I am a silver 5, and it seems that no matter how good i do, ward or roam (i main mid) i still lose. Just last game i had 3 afks in the same game and they all decided to come back at around 15min. What can i do to climb? My friends refuse to duo with me because my MMR is so low now, im desperate.
I starter off in S3 and dropped to s5 and now I'm up at gold 5. Honestly people say "ward" and "cs better" and I'll be honest with you, that stuff doesn't matter as much when it comes to climbing. Yeah it helps a ton and stuff but one thing you NEED to do is understand the game, and even if you lose because of someone else, 4v5's are carryable (just saying) but instead of simply saying "Aw we lost cause of this trash adc" think about what you could've done yourself and what mistakes you made. Even if they didn't cost the game, you must look at these mistakes and better yourself, watch some streamers (I watch Nightblue3 he teaches the game usually) but yeah. Look at what mistakes you made throughout the whole game and talk to yourself instead of tilting that's all I can say
Solo Queue is difficult because you're playing a team game where you have to rely on others to win. You are forced to put your faith in people who can easily be incredibly bad at the game or who may flat out refuse to communicate or pay attention.
Sure people will always say "What can you have done better?", but that only works up to a point. Sooner or later you're going to need to find a viable way of ensuring your team's victory outside of they hypothetical.
Here are some things you can do to increase your chances of winning games:
1. Aim to carry
You know your capabilities better than anyone else on the team in Solo-Queue. Play to your strengths. Pick your good champions. Dominate the game.
2. Don't pick a champion simply because it's a 'counter'
This is big. Just because, on paper, your pick is a counter to the enemy laner, doesn't mean you're going to automatically do well and win. You probably don't have nearly as much practice with that champion and as such, are more likely to lose your lane and by extension the game.
3. Play an influential role.
This is also important. Each lane/role has influence, duh. But some have more game influence than others. How far along in the game this influence becomes apparent tends to vary from champion to champion.
Junglers are one of the most influential all throughout the laning phase and quite far into the mid and late game for their objective control and their ability to deter enemy laners. Many junglers also scale well into the late game and become a splitpushing god. I recommend players choose jungle if they want to have a feeling of control over the game's outcome.
4. Choose a few champions you like for that role and stick with them
Knowing a few champions by hard and absolutely pubstomping with them is far better than barely knowing a lot of champions and doing okay/bad with them.
I'm not trying to brag but I'm a diamond 3 ADC main who has mutiple diamond accounts. I've gotten each of these accounts from unranked (bronze) up to diamond by myself in solo que. Its possible because i know alot of tricks to win the game and I carry my teammates.
Theres nothing you can do about having afk/dc teammates because you will already be at a numbers disadvantage against the enemy team. If you want to carry solo que ranked, you have to learn to win laning phase at least 90% of the time, get really fed, and group up with your team to get objectives to win the game.
