How to carry out of low elo (Need help)

Jhíntíng ·4/22/2015, 3:36:23 AM·1 votes·1,184 views

Hello, I have recently gotten back into League and have been intent on getting out of Silver ever since Feral Flare came out. Now since the new changes, I am kind of lost in the jungle aspect and have picked up Rek'Sai again, as well as Sejuani. I heard these champions were good, but jungling doesn't seem like my thing anymore as I have to rely on my team to follow up with ganks... Which is hard when you get the team that just quite can't do that. I then went to mid lane... Started having success with different champs that I heard were good, but I don't feel like I am dominating as much as I should be as I have seen others do. Are they any tips that you guys can help me with to help carry myself out of Silver and into Gold? (I am an experienced League of Legends player, just need to get caught up with the latest tips and tricks)

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Shiroi Kitsune4/22/2015, 5:12:26 AM1 votes

As a jungle main, I'll give you some of the tips that I would have put forth to a more inexperienced me.

Learn when your champion is strongest, and what their "win conditions" are. If I'm playing lee sin, I know that I'm supposed to be netting my team kills early game, and then getting tanky and being the primary initiater late game. If I'm playing Sejuani, I know that I can't really gank effectively pre-6 because of my low damage. Instead I should power-farm through this stage of the game in order to reach the point where I get scary, quicker. If I'm playing xin, I should be looking to get some early kills, and then going tank after a damage item or two (depending on how you're doing). etc. etc.
Don't go looking to make plays, wait for plays to come to you. To put it simply, if you try to make big plays, your probably going to make a mistake or two. Force the enemy into situations where they are the ones having to make plays onto you. Since they will inherently make mistakes, it will be easier to capitalize on them (the entire concept of a counter-gank for example). Another example of this is to go where you expect people to feel safe, but to be alone. For instance, if you see a jinx leave top-lane to join her team mid, you can reasonably assume that she will walk through her jungle in order to quickly reach her team, especially considering she doesn't think anyone would be stupid enough to wait for her in her own jungle and be sandwiched by her and her team. Be that stupid. You can usually net the kill on unexpecting players this way. (of course, a key is expecting the rotation, and being there before she rotates.)
Don't fret the minor objectives. So often times people will get all crazy if the enemy is doing dragon, and no-one is contesting it. This typically ends up with them trying to get a steal off, but simply giving the enemy team a free kill instead. If you aren't in a position to contest dragon, don't force it. Just let them have it, and try to quickly apply pressure elsewhere on the map. Be proactive rather than reactive. That dragon they just secured can easily cost them a turret or two if they devote their entire team to it. This concept also applies to buffs lost over early invades. Honestly, I'm always baffled at my team when they go crazy trying to save my blue buff or whatever from an early invade, and then get caught because they were trying to protect it. Often times, if the enemy team gets caught they will simply back off and go back to their own buff. If they don't back off, you can simply grab their buff in retaliation. Dying trying to defend an early buff plays right into your opponents hand. Besides, if you don't get an early buff, too bad. There are still plenty of other camps to keep you farmed and up in levels. (unless your ammumu or Fiddlesticks and lose your blue. Then you should probably just cry until it respawns.)
Try a diverse range of junglers. I used to main Sejuani until cinderhulk made her op. Then she was perma-banned and I had to find a new champ to main. After going through a couple of different champs, I was rather interested to find that I actually rocked as Xin Zhao, despite not normally being that good at early game champs. This stemmed from his lack of reliance on laners to get a successful gank off, his pick potential, and his ability to shred turrets with his q and w (plus never having to go back because of the healing of w is nice). What I'm trying to say is this, even if you have a champ who you feel is really strong, try out some other champs and see how you fair with them. You might find that there is someone who you have an unexpected level of success as.
Always be doing something and commit to what you decide to do. Early on as a jungler, I would always feel this constant pull towards the lanes because "the enemy has ganked twice, how come you haven't yet?" "I could totally kill this teemo if you ganked for me" etc. etc. Often times though, these kind of things would be said by people that were in no position to be ganked and I would simply go there more to please them then to get anything major off of it. Now I simply take a look and see which lane is mostly likely to net me a kill (sometimes this means ganking lanes that would have been able to get solo kills anyways). The reason for this is that getting a successful gank off in that kind of situation puts both you and the laner ahead, allowing you to bring a considerable amount more pressure to another lane, and (mostly) ensuring that that lane will be ahead. If there are no lanes which you are over 75% sure that you could net a kill off of, simply stick to farming. Power farming is one of the best ways to get gold, and keeps you almost on par with your solo laners in levels. It's like making your money off of the stock market vs making your money off of a fixed salary. While the stock market has the potential to get you quite a bit of moolah, a salary is guaranteed to get you a lesser but still impressive amount of moolah.

Those are my tips. I know they're probably a bit disjointed, but I think you'll get the main idea. If not, just focus on the first sentence of each piece of advice. That's the main point I'm trying to get across. Anyways I hope this helps.

BluePolarizer4/22/2015, 6:35:09 AM1 votes

I'm a jungle (Master Yi and Hecarim) main in gold 1.

Tips I used while climbing:

1.) Your goal is to catch up with solo laners and be comfortably ahead of the duo laners in EXP, while maintaining gold at about the level of a teamfighting (rather than splitpushing) solo top.

2.) Do not uselessly dance at mid or dragon when you can't push the turret/aren't in contesting position. You are just wasting time that you could have spent getting farm or pushing lanes.

3.) If you missed dragon or baron, you can get still get kills on low stragglers, especially squishy ADCs, mids and supports.

4.) Splitpushing gives significant income while applying map pressure. This is especially good if you have a teamfighting top. Don't miss out on chances to splitpush and take minions/down tower.

5.) Never stop farming the jungle. Every time after a gank, if you have over 300 HP left, you can take a camp; you can take non-gomp camps if you are above 250. The difference between recalling at 200 every time and taking a camp then recalling at 100 is significant, especially if your gank succeeded since now there's little risk involved.

6.) Specifically for Yi and Hecarim, you have both a significant power spike at 6 and a good late game. Utilize this spike but never forget that just sitting back and farming means you'll probably outscale the enemy jungler anyways, so don't force any big risky plays.

PP Naruto4/22/2015, 7:20:00 AM1 votes

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/tips-tricks/EegyGEqU-how-to-get-out-of-your-rank-or-bronze

improve4/22/2015, 2:43:31 PM1 votes

Watch high up players and copy them like watch streams and high up youtubers follow what they say and the advice they give and copy the things they do the best way to get better at something is to watch someone whos already been through what you have and copy them because what they are doing is why they got or over the problems youre having . I follow this method and i am plat 5 right now and still climbing