Teach me how to carry please

Wolferal·4/30/2015, 3:53:08 AM·1 votes·965 views

So I'm ranked at the very bottem of the board at about bronze 5 or 4 so I know that I'm pretty bad at this game or something and it really discourages me when I end up stomping lane and getting 5 or 6 kills early but then realizing there midland has even more kills then I do so i guess I'm just asking what to do should I roam down and chance there midlaner killing not only our midlaer but myself as well or should I just leave him be and hope he starts playing half decent and just farm until I might be able to face them with out 3 other players I ve lost so many games lately to other laners giving off "free" kills I know that I have a lot that I can learn but I've been playing for 2 and ahalf ish almost 3 years and I've been dropping rank I just want to know what I can do to assist my teammates so that I can start winning more and actually climb Elo

Please any and all advise is help ful thanks

3 Comments

PepeOnDemand4/30/2015, 5:09:35 AM1 votes

Warning, I am NOT a very high leveled or super skilled League player. All I am doing here is just giving basic and general advices.

Speaking of which, here is the start of this guideline:

Dedication: summoner 4
As for starters, no matter how long it takes you to become better, be prepared to spend a lot of time and especially a lot of patience. If you can handle the stress from failures regarding yourself and those belonging to your teammates, then you are all set into the path of becoming a better player and maybe a god like carry. Be advised that efficient time usage in learning is better than just being frustrated about being bad or something else than learning and training for a long period of time. When you really want to learn about a something, experience it. Watch pros or those who know the champions in streams. Do not just stick to one information source. Be open minded about learning stuff. Always be curious. Mechanical skills are something that you need to dedicate, whether you want to to carry or be better.

Learn and Understand about yourself To carry a team, you must start to know how to be the carry. Whether that is being a Top, Mid, Support, Jungle, Marksman or anything else that is out of the traditional NA meta, you must understand who and how you should play. Remember that every champion is unique. So maybe if you learn something specific about a champion, it may not be applicable a different one. For example, A thresh hook has a wind up animation to load and it does not immediately pull the target to you like a blitz hook. However, even with those differences in mind, some techniques and strategies that you learn will be persistent through out your gaming session; for example, learning how to aim skill shots, how to farm, how to ward, how to be aware of your map, when to gank, when to back, when to dive, who to focus, etc. It all depends on adapting everything to what you are playing. And so, I urge you to study the basics of the game back to start one. You said that you were bronze or what not, so it seems to be a good time to restart learning the fundamentals. Since I do not want to spend a lot of time on typing on every little things, go out and look for videos, streams and written guides if you want to learn about the fundamentals and the specific elements of that one role/champion that you want carry with. To be able to carry, you MUST fully understand the capability of your champion and apply it's maximum potential. That comes from countless learning, practicing and adapting. Theorically, you could become the master of any champion, but it is important to know that it is preferable to start learning a few champs and stick to them. It will be hard and will take more time to master a large variety of champions, but it is still possible.

Gym Leader Yaki4/30/2015, 12:03:27 PM1 votes

Seems like you need more practice on your role in a teamfight/in a game more than your laning mechanics. If you like top lane, read up on guides on your champion and know were to position yourself in teamfights.

INITIATION:

Can your champion initiate fights?
Do your allies have their ultimates up, is everyone healthy? Are the enemies low health? Are their abilities on cooldown? Are all of your allies there and ready to go in? Did you do the "i'm going in" ping to warn them you'll initiate?

DAMAGE SOAKING:

Is your champion a front liner, a second liner or a back liner? Chance are, if you're playing , you should be the one front lining since you're tankier. A would be a second liner/back liner waiting for her team to initiate for her. Of course, all of this changes depending on your team and the enemies.
Can you even tank damage? Or can your allies do that for you?

DAMAGE DEALING:

If you go in, can your team even follow up? Can you even deal enough damage to your opponent?
When do you retreat and back off?

Just knowing overall where to stand and fight in a teamfight will help you. The easiest way would be to look at Diamond+ commentary videos on Youtube of your favorite champions. See where they stand in skirmishes or teamfights. Ask yourself, why isn't he going in/why is he going in now/why is he doing what he's doing at the moment?

CrazyHollow4/30/2015, 8:09:22 PM1 votes

I like the advice already given so ill keep mine toward the situation mentioned in the OP. I would say in general don't expect someone to start changing the way they are playing. Most people low elo just make the same mistake over and over which is the reason they never improve. Its best to take action to make sure it doesn't get out of hand. Your first goal should of course be taking care of your lane. Push it in then roam mid to help pressure. You don't always have to go for the kill just your presence should force the enemy to play more passive and make sure your teammate doesn't die. Help the mid lane shove the tower and try to take it if you can. This way the teammate that was behind at least gets global gold even if you can't get him a kill. Then start trying to play for other objectives.