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Climbing in ranked and problems with lower elo

Tokallos·4/30/2019, 8:55:34 AM·1 votes·1,630 views

So I've been researching this for a while now but after hearing both me and my friends complain about it so much I thought it was about time that I made a discussion about it.

Low elo hell.

This only applies for the EU but me and friends are not terrible at the game, yet we are stuck in hard bronze because the game requires us to carry our feeding laners. You see I wouldn't have a problem with trying to practice doing this. However, just the other day a friend of mine decided to get help from a PLATINUM player to help him climb and he still couldn't carry the game. I just wanted to get everyone's opinion on this but I believe that Riot needs to rethink their ranking system or create a system that's designed to put you with better players when you do well but you lose the game. It would separate the good players from the feeding ones and it won't effect higher elos and lcs.

It doesn't have to be something like this but I believe something needs to be sorted out because if a platinum player can't even carry feeding laners in bronze then there is definitely something wrong.

3 Comments

QuadraBananas4/30/2019, 8:57:21 AM1 votes

do note that there are probably plat smurf on the enemy team too

HyperionCH4/30/2019, 9:44:28 AM1 votes

You can climb in low-elo if you play better. There are wrong points in your posts:

  • carrying the feeding lanes Don't tell me that your mates in all other lanes are feeding in all games. Yes, sometings they are feeding and you cannot carry. But in around the same amount of games the enemies are feeding and you win also if you play very bad because your mates carry you. So the games are important where the other lanes are more or less even and you are the player to make an advantage.

  • Plat smurf cannot carry Yes, it's possible that a plat player cannot carry because the other mates are feeding too much (or the enemies has also a smurf). Also he cannot get a 100% winrate. But he will get a winrate over 50% and he will climb.

Now to your stats what I see in the first view:

  • Too much champs You played 8 champs in 14 SoloQ rankeds. That is too much. Learn a view champs and play only these 2-3 champs (For examplae: I played in 5 FlexQ rankeds only 1 champ). In low-elo, it's more important to play a champ that you know how to play (even when you get countered) than a champ that you cannot play good (but it's a counter).

  • bad farm In average, you farm less than 4 CS/min. (excl. Support picks). This is not good. I have to improve my farm too but I have 6.3 CS/min. (in FlexQ Bronze). That is a half item more than you after 20 minutes.

  • bad warding Use your ward-trinket and also buy control wards. 75 gold is nothing to protect you from a gank. You avoid 300 kill gold for you enemy (+ assist gold) if you survive a gank caused by better vision. And you can farm if you survive a gank (and as I wrote: you really need more farm).

  • Deaths In the last 7 rankeds you died 6.6 time per game. In low-elo, it's important to die as less as possible. I think you died a lot because of bad vision and the high death average is one reason for your bad farm.

I coached 2 times long-time bronze players (over 3-4 seasons bronze) and both climbed to silver in the same season I coached them. I'm not the best coach and I didn't coach a lot (just analized a few games and watched together some higher elo games and analized these games). So I think it's possible to climb also in the low-elo. It only takes a lot of time (i also need more time to climb by myself^^) to improve the skills and use them in the ranked games.