PSA to bronze bot laners (and maybe silver/gold)

Barkley··2 votes·418 views

Low elo bot laners just want to farm and get their items and team fight. They have no goddamn idea what it means to manage or manipulate a wave, they have no idea what it means to trade efficiently, and they have no idea what it means to change your build path to optimize both damage and survivability.

They just want to farm, get their IE and their Zeal item, and start team fighting. That's all they care about.

So if you want to climb ranks in bronze/silver, and you're either a support or a adc main. BOTH... this applies to BOTH...

Just go full retard. Just whip your d*ck out and flop it on the ground. Just chase down the enemy laners and beat the hell out of them. Who cares if you miss a CS or two, or five. It doesn't matter.

Most people in bronze/silver don't know what to do about it. So they just get super scared and start playing like total wussies, missing CS, losing control of the wave, buying stupid items (double dorans from behind, buying 2-3 potions every back, etc.) and basically hand you a CS advantage and lane priority on a silver platter with a side of ice cream.

Champions that are good for this: ADC: Draven, Vayne, Jhin, Twitch, Tristana, Xayah, Ezreal (meh, kinda) Support: Leona, Braum, Nautilus, Brand, Xerath, Morgana

The core components are a high-damage ADC with some sort of movement speed buff or slow, and a tanky support with heavy CC.

Your support initiates on the squishier of the two targets (generally the support) and you just haul balls at them until someone dies.

After you hit level 2, just hit the "go" button. Just attack any champion you see until they run away. Chase them down. Be a bully. Get in their face and tell them "I'M NOT DOING YOUR STUPID CHORES ANYMORE, IF I WANT TO GO OUT WITH MY FRIENDS ON SATURDAY I CAN DO THAT, I'M NOT A KID ANYMORE, DAD"

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Ok don't say that, exactly, but you get my point.

This only works until about mid-high silver, though - as beyond that, many people have figured out that you can trade back, or that this kind of aggression generally leads to lost CS and susceptibility to jungler interference. People in high silver, gold, etc will start letting you push and freezing the lane under their own turret. Sure, they'll miss some CS - but you can't kill them, and their jungler is likely on his way to cuck you.

But bronze 5 thru silver 4-ish? Roll up on those bitches like they owe you money.

14 Comments

Krigjer4 votes

People that use PSA in their posts as if it makes their opinion any more valid.

Barkley1 votes

What about my opinion do you find invalid? Or were you just dropping by to leave some empty, meaningless negativity?

Pinkaj1 votes

I don't know if your teammates are like that, but my adcs always know their matchup, and play aggressively/passively depending on how the lane goes.

Barkley1 votes

Oh yeah? In silver 4? Your laners ALWAYS know their matchups? That's amazing, and if true - good for you. Its good to hear you get good team mates. I hope that brings you some enjoyment.

Silver 4 must be MUCH different than it was when I was there. When I was silver 4, my ADCs would just afk farm bot lane and take free poke damage all day and wonder why they lost their turret, OR they'd just constantly push the minion wave and then wonder why they were getting camped by the jungler, while never really dealing any damage to the enemy champions or tower.

Even now, I got placed in Silver 2, and I find that my ADC's are generally very passive and don't typically trade very much with the enemy laners. Even in advantageous matchups.

In the hypothetical situation where my ADC actually won their lane and took their tower first (a rare occurrence) they'd stay bot lane and continue to lane against the enemy laners for 5-10 more minutes as if the enemy tower never fell and they were still trying to get bottom outer, not transitioning their gold advantage to the rest of the map - or anywhere, really. Just stay bot lane and afk farm some more.

But I'm glad you have better luck with team mates than I did. I wouldn't wish the team mates I used to get on anyone. Good luck with your climb :)

Pinkaj1 votes

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Oh yeah? In silver 4? Your laners ALWAYS know their matchups? That's amazing, and if true - good for you. Its good to hear you get good team mates. I hope that brings you some enjoyment.

Silver 4 must be MUCH different than it was when I was there. When I was silver 4, my ADCs would just afk farm bot lane and take free poke damage all day and wonder why they lost their turret, OR they'd just constantly push the minion wave and then wonder why they were getting camped by the jungler, while never really dealing any damage to the enemy champions or tower.

Even now, I got placed in Silver 2, and I find that my ADC's are generally very passive and don't typically trade very much with the enemy laners. Even in advantageous matchups.

In the hypothetical situation where my ADC actually won their lane and took their tower first (a rare occurrence) they'd stay bot lane and continue to lane against the enemy laners for 5-10 more minutes as if the enemy tower never fell and they were still trying to get bottom outer, not transitioning their gold advantage to the rest of the map - or anywhere, really. Just stay bot lane and afk farm some more.

But I'm glad you have better luck with team mates than I did. I wouldn't wish the team mates I used to get on anyone. Good luck with your climb :)

Yeah, they know their matchup...but don't know what to do after laning phase, then get caught out from split pushing too far, despite the team's warnings

Mob Piru1 votes

its all fun and games until top laner TP behind u and jungler and mid laner ganks from river and u then lose tower lose dragon and probably lose game

Barkley1 votes

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its all fun and games until top laner TP behind u and jungler and mid laner ganks from river and u then lose tower lose dragon and probably lose game

Yeah because bronze solo q teams are that coordinated.

Teslyn1 votes

Counter point:

They are in bronze and lower for a reason.. seems like they are happy playing that way. just get out of Silver and you should be fine.

Barkley1 votes

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Counter point:

They are in bronze and lower for a reason.. seems like they are happy playing that way. just get out of Silver and you should be fine.

I'm not worried about me. I'm fine. I'll get gold maybe even plat once school is over and I can put time into the game.

I put up posts like these purely for the sake of being helpful.

Dasdi961 votes

Actually staying back and csing is the most consistent way of generating income.

Barkley1 votes

Nobody's arguing that. The argument is effective playstyles at low low elo.

Zone of Endless1 votes

Bronze are in bronze because they have no mechanic. Any advantages they can get is null because they simply dont have the mechanical skill to use it.

Barkley1 votes

100% untrue.

I have the mechanical skill of a moldy doughnut, and I was in my plat promos 3 times last season because I know how to play the map.

JEPjust161 votes

I am sick and tired of getting botlaners who constantly try to trade and then feed the enemy adc then to lose bot and go to another lane to feed. I wish low elo botlaners would get a brain to sit under turret and farm if they lose trades and not feed because a large percent of my losses are because of botlaners that no brain. Riot should honestly fix the ranking system to prevent inting botlaners from having so much impact on the game.

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