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Silver Player trying to Learn how to Carry

Canon Minion·8/13/2015, 7:41:17 PM·2 votes·1,147 views

I generally do well in games. I regularly win my lane, get objectives , and roam if possible to try to get my teammates ahead. Admittedly, my cs is often lowers Lower than I would like, but it's rarely terrible. I forget to buy regular wards sometimes, unless I'm supporting, but always buy pink wards to get deep vision in the enemy jungle.

I don't have a main, though I do exceptionally well with Cho'gath jungle and amumu (>60% win rates over 50-ish games). I can often carry games with these champs, which tells me that I do actually know how to win. But, sometimes games seem hopeless.

My last game, for example, falls into this category. I went 27-7-10 with veigar, and took down 3 towers, stole a baron, and had two quadrakills. I took at least two champs with me each time I died, and put all lanes ahead by ganking with our jungler. And yet, we lost- our sivir charged into 1v4's to chase the low-health support, and the team generally ignored any/all warning pings. Our blitz repeatedly pulled their gnar into the center of our team, ensuring the gnar could pull off a 5-man ult multiple times. Gangplank, encouraged by his early lead, decided he was a god and proceeded to feed my Brand and botlane's Varus. Our amumu and I both had >70% kill participation - I was in on 34/44 kills.

We lost. Every lane lost, including mine- though I had a gold advantage over brand, once toplane, botlane, and the enemy kayle were fed enough, they plowed through my towers, while I asked "shove top, 5 mid, help would be cool".

Don't get me wrong. I messed up during the game, and those mistakes were significant ones- I missed my stun on kayle once, letting her pop her ult and melt my team. I missed my zhonyas once, got caught by brand's ult, and died, losing us a tower. If I died, our teamfight was over, as no one else really did much damage.

I don't know how to carry games, is what I'm saying. I can do well, snowball my lane, and help others- but if they can't do anything with the leads I give them, I don't know how to compensate for the slack.

Thresh is the best example of this. My Thresh KDA is good, though my winrate is godawful. I ward, I generally make good calls, and I land my hooks. I know a bunch of thresh tricks, and while I'm no master, I do well in lane more often than not as thresh. Part of my poor thresh Winrate is a streak of 10 games where I went solo not as thresh- not by choice, but because my adc was afk. (I actually got first blood a few of those games, which made me happy). But if the Adc connects on time, oftentimes I can't Carry the game. I may peel decently, initiate well, force towers down, steal dragons with the Hook of God- but my winrate is still awful.

Does anyone have universal tips and tricks to getting one's winrates up? Particularly with midland and support champions? Thanks to anyone who actually finished reading this, I truly appreciate it.

6 Comments

disregardable8/13/2015, 7:48:03 PM1 votes

Kills aren't worth dying for. Pressure the objectives, not the enemy team. Always ping objectives as soon as you see someone on their team die. If they lose 2 people, you should be taking a tower and a dragon. If they lose 4 people, you should be taking 2 towers and a dragon, if baron isn't up. Don't just back as soon as they die, don't overstay when they'll be up in 5 seconds. Games really can be decided by your small mistakes, so minimize them. Do not die more than 4 times if you're the carry.

Power Cosmic8/13/2015, 8:08:29 PM1 votes

Teamwork carries.

Wolf Queen8/13/2015, 8:29:10 PM1 votes

Become a 1 trick pony with a champ that doesnt rely on team fights. Teamwork carries higher elo. In low elo trying to get teamwork is like winning the lottery. Focus on yourself. Champs like rengar, kha'zix, udyr, champs that can solo carry and dont rely on a team

Lithality8/14/2015, 12:07:08 AM1 votes

Veigar is burst. Play DPS carries.

Silver pubstompers: YI, Tryn, Kha'zix (don't play him, he's hard), Tristana

See the pattern here? Resets, split push power, pick power, snowball hard, unstoppable when fed, mobility to not get caught out

Cruk8/14/2015, 8:36:29 AM1 votes

Every single time you are about to fight ask yourself two questions, what can i gain from this? and, what can i lose from this? If you can gain more than just a kill, you can get an objective or deep vision after you kill, then its worth. If you opponent can do the same thing as you, its not worth. What im saying is, that dying or killing somebody is the only outcome of a death, pressure and objectives come into play when death timers are ticking, always make sure you are in scenarios where your death timer doesnt mean as much as your enemies does.

Miror B8/14/2015, 12:02:58 PM1 votes

I'd actually reccomend getting a duo partner. Less chance of bullsh't, and if you both know what you're doing you can effectively control 2 lanes (assuming neither of you goes support).