After going from silver to gold here are some tips and tricks that I learned to help.

syklove·Jun 12, 2015·3 votes·1,813 views

There are a million and one points of advice that can help one climb elo so I will not be covering everything. (For example: "GET GOOD AT LAST HITTING AND DON'T FLAME TEAMMATES" is kind of a no brainer) Also, these tips are from my own personal experiences. P.S. : Sorry for the caps lock speech.. I get emotional

Table of Contents

Pre-Ranked/Normals
Specific Champions that you need to watch out for
Post Game

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PLAY NORMALS A LOT. I have a SHIT TON of normal games played and they will help you prepare for ranked. No I don't mean "play 20 games after reaching level 30".. I mean play 200+ games before playing ranked. I know you want that championship skin but if you think you can get to gold after playing 20 games after level 30... sorry bro but enjoy bronze. You should also play a couple of normal games in between your ranked games. Sometimes you just want to play for fun (like support ) and normal games is perfect for that. FINALLY AND THIS IS IMPORTANT : IF YOU THINK YOU DO NOT BELONG IN YOUR ELO... FIND A HIGH PLAT TO DUO WITH IN NORMALS... YOU WILL LEARN A LOT AND IF YOU ARE FREQUENTLY GETTING SHAT ON IN LANE THAN PERHAPS SILVER IS WHERE YOU BELONG AND NOT GOLD. I UNDERSTAND THAT NORMAL QUEUE AND RANKED QUEUE HAVE DIFFERENT MMR'S BUT TRUST ME ON THIS AND FIND SOME HIGH ELO BUDDIES TO HAVE FUN WITH IN NORMALS.

I would give a shoutout here but I'm not sure if that is allowed. (I know naming and shaming isn't allowed)

This is the true heart as to how I climbed to gold.

So your in the middle of the game.. you call out your roles and then minimize your computer and start surfing the web and then maybe come back once it is your turn to pick..... Check beforehand and watch what the enemy picks..... IF YOUR OPPONENTS PICK THESE CHAMPIONS YOU NEED TO STOP WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU ARE DOING. IF THEY PICK THESE CHAMPIONS YOU NEED TO PUT ON YOUR TRYHARD PANTS ON. YOU NEED TO START COMMUNICATING WITH YOUR TEAM IN CHAT AND START COUNTERPICKING. BELIEVE ME; IF THEY PICK THESE CHAMPIONS THEY DESERVE TO GET CAMPED, FOCUSED, AND COUNTERPICKED.

TL;DR : FUCK THESE GUYS UP BOYS! GIVE THEM NO QUARTER!

My favorite pick against these guys?

Here is the list:

Master Yi: This guy will DELETE your squishies. If I had a quarter for every time the 1-4 Master Yi came in and then got a reset city which suddenly made him the most dangerous player on the enemy team... SPECIAL SHOUTOUT TO .... YOU NEED TO FUCK THOSE GUYS UP HARDCORE.

Nasus: A ticking time bomb that can only be delayed. I had a game where the only person that could get to and kill our backline was their 1-7 They build full tank and deal ridiculous amounts of damage if they are given even a few minutes of farm. Try to end the game quickly if possible or you need to start kiting like a silver player on kalista.

Riven: Similar to Master Yi : No matter how hard you shut them down they can somehow still DELETE your squishies. That said.. if you can survive Riven's all in and then kill her.. you won the lane... until she gets one fucking kill on a different lane.

Vayne: To put things into perspective: a with 4 points in silver bolts deals 8% of your maximum hp as true damage. That means if vayne has LITERALLY NO ITEMS BUT HAS POINTS IN SILVER BOLTS; SHE CAN KILL EVEN THE TANKIEST OF DUDES. I have NEVER had a game where the match lasted 35+ minutes and thought to myself "we are losing because is not pumping out any dps". Sure I may have had a game where vayne was the only one pumping out dps but I have NEVER EVER had a game where it is minute 35 and we are losing because vayne is dealing no damage.

P.S. ARMOR DOES NOT COUNTER VAYNE. ARMOR HELPS AGAINST VAYNE BUT YOU CAN'T BE LIKE "I GOT AND SO VAYNE SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DUEL ME/KILL ME." BURST/CC AND COUNTER .

: A nightmare in solo queue .. if can instakill your squishies without using her ult (or channeling it for like .25 seconds) than it is G fucking G.

// Champions that I did not place on the list:

Get a and if your adc says something like "I'm building but I got the BF sword first because I'm not dealing enough damage even though he has then you need to kindly ask him to stay far back/hug a teammate with hard cc. " This is a true story.

: actually rekts her so hard it is funny.. The problem is getting people to buy the damn thing.

What about ? It is easy: If Rito releases a flat out OP champion than just ban the sonofabitch. Big shoutout to players saying pick to counter the permaroot.. Their SHAT ON our pre 6.

/ : These guys hurt late game but they can be sub par if they are shut down in lane.. unlike or .

: Similar to in his ability to do insane amounts of damage and clean up; however, in your elo he does not know how to use his wind wall so you should easily be able to kill him.

: Not really an issue but she actually demolishes buildings... I was trying to stop her from killing our nexus turrets and pinging my teammates going HALP IS WINNING THE GAME!! Of course team does not respond... just make sure to keep her away from buildings.

I'm sure there are others but these are just the champions that are coming off the top of my head.

Post Game:

Tip number 1: Check your recently played and look at what rank your opponents are at. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW SATISFYING IT IS TO BE SILVER 1 AND GOLD 4/5 TEAMMATES AND SHITTING ON A TEAM WITH 3 GOLD 3'S AND 2 PLAT 5'S. It is a huge boost to your morale and makes you feel so good about yourself. At the same time if you lost a game and your opponents were LOWER elo than you.. well then you need to shape up because Rito will think that you should be in silver 5 rather than silver 2. P.S. NEVER DO THIS BEFORE THE GAME STARTS.. ONLY AFTER.. BELIEVE ME I HAVE SEEN SOME TERRIBLE PLAYERS WHO TURN OUT TO BE PLAT 5'S AFTER CHECKING THE RECENTLY PLAYED.

Finally, if you are going "WHY IS RITO PUTTING ME UP AGAINST PLAT 5 WHEN I'M SILVER 1?" It is actually a GREAT thing. Right after becoming silver 1 with 0 LP I had a 3 game loss streak... BUT I DIDN'T GET DEMOTED SO TECHNICALLY LP WISE I LOST NOTHING HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE. If I was playing against say silver 4/5 than maybe Rito might go "hoy, you don't belong in silver 1 after all; go back to silver 2".

TL;DR : Thank you for reading my post and I hope you found it usefull. Don't worry the people who writes responses without even reading the post will not have read the TL;DR.

5 Comments

BluePolarizerJun 12, 20152 votes

Very good tips especially for champ select. I have to say, Vayne has always frustrated me to no end even in plat.

Another champ where you have to stop whatever the fk you are doing and counter: Ahri . If you do not have enough point and click CC you WILL lose the game to a good Ahri if it goes late enough. Ahri's problem is low base damage and mana. Her strength is scaling and mobility. Guess what matters less and less as the game goes on, and what matters more and more as the game goes on?

Also disagree on Jax. Jax doesn't need to win lane; he is just as dangerous as Yi in the late game. Riven's late game is actually bad compared to the likes of Yi or Jax because they're dealing the equivalent of her entire combo every 2 seconds in autoattacks.

ErdsdaleJun 13, 20151 votes

Definitely agree on this. Riven can and does get shut down pretty hard if you beat her in lane (see: Garen). Jax/Yi/Nasus mad scary. Also Vi. You can't ward enough against a smart Vi, and she offers some pretty fearsome damage with no items...

BluePolarizerJun 13, 20151 votes

Vi doesn't require a change of playstyle though. I think the most dangerous enemy jungler is Shaco. You must change your playstyle against Shaco otherwise he's gonna hit 10-0 at some point.

sykloveJun 13, 20151 votes

Thank you very much for the response. While in my personal experience I have never seen Ahri as a STOP EVERYTHING AND START COUNTERING kind of champion from my experience. I will agree that if you do not have point and click CC she can be a nightmare to deal with (similar to Kalista ) . I'm not much of a mid laner so when I play mid lane I usually play TwistedFate and start getting free kills once I hit 6 or I pick Veigar and play extremely passively. Perhaps this is the reason why I do not mind Ahri so much. In regards to Jax I find that at least you have time to respond to him jumping on top of you ( he is usually animating the stun). MasterYi and Riven can jump you at any time which makes it much harder to not give up kills. Once you reach higher elo you start to realize (oh I see X champion and he knows he can kill me and I know I can kill him). In silver/below unless someone is hugely overfed I feel like players tend to not realize this and get shocked when Riven summoner 4 stuns and then eats them. In regards to Jax late game I find that if you can shut him down early he has a really difficult situation come mid game. He can build tanky and survive ,but this makes him unable to get a ton of kills to catch up, or he builds damage and hopes he can pull off a Katarina level cleanup without any cleanup mechanics. Of course if he can bring the game to late game then he becomes a terrifying monster. In contrast, if you are MasterYi and you had a shit early game; don't worry all you need to do is wait for your teammates to do all the hard work and then press R and then press Q. HOWEVER, IF Jax gets fed early and then gets more fed come mid game; he can actually 1v4 and I have seen a fed item 3718 Jax do just that in many games.

Finally in regards to Riven I find that indeed shutting her down early can win you the lane. However, if she built "correctly" and by correctly I mean : STACK LONG SWORDS THEN MAKE BRUTALIZER THAN BUY ANOTHER LONG SWORD BECAUSE I GET TANKY WHEN I GET DAMAGE HUE HUE; she can still easily kill your adc/mid if she can get near them. Remember; this is low elo so "peeling" is "THAT Pantheon IS BANGING OUR Jinx . I ACTUALLY DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT OUR Jinx BUT THAT GANKED ME EARLY SO ITS TIME TO GET MY REVENGE." Which is why I pick Leona because STUNS ARE THE BEST PEEL. But I digress.....

A funny riven story while I'm at it: I had a Riven on our team playing against a Jax in the top lane. She was 0-3 right as I completed my first full jungle clear. (as in kill jungle camps, back and then finish up any remaining one) I go top and ping her to "bait" of course she all in's a Jax with all of his CD's up but whatever I'm Amumu I got this. She gets the kill on jax and I ping her to summoner 12 mid while I come gank middle... she gets a second kill and all of a sudden she can now beat Jax in lane and "carried us" by deleting people left and right.... REMEMBER SHE WAS 0-3 AT THE START BUT THANKS TO ONE JUNGLE ROTATION AND 1 SS SHE NOW WINS THE FUCKING GAME BY PUMPING OUT TONS OF DAMAGE. What happened to Jax ? He actually became a non factor even though he got 3 early kills... Yes; solo queue silver is indeed a strange place.