How do you carry?

Get yourself ahead. Get team mates ahead. Take objectives.

I don't do ranked anymore, so I'll just give you the three tips I've used to win over 3,200 games in three years.

• Guides are good, but everybody plays differently. If you really need a specific item and its not supposed to be a pick for that champ, buy it anyway. The cardinal rule is: If you need it, buy it. I had a game where I was Fizz vs Nasus and I got hextech gunblade. Thanks to that gunblade, I was able to beat him with a long trade with three ults and multiple combos - if I had no gunblade, he'd have killed me in 2 seconds. I always buy some type of lifesteal/spellvamp on an assassin, regardless of what people say.

• Let people make a mistake and then capitalize on it. Do they spam abilities, run out of mana a lot? Let them spam, let them drain their mana, and then move in and you can usually kill them or make them recall. Most of the time, I win trades because somebody makes one wrong move (using a spell that they could need to escape) and then I pounce them.

• Be aggressive. I played passively and got my butt handed to me a lot. Aggressive confident play (not super cocky and reckless) helps more than anything, it lets them know you aren't afraid of a good fight and it makes them second guess their own abilities.

One more thing - farm, farm, farm. Practice CS, last hitting - the more you practice and the more farm you get the more gold and items you'll be able to afford.

A lot of the guides you read will be written by high elo players for high elo play.

Look for guides specifically about low elo.

The builds you choose may not be the same as high elo builds because you have to 1v9 bonobos.

You don't have to absolutely worry about winning lane but you play Katarina, which actually signifies with Bilgewater Cutlass you can kill the enemy laner by managing your minion waves correctly. I suggest you watch higher elo people and study how they do that so you can replicate it in your games and secure an early lead.

It's okay to not be the absolute best early game but you do need to improve it if you intend on carrying at all. Mid-game is where the most stuff on the map happens so you should learn to look at your minimap often and guess where people are on the map, think about if you can do something there, and never waste time. Wasting even 10 seconds is huge if there's nothing for you to gain or nothing was going to happen, i.e. roaming to bot lane as a fight unfolds when you're in mid lane and have a wave pushing against you. You're most likely not going to make it except for one kill, and the enemy gets free pressure on your tower. Gotta analyze everything in front of you first before you make plays.

Knowing your damage and who the most important targets are to kill should be the highest skill you've built, so I would hope you execute that properly. You just need to be around the points in the map where your team needs you AFTER pushing a minion wave unless you absolutely know 100% that you can make it in time to secure advantage like getting dragon, a tower, etc. Kills aren't everything even if they do help a ton.

Most importantly, PLAY MORE GAMES. You shouldn't be stopping after only a couple ranked games. You've had dead weight on those teams and you shouldn't let that get to you. The mentality you hold matters way more than gameplay improvements if your KDAs are insane and you've only bee lightly touching ranked. Keep your chin up.

It starts by winning lane. This doesn't mean you need to solo kill your opponent over and over. It means you have to last hit better than them and you need to engage in good trades against them. This will force them to back more often which will allow you to get an experience advantage. Because you also last hit better than them this allows you to reach you item power spikes faster. That is when you really want to look for a kill, when you have a level/item advantage.

Next step is knocking down the outer towers. Generally if you can get a 2 tower lead on the opposing team you will most likely win the game (assuming you don't throw.) If your lane opponent has good wave clear then chances are you won't be able to get your tower without help so it may be more useful to roam and take down the other towers.

Later in the game it's all bout setting up vision and denying vision of the enemy team which allows you to get picks. A pick is only worthwhile if you pressure an objective after it. Any time you get a kill in the mid/late game you should be thinking "what objective can we take."

You should always be looking for more gold/exp. If you take down the outer towers you should be stealing the enemy junglers camps whenever you can. Maximize your gold, maximize your experience and minimize your deaths and you will maximize your chance for winning.

Play support or jungle, they're the most influential roles in the game. Master them and you will improve your wr. Capitalize off of mistakes your opponent makes, punish them to no end. Roam as much as possible and get your teammates kills. Learn to counterbuild, sometimes a main build won't cut it. Be a team captain and ping lots. Make plays etc.

Edit:You will lose some games, there are players that don't have any map awareness and do nothing but push a lane and die, basically becoming a glorified super minion with a long respawn time. Keep playing and do what you can to improve and you will eventually climb if you are good.

The game isnt meant for you to carry in most situations the enemy will be trying to get ahead just the same as you are. You can get your individual game better but the thing most people negelect is helping their teammates usually to save their own kda. your presence can stop enemies from chaseing down a low health enemy even if you are a support or a mage auto attacking while spells are on cooldown helps.