Climbing through the ranks (NOT MINE)

These tips may not be consistent at all ranks. However, I made a thread previously I feel was too long for people to get the actual point. So I'm going to just post things I've learned while playing in Silver this season. These tips have helped me recently win more games than I lose. I am now slowly climbing out after learning game progress over a few months time. Following this guide will only help you if you have good mechanics, map awareness, understanding when to fight and when not to, and understand ability cooldowns and how they can help you.

Tips for players seeking to get out of silver (While I'm silver 5, doing these things work well) Only go for baron when you see an oppurtunity on the map (i.e. when the jungler or carry shows bot lane or are dead) or when you are far enough ahead to force a baron team fight. Make laning phase about getting the advantage on your enemy, not just getting a lot of kills in lane. Remember, you are trying to get the biggest advantage you can during laning phase, not win the game. Do this by outfarming and take dragon when possible (same as baron, use the enemy junglers position to your advantage). As soon as you take the tower in your lane or they take your tower, losing or not, roam and help your team mates when you need to, it's not that big of a deal if your first tower goes because you were helping mid, just make that help worth a tower. Once all three outer turrets are gone and you are ahead and able indefinitely win team fights, push lanes out and go all mid. If you are far enough ahead, initiate the fight as soon as you have all 5 team members there and if you get the opportunity to pick off one, do it, then take an objective, do baron because you have the advantage, or if they want to fight a team that is already ahead 4v5, fight them. Some games you can't come back, others you can. Don't surrender until you are sure winning a team fight is impossible (base this on your teams damage compared to the other team and ability to do their job in a team fight). If you see your team not doing something properly in a team fight, respectively tell them what they are doing wrong and what they should be doing. If you see your team in stupid places on the map or know someone is going to gank them, ping them to back off. Type it if you have to, I find myself doing this a lot. Watch death timers and leave when the enemy is going to respawn. Even if you are winning, if your whole team is at half health the enemy will most likely have the advantage. If this happens too late it can lose the game all together. Support CAN carry games, however probably are the most difficult to carry with. Playing as an ap support such as morgana or annie, I find at this elo it is better to use ap runes/masteries and to build ap as it causes you to apply a lot of pressure throughout the whole game. Most players in silver don't consider damage or abilities more than the fact that you are the ad carry or support. Another common mistake I see is if you are a support, you need to peel for your ad carry. Even as Leona, Thresh, or Annie. Who have great initiate, should try to use their large aoe cc for the team then start peeling for the ad carry. Pick champions that will be useful to your team and that you know how to play well, more than "op" champions. When roaming and jungling, help the lane that is doing the worst. However if the lane is so far behind it may be better to leave them alone because they aren't worth much gold anyways(This person would have to be losing very badly, like 0/5 at 10 minutes, and you should still help when it comes to the inner turret). If you can get your other lanes dominating, the one fed person won't matter. You'll just need to focus him, depending on their role. Sometimes it will be a champion that you may need to shut down, because of their ability to hyper carry (i.e. Yi, Tryn, and Nasus). However these champions should be shut down early if at all possible to prevent them from being fed. This is just safety precaution, it's not the end of the world at this elo because most players don't understand how to utilize these champions. If you have a lot of kills, you need to build items that will utilize these kills, and I don't mean Mejais. For instance, if you are playing Wukong, you want to build MAINLY damage if you already have 2 tanks, but if you get early kills even if you are the only tanky champion on your team, you need to build early damage to utilize the kills you got. A pure tank that is 10/0 at 20 minutes is only a meat shield with some cc.

More importantly than anything, mid games is based off of a lot of trading and is the time in the game where winning or losing is most heavily decided. Try your best to win trades and if you can't just do your best to get something that will make your loss not affect you as much. Like if they are on a tower and you are the only one alive, it doesn't hurt to check dragon because you can't do anything for the tower anyways. If you can take dragon or do something more worth while than just standing there and watching it can help you win, just don't be too far away farming minions, unless you will potentially get one of their towers or dragon it is better to stay sort of close to enemy team, so you can be ready when your team respawns if they over-extend. Some of these tips will be effective at higher elo but others like the one I just mentioned will probably only work in low elo, as it's taking a chance on the other team not paying attention, which happens more at low elo.

=========================================================================================================== AS I SAID THIS IS NOT MINE, THE ORIGINAL POST IS HERE:

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