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Advice for winning ranked games?

DynamicEwok··1 votes·885 views

So every time I play ranked, it ends in defeat. I'm on a 8 game losing streak and it seems to get worst every game. I'm looking for advice on how I can not lose every game. I've tried to roam and get kills for other players, but they just continue dying and feeding the enemies. I'm not the best farmer but I've been trying to get better. I main mid and am an okay jungler. If anyone has any tips on how I can stop losing every game and climb out of Silver IV, it would be very appreciated.

Here's a link to my match history so you can see I'm not just trash: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-history/NA1/219864468?matchType=2

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Frigid Ice Storm2 votes

Sec this is gonna be a bit long, prepare ur butt

Frigid Ice Storm2 votes
  1. After you kill your opponent, or they go back, use your skills to push the lane hard and then you go back. This will cause their tower to kill YOUR minions, denying your opponent the experience and gold he would have gotten if the lane pushed at its natural pace

  2. Use your trinket to ward the intersection between the enemy red buff, the enemy raptors, and the entrance to your lane. Most junglers look for a gank after killing their red buff, as the buff allows them more kill pressure. Warding that intersection will allow you to stay safe. This rule generally applies to mid lane, if you're top lane or something, ward based on what side you're on and how pushed you are. Here is a picture on where you should be warding http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=867791

  3. If you're jungling, try to gank a lot, and try to let your laner get the kill. This will lead to your laners getting an advantage and not needing your help anymore, while the enemy will rage at their jungler for not ganking or saying " omg gg getting camped." This will ruin their morale, and distract them from the game

  4. In teamfights, always focus the carries/person that does the most damage. People in lower elos tend focus enemies based on HEALTH, so most often the squishy support will die first while the enemy mid laner and adc dish out A LOT of damage.

  5. Don't go X build based on Y champion. Always switch up your build based on your opponent, and their team. For example, if I'm playing Talon mid and I'm against a Diana, getting hexdrinker early will DRASTICALLY reduce her kill pressure. Most assassins have JUST the right amount of damage to 1-0 someone. If you get that extra resistance, it will increase your survivability greatly. You don't have to finish the whole item right away, just get the component that is effective against your opponent. If i'm against an AP top laner like Vladimir or Rumble, I get the specter's cowl pretty early, but hold off finishing the spirit visage until later in the game. If they have a lot of CC ( Ashe, Leona, etc) get merc treads. If they have a lot of autoattack based champs like a Vayne Top, Jinx ADC, Xin Zhao jungle, get a ninja tabi. So on and so forth.

Frigid Ice Storm2 votes

Also, don't just roam when you feel like it. There's a time and place to roam. If your opponent can push really hard, don't go bot because your opponent can just take your tower while you're going a mission that's 50/50 you'll kill anyone. Only roam when your opponent is dead, or has went to base. You push out the wave, and then roam to top/bot. Always stay positive, even if you aren't. If the score is 11-20, don't type " GG JUNGLER HASNT GIVEN ME A SINGLE BLUE THIS GAME, GG NO GANKS, GG BOT IS TRASH, GG FRIKIN TOP LANER NEVER TELEPORTS, GG I GOT COUNTERED." Giving false hope is better than ruining morale. If you say " hey guys, if we can catch someone out then we can force baron 5v4 and push turrets. Lets put some wards around so we can make picks on people" this will give your team a PURPOSE. You have to remember that there are HUMANS on the other side of the screen, they have emotions too, whether it be anger, joy, desperation, or anything.

NhFiBwf89q2 votes

ALWAYS be positive, you won't lose anything for being positive, and you might get wins cause of it, it sets the mood of the team especially in champ select.

TotN Titan2 votes

"Learn to dodge" is really a horrible bit of advice given what I have seen in your match history.

I see that you aren't just "trash", but I also see a huge problem: You have some serious deficiencies in your last hitting. If you are only getting 70 CS in a 20 minute game, 139 CS in a 36 minute game, or even 117 CS in a 42 minute game, you are not getting the job done. You are going to stay silver for the immediate and foreseeable future with such abysmal last hitting. It doesn't matter how many kills or how many assists you grab on assassin champions like Ahri and Fizz, if you aren't getting gold from the creeps, you are going to be severely destroyed. Even in the games that you have actually won in ranked, you have been carried by your team because your ability to earn gold is crippled without reasonable CS.

One thing that many low Elo summoners don't really understand is that if you can control your minion waves with good, strong CS ability, you can keep pressure on all of the enemy's towers. You will gain objectives much easier. You can push up your ward lines past the river a lot more safely. You can set up picks in the jungle while the enemy team has to defend their turrets from being taken down by minion waves. If you are roaming (as many good mid laners will do), it means that you need to get as much gold out of your minions as you can before you push them into your enemy's turret. The better you get at that, the more pressure you put on their mid laner to keep up. Work on your CS and own your lane. Dominate the late game by using your gold advantage from last hitting to outscale the enemy. To climb, you need to carry your games instead of being carried.

Another observation is that you never upgrade your trinket. This means that you are constantly at a vision disadvantage and probably don't view this as high of a priority as you should. I didn't go into the detailed match reports on any of your games, but I'm pretty sure I don't need to. If you're not buying pink wards, using your yellow trinket consistently, or upgrading your trinket to allow for wider spread vision, you are never going to climb. As an assassin, it is in your best benefit to have vision of the enemy when they split from their team. You can use that advantage to get the jump on the enemy and pick them off to give your team more pressure on the objectives on the map. Vision is king in this game. If you don't worship the king, you are going to lose and lose a lot.

My last bit of advice is that you can't hold your standards to what your teammates are doing. If you're focusing on how your team is feeding or dying, you are less focused on the mistakes you are making. You need to win your lane, win it hard, and then look at the other areas of the map that you can help out in. Don't roam when you are behind. Look at the item builds of the other lanes before you decide to roam and be sure that you can give an advantage where you are going to. Don't feed the other laners a kill because they have stronger items than you and your teammate. If you focus on your own play and how you can use your own strength to force the game, that's when you will start to carry.

Good luck on your climb.

ilt1 votes

learn to dodge, I used this to get out of bronze

ValyrianBlade1 votes

Can you elaborate on this?

I never dodged, but when i started ranked i tried looking up my allies each game to make a guess on whether we'd win or lose / who'd do well or poorly. There may have been a couple times i was entirely right that someone ended up being terrible (e.g. their last 3 games are with the same champion they're picking and they had kda < 0.5 each game), but half of the time I'd lose games with teammates that had average previous performance and half the time I'd win games with allies who had a couple bad past games.

Basically, dodging wouldn't have helped at all. What strategies do you use?

ilt2 votes

I know it seems like a douchey move, but I look up my teammate's profile every champ select. If there are 2 or more players that constantly go 3/16, I dodge.

I also dodge depending on team comp. If enemy team has a lot of high AOE CC tanks like Cho and Malph while my team is all squishy, I dodge.

Some champions to look out for on your own team: -Yasuo -Gnar -Riven -Nidalee support -Vayne

Unless you can see that they are consistently doing well and carrying games with these champs, dodge. These champs are cancer in low ELO.

ValyrianBlade1 votes

Thanks for the tip!

Gnar and vayne, really? Surprised but I'll keep an eye on that.

Dodging on team comp - understand that, at low elo team comp probably matters a lot because teams can't close out games very well.

Do you ever dodge /dodge more frequently based on your pick? I.e. is there a team comp situation you would dodge if you were picking late and got an off role but wouldn't dodge the same comp if you had your main role? Or is it best to only dodge based on allies? (I was off the game for a while so playing normals, but I've had 3 support games in a row with strong starts [3/0/4, 0/0/7, 2/1/9] that i just get destroyed mid /late game - I'm wondering if i should dodge when i'm support but stay in if I'm jungle for example).

ilt1 votes

I dodge regardless of my role or champion cause I'm not good enough to hard carry alone.

Frigid Ice Storm1 votes

( I'm typing in separate posts because I think of some new advice ) If you're on a losing streak, take a break and play some normals. Once you get confident in your self, go back to ranked and play with a positive attitude. Since you seem to play assassins ( Ahri/Fizz), and I play a lot of assassins too, my advice would be to be very aggressive. Assassins are all about getting a lead and snowballing it. If you never get a lead, how are you going to win? Constantly harass your opponent, get them low. Go in for the kill, push the wave, then go back to base and buy. Once you kill them about 2 or 3 times you can look for a roam, because you can afford missing some cs and still having an advantage. Don't roam too much though, or you will lose your experience and gold advantage. Its just as important helping top lane as it is helping bot. Their jungler can't be everywhere at once. Help top so he can just dominate his lane and constantly be pushing, putting pressure on top. The same will happen with bot. No matter where their jungler goes, they will lose in some way because you just push other lanes.

Their Jungler1 votes

I'm 0-5 after my placement matches and my tip to you is that you HAVE to play your A game. Your opponents will notice if you are the weak link in the team and abuse you if that is the case.

Frigid Ice Storm1 votes

Add me in game, ill coach you a bit and tell you what you're doing wrong

Dank Hangler1 votes

Gank Lanes, dont feed, ward shit Fizz fish fish fish

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