Stories from a Solo Player

Background i was P5 in season 5 and after my placements was placed S3 in season 6.

what i have noticed is a very huge difference in the teams and who is going in with multiple people. i have pointed out to people tactics that i have learned as the core base of how to play the game only to be ridiculed by a person in another spot who is defending them for their actions. The games for the most part end in failure and the trends i notice are normally the same pattern.

People defend their friends verbally and play style. Regardless of what they are doing is right or wrong they will go hard to save their buddy.

Ever see a top laner basically feeding and the jungler is now rotating top lane and end up feeding too. Bottom lane is in prime position to get ganked and yet the jungler went top. this is the classic i must protect my buddy thing. Now the game went from 1 person losing to 2 people losing.

you can use this to your advantage if you are on the enemy team.

if you know who is grouped with who and you find the weaker player you can start abusing them and then wasting peoples time. say the mid is the duo and his buddy is in another lane. pressure the weaker person till the mid goes missing. this requires you to respect any time the mid goes away. sometimes they step out of lane just to see if its time and you should pull back. you dont even need wards to know its time to back off.
this will cause mid lane to give up CS and pressure if they have it.

words of advice: a diamond jungler was asked how did you get to diamond his response "I would check peoples most recent games and i would look for people who either died alot or are on losing streaks. i would camp them till they fed or AFK'd. Games are easier to win 5v4"