Pls, wat is dis.
Ive dropped to silver 2 like 10 times then i proceed to win every game into silver 1 again, then I lose again until im 0 lp ;-;. Ive been gold promos 5 times.
So, Im sure im trash, if not I wouldnt be silver 1. Anyway, anyone have tips to climbing? Champs, Runes, Ap Cait, etc.
Eedat6 votesaccording to Rito's match making system, Silver 2 is only good enough to get matched against Silver 2. Silver 1 however is good enough to get matched against Plat
Archenz1 votesThis comment made me wake up my roommate.
Yea ive had some EX-Plats in my games :P
Kitten of Evil1 votesYup I can vouch for this. My Silver 1 games frequently match me against 3-5 gold players.
Chuck Charles4 votesstep 1: have a positive attitude towards the game in general. have fun every game and don't tilt. even in a loss, mute the toxic people and focus on yourself. always focus on your own mistakes to get better and try to correct them. eventually you will.
step 2: have a main champion that you play exclusively whenever you can that you are not only confident in, but know its your best shot to carry with. for all other roles, have at least one champion you can play pretty well and go even in lane with.
step 3: understand all roles quite well. if you say "god i hate support, i always suck at support". then practice support in normals till you are better at it. same with any other role. playing all the roles will help you better understand the game from all perspectives.
step 4: WARD. i mean this. as soon as you can. upgrade your trinket and ward areas that you need to ward for safety. baron/dragon are always imporant, but if you have to push up to farm then ward for yourself. the upgraded trinket is only 250 gold and is basically a sighstone. i always have 3 wards up as a solo laner even without sighstone. buy pink wards occasionally as well. you can use them to ward entrances to your jungle or ward key objectives like baron/dragon.
step 5: focus on learning the nuances of the game/objective control. remember, a game is won by objective pressure/lane pressure. not by kills. you can be 8/0, but if enemy team is constantly shoving down your team's throat and towers you will lose inevitably. you have to manage the waves, and apply lane and map pressure. sometimes that means making sacrifice elsewhere, but once you learn when a trade is good to make you will always do it.
step 6: if you get an advantage, use that advantage to help your team. this does not mean going bot, getting yourself a double kill then immediately recalling. if you kill your lane opponent or force htem out of lane, just hard push in, take your own tower. once you get your own tower. kill them again, or hard push in and force enemy laner to stay in lane to take their cs. then you roam to another lane, force them out/kill them and take that tower. once all 3 lanes have their towers taken, you can group and push a lane or fight over an objective like dragon as your team is inevitably going to be stronger. this doesn't always work, but in my experience, snowballing your advantage is pretty key to carrying. if you cant help the other lanes or screw up your ganks, it could be the difference between a 20 minute surrender, and a 50 minute nailbiter.
those are the very basics.
Archenz1 votesThank you for the valuable and extensive list of tips. Surprises me someone went so detailed! ^_^ thank you. 
Chaotic Reks1 votesno one expects the 
to taunt burst you for half your health...
no one...
Environmentalist1 votesLOLWAT EXACTLY what I've experienced. It's like silver 2 is bronze and it's super easy to win, but you hit silver 1 and it's like a wall. I don't understand!!!
Archenz1 votesLOLWAT EXACTLY what I've experienced. It's like silver 2 is bronze and it's super easy to win, but you hit silver 1 and it's like a wall. I don't understand!!!
I feel like the gap in skill between S2 and S1 is the like the gap between H2K and SKT.
Environmentalist1 votesLMFAO Holy christ. I honestly don't know what it is. It's almost gotten to the point where the gold banner and Victorious skin aren't worth the frustration of 10 games in silver 1.
I'm going to add you, just so I can see if you make it to gold 5. I sure hope you do! Good luck, sir :)
Archenz1 votesAbout me, Most played champ is 
.
Bad KDA, because I prefer to split push and just win like that, helping team by taking pressure off.
Prefer, top, mid. Trash at adc.
Fazor1 votesi would say to play 
top, mid, and supp. your job would be to one shot squishies and set up plays with your ult stun. Another good champ to play would be 
but i dont know if you play jungle. Just farm until sated and gank when you can to get kills. You just have to get fed with farm or kills so you can deal lots of damage to squish and tanks. Good Luck!
Archenz1 votesYea I have lvl 4 with Yi. Hes a wild card but can def carry games.
Ahurath1 votesThe reason why you are stuck is because you aren't improving. THe reason why you aren't improving is because you are problaby not learning something from each game. When I'm serious about climbing I like to have a notepad open ( I play window mode) and I Like to write down stuff I need to do in game better next time.
For example I played ADc and I sieged and got caught out by their cc.
This note is only one of many but I have the notepad open and I read them abit when I play and it reminds me about important stuff I've realised during the game. THerefore it's alot easier for me to improve that way if that makes sense?
Archenz1 votesI guess. Thanks for the tips
delonix1 votesYour cs seems really low. I know it's the same advice you probably see all over the place, but that's because it's true. You've been playing a lot of Irelia recently, and you seem to average about 4cs/minute on her. If you can get that up to 7cs/minute (which is easy with practice), it's around 1,300 more gold at 20 minutes.
The cs drill that helped me a lot was to make a custom game with 3 bots (1 for each lane) and go to your normal lane and cs until 5 minutes. The max cs is 44 for mid lane, 38 for side lanes. Bots won't harass as much as real opponents, but they will usually try something. Pick a cs you want to reach, like 40 for mid and 34 for side lanes and keep practicing until you can consistently reach that number with the champ you want to play in ranked.
50West1 votesWell, Silver 1 and Gold 4-5 is pretty much the same thing. It took me about 3 promo series before I finally got Gold 5. Just keep at it.
CIockw0rk1 votesany division, where you are the 1 (bronze 1, silver 1, Gold 1) ... it's extremely difficult. The matchmaking, pickorder, all that seems to unfavor you.
The best tip i can give you, is to duo with someone underrated (not a smurf idiot) someone who is better than his division.
Right now, i'm Gold IV, i had a very bad exceptionaly bad day yesterday, passing from Gold II to Gold IV in the same day. I've been Gold 1 earlier this season too. As this example, i'm currently underated, i face very easy opponent (to me) at this moment.
Passing from any V division to IV is also a pain.
Champ and runes... i don't know what the people who comment on your post can really teach you... There is plenty of websites for this with each of em having their own opinion.
What i prefer when i choose my pool of champions is effective and low cost waveclear, a champ reliable escape. A champ wich i won't be push against my turret most of the time. A champ with low mechanic skill involved. Vlad, morgana, olaf, zac, sivir, graves, sejuani, soraka (example) If you have a preference for a high mechanic skill demanding champion, do not have more than 2 in your whole champion pool Your mid pool shouldnt look alike, Yasuo, Zed, Katarina, Ziggs, Azir, Viktor. Adc: Lucian, Vayne, Kalista. Those are pool for people who really want to loose forever.