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Silver Player Who Knows They Are Bad - To Plat, Diamond and above players.

Shrapnel Shrap·10/29/2015, 10:23:48 AM·1 votes·860 views

Hi all, (TL;DR at the bottom. Sorry for the long post, I've been up for like 20 hours, I'm near the end of my 12 hour shift and a little emotional.)

I have a pathetic amount of games in ranked this year. While I'll like to blame others, there's only one thing I can do to ever make my situation better in ranked: improve MY game play. There will always be people in Wood/Wood v2.0 who won't want to listen.

So I have some observation and I was wondering if I could get some input on whether i'm right or wrong from higher elo players. (My personal life situation is about to improve. Better sleep schedule as I'll be moving to a day shift over a night shift, which better suites me).

  1. Play a champion you KNOW in ranked. "Mains" so-to speak. Have at least 2 mains per main role. (People, please don't play a champ you haven't played before. At least in Silver.)

  2. Have at least 3 roles you can play well in and one you can do decent in. Why 3? The 3 you want to focus MOST on. (personally, supporting is easy). Now you have your roles. Have a main champion and at least a back-up champion you play well. The fifth? Well I hear Diamond players say "Put me in adc and I'll loose the game faster than you could surrender."

  3. Focus on what you're doing wrong. If your team mates are messing up, be positive about it. "Hey, man. you messed up, but don't worry - we'll catch back up!"

When you know your downfalls, you can start working on them. How can you seriously judge others when you still have a lot to learn? I think that is where my mistake was. I knew I was "decent", but that's all I am. Decent for Silver, nothing better. I'm not going to become "good" if I keep bashing my head against the wall. Realize that in my years of playing this game, patience REALLY is the key. Play with better players to see what they do. You can't just watch videos and suddenly go into a ranked match. Maybe you can go into normals and build up your skills.

I.E. I had a match where Morgana was pooling minions and I was an ADC Cait, now I'd wish, (as a support main), she'd adhear to my trouble with farming when she's maxing her pool out on the minions. Her response? "I'm poking them, learn to farm with pool." Well form there on I just flamed hard and became nasty, but after two minutes of arguing, we muted each other. Guess what happened? Without us fighting each other, we fought the enemy bot lane, came back from being behind 20 cs to "winning" lane. I think that's the biggest issue - we're too busy fighting and blaming each others, without looking at ourselfs and fighting the enemy team. I sincerely apologize to everyone I've ever played with. If a Riot admin is on right now and checked my chat history, I am surprised I have yet to be banned.

MMR: if you know you are going to loose in lobby, like strait up troll... DODGE. Better to loose 3lp than 20+

TL;DR work on yourself, stop fighting team mates, get good with a few champions instead of trying to play everyone, communicate effectively and try to enjoy it instead of turning it into a nightmarish goal. You're not trying to beat the enemy teams to get to Gold, you're trying to beat your worse-playing self and work with team mates.

Yes, there will be trolls and absolutely terrible people, but elo hell doesn't exist. If others can do it,so can you. I had 5 people on my friends list that i met in a match go from silver 3-1, to high gold. If you are good, you'll win most of them.

6 Comments

Shrapnel Shrap10/29/2015, 10:28:22 AM1 votes

My LolKing for reference. I was so close to S1, but just tilted hard. http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/21458441

tonzillacrayon10/29/2015, 10:39:42 AM1 votes

for 1. yes and no. Play easy champions but don't play them if they dont seem to fit your playstyle. Dont play something like zed cuz you think you are comfortable cuz if you could play a champ like zed you wouldnt be low elo

  1. no, have atleast 2-3 champions you can play at each role. most champs have alot of roles they can play so it makes it easier to be on an easy comfort pick. lulu can go mid/top/sup kayle can go everywhere even adc if you really have to. stuff like that.

  2. yes and no, if you are dead or have nothing to do sure encouraging teammtes is okay but the part about you trying to improve is right which is why you shouldnt talk at all during the game to maximize efficiency.

my tldr: play easy champs, have easy champs for every role, work on the basics only like farming objectives ect, learn that ojb>farm>kills How to go from gold to diamond like i did

Timerºº10/29/2015, 11:45:19 AM1 votes

First you should at least know the basics of every role. After that you can see which one suits you better or which you play better and exploit that to win games. You don't have to play "Meta picks" or build like everyone else, it's about experimenting with playstyle and matchups. You can't always plan your game before it even starts (kill raptors, tp to lane, first blood at 3min), you need to respond quickly and effectively to everything you encounter on the play. I've seen people carry games with champions you would never expect anything from, because they did the right thing when they needed to. So just experiment both in ranked and normal, with different builds and champions and find your center. P.S. If all else fails, play Pantheon...

jaymc113010/29/2015, 11:46:59 AM1 votes

You're on the right path. Practice. Always find ways to improve. Critically analyze every match you play after you finish it. As far as the focus on 3 roles and only play main champs, I'll say this: specialize even more, find one champ in one role you just click with and play that as often as possible, beg, plead, bribe, whatever, but the most common and successful means of ranking up is still to one trick pony.

The biggest difference between low level play and high level play isn't mechanics. It's game sense, game knowledge, and mentality. I'm a shit player mechanically and I do fine in diamond because I understand the game at a very deep level. I get by on pure shot calling, warding, and team organizational skills. Work on understanding the game inside and out and you can climb a whole lot faster than you would believe with shit mechanics. Understanding why to do this versus that, when to be where, what objectives to prioritize, and how to gain or apply an advantage all lead to improved leadership and teamwork, and guess which team usually wins most often? The most coordinated one.