Help me out with ranked please.

LegitBacon66·Nov 7, 2016·2 votes·889 views

Can someone like look through my match history and cleanly just tell me straight up what I am doing wrong? I always like win one game or 2, then lose like crazy consistently and it is become EXTREMELY frustrating for me to continue playing this game. I keep trying to go for gold, but I rotate around the same amount of LP way too much. If I am bad, just straight up tell me, because then I'll just have to improve my play. (But who says you can't even improve in general).

Thanks in advance.

8 Comments

CocosanNov 7, 20163 votes

I'm platinum so I think I may be able to help a little.

(Not being a jerk or anything) Don't keep playing thresh... Your Blitzcrank is so much better than your Thresh.
Make sure when playing Blitz that you are: A. Grabbing the carries. B. warding at an insane rate, Warding in certain positions can help you team be weary of ganks and such. Place them in the enemies deep jungle. Most often times than not it's worth it because low Elo junglers don't check for wards.
Don't be afraid to die, while at the same time don't feed. It's okay if you dive tower and your adc gets a double, but don't do it without communication or it won't be useful at all.
DO NOT TILT. I see it on my smurf all the time. People die once and say gg, or they see it is 0-5 or 0-9 and say gg. While this can be downing to the team, It isn't over. I guarantee if you group, ward, play smart, and farm for items you can come back and win no matter their kills.
Probably the most important, Focus on yourself. Don't worry about your allies play. Their play is 100% different from yours. Only focus and improve yourself as a player.
Another important one is disabling all-chat and muting toxic players. It will tilt you less-often (besides do not tilt, not worth it) than not. It isn't worth getting angry at some troll for no reason.Just report after game.
If you need some more help, add my smurf and I can teach you in-game tips and tricks to help (Dranor35) I am an adc main so I know the rules and the trade of the bot lane.

I hope this helps a little and again, if you need in-game help add Dranor35. That is my silver smurf. Good luck and you can do it!

LegitBacon66Nov 7, 20162 votes

Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

CocosanNov 7, 20161 votes

I'm glad this was useful :)

420 gramsNov 7, 20163 votes

Your last game your team had 3 ap, a tank, and then Jayce who built 3 armor pen items when 2 people only had one armor item each. Ap teams have a hard time taking objectives quickly and mr stops ap burst better than armor can stop Ad constant damage. So your team comp probably lost you that one. Also blitzcrank isn't a great solo laner since if they dodge the hook, your power drops a lot. You also die a lot as support and although in the moment it probably seemed worth for a chance to give your adc a kill, when they don't and you still die your team falls behind a lot. I'd say try playing adc more and not just support in normals. Learning adc better will also make you a better support (just like how learning support makes you a better adc).

EndlessSorcererNov 7, 20162 votes

[1] Stop playing Thresh. If you have a 27% win rate after 15 games on a champion, that is a sign that you need a lot more practice with them. You are having far more success with Bard and Blitzcrank, so I would recommend using them when supporting to climb.

[2] You are playing too many roles and champions. While having knowledge and competency regarding different roles and champions is rather useful, spreading yourself too thin means you are generally at a disadvantage against specialized opponents in their own roles. You seem to enjoy playing support based on your recent match history and you are pretty much guarenteed to get the role in Silver, so I would recommend sticking with that role.

[3] Ward more when supporting. While I only looked at a few random games, your wards placed count was rather low for the game duration considering you have Sightstone. I'm not sure if you aren't using it or if you are purchasing it late, but vision is extremely important.

Generally, I would recommend rushing Sightstone (either before or after upgrading your gold-generation item to second-tier). If you place a ward on the bottom side of mid-lane and near your own lane, you can protect both lanes from ganks and control the bottom river with ease.

[4] Your runes are less than optimal. Your AD and AP page are decent (though not optimal), but your tank page is horrid. For support tanks (i.e. Thresh, Blitzcrank, Alistar), I would recommend using the following page until you have the IP for better ones:

Quints: Flat Armor
Marks: Flat Armor or Hybrid Penetration
Seals: Flat Armor or Scaling Health
Glyphs: Flat Magic Resist

LegitBacon66Nov 7, 20161 votes

I love you.

Paladin 0f LifeNov 7, 20161 votes

You tilt

Kirius DarkNov 7, 20161 votes

Vision - You have A LOT of deaths even in games that you win so I'd assume you get caught out a lot? Likely has to do with vision. Many of those games you have very few wards killed. If you see someone place a ward make mental note if you cant kill it to take it out later, sweep more often and invest in more pinks. If you are getting caught out your allies are vulnerable to it as well.

-Ward where you plan to go rather than where you are. No point getting vision near your jungle if you're planning to shove lane. Deep wards help a lot with this too where you ward their jungle, see which side their jungler is on and automatically know you wont be getting ganked if you see the jungler clearing a camp or on the opposite side of the map

-You also have VERY LOW wards placed. IE http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2336405297/211188624?tab=stats you have a sightstone and everyone placed more than you by double, few wards destroyed and lack of pinks

Also agree on stop playing Thresh. Even if you're good on him at low ELO they're terrible at following up on your plays or taking the lantern. Sjuper frustrating to throw great lanterns to bail people out only to see them use zhonya or flash away :/
Play more carry supports. When you're pure utility you're banking on your allies to actually be good when at that ELO most scrubs dont even know how to build or combo anything. Carry supports can be a high scaling mage or tank, Morgana, Zyra and Maokai are my fave picks for this (Jg main but I support on my troll acct here)

IF you absolutely insist on Thresh:

Your level 1 ability is critical in setting the pace. Looks like you're getting Death Sentence first when you should be getting FLAY because: -your charged up auto on an enemy champ chunks them for like 1/4 of their HP, letting them know whose boss in trading early -still lets you catch people out of position
Take Bond of Stone to help your ADC sustain damage
Buy more utility items (Aura and on use items) rather than pure tank since people shouldn't be focusing you. You need to save your allies
Take AD marks so you can chunk them even harder in lane. Being a fatty HP brick wall is useless if you cant help fight back