have to deal with if you are the sole reason we are losing but if not then you shall escape my wrath, most likely :P

EmojaySep 30, 20161 votes

Don't just play hard champs for the sake of it. If all you really. Are about is ranking up, play whatever champion works. Annie, kassadin, singed, WHO CARES! Just play whoever will win you the game! (Also, I found this advice from a youtuber called fox Drop! He gives tips on lol!)

Very Hard EngageSep 30, 20161 votes

that means its time for self evaluation when you can no longer rank up. what are better players doing that you arent?

i can see the first game on your list. zed. 112cs after 35mins. thats quite low, you could easily break 230 for example,(idealy all the cs would yield close to 300 or more) which is nearly 10 kills worth of gold.

i guarantee if you improve your last hitting skills you will rank up higher than ever.

Sniper 0Sep 30, 20161 votes

I feel like it was mandatory to pick the last option...

Oh Look KaedeSep 30, 20161 votes

Be the leader we need (Donald Trump). Lol I'm just kidding. But seriously, tell your team what to do, like don't get caught out, extend to far, ward, etc