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"Learn to carry"

Nerdaucity·3/28/2016, 11:36:15 PM·2 votes·1,033 views

I am in Bronze II. I've been hovering around Bronze II and III for about a month and a half now. Every time I mention a problem with my team, someone always says "Learn to carry". I don't understand what that means. What do people mean when they say that? Do they mean "Learn to 1v5 the enemy team, take objectives, and group solo!" ?? I don't get it. How do you carry after your top lane feeds Vladimir, loses tower and then runs into every 1v4, ults, dies, and repeats as many times as the death timer allows?
How do you carry when a team mate is so far behind that they're basically out of the game? How do you carry when everyone is fighting each other or AFKing or generally refusing to win? Someone explain this please. I'm trying not to be bitter here, but I need someone to explain this phrase to me.

EDIT: I've read through everything here and the most helpful things I've seen are:

Focus on yourself. As frustrating as it is, I guess it is correct that the only thing I can really do is improve my play. Frustrating, but the truth hurts.
You can't carry every game. I've been feeling like people are telling me to carry every game, but I've calmed down a bit since I first wrote this and,yeah, I can't carry every game. Losses are gonna happen. Gonna have to get over it.

22 Comments

Losing Patients3/28/2016, 11:39:45 PM4 votes

Stop blaming your teammates and focus on your own game.

disregardable3/28/2016, 11:38:28 PM3 votes

They mean stop complaining about the team and focus on what you can be doing better. Whenever you describe a game as "Even though I made a few mistakes, my team...", you're doing it wrong.

Valexfor3/28/2016, 11:54:51 PM1 votes

First: not all champ are good at all level of play: Thres is op in pro plya but he sucks under plat for example, while blitz is op in yoloq but is weak in competitive even thought they have pretty smiliar kits and playstiles. So if you want to climb you gotta play champs strong in your elo (I dont mean that you gotta play champ you don't like, just try to play the more viable ones in your current elo while still enjoying the game). Second: play carry champs, champions that can get kills by themselves, greedy champs with a lot of potential (still enjoy the game while doing so). Third play easy champs: easy means you just have to worry about less. Amumu is better than Sejuani: he's easier and has the same amount of tankyness and utility, in lower elo people just don't understand how to counter things, thye just go ham like idiots against everything, exactly what some champs want. Fourth: never think about what the others could do better or shouldn't have done, think about improving yourself and be greedy since in lower elos teamwork doesn't exist, so don't try to make it work, force it: If you're carrying wait for you 0/10 garen to engage 1 vs 5 like the idiot he is, and use him as a meat shield to destroy the enemy. They will problably get baited by his engage and wast all of theyr summoners and skills to try and kill him, giving you quite a good advantage if you play it smartly. Fifth: if ou'er ahead go somwhere else to try and snowball more both yourself and the team (but mostly yourself). People in low elo don't know how to deal with roaming, don't ward and don't look when they do ward, giving you a strong advantage if you play it smartly.

No flash no life3/29/2016, 12:41:16 AM1 votes

"Hit the gym"

KoggyStyle3/29/2016, 2:21:00 AM1 votes

its higher elos way of saying we are lacking in certain areas... i has minimap issues and dont keep track of qwer CDs/dmg/ratios, havent gotten to where i say flash (time its back up), among other things. hope this helped ya understand what they mean.

Rain Smurff3/29/2016, 7:59:00 AM1 votes

consistency. Keep winning your lane, eventually you won't get a complete dud of a midlaner or a top laner and win the game. Or play mid or jungle and roam, but I wud work on fundamentals like csing, trading, etc.

s LessThanThree3/29/2016, 2:25:27 PM1 votes

Learn to 1v5 the enemy team, take objectives, and group solo

actually describes what you do in bronze pretty well

literally just go 10-0 in lane against your shitter lane enemy and then you can outrotate and fuck every lane up.

Bronze has no concept of objectives so every dragon should be free and you can just duo with a nunu main who builds swiftness boots so he can run around enemy jungle and have the enemy chase them as 5 while you push down 5 towers and get their nexus while your teammates are farming wolves and golems

crippler383/29/2016, 2:58:19 PM1 votes

you could play someone who snowballs hard and oppresses other players like the holy trinity of FU

Fizz Teemo Shaco

fizz can help pop enemies safely because of the troll pole, teemo is a F U in particular to anyone playing a rageblade champ or an ad carry (i've been taking him support in normals and haven't been let down yet) and teemo's shrooms are great for objective securing, and shaco (my favorite) can delete people from invisibility late game if he gets the smallest lead and has some of the most unstoppable and painful ganks in the game (permaslow, does more damage if you run, can ignore all walls in the game, is invisible as he goes in, ultimate lets him take rift herald and dragon level 6 easy, and his boxes are good for objective secure and baits)

but yeah what I would say is learn how to play around your team and opponents (granted I play mainly support and jungle, both roles reliant on working with the team) and don't be afraid to just take take take. By looking at how the enemy is playing you can figure out how to make plays, for example

say you're jungle, see enemy jungler top? take dragon or bot tower

redniwediS3/28/2016, 11:41:12 PM1 votes

Learning to carry is simply learning how to win the game. It's figuring out what needs to be done and then making it happen. It's knowing when to go for objectives, when to team fight, and when to cut your losses.

But most importantly it's knowing when you can't carry. One team loses every single time a game is played, after all. You literally cannot win every game. Just accept the fact that you may lose any single game you play, even if you start off doing well, and when it happens it won't hit you very hard.