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Need major advice for climbing out of bronze

feelmy69hacks·10/24/2015, 4:07:55 AM·1 votes·674 views

Feel free to look me up, then huehuehue at the terrible record I've recently started. So I've been playing League since April 2015 and got into ranked maybe sooner than I should have, I went 5:5 in placements and ended in silver 5. I held my own for quite a while but recently I've just been on a horrendous losing streak! I lost a total of 9 games in 1 day in a row and went from b1 to b4....ouch. Not only is this a sign that I'd be a terrible gambler IRL, but i'm terrible when I tilt. Maybe 2/9 games were totally my fault for just playing terribly and I take full responsibility for that and I'm trying to learn from the mistakes. However in the other 7 games it was a loss due to either several people afk'ing, or trolling through intentionally feeding the enemy team. This part is out of my control and while I still try to put my best effort forward its hard to win a 4v5...

My champion pool: Top-Yorick Hecarim (I haven't tried yorick for top/jg yet in ranked. I'm too afraid he'll be a non-factor even if he can hold his own in lane. This is why i mainly default to pony). JG-Rengar XinZhao Hecarim Yorick Kindred Sejuani Ekko (Recently been playing either kin jg or otherwise sej because I love her cc Mid-Ekko Kindred (Normally I go ekko, but if I think I can out cs and zone out enemy I like Kin's W+Q poke and farming power) ADC-Kindred (I "could" adc with Kin, but I never adc. It's the role I just feel terrible at :S Supp-Sona Thresh (Take Sona if I think we'll need the CC end game or thresh if we need some better peel/tank) Thinking about investing into Leona but I feel like it is hard to snowball a game as a support in low elo because you aren't sure about the skill level of other team mates.

Before I got into ranked people said its important to be flexible, and I believe I have been...but then others say you need to pick 1 main role and be expert at it otherwise your trying to spread yourself too thin. I'm not trying to climb and carry games by farming the most kills but more so to try and set my team up to succeed as a whole then to take that advantage and run with it by shot-calling. Sometimes my shot calls work, sometimes they don't. I admit that.

I feel as though with the amount of LP you win vs lose the game almost demands you to win 3/4 -> 75% of your games. 2/2 would just be break-even point. But it just seems so unforgiving with all the obstacles you face regarding team mates. I'm not here to complain about how many annoying trolls I get, I just want to improve my game play as a whole.

Looking for any advice to help me climb my way back to I was at silver 5 before the end of the season. Sounds petty, but I want that border! :3

Thank you!

6 Comments

Little Stick Man10/24/2015, 4:40:46 AM2 votes

i'd play safer champions, yorick is incredibly safe top and his ult is one of the strongest in the game if you put it on the right target (basically whoever is the strongest on your team), other than that just ward a lot, group when your team is ahead, and dont get locked into TDM, objectives are what win this game not kills

tonzillacrayon10/24/2015, 4:14:46 AM1 votes

all you have to do is farm play safe dont make mistakes dont die you carry every game.

tonzillacrayon10/24/2015, 4:34:47 AM1 votes

oh yeah and stop playing garbage champions. DIamond tip . keep playing yorick nobody knows how to play against it you win every time. no more pony. xin is fine pick up master yi and malphite both jungle/top/mid/sup. mid play annie malphite thats it done there ya go, adc cait graves there good . Reasons you are bronze, you dont konw how to play, cant do any of the basics decently, pick wayyy too hard champions that you cannot play. Its like pokemon you dont have all the badges so mewtwo says fuck you hes lvl 99 and he hurts himself. to get better work on the basics thats it no flashy stuff only basics get them the best, and stop playing these champs no more kindred you arent allowed to touch her till next year(yes im serious) ekko is done as well never touch that till 2016 summer. same with thresh donezo leona and soraka. Also play more games if you wanna rank up. Koreans play 15 a day i dont expect that but more than 5 atleast of ranked a day. Bam you use this you will actually get silver without a problem as long as you get used to these champions and listen to everything ive typed. Got it? good now go play the game.

BattleOxe10/24/2015, 7:05:00 AM1 votes

ok, I'm by no means an expert, but I helped a few friends get out of bronze, so here you go: First, you should learn to farm propertly. I can't stress how important this is.

Start playing ADC. Seriously. If you have to go ADC, better be ready for it. Andsince bot is 2 man lane, ADCs snowball pretty hard. Tristana and sivir are both good

Buy some decent mid laners. Veigar, lux and annie are all very strong ATM, and only veigar is getting nerfa next patch...

Jungle... wel, you have enough junglers, and if you know how to play them all, you're golden

Top... Maybe tryto add one oor two moe champs here. Yorick dosen't really have a lot of scaling, especialy when you can't rely on your teammates to do their job. Maybe garen?

And I wold buy soraka. I've been playing her a bit lately, and it's unny how strong she is... atleast in lower divisions

Oh, and you don't need to win 75% of games. 51% is good enough.

Is it important to be flexible? Of course it is it is. But you also need one champ that ou know vey well, so when you pick it, you destroy a game for an opponent

Hasztalan210/24/2015, 9:05:12 AM1 votes

Since you are bronze you have to forget about all theese things. WHat you need to improve is to practise the very fundamental and basic parts of the game : csing. Farm farm farm farm and even more farm. And learn how to spend your farm.

Amelie10/24/2015, 4:56:53 PM1 votes

To carry low elo you need to get yourself fed and hard-carry. None of this "play safe" or "help the team" stuff unless you want to rely on your teammates to carry you. (If you identify someone who CAN carry and is doing well, by all means help them.)

Try to learn a burst mage like Lux/Annie/Brand, all of which can be taken in mid or support roles. Play more Rengar/Xin/Ekko jungle or top and get fed. You can also play something that pushes hard, like that Yorick top. Low elo doesn't know how to farm creeps under turret and will lose a lot of gold. (Protip: generally 2 tower hits + one auto attack vs melee, 1 auto attack + 1 tower hit + 1 auto attack vs ranged)