Advice for Silver 1-2 players

Cynqt·Oct 11, 2017·1 votes·424 views

cynqt - Summoner's Champion Information - League of Legends

So I've linked my OP.gg and I was wondering if I could get some feedback as to what champs I should be focusing on more and what lane you think I perform best at according to winrate. I've been crawling through forums and trying to find any tips and advice for Silver players struggling to get into Gold. I lost my Gold promos a few days ago and I feel very discouraged as I finally managed to get that far. I lost my 5th game and now I have dropped back to Silver 2. Aside from the promos, this is like the 5th time this has happened where I will get to 90+ LP Silver 1 and then usually I fall all the way back down to Silver 3. I know a lot of people will suggest getting coaches or maining a champion or watching streams. Well I just need some help. Please get back to me. Thank you for your time.

3 Comments

NLGG3R BEATEROct 11, 20172 votes

General advice:

If you happen to play daily try to limit your soloQ/ranked games to 3 games day, if you happen to be tilt-proof all the time and don't get "mentally exhausted" easily then disregard this.
Play as much as you can, not only you naturally gain experience and knowledge this way but you'll also eventually climb if you play decently compare to your tier requirements.
Do not ever despair and keep trying, keep in mind if you lost gold promos twice (or 3 times, not sure) you'll get 2 free wins on your next promos assuming you're still silver 1.

Specific advice:

Do NOT bother with these champs at all:
I see you play jungle and mid decently, stick to these 2 roles and limit your champ pool to 3 champions per role max. For mid I'd suggest . Not only you have decent winrates on them but they are also relatively safe picks and very strong in this meta. For jungle I'd recommend if you can snowball yourself or your laners consistently with him, if not stick to if you can play him in the jungle.

hmu if you want jungle-specific tips since it's the only role I'm actually experienced with, I can't give you any lane specific advice even if I viewed your latest games.

CynqtOct 11, 20171 votes

Thank you for the relatively quick response. I do actually need jungle-specific tips, that's really why I quit jungling. I was fairly good with Kha'zix I think for my elo. I also just don't know much in terms of team composition. That's probably where I struggle when in champion select. I just need overall help in that area I would say is when to pick what. Also any type of jungling help would appreciated.

NLGG3R BEATEROct 11, 20171 votes

You shouldn't pay much attention to team composition in soloQ and specifically in silver elo AS LONG AS you're confident you can play carry games playing specific champs. However if you wanna adapt your pick according to your team composition the ideal situation to pick a "carry" jungler such as Khazix is when you have an AP mid laner and a tanky top laner with hard engage, you can still pick him otherwise but you then you should be looking to snowball and close out games ASAP since your teamfighting will greatly suffer at later stages of the game, else you should pick an AP jungler or a tank yourself.

Maokai on the other hand is a safer pick since he isn't snowball reliant at all yet still an effective ganker and can be picked into any team comp and does scale well into the lategame with his innate tankiness/hard engage/utility.

Now no matter what you pick your main goal as a jungler is to heavily focus on getting your bot lane ahead early on since it's currently the key lane to winning most games but ganking others is fine if the opportunity calls it.

Your objective priority should be something like: T1 bot lane tower (if it's FB tower try to give the solo gold to your adc) > drake (if you know where the enemy jungler is and are sure it won't be contested) then move on to top lane and play around top lane t1 tower and Rift Herald. Afterwards you keep rotating according to your team and/or splitpush sidelanes, never waste too much time afking farming jungle creeps especially if you're already ahead.

I assume with these games on Kha'Zix you already know stuff like jungle pathing and item builds (and if not you can check yt guides and/or the proper league-related subbreddits).

Feel free to ask anything further and good luck reaching Gold.