Stuck In Bronze 3; How Do I Get Out Solo?
Refer to Match History, LoLKing, whatever you need to make a fair judgement. Something solid for me to work with.
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I'm far from the best, and I don't plan on working to become the best League player. But, I'm currently ranked at Gold 4 and I think I can give you some tips that was dramatically boost your gameplay.
First off, it is difficult to make judgement from just history alone but I can give you a lot of general tips that helped me climb out of silver.
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Step back and analyze your own gameplay. Everything that you are doing right now is either flawed mechanically or strategically. This is true for every player that has room to develop (so everyone). Instead of doing the same thing every game, look at what HASN'T been working. Was I strong that game? Or did the jungler have to watch my lane to put me back in the game. Did I gank enough? Did i gank too much? Is rushing this item every game viable, even if my laner has the advantage? - this is just a couple things you need to constantly ask yourself in game, EVERY GAME! You need to be dynamic, you need to constantly be alert and changing with how the game changes.
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Focus on weak points! How much CS am I getting every game? I checked your account on Na.Op.gg and it seems that your CS/minute is really low. Focus on your laning ability and getting farm. Missing that one or two minions every wave for 5-10 minutes adds up! that can be the difference between that BF sword you want, and 2 Doran blades you didn't really want. Try to get early advantages over the enemy player, poke him when he goes to kill minions. punish him when he leaves lane. And of course, when you go to take minions, try to take as least amount of damage as possible. If you need to, build a little bit defensively - especially as a top laner to stay in lane and acquire more gold/minute.
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Communicate with your team. Know dragon timer? Know where a ward on the map is that they might not? type it in chat, or ping the enemy jungler locations several times. Make sure your teammates know whats going on and likewise, pay attention and know what's going on inside the game. Example: you are top. you are pushed up pretty far and nobody has died but you notice the mid laner is gone. Is that person coming top? Are they doing dragon? be aware of your surrondings and communicate!
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Wards. I can't stress it enough. Wards are essential. How will you know where to go or where the enemies are going if you are blind? Also, upgrade your trinket asap - its only 250 gold and it helps out tremendously.
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It is OKAY to ask for help in a hard lane. It is NOT OKAY to flame the enemy jungler for not coming top at the 15minute mark. Even if they are an inefficient jungler, try to group with your team and maybe counter push as a group instead of falling further behind in lane. Maybe ask for the mid laner or support to help you out if either of those lanes are far ahead. Otherwise, play safe and defensively. Ward your area so you don't get camped any further and pushed farther behind in the game. 75 gold is easily made up after killing 2.5 creeps (again. WARD!!!). Buy a pink ward for perm. vision and deny vision to the enemy.
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Know your champion, know your lane opponent's champion, know the enemy jungler's champion even better. This simply means, be aware of what they can do. Will that Vayne Morgana try to all in me at level 6?? If nocturne is 6, am i safe this far pushed up without deep vision/sight wards?
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Get familiar with game mechanics for your champion and how to build that champion efficiently. Sure BF sword will give any ad champ a huge ad steroid, but if all you have is 1550gold, Should u get that? Or maybe
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will serve a better purpose.
Sorry for long wall of text, hope this helps! It helped me long ago.
After glancing at your match history, you're improperly building jungle tanks. Sej and Voli should build Cinderhulk, depending on team comp of course, but I almost exclusively play Sej tank when I jungle with her. Check my ranked match history. I went 8-2 in promos and only played Sej/Leona, didn't lose a single match with Sej, maybe 1, until I got placed.
More context:
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Love jungling:
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Impatient/"get-rich-quick" kind of personality; not interested in hours of bots/solo customs or video guides; wants to climb tiers
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LoLKing as main point of reference
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Blames self more than teammates for losses; tends to ask (demand if angry) advice for getting better
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Has general exp with laning, other roles
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JG > top > adc > supp > mid in descending order of pref
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Wants to get to gold for the Victorious skin
I got out of Bronze last season, which was my first true season of ranked, by playing the two roles that were least sought after; Jungle and Support. I also capitalized on a small window of OP opportunity when Warwick and the original Feral Flare were just godly. Once I hit Bronze 1, I switched to Leona support, gave up on Warwick, and learned a handful of jungle champs. Pantheon, Eve, and my new favorite, Sejuani. Jungle and Support work well for my play style, I prefer tanks, and I like to ward. Additionally, this way you're allowing your teammates to pick the three bursty roles that are usually most preferred. It worked for me, it might not work for you, but this is my 2 copper.
when on tilt, take a break. after two losses, take a break, that's how you beat that and don't think about what happened before once you get back. i don't really play jungle so can't really help with that.
War story time: Last game, we lost.
I was Vi. I built Stalker's Blade with Warr enchant, then went for Trinity Force. After that I went for Banshee's Veil, Frozen Heart, and was going for Randuin's Omen. Midway through the game as we were on the back foot, I replaced Stalker's with Ranger's Trailblazer so I could farm for defensive items more.
The problem with that game, looking back on it, seems to be that I kept using my ult on Malzahar in teamfights, strong in his own right, instead of Caitlyn. SAecondly, the rest of the team wasn't following up (I'd try not to get too far ahead, but either it was them focusing on the tanky frontline more than Cait and Malz or that their team had more cc than we had.
That, and poor objective control. They got Baron twice and kept closing in on us at Dragon. I think they got Baron while we were busy preparing to get Dragon as the timer ticked down to zero.
Point is - it's easier to point out what I did wrong than to know how to deal with that every single game. Any ideas from you all?
More info: I main and love Vi, but since J4's nerfs her ban rate skyrocketed. So I gravitated towards Sejuani, then Volibear when the former got the ban hammer. Currently I'm trying Skarner out, since his ban rate is super low and his win rate is relatively high (yes yes, win rate isn't everything).
Why I think I Do Poorly:
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Chain-playing ranked matches
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Playing what I know when I can't be my main role, even if I don't main them or hyper-practice
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/mute everybody in every match (don't want to hear team raging)
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Lack of knowledge on lane counters/mechanics for dealing with specific counters (e.g. lost horribly as Nasus vs Gnar, even with trying to stay under turret to farm Q)
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Probably the big one: Tilt (e.g. just left the ranked lobby twice after losing ranked twice in a row and losing my promo series; typing this comment up while waiting out the half-hour penalty timer so I can go ARAM). Less of a flip-the-table tilt and more of a just-don't-care, we're-too-far-in-the-hole-to-win malaise (at least unless it turns around). Don't blame the team unless they REALLY blew it, I just cram rage inside me and don't take it out on the team; aware that toxicity brings the team down fast.
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Lack of objectives control if the enemy team gets ahead and maintains control