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Bronze Elo Hell Tips

The Last Breath·10/26/2015, 10:18:36 PM·9 votes·4,166 views

I wish there was one magical solution, but unfortunately, there's just a lot of very small things that come together. I can tell you what worked for me, and maybe that will be helpful?

First and foremost, I had to stop caring about ranking up. I think so many people tunnel in on every win and loss, that they aren't able to focus on actually improving what they're doing. I went in to every game, not looking at my rank, or at anyone else's. I ended every game by saying "gg", and then immediately hitting "play again". Never look at LP loss or gains. They don't matter. (side note: I honestly didn't realize I was in my gold promos until after my first win.) Once I got myself into that mode, I started looking at what I was doing in the game. I don't know if I mentioned this, but I'm a support main. So I had to ask myself "what is my primary objective?" Keeping the adc alive is a good one... positioning in lane... keeping the enemy off cs... trying to set up kills... etc. I'd lump all of that into "game basics" in my role. I set small goals like "do not die, or let the enemy team kill my adc, for the first X minutes". Or "Refuse at least one wave's worth of CS to the enemy adc by X minutes". And just practiced these things with a few different types of champs (mostly tahm kench, shen, soraka, zilean). If you asked me at the beginning of the season, I would have told you I was a morgana main. I do have MOST of my games with her still, and my mechanics with her are pretty good... but now I think it's healthier not to pick a main champion, because I found that I was trying to solve every problem with Leona's skills. Real talk? That got me out of bronze, but I could only pull that off for so long, because more skilled players know how to counter her. Anyway, so learning matchups and having a big enough champ pool to counter, or at least face any opponent was critical. Once I got to the point where I felt like I was able to help control the flow of most lane match-ups, I focused on practicing skills for mid/late game... peeling, shot calling... etc.

Another important thing for me to do was to actually PLAY the other roles. So, I no longer freak out if I don't get my role pref. That was huge for me, and sometimes now, it's actually nice to get to play another lane. If there's one thing you'll notice in everything I've mentioned above, I only talk about what ... I ... did. So the absolute, MOST, important thing any player can do to rank up, is stop telling yourselves that the problem is the teams you're getting put on. Yes, we all get shitty teams sometimes... it happens... but statistically, if you play a lot of games, and you're improving, and being a positive player yourself... you're going to rank up. If you're too focused on how crappy your team is, then that's going to negatively impact your performance, and you'll end up dropping in rank as a result. Carry your lane, play a LOT of games, and hope for the best. Live your life to the fullest, never get stress.

So, I hope that's helpful! Try your best no matter what and have fun.

9 Comments

iN00B10/27/2015, 1:21:20 AM3 votes

This game is sucky now that riot only facilitates trolls, feeders and smurfs. They are protected by riot and can abuse players and remain untouchable. You'll be banned, muted or put in an extended time lobby when you speak out.

  1. Consider being in a game that's 10mins in, top and mid lanes pushed to base with both lanes being 2 19 0, what's the point of having to stay at your pc for 10mins again?
  2. Support forums have the samething on posts : "Play and you'll rank up eventually". That post is total mess since its not possible. For every 20 games, there's maybe around good games ( Win or loose but were close), remainder filled with feeders, afks or trolls testing champs in ranked. Playing good and carrying a team is totally impossible when your the other players on your team is around 5kills and 30deaths, is sounds strange but that's ranked games now.
  3. I play all roles but every 3-5 games with good teams, I get stuck with atleast 10-15 messed up teams. Just check the replays. Sometimes your adc and 4 persons bot, yet your team mates on other lanes dying to the turrets.
  4. Solutions are rather simple though, ban feeding accounts from ranked with the exception of certain team roles and champs, same for afk accounts and reports. Tribunal system doesn't impact the game players because the lobby is still fill with these players so reporting barely yields results. This way, ranked will be much better to play instead of it being nothing more than a normal game to loose LP.
Lhostalis10/27/2015, 3:05:01 AM2 votes

The solution is to only play Draven & Rumble Mainly because no one knows what they do/how to play against them, and they have good solo carry potential.

Sleve McDichael10/27/2015, 2:25:20 PM2 votes

So far I've played 3 placement matches, and my gameplay and decision making has been above average at worst. The teams I have been placed on have been woefully worse than the enemy team in terms of games won, win/loss ratio, average kda, etc., and the games have therefore been practically unwinnable. I don't blame my teams for being incredibly bad, but it is certainly disheartening to go 0-3 and to have no possibility of winning when your own play is good. This has discouraged me from playing any further ranked games, as it isn't fun or even remotely fair. I'd have to play far more than 10 games for statistical averages to kick in and save me, and by then I'll already be placed bronze due to an unlucky start. No thanks.

High510/27/2015, 1:32:14 AM1 votes

Good advice. Play to win, don't blame others and learn all the roles.

Potato KehPeh10/27/2015, 7:03:12 PM1 votes

Here's some additional advice from me:

  1. Duo- Find someone around your skill level who you can trust and duo with. You'd have one less chance of getting a troll.

  2. Build situational- There's so many players in Bronze AND Silver that builds the same build every game in the same order. Why rush deathcap if you're dying a lot and barely have gold. Buy something cheaper with some defensive capabilities and damage if possible.

  3. Ward- Low elo games lack vision in pretty much every game, and warding has become much more possible ever since the release of trinkets. They even lowered the cost of upgrading trinks at level 9 to just 250 gold, so why blame the support for not warding? Take matters into your own hands and ward.

  4. Coach your team to victory- If no one is making great decisions and your team is falling further and further behind, maybe you should start calling shots and maybe get your team to focus on major objectives and team fights.

  5. Live for another day- I know the greed can be real sometimes, but it's probably not worth it if you're not sure you can outplay the enemy. Be map aware of what champions are missing, be aware of what spells have been used so far both abilities and summoners (Yours and enemy), be aware of the enemies lead compared to yours, and do a test auto or ability to see what your damage does to the enemy. From here you should be able to deduct whether or not you can take the enemy. In team fights, even if you jump in to lockdown the enemy, you're better off being alive. Get out if your health gets too low and either come back, or take objectives based on the team fights outcome.

  6. Roam to other lanes if you're ahead - Why stay top or mid if you're fed? Fact is, if you are there for the team fights, your team will most likely win. Don't sit top or mid to bully someone who's worth only 50 gold now, there's bigger fish to catch for 300 gold or more AND objectives.

Damicor710/28/2015, 1:25:05 AM1 votes

So, I need some advice. What do I do about solo queue ranked where 1-2 people generally lose lane feed, get tilted rage and throw. I mute chat and ignore them, playing whatever role the team lets me play (certain people will straight out troll/feed if they don't get the role they want). How do I carry games like this? How do I play so well people will stop feeding? How do I play so well people will not quit? How do I play so well people will refrain from bming and fighting eachother?