What Champion Carried You to Silver, Gold, Platinum, ect?

CarameI Frappe·Mar 6, 2016·19 votes·38,211 views

Although we have a list of champions we're good at ... there's that one (or two) champions that can carry us regardless of how bad the matches goes.

Personally for me, it was who carried me to Gold (funny enough her default skin has golden armor so ... it was fate lol). Her kit is just very useful in catching those pesky carries, while being tanky enough to absorb damage. Not to mention her ultimate is like a satellite from space, due to the range you can cast said Solar Flare.

All I got to ask is- which Champion helped you reach higher places in Ranked? Can be more than one. Oh and it'd be a sin if I didn't include this quote .... Praise the Sun my friends, Praise the Sun.

http://i.imgur.com/ux8s9R0.jpg

142 Comments

roar2001Mar 6, 20167 votes

aatrox carried me to level 25, that counts, right?

Very Hard EngageMar 6, 20166 votes

silver Galio soon to be gold after promos Galio

bill84Mar 6, 20162 votes

As a bronze Galio main, you are my hero. Teach me your ways.

charcharmunroMar 6, 20161 votes

Isn't Galio more of a counterpick? Maining him seems a tad... Awkward.

DeloricVIMar 7, 20161 votes

That's a good point; right now, with AD assassins being pretty darn popular, it doesn't make a ton of sense to "main" galio. I actually main Veigar, but I have Lulu on standby for if a Fizz, Kat, Zed, or Talon wants to get up in my face ;)

(also I'm well aware that Fizz is not usually AD)

StephenizgodMar 6, 20164 votes

Garen carried me out of Bronze, Garen and Malph almost got me through Silver but I kept failing my Promos for Gold 5, failed about 20 times. This season I tried to carry myself through Silver with Janna but I think im going to go the "Pick OP champ and win" route because its hard to carry my teammates as a Support.

CarameI FrappeMar 6, 20164 votes

If you're doing Solo Que, yea it's rough because not only are you likely to face pre-made 4's, smurfs, or so forth but your team is also a heavy factor in winning games. If someone AFK's, feeds, or just doesn't go for objectives / teamfights, it can dramatically hinder your team. Although I have to advise that you can somewhat carry as a Support if you manage to get people out alive or get said ADC fed (though it's hard so trust me when I say you can only do so much as a Support).

I have faith you can get into Gold V like I did friend, just never give up. If you already made it into promos for Gold 20x, then there's nothing stopping you from trying to beat the next promos. Also tip: If you're in promos, don't solo and instead get some friends to help you out. My Gold friends helped me with my 3 promos and that's how I was able to enter Gold (granted I did a lot of work in those matches so it wasn't like I wasn't being carried).

Here's proof:

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2115715288/219480029?tab=overview

StephenizgodMar 6, 20161 votes

Yea I am trying to practice a few different champions so i can carry myself, currently trying Jax. My friends lose with me :P

CarameI FrappeMar 6, 20162 votes

If you want to Solo Que and have a strong chance of winning, I highly suggest you try Lux As a mid laner Lux, you are horrifying to lane against for most people. Even for Zeds- because one snare results in death. I've seen so many Luxs win this Season simply for sniping other lanes at low health with her godly ultimate.

Her hitbox on that thing is quite bigger than what the red line indicates, so you're very likely to hit them. Combine your build with a 30-45% CDR and you can Ult every 30 something seconds which does a crap ton of damage. One of my friends made it to Plat using her, but he doesn't use her anymore simply because she's cancer (as in he feels dirty for using her lol). Otherwise champions like Darius Annie Fizz Quinn Talon Zed Malphite are also very good for Solo Quer's whom like to carry the game.

Supports that rule in Solo Que are Leona Braum Blitzcrank Soraka Janna Alistar ( Janna has a 54% win rate overall, which is insane) Hope this helps you out in anyway man :)

StephenizgodMar 6, 20162 votes

Thanks it does help, just someone giving advice instead of telling me Im a noob is super awesome lol. I will try out some of those champions and hopefully i can find on that fits me. :)

MeurtrierrMar 7, 20161 votes

As Garen, even if i dominate, i can still lose. I take ignite.

Should i take teleport?

BTW, i dominate a lot. I almost never day, i most, only once per games. I kill a lot and i deal a lot of damage per games while building mostly tanky.

I never tried to take teleport because i like to secure my kills after my ultimate.

So i ask again, do you take ignite or teleport?

StephenizgodMar 7, 20161 votes

It depends on your opponent and your team, but most of the time you want to take Teleport. Garen has an issue with having a presence in teamfights, so you want Teleport to get into the fights if your team needs you. I personally take teleport on like 90% of my Top games, so you can help with dragon or bot lane. You should get use to using your Ult to kill them, try to remember how much damage it will do and when it will kill them.

53436278DEL1Mar 6, 20163 votes

Mordekaiser Aatrox Sion

KANYE OBAMA GODMar 6, 20163 votes

Im working on getting out of bronze with Twitch and Darius

been losin' a lot lately tho, probably gonna add Ezreal to that list soon lol

HeartPalpitationMar 6, 20162 votes

avoid skillshot reliant champs in low elo games IMHO, lee is my main but i avoid playing him in ranked because missed skill shots can cost you a fight and even the game.

DeynaTaggerungMar 6, 20163 votes

Zyra carried me to Gold.

http://i.imgur.com/fHIaDSX.png

(on a side note Diana carried me out of Bronze 5)

TheSingularityMar 6, 20163 votes

I tried to carry mahself out of bronze with naut jg to but unfortunatly getting my teams fed and making them obey my every command couldn't conquer the barrier of bronze1-silver5 promos, so I resorted to activate THE SUPER ULTRA TRY HARD MODE! Carried mahself out with wukong jg, and a whole lot of dictating but couldn't help returning to my nauty ways once I got silver 5 and managed to maintain a positive win rate with him for season 4 and 5. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

MeurtrierrMar 7, 20161 votes

Wukong is very good, but hard to believe

You mostly have to reach level 6 in order to gank. In bronze, you always head first blood before the 3 minutes mark. Before you reach 6, ppl die. Sure, you can still gank, but most bronze players don't capitalize on your Q debuff. With no form of CC early, it must be hard to secure a kill no?

TheSingularityMar 8, 20161 votes

Not really bae, start red for the slow, and bbysit top lane as it has the largest area to gank, being the longest lane, giving a stealthed wuk more room to position and the enemy allot further to flee to tower. Also the most common champs I'd gank for (back then) include; Renek, irelia, gragas, ryze, riven and pantheon, which were all rather popular in season 4, all of which have a form of hard/semi-hard CC pre 6. Wukong had the early dmg +stealth (W) ganks to either force flash or get da kill as bronze players typically panic flash the second a wukong, or any champ for that matter dives at them from out of no-where (stealth). And to strike it home, most of my lane pressure was applied pre 6, while focusing on objectives post-6, as I played wuk the same way as naut, fck tonne of ganking, fck all farming. With one difference of course, I stole every kill I could :P

MeurtrierrMar 8, 20161 votes

First of all, in S4 , i was playing Wukong too and Malphite. I was climbing and i was about to be gold, but it was too late. When i won my last game, i was in the provisional. I was silver 1 before the reset. S5, i was only stuck in bronze because my connection was very bad. I Kept losing after that because of my Internet provider. In S6, i don't know what it is. I got a new internet provider so that's cool. I won consecutively from Bronze 3 to Bronze 2 Then, i lose consecutively from Bronze 2 to bronze 4. Today, i'm bronze 3.

Now back to that

Again, hard to believe as bronze top players especialy in this S6 often push their lane, they don't strategize like good players.

Yesterday, i had a top teemo vs a Garen. I ask the teemo not to push his lane or he will get ganked by the jungler. He answers ''ok''. Guess what he is doing? Pushing the lane and killing the 2 Golem brothers in the jungle(LMAO!!!) Then, i ask him not to auto attack the minions, only to last hit and to harass Garen. I made him become confused. Before that, he fed the enemy jungler Twice or more? Later on, he kept on feeding. I made him become too confused and useless. When i asked him to ward the tribush, guess what, he was warding the single bush(how retarded can one get)? Next game, i had an other top teemo who was just as good ast the last one and it wasnt the same guy.

See, bronze players don't strategize and when you expect too much from them, you only make them become confuse with too much communication as if they were bugging in their brain.

In that same game (teemo vs Garen), after the laning phase, both Top and mid asked in chat what to do? Yeah, they didnt know what the fuck to do after the first few towers were down. You're very lucky if you didnt have a lot of games like these where a lot of players simply don't know what the hell to do after the laning phase as if they were stuck in Japan; where they can't read signs just to find their ways. In the (teemo vs wukong), the next game after that, both top and mid where as stupid as in the previous game and they kept on feeding.

I play Udyr and Sion top mostly. It's not worth it to pick wukong only to use W and to get in the bush like Snake because bronze players don't usually ward which means you can always gank from the River if you appear behind them or from their side-view. So if i have to babysit top, i can go circle from the lane, back to the river multiple time just to put pressure on the enemy top enough to get my gank. First atempt, he still doesnt ward. Second atempt, i get him only if the lane is not pushed.

So I'm not sure if it's bad luck or maybe i don't get these bronze players enough to help them/stomp them. Maybe you understand them better than i do.

TheSingularityMar 8, 20161 votes

Um bae, nothing you said actually quantifies as proof that I couldn't carry myself out of bronze with wukong, and I never said anything about malphite so I don't know why you even bought him up. Oh and btw, your loking says otherwise (you didn't touch mal in season 4 ranked). Regardless of how much you played wukong, which was only 11 games in season 4 ranked wise. Mah season 4 consisted of 69 wukong games with 59.4% win rate and 75 nautilus games with 61.3% win rate (Soz but I couldn't help boasting as it's by far my best season record, despite it's minor meaning to higher level players). If I maintained a positive win-rate on the 2 champs I played practically every-game, sooner or later I was bound to get a series that consisted of teams that had no intention of throwing my promos.

"See, bronze players don't strategize and when you expect too much from them, you only make them become confuse with too much communication as if they were bugging in their brain." "S5, i was only stuck in bronze because my connection was very bad. I Kept losing after that because of my Internet provider."

I know this all too well. You see bae, wuk/naut both had pretty snazzy late-game team fights+early pressure, while also being very reliable in high ping situations (Naut P,W,E,R and wuk q,e,r are all EZ af to use in high ping), and I quickly learnt to share kills once I got a few(usually when I got like, 3-5). As there is no point in your team having 20 kills, if you have all the gold from them.

You are correct in one aspect however, that most low elo players don't have a clue in the world how to close out a game, including me sometimes when I'm not jungleing, as I have less influence/voice by being restricted to a lane in most cases (unless I TP gank). That is why sharing (kills) is caring, staying positive, and encouraging your team mates/fending off toxic twats, even if they're playing horridly, was and still is so important in these low elo games. Even in this sh*tter of a META of snowballing madness.

But by giving top/mid a few kills (as JG), not taxing lanes like crazy, if at all, helpin em push tower (WITHOUT TAXING)/taking drags and helping your team control vision (( Currently I always get blue trinket, green smite (AKA spirit of the ancient golem), and a replacement pink in case someone kills mine)), things tended to work out pretty well. I've found that if most of those things occur, my teams listened to me and let me rule them with an IRON FIST! Me..... a previously bronze scrub who still doesn't know sh*t about this game and has terrible mechanics.

From there I made my teams rotate between lanes, prioritising taking objectives and avoiding fights we didn't need to take, all the while the enemy team generally ran around like headless chickens, trying to process what was occurring. Those LCS big plays kiddies that wanted to fly solo, got flamed by my team for not obeying, I defended them from the BM in most cases with a hint of encouragement, and in time they were converted from a solo carry scrub, to a team based terror. All through a few virtually meaningless small words of kindness and support. Tip: the sooner you kill the outer turrets and group, the more frantic the enemy team becomes making picking off wandering enemies ez as pie.

I won every single game on mah way to silver, exactly as stated above. Sure as wukong I'd potentially end up with a pretty KDA in the post-game screen, but my score didn't carry me. My influence over my team-mates did.

If I could do it bae, you can to. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

MeurtrierrMar 8, 20161 votes

LAst question then. Do you play nautilus jungle, support or both in bronze? I own nautilus too, but i stopped trying when most of the carries in my game would waste the potential in a stupid way. And that's before nautilus was top tier support. In fact, he was only tier 4 support so he was mostly good in jungle.

One example is, irelia getting killed at the Baron all alone instead of her waiting for us when we had vision on the baron it wasnt nearly about to die. IT's as if these bronze players look at the top play videos and expect to pull off the same kind of pentakil when all they're doing in reality is feeding while trying.

I haven't really tried wukong in S6. I did very well again in my lastest one as wukong, but once again, i'm cursed. We had a teemo ADC so we had no chance of winning in the end. I hate these troll sometime. In fact, he wasnt trolling tho, he was very confident that Teemo as a meta breaker was good. Then, you see him feeding the enemy ADC 6 time before the early phase was done. I forgot to mention that i was Wukong top and dominating top easy. The game lastest nearly an hour and it felt like a 4 vs 5 because Teemo was useless; unable to kill the ADC who was at 25% hp while he was at 100%.

TheSingularityMar 9, 20161 votes

"LAst question then. Do you play nautilus jungle, support or both in bronze?"

Well back in S4, with morgana and her black shield reigning supreme over utility supports, naut never made it down bot. I nearly exclusively played jungle with a hint of top zac/rumble here and there. I also duo'd with a bronze mid main, so I never had to worry about going there, and if I had to supp/ADC I'd use leo and kog/corki respectively.

"I forgot to mention that i was Wukong top and dominating top easy." As a top laner, you have a very tiny say as to what your team does compared to a jungler, mid or support, unless your playing a champ like shen and are constantly using tp/stand united to help lanes. Don't usually see marksman calling the shots either. This stems from being further away from everyone else, if I group you/mid/jg, we got 3 people. Bot/mid/jg, we get 4 people (generally the case for drag), more people=more influence, and in allot of cases, where ever the jungler goes, the team goes to. As top wuk, you could improve your influence over your team by requesting your jungler help kill top tower ASAP (following a successful gank, trying to kill tower with their laner there is plain silly), allowing you to help other lanes, and hopefully giving a good impression in the process (so the laners you help will also listen hopefully).

"We had a teemo ADC so we had no chance of winning in the end" See the bottom of the ZEUS section

SECTION ZEUS! "One example is, irelia getting killed at the Baron all alone instead of her waiting for us when we had vision on the baron it wasnt nearly about to die. IT's as if these bronze players look at the top play videos and expect to pull off the same kind of pentakil when all they're doing in reality is feeding while trying."

Well they do, in 99.9999999999999999999% of low-mid elo players (bronze-low plat), they consider themselves to be Zeus, and that they "deserve" to be like gold+ or diamond league. The arrogance of players only gets worse as you rank up, as they have the mindset of Zeus, but gain the 'At least I'm not X rank' card to play. Meaning their mindset is a little like this: 'I am the best, and have nothing to improve on' *Ah, the classic, assuming your in anyway good at this game while not being mid-plat+ player, is simply idiocy. I consider myself to be 1/8th decent at most. I 'think' , take a good look at that bolded word. I think that I have 1/2 decent decision making/knowledge but lack the mechanics and faith in my own ability to play hyper carries. Hence why I love playing utility supports, as I'm always useful regardless of how fed I am.

'If anything goes wrong, it's not my fault, it's anything/one else that isn't me at fault' And 'If I get in the argument, I am always right, even if I'm clearly wrong, I am still right' *Probs the biggest step you could possibly take as a bronze league player, is to BLAME YOURSELF FOR EVERYTHING THAT GOES WRONG THAT INVOLVES YOU. Don't just make this a muscle memory type thing, you HAVE to mean it. When ever you die, it's your fault, IDGAF about who ditched you, or who missed a spell/CC, YOUR FAULT and your fault only!

EG: Lets say you gank bot, and you had a nami support/Graves ADC. Nami misses her bubble and mis clicks her heal onto you instead of the graves who is stupidly tanking turret damage. Graves dies and blames nami for his death. Just say 'MB, really soz bra/dude/w/e floats your boat', as it's 99.99% likely that you didn't do everything perfectly (you may not have cleared bots wards/checked summoners/ults). This will not only take the heat off who ever is being flamed (in this case nami) but it will either calm the flamer down, as someone admitting a mistake would shock any bronze player into submission, or provide someone for the flamer to vent frustration at, in this case you(and you can take it out on the enemy in ganks/jg monsters instead of intent feeding, which is what most angry laners tend to do when they loose a fight/want revenge)

Arguments cause most of the afks IMO, as players can't stand being wrong, so they just leave to avoid loosing an argument.

'I will solo carry these noobs, steal every kill, and all of the gold' *You are no better than anyone else within the range of bronze-floating between silver1/gold5 (constant demo/promotions), theres a slight knowledge/mechanical improvement in that climb, as you said above, sometimes you just have a bad luck for a while and get a whole bunch of teams who couldn't care less about winning. Don't criticize off the meta picks. I did this once, to a top lane AD le blanc, and guess what? she was the hyper carry out dps'ing the ADC and mid laner. She got an apology and an honour post game. If you go into a game as if everyone on your team couldn't complete primary school maths, your lack of faith in your team will cause you to loose due to distrust in your teams ability to play.

Hopefully some, if not all of this can help you climb higher in ladder in one way or another. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

qKahnOct 4, 20163 votes

I started playing League in the last patch where Devourer still existed(The next patch it was changed to Bloodrazor).So i play for maybe more than half a season. I´m a main jungle and i started playing ranked about 3 days ago, just finished my 10 matches and i got Gold 4. I´ve played only Hecarim jungle cause he´s pretty easy,good, and not out of meta. Also when i got toplane(5 or 6 out of 10 matches) i played Poppy again because i´m comftable with her and she´s not that bad. Aim to play only champions that aren´t bad in the current meta and that you can play or feel comfortable with. That´s the best way to climb Hecarim Poppy <3

Khell DarkWolfMar 6, 20162 votes

Season 5 Plat: Magus Enchantment Sejuani Sejuani

R.I.P. Magus

Unstoppable MonkMar 6, 20162 votes

R.I.P. AP Sejuani every three patches.

ExalomaniacMar 6, 20162 votes

To silver : old Gangplank (srsly) to gold : Lucian Vayne Draven to plat : Jhin (YES HIM)

SooFr0styMar 6, 20162 votes

Nautilus Though people tell you Naut (heh) cause its hard to carry.

Also used Shyvana

La BarbotteMar 6, 20162 votes

Fizz mostly and out of bronze

Ekko Ahri almost to gold last season, if only ranks were worth it id play it more, now with dynamic queue and all that rage it isnt fun, better do normals and mute all, thats what this game has sadly turned into :/

Farm ManaMar 7, 20162 votes

Elise to plat in s5 http://www.cosplayhouse.com/images/D/002-2656.jpg

DaneQueedMar 6, 20161 votes

Chogath Garen Mordekaiser S1 when Elo cutoffs where just numbers rip 1800 was plat back then Blitzcrank Tryndamere Season 2 plat. Didn't play league or ranked for that matter season 3-5. DrMundo Garen Darius S6 Spinnin through every season plat 4 atm

I don't really think what you play matters too much as long as its not something too far off the grid (crittlesticks). If you're good then you'll get to where you need to be. You just need to understand how the matchups will go for what you play very well with a shallow roster.

MeurtrierrMar 7, 20161 votes

AS Garen, do you pick teleport or ignite?

DaneQueedMar 7, 20161 votes

summoner 12 Being able to TP if your lane goes bad early due to jungle or misplay. Post 6 providing map pressure I feel is more valuable with ignite. Even if you have to blow it to secure dragon I feel its worth more than ignite.

Just walking into a different lane and being able to TP back top is nice too, and late when you have homeguards+tele. I don't think ignite is worthless I just don't like it in a long lane. I initially started taking TP to incentivize using it. Thats just some of my reasoning just I didnt want to give you a one word answer lol.

ZirzonMar 6, 20161 votes

Plat > Thresh Elise Sion Lucian Morgana KogMaw Ezreal Viktor Gragas Sejuani Volibear are some of the champs that have been my best over this season and last season. I play so many that it's rather hard to narrow it down...

LatetotheRaceMar 7, 20162 votes

Sion's so legit though. Almost no one knows how to handle him.

MeurtrierrMar 7, 20161 votes

{quoted}

Sion's so legit though. Almost no one knows how to handle him.

PRoblem with sion, you need alteast an other bruiser.

In some bronze game, you lose in the picking phase. If you pick sion and no one else picks a bruiser or tank, you're done. The enemy can chose to focus on you which mean, you won't have much stun to do before you leave or die.

I know coz i tried. I thought our support was going for Blitz. So i picked Sion. Stupid blitz player picks Leona instead. So i'm the only tanky left.

LatetotheRaceMar 7, 20161 votes

That just doesn't sound right. Sion has the tank and CC to lock down 2-4 players on the enemy team, so it reduces the need for another bruiser, and makes room for another tank. You could possibly just be playing him in a style which is not optimal for your success.

Fat Bastard GODMar 7, 20161 votes

I started playing lots of ranked this past 2 weeks. I usually played normals until than. Mordekaiser is my go-to top laner. Bronze Elo is hilarious...

Solidair3Mar 7, 20161 votes

Zyra mid got me to Silver. Morg mid got me to gold. Syndra and Sivir carry me through gold now

ArkatraMar 7, 20161 votes

Quinn as ADC. I love LCS, keep picking Kog'Maw please so i'll just gain more free-elo by it.

King PuhpooMar 7, 20161 votes

Darius carried me to gold and now halfway to plat

Bodkins OddsMar 7, 20161 votes

I was carried to Silver by something outrageous. Truly, truly, truly, truly outrageous.

http://orig08.deviantart.net/4d50/f/2012/345/8/2/emerald_taric_by_rini86-d5nqzug.jpg

I couldn't find a good picture of his Emerald skin :(

DasokuNov 29, 20161 votes

How I got to Gold Karma Thresh

SnugglePuggle94Nov 29, 20161 votes

My beautiful Sona got me to Silver. Still currently working to get out of it though, who knows what champ will help me climb this time ;)

nounakiJul 5, 20171 votes

i got to silver from playing duos and any champ, i got to gold with Draven cause of his dmg out put in early and got plat with Zed cause of his mobility and outplaying moves and got flashy playz summoner 4 without ofc getting the kills on adc because of the summoner 14 like most zed mains do. now im playing Vayne Lucian KogMaw and a little bit of Draven and Caitlyn i guess with these ill get to diamond

DeathBurstJul 5, 20171 votes

Garen got me to Gold the first time. This season it was Sona.

Shes Not A ThotSep 5, 20171 votes

For me, Zed was my way out of bronze-low silver and right now ive been maining Kassadin and I've had pretty good success while having 5kda with 70% winrate in 30+ games