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I'm stuck in Bronze 5... How do i get out?

Master Shake·9/8/2015, 3:25:51 AM·2 votes·9,002 views

I have been stuck in bronze 5 for over half a year now and i keep playing ranked and I keep losing so much so that i have been at 0 LP for most of my duration there. I have tried every thing from playing the champs I have played leveling up to even having a routine that calms me before i play, to tryiing to not miss a cs. Heck i even play in blue light so i can trick my brain to calming myself. I have watched countless youtubers that give tricks and tips. but nothing even though i follow them, i end up losing lane and the team suffers and then we lose. I hate being stuck here, and in turn im hating the game the community and "balances" that riot puts into play. I want to climb so yeah is something supposed to click in my brain for me to be good or am i too ADHD for this game and need to quit?

P.S, I cant go a day without playing this game... So if you have a cure for League Adiction without a substitution that would be great.

31 Comments

AxelRob9/8/2015, 5:34:55 AM4 votes

I am gold 3 now im going to explain how ranking works. I have smurfed im bronze V to gold twice. What I learned is people in bronze V lack skill. They don't have good mechanics. The decision in bronze are god awful. Now do keep in mind in bronze only think about yourself. Get fed, push lanes solo drags and ward to pick bronzies off. If you cant get fed it means you lack the skill level and mechanics. How to improve? Play ome champion, dosent matter if he's simple. If youre mechanically competent with that champiom i promise you, you will.climb. now when you reach silver players get a little smarter,and they understand the basics. Just out smart them and again this elo has many throws, a player gets caught let him die. Understand your role, build accordingly to your team comp. You mentioned you play support naut. On my phone so.I.cant check, your stats atm. I.will say this as a support if your adc is.complete garbage get mob boots. Get the first gold item rush mob boots and roam get your team fed. Then get sihhtstone for.vision. if you need damage get damage if your team needs tank.get tanky, goldoes are just as bad, they.lack.game.knowledge im gold 3 but my elo is quite high. I.have been.gold 1 before but dropped due to duo games. Anyways gold is usually the skill.cap of games. What seperates people om divisiom.after this is decision making,,,,anyways gl of you want.sole.advice ill spectate a game.for you if youd likeand.give you feedback,

Xonra9/8/2015, 3:54:10 AM3 votes

The hardest part about getting out of Bronze 5 is admitting you belong there.

This will be a longish post, but it is honest advice that I wish someone would have told me instead of simply saying "get gud" or mock me for being in Bronze. Please take it to heart because from someone who has hit the rock bottom of Bronze 5 before and never looked back, it will legit help.

With that being said:

I'm not a challenger god, but I belong where I am (Currently Silver), and when I was in Bronze I belonged in bronze.

The main thing stopping people from climbing isn't skill, isn't mechanics, and it isn't knowledge (I know this sounds dumb but hear me it), it is ego. People tell themselves "it is my teammates" or "I'm doing fine, it is just bad luck/trolls/afks", and sure those things are annoying and factors to a degree, but they aren't what holds most people back.

Everyone has an ego in this game whether they will fully admit it (Ego), and it is VERY hard to tell yourself you suck, or you are bad in x,y and z area, or that maybe it wasn't your teammates fault, it was your own. It took me a VERY long time to do that, because I wanted to believe I was good at the game, I wanted to believe someone else was holding me back, and in reality it was me and my ego, my unwillingness to learn from my mistakes because I wanted to believe I wasn't making many (which was horse crap).

It takes a while, but you have to know what your issues are first as well as your strengths, and go from there. Sure it may not be fast, hell you may reach Bronze 1 by the end of the season but that is okay...I promise. As long as you are going up, look at that positively. I may only be slowly going up from Silver 5, now in Silver 4, about to go up to Silver 3 (99lp sliver 4) and I hate that it is slow....but I'm improving, and I'm climbing.

There is no magic advice, no "play x champ/play x role/do x thing" because everything doesn't work for everyone. So while the advice someone, say in the YouTube videos you watch are sound, it might not be good advice for you specifically. Just take your time, and work on getting better, and worry about climbing second (honestly I don't even worry about my lp anymore. I purposely try not to look at it win or loss, and I feel so much better in ranked because of it).

Angry Monster9/8/2015, 3:44:08 AM2 votes

So i am looking at your match history. I do not think you are playing your champs correctly for the roles they are in.

example your 1/6/2 naut game, You are taking an non tank rune page and going heavy into utility tree. Then seem to be going for the greedy build (dead man's plate)

So here is a typical support game build for http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1940690354/38521493 I use the same setup for naut and ali.

I go less for greed and make sure that i am setting up my team mates for sucess. Relic shield is pretty good for laning phase but i tend to ditch for the coin after wards for my team synergy.

I think you need to change how you are playing over all. If you want to be a off carry in the support role, learn how to be a mage with a sight stone.

WalkingInACircle9/8/2015, 3:44:42 AM2 votes

Relearn the game from the beginning. Easiest way to get stuck is because players develop bad habits that they don't realize are bad habits. Things like building the same item build every game, refusing to target a tank in a teamfight, or chasing after kills too far. Or mental habits, like assigning jobs to each member of the team when someone who really wants to carry thinks only of what needs to be done and how can they can get it done.

And experiment for yourself. If you're getting advice from somewhere or someone, be sure to ask yourself why they suggest it before you try it. I'd suggest playing around in normals. My knowledge of Bronze 5 is that it's full of trolls anyway.

MintChipHomieLix9/8/2015, 3:33:40 AM2 votes

I don't put stock in ranked but I am a big ARAM player. I've played with everything from bronze to diamond and in ARAM anyone can beat anyone. I mostly stick to normals or ARAM. I think when it comes to bronze elo you have to have luck when getting matched. Sometimes you get good players and others you get the trolls. There are still trolls at higher elos but the percentage increases the lower the rank. I feel your frustration the only way to get out is to just play, play and play. It may take a while but as long as you try your best and play what is comfortable you should do fine. Don't worry about meta picks just pick what you are strong with.

ImTheRealGnar9/8/2015, 3:33:58 AM2 votes

Create a new account and level it up to level 30 no xp boost allowed. The new player experience is just garbage and you will get matched with players over all better than you. You should be able to learn a lot from them. It actually helped me. I was bronze couldn't even get to bronze 4, made a new account and try to improve and got silver 3, did it again and got gold 3 this season.

AdanChristo9/8/2015, 4:22:31 AM2 votes

play games a lot, eventually you will subconsciously build your micro/macro/cs/skills/champ fighting/objectives skills and you will do better, also learn to be a leader, do not blame others for the loss, and especially when your team is doing bad you need to lead them, stay calm, attitude wins games

Nurse Violet9/8/2015, 5:39:41 PM2 votes

Based on your ranked history it looks like you play a lot of different champions, but you have 3 or 4 that you have been successful with: Renekton, Malphite, Malzahar, and Nasus. I would bet if you stick to those champs you would be able to get out of B5.

If you are interested, I could also work with you one-on-one to help you improve your skills. Feel free to add me in-game if you are interested.

AlexXeno9/8/2015, 3:37:43 AM1 votes

The main way to improve is to somehow record your game(there are various ways) and then watch the recording after you play. find out what caused the lane to be lost. Did you over extend, forgot to ward the river, or something else? doing this will allow you to realize your mistake and you can train to improve that skill.

Smegma1239/8/2015, 2:18:45 PM1 votes

Take any one of = kat khazix rengar lb (u get the idea), play minimum 30 normals with them, master them, watch pro players, have multiple runepages dedicated to them. Learn to dominate your lane with them. Enter ranked, pick champ, go lane, win lane. The second u get level 6, shove your lane hard, go top or bot to gank, come back, shove, roam, return, shove...

XinZhao2WinNhao9/9/2015, 2:18:44 AM1 votes

main a carry role and play a assassin with either low cooldowns or resets like katarina

p6TXQXYfJB9/9/2015, 2:12:09 AM1 votes

Most people in bronze make FATAL, UNFORCED errors during MULTIPLE phases of the game and DOES NOT CAPITALIZE on those mistakes. Notice the capitalized letters. So there's two ways to it, first, reduce these errors, OR capitalize on enemy errors. Either way you will pretty much (i cant guarantee that you will get out of bronze, BUT i can guarantee you will play better than those in bronze). Before you even get into the game there is champion select. Well there's the COMMON problem of people not knowing what roles they're playing, or they fight for a role, or they're like, but...i got no jungle champs, i dont know how to jungle...Pick a champion that you are actually good at, not someone that you think is OP. Most bronze make this mistake. pick a champion that fits into the team composition. Alot of people say they will go 30/0, but this could hurt the team comp, most people dont realize how bad it is when your team has no tank, or no cc, or no AD/AP. Then you should pick the right runes and masteries, these are things that you can just copy off the pros. I mean, most of the time you dont have to adjust it. Alot of people dont take advantage of this. As far as builds, ADJUST your builds accordingly, if you're the carry and someone is building health, buy like blade of ruined king if you're ap. if someone is building armor buy armor penetration, and with magic buy magic penetration if you're the tank do the opposite, build against whatever the enemy fed player uses. Then what happens in the game depends on what role and champion you play, but there are some general rules that you need to follow: You gotta ping and listen to pings, you gotta watch the map, you gotta communicate about objectives like dragon and turrets, these things should be done REGARDLESS of if you play top lane or bot support. You should not feed, this means don't die. even if some other person get caught, or want to dive, dont die, unless if you're the tank but that's another case. Dont start random fights, group up with your team. Ward if you are going to push Unless if you're support, learn to cs, if you're support, learn to deny cs. Some basic things that helps your team out.

FluffehPoro9/9/2015, 2:13:11 AM1 votes

better being in bronze 45 forever then silver 4 or 5 forever XD! At least some people are nice in bronze. Silver are all toxic solo players XD

LaceUp239/9/2015, 2:14:48 AM1 votes

Win.

4ManVotedAgainst9/8/2015, 3:48:08 AM1 votes

You should probably just go see a hypno-therapist to help you quit & make something more fruitful of your life than to be wasting time on League-Ranked. Bronze-Five is full of nearly everybody claiming to be a Diamond/Plat-Smurf anyway (despite dying 20x in 5 minutes).

{quoted} P.S, I cant go a day without playing this game... So if you have a cure for League Adiction without a substitution that would be great.

Bionic Avian9/9/2015, 2:17:57 AM1 votes

From someone who went from bronze 5 up to gold in Season 3, here's my suggestions:

  • Admit you suck. I did it for the longest time and it helped me observe how to improve myself.
  • If a series of matches goes badly, take a short break.
  • Take some time for your mechanics! If you wanna get better, watch some streamers. Also practice in normals outside of your boundaries.