Being Helpfully Ahead

EvanTau·1/30/2015, 5:09:12 AM·1 votes·824 views

Hello Summoners,

After recently doing poorly in my provisional matches, I was placed in Bronze II. Now that I'm there, I've recently switched to the ADC role and have been producing very steady KDA's of around 16-8-12. Yet, I'm still losing a lot of these matches. I'm in no way blaming my team because I'm just as much at fault by taking 16 kills but not being able to carry. I was wondering if any of y'all had any tips as to how to lead a team, communicate an effective plan, regroup after a rough fight, or any tip that would help me use my advantage to help the rest of my team in an encouraging way!!

~EvanTau

(If anyone is looking for a ranked teammate that can ADC or jungle feel free to respond here!!)

5 Comments

2000boxes1/30/2015, 5:35:54 AM2 votes

go to other lanes and give them a kill use your fedness to get your team fed

or you can ignore me my advice is usually seen as bias cause im bronze V

hh the thinker1/30/2015, 5:28:22 AM1 votes

just ping. that's about all you need. you could also say drag or baron if you want your team to try and get it.

when ahead, you can pick up a pink ward and place it somewhere. the extra vision can help a lot sometimes. not sure what you need to work on without watching so that's about all I have.

King Slime Mac1/31/2015, 1:12:41 AM1 votes

If you don't have anything positive to say don't say anything at all. Being negative can affect your entire team. If someone makes a huge mistake chances are they realize this & as prone as bronze players are to ragequitting, hearing their team dump on them for that mistake will make them keep making mistakes and/or start to intentionally feed/ragequit.
After you get a kill(s), always ask yourself: "Ok I just got a kill, what objectives can I get bc of this?". I.e. can you get a tower since you just got a double kill on the enemy bot lane? Can your team get drag since you just killed the enemy jungle while yours is still alive? Can you safely securebaron bc few or no enemy players are alive after a teamfight?
What I was getting to in #2...FOCUS ON TAKING OBJECTIVES! This is probably the most important thing you can learn to do in order to start carrying yourself to higher divisions. Taking towers/dragons/baron wins games. Even if the other team is ahead in kill score that means nothing if you already took one or multiple of their inhibs and push in their base with baron buff.
Know when to farm & when to group. As an ADC you never really want to be split pushing in a lane away from your team when a teamfight could happen any second. Leave that to AD assassins/top laners that either have teleport, have some form of escape like zeds shadow or talons ultimate, or are fed enough to duel anyone from the opposing team & win. I say this bc ADC is usually the position that does most of the damage in a teamfight just bc they can consistently do damage as opposed to an assassin/mage that has to rely on a combo to take one or a few people out and then they're virtually useless while everything is on cooldown. & going back to what you originally said in your post about feeling bad for having that many kills...don't. In most situations an ADC is the best one to be fed like that bc of their consistent damage. But if you do completely smash your lane then try to help out mid. That way you aren't too far from bot in case they try to take your tower & you can share the gold with the other carry on your team
Don't chase kills halfway across the map. If you're in a teamfight and everyone on your team is left alive while 2 people on the enemy team are low and running then have the good sense to not waste time chasing them & instead go back to what I said before & push a lane to take a tower or get dragon/baron. & that doesn't apply to only teamfights. If you get an enemy low & they start to run, think about if you can get to and kill them in the next 5 seconds & if you can't then don't chase, especially if you don't know where other members of their team are & you don't have the area where they're running to warded bc it could be a bait or you could instead spend that time taking objectives. However, if you have all their inhibs, & baron/dragon are down, chase the scrub all the way to his nexus.
Ward. As an ADC it isn't your job to place the majority of the wards but that doesn't mean you shouldn't contribute at all. What I usually do is complete my first item then buy a pink ward & another green ward every back if I have the money. If you back frequently between items you don't need to do that though as ADC's scale with items & delaying that too much can set you too far behind...bc of this I follow the simple rule of no more than 3-4 consumables each item. I.e 1 ward and 2 or 3 pots.
Work on getting better at cs'ing. Laning phase is usually the most important time to have better cs than your opponent as usually the first ADC to get their first items finished will win lane(assuming equal skill level). If you poke the enemy & miss a couple cs for it, & keep doing that consistently without getting a kill while the enemy lane just keeps racking up cs then they could come back to lane with a bf sword while you come back with a pickaxe and lose bc of that.
Work on improving your awareness. You said you avg being 16/8...8 deaths is usually to high to carry with. A good kd ratio for carrying is usually 3/1 or better. The reason for this is because when you get on multiple killing sprees and the enemy team gets shutdown money for ending those sprees, it is much easier for them to close the gap you have made between your team and theirs. Getting back to the awareness, you can prevent those shutdowns by not face checking unwarded areas without knowing where some of the enemy team are, positioning yourself properly in teamfights(being the back line & focusing whatever is in your face trying to kill you instead of diving towards their carries) & paying more attention to your mini map. Try to at least glance at it every few seconds so you have a general idea of where everyone is or if you don't see an enemy icon, you know to play a little safer.

I know I have said a lot and it's impossible to work on all these things at once so just try to pick one thing & focusing on improving it until you feel like you've gotten it down enough to move on to another area.

Ok...I'm done now my fingers are cramping bc i typed this all out on my phone >_