Bronze elo

MedicalMisfit·May 7, 2017·3 votes·787 views

I would just like to say I think it is impossible to climb out of bronze if you are a silver player at best. I can see the smurf people who can do it, who play at higher elos and can just carry games. But when you are a high silver at best player the bronze elo is impossible as far as I am concerned. The afks, inting, d/c, flaming, toxicity and etc make it impossible. High elo players climb out of this as they can carry an entire team, for those who are only slightly better how do you get out of this? Honestly its getting old. Last 3 games are a d/c right away, flamer who inted entire game, and an afk. I suffer 3 losses, cant carry a 4on5 as I am not a plat smurfer and I am suppose to suffer for this? Is there anyway out? Or is this the downside to an unregulated game at this level? Just taking the fun out of the game lately.

22 Comments

JamareeMay 7, 20172 votes

Then get better and carry then.

MedicalMisfitMay 7, 20171 votes

How do you get better when you cant get good practice in games? Can you provide maybe more details? Not sure how to get better when people refuse to group, run solo lanes, go b after team fights instead of taking tower. Can you maybe be more specific?

meowwow7May 7, 20172 votes

you can practice csing since what i've seen on that history is your lack of farm and maybe place more wards around the map too

MedicalMisfitMay 7, 20171 votes

I try to roam as much as possible to help other lanes. I thought its what mid laners need to do. Ill just sit lane I guess and farm and see how it goes. thanks

meowwow7May 7, 20171 votes

wait if you are mainly focusing on roaming you might want to get a item 3341 and some item 2055 then because most likely they would have a ward placed in one or yet both of those brush in bot/top lane

JamareeMay 7, 20172 votes

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How do you get better when you cant get good practice in games? Can you provide maybe more details? Not sure how to get better when people refuse to group, run solo lanes, go b after team fights instead of taking tower. Can you maybe be more specific?

Use the practice tool, and/or play a LOT of normals. That is what I did. I didn't play ranked until I had 2.5 k games under my belt. After a while, you will naturally get better, one trick for a bit, it will help you work on your mechanics, from your last hitting, to reading the map, tp times, etc. The best thing about being in bronze as well is when you one trick, countering won't matter as much since everyone down there is bad. Just play (not ranked) and you will notice yourself getting better day by day.

MedicalMisfitMay 7, 20171 votes

I use to do that but those games are so trash with people playing champs in roles not meant to be. It was an absolute circus with no one trying. I felt I wasn't getting good practice, hence why I just stick to ranked as people at least sometimes try. Ill do that though, thx.

fumiefanMay 7, 20172 votes

You can't even use the practice tool if your an ADC in low elo. ADC's in Low Elo have to deal with supports fighting them for every CS. My supports hit more minions than I do.

OnlyYouCanHearMeMay 7, 20172 votes

I know it seems very frustrating, but if you are meant to be in a higher ranked tier, you will climb. It may take longer to climb, depending on your personal play style, but the ranked system is very good at shifting people to where they belong.

It's an incredible run of bad luck to have two 4v5 matches and an intentional feeder, but the good news is that these behaviors are being punished more strictly now. LeaverBuster and Low Priority Queue have both been active for a while now, with up to 20 minute waits prior to even joining a queue for repeated leaving/afking in matches. And Riot has definitely stepped up the punishments for intentional feeding. Players have been begging for harsher punishments for anyone who does this, and we've seen many threads come through the boards in the past week or so where players are being issued 14 day bans for this. So hopefully, this sort of thing will become less prevalent in your matches, and allow you to focus on your gameplay, and simply enjoying playing.

MedicalMisfitMay 7, 20171 votes

Thank you for the hope. Ya, I really enjoy this game. I wish I had more time outside my studying to find a duo partner and take it serious but the few times I can play it just seems to always be a circus. Glad to know people are finally get punished. Maybe that will help filter out the toxic in games. what bugs me the most is my favorite roll to play is top lane tank, but those games were even worse since tanks rely on good team play, which is not bronze. Oh well, thx for the update

OnlyYouCanHearMeMay 7, 20171 votes

There's quite a few tanks that can solo carry, especially if you can focus on farming up and becoming unkillable. But, that doesn't necessarily happen in every match. It will help if you pick one or two champions that you really like, and focus on them. Learn them inside and out, learn all their matchups, their strengths, their weaknesses. It's been proven many times that it's actually easier to climb by focusing on mastering a smaller pool of champions, than by trying to be decent at all champions.

And you are definitely on the right track in looking for good interaction with your team. One thing that might help, is if you start trying to focus on looking for teleport plays. It's very common in lower elos for players to take teleport pretty much to only get back to lane, or when another lane is about to die and they decide to waste TP by trying to save a turret that is being bombarded by two full minion waves and is already at one-quarter hp. Instead, try to start looking for ways to set up TP plays. Train yourself to know when is the best time as far as wave management, cooldowns on your abilities and your allies, summoner spells, check for dragon spawns, are you going to lose your turret if you TP? What items do your allies have versus the enemies? Is there a deep ward that you can TP to? Do the enemies have wards?

If you're not familiar with him, I would highly recommend watching BoxBox. He's very good at his timing on when to teleport, if he's playing top lane, or when to roam, if he's playing mid lane.

VizulixMay 7, 20172 votes

Tip #1. STOP

Stop giving that big of a fuck about the game. You've gotten to Silver 3 in flex you've proven you can play at a silver level so stop giving that big of a fuck. Also stop playing ranked for a bit.

Tip #2. ABANDON

Abandon your champions that are difficult to carry with. So say goodbye to Cho Gath and Poppy. Find a carry champion that fits into your play style and start one tricking them. Try to find someone that isn't banned frequently. You can hop into the occasional ranked match but don't start grinding until you're at least level 5 with the new champion.

Tip #3. DESTROY.

Watch as the matches become easily carriable and see the shining ray of hope among he bronze. Just keep playing that champion.

I gave up on playing Nasus and Shen my two favourite champions and picked up Veigar. I started one tricking him and now I've begun developing the ability to carry every match with him (13 game winstreak Woooooo)

MedicalMisfitMay 7, 20171 votes

Chogath and Poppy are so fun to play, but ya I cant do anything to carry with them. I will start playing all the champs a bit to find one I actually enjoy that has carry potential. Glad things worked out for you with Veig, hope the climb continues to go well

VizulixMay 7, 20171 votes

Try and find your own play style then go from there. Also make sure the champion you find you won't get sick of easily.

MUSHROOM MIDGETMay 7, 20172 votes

i climbed from bronze 4 to silver 5 in 3 weeks playing support only. the highest rank i have ever been is silver 4 so i am not that good. if you deserve to climb you will climb.

MedicalMisfitMay 7, 20171 votes

Or is this why people make new accounts to try and get promo into silver to not suffer this elo hell?

PlsTouchMeGentlyMay 7, 20171 votes

I was seeded Bronze 2 when I first started playing ranked in season 5. I went back down to Bronze 4 because I

Played random champions in ranked
Played every role in ranked
Played champions I wasn't familiar with in ranked

This was bad and would have kept me in bronze. Then, I found that I loved Malazahar. And was good at him, for my elo. So I played him almost exclusively and carried myself out of bronze for season 5. In season 6, I continued to improve with Malz, while adding champions like Lux, Orianna, and Ahri to my champion pool. I made it to Gold in that season. Now I'm in season 7, where the Malz rework has made me hate the champion. I picked up Ryze as my Malz replacement, and am currently Gold 4 hoping to hit plat this season. All that to say, find champions you're good with and focus on what you can do to better yourself, because you can't control your team. The feeders/afkers continue in Silver and Gold, you just have to roll with the punches and keep on climbing.

Seaweed DragonMay 7, 20171 votes

Firstly you seem to play well with poppy so it would be a good idea to stick with her. Other things include understanding ways to get beneficial trades, one way to do this is to stand next to your dying minions and when they go to last hit them you auto the champion. (make sure you farm while doing this) it is also important to think about the basics of a match-up. What they have and how to deal with what they have. make sure you ward, especially if you are top because if you fall behind in levels you are going to have a really hard time coming back. Lastly make sure you punish positioning errors. like if an adc walks to far forward and they don't have a qss, stun them.

Hope this helps.

MedicalMisfitMay 7, 20171 votes

Poppy is hands down my favorite to play. I gave up playing her a long time ago though as she cant carry games. Being a tank was pointless. I couldnt take down towers or get objectives by myself, and teammates would run around like it was a circus. Team fights people are blowing sums on enemy tank, and I cant kill the carries as poppy so I would be left to die last. She is fun and I wish I could carry with her, but I couldnt. Hence why i am trying to learn carry champs only. I do not enjoy them at all, but like I said, poppy couldnt carry for me. Although I never did a full AD build so who knows

Dorans ShurikenMay 7, 20171 votes

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Poppy is hands down my favorite to play. I gave up playing her a long time ago though as she cant carry games. Being a tank was pointless. I couldnt take down towers or get objectives by myself, and teammates would run around like it was a circus. Team fights people are blowing sums on enemy tank, and I cant kill the carries as poppy so I would be left to die last. She is fun and I wish I could carry with her, but I couldnt. Hence why i am trying to learn carry champs only. I do not enjoy them at all, but like I said, poppy couldnt carry for me. Although I never did a full AD build so who knows

In that case, consider trying to name three. malphite and nautilus are both good tanks to play and p easy to carry a game with. Pantheon is more bruiser/assassin, but snowballs really well and has quite a bit of map presence.

Imperial PandaaMay 7, 20171 votes

Swain

So I started Bronze last season and barely missed Silver at the start of this season. Support is my main role with top being my secondary. I learned it was very difficult to carry from support unless I did Sion support (which can be an effective thing if you practice it in norms.) or had a semi competent adc.

I switched my role selection. Top first, supp second (Actually got more top games than supp games too). My top champion of choice is Swain.

As Swain you have good poke/harass with Q, you are range AA, a snare if you can land it, a damage buff on single target and finally, annoying to kill post 6. Once you get item 3010 your ult heals you a fair bit between the Ults heal and the items heal from mana consumption, and mana regain from damage conversion. Unless the enemy can inflict grievous wounds you should be able to survive any gank and out sustain your opponent.

I usually go item 3027 and then tanky (I start with Doran's Ring) item 3157 item 3065 and whatever else would help item 3110 or maybe item 3001 (Which might be even better since modification.)

Swain can be a nuisance to kill and even pull whole teams to him. Ping objectives you want teammates to look at while you pull to the other side. If you are dominating, gank after a good push. (2v5 with a Zac and killed all the enemies. Was Silver then though.)

You can do it man. Just got to keep on pressing.

hi ìm grootMay 7, 20171 votes

Gotta remember that "platinum smurfers" are just people who've been in the same spot u are if ya worry more about improving your play than where you're at, eventually the climb will just happen. I dropped from my plat promos to gold 3 on a near 20 game lose streak that included about 4 afks on my team. Just kinda happens where ever u are in my experience. One of my wins that interupted the lose streak was with a nami ignite top laner.