I need someone to teach me.

Zoskie·Oct 15, 2014·3 votes·1,793 views

I'm a Bronze 1 jungle/ADC/Support main and I have trouble climbing. I've asked, researched and tried my absolute best, but it seems that I cannot improve.

Me:

I don't rage, flame, troll, tilt, or AFK. It's pointless and it doesn't help us win the game.
I try my best in every game no matter what. Why should I give up when the enemy has gotten first blood? There's the whole rest of the game to still play through.
Yes, I do ward.

I've tried looking for help ( Looking for a Senpai to teach me. ), but due to no one really having the patience to show me the way of doing anything good, I've pretty much just been learning that game by myself. My friend introduced me to the game and literally said these words, "Kill the Nexus. Farm Champions. F***CS.", and that's all I learned from him. Every time we played after that he just screamed at me for not doing ____ or not knowing how to do ____. After every game I try to analyze the game and think of what I could've done better and what I shouldn't have done. But, I can only learn so much just from my own studies. I'm just looking for someone to teach me, someone to show me what I'm doing wrong and how to improve.

Thank you for reading and have a wonderful day. -Zoskie

32 Comments

2000boxesOct 15, 20141 votes

you're just like me only except i can play any role whenever i want but i have a lack of top laners with my best top laners being nidalee ryze gragas wukong and pantheon

ZoskieOct 15, 20141 votes

I can play any role but I don't have a diverse enough champion pool to play all the roles.

KaleidosOct 15, 20141 votes

I just mained jungle Shaco and split push my team to victory nearly every match I got him, barring the times I couldn't get jungle I just filled and hoped for the best. The easiest way to climb is to pick champions you know can make a large impact by themselves regardless of the situation your team is in skill-wise.

ZoskieOct 15, 20141 votes

I was told that split pushing is the best way to win games at low elo, but I can't split if my team wants to fight every second. I do try to tell them EXACTLY what I'm going to do and EXACTLY what they can do to help me, but you know, its bronze. Our pride is too big to listen to others.

KaleidosOct 15, 20141 votes

If your team is constantly fighting you have zero reason to not just go out and split push. That's the exact course of action your team should be taking if you're out to split push, since it diverts the enemy team's attention.

ZoskieOct 15, 20141 votes

If I do leave the group to split push, sure I may get a tower or two, but my team will still scream and cry that I wasn't in the fight and I lost them the fight. Muting won't help because you need to cooperate with everyone to win. It's a team game after all.

KaleidosOct 15, 20141 votes

They lose a teamfight and you get a tower or 2, repeat that process 3 times and you've won the match regardless of what they do or say.

ZoskieOct 15, 20141 votes

True, but it's just hard for me to actually do those types of things because I usually get stuck with either support or jungle. And since hardly anyone likes playing a tanky top laner, I usually go tank to compensate.

SammystormOct 15, 20141 votes

I was told that split pushing is the best way to win games at low elo, but I can't split if my team wants to fight every second. I do try to tell them EXACTLY what I'm going to do and EXACTLY what they can do to help me, but you know, its bronze. Our pride is too big to listen to others.

split pushing is really ineffective at low elo's because team's do not have good coordination.

StOrmysLIVEOct 15, 20141 votes

You don't have to wait until the game end to analyze. Whenever you do something good or badin game you should immediately ask yourself what you did right/should keep doing or what you did wrong and how you can prevent the mistake next time.

For example if you were leona vs Morgana bot lane, you know her spell shield blocks you. But do you know what the cd on the shield is? Whaty about the cd on her bind? If she misses her bind/ shield, do you capitalize on that brief window where she can't do anything but throw a pool on you while burning her mana?

What if you were lucian with+30 dmg on an ashe? Do you force trades where you spam all your spells and autos vs her one w and maybe 2 autos?

Bot lane mechanics is all about asking 'what can I do if they do this' and 'if i trade now which team does more damage?'

ZoskieOct 15, 20141 votes

I do do that, but its kinda hard to capitalize on anything when your the only one who knows when and why you're doing something. If you're the only one who know's the enemy is at baron, you can't do much besides give it up or try to steal. Sure, you can tell your team, but they have to be willing to listen.

StOrmysLIVEOct 15, 20141 votes

If they don't listen it's better to give it up than die trying to steal it.

Adc is really good at carrying low elo because enemy teams are not good at focusing/locking you down.

ZoskieOct 15, 20141 votes

That is true, but since I've been pretty much at low elo the entire time I've played LoL, I can't really watch people make decisions and say I did ____ because I knew _____ flash was down and I got a kill from doing that. It's just bronzies making once in a lifetime good decisions.

StOrmysLIVEOct 15, 20141 votes

I don't know what times you play but I might be available to duo some normals with you on a few hours if you want

ZoskieOct 15, 20141 votes

I play Monday to Thursday at around 2:30PM to 8:00 usually. I try to play Fridays but I don't really get a chance to play that long. I also sometimes play on Sundays but that's an IF depending on what my parents do and or want to do.

NovemberrRoseOct 15, 20141 votes

add me on skype, Kiffage, can help you, was diamond last season

ZoskieOct 15, 20141 votes

Ok. Thank you kind sir. <3

UnlimitedNinja41Oct 15, 20141 votes

Dear god, need you in League of Legends friends list dammit....

EwokSoldierOct 15, 20141 votes

If you are still looking for some help checkout my thread

If you've already found help best of luck =)

summoner 4 summoner 14 ftw lol

ZoskieOct 15, 20141 votes

Thanks! :D

playn4allurgoldOct 15, 20141 votes

ok do this.

play...

katarina

akali

fizz, although not nearly as easy as the two listed above

rumble

and carry yourself out, these champions are pretty easy to wreck bronze games with, hell they wreck alot higher games then bronze with little to minimal skill required.

ZoskieOct 16, 20141 votes

I would learn those champions, but I don't play mid. When I say "I don't play mid." I literally mean I never get a chance to play mid except in Team Builder. Everyone at low elo wants mid for some reason. I've played Rumble before, he's pretty good, but I'm a jungle/bot lane main. I don't think I'll be playing top much either :P

MrBuffingtonOct 15, 20141 votes

There are a lot of helpful resources on boards, but here are a few outside sources

LastShadow is an incredibly knowledgeable player, he actually coached for SHC in the EU LCS. He can coach any role and also has a lot to offer in terms of macro strategies. I would also check out his youtube for coaching videos.

ilovesezu is a high elo ADC streamer I just discovered (via boards), I haven't been able to watch too much of his stream since he's on at odd times for me, but I've been asking him questions via pm and he's been incredibly helpful. He also offers 1 on 1 lessons (for a cost, though)

SammystormOct 15, 20141 votes

you can add me in game if you want. Sammystorm.

Here are a few things I recommend to improve your ranking and skill level over all.

pick 2-3 champs and play them

-When you do this you become so good at those champions that you don't have to worry about playing them. they play themselves so to speak. So it really gives you freedom to learn the mechanics of the game. The other thing it does is it makes you mechanically better at that champion then most of the people you are paired with.

Learn to CS

There is no fun way to learn this. Just practice. However if you get better at it then your peers you will move up quickly. If you for example have 40 cs and 1 kill that is roughly the same gold as 60 cs.

Don't die

I know this is impossible but the less you die the less risky plays you make the more games you win. You also need to balance it. Sometimes dieing can be helpful for your team. However most of the time you just want to make safe plays as a team to crush the opponent

ZoskieOct 15, 20141 votes

I do try to do those things, but I won't always get a single role every single game. :/

HeroSaitamaOct 15, 20141 votes

Well first of all by looking your lolking ranked stats cs numbers are really not that good. You should abuse champions that you have a 60%+ win rate. If you click on wins on the link below should show the characters u have the most wins with but there's win % you have to look at. http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/52303607#ranked-stats

That being said even if you jungle try to have 100 cs by the end of the game or more and you have to know when to gank. Its ok to dodge sometimes even if its a promo trust me i learned the hard way. If you need more help 1 on 1 i can go over games with you and help you with specific match ups. Ill be charging $5 dollars an hours.

ZoskieOct 15, 20141 votes

Thanks for the tips and things, but I won't be able to pay. I don't have a job or have any money. :/

EwokSoldierOct 15, 20142 votes

Cs isn't a good representation of how well you did because cs is directly correlated to the amount of time spent in the game so if you have 20 min games vs 40 min games it drastically skews your stats

So when you say 100 cs by end of game how long is that game? Also as jungler some junglers gank or are more capable of ganking while others excel at farming jungle

HeroSaitamaOct 16, 20141 votes

Cs isn't a good representation of how well you did because cs is directly correlated to the amount of time spent in the game so if you have 20 min games vs 40 min games it drastically skews your stats

So when you say 100 cs by end of game how long is that game? Also as jungler some junglers gank or are more capable of ganking while others excel at farming jungle

if you constantly gank and you don't get assist or kills you will fall behind.

EwokSoldierOct 16, 20141 votes

I agree with that statement =) Although sometimes ganking applies enough pressure on the map to take objectives even though it didn't result in kills such as turrets and dragons early on, or it just allows the lane you are ganking to begin to roam as well or just drastically cs better then the other laner because of your pressure.

I think of it this way the most important thing to have when jungling is time management. Knowing when your camps are up and clearing them in the most effective and fastest order possible while still being flexible to gank or counter gank when the opportunity presents itself

Omyslash0Oct 16, 20141 votes

Hey Zoskie,

If you add me in League I can try and help you out. I've coached in a few LoL communities before so send me a message.

IGN: Omyslash0

The first letter is an O, the last is the number zero.

ZoskieOct 16, 20141 votes

Thanks man! :D I'll definitely add you.