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Dear Community: How To Climb Ranked/Improve

Allahu Barackbar·2/14/2016, 8:34:50 PM·1 votes·428 views

So, I've been seeing a lot of people talking about how they are trapped in low elo, with few answers on how to escape their personal Hell and what they can possibly do to improve their chances of success. Well, this is taken from the mouths of popular LoL Youtubers and Twitch streamers such as:

Foxdrop Phylol JeremyCurios Stonewall008 Redmercy And many more...

You want a solid tip that will get you out of that Bronze, Silver, or Gold division? Well, I have one for you. It will be a struggle, since few in the community can actually accomplish it, but...might as well give it a try, right?

Here it is; do not blame your teammates. Just don't. Blaming your teammates for losses or failures does nothing to improve your own gameplay. Rather, it distracts you from self-improvement by making excuses. Recognize your own faults and failings, your own misplays, and learn from them. Do this, and you'll carry yourself out of low divisions with a little effort.

For example: if your jungler comes top to gank your enemy laner, tower dives, and dies. Do not think; "Wow, my jungler sucks." Instead, think; "What could I have done to change this? Should I have pinged him away? Should I have let the lane push back to our tower? Should I have used my abilities more wisely?"

If, after analyzing the situation, you know for a fact there was absolutely nothing you could have done to improve the situation, just thinking in this way is a massive step forward in the way you analyze the game, and might help you make wiser decisions in future games.

Also? Do not expect your teammates to do anything. In fact, be ready for the opposite. They don't ward? Ward for yourself; do whatever you can to provide vision. They won't gank? That's fine; don't put yourself in a position to be ganked, and don't be aggressive against your enemy laner.

These are steps you can take to improve your chances of success. Whether you choose to implement them into your gameplay is entirely up to you. In any case, best of luck to you and your performance in Season 6!

Edit: Some people seem to think I am saying that by doing this, you're guaranteed to win constantly. This is not the case. This article is about self-improvement, not winning. But by improving your mechanical skills and in-game knowledge, you WILL win more. That's a fact. Because you CAN carry games. Not every game is capable of being carried, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.

17 Comments

Exalomaniac2/14/2016, 9:13:31 PM3 votes

i wish it would be that easy, but its not. true that you should be prepared to do things that your team wont do, but for example warding for an entire team is impossible when you keep the ward limit in mind.

lets say that the enemy toplaner is better than yours by miles, as is their jungler. if the toplane gets ganked and dies multiple times, chances are you couldnt have done anything to help him if you are playing at botlane.

another example. in the last teamfight at 50 minutes in, the enemy team engages and their udyr flanks your backline when you are the frontline. if you get CCed and their team is slowly bypassing you while you realize that 4 of your teammates are desperately trying to kill/chase udyr who escaped with 100 hp after delaying the entire teamfight for your backling which is now getting squished is not something that you could have changed. also chances are that your pings to tell them to stop wont reach them in the heat of battle and they will continue to do what they think is right.

you could be literally the best player in the world but if your team does mistakes on which you dont have influence and that are used by the enemy against you, there isnt much to blame on yourself after a while.

another example, you are adc. 12/0, nicely fed and ready for teamfights. but as soon as the teamfighting starts, you are dealt 2000 damage in 1 second by the enemy 7/0 assassin which got kills by your toplaner (same lane). if you dont have the option to outplay her because the literally kills you before your champion finishes his ability, then you cant win the game for your team. the mistake you should realize is "how could i have prevented a fed assassin?" but the answer is : you couldnt. if you had tried to gank the toplane as the adc, chances are that you would give your lane opponents free farm and exp, maybe even your tower, while you lose these things.

league of legends is a teamgame. if your team does mistakes, your team loses. and if 3 people do mistakes, that is enough to lost as well.

(Im not saying blaming the team is always acceptable. im just saying that you cant instantly out-argument other people by telling them to "realize your own mistakes and you will always win")

weeaboomer2/14/2016, 8:39:29 PM2 votes

git gud

Lauchmelder2/14/2016, 8:41:58 PM2 votes

Trust me, I never flame my teammates, but if I see what those supposed gold 5s (which a portion of them were platinum last season) play like I actually doubt that they accomplished that level legitly.

I'm not speaking about farm or something, I'm speaking of roaming after you got 1 kill and completely ignoring your own lane while your lane oponent pushes your second tower already.

Daxanater2/14/2016, 10:15:23 PM2 votes

There is things I agree and disagree with and some things to talk about. I'm currently bronze 3 and I kinda quit ranked because it's in the worst state (premade 5s)

  • Yes don't blame your teammates, people fuck up a lot but what you said here

For example: if your jungler comes top to gank your enemy laner, tower dives, and dies. Do not think; "Wow, my jungler sucks." Instead, think; "What could I have done to change this? Should I have pinged him away? Should I have let the lane push back to our tower? Should I have used my abilities more wisely?"

In bronze, pings don't matter. No one listens to them and I'll admit sometimes I do tend not to look and notice pings and have 0 map awareness but when I am focused it doesn't usually happen. Summing this up in this case I'd just ask him don't gank my lane (nicely) because mistakes like that ruins peoples lanes and sometimes they don't realize the mistake and constantly keep doing it in other lanes. But in some scenarios yes there is somethings you can do if your jungler ganks then dies. But in this one, it's not really your fault. I believe from the solutions you gave wouldn't stop the jungler for that thirst on the enemy laner.

Right now I'd like to mention that a lot of Youtubers are encouraging champions that shouldn't be played in bronze. Example Redmercy and his solo q tips for certain lanes. I don't hate him infact I love him but he needs to label his videos on what level of skill you need. But I won't blame the Youtubers entirely, people are playing champions like Riven, Cassiopeia, Vayne, Ezreal and many more champs in bronze. Bronze players don't know what to do when they are fed with these kinds of champions, I believe they are difficult for a bronze than the average player. I believe this is the number one problem right now in bronze people believe they are god like with these champions but they are clueless on what power and rewards they have. So bronze players need to understand the potential of there champion in early game, mid game and late game. A lot of people are also focused on kills than objectives which is a massive problem in bronze and when a objective is free they tend to go and do their own thing and ignore it.

  • I agree 100% on this

Also? Do not expect your teammates to do anything. In fact, be ready for the opposite. They don't ward? Ward for yourself; do whatever you can to provide vision. They won't gank? That's fine; don't put yourself in a position to be ganked, and don't be aggressive against your enemy laner.

I'm doing this constantly now in blind pick. This is probably a great way to solve problems like this.

Right now it's honestly no ones fault that players are bad. It's just how its setup when they start their very first game of league. Not much of a clear introduction is shown to them about meta, which champions go where, what items they need, maxing, warding. I mean in the tutorial it tells Ashe to build a Thorn Mail, thats how pathetic it is. But I think what's holding me back is the premade 5's I'm against and I blame riot for this. Premades have much more better communication with their team mates and know what mistakes there teammates might make in the future and can easily solve that.

  • Dax, a bronze who can't adc for shit.
OH MAN NOT GOOD2/14/2016, 10:13:25 PM1 votes

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JRobin312/15/2016, 12:00:57 AM1 votes

Solid Advice. I will point out that this advice is not guaranteed to get you "out of Bronze" no matter how much it is advocated by popular high tier players. The benefit of the advice isn't in something a player can do (from that perspective it is "get better newb" advice). The benefit is in something a player can not do, which is to say not waste time blaming others.