Feel like I've hit a wall

Randomonium·Oct 11, 2015·1 votes·595 views

I'm a firm believer that if I'm good enough I'll rise in rank. The problem is that I'm having trouble winning and its getting harder and harder for me to identify what I'm doing wrong. My CS, while not amazing, is usually one of the best on the team (even if I'm in the jungle) and my kill participation is also almost always one of the highest as well. I just feel like everything falls apart around me and I don't have a lot of control over my teammates. They constantly push up without wards or overstay even though I ping them to retreat. Anytime we win a fight they promptly give the kills back to the other team because they don't ward or watch death timers. I feel like all of my games just rubber band back and forth with each team trading aces until one team aces the other and death timers are long enough for them to win the game. I don't feel like there is any strategy, just a mad scramble for kills and towers. Both wins and loses feel more like luck than skill.

Really what I'm looking for is someone to give me some higher level insight into my games. Telling me to CS better and ward more is great, but what I really need is some help making better decisions so I can impact the mid and late game better. Either that or someone that I can play some normals with so I can watch their decision making since I record all my games.

6 Comments

I Ward A LotOct 12, 20151 votes

ok im going to try to make this a very short guide, people are bronze because they dont know how to handle situations, sure mechanics and ability to farm are important, but for bronze simply knowing the situation and what to do in a situation are crucial to the outcome of a game. Now when it comes to champs pick easy champs, you can focus on farming and poking if the mechanics part of your kit isnt a factor. Now if you are not good at decision making then duo with someone that knows the game itself better than you. They dont have to be a smurf, or even have better mechanics, but they need to be able to make correct decisions in crucial situations. Doing that should help you with your decision making on the long run, help you identify certain situations and overall make you better at the game

RandomoniumOct 12, 20151 votes

I don't think I have amazing level decision making but I can definitely tell when something is a bad idea (which I think is the first step.) I just can't get my team to listen to anything I want to do. When I ping retreat the team doesn't follow and dies. When I tell them they shouldn't chase they still do and die. I always tell my team not to engage on a lone enemy unless they have vision and yet time and time again my allies fall for the bait (and die.)

I'll make a play on one side of the map and after I recall to heal or buy items my team will wind up giving up a triple kill because they did something I told them not to do. Its very frustrating because I always feel like I'm in a 5v4 or 5v3 against fed opponents. But I still believe that if I'm good enough I should be able to carry despite my teammates' mistakes...except most of the time I can't and I can't figure out why.

I feel like I'm watching some bad horror flick yelling at the TV screen "Don't check that bush!" Yet like the dummies in the horror movies my teammates always do and wind up getting an ax to the face.

Hasztalan2Oct 12, 20151 votes

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I don't think I have amazing level decision making but I can definitely tell when something is a bad idea (which I think is the first step.) I just can't get my team to listen to anything I want to do. When I ping retreat the team doesn't follow and dies. When I tell them they shouldn't chase they still do and die. I always tell my team not to engage on a lone enemy unless they have vision and yet time and time again my allies fall for the bait (and die.)

I'll make a play on one side of the map and after I recall to heal or buy items my team will wind up giving up a triple kill because they did something I told them not to do. Its very frustrating because I always feel like I'm in a 5v4 or 5v3 against fed opponents. But I still believe that if I'm good enough I should be able to carry despite my teammates' mistakes...except most of the time I can't and I can't figure out why.

I feel like I'm watching some bad horror flick yelling at the TV screen "Don't check that bush!" Yet like the dummies in the horror movies my teammates always do and wind up getting an ax to the face.

Nonononono my frienderino. No.

You are fundamentally wrong. You don't get ur team to do anything. You don'T expect your team to do anything.

You - yes YOU and YOU only- MUST focus on improving YOURSELF. If you do that succesfully u'll climb. If not and u keep bragging about teams and what not u'll stay in the shithole forever.

RandomoniumOct 12, 20151 votes

And I do that by watching each of my replays. The problem I am having is that while I can identify mistakes I make ultimately I feel like even if I hadn't made those mistakes we still would have lost. I know my play is improving because my CS numbers are getting better, my KDA is getting better, my kill participation is getting higher, etc but I'm not seeing any large bump in my win rate. Games still feel completely out of my control for the most part.

Maybe I just haven't played enough games to get a representative sample size. Or maybe there are some big mistakes that I'm missing. That's what I'm trying to figure out.

I Ward A LotOct 12, 20151 votes

side note: may not concern you but for those people that say to improve you have to play on unlocked screen are wrong im plat and i play on locked screen :P

The Sword SaintOct 12, 20151 votes

If you play only a few champions over and over and they're simple, you'll not need to think so much about actually making plays or other mechanics since it will be simple and second nature, and you'll instead have time to think about where and when to ward, objective control, rotations, etc.