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I can't carry anymore? Need advice.

PandahHeart·5/9/2015, 4:20:05 AM·1 votes·1,909 views

I used to be really confident in my Leblanc skills. I used to do really well with her, like go 15/2/5 and be able to carry the team. Now, I feel like I can't carry anymore. I've been trying really hard to work on my CSing because I used to not CS very much, or care for it. I was 2/0 as Ziggs earlier with a 40 CS lead against Talon but I ended up losing my lead during team fights because we just didn't have coordination. Then I played a match with Leblanc against Ahri, I was down in CS that the few kills I had over her didn't matter. I had my Sorcerers, Morello, Death Cap and Void and I couldn't even one shot the enemies ADC. It was really bad for me, when normally I could before.

Lately, I haven't really been playing Normals. I have been playing ARAM when I do play League, but I took the time to play 2 normals and they both resulted in failure. Being ganked isn't a problem because I always ward and don't overextend much when I'm without vision. I just have a hard time during late game. I roam and try to help my team, ward, call MIAS, time enemies flashes, but I just don't carry like I used to. I don't know if it's just that I don't have my confidence anymore or that I just haven't been playing Normals. Leblanc is my best champion and I have lost my confidence, so I was wondering if I could get advice. Also, I play in Low Elo (silver) and I thought going against, and getting out of bronze was really easy, but now I have hit a wall now that I started playing again.

TLDR: Just need some friendly advice on how to get my old confidence back and be able to carry again for Mid Lane!

4 Comments

Byakuya Kuchiki5/9/2015, 4:37:52 AM1 votes

play someone who pushes harder or i can 1v5

or bothVayne

Commit Sudoku5/9/2015, 4:40:19 AM1 votes

Maybe your opponents are just getting better

T RexHasTinyArms5/9/2015, 5:05:20 AM1 votes

Honestly it's just a skill thing. LeBlanc is a decently high skill cap and so if you're low elo like me you probably mess stuff up on her from time to time. You got away with it before because you didn't need to put the damage down as quick so you could get back to CSing since they missed as much CS as you were and you wouldn't be down. You could one shot ADCs because they were underfarmed/underleveled/didn't take scaling/flat mr blues or build early mr when you got fed. People are getting better and you're just hitting a spot where you need to improve to get the same results. Happened to me and I'm starting to make progress again though since I realized it was just me misplaying and that's easy to fix. I play Heimerdinger in silver and watch a master tier player who streams a lot of Heimerdinger games. I realized pretty quick that one of the biggest things I could do to improve is get better at hitting my grenade stun. Phasekiller rarely misses the stun when someone tries to jump on him and kill him, so there are a ton of times he lives where I'd be dead even if I was able to do everything else at the level he does. I can only imagine how big the difference would be if he was playing in silver ha! When I started landing them more often I started getting better games again.

Volt Cruelerz5/10/2015, 4:16:26 PM1 votes

It's probably a couple of things. For one, you're facing better opponents now, so it's going to be harder. For another, assassins are no longer king of the hill as they were in the previous meta. They're still useful, but because of the tanks, they're less overbearing.