I've been losing match after match after match because people are picking into counters on purpose saying that they can carry and than turn around and feed. I've already been demoted and they say that I'm to blame. Any tips on this? I'm really wanted to get to gold but I'm only going further and further down into silver 5 now.
what if you have wrong and everyone else right
There is little you can do about your teammates gameplay, if you try and help someone that is getting destroyed in lane, they usually perceive advice as an insult and start "trolling" (even though they kinda already are). You just need to focus on your game play.
**Mute everyone **by using the "/mute all" command, as this will help with your personal gameplay. You are not a God and at some point you will have a very shitty game, it's happened to me on my favorite champ and it was not a fun experience. People asked me "Did you buy that account?" and "70% win ratio ain't shiiit XD". You will just want to avoid this at all costs. This will also work if you're not the one having a bad game, maybe your Riven is going 0-3 and blaming your jungler about "0 ganks top for me and 12 for the enemy garen". This type of thing I felt lowered my personal gameplay as I felt I needed to step up my own game to counter the team negativity, but just resulted in me failing.
Play current meta champs a few times. This will help you counter them in lane and in team-fights. I personally don't play top that often but I bought Irelia and went top a few times because she was spammed in this tank meta. I didn't know this until now, but her W does True Damage which makes sense as why people play her a lot. Maybe you don't have enough IP for Irelia, get Nunu then, he is super good and you can go into a custom game to figure out how people Solo drag at 4:00 minutes in (hint: put 2 points in consume).
Play at least each role once to understand what they are doing at this point. This is especially important when it comes to the jungle role because they can save a losing lane with 1 gank. Play a few different "free rotation" jungle champs in a custom lobby with your friend (for the leash) to understand where Rek'sai is at this point or when Nunu will try that 4:00 drag. Leave the game and repeat with different scenarios to help YOU get better.
Deny Gold from your lane opponent when he backs or when he is at a disadvantage or when they roam. If you are winning trades, you need to freeze the lane; One, because he can no longer fight you and you can now keep him off minions. Two, he will most likely be yelling at his jungler for a gank right now because he didn't give him blue and it's his fault for losing lane. If you freeze the lane, he can't gank you, and will cause that Ziggs to AFK because of "useless jg GG". You already won the game :).
WARD the map and objectives, yes, you hear this a lot but I mean, set a point on the clock to where you will upgrade your trinket into a Great Stealth Totem to help your team with vision. This is crucial weather you are behind or winning.
Play hyper carry champions when possible, this doesn't mean you go buy Yasuo and play him in your next ranked game. You need to go buy a Hyper carry champ like Katarina, Vayne, Jinx, Kha'Zix and learn them. Despite popular belief, Katarina IS EASY to learn HARD to master, so don't buy her because people think you need 1 brain cell to play her. When I say learn them, play them into counter picks when you play Custom games, 1v1 your friends, and play in ranked when you are NOT going into a counter pick.
Play ARAM this will take a lot of stress off your chest and make you a much happier person. I always found myself getting super stressed in ranked games because I didn't want to get demoted. Playing some ARAM made me relax when I was tilting and gave me some laughs.
These are just a few things can will help you and not all of these things are 100% needed to rank up. I didn't learn most of these tips until I myself was Gold and I got there playing a lot of Katarina.
Everything Jaytak said is wrong. It's Solo Q. People are fucking stupid and that will never change until Riot does something about their match making. One person cannot carry 4 retards against a team of 5 playing decently. My suggestion, give up hope, assume you'll lose every game, and when you win it'll be a nice surprise.
In low elo, playing a champion you're comfortable with is much more important than picking based on your team's composition or picking based on your lane opponent. It wouldn't make sense to pick an unfamiliar champion just to counter Cho'Gath because you would have to know that specific matchup in order to take advantage of the counter. So if you're telling people that they should counterpick, you're not necessarily helping the team.
You will get to Gold really easily if you focus on your own gameplay. If you're consistently doing well every game, then you will win more games than you lose. That's all it takes.
