Help i'm Bronze V do i have brain cancer?

DGArchitect·5/29/2016, 6:48:23 PM·3 votes·1,305 views

Hello

I am a Bronze V player NA, I have been playing lol over 2000 hours of time and I am still bronze elo, what am I doing wrong? I have done so much research and nothing ever works, I try every strategy, I don't just sit idly, I look for opportunities to take objectives, I swear I really try to do my best to contribute to my team but it never works :( please help meeeeeeeeeeee

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=dgarchitect

49 Comments

faun5/29/2016, 7:03:22 PM4 votes

My first question is why are you jungling with yasuo?

Swiftstrike45/29/2016, 8:00:25 PM3 votes

Just glancing at your stats a few things I noticed.

  • You die too much
  • Your rune pages are limited - why run attack speed on Yasuo? Shouldn't you be running flat AD or Crit Chance. More rune pages for your Champ pool.
  • Your towers taken per game are kind of low 1.3 maybe? I think I sit at 2.5 but I do play Nasus ha.
  • You play too many champions - practice them in normals play ranked with 2 or 3
  • I am a advocate that in lower Elo you can jungle pretty much play any champ any position if you are good enough, however, you probably are not good enough to jungle Yasuo based on your rank.
  • I hate to say "ignore your team", but in general you should focus on YOUR game not your team's game. If you play a Champion like Yasuo you should be able to carry on your own. If you think you are good at taking objectives and assessing situations just trust your instincts help when it is convenient. Don't die for your team doing something you don't fully trust or agree with.
  • In general, in bronze, people blame everyone else. Don't do this, or at least, don't type it. Blaming teammates does not help players win games. I am in general pretty silent when I play, and only rarely will I type anything to teammates that is not informative/intelligence related to the game. I play with some friends in bronze on my smurf accounts and they (along with the people they play with) blame teammates all the time. It doesn't help team morale and it actually makes it HARDER to win once you begin to be vocal regarding your dissatisfaction with the team.
  • Find a buddy. Playing with one or two friends helps, also figure out who should be calling out what to do. I have ended up becoming the main "shot-caller" because I play a split-push champion and I am the tank. I had to develop a good sense of objective awareness playing Nasus. I would say this should be a decision you and your team makes not through a vote, but an organic process. You play some games, figure out each teammates skills and then go from there. Playing with 4 or more makes it harder to win because the other team of 4 or 5 may be more coordinated than your team. 3 though is pretty ideal. Also, when you play with friends you are less likely to blame them for their mistakes, which will improve your chances of winning.

I have said many times, that some of my friends belong in Bronze. They make several poor decisions every game, or play champions in ranked they have only played a few times. They will die unnecessarily to get a kill or spend A LOT of time chasing a kill instead of taking an objective.

Auto Attacks5/30/2016, 7:20:45 AM2 votes

Bronze is a mindset...You just need to stop play what is viable or what people say is good and play what you are good at.

hh the thinker5/29/2016, 6:59:51 PM2 votes

brain cancer? i wouldn't recommend putting that into the title first off, it's not needed.

it's easier if you had games recorded if you wanted help. it's hard to look at stats alone and know the whole story. your yasuo win rate looks ok so you can keep playing him. it's hard to know what you are doing in game though.

loogie5/29/2016, 8:24:52 PM1 votes

I'm going to break this into separate categories on what I can see from your op.gg.

Runes- First, I don't know if it's by coincidence, but your "Standard AD" page literally has no AD on it, and your "Replay.GG" page is a standard ad page.. with that being said, if you're interested in playing ADC, you want to have AD reds rather than attack speed reds. This is because you need that little bit of extra AD in early trading opportunities, which the 15% attack speed that you get from your reds can't necessarily make up for, it also means that if you're farming under turret at early levels, you'll be able to let the melee creeps take 2 tower hits, then it will only take one auto to kill them, rather than if you have no AD on the page, where one auto at base AD and item 1055 won't kill them. With that being said, I would highly recommend specializing in two roles, 2 to AT MOST 3 champions in each role, and crafting your rune pages around the champions that you play. (You don't have an AP page currently, but if you're not playing AP champions, that's obviously not an issue.)

Masteries- Most of your masteries look okay to me, if you're looking to optimize your masteries, I recommend going to look at guides, as well as probuilds.net where you can see what high level players are taking on the champions, their game/champion knowledge means they are more likely than not going to be taking the most optimal settings when it comes to runes/masteries/builds.

Champion Pool- As I stated before in the "Runes" section, I recommend playing 2 roles exclusively, considering that's viable thanks to dynamic queue, and 2-3 champions max in each role. If I'm going into a game in Top lane, I'd be a hell of a lot more scared of someone with 700k mastery points on Yorick, rather than someone that's played Ekko 3 times. Once you figure out champions that you can literally just spam, you'll eventually learn the boundaries of that champion, as well as the mechanics will just become second nature, and you will be more able to focus on macroplay (your play in relation to the game as a whole) rather than microplay (small mechanical play that happens constantly throughout the game), and that's how you establish leads, push leads, and win games. Example from me personally: I've always loved Khazix and would consider him to be my main, I was in my Gold promos when I just kinda said "fuck it" and started playing random champions in ranked because I'm silver and I'm dumb like that, and within a week and a half I was Silver V 0LP wondering what I was doing with my life. I realized that in playing a bunch of different champions that I'm not experienced on, I would ultimately have around a 2.5 kda per game, which isn't atrocious, but you can't carry games with a kda like that. Lately I've been SPAMMING THE EVER LIVING SHIT out of Khazix with most games getting over a 5.0 kda, stomping games, and climbing fast. If I don't get jungle, I just play Annie mid because she's easy, strong, and can hard carry games.

Gameplay- I obviously haven't watched you play, but from your op.gg there is one big thing that kinda stands out and that's deaths. In your match history, there is only one game that you had less than 5 deaths on (8/1/4 20 min Yasuo game, assuming this game was a stomp) With that being said, especially as a jungler, you want to die as few times as physically possible. The two main things that helped me when I was having troubles in games, which ultimately lead to me getting more kills, dying less, was 1. the item 2043 - I'm not going to talk your ears off about the logistics, but granting you and your team vision, as well as denying the other team vision, is WAY more valuable than 75 gold, so pick one up every time you back. 2. THE MINI MAP - again, not going to talk your ears off considering you've probably heard this before, but the minimap is literally in the bottom corner and only takes a split second to look at, and can give you literally all the information you need in the game. Someone forget to call mia? Well, if their icon hasn't been on the mini map for ~3-5 seconds, they're probably mia and you should play accordingly. Their jungler is ganking top and your bot side? Go counter jungle in their bot side jungle and try to trade back what you may lose from the gank, and if the gank is unsuccessful, you just increased your lead/decreased their lead. Either looking at it every 2-3 creeps in lane, or whilst doing/walking in between jungle camps can make a world of a difference when it comes to map awareness and gameplay accordingly.

Closing tip- I'm going to leave this wall of text with a quote from my Econ professor, in that you should have the goal of learning, not just performing well (on the test), because if you learn it, the success (on the test) will follow. I know he is saying this in the context of a class, but if you think about it, it really applies to a bunch of different settings, including League. Learn the game, and the elo will follow.

Pandemic Punch5/29/2016, 9:05:53 PM1 votes

If you want a shortcut to climb then the answer is already in your match history. When you play champions that are less mechanically demanding, your win rate goes up. Look at those Volibear games.

Try to learn champions that are less mechanically demanding while still making a huge impact on the game. As stated before, Volibear is a great one. Try playing Garen more often as well since it seems like you have had a lot of success with him. Try to avoid playing champions like Yasuo or Draven.

Here are more champions that are mechanically less demanding but make a huge impact on the game:

Amumu Sion Galio Sejuani Veigar Annie

CerealBoxOfDoom5/29/2016, 9:59:27 PM1 votes

op.gg is terrible and no you probably dont have cancer you just have things to learn

The Whamboozler5/30/2016, 3:14:50 AM1 votes

Short Answer: Yes.

Long Answer. YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

spombjop5/30/2016, 7:28:42 AM1 votes

14 deaths as yasuo

you're dying too much, try to die max 5 times in game. do that quest. thats a first step.

stealthfox945/30/2016, 3:36:13 PM1 votes

Saw the word "cancer" in the title, instant downvote.

TSwift Is Sexy5/30/2016, 4:35:35 PM1 votes

No. But your symptoms seem to point to a case of the "business majors". Did you accidentally contract that by any chance?

Palmeiras SerieB5/29/2016, 7:00:28 PM1 votes

Just for creating a thread with this title

Yes you have

CoolKnightST5/29/2016, 7:22:59 PM1 votes

Let's start with your runepages. You have a marksmen and a AD standard page. Where is the page for AP??

Your second problem is your champion pool. Your recent games are on Yasuo Ryze Gangplank DravenShaco . It's perfectly fine to play the champions you like to play. But if you struggle & can't figure out the mistakes you make. It's actually better to take a champion that is easyer to play. I think your Volibear games are a good example of this. With high skillcap champions you just focus to much on the mechanics and you leave the marcro behind. That can become a problem if you struggle to improve.

I suggest when you play ranked. Try to limit your champion pool. I see you have decent stats on Volibear & JarvanIV jungle. I suggest you keep those in your champion pool. As far your other roles go. I highly suggest that you change up some stuff:

  • Mid/Support:Annie, you will need to prepare another runepage for AP, or just replace your marksmen runepage with it.
    • Build Support: item 3098 item 2049 item 3158 >> item 2301 >> ...
    • Build Mid: item 3165 item 3020( or item 3158) >> ...
    • Hint: You can smartcast your Q to make it easyer to cast (less delay).
  • Top: Maokai or Malphite, I'm not really an top expert but if I play top I often just go something like this. Maokai is very easy to farm when you get behind.
  • Adc: In low elo peel doesn't exist. Try Graves. But I think you more an attackspeed type of guy. Try Caitlyn or maybe even Jinx.

If you need another support try Nautilus or Leona both will be intressting if you really want to play a tank support.

Last but not least item 2043 is your friend. Not only it can provide solid vision. It's also intressting to counter those nasty Vayne's even than I recommand you smartcast the slot tho.

Good luck ;)

Hey Its Chris5/29/2016, 7:30:12 PM1 votes

No, Just work super hard on carrying. I was bronze 5 for a while but I started to get much better and after a while i was hard carrying games. Now im climbing through silver to gold :D