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Tips to gettign out of low elo (iron bronze silver)

SirWimder·12/14/2018, 10:08:30 AM·6 votes·11,121 views

As i get this account out of bronze. Thought i would put some tips toghter to help other players get out of low elo. Maybe others will add their tips as well to help the community.

Alot of my tips may seem simple, but its the simple things that keep you in low elo....honestly!

Tips

  1. Stop building according to mobafire builds..... Learn why your building an items. If your getting whipped up on...buying more dmg might not be the best ideal...build some defenses.

  2. Every time you base, buy a pink! Yeah its 75 gold, but use to be every ward was 75 gold. Wards will save your life...ONLY IF you pay attention to the map!

  3. Map awarness..... in low elo its lacking, You about to all in? look at the map, you see all lanes missing? maybe its not the best time to all in.

  4. Your deaths, are your fault! plain and simple. not jungles, not mid, not supports...etc its yours. you put yourself in the postion to be killed.

  5. double digit deaths.....even in norms...is not acceptable. if your dead, your not farming.

  6. Farm around the fight, instead of fighting around the farm.... Low elo is really bad about KDA ego. Sure you have 10 kills at 20 mins...but you have 50 cs???? Aim for 10 cs per min. get your items quick and then you can fight.

  7. STOP ARAMING MID..... to often in low elo i see people just group mid...and never pull the trigger. If your not going to fight and your just going to stall your simply hurting everyone. Go to the side lane, push it and watch for mias.

  8. Stop playing mechanical champs... Yes zed is fun....i should know its all i play in norms....hence my name. But in ranked. All i play is Trynd, Garen, darius! Simple champs, focus on cs, warding and staying safe.

  9. You can win games with zero kills!!!! Kills are not the objective of the game....im going to be one of those PTFO guys....this is how you win. Im currently on a 10 game winning streak. I dont have the top dmg to champs, but i always have the most dmg to Objectives... I dont team fight...period! in low elo its not worth it. in low elo team fights are people just throwing their champs into the fight and hoping they get something...then the team who is the luckiest wins the fight. (solo q at least.)

  10. Play 3 champs....no more! if you look at your match history and it looks like a 150 games with 150 champs...no wonder your lossing and hard stuck... Your not in the lcs and need to have a huge champ pool...Like i said before, in ranked i only play Trynd, garen, darius. If all 3 are banned or picked i dodge...simple as that.

  11. Dont be afraid to dodge! your team fighting at champ select? your champs banned? its better to dodge and take the 5 min wait and 2 lp loss then to spend 30+ mins with a flaming team who cant even play their own champs and loss the game and loss 12+ lp.

  12. /mute all .....NEVER have i seen chat be used for anything other then flaming in chat...If your anything like me...theirs only so much i can take before i tilt....so i simply /mute all Every game at the start.... and all i ever type in chat is GL HF yall in all chat at the start and GG at the end. No reason to say anything else. the more time you spend typing is less time you spend farming. Dont explain your actions, dont question others. Did your jungle fail a gank...dont flame him, least you got a gank.....has your jungle not ganked at all? yeah sure flame him and im sure he will come top with double buffs and give them away.....just saying!

I know these were basic tips. but low elo league is a basic game. and the more who can understand that then the more people can climb.

to those of you who have read this and think "nothing i have not already heard" and your still low elo....maybe you take the advice to heart and use it....if everyone keeps saying it....then maybe theirs some truth to it!

Gl and HF on your climb!

27 Comments

i8urmomnsis12/14/2018, 10:54:59 AM4 votes

Good tips, only problem i have with it is the mute /all its a team game communication is important.

GFREEMEN12/14/2018, 5:56:51 PM4 votes

90% of this is good adv.

One issue tho.

Dodging is required to climb but Riot does NOT want you to dodge.

1 Dodge 5m Second Dodge 30m WTF Its not MY fault you put me TWICE in a Row with someone wanting to Jungle Malz

FioraWillCarry12/14/2018, 11:28:52 AM3 votes

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I dont team fight...period! in low elo its not worth it. in low elo team fights are people just throwing their champs into the fight and hoping they get something...then the team who is the luckiest wins the fight. (solo q at least.)

This one is terrible advice. I've never lost more games than when I refuse to team fight. Unless your team is massively ahead, you should be always ready to ARAM mid with them when you sense it's coming. The reason it's a must is because 9 out of 10 times your team mates will be idiots that will lose without you, assuming you're their best player. And if you're off pushing a side lane when they ARAM mid and lose, you will NEVER out push 4 champions. They will just barrel down the lane until they're threatening your Nexus towers. They could also take Rift Herald, Baron or Dragons, depending on the state of the game at the time your potato team mates lost the fight.

In fact, when my team mates hard feed, piss me off and refuse to surrender, I can throw those games easily for the enemy to end quick just by splitting and refusing to group. It's a guaranteed loss in an even game or lopsided game.

In place of this advice, I would submit a better piece of advice. They key to hard carrying low elo games is winning your lane hard and roaming to extend your lead to other lanes. If you go 3-0 in lane on Darius, you should be in every team fight winning it for your idiot team mates who will feed if you're not there. The only reason I'm not winning a bunch of games, is because I cannot every guarantee that I would go 3-0 in every single game. Sometimes I go dead even, which is not enough to carry feeders. Sometimes I go like 0-2 or even 0-3 which is guaranteed not to be enough to carry. Not being able to hard win lane consistently is my biggest problem.

Watch any high elo player smurfing. For example, in a any of the dozen unranked to Diamond series on YouTube. This is what all of them do to win most of their games. They hard win their lane and then solo win every team fight and skirmish they can using the lead they got in lane. I once played against a smurf who went 50-0 on Rengar and solo won the game just by picking us off constantly. He didn't hit a single tower or any other objective that game. He was always there, winning every single skirmish and team fight for his team, many times with him killing most of us by himself. With all of us being dead all the time, the only natural thing for his team to do was take objectives. This is how they won.

You do not win in low elo by splitting. The ONLY time you should be splitting is when the enemy team takes a dumb team fight where they cannot get anything after. An example would be a team fight in the Dragon pit when Dragon is not up and all your lanes are pushed. In that scenario, you can safely push because when your moron team mates die, the enemy team won't be able to get anything. But if it's a team fight whereby if your team loses, the enemy could immediately take an objective, you want to be there. You don't want to be splitting at that time.

FioraWillCarry7/7/2019, 6:38:19 PM3 votes

Your tips are for how entire teams should play but none of this will help because all your team mates in low elo are braindead assholes. Your tips need to be centered on how to carry the steaming pile of dogshit players found in low elo.

As such, I'll offer my own tips for climbing low elo.

Firstly, do not ever try to play the team game, unless you main tanks like Malphite or Sion. If you main a damage dealer, you should always be aiming to carry. You must enter each and every single match with the idea that your team mates are pure garbage that will do everything in their power to lose the game. It is your job to kill everyone, get all the dragons and all the towers or at least you will try to. Try to do everything yourself. Your team's only purpose is to serves as distractions while you get all the important stuff done, whether it's winning a team fight for them or taking an inhibitor while they are fighting in the jungle like idiots.

This one is very important as a carry. Know your champion's power spikes. This knowledge will dictate how you play at any given point. Let choose an arbitrary time. Lets say 22 minutes into the game. If at 22 minutes into the game, your team is feeding and you haven't hit your power spike then you should be farming. Ignore your team when they call to group, which they will 100% of the time. These idiots are hardstuck Bronze for a reason, do not follow them. If you try to help them and you haven't hit an important powerspike, you will just end up feeding as if you are trash like them. The idea behind only fighting when you hit a powerspike is that you can be the one to turn every fight or skirmish which can sometimes bring back lost games. This particular tip is the most important to know if you want to hard carry games.

Farm everything. This one goes hand in hand with the previous tip. Farm like crazy if you don't get any significant leads in the laning phase. Tax every lane, take every jungle camp. Every time you're thinking about where to path to next, think about what farm you can get over there and on the way over there. You can relax on this when you hit your powerspike and you know you can take fights with confidence. Otherwise, your only two missions are to farm as much as you can and die as little as you can.

Use basic macro. Macro is a large topic but for the purposes of very low elo, only really one aspect would matter more than others, keeping lanes pushed. You should always be watching which lanes are pushing in so you can path there early to collect the gold and shove it back. No one and I mean no one in Bronze and 90% of Silver have zero concept of pressure. Pushing waves create pressure which, if unanswered, can lose you the game. Do you know how many games I've won because the enemy team wanted to ARAM mid while one of their side lanes was pushed up, which allowed me to mow down towers and inhibitors while they ARAM mid like morons.

That's basically it. Bronze is not that hard to get out of. All it requires is not being an idiot. It's literally that simple. Also, one last thing. Don't be afraid to surrender lost games. You can't win every game. That "never FF in ranked" idea is bullshit. It doesn't mean shit and it won't win you as much games as not going 0-5 in lane.

SwiftKitten8812/14/2018, 6:16:38 PM2 votes

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  1. Stop building according to mobafire builds..... Learn why your building an items. If your getting whipped up on...buying more dmg might not be the best ideal...build some defenses.

better yet.. lern how items work, read the items and come up with item synergies yourself, if u know the champions you should be able to come up with a decent build

  1. Every time you base, buy a pink! Yeah its 75 gold, but use to be every ward was 75 gold. Wards will save your life...ONLY IF you pay attention to the map!

a better suggestion is to place a pink every time u dont have one on the feild, buying them each back is redundant if they haven't even killed your last one. this isnt high elo

  1. Map awarness..... in low elo its lacking, You about to all in? look at the map, you see all lanes missing? maybe its not the best time to all in.

i will also add that u should be able to "infer" what the other team should be doing in a given situation.

if u see mid and bot missing... ask yourself... do we have vision on dragon? if not? are they there? same thing worth other neutral objectives

  1. Your deaths, are your fault! plain and simple. not jungles, not mid, not supports...etc its yours. you put yourself in the postion to be killed.

yeah i would agree with this 95% of the time. but u also have to take into account certain champions are engagers... if you do engage properly when u should there is still a chance your team is too stupid to follow up... granted with how kill hungry people are they are much more likely to follow a bad engage than not follow a good one.. but its still a possibility. just keep in mind that for many supports. u can set up a kill but your adc still has ot take it. and on the comcept of supports.. many good supports will sacrifice themselves to keep the adc alive if that is the only remaining option

  1. double digit deaths.....even in norms...is not acceptable. if your dead, your not farming. under 30 min yeah.. but going into 45+ min games... if u have been behind all game is not uncommon to trade kills
  1. Farm around the fight, instead of fighting around the farm.... Low elo is really bad about KDA ego. Sure you have 10 kills at 20 mins...but you have 50 cs???? Aim for 10 cs per min. get your items quick and then you can fight.

as a jungler and a support. i also want to chime in that, keep on eye on waves... many times i see people forcing fight when there is absolute no need to if they have 5 mid, then as long as u can keep them from starting a 4v5 and keep your stuff alive mid.. them go split a different lane. if u have minion pushing top and bot u dont NEED to win a fight to get an objective. becuase if u have minion pushing they will take an objetive on thier own. or force the enemy to back off

  1. STOP ARAMING MID..... to often in low elo i see people just group mid...and never pull the trigger. If your not going to fight and your just going to stall your simply hurting everyone. Go to the side lane, push it and watch for mias.

more to my last point. if u fight when u have wave priority u don;'t need to "win" the fight... u just need to not "lose" it.. and keep them there long enough for your minions to push

  1. Stop playing mechanical champs... Yes zed is fun....i should know its all i play in norms....hence my name. But in ranked. All i play is Trynd, Garen, darius! Simple champs, focus on cs, warding and staying safe.

as much as i WANT to agree with this.. i dont.. the fact is riot loves introducing mechanial champs with overloaded kits.. and right now those mehcanial chams may be mechanically intensive yes... but they also have the most "get out of jail free cards" that fact copled with time spenting learning them and how just flat out OP and aggrevatign they are the the oppoent to deal with and how strong they can become and snowball into a hardcarry. unfortunately means. even if u cant play them well.. after a mere 20 or so game with a champion. ( which u should have before u take ANY champion ranked) is really all u need... its a sad truth.. and i dont want it to be true... but the fact is it is

  1. You can win games with zero kills!!!! Kills are not the objective of the game....im going to be one of those PTFO guys....this is how you win. Im currently on a 10 game winning streak. I dont have the top dmg to champs, but i always have the most dmg to Objectives... I dont team fight...period! in low elo its not worth it. in low elo team fights are people just throwing their champs into the fight and hoping they get something...then the team who is the luckiest wins the fight. (solo q at least.)

yes you can, however that really only works if u play top lane, most other lanes cant splitpush as well

  1. Play 3 champs....no more! if you look at your match history and it looks like a 150 games with 150 champs...no wonder your lossing and hard stuck... Your not in the lcs and need to have a huge champ pool...Like i said before, in ranked i only play Trynd, garen, darius. If all 3 are banned or picked i dodge...simple as that.

three might be limiting... i generally play 2 but u should have some backups as well, and at least 2 of those backups have to but on support

  1. Dont be afraid to dodge! your team fighting at champ select? your champs banned? its better to dodge and take the 5 min wait and 2 lp loss then to spend 30+ mins with a flaming team who cant even play their own champs and loss the game and loss 12+ lp.

^this

  1. /mute all .....NEVER have i seen chat be used for anything other then flaming in chat...If your anything like me...theirs only so much i can take before i tilt....so i simply /mute all Every game at the start.... and all i ever type in chat is GL HF yall in all chat at the start and GG at the end. No reason to say anything else. the more time you spend typing is less time you spend farming. Dont explain your actions, dont question others. Did your jungle fail a gank...dont flame him, least you got a gank.....has your jungle not ganked at all? yeah sure flame him and im sure he will come top with double buffs and give them away.....just saying!

regardless of anything else u said... that may be correct... you got a downvote from me for this.

NO, do NOT "mute all"

this suggestion alone will does more damage than any gain from all other suggestions that were correct u have made. this game is about communication and teamwork, if u "mute all" because u give a rats ass want some random person on the internet thinks about you. then you are severely limiting your team communications.

i mute a single player like once every 50 games, https://imgur.com/a/TYPKOYx

u need to develop basic self-control...

I know these were basic tips. but low elo league is a basic game. and the more who can understand that then the more people can climb.

to those of you who have read this and think "nothing i have not already heard" and your still low elo....maybe you take the advice to heart and use it....if everyone keeps saying it....then maybe theirs some truth to it!

Gl and HF on your climb!

brzi20057/7/2019, 7:12:46 AM2 votes

All adv is good exept one thing you can play mechanical Champs they are harder to be learned and if you know them well you can carry i main zed and i managed to get from iron 4 to bronze 3 in a little more then a week (Im lvl 5 zed)

Solicitude12/14/2018, 7:43:48 PM2 votes

Some good advice, some bad advice. Nonetheless, whether it be good or bad, none of these or all of them together, are enough to get you out of low elo. Game knowledge, mechanics, tactical skill, ability to play in a team with a team, you need all of these to climb. The better you are at these, the higher you can climb.

preternatural7/7/2019, 6:43:40 PM1 votes

if you want to climb just mute all

Woodakoodashooda12/14/2018, 12:24:26 PM1 votes

Tip number 8 is terrible advice. Players can climb with any champion and telling them "These champions will get you nowhere" is false.

Around999People12/14/2018, 2:17:01 PM1 votes

My biggest tip is this:

Play smart. If you pushed mid, took towers and inhib, why in the world would you continue to aram it down mid? Go top or bot, take more towers and another inhib. Play smarter and work on gaining something rather than fighting just to fight

Bent Pixels12/14/2018, 2:36:34 PM1 votes

you lose 12 LP per loss? wtf is this

I lose like 23...

5eapea5/13/2019, 2:07:52 AM1 votes

Needs more downvotes. Pretty inaccurate and trash.

kampfhorst256/13/2019, 6:38:47 AM1 votes

Thx ill only play my beloved shaco skarner and nocturne now....and mute all

Raoul12/14/2018, 10:10:18 AM1 votes

Why bother climbing ranks. China will soon make RIOT remove all rank based rewards anyway.