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First of all, great and informative reply.
I was unfortunately autofilled to support vs a brand last game.
I picked LB support and shat on twitch so hard he was forced to leave lane and farm mid. My ADC was completely incompetent at last hitting unfortunately, and was so salty that I picked LB support, even though she had a 100% free lane. I rushed sightstone into watcher's and spammed wards, but team still got caught consatntly even when I pinged them on the map that they were setting up a gank. It was so ungodly frustrating.
I feel you, happens to me every game. I feed my ADC early jkust so they can lose the lead mid game with braindead positioning. Or they don't listen to my call and we end up throiwing. or they listen to me and I fck up call and we lose anyways :-D
Fck your team mates. They are not important anymore as soon as the nexus explodes. All that is left is YOU and YOUR mistakes. As some wise man once said: "Even if you get a pentakill, you could play it much much better." And I agree. Blaming your top lane for feeding is not gonna improve your game. But looking at all your deaths and asking "What should I do next time in such situation to survive?" will move you forward. Because ALL your deaths are your own fault. Ever since I started to look at my replays that way - how could I survive, how could I save that situation, how could I prevent that throw... my death ratio in rankeds lowered and I learned a lot ;-)
The entire team decided to spam in all chat that I was trolling for picking LB support, even though I was 7/2/8 when everyone else had awful scores like 1/8/2 or sth. I would focus their fed Kat/Brand/TWitch every single fight, but whomever I didnt kill would just get free reign to do whatever the fuck they wanted since nobody could focus. In the end, I had more damage than most of my teammates, yet I got all the blame in all chat... even the enemy team laughed at my teammates for being idiots.
Well, LB is not a support. ANd you are in a league where as soon as you don't play what kids thinks is appropriate... you can solo carry the game you stil get called names and get reported. Just ignore it, or play Soraka. She is broken and easy to carry with in low elo. Trust me, I am playing her right now and healing up all the stupidity of my team mates is winning me games. Usually :-D
Secondly, until the past few days I had a ~60% winrate on Eve, and my ELO was much higher a few days ago than it is now, so I was fighting harder opponents.. but also had more competent teammates who could actually capitalize on my ganks. She can snowball games out of control in the first 10 minutes, but as you say, she falls off after 30 minutes, so she relies on teammates after that point - hence why these games are unwinnable. And with idiots for teammates who literally don't know how to follow up on a gank, eve's presence is completely useless.
In stats I saw you didn't have Smite so I thought you play Evelyn mid, which is IMHO as bad as playing Rek'Sai top. Because in lane you can't use Eve's invisibility properly. And as I said, she is very underpowered right now so playing her is making your win conditions very hard. Regular low elo games always lasts 40+ minutes (except if someone trolls or goes AFK). So once again - unless you love Eve and don't care about loses, don't play her. Try Lux, Annie, Orianna, Malza, Viktor or Ziggs. Much easier to play and in much better place than Eve right now.
As for the warding, I usually switch my yellow trinket for red immediately at lv 9, hence why my wards per game are low. Am I not supposed to be doing this? I find the red trinket to be especially useful when ganking.
If you are support then red trinket is a must immediately after you get a sightstone. If you are a jungler, you usually go red trinket after 1st or 2nd back... depends if you need to ward or deward the jungle. That depends on how the game is going. But nobody else needs red trinket. Especially not mid laners. You roam with either mobile champ who is so fast wards will spot them too late, or has a huge range so you can snipe from half the river. Also nobody in low elo watches mini map so they won't see you comming anyways. Keep the yellow trinket and ward your lane to stay safe or to ward objectives (herald, dragon, baron). ANother exception is ADC who at lvl 9 switches to blue trinket because they can't facecheck the bush.
As for last hitting - I make it my goal to outfarm my opponent, rather than hit a specific number. I find when I focus too hard on csing instead of trading and roaming, sure I have a nice CS, but I lose roam potential, snowball potential, and my lane opponent who cares less about cs'ing tends to walk bot for a double kill.
Outfarming your opponent is imho not a good strtategy. If you keep meeting shit players with 20CS per 10 minutes you will get 30CS thinking you are good. Don't think "I have 20 CS more than opponent therefore I have 300g more". That will get you nowhere and later when you meet opnent who gets 60CS you will have to focus on farming anyways and then again stop trading and roaming - as you said you do now if focusing on CS. Rather think about CS as "Omg is 10 minutes and I have only 50CS. I lost 40CS which is about 1000g." That will motivate you more :-D
Also don't worry about not focusing on trades and roams while CSing. It is OK to suck at this kind of multi-tasking. But you have to learn it eventually so why not to start right now? So by the end of the season you can farm decently while keeping up with trading, mini map watching and roaming? Even 10 minutes a day in custom game with no bots, last hitting minions in mid lane, will improve your CSing in game without you even focusing on it. I tried it before for 2 weeks (when I was flirting with ADC role). After 2 weeks I increased my CS in custom game by 30CS per 10 minutes. From 50 to 82. In game, where I was focusing on trading and not getting poked, my CS increased by 10CS per 10 minutes. Just because I practiced in customs every day. So it will translate to your gameplay, no worries. And when you get good at the practice, you can always add bot enemy so they wil keep harassing you and you can keep poking them, and learning how to CS while doing that. ;-)
tee that.
