Stuck in Bronze. How do I improve?

The Verminator·Feb 6, 2017·1 votes·3,157 views

Let's face it, I'm not too good at LoL. I got placed Bronze 3. I play mid lane and in normals I usually win and often carry the team.

However, when I play ranked, even in my main role with my main champ, I seem to either stalemate the lane and neither of us die, and we lose due to a different lane, or lose lane myself.

I went 1/9 in my placements and lost the next ranked game I played too.

My question is, should I keep playing ranked now, (will I improve more?) or should I just play loads of normals and keep winning. I am challenged in ranked, but I hate to know I WILL be in Bronze V if I keep playing this way.

15 Comments

Le HimFeb 6, 20172 votes

GL. Bronze is just a trial and error basically. To many noobs to try to weave through for gold. Silver is basically like bronze, just a little less feeders.
You will always have your horrible trolls that just like to ruin other players elos for their amusement though.

Built to TyltFeb 6, 20171 votes

It's true. Bronze is terrible. Many, many people in Bronze really shouldn't be in ranked. Not throwing shade on them, just simply stating. They're not there to win or do well or be a team. Most players are there to fuck around and don't care. Then there are those who are serious and are trying to advance, but usually have clueless people (somehow placed higher) on their team they have to carry.

Curious KatFeb 6, 20172 votes

Play braindead tanks like Sej and Naut and Trundle, can't lose then. Literally impossible when you have 5k hp and can turret dive, miss everything and still win the encounter.

The VerminatorFeb 6, 20171 votes

How about Gragas?

463Feb 6, 20171 votes

Try swapping champions.

Something more linear and less mechanically demanding for an inexperienced player like yourself.

Your Ahri doesn't seem to be working well for you, especially against Bronze players it shouldn't be too difficult to play any champion if you were actually worthy of anything higher.

Ahri isn't a good fit for the moment, maybe later on, but right now if you want to climb.. Something more simple, but still able to carry.

If your main concern is climbing, this is what you should steer towards.

If your main concern is improving with a certain champion, then obviously play whomever it is you're trying to learn.

The VerminatorFeb 6, 20171 votes

Who would you recommend to pick up? LeBlanc?

nardysackFeb 6, 20171 votes

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Who would you recommend to pick up? LeBlanc?

No offense, but LB is probably a bit too hard for you if you are hard stuck bronze. Like RageSenpai said, I would recommend playing braindead tanks. My experience in bronze was that Darius and Illaoi where always the strongest champions, but I don't know if that has changed.

Although, If you do like playing mid, a pretty good and easy champ right now is Corki. Farm until you get your package, then gank bot with it, get 1 or 2 kills, and then snowball the game.

The VerminatorFeb 6, 20171 votes

Do you have any other reccomendations? Annie?

463Feb 7, 20171 votes

Tbh I think Fizz and Akali are ok. But these are melee mids, so a little hard to play VS ranged.

Not sure how hard Kat is, she has a lot of combos, but not sure if you have to utilize everything to destroy Bronze - Gold.

Swain is pretty good. Only 1 skill shot and a half if you count the crow.

Also if you're miles ahead in gold ( like 7-0 or just 1 shotting 4/5 enemy characters )

You can go into GA and it would make it that much more harder to get you shut down.

Faint HopeFeb 6, 20171 votes

Git gud.

On a serious note, do whichever you prefer. Bronze is technically a place for either totally unexperienced or those simply not playing enough. Once you get around 50% winrate, you should get silver without effort. Plus, practice makes master. I started season 3 in bronze 4, got to high silver... Playing mid pre-rework karma. And i sucked quite a bit back then.

F0XFIREFeb 6, 20171 votes

As a fellow Bronzer stuck in the situation, just keep playing ranked and blow off steam in Norms.

Other than "get gud" and other very good advice that this community can give you I think you (and myself too) should try finding players that you play well with and duo que with them or something. When i do play with others it helps to have someone to give you feedback after/during the game and can also rage with you when you were actually playing super good and the rest of your team were whiny egotists.

BreakuFeb 6, 20171 votes

I did a quick look at your OP.GG profile.

You're K/D/A in ranked is 5.4 / 7.3 / 6.9. Impossible to climb with those stats. Need a minimum of 1/1/2 ratio to climb **consistently **in my opinion. So, you should work on dying much less.
Your CS per minute is absolutely horrible. You only have one match above 4 cs per minute, with most of your matches below 3cs/min. There are an average of 10 cs available per minute. You're not even getting half of the free gold given to you.

For example, your last victory as Ahri, you only got 105 CS in a 40 minute game. You should be aiming for 100CS at the 15 minute mark at a minimum.

Vision. You only purchased one ward in your last 11 ranked games combined. Additionally, you've never upgraded your trinket nor do you use your yellow trinket effectively. Your average wards placed per game is only around 9. Considering you may place on average one ward per two minutes, you're using half of your available yellow trinket wards.

Those are the three easiest things for you to work on. Hope that helps!

The VerminatorFeb 8, 20171 votes

Dude you're a legend, thanks so much man, I'll focus on this. Also, do you reccomend still playing ahri or switching to someone more simple (do you have an example?)

BreakuFeb 9, 20171 votes

Champion selection really doesn't matter at lower ELOs so long as it doesn't screw your team composition. (Try not to pick a burst mage mid when you have a burst ADC and the enemy team is tank heavy, for example)

If you don't think your meta-game knowledge is strong enough just yet, an easier champion can help you learn the basics since setting up your plays won't require so much brainpower going into mechanics. Someone like Annie over Ahri has a lot less technical skill involved while still having the same general goals in lane (and she even has a built in last-hit assist in her Q).

RiskyWiskyFeb 9, 20171 votes

I recommend you pick Heimedinger for ez lane domination or play talon to abuse the lethality for ez elo. If you plan to improve with ahri, i recommend you roam sometimes to botlane for ez money cuz adc 2k17 he he.