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How should I go about in reducing my deaths, but at the same time racking up kills and applying pressure to the opposing team? Also, I looked at your rank, and see that you are pretty high up there. How long did it take you, and did you do it solo queuing?
I had to do the same thing at the end of season 4 ( where i stalled out at silver 5).
The first thing you need to do is realize it's solo que, you have to balance being a good team mate, while also realizing that every fight a team mate decides to take part in, you don't have to follow. Especially if they got caught out. This single thing will drop your average deaths.
Furthermore, a thing I've noticed recently is a lot of people force fights for far too long instead of taking a won trade. for example. You invade the enemies jungle to find their elise killing wolves, a fight ensues and you're winning it, you're half health she's at like 400 health, rather than chasing her throught he jungle hoping to get that last hit, back off. Why? because you're forcing her to back before she can be useful again, while you're still healthy enough to do something. SMALL advantages add up, you don't always have to go for the kill, most of the time just forcing someone to back multiple times can win you the lane, or let you get an advantage in gold or exp that you can use to snowball the game more safely without forcing fights.
I haven't watched any of your games or anything but, this was my own personal issue when I was silver.
Second thing would be to think about how bounties and gold exchange hands, I'm going to put up 2 different k/d/a's
7-1-13
25-10-7
which one looks more impressive to you?
Most likely the 25 kill game, seeing as how you quoted a 20 kill game earlier. but think about it.
Are you getting kills? yes, are you getting gold? yes. Do you look impressive? yes.
But
in a game where you're dying 10 times as well as getting kills, you're giving the enemy team gold, over, and over, and over.
Where as int he 7 kill game, yes, it doesnt look as impressive, and yes you have more assists and less kills.
But
You have only given the enemy team gold 1 time. It is monumentally easier to carry a game where the enemy team has less gold, it's a fact.
What does giving the enemy team less gold do? for one, if one or 2 of your team mates are behind in lane, and are safely farming, let's say they're 2-5. Are they more likely to be useful against an enemy team that you've given 1 kill worth of gold to, or 10 kills worth of gold to? Simple answer right?
" Make the game easier for your team mates by not helping the enemy get items"
Third thing to think about is bounties. http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Kill#Bounty_values
here is a quote from the wiki "Additionally, a champion with many consecutive deaths will award a significantly reduced bounty, eventually reaching a bounty floor of 50 Gold, nearly the gold value of a minion. The bounty will reset to 300 Gold if said champion kills an enemy champion, or resets more gradually with assists or farming (refer to Bounty values Notes below for details)."
everytime you get 2-3 kills and then die, then 2-3 kills then die, your gold is resetting, so you actually give more gold to the enemy team if you're 25-10 when you die, than someone who is 1-10 does.
Well those are my 3 tips to think about, no, they won't magically make you climb, but these helped ME in climbing 5 tiers from silver 5 to gold 5.
