Not complaining, I just need advice please.

DNGSkitty·1/15/2019, 7:02:22 PM·5 votes·5,622 views

So I was banned for being toxic, and had to start over. I've accepted my ban and am trying to reform. The issue is I was forced to start Iron 5, as all new accounts have to climb from Iron now. This must be my punishment, because it's really really brutal. Almost every single ranked game I get an afk or a troll. I was a plat 3 Zyra Support. I've been trying to climb as Zyra support or mid, but I feel like no matter how well I play, if I get a troll team I can't carry. So my question is, should I bite the bullet and just try to learn a new champion/role, like a bruiser or assassin that can carry? At this rate I will never be able to climb out of Iron and it's extremely demoralizing.

6 Comments

Jamaree1/15/2019, 7:35:58 PM4 votes

You honestly don't need to switch off Zyra, just change your mindset. If you were Plat, compared to the Iron V players, you should be utterly steamrolling your lane opponent every game. At that point, stop thinking about LoL like a team game and more like a solo player game where your allies are more so NPCs rather then actual players. Hard abuse your advantage and guide them like sheep to the objectives. Kill your opponent, roam, then guide them to an objective, stuff like that.

Doge20201/15/2019, 7:10:28 PM1 votes

Try duo with somebody who mains a carry champ/position and play your best champ and role. Make sure that your duo partner is not toxic and is skilled enough to climb all the way to plat with you. (Somebody who is potentially skilled enough to climb to plat works too).

If you have to find a random/new person to duo with then I would recommend that you guys get in a voice call together and play some normal games, treat those normal games like they are ranked games to practice your communication with each other and to learn each other’s playstyles and such.

Cycera1/15/2019, 8:00:33 PM1 votes

I think ranked will improve when the season starts for real, I've been seeing reports of matchmaking being just plain all over the place making it impossible to climb. Maybe practice in norms until the issues get ironed out a little more?

Buzzkillington01/15/2019, 9:05:25 PM1 votes

IMO, zyra is a pretty viable solo carry champ. You just have to be cheesier. Every time you're not leashing, ping for the adc to come with you to camp a bush and tell him straight up to focus the first target after they walk close enough. That's easy first blood. Buy control wards and place them just outside a bush - yes, outside - and burst down the clueless adc trying to kill the ward. Gank midlane as much as possible. It's easy to make iron-bronze players rq just by camping them. Don't trust your teammates much outside of easy, guaranteed cheese plays. Play by yourself as much as possible. Or alternatively, you can play other solo carry "noob champs" like master yi, xin zhao, katarina, etc until silver-gold and get back to zyra. Duoing in that elo range is pretty unreliable unless your duo is a smurf. You will get matched vs better enemies, meaning your teammates who queued solo are more likely to feed.

SpyKayle1/16/2019, 12:55:18 AM1 votes

Zyra is perfectly viable as a carry champion. Right now your teammates are undoubtedly garbage, so you need to demolish your lane and take command to guide them around to useful objectives. Basically you need to be the leader. Don't try to roam or anything because it's quite plausible your teammates will merely throw away any lead you get them. You've got to end the game quickly too.