Tutorial on carrying games!

Hey everyone I decided to do this small tutorial because I always see people asking how to carry, especially in ranked games and low elo. So I thought I would make one quick. If you want to add something onto it then feel free. If you want something explained better or anything or that sort then simply post below and I will do as you ask.

Now make sure to read ALL of this tutorial. Don't simply skip around looking for a few hints because if you're in a low elo and can't "escape" then it is very likely that you're missing quite a few of these things which most are quite key for you to 'escape' those low elos that everyone seems to bitch about so much.

Don't be TOXIC!!!:

One thing I would really like to address is the level of toxicity I see in low elo ranked games. This can seriously cause you to lose WAY more than you would ever think. I have watched people feed or AFK due to others being toxic. If you are toxic then you can cause yourself to lose. Being toxic DOES NOT!!!! help anyone at all. It wastes your time and pisses other players off. So why bother with it? I know that we all get those toxic morons in our games. My suggestion is to ignore them. I don't typically mute players because then it limits the communication between your team. But if they are just spamming the chat with useless bullshit then feel free to hold the TAB button and click mute.

To Begin With:

Before you even bother playing ranked, whether you're already ranked or unranked, you need to start with normals. What we will be doing here is figuring out how to play and carry with EVERY role! Make sure you have a at least a few of every single position. I personally prefer Support and Top lane but I own almost every champion and can play every role.

Now of course you're going to be bad with certain roles when you first begin. It is natural. But before you even try and do normals with a new role simply look up some tutorials or watch and learn from pros or high elo players on that role with a few champs. For example, I learned how to play Thresh support long before I even played him. I was taught, through streams and such, what to do and how to do it. Now I main him support and he is probably one of my favorite champions.

Alright, so far you need to have collected a few champs that can do each role (Top, Mid, Jungle, ADC, and Support). Now you need to take the info within this tutorial, and please read others as well because you can't ever have too much information, and learn how to carry in the easier and lower pressure normal games. Now by carrying in normals I mean actually winning with your team by doing the tips I am giving you now. So you have to actually look at your games and be honest enough to tell yourself whether you did well or not in terms of doing what you're supposed to vs being lucky and winning an easy normal game.

Once you can honestly say you're able to carry in a normal you can eventually move to ranked. But remember that you are NOT going to win every game ever. Not even pros win every single game they play. It just isn't going to happen. There is always going to be better players out there and you need to be able to cope with that and not get pissed with yourself or other players and then just give up. Because that is probably one of the biggest problems I see with lower elo players. They lose one or two games and then say 'FUCK IT!' and then they either aren't going to win for a bit or they literally just stop playing which obviously isn't going to get you to your goal. That being said, you do need to know your limit. I personally can, when I have free time, play a ton of games back to back for hours on end without losing my focus or anything like that. But if you are not like me then you need to know your limits and know when to take breaks. Trust me it will help your games in the end!

The Core of Carrying:

-Laning (Early Game):

Now everyone seems to think this is a very easy and minor part of your game. Which is probably the EXACT opposite. You will figure out that the higher the elo the harder it becomes to lane. I can lane in Bronze/Silver and do a ton of stupid things that higher elos would rape me for. Laning is easily the most important part of the game by far! Why is this so important? Because in your laning phase you will be building up your stats for the mid to late game to try and end it while also trying to set your opponents back some so that you have the advantage. Games can be made or broken in the laning phase depending on the skill of the players on both ends.

In lane you need to farm as much as possible. If you have issues farming then I would suggest going into a 1v1 AI game and learn there. The AI on League tend to be super aggressive in lane. Now I don't want you to actually attack and try to kill the AI because that is just too easy. What you need to do is simply try and dodge the AI's abilities and attacks in general while also trying to get as much farm as possible. Once you are clearing waves without missing any or only a few every couple of waves then you can move into PVP normals. Know that everyone, yes even pros, miss a few CS every once in a while.

Now that you can properly farm even against real players you need to learn to counter farm. This means you are farming to your max while denying farm to your enemy. One of the best ways to do this is to zone them. If they come in to farm then, while keeping up on your own farm, punish them for it if possible. Throw out a few abilities and slowly chip away at their health. Eventually you can push them under tower and you, once you're good enough, can also keep them pushed back out of the reach of their farm under their own tower. If you keep denying them farm, even if it is like 2-3 per wave, they will start to have a disadvantage. Now this is where we cash in our hard work!

Once you can REALLY see that disadvantage you will notice lower elo players become more desperate and start to do stupid things. Like taking way too much damage just to get a wave or something of that nature. This is when you start putting on the death blows. This is where you start to totally take them out of the game. You should be feed enough in CS to be able to 1v1 them easily and murder them as much as possible. Now don't get cocky! Try leading them out of a safe area, as far away from turret as possible, and then go in. Make sure to have the ganking area mapped out with wards to avoid giving the jungler the chance to catch the enemy back up.

DO NOT!!!! go in when you haven't a clue where the enemy jungler or mid is and you have no wards down. This is a sure way to hand out easy free kills and watch all your hard work go down the drain. Make sure that you should be safe enough to all-in your enemy for that easy kill. Now there are always times that someone makes a great play and they may end up reversing it on you. Don't get down on yourself. I have had a 70 something CS lead with 2 kills and the enemy laner has ended up killing me due to one hell of a play by him and their jungler (happened today actually). I simply told both of them that was a great play and got back into the game. I came back to lane and they tried it again and I got a double... So them getting one kill is not going to bring them fully back into the game.

Now there is a bit more advanced things I will be talking about from here which doesn't happen at all in Bronze-Silver elo and rarely happens in Gold to be honest.

Must people rush down their enemies tower once they get ahead. Like if the enemy backs or you kill them then they rush in and push the tower as fast as possible. Now I am sure you have seen someone in a stream or something and they go behind the enemy tower and clear the next wave then let their own wave die at tower. This is done for many reasons. This gives you that extra free wave of farm, which this can be done multiple times in a game. This takes a wave of farm from the enemy and causes them to stay in lane. So they can't just roam and try and pick up a free kill in another lane or pick up a buff from their jungler. But that tower isn't that important unless your team needs it. You can keep that tower and let the minions do damage to it all game and take it right before the end of the laning phase. If you are way ahead of the enemy and your team is doing just fine then stay in that lane and get more and more fed. No reason to roam really.

But if your team is slacking, especially the mid lane or bot lane, then go ahead and take that tower and start your roaming game. But DO NOT take every kill from other lanes! This is NOT going to help your team. Sure they get the assists but it would be much better for them to get the kills. Don't farm tax their lane! They need it if they are behind or if they are battling their lane hard (meaning they aren't behind but not ahead so they are in a standoff). This is a team game and you need to have as many fed players on your team as possible.

Remember to watch your lane. Have your jungler or someone watch your lane as much as possible along with yourself to make sure that laner you just wrecked isn't just free farming all day and catching up to have a decent mid-late game.

Another thing to know during the laning phase is to take as many dragons as possible! This puts your team further ahead and puts the enemy team further back. There is no disadvantage to maxing the amount of times you dragon as long as you're doing it at smart times. Now that doesn't really apply as much to the top laner unless they are roaming like a 2nd jungler.

That about sums it up for the laning phase. Lets move on to the mid game.

-Mid Game:

Mid game is when teams start to group a bit more. Typically in low elo this is at like 15 mins in which I think is a bit soon. Try to keep laning phase as long as possible because if you're doing what I taught you then you're just getting more fed along with feeding your team.

In the mid game it is all about objectives. Remember when I said to save those towers until the very end of laning? Well you should have been just killing those towers whether it be the first or second tower. Now you should be communicating with your team trying to split push as much as possible while also grabbing those precious dragons. Also what you want to do, especially if you're a jungle or support, is to ward the entire map now! During the laning phase most of your own map should be visible. Now you want the other half to be as well. This way there aren't any surprise attacks by the enemy team and you can counter jungle a bit putting them even further behind. Steal those buffs as much as possible from them. Giving yourself a even higher advantage.

Basically all of the mid game you want to be focused on pushing those towers in and winning the small fights that will obviously pop up. The way I do it is usually focus the top and bot towers, leaving the mid for the easy full team push down the middle. Due to you and your team being so fed the enemies can't really stop you. But DO NOT just try and steamroll your way through the map. IT WILL NOT WORK!!!!! And you will lose more and more of your high advantage. What you want to do is push those waves up and get in as much damage as possible before the enemy pops up and then you fuck off for a bit. Roam their jungle, go back to base and buy some items, etc. Then you show up in that lane or another one randomly putting pressure on those lanes again which opens up the one your were previously in.

You have to be patient with this. As I said; do not try and steamroll your way through the map. Just patiently chip away at their towers while not allowing the enemy team to make any plays, or at least as few as possible, on you and your team. Of course if you have the advantage and they try and chase you down an open field and you can easily kill them then go ahead. Those are the small battles I was talking about earlier. This typically happens in lower elo though due to Bronze/Silver not fully knowing what champions can do when they are that fed. An example would be today, this was a 3v3 though, I was playing Darius and pushing top. The enemy Varus and a Kassadin jumped me while I was walking in the jungle after the other enemy showed up at turret. Well this was two easy kills for me and they only got me to about half health so I knew if the third guy showed up I would kill them too. It was a mistake on their part that they paid dearly for.

But on the flip side, don't get cocky. No one is ever fed enough to 5v1 ffs. It isn't going to happen and if it does then well your enemy team is just horrid and you got lucky as hell!

So if you continue to do these things you will eventually end up pushing down their inhib towers and maybe even an inhib or two. Which by now it is starting to become late game! Good job m8, you're almost there!

-Late Game (The End):

Late game is where probably the biggest mistakes are made! I have seen so many low elo games thrown due to players not knowing how to end the god damn game!!!

At this point most of the enemy towers should be gone and your team should be decently fed. So this means it is time to group and push down one lane, typically mid for whatever reason, hard! If you're really fed then the enemy team can't typically really stop you. At this point it is YOUR GAME! My suggestion is to push down a lane and pick up an inhib or maybe grab two. This means the enemy team now has two lanes pushing 24/7 and they can't wander too far out of base.

This is a perfect time to start up a Baron! Baron is a key to winning a game in all elos. A Baron can do so very much and so many don't understand that! The buffs are amazing, the extra gold is great, and the best part is that the Baron monster is gone for quite some time so the enemy team can't grab it! Which makes it even harder to defend or do anything against your team.

So this Baron should be super easy to grab and shouldn't get contested at all. But if it is then that is GREAT! I love it when a dumb team decides to try and fight for Baron when we are fed and have taken some of their inhibs down. This means that there is either one or two of their guys waiting at base defending against the supers or their whole team is there and the supers are pushing in their towers. Either way this works to your advantage! You should be able to easily, as a team, split off of Baron and focus the enemy team picking up a ton of kills if not an ace (assuming their whole team is there). Then you don't even need Baron! You can easily push in their towers and probably GG it right there despite them maybe having one or two guys still up. That is an easy 2v5 with supers to aid.

There is a small chance of them grabbing the Baron out from under you if you try and go through with it but even with their Baron you should be able to pick off a few of them before they run away. Which means their Baron wasn't really worth it at all, especially if you grab their carries!

Once all of this goes down you should be able to easily push down the last lane, if there is one, and just end the game. Simply full team push down what is left of their base and grab that Nexus!

Now you know how to carry games in the famous League of Legends game!

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT LIES THERE? BEYOND THAT BEACH? IMORTALITY! TAKE IT... IT'S YOUR'S!!"

Important Tips To Carry:

-Punish Them!:

Alright, this is a VERY basic concept. The enemy team will make mistakes and there is no doubt about it. Even the pro players make mistakes. But the difference between pro players making mistakes and Bronze players making mistakes it that...

The enemy won't punish them!!! If you see the enemy making mistakes then use that! Use it to your advantage to hurt them even more.

Even I make mistakes in game, no I am far from perfect, but yet I have noticed so many times I haven't had anything in response to my mistakes. I have hyper-extended as an ADC or squishy top, I have full lane pushed into the enemy tower, I have face checked bushes and watched the enemy jungler run away while their ally is ready to try and make the play!

These are all things that should be punished if done. If the enemy over extends in his lane and is an easy gank; kill him! It isn't just the jungle that can gank. If you're a mid player and the jungle is busy but your laner has B'd or is playing safe; go ahead and pick up that extra kill/assist.

If you're laning against someone who is being super aggressive, PUNISH THEM! I can not count the number of times I have played Shen top and a Riven or Aatrox or someone would try and dive me when I have low health under turret. I punished them and picked up the reward for it!

Or the amount of times that I have been playing a mid laner who is super pokey (like Ziggs) against an enemy who won't run out of their back lines. Throw out your abilities for poke damage and control the minions so that you can deny the enemy farm and take your own for coin.

-This is A Team Game:

Just remember this simple fact...That is all. This is a team game and you need to be able to help or play with your team as best you can.

If your mid laner is doing bad and you gank from top lane, try to get THEM the kill. THEY need it more than you do, assuming you're wrecking your lane with what I have taught you.

Now actually I play the jungler role like this at all times. I am the jungler, it is my job to get my lanes fed. I do not need kills. I can live off of free jungle farm (and a bit of taxes lol) and assists. I only take kills if either the laner is obviously totally worthless or they are unable to secure the kill. Because either way they get XP and gold for the assist.

You're not a God of the arena here. You can't 1v5, if you can then the enemy team is horrid and if you lose you need to uninstall right this second. So don't bother trying to 1v5 or 1v3 or even 1v2 most times. If you are doing as I say and you are carrying; you're death is not worth two of the enemy teams deaths. This is especially true if you have more...undesirable team mates. So try and help your team to become fed as you are. Give them kills when able, let them take more farm, help them get objectives, solo Dragon (later on in the game) as much as possible to feed your team!

Eventually you WILL need your team for at least meat shields and a bit extra damage. So don't rage at bad players, don't feed the trolls, don't shit talk the toxic morons. Just mute them and tend to the worthy players on your team!

-MA: Know what is around you! Know what the mid laner is doing, what the bot laners are doing, where your jungle is, where your team is pinging and what the are pinging. Make sure you're always checking every single inch of that mini-map constantly. This can literally cause you to win the game on its own.

-Vision is Key:

It is the supports job to ward as much as he possibly can while denying the enemy team vision as well. But this is also true for the jungler. They should be warding the jungle in general, objectives such as Baron or Dragon, and clearing wards as much as possible.

Now I know it is their jobs to provide vision for the most part. But due to trinkets everyone can provide some vision, even in that small of a way. Do not be afraid to buy wards despite your role!

No matter what role I am playing I will typically keep at least 1 ward on me, along with my trinket. Why? Because VISION IS KEY!!!

-Learn!!!

I see so many people, especially in lower elos, not knowing what items to build, not knowing the enemy champ, etc, etc. You must have knowledge of the game before starting to play ranked. You need to know what all the items are, what they do, and what they are best against.

Learn your champions inside out. Every single one of them from every role. I am not saying you need to know exactly what the cool down on a Karthus Q is at 30% Cool Down Reduction (CDR) but you do need to know at least what these enemy champs do and who they work best against or who can work best against them!

Learn from your mistakes!!! I can't count the number of times I have watched lower elo players simply do the same mistake over and over and over again. You need to be able to know when you fucked up, admit it, accept it, and change it.

Watch and learn from people. Watch the pros stream or at least people of Gold elo or above. Pick up tips from them. Watch what they do and learn why they do it and how it effects the game. They are called 'pros' for a reason. They are higher elo than you for a reason. They play better than you FOR A REASON! They were where you are now and they were able to learn what they needed to take them to the next step.

-Map Control!:

Now this does tie into what I was saying about vision. Vision is key to map control.

Map control is having superior vision, having lane waves pushed when possible, etc, etc. Basically map control is the art of making your enemy kill themselves by giving them no other option but to make a mistake.

If you have vision, you won't need to fear ganks as much and can easily counter gank which will cause their jungler to fall behind and you to rise above. You can also see enemy movements to objectives such as Baron or Dragon. You can also see if the enemies are attempting to gank a ally by cutting through the jungle. Another great thing about vision is you can know where more of the enemy team is and know when things are just basically safe for you to make plays or push lanes.

Having vision which is shutting down their ganks and counter plays goes great with a nice bit of super mega ultra wave push! Keep those creeps pushed down the lanes as much as possible. Now when you're able to get a bit better with controlling the minion waves you will be able to push lanes down their throats while also denying them farm. Denying them farm is key to putting them behind and keeping them behind. This usually will allow for some free poke chances too which might eventually lead to the enemy backing and leaving that tower to be yours for the taking.

If you are even doing just the basics of controlling the minion waves, controlling the objectives and jungle, along with your superior vision; you will start to see the enemy mess up and make small or large mistakes. PUNISH THEM!

-End The Game!:

I know and have witnessed many people who can play their champs great. They can win lane phase without a problem. But they lose almost every game unless someone else carries them in another way other than kills.

Why is this? Because they do not know how to END THE GAME! Carrying a LoL games is not all about just getting fed. As I said before you need to get the objectives.