Do you really have to play a hypercarry to get out of bronze?

You can play anything to get out of bronze. There's a dude with no arms that's diamond. If he can do it, you can do it.

Play a bruiser jungle like J4/Vi that can run people down and control the game. Easiest way to get out of Bronze quick.

Playing an early game champ who can bully hard and take over a game is a perfectly valid approach. You should try to smash your lane and then roam ASAP. I find I do best when I can take my turret quickly, shove the wave, and reset and then go roam to find another lane to take the turret in. Mind, I main Tristana but she's an ADC that scales well and has a decently snowball-y lane phase at the same time. The principal works well for any lane though or champion.

Understanding how to CS, play aggressive (but not stupid), and not raging.

Those are the skills you need to get out of iron / silver / bronze and into gold.

nope. learn how to play all of the champions then play whoever is broken at the time. it takes a while for riot to address the issues of balance because they don't have a dedicated balance team (apparently).

if you WANT to stick to a single champion and you try to FORCE it into uneven match ups then you're just going to piss off your teammates and they're going to start complaining about your lack of skill and inflexibility then you're going to become toxic because you don't want to be yelled at for having a favorite champ and so on and so forth the cycle goes.

just learn to play all champions adequately and then you'll have a much much much deeper understanding of the game and that should keep you out of iron at the very least. if you keep up with the patch notes and do your research as you should (this means you have to put in effort to study this crap like a hobby or job) then you'll start climbing assuming you play enough.

one of the biggest reasons why people dont climb is because they only know how their favorite champ works and dont take the time to figure out how everyone else's champ works.

another reason why is because people dont play enough games. If you're not sitting on a brand spanking new account you're not going to climb until you start churning out wins like a butter press in an Amish country. There's a hidden system in place (and every veteran account should know this by now) that keeps you where you're "supposed to be". if you have a massive skill increase overnight the system thinks it's a fluke for a bunch of matches until you have a steady trend of improvement. We saw this when the diamond reset happened and people couldn't climb.

and of course as it goes with all things - have fun. if you cant have fun playing league while trying to win then you're wasting your time. go find a different hobby. It's a strategy game at its core so you have to study the game mechanics. there are a SHIT TON of bronze and iron players that know the gameplay mechanics in and out, but just dont play often enough to climb and you're going to run into them and think "wow this player is a smurf!", but no they're just players that don't play a lot of ranked. the game resets your rank about 2-3 places below where you end up at the end of a season. if you go multiple seasons just completing the 10 placement matches then you're going to end up in iron/bronze.

so that means if you're a genuine level 30 going into ranked with no knowledge about strategy and tactics being used on the current patch then you're probably going to get your head caved in by the opponents while they dance in front of your fountain. This game IS NOT easy to learn or keep up with. Plenty of professional streamers have quit league simply because it's too damn time consuming to stay on top of.

No, but they can take less effort as snowballing is easier to accomplish vs weaker enemies.

Personally I found to be my ticket thru Bronze-Silver.

Actually, you just need to learn how to play the game to get out of Bronze.

I spammed AP trist mid

Here's a list of champions I think are "good" for a Bronze player.

Top:

Jungle:

Mid:

ADC:

Support:

All of these champions are easy enough for a player in Bronze to pick up and pilot.

They also have little to no champion based mechanics to play around so you get to focus on the game.

You'll notice champions like Vayne, Draven, Zed, Riven, Akali and Yasuo are missing from this list.

That's because these champions either require you to have good decision making or be able to execute complex combos and mechanics.

Team reliant champions such as Yuumi, Sona, Soraka, Lulu and Ivern are also not on this list as you usually can't rely on your team to play around your champion pick.

**TLDR: PLAY EASY CHAMPIONS IN BRONZE, FLASHY ISN'T ALWAYS BETTER **

No, I don't know why people think that you have to play hyper carry champions/flashy play champions to rank up. Look up league tier list and pick who's best this patch. That's how I went from iron to gold this season with ease

You need to play someone you're comfortable playing, and you need to get your team to generate map pressure.

Doesn't have to be a hypercarry. For bronze, it barely has to be good. Just needs to be something you can play comfortably, and your team needs to not circlejerk in the jungle after laning phase ends for the rest of the game. >.>

Shotcall things, and don't assign it to anyone. "Someone go top" - 3 or 4 people will go top, and then when they feed and ask why everyone went top, you just took two towers at bot, and people start listening to you more. Do this at least a couple of times in different ways, and they'll respect your contribution enough to start listening to more specific directions (Yi, go top, everyone else on me!) and start accomplishing more things. :P

The key to bronze is less in mechanical outplays, and more in outplaying your teammates psychologically so they actually do something.

Negative. Got out of bronze playing Illaoi, Darius and Swain.

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Nope. I spammed Darius and Garen