A Bronze Player's Thoughts and Request for Help
This post is being written to ask for advice for players who are a higher elo. I want to improve, but seem to be stuck in Bronze.
I started playing League of Legends in December 2014. I have played for little over a year now, and I love learning more about the game each and every match. I main Bottom lane.(ADC) I spend my spare time between classes or after doing homework practicing, looking up guides on how to improve my mechanics, itemization, positioning, and general play style. I do the aforementioned for other roles too, but my overall goal is to specialize as an ADC. My first ranked season last year, I was placed in Bronze II. I made it to Bronze I and got stuck. I was stuck in this vortex or inexperience, bad runes, and many other flaws. I reflected on this and took a break from ranked. I played as many normal matches as my time would permit. I spent a lot of time trying to improve myself for this season.
This season I was placed in Bronze IV. From last season I bought more rune pages, learned more about every champion, and have improved a considerable amount. I was filled with inspiration to get out of Bronze. I fought and got to Bronze I. Once again I am stuck. I sincerely believe Bronze I is the most toxic place to be at my elo. I had AD Maokai, AP Jarvan, Master Yi, Zed, Ezreal, and people wanting to do “Duo ADC.” Do not get me wrong, I still have a lot more to learn, but I took the time to improve. When I play roles besides my main, I still do well consistently. I am always there for my team and trying to improve myself while winning. I feel as though others do not feel the same way in this elo. I trust the aforementioned supports, as I know there are many ways to play the game. I try to be supportive and constructively critical when the team doesn't do well or makes obvious errors. I know that I need to focus on myself, and I try to, but when we ace the enemy team, we should push lanes, get dragon, or get baron. Instead when I make these suggestions, I get this backlash of hatred or general confusion. Let me give you a few examples of my games in ranked in Bronze I. I want to get better and rise through the ranks, but how? Bronze is a cesspit. No matter how much I improve, I cannot solo carry. I take breaks when on tilt, inspire teammates when they are on tilt, read about my champions/roles/itemization/, watch professionals play to see how they play, and many other things to get better. My point is that I am trying, but I feel though people (especially in Bronze I) don’t. I don't know what to do. Here are some examples for those of you who forgot what Bronze is.
Example 1: In champ select I was assigned support. I asked the AD carry what he/she wanted to play so I could plan my support around them and the team. No response. I am first pick, so I decide to pick Sona. She has decent early game poke, decent sustain, good engage at 6, decent gap closer/escape. No one says a word about making a team that works off of each other despite my attempts to get us to communicate. “Oh Well” I think to myself, we will do our best and come through this victorious! The enemy AD carry never connected. So we are at a 5v4 advantage. What a great advantage! They had a tanky team, so mention that we should build tank buster items to solidify our advantage. I get laughed at and ignored. I press on, ignore the negativity and observe that our top and mid lane are losing. Our Lee Sin is being outjungled by Fiddlesticks, so I decide to rotate and help out our jungler/laners. Instead of making plays or using the engages I set up, they focus on typing insults to our top laner who was having a very very bad game. I try to dispel the negativity, but get ignored.
End result? We lost. How? How can I do better to escape Bronze I? I know that I cant win them all and that these people exist in all elos. On to the next example.
Example 2: I was the 5th person in a 4 person premade team. I am AD carry, and my support locks in Ezreal. I know this isn't the best choice for their team comp, but I don't want to start conflict in champ select, so I pick Caitlyn. I figure we can poke their kill lane on bot. Ezreal gets hooked by Thresh 5 times and killed. I do everything that I can to try and save him. I warn him, type to him to be careful, and use my heal to no avail. The jungler decides to rank after we die or when we are low consistently so he dies. End result is that bot gets fed, so team fights are awful. I still help out, and manage to get 9 kills and save my team numerous times from getting caught out during disengages. During a teamfight, they chase to the ENEMY base when we have no inhibitors. I am stuck in base trying to defend our turret-less Nexus from waves and waves of super minions. I immediately get flamed for not being there in that particular team fight. We lose, and I get blamed.
I am lost on how to proceed to escape Bronze. I really want to improve and I actively try to, but I am not seeing any results, I believe this is because I am getting matched with people that don't believe in improving the same way I do.
