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How Do You Even Win In Low Elo Anymore?

JaJankenGuu·8/28/2018, 2:23:18 PM·2 votes·1,106 views

Seriously. It's disgusting what's going on right now.

Whenever I'm mid, my jungle or bot lane gives up 1 or 2 early kills to my laner and that essentially ends the lane for me. Now my laner is free to roam and shove and pick up even more kills bot side since and dive since towers mean absolutely nothing. I peaked at Silver II, now I'm down to Silver IV in like two days because these games are out of control clown fiestas where one mistake essentially ruins everything.

I saw some advice before to afk farm, level up, and you'll win. Well I tried that, but everyone fed, so in the end nothing was accomplished and I was still underleveled. How the hell does anyone even get the chance to farm up in these games when anyone can die literally every minute?

I always wanted to try a passive playstyle but it's literally impossible right now. Impossible. You can't play passive and win. All you'll end up doing is watch your laner get kills while you sit back and try to CS.

Does anyone have ANY advice? I mostly play Mid and Jungle, and most recent games I've been completely on tilt which has skewed everything, but I know that eventually I'll bounce back into form.

5 Comments

Jamaree8/28/2018, 2:28:59 PM1 votes

Snowball your advantage, split to the ends of the earth or go and gank.

OtterlyLost8/28/2018, 2:57:09 PM1 votes

The same way you win at high elo. Roaming and working the map to extend your lead. If I'm smashing bot, I take my turret and look to roam somewhere else to push for objectives else were.

Krynnˉ8/28/2018, 3:05:42 PM1 votes

Take the free 1 or 2 early kills the enemy jungle or botlane gives you. Lmao in reality though, both teams should be semi equal in skill and should make just as many mistakes as your team does. Mistakes happen all the time in low elo, you aren't in challenger so 1 or 2 kills shouldn't completely lose your lane, since your mid, play a champion with high wave clear and stop them from pushing you under turret.

Also if your laner is roaming (spam the HELL out of bot lane, like not your lane... one time... like move your cursor right over their head an ping them 3-4-5 times until they move) even if lanes are equal don't bother roaming, I feel as a low elo mid laner just afk farming and pushing the wave under turret is more effective, more often than not you'd be surprised that them missing two waves and half health to turret ends up not being worth the roam for your laner. After a while you will also start building a level lead since you aren't leaving your lane, and one level is worth like 500 gold worth of stats so 2 levels ahead is like 3 kills plus all the additional farm you would of gained (2 waves is about a kill) you will be surprised how much the enemy laners kill count is just a number and that their gold doesn't show for it.

Also there is a difference between AFK farming and being a pu**y and AFK farming and taking advantage of minion manipulation, you can watch videos on SoloRenektonOnly's channel about that, if you can keep the wave at a freeze and keep your minions health out of sink with your enemies you can get free poke for any minion they go for and force a back then push them under tower and make them miss a wave, this builds up after a while as they are missing the two most valuable things to a mid laner, gold and xp.

tl;dr: Your team is bad (no offense boiz) don't focus on helping them, if you want to get higher than silver don't think silver teams will be the reason why or why not you cannot get there, your the one who needs to carry them to get higher than silver

Hope this helps, we have all been Silver before, but there are people in Gold, Plat, Diamond, Master and Challenger, so it isn't impossible to get out.

DuskDaUmbreon8/28/2018, 5:11:03 PM1 votes

You want to win in low Elo?

Pick a diver or juggernaut, play 5 games with them to learn them, and then just proceed to win.

Also, actually work to close games quickly. If you have a lead, abuse it and end the game. If you have a lead and what you're doing doesn't contribute to ending the game, then stop doing that thing and do something that does lead towards ending the game.