Gotten myself from bronze 4 to bronze 1 but at this point I usually start to loose since my enemies are getting alot better. Is there any tips for the final and also, is there anything I should know before I get into silver?
Silver is just bronze with season end rewards. :(
For best results, don't pay attention to your LP or your series. Just go into each and every game focused on doing your best in that game. You don't want to get stressed out in your series and you don't want to be overly upset about losing important games.
If you recognize that it's harder to win when you are up against harder opponents, that's good! It's way better than the Elo Hell attitude that says you'll start winning more once you stop getting bad teammates. You recognize that your skill level contributes to your team's chance of success (or hurts it, if you are outmatched); when you know that, you feel more rewarded as you improve. Is there anything in particular that you're looking for help with? Who are your mains and what do you consider your strengths and weaknesses?
Don't get your hopes up, it's just a shinier Bronze.
Good luck on climbing though.
{quoted} Gotten myself from bronze 4 to bronze 1 but at this point I usually start to loose since my enemies are getting alot better. Is there any tips for the final and also, is there anything I should know before I get into silver?
you should know that teams in silver are far worse, and much more annoying.......
I pushed through gold and plat by playing my best 3 or 4 champions. Maybe give that a try, while still being flexible with your team (those 4 champions covered 4 different roles)
Try to keep your team morale high by congratulating players on good plays. A simple "gj, [name]" is good enough. On the same coin, don't get personally frustrated when your team gets out of hand. Bad games happen, just try not to let it get to you.
For the final push, you definitely don't want to play on tilt. If those bad games are bothering you, take a break. Start again when you're feeling good again.
Really. The morale trick works wonders. Try it.
I would recommend getting a friend you can trust to play with you well. I climbed out of B with a support main, that I had played normals with so much that we were perfect in communication, without any pings or skype. She went in, I did too. She'd sacrifice herself without regret if it would keep me alive as adc, etc.
Also, if you feel like you need advised on basic gameplay ;
http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/tips-tricks/W7KqoJiI-free-coaching-from-diamonds
Free coaching Saturday night from Diamonds.
silver is about the same thing, but you get a boarder
Bronze 1 to Silver 5, you're essentially still in the same league. However, just as you noticed an increase in skill from Bronze 4 -> 1, there will be an increase as you go up in Silver.
inb4 downvoted by Golds who will say "Silver is shit, no skill, herpderp I'm shiny"
Lol Duo with someone.You can add me on FHmarshy or on smurff Chodath, i can help you thru the series. But after that, I have to be honest, silver isn't much better :)
Don't worry about it, high bronze and low silver are the same.
The level of play starts to increase when you get to silver 3 and up, they'll start matching you with low gold players.
warding tips/
warding bot lane bushes
like. the LANE BUSHES. not the river bush. or the tri-bush. but the lane bushes.
it's a matter of life or death, if you lose vision for just a moment, you're either kill't, or HAHAHA no moolah for you [GET OUTPLAYED]. plz. just ward it with that free trinket. imo, once you get used to it. you don't even need to ward the river.
roughly 3mins~ into the game would be an early gank. just play passively or go aggro for the lvl2 engage. then around 6mins~ for the double buff jungler gank threat. as long as you can guess where the enemy jungler is. don't even need to ward the river.
Mid lane. with the new raptors jungle buff. it becomes a pain to ward on that side of the map. cuz pink eye disease is too strong.
Top lane. ward deep into the river. like, in front of barons pit. or closer to top lane. your choice. tri-bush shouldn't be too much of a threat. but ward it when you can.
if you havent already known. you can buy wards too. invest into a pink ward if the enemy team has an Akali or Talon. pop the ward out early to scare them off from engaging. or wait for the moment they think they got it rollin, and turn it around with a well placed pink.
and finally. top half of the screen, left side.
Ally icons. if you're playing Kayle. and the fight gets intense and you're trying to ult that Cait but fat Cho's in the way!? ult Caitlyns icon.
and Green Dot = ult ready.
Silver is just bronze bro. Same people. same rage. same idiots. There are some good kids tho and there stomp you to death. but um..yea
Lower silver sucks, higher silver still sucks, but slightly less.
Umm... realize that things are common or uncommon for a reason. Knowing what's behind a pick rate is incredibly useful for determining for yourself what works and what doesn't.
Don't just pick a champ because you think that he's strong, you need to know if he's strong. Don't pick up an item every game just because you think it's better, know when and why it's better.
the only thing i can tell you is that you should have a few good champs in every role. you wont get the role you want every ranked game and having more champs in a role puts more options into what champ you pick so you can counter the other team's laner. Last is that you should just play a new champ or test a random build in a ranked game.
Evolve your thinking. Know that you and everyone else makes mistakes. Think about WHY a person did what they did. Just being receptive and looking for reasoning behind every decision without having a "I'm better" attitude will already put you into silver in due time. But for some general tips:
Main as 3 different roles, with at least 5 champs for each. But be sufficient with 1-3 champions in the other two roles. If you can play every role, then you know what each role does and why it does it. That is absolutely priceless information in this TEAM game. Instead of calling "I'm Mid". Say, "Mid Pref" or "fill". Instead of saying "Gank my lane", say "gank please"
Consider jungle routes you take when jungling. Enemies and allies do it too. Where would a WARD be placed to keep YOU from ganking? For top lane, its mostly river, and tri-brush for purple. Blue side can consider river/land for river sight and blue buff sight, but needs to ward purple's tri too then. For mid, if you don't actually get wards, use your trinket in a brush or tri area near either wraith camp. Play closer to that side. As ADC, you almost always are the brush warder after your supp's trinket wears off. You can also use it in the river brush or tri (as blue). As supp, start with a ward and either a red or yellow trinket. If you start red, you better wait till you see a ward go down before you use it. Better still, if you can distinguish if it is a ward or a trinket that went down. (know what items enemies have). If you start trinket (like 99% of the time) your trinket will be in the brush, depending on which side needs it. Don't rush placing it. See who is going to push first. Use actual wards in the river/tri because you have less opportunity to go there. Consider placing wards further out and in places that champions have to pass for a gank, but aren't common anti-ward spots (ie, don't ward dragon in his circle or right infront, ward next to the land across from it.)
If you see a enemy ward go down, Ping where it landed and say "river warded" or similar. This helps junglers immensely to navigate in a stealthy manor so as to gank successfully.
Speaking of which, junglers don't actually need to gank sometimes. If you see a ward or know a ward is there, you can kill it or run past, and then do a double take and go around the ward stealthy to another lane. The lane you were headed to knows you are near and will let your allies be safe a minute. Meanwhile, other lanes think you are there as well and will overextend. Take advantage.
Pay attention to where everyone is on minimap, and who has teleport. If you see jungler on minimap in any other lane, you are almost guaranteed safe for up to 15 seconds after they leave minimap vision. Take advantage and push during that time. If you don't know where enemy jungle is and your lane is pushing, either burst down the whole wave and run back to safety (don't even try to hit their turret) or take the time to ward, or at least play further back, enough so that the enemy mid can't gap clear to you with a flash+skill.
If you are being zoned to one side of a lane, that is the side they want you on. Prepare for gank. If opponent acts in a way inconsistent with how he has been the past 5 min. (ie doing bad and suddenly sets up for an aggressive push) Prepare for gank.
Learn to gate mana use effectively, as well as Cooldowns. A blitzcrank that already used his Q is basically useless for 10 seconds. Save your skills for when you KNOW that you will hit. Also, most of the time, level 1 skills should not be spammed for damage anyway. You gain levels pretty quick and the mana cost for that early damage makes you OOM much sooner then your opponent. If you wait for a skill to be lvl 2-3, it does 50% more damage for 20% lower mana costs. etc
Keep track of enemies' play style. Which direction did they dodge last time? Do they bee-line for turret? Did they aggressively engage you when you were near their attack range? Did they chase you? You can use all these to set up ganks for your jungler, or use multiple skillshots to trick an enemy into dodging into the worse of the two... etc
Pro tip: Never, ever insult your teammates. Instead, boost them and reassure them that you will still play with them and help them win the game.
Morale is extremely important when it comes to winning the game. When your team's morale is low, that means they are less willing to play well and more likely to play poorly. By insulting your teammates after anything, they will have lower morale, especially after they were horrified about their mistakes. If you absolutely must tell your teammate something, at least do it in a polite manner such as "Vayne, we need you for dragon, not trying to solo the bot turret."
Go hard or go home,Silver players are worse than bronze in NA. Play to carry your team and if you do make it to silver I would recommend stopping to train for a bit and get used to the elo change. it gets waay harder due to worse players and the inverted LP gains.
It may help to know what your preferences are. Any particular lane or types of champs you like to play?
Silver 5 is really Bronze 1. I had to go through 3 promos to get into S5 (which was really sad considering I had gained about 250 LP in the 48 hours before) mostly because while I'm sure I could have been playing better I was stuck in a lot of 4v5s and a 3v5. Seriously my second set of promos my ADC didn't connect at all the first game, the second game I had gotten my ADC to 4/0 and he disconnected, the 3rd game I finally got my ADC but our toplaner DCed and when he came back he was lvl 3 to his enemy top's level 10.
I think the promos into Silver are a lot more stressful because it's a best of 5 not a best of 3 kind of deal. It means that if you fail them you often go down by more LP than if you fail promos from B2-B1 or something like that.
Being low Silver won't feel much different. Although to be honest I think it's been a little bit easier for me to climb because I'm not walled in by that 5 game promos. It's taken me almost a week to get to my promos into S4, but I honestly haven't been playing ranked too much and every night when I went to bed if I had played ranked that day I was higher up the LP ladder than I was before.
But seriously treat S5 players like Bronze. You get to S5 and they can't really demote you unless you start to play like you're in B5, so a lot of the people who are crying that they 'can't climb' and that 'my teammates drag me down' in S5, no really they're like B3 players but they're stuck in silver.
Like honestly Silver 5 players aren't any better than Bronze players. I'm sure high Silver players are, but you've probably been paired with 'Silver 5' players since Bronze 3.
there will be actual silver players mixed in with really new lv 30's who dont know what cs'ing is.
Oh I guess as for tips for the final push. A good shotcaller wins games. Watch the pros play, watch friends of yours in higher elo play, watch the recommended games. Learn when to baron, dragon, and rotate. Politely direct your teammates to where they need to be, don't rage even if they start sucking. I've been winning a lot of my games (even ones I've done really horrible in) just by forcing dragons when the enemy botlane backs and convincing my team that post 20 minutes we're not just playing an ARAM (because that's what it feels like).
Also if you're playing a more supportive champ either top or jungle, Sightstone is still a good item especially if yo're not behind. You want to keep their jungle warded on the side(s) you have their outer turrets down on. Convince the whole team to buy pinks, to place wards, get the jungler to smite raptors and wolves, take the scuttler before an objective spawns instead of after it dies. It gives you the vision advantage (why do you need vision of a dead dragon? they're not going to have a party in dragon pit after dragon is killed) as well as the MS advantage. Always 'set up' objectives. If dragon spawns in 1 minute somebody should be red trinketing it and there should be wards placed around it. If you're going from mid to top to push the lane, ward their jungle on the way to get vision of enemies trying to flank you.
Also filling is nice. You don't have to fill position wise but look at what your team has and what the enemy team has. Pick a tank or a mage or a CC monster depending on what your team is lacking. If you get your main role also look at champions you play that synergize well with your team (Like somebody to initiate Orianna's ult, maybe somebody to lock a team down for Katarina's ult, a support like Soraka or Braum to keep a late game carry safe).
