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Help with climbing out of Low-Elo

Bent Pixels·2/5/2019, 3:16:17 AM·1 votes·1,178 views

I ended my first season (S8) at silver 3 and then got to silver 2 in the preseason. My goal this year is to get to Platinum or at least Gold as a midlaner, because I feel like I can play at that level. However, I cannot seem to climb right now. after my placements for this season I got Bronze 2 and was able to get to Silver 4 within a week, but Im kinda stuck now.

I ward a lot (always 1 or 2 pink wards whenever I back), I look at the map constantly, I try to help in fights whenever I can, I am decent with wave management (freezing, shoving then roaming, etc.), and I make the smartest plays that I can, such as engages, buff plays, etc. but I just dont know what's holding me back from gaining LP (this is about the time where I say my team ints, and maybe sometimes that's the case, but I know that I can definitely work on at least one thing).

I mainly play Ekko, Zoe, Katarina, and Yasuo in the midlane (in that order) and I have hard carried in the past, but I just cant seem to anymore.

Can anyone help me out?

Many thanks!

9 Comments

TL Carnage2/5/2019, 3:48:16 AM2 votes

Ok I few quick tips that will help imo

  1. Get a duo probably a jungler or adc as both roles are extremely impactful jungle is better for early-mid game impact adc better for mid-late pick someone whos play style compliments your own.
  2. /muteall at the start of everygame iron-gold is a toxic cesspool of bullshit and won't say anything productive 99% of the time any way.
  3. Abuse pings! Mid lane missing? Ping! Someone walk through one of your wards? Ping! Notice the enemy blue buff just respawned and think the jungler is either on that side of the map? Ping!
  4. OBJECTIVES OBJECTIVES OBJECTIVES. here's a list of priorties in order
  5. Turret plating and turrets: turret plating gold is absolutely absurd giving 160 gold divided evenly among all players whom helped killed the plate if you finish a tower pre 10 minutes and it's first tower you get over 1000 gold! Further more having towers down allows you to push deeper and thus cause pressure to more easily take more objectives.
  6. Rift herald. This objective is absolutely ridiculous if used properly you can take out and entire lanes objectives including inhib. Not to mention the team that secures rift herald wins 85% of the time I would put this objective as #1 but it doesn't Spawn until plating falls so yeah plating first herald second.
  7. Dragons getting 100 global gold and a global bufis very nice but you have all game to take dragons but can only take plates pre 10 and herald 10-20.
  8. Baron, baron can absolutely win the game with its buff and global 300 gold but it doesn't spawn until 20 so get all that other shit first until baron spawns.
  9. Lastly inhibs: everyone knows inhibs are critical to winning the game but getting all of the shit above makes getting them a breeze.
  10. Don't back immediately after every kill especially if your relatively healthy push your lead even further kill some minions and if possible take some objectives before backing.
  11. Enter the game with a positive mindset, and decompress to relax your nerves. Take a walk around the house grab a glass of water stretch or meditate I recommend doing at least one or 2 of these before every game but especially after a tough lost that may tilt you it may sound cheesy but studies have shown gamers that practice this see about a 33% increase in focus and performance.
    I hope these tips help and I wish you the best of luck!
øHaruø2/5/2019, 3:30:59 AM1 votes

I was a 12/4 or something Udyr jungle in my ranked. Bronze 3/2. We lost, I was the team. If I died, the game was lost, sadly I was also the engage, the peel and the damage

Support Evelynn2/5/2019, 3:34:26 AM1 votes

Your CS seems incredibly underwhelming even with long games. This tells me you probably ARAM with your team past the 15 min mark and stop farming. You should really learn to manage side waves and keep scaling throughout a game.

TL Carnage2/5/2019, 4:08:41 AM1 votes

Oh yeah and not dieing is way more important then getting kills especially if you have a bounty on your head. Get kills when you can safely but do your best to not die giving the enemy 1000 gold can shift the momentum dramatically.

Koiyaki2/5/2019, 4:44:41 AM1 votes

Feel free to add me on league, i could couch u a little if u want :3