WHY CAN'T I GET OUT OF BRONZE

Gheek4life·8/1/2015, 8:16:08 AM·1 votes·1,492 views

I've been playing ranked since s3 and got placed in b5 and didn't get out. Same thing with s4 and s5 my peak was b2 then I went down to b4 and I can't make my way back. I am currently about to be demoted back to b5 ;-; please help me.item 3070

16 Comments

tseihei8/1/2015, 8:23:50 AM3 votes

One thing you must consider is if you are improving over time as you play?

Another thing is that as the game gets older, the community of players all get better. This means that lets say silver in season 3 required less skill than silver currently. This makes me believe that the community has improved around you at a faster pace, and you simply dropped in rank.

ccseancc1438/1/2015, 8:24:31 AM3 votes

I mean the cold hard truth is you arent good enough to get out. If you understand the game even remotely and have good mechanics you can get out. What also help is playing a champ that can push and take a tower alone quickly like a Zed or Talon

Binxy Prime8/1/2015, 9:55:05 AM2 votes

I just looked you up on op.gg and on lolking and I've noticed several things you can improve based on that. In your most recent 20 ranked games you have played 13 different champions.

Your item builds are kind of poor in many recent games, they are mostly right but there is at least 1 missplaced item in most of them. For instance on your zed you have no brutalizer but you do have black cleaver, most people on zed either go for brutalizer first or you get cutlas, then you build the other. You really need the early CDR and the early pen on zed to lane well.

Your Riven has the same problem, you really need to prioritize brutalizer on her for the CDR and early pen, its important to snowball early game. Your core is Brutalizer + Hydra + Maybe CDR or MR Boots depending on how fed you are getting.

Your deaths in games you lose are extremely, extremely high. This could be for a few reasons, either you try to save team-mates from certain death too often and thus end up dying yourself. Or reason 2, you push too far on the map without vision. The first thing you can solve by following this rule, never fight a fight where you are outnumbered, a half health champ counts as half a champ, and if you are fed then you can count as 1.5 champs. There now you will die less from that. To die less from lack of vision start upgrading your yellow trinket at 9 and try to get in the habit of using it on cd and try to develop the habit of looking at your map.

If you are split pushing you need to make sure that your team is shoved up at least as far as you are, this way if you end up dying your team will be shoved far enough for it to be worth it. Never just shove a lane while all your team is backing thats awful.

Unless you just really, really enjoy hard champs I would play less of them, I wouldnt play Draven, Zed, Leblanc, etc. Or any champ that gets owned in lane like Poppy until you have a really good grasp of the basics.

My last piece of bronze advice is to play more aggressive and trade more, many many people in bronze let themselves get hit when they are farming, you can shove people out of lane by missing 1 or 2 cs and really chunking them hard, this will give you level leads which are sometimes more valuable than the gold you would get from a kill. For instance at level 6 Diana gains like 300 damage, this would be the equivalent of ~400 ap worth of stats on her q and w damage. If you hit 6 first you can leverage it into huge leads on many champs.

And advice for all ELOs, work on last hitting its worth SO MUCH, 10cs is worth a kills worth of gold, if you are up 30cs and even on kills you could be almost 1k gold ahead of them by yourself.

And lastly not sure about what masteries you use but 21/9/0 is basically the best for every champ mid top and jungle with 0/21/9 and 0/9/21 being good on supports.

Also you have 5 losses in a row recently, I didnt notice any other super streaky areas in your match history but if you are getting tilted go for a short jog around the block or something and clear your head.

Gordo San8/1/2015, 8:27:47 AM1 votes

My question is, why don't you want to be bronze?

Jester of Quebec8/1/2015, 10:15:40 AM1 votes

http://freelo.gg/summoner/NA/Gheek4life

This is why you're stuck in Bronze. ^^ From what I can see you have the following problems : 1 - You don't put down Wards, putting down your trinket is extremely usefull, it's a free ward that gives you vision for eventual ganks or dragon control, buying pink ward to put in your jungle is also extremely important since it helps against the roam and counter jungle. 2 - Your CS is horrible, having 129 CS with Ahri in a 37 minutes long game is extremely bad. 15 CS are the equivalent of a kill, imagine if you had 150 more CS, it would be the gold equivalent of 10 kills. There's some way to practice you're CS in custom game , you can check out on Youtube for some tutorial. 3 - Your objective control is nowhere good enough to get out from Bronze, destroying turrets is extremely important since it gives global gold to your team, an equivalent in total gold to 2-3 kills, now count 3 turrets, it's almost the equivalent of 7-8 kills. You also need to call for a dragon for around lvl 6, since you're in bronze it shouldn't even be contested by the other team, some jungler can even get the drag in solo. (Vi, Fiddlestick, Warwick and some others) 4 - You play too many different champions, it's alright to get to know them in Normal mode, but if you want to clim the rank ladder sugest you start maining 1 champion and having 2 or 3 side mains in case your champion is banned or your lane was taken. Maining a champion will get you accostumed to his mechanics and these will come out by themselves, this way you can focus on your CS and you map awareness without having to work with your mechanics because they will because Natural, you wou will understand your champions CD, where can they go, the exact damages they can pull, if they can survive that dive, etc...

This is what I can see from Freelo, now I cannot tell if you have horrible mechanics, if you can't do your rotations, etc... But if you follow the 4 I gave you, you should make it to Gold V at least and get your victorious skin at the end of the season.

If you need to train yur mechanics I suggest you watch stream of High elo player playing your main lane. This way you'll be able to see when you should do your rotations, when you should go B or pressure your lane, when you should go and roam and what kind of plays to avoid. It's the same concept as learning Math by reading a book, except this time you'll learn how to play by watching a video.

Good luck making it out of Bronze. ^_- (Don't expect to be better right after reading this, you'll need lots of game to incorporate all of this to your gameplay)