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Last minute advice for silvers who REALLY want Gold

PhantomGG··15 votes·2,175 views

So this advice is for silvers who are desperate and really want to get gold, if your bronze and reading this, maybe you have hope, but time is running short, but this advice is honestly meant for anyone who wants to last minute get elo. This advice honestly I strictly used on myself to get gold in just a few days when I was silver four and it worked, that being said here it is.

1-Stop switching champs and roles every game. Explanation: Chose your main role, and your secondary role. You should have 1 champion for your main role and secondary role who you have lots of confidence with and honestly consider your main. Play that champion as often as possible and just go ham. You should have 2 back up champions for your main role and your side role for when your mains get either banned or you just feel they will be trash picks for your comp. Stick to a play style, stick to a select few champions. If you notice you are a really good Renekton player than don't suddenly switch to the polar opposite Viktor when you know nothing about viktor, you are asking to lose at that point. Have two mains ready, one for each role that you chose, than have two back up champions ready, simple really. Find a play style you are good at, and perfect it. For me it was junglers like Kindred Kayn who have decent early game ganks but scale very good into the late game i stuck to that style and played nothing else besides the rare Sejuani who also has a similar philosophy, in the sense her early ganks are decent but scales very strongly in the late game. Also prepare a support pick you actually enjoy, for your going to get auto filled eventually.

2-Make a TO DO LIST every game Explanation: a to do list, is when you enter a game, and make a list of things, you feel you have to get done in order for you to win, your to do list is not you going "OMG THIS FUCKING BOTTOM LANE" it's you saying "i need to roam at 8 minutes if possible, get a double, kill and than push for tower", it's you going "this kogmaw is going to be a big issue, so every fight i have to nuke him", it's you going "we really need towers and i'm really strong right now so i should split and put pressure in a side lane". A solid to do list, will win you games for it keeps you focused on the tasks that must be done to win.

3-STOP AUTO PILOTING AND CLAIMING YOUR TEAMS IS THE ISSUE Explanation: this is probabbly the number one issue why people don't climb, they develop a play style, they grow bad habbits and good habbits, and they just they just turn off their brains and auto pilot the entire game. This most often causes silver and bronze players to just stay in their lanes, never roam, forget to push for towers, and than they can't figure out why they lost for they went "well I did well, I got my tower and ended the game 3/2/4, i should of won". No you didn't you just auto piloted that entire game and didn't pay attention at all to what was around you. Keep your brain turned on, constantly pay attention, look at your mini map every 5-10 seconds, and keep adjusting your plan accordingly in how to win. Auto piloting loses games, you need to be constantly aware, turn off your music, talk to yourself out loud in what's going on in the game, and just focus on the game.

Anyways I hope this helps ^_^

22 Comments

Ungrateful Thug10 votes

Learn to manipulate waves and rotate. You don't need to go 5/0 in lane to completely strangle your opponent.

Firethorn1 votes

That sure does help tho :P

RavenMagus1 votes

Focusing on farming is much more consistent than trying to hard win every lane.

Especially when you start getting camped by junglers because you're being so aggressive.

Azadethe1 votes

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Focusing on farming is much more consistent than trying to hard win every lane.

Especially when you start getting camped by junglers because you're being so aggressive.

Quoted for truth. It's a reason when I'm not supporting or jungling, I Karma top, and pretty much choke the top carry from doing anything entire game to make the rest of the game a 4v4.

Really handy vs Tryndamere's Gnar's, Wu's, Nasus, Yasuo, and even some Darius.

Hexs Fortune6 votes

Number one advice to getting gold:

Turn off chat, stop tilting, focus on minimap.

[sg-ezreal]

LitAF1 votes

I mean that helps but I wouldn't say thats the number one advice.

I think the best advice to give someone in silver is what OP said: Stick to 1 or 2 really comfortable picks for each respective role and you will climb. Also setting goals for yourself is great.

PhantomGG2 votes

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I mean that helps but I wouldn't say thats the number one advice.

I think the best advice to give someone in silver is what OP said: Stick to 1 or 2 really comfortable picks for each respective role and you will climb. Also setting goals for yourself is great.

honestly number one advice is tied between 1 and 3. People switching play styles every game really holds them back for they are learning at a slower pace from the constant switching, than people auto piloting every game also holds them back. For if your auto pilot is naturally silver/bronze level play, than u will never get out of your elo, you have to keep your brain turned on and push yourself to play like a gold play.

You get gold by pushing yourself into playing like a gold player, you stay in silver by auto piloting with little effort to fix your silver level mistakes. Same can be said from gold to plat and plat to diamond.

Ben Sharpio8 votes

the mute all tactic is complete BS and doesnt help people climb and wont help you get to gold. and the higher you climb people hate you for not talking/being a part of the game. Communication beyond pings is valuable in this game.

And i still dont understand how people cant climb in silver when you get a free series

Daunt4 votes

Communication with chat is overrated, the higher you go the less people actually care. Pings are really all you need. You can ping any valuable information instead of using chat. It's just that people don't want to isolate themselves from something someone else might have to say.

C9SenpaiSimba2 votes

i can name some reasons as a Silver player myself

people lost lane so thus the tilt so hard they say the game is over even though the team has more kills in both other lanes (very common)

people come in a game match already tilted or with negative attitude (common)

people see enemy Rammus first pick still go all AD team

a team mate bans an ally champ in select so they rage troll (worse of the excuses to troll imo)

GGLineaR4 votes

{quoted}

If you notice you are a really good Renekton player, turn yourself in to the police, you're an awful person

FTFY

Yara02 votes

The way the meta is Play adc or support no other lane matters unless you get fed as fuck and half the time that doesn't even matter this might be the the worst meta for solo climbing in the history of this game lol.

Jayce Top Lane2 votes

Lol, if you want real advice ill give you some.

  1. Become a one trick pony
  2. Harass hard, Farm Good.
  3. Roam and gank lanes when your wave is pushed. Invade enemy jungler and kill him.
  4. Camp enemy jungle, I get most of my kills off enemy junglers.
  5. Build right.
  6. Dont main top/jungle
Snowplosion1 votes

What I found works is picking a champ that is meta and you are comfortable at. You can't just be playing comfort or just meta or else you won't climb. You really need to focus on your own gameplay as well. Be very conscious of potential actions and consequences. Also ignore the chat so you don't tilt of the face of the earth.

Morendabanus1 votes

Best advice is to honestly just play a champion with dominant earlygames that scales well into late.

Tryndamere is the shining beacon of solo carry in a silver hell. Easy to get 60% 70% 80% winrates with him, even if you aren't a smurf.

He doesn't work so well in Gold since people there are good enough to react to an enemy splitpush, but your team is too bad to capitalize on your splitpush.

Bronze 6 Yasuo1 votes

Can you make an advice for bronze people who want to get to silver?

Thanks.

Salidfingers1 votes

Tips: Don't play skill shot champions.

Ward.

Roam/Gank

Don't Chase and take objectives.

Play Carry Champions

Be good at the game. Best to master a 1 trick and then learn how to win the game.

Octavia1 votes

dont worry its a privilege not having to own victorious graves i think rip

Peritheus1 votes

Oh boy, incoming smurfs rushing ranks near end of season, best do it before it's too late or on the final 3 days where you'll hopefully get carried after they demoralize solo q from playing since they always are free wins for them to play against so at the end it will be 1 low elo player in a game filled with both teams nothing but smurfs chilling as they casually help you get the rank you wanted within reach if you can prove your worth.

Ebolol1 votes

Or you can just play janna and soraka

Hèntaî 1 votes

Also if you are the most fed one on your team dont go split pushing all game. Had a fizz who was 60% of our damage and the only one that was able to dive the enemy adc split all game and blame us because the enemy team knew that without his burst they could stomp us in.

Another thing to add is dont get cocky and over confident. Keep a leveled head.

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