I belong in bronze, but . . .

Silencega·Mar 25, 2016·2 votes·774 views

I very dearly want to not belong here. I'm very aware that io am a shoddy player with much to learn, and while I originally blamed it on bad ADCs//teammates(I usually sup) I figure after the 5th consecutive loss I might be trash. If you could look at my games and give me some advice or spectate me in game that would be useful as well. For now however I'm going to play normals until I get your feedback and put i t into practice.

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15 Comments

disregardableMar 25, 20161 votes

Only advice I could give is don't play support. Otherwise we'll need some support mains up in here.

SilencegaMar 25, 20161 votes

I would but I feel my mechanics in other roles are phenomenally subpar. Support just seems like a role that requires a different type of mechanics, that are also easier to acheive. If I could get some support mains who made the climb in this thread that would be awesome

Babo MigugMar 25, 20161 votes

If you think supports the "well i can be bad but if im slightly smarter ill win" playstyle then you are very wrong. The support mains that climb play blitz/soraka/janna Or they are actually mechanically good and smart and can play things like thresh but thats a very few amount of players.

SilencegaMar 25, 20161 votes

not quite, i was thinking that i could make up for my mechanics by having good ward placement and saving more important team-mates (carries). it takes far fewer mechanics to press w on soraka, than it does to orbwalk.

SkorpioMar 26, 20161 votes

I think you're right. Supports don't take less mechanics, just different mechanics.

Babo MigugMar 25, 20161 votes

You do belong in bronze. You also play a non carry role. I realize the game is hell with dynamic que but it didnt stop me from skipping divisions constantly and stomping everyone.

If you want to really practice just have 2 main champions for the roles you play and have them be easy/learning champions. You play mid play annie/malphite. you play support play taric and soraka, you play top play malphite and garen, you play jungle play yi/malphite. you play adc uninstall jkjk play lucian/jinx/mf and work on the verrrrry basics of the game like farming,playing smart,warding, foresight, ect and work on your own play and you will 100% climb and get better.

YianiyMar 25, 20161 votes

I am by no means a pro, but listen close. Let. Me. Tell. You. Something. If you like playing support, and you feel like you are impactful in your games, PLAY BLITZCRANK. THIS CHAMPION is godlike in bronze because little people actually side step. Now if you have a hard time will skillshots, I would recommend that you play champions that are pretty braindead, like Garen or Rammus .

SilencegaMar 25, 20161 votes

i used to miss skillshots frequently and then i stopped playing janna but on a more serious note, i haven't really considered playing top, but looking at the champs who play the lane again, it might be an easy role, that will let me carry my game at least slightly more than support

SkorpioMar 26, 20161 votes

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i used to miss skillshots frequently and then i stopped playing janna but on a more serious note, i haven't really considered playing top, but looking at the champs who play the lane again, it might be an easy role, that will let me carry my game at least slightly more than support

Make sure if you do play top, or mid for that matter, that you spread the wealth. What I mean by this is: don't just sit on your lead and punish your lane opponent. You need to ward, try to roam whenever you can and even invade their jungle. If you're beating your opponent and your jungler is top ping to go into their jungle. You and your jungler may pick up a kill, take their buff, or just get wards down for the next time he is in his jungle. This helps spread your lead to the rest of your team. This is why I picked up Quinn, her roaming is really second to maybe TF, but more constant.

SilencegaMar 26, 20161 votes

Would it be useful to do this even if I wasn't fully ahead? Like my Lane opponent is equal but just backed and I had pushed Lane, should I go not to help a struggling ADC get some extra kill gold? Or would that just get me overly punished?

SkorpioMar 26, 20161 votes

Yes, especially if you're Quinn. If your opponent either a) didn't take TP, or b) theirs is down: You back, use your flight to take yourself to mid or bot and gank (like a second jungler). You can usually help pick up kills, get a dragon and/or a tower. NOW is your next decision. Did your lane opponent use their TP (if they backed) to come bot to help fight. If they did and depending on how the fight goes you finish taking objectives then fly back top or you can tp back top since you used your flight to get to lane. If your mid is pushed in you can fly mid and it's basically the same idea. Quinn is also the type of champion where if you don't need the AP, Quinn does fairly well in mid as well. Same thought applies, from mid you can fly top and bot very quickly.

Haunted ChefMar 25, 20161 votes

just push down a solo lane with a zz'rot portal while the other 9 bronze players waste time chasing kills during the 10-minute deathmatch that happens in all low elo games.

kda doesn't mean a thing if you're not getting objectives.

seasonedfoxMar 26, 20161 votes

think of it this way you and your team in low elo is hell if you watch carefully you can see your team mates start to feed and ping for help and die and restart the process and do unforgivable stuff in bronze to say the least you have to carry the team without going on tilt if you lose 3 take a break dont play blame games or go into harassment if you do sent it to the enemy so that they may go on tilt and not you and your team?[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

theDeblinMar 26, 20161 votes

I'd actually go the opposite way of the Blitzcrank guy and recommend taking a LESS specialized support, so that you can get practice with a few different mechanics at once.

Morgana's a good one: you have a line shot, a dot mechanic, an AE denial mechanic, and a countdown ult that you need to prioritize your items to use effectively. Plus, despite all that, she's easy enough to use that you'll probably to all right even before you're actually good with her. And if worse comes to worst you can use her to carry when all else fails.

If you really want to go specialist I'd also recommend Soraka over Blitz, you can damned near ignore the enemies and just focus on your team so it's the single easiest support in the game at the moment.

None of these are the "best" supports (including the ones other people recommend), but the actual best supports require an ADC that's either on the same page as you or in voice chat to pull off their really great combinations (e.g. Leona's infinite stun of doom) so it's best to get used to less friend-dependent ones first while training.

SilencegaMar 26, 20161 votes

I've tried using Janna, which I made fun of in a previous post, but I must say that in bronze people rarely know what to do with a helpless cced ADC, and just let them fall back down without so much as an auto. And while soraka is nice, she can't carry, no matter how many times I global heal or silence if my team can't execute I'm stuck landing qs left and right. This has led me to the bad habit of maxing q BTW, as I don't trust my ADC to stay alive anymore with or without my help. How do I negate this feeling?