AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG? (can't win in Gold 5)

Lynne12·5/23/2018, 8:17:07 AM·2 votes·3,438 views

Am I doing something wrong? Any advice or ideas please? Started League end of Season 6. Last season was my first ranked Season. Made it to Gold 5 by only playing rank last half. Got back into Gold 5 and I'm about to be demoted. Ever since I got back in, I have had to report 1-3 people a game for afk/inting/trolling/rage quit/toxic every game. I've only won 1 or 2 games. And they still had people being very toxic. Is it just me or are other people's ranked worse this season. Is it my mmr? I play Support whatever the team needs and is good at the moment. Janna Nami Lulu Taric Zyra Morgana. Nothing seems to change it. I don't play ranked much now because of it. [sg-soraka]

19 Comments

Lynne125/23/2018, 12:36:02 PM3 votes

I regularly watch "The Strategy Professor" on Youtube: a High Plat/Low Diamond(he jumps back and forth) LOL Support Coach/Streamer.

I truly feel like I've learned a lot from him. I shot call objectives when I see fit. My vision score is way better, I call summoners and ults more, and I try to think more strategically on when/who to fight. I know I still need work on certain areas (checking peoples kda/items more often, CD's).

Of course everyone believes they're right and are good at this game but I truly believe I belong at least past Silver.

Baval5/23/2018, 8:30:44 AM2 votes

The 5s of any division tend to be the worst because people dont care as much in them. They have either accepted that they cant climb in that division or theyre freshly promoted and dont care if they lose since they lose nothing.

It can be a struggle to climb from the 5s, and usually you have to do the carrying, but its not impossible. Remember to try to stay as positive as possible in game because any little thing can set some people off, especially in Gold 5 in particular as low gold players tend to believe theyre better than everyone for having made it out of silver.

As a similar note, you often wont be able to change low gold players mind on their strategies, so you will often have to help them make sub par strategies work out rather than convincing them to use better ones.

TL:DR 5s in any division is always pretty toxic and you pretty much have to carry yourself out of it.

Best Vi Earth5/23/2018, 1:39:57 PM2 votes

cut out janna and morg from the champ pool. you wont learn much from them when climbing higher levels. add thresh/leona i feel like i have better control with those champs to run the game i want to. or you could try blitz but those going to be kinda hard at first. but once you get good at him the sky is the limit and makes games incredibly easy when you get hooks over and over. also another big part of controlling the game as support is knowing when to roam and playing characters with good CC to get kills/mid. i mean just this alone got my smurf "hooks and hands" to diamond 5.

Butt Ρlug5/23/2018, 2:33:13 PM2 votes

Hey, Keep it up ! it's true that those 5s of divisions are always a pain in the ass. Try to play a few champions and play them fairly well, i started ranked less than a month ago on this account and got gold 3 playing mainly lux and lulu support, everything is possible :)

TSP is an awesome channel, the "dodge at least one game a day" is one of his best advice.

I don't have that many advice for you beside looking up your teammates op.gg every time before the game starts, knowing if you have a lot of auto-filled and so on. Eventually you'll end up with a nice adc that plays a champion that got great synergy with one of yours, for me it's something like vayne or twitch when i'm playing lulu, at this point if you feel great together try duoing for a few games, it can help.

Anyway, good luck !

Kei1435/23/2018, 12:19:44 PM1 votes

If you have questions about your gameplay, its better to ask gameplay subboards rather than here in player behavior.

Or you can try https://www.leaguecoaching.gg/coaches.php

Yes, other people's behavior can influence your game, but they aren't in every game.

liushui5/24/2018, 8:21:39 AM1 votes

play flex until you get gold 5 in flex... then maybe try twisted treelines