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And the Training Continues?

Kidnap Kench·11/14/2018, 2:00:55 PM·1 votes·3,012 views

Hey everyone just wanted some thoughts. I've been playing league since 2014.Played every role since then, started as a main jungle->support->adc-> and finally main'd myself as a mid this season. Unfortunately I am the definition of the stuck silver meme. Each season I climb my way up to silver 1 (no joke) and manage to get into multiple rank ups throughout the season. Now I am not claiming to be the best player in the game, nor even perhaps in my league, but I am fairly competent ( I don't feed hard, I scale when I need to, play to my laning strengths, etc etc) this all works out for me.

What has killed me for four year running now, and yes I said four, is getting multiple leavers/drunk trolls/ try hards, etc in my rank up que's. It's no joke when I say I make it into the que's and almost immediately lose all my games after winning my first one. Its beyond frustrating. Perhaps I'm not suited for this kind of thing, I'm not sure. Anyways, need some help from the community, thoughts ideas, etc. I main mid, and its been my strongest suit next to supporting, my mid main's are heimdinger (I know easy to counter but storng), swain (very easy to counter but strong mid -> late). My strengths lay in combos, and team work, and have an excellent skill shot.

Thanks for your time,

Kidnap Kench

5 Comments

LittleOak11/14/2018, 3:39:50 PM2 votes

Personally, as someone who made the climb from B4 to S3 this season (over the span of 2 months August to October) here's the advice I would give:

A. Tighten your champion pool: What I did when I started climbing is I went to champion.gg , I looked at all the junglers (jg main) and I picked 5. No matter what happened, I would only ever play 1 of those 5 champions. Rammus, Kayn, Poppy, Amumu, and Evelynn. I based these champions off of a few factors. Firstly, it's solo/duo queue, it's rare you get someone who wants to play tank, so I decided to pick up more tanks than carries. After that, I looked at champions who had solid winrates for players with less that 50 games played, and who's winrates increased with games played. This clearly gave me information that "these champions are easy to pick up, and as you learn the nuances to them as you play them, you will get better with them and win more." Finally I picked champions that fit my playstyle. For example, I am very good at macroplay, watching the map, team fighting, and dueling other champions. My KDAs are crap, but if I die, I almost always get a kill and an assist for it, and if not I'm supporting my team and picking up a lot of assists. This bleeds into my next point..

B. Find a Duo partner you can trust: This has always been a big one for me. If you're having trouble climbing on your own, it's because you're trying to carry 4 other players. If you have a teammate, you only have to carry 3 other player's maximum, but usually less because your teammate will be pulling his part as well (hopefully). Find someone who compliments your strengths. For me, I found 2-3 really good ADCs. Because I picked 3 tanks, most games, I path to level 3 gank bot, get my ADCs 2 kills, back and just repeat gank until they're super ahead and then I build Knight's Vow, and just defend/peel for them going into the mid game and try to win off them scaling early.

C. Change your queue times if possible: I've found out this season, that while trying to climb, all games after 11pm local (for me) on weeknights just don't work. There are so many college students who get stoned or drunk and then think they'll just hop on league and play. I changed my queue times from 10pm-1am to 6-10pm and it's worked wonders. That combined with the above tips really gave me good quality teammates in the right mindset for games.

D. /Mute all: Your teammates can communicate everything you need to know via pings. If you're in lobby, and people seem to be typing too much, just mute when you get into game. You waste time reading chat, plus if you're duo'ed you can be in voice with your teammate and you two can make calls together.

Hope this helps, from another Silver scrub. I'll be Gold soon though item 3422

Silly Neeko11/14/2018, 2:04:33 PM1 votes

Can try out some champions like Talon, Ekko, or Leblanc and just solo carry the heck out of things. You will often make your laner hate the game. You for sure will make the ADC hate the game. You will make pretty much everything except a Sion who free farmed all game hate themselves.

Baka Red11/14/2018, 2:58:47 PM1 votes

I can understand how leavers and drunk trolls may cause trouble in increasing your rank, but try hards? Why are try hards a problem? Don't they fight to win and always try their hardest? How does that hurt your rank?

Unfortunately I don't really have any answers for you, since ... well, I don't play ranked.

I can only say that as long as you play as well as you can, statistically your team has less trolls, drunks and whatever negative players than the enemy. Why? Because this way your team has 4 free slots for negative players since your slot is always taken by competent player, while the enemy team has 5 free slots. Each of these "free" slot has equal chance to contain a negative player, so at the end, your team will have superior players more often than the enemy team.

Kei14311/14/2018, 3:29:35 PM1 votes

Its currently top/jg META. If they are any decent, roam for them, play around them and win the game through them.

Jo0o11/14/2018, 4:09:33 PM1 votes

You can’t avoid occasional unwinnable games, so not much sense in preparing for them. Focus on winning the winnable games instead.

Main thing I noticed glancing at your match history is several high-death games. You can’t carry every game, but you CAN consistently make it easier to BE carried by playing with more caution. Focus on reducing your deaths per game and I’d expect you to climb.