Just hit Diamond, Season 3: Silver AMA

In my experience I've found that hyper carries are the best way of reaching gold. Now when selecting which champ to do the job with you want to pick a champ that isn`t to easy to shutdown once ahead. For example a fed lux can be shutdown with hard engage (if her team doesn't peel). Whereas someone like fizz/diana/zed have ways of surviving and escaping on their own. I honestly only play 2 champs mid and those are Viktor and Swain. I play viktor into squishy champs or people I can outplay. Where as Swain I tend to pick into assassins like zed/fizz/akali/yasuo.

IMO ADC is the best role to carry from IF, and i say again, IF you have good positioning. You are not allowed to use the excuse "no one peeled me" while trying to climb. All those players will be gone next game and you will likely be put in that situation again. So you have to understand what only you can do to survive in more team fights. This may force you to buy a qss/banshees/ga as your fourth or even 3rd item depending on the game. The adc is the best to carry from because you are an objective taking machine. For adc I played Jinx in 95% of my games. I can play lucian/sivir to a level where I`m able to break even.

To get from bronze you just need to push objectives when you can. IF you get a kill mid/bot and you are all above 70% hp ping dragon. If dragons not an option because their jungler is stronger or yours isnt around try to get some damage on the tower and push out your wave.

I~ve noticed from your OP.gg that you tend to die often. I found it very helpful in normal games to push my champs into doing stupid things to test what I can do with certain items and against certain champs. Understanding when your specific champ has a power spike that brings you above your opponent and use it. For ex: if you only get a tear on your fast back with ez and your opponent has a brutalizer or BF sword. Do NOT fight unless you land a lot of poke or your jungler comes.

I can really continue on for a while but ill leave it at that for now. Final tip that got me outve plat. BUY THE UPGRADED YELLOW TRINKET. THEN USE IT ON COOLDOWN. Even if your adc buy that yellow trinket. The vision you can set up is insane. Ive noted I place almost as many wards as my support in most games. Vision gives you information and helps YOUR team from not face checking and dieing. Vision denial is best kept closer to dragon or baron.

Though I do agree your approach is helpful if its confidence you`d like to build upon. However, I personally prefer to treat every single opponent at an equal skill level to myself. Regardless if they are better or worse. This lets me play seriously in lane and not think people are "Baddies" or play too passive against better players. This train of thought helps me not blame my teammates. If i think Im that much better than everyone else its very likely i might start raging when someone does something.

In terms of your skill I fully disagree. The description of skill is not solely limited to champion mechanics. If it was then yes id agree, i`ve some players in gold who are mechanically better at csing/pulling a combo off than plat players and so forth. The main differentiating factor is peoples decision making. Understanding when to go in, what fights to fight or when to delay to get that last whisper on your adc so you can win teamfights. Realizing that the enemy top laner just recalled and the other teams blue buff is coming up so their jungler/mid will be there -> this lets you rush baron if you have a comp for it.

Heres a quick check list for jumping into ranked.

1. Do i own a rune page for each role. Now some pages, like my tanky jg rune page i can also use in top lane. Eventually you can fill more pages out.

2. Have a main role and a main champion. You should play your main champ very well and consistently win lane 70%+. Have a second champ that covers the weaknesses of your main so you have more versatility. Ex: main vayne but play jinx too as a backup for when you need more range/wave clear in your team.

3. in your secondary role its okay to have just one go-to champ as long as that champ is rarely ever banned. This champ will hopefully provide your team with some cc/utility as most pure damage champs are harder to play and will require you to practice them more often. This can me extended to all other lanes. However make sure uve atleast played some other champs incase you cant get your pick of choice. For example when I go jungle i almost always pick amumu. He brings good engage, cc, tankyness, godly teamfights and always still gives you the chance to carry regardless of not having damage items. Not every roles job is to kill the other team. A good amumu ult can lockdown 2-3 of the other teams fed champions giving your team the time to focus them down. (Before engaging always remember to check CAN MY TEAM COVER THE SAME DISTANCE AND FOLLOW UP)

Are you able to maintain atleast 65cs by the 10min mark while laning/trading with someone AND look at the minimap every 5 seconds.

• THIS ALONE WILL GET YOU TO GOLD. Ive seen so many ppl in lower tiers ward, then have the enemy jungler run over the ward, not even notice till the jungler is in thier screen and die. This usually is followed by not realizing their own mistakes and blaming thier own jungler for not ganking.

If you can do atleast these 4 things you should be fine to start ranked.

I like to think im good at baking. Though ive only successfully baked shampoo so far. Every time i try to bake lotion i cant get the consistency right :(

IMO there isnt a very tangible difference in champion skill. There will be people in plat who outperform Diamonds and vice versa. You are correct in assuming its the decision making. Now by plat you have most of the decision making down. Its really the little things that make or break a game. Being able to make these descions and act on them QUICKLY is key. Its ones thing to think hmm maby we can do baron if 15 seconds if we manage to pink it n then sneak it vs I know with our Mid Azir and %hp dmg from the jgler we can do this baron given a 10-15 second window.

I will give you some of the small things that set them apart.

• If youre level 9, UPGRADE your trinket. Only way you are allowed to not do so if you have barely enough to complete an item or wont be able to buy a pot and you need it to live. If you ever get to level 14 + and you havent done this then youre holding yourself back an entire 2-3 tiers.

• watching whether the enemy bot or top comes to lane first. Whoever came last means they leashed. Therefore enemy jgler is on that side so you have two options now. Counter gank on that side OR counter jg. If top laner came last but TP`ed in that means he didn't leash he did a camp himself. If you are laning you know which side to play away from and roughly where to ward now.

• Knowing when you can ward deeper into their jg and when you cant. That ward may not help you but it may save the life of another team mate if they are considering engaging or playing safe due to lack of information.

• The biggest thing that won me games (besides upgraded yellow trinkets) was me calling for baron. You have to realize the second you see someone on their team get greedy and go bot for a big wave AND they DONT HAVE TP then pressure baron. Often times the jungler will be doing a camp in that side. If the enemy blue/red is up and you know they will be going there then rush baron.

• Roaming when no one expects you to do so. I`ve picked up many kills playing swain lvl 4 because I pretend im going to go ward and just run bot and gank often leading to a two kills for our team and dragon. Dont do this at stupid times when the wave is at your tower because you will be fked for lane. Lower exp and gold and if ur gank doesnt net a kill your lane is over.

Some of these things you may know. Im not to sure what it is thats going wrong in your games so if you could give me more info I can provide a more tuned response.

Also doing these things doesnt mean you should be in Diamond. You should be doing these things along with a multitude of other things.