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Tips for a B5 Tryhard :P

Warm Hands··2 votes·809 views

Wow. I suck so much in ranked games. I don't understand why, as I used to constantly practice through custom games (how to cs) and normals (how to aim, teamwork). Sadly everytime I play ranked, the opposite happens. I fail my cs, miss lots and have terrible teamwork with others. Even if I do well, my teammates end up failing. I don't even blame them. I am unable to make my team work together, thus I am stuck in Bronze 5. Any advice to help me get better at this game is welcome lol. PS. Trolls are accepted but not all of you pls

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Meatybag2 votes

Pick the good champions.

Top: LeeSin

Mid: LeeSin

Bot: LeeSin

Jun: LeeSin

IF none of those are available, you should pick Vi instead.

Picking any one of these champions will make you better. Making you better in turn makes your team better. Making your team better increases the chances of your team destroying the other teams nexus. Destroying the other teams nexus usually is a pretty good indicator of winning a game, so I would try doing that more often.

Cerbearus1 votes

Well that does work for some people, but I fin just playing the "strong champions" to be stupid. They are almost always picked or banned so what is the likelyhood of getting them? I would rather play rarely seen champs (I play Fiora, Karthus and Corki).

Meatybag2 votes

I literally went from bronze 3 to silver 5 by doing nothing but playing LeeSin . Sometimes I jungled, sometimes I went mid, and sometimes I was support or top lane even. The constant was that I just smashed my lane because LeeSin says so. Anyone who thought otherwise was kicked in the face.

Normals are the place for playing oddball champions. Ranked is where winning is first and having fun is pretty much tied into winning but is secondary to it as far as I care. The whole point of playing ranked is to literally be able to say that I am better than you. So why not take Patches O'Houlihan's advice and take the bigger, stronger champions for your team?

FeedingLikeJesus1 votes

Can't pick/ban all of them. 100 champs, 30ish god-tier. Just go from there

CaptainWednesday2 votes

Trying playing support/jungle as a main if you have trouble cs-ing. I realize this may sound disheartening but many pros recommend starting here. Supporting will teach you landing skillshots, warding (where and when), cooperation, engaging/defending against one, timing, etc. The real basics besides cs-ing. Jungle will make your map awareness shoot through the roof. Warding, sweeping, scouting, taxing, counter-jungling, the art of the gank (because it is an art form), more cooperation, securing objectives (buffs, Dragon, B'ron, towers, etc.) throughout the game, and being the general play caller of your team is what jungling does for you. Also, focus on playing around 5 champions per role. Master each of them. The good folks below are not wrong when they recommend Lee Sin LeeSin . He (and Vi Vi ) is are really good champions right now. Best of luck to you, fellow Summoner.

AbiwonKenabi2 votes

I can speak to this. I main support and jungle because I used to suck at CSing so much. After a long while of playing mostly support, I was able to brush up on my CS skills and became much better at ADC and Mid (I still suck at top, but that's a different story...) It sounds like you are practicing your mechanics, and that's great! Continue to do this in normals, but play what's most comfortable for you in Ranked. Yes, some picks are better than others, but if you pick Lee Sin and suck with him, that's worse than a very skilled Nautilus. So sure, if you wanna play Lee (or whoever) by all means, do so, just practice and be sure you are knowledgeable about the champion.

You have no idea how valuable good mechanics are. Try to be patient with the idiots (they're stupid, but yelling won't help) and remember to pay attention to the map--enemy location can give you so many advantages, including Baron control, safe pushing, etc. Always take advantage when your opponent has 4 top and you are bot, and be sure to use pings and such to make sure your allies are on the same page.

TL;DR Don't overload yourself; just continue to practice mechanics and pick comfort picks.

Cerbearus1 votes

I would say one of your issues is you play too many champions. You should practice a few champions, maybe 2 for each role. Practice cs with those few champs, as it is different with each champ. If you are having trouble still, take the offensive mastery that gives makes you do 2 extra damage to minions/monsters, or take some AD on your runepage, even if you are a mage.

I have never been below silver 3 so I only have general tips and can't say anything pertaining to Bronze.

DuskTheViking1 votes

im making some youtube video to help players learn the game a bit. buts i only have 2 done and its slow moving.

My suggestion for now, playing with training wheel. Get some flat ad runes or mastertys to help you last hit, practice last hitting alone in a custom, also realize that you dont really need to interact with your lane opponent unless they are supper aggressive. Just cs

team fights, a lot of bronze players have no idea how to position or fight. try your best to do damage and get out alive. the less YOU die the more gold you deny the enemy team

mute team mates that try to talk crap.. like they have any clue in bronze anyway. Stay focused on getting gold and objectives. However, dont forget to be a team player in the mean time.

Always try to figure out what you could have done better, even in the games that are unwinnable... some of them wont be winnable.

if you go on tilt you will play MUCH worse with out realizing it, have something calming like music available

Nicarasu1 votes

Make sure to let me know, anything good you find out, stuck in Bronze 4 here.

FeedingLikeJesus1 votes

Pick one single role. Branch out only a little bit. I put myself from B5 to G5 playing nothing but Sivir or Jinx. I spread out and occasionally play as a jungler or support if no one else on the team is willing to. Put me anywhere other than Jungle or Bot Lane? I will feed so hard that even Ethiopia might have a chance at moving out of third-world status.

I started out as a jungler because it taught me everything everyone has stated above me, I cannot reinstate the importance of map awareness, especially in Bronze, it beats out almost every other mechanic in the game. Got a good CS and KD/R? Great! Look out for that Lee and Vayne bearing down on you. Oh look, there's the nexus.

Karthus, Fiora, and Corki are all rarely played for a reason: They just don't match up with what a team needs in this meta. Karthus is cute, but he needs too much gold to get ahead, and midlane sees far too many assassins that can burst Karthus and get out before his Wall can take effect, which is brutal. Fiora brings nothing to a teamfight, except randomized burst. She can't focus properly if there's 3 people together, while yes, she was voted most likely to get a penta after snowballing, its a team game. Get some hard CC as a top-laner or a jungle. Corki... Just lol. Lucian, Vayne, Jinx, and heck, even Ashe walk circles around him, he just can't put out the damage he used to with the same items as almost every other ADC. The meta exists for a reason, and you gotta be Faker level to break it. Which, lets be honest. That's one in a million, and regular Joes like you or me aren't it.

The second most vitally important thing is to never be negative. If you're doing poorly, don't blame anyone else. You did poorly. Own it. You can't learn if you don't realize it. If someone else starts flipping shit on you? Ignore them, don't fan any flames, they just want to be salty, let them be mad at a wall. Communication goes under this. If you don't have anything nice to say, just don't say it at all.

That's just what I've noticed, at least.

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