Im a good support but teach me how to get out of bronze please ;-;
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I'm not the greatest but some of your games you're not building sightstone. As support you should be rushing sightstone as your first item, without question. Vision to keep your ADC and team safe is so important!! Don't play supports in rank that you just can't win with...stop playing Nami...yes she may be strong, but only if you can survive. Also you're building completely all AP glass cannon supports which is not what you want to do as a support.
Pick 3 supports to learn....nothing hard (no Thresh, Bard, Nami, etc)...stay with easier ones. You want to build SUPPORT...so you want support items. First item, should be one of the starting support items depending on which support you're playing, next item should be sightstone if you can buy it on first back (generally I try not to back unless I have a minimum of 800g or more). Look at the recommended builds if you don't know what to build. Randiun's Omen, Locket of Iron Solari, Redemption, Mikael's Crucible. Those items are amazing on supports depending on the circumstance. Try building some of those instead of all AP. I'm not saying don't build 1 AP item...if you're ahead, build Zhonya's on Morg...or build a deathcap on Sona...but especially if you're behind....don't build AP.....
Try learning Morgana if you want a pokey type champ but more tanky.
I've been learning Nami...because I'm awful at her right now....I'm building her super super tanky so I can survive fights long enough until I can get used to her play style. Also don't play ranked with new supports... Play normals with them until you have a good WIN rate with them, then take them to ranked.
1 - Change your mentality
The first step would be to not say you are good. You are bronze, that disqualifies you from being good by default. I can already see the downvotes and replies about how rank doesn't mean shit. Well sorry to burst some bubbles, but rank does mean shit.
So really, you ain't good. If you want to climb, you need to understand that fact. Once you understood that, you can then ask yourself why you aren't and work towards getting better. The keyword here being BETTER. Because it's not about being good, it's about being better. THAT is how you climb. By being better than what you were before. If you believe yourself to be good, you will be stuck with a fixed mentality and unable to improve. If you believe you can be better, then you have a growth mentality and you are pushing yourself toward becoming better.
2 - Learn from those who are better than you
There are plenty of guides, videos and high ranked players willing to provide you information and help you climb. You play support? Make a list of champions you are good at and which you enjoy, play them, read guides about them, learn all there is to know about your role and your champions. Watch high ranked supports players play, preferably, those who comment their own plays, explaining their thought process as to why they do what they do in a game.
3 - NEVER blame your teammates
There is only one constant variable in your games and it is yourself. In solo queues, you don't get to choose your teammates or enemies which give you 4 randoms versus 5 randoms. The odds to climb are in YOUR favor. Never blame your teammates, no matter how "bad" they played. If you are better than your league, you will climb. Luck may be a cruel mistress, giving you feeders, ragers and toxic players, but in the end, the laws of probability, the law of large numbers in particular, will make Luck benefit you over the course of time, so long as you are better than the average player you are facing. So, blaming your teammates is pointless as you could just as well blame your enemies for their loss. Instead, focus on your own shortcomings, because that is the only thing you have control on.
Those 3 things are really the only 3 things you need to know to climb. There is no magic bullet here. You won't become better by wishing or having your hand held. You'll become better if you allow yourself to do so and by working toward becoming better.
There is no secret to climbing. Just lots of effort and time. Supporting in Silver/bronze is not like normal supporting. YOU need to be agressive and have the confidence to make plays in lane. Laning phase is the only part of the game where you can make a meaningful difference.
BE NICE, DON'T RAGE.
EARLY: 1.) Play champs that can initiate plays on their own. ie:Braum, Thresh, Blitzcrank, Annie, Nautilus. Pick your most comfortable, comps dont matter. 2.) Actively push lane for the level 2 advantage. If you get level 2 before the enemies, GO IN. (the first wave and the melee minions of the second wave get lvl2) 3.) Once ahead, force enemies to fight OR zone them away from EXP. 4.) After sightstone, build into a carry build. ie: AP annie, tanky CDR braum, AP blitzcrank, etc.
MID: 5.) Figure out which person on your team is the biggest idiot. Stay with them so they don't feed. (If it is you, find the smartest dude and ward for him) 6.) Repeat 5 until he stops feeding.
LATE: 7.) Find the guy actually trying to push. Group with them for the remainder of the game. 8.) Hopefully if you were nice enough/made enough good plays, everyone will group on you. People like grouping on nice/skilled players. Especially if you ask! 9.) Be patient, it will take a LONG time for them to group on you. Don't constantly spam them, they'll get the hint after 2-4 minutes.
That is about all I can say. The rest is just game sense and mechanics. It takes time to learn those and is just a matter of playing. Good luck!
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Honestly, start playing other roles. It's hard to carry games as support especially in bronze where people don't understand basic coordination.
play what you enjoy, and try to pay attention to the map more often. you will climb in no time.
To be honest, in Bronze your best bet is to play a carry Support. Someone who can kill the enemies or wave clear and push lanes. Vel'koz and Brand are great choices, Annie is a good choice, Morgana is not a bad choice, Blitzcrank is god mode in Bronze because they don't know how to dodge his grab, put in some practice with Zyra and she will be good at all elos basically, Karma is also strong. It is hard to carry as Support in Bronze by playing a traditional Support, it is not impossible but you need to make sure you are capable of taking the reins if your team can't handle it.
Build Sightstone, your team needs Vision and no one will buy it except for you. Vision is important, very very very important. You want to be placing wards all the time and destroying enemy wards all the time. Your 3 wards and 1 Pink ward (which will now be called a Control Ward and will act differently) need to move where your team will be at all times. You can't place them Bot then go Top and push hard with no vision. If you have good Vision control, you will be able to help your team not feed needlessly.
You don't necessarily need to protect the ADC, yes they are your potential highest AD DPS, but if they are positioning terribly or just not doing anything then you don't need to waste your time on them. Pick someone who is doing well and peel or aid them, if there is no one you can make yourself into that carry.
play damage supports, xerath, annie, velkoz, etc.. are all easy to carry yourself out of bronze all the way to high gold
I pick tanks, usually bronze teams don't have a tank so the one team that does have a huge advantage
Let's see, I made it out of it once by doing full support and it's been a while. Pick carry supports like Nautilus, Sona, Brand, and Annie who can scale harder into the late game and always provide a useful catch for your team. You're going to have to do double the task of what any support in Silver+ would and ward, ward, ward, pay attention to the minimap and force disengages.
Some other good champions are Nami and Leona who can set up perfect engages if you can get it right. However, in the case of Leona, you're going to have to full commit when you go in because in that Elo, most of your team don't know what is and is not a good engage. If you mess up, learn from it.
Think of it as manipulation from the outside. While you might not do much, you can get your team to follow through in fights. One last thing, and I probably couldn't stress this enough, is to watch your carry with an extremely close eye. Study their movements, know if they want to go in or not and be ready at all times for when they want to do the all in. Ping on top of them when you back so they can see you've left or on your way.
Add Always Khazix and ill watch your games and teach you, as long as you listen i can easily get you out of bronze for next season
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