HOW TO FREAKING IMPROVE MY MMR

Incarceration·6/24/2015, 9:46:01 PM·1 votes·1,189 views

My mind is like dafuq. I am a pretty decent, if not good, player, but as the result of my ability to only carry if my teammates have half a brain cell, which most of them don't have, I lose more games than I win. What do I do?

29 Comments

OhBoyItsaMegaman6/24/2015, 10:29:06 PM4 votes

A glance at your ranked history reveals these three things:

  • You buy less than 1 ward (greens and pinks combined) per game.
  • You almost never upgrade your trinket.
  • You consistently have more kills than deaths, even in games that you lost, and your assists tend to be lower than your kills.

I assume that you are decent mechanically (enough to murder Bronze players without getting murdered back) but that you lack a ton of knowledge about the post-laning phase, and you especially do not know how to deal with fed enemies. I suspect that whenever the enemy top or bot is doing well, you actively avoid them and try to pick off the weaker players. This results in you having many kills and few deaths while providing no real support to your team. You take the attitude of "I didn't create that Jinx problem so it's not my responsibility to solve it," and since you're the only person on the team who has the potential to solve it and you won't, they wind up beating you.

I am only making guesses based on stats, but that is what the numbers suggest to me (as well as your description of teammates with half a brain cell). Your idea of how to win the game after towers fall is so backwards that it actually negates your decent laning/mechanics. Look at the history of the Bronze 4 Braum from your recent Orianna game. Like you, he also rarely buys wards. Like you, he also rarely upgrades trinket. But his K/D/A is noticeably worse than yours. On top of that, he doesn't take Flash as a summoner spell very often. He has a support game with no Sightstone and a couple of games without boots. Despite all this, his ranked record is nearly identical to yours. That is because your knowledge of what you should be doing post-laning is so bad—even for low Bronze—that it brings you down to his level. Accept that "not my problem" is not a winning strategy, accept that you have a really poor idea of what besides kills gets you closer to winning, and look to actually improve instead of worrying about who you can blame. You will see immediate results from this.

Angry Monster6/30/2015, 2:46:53 AM3 votes

Means that you are not at good as you think you are.

You play a lot of gimmick champs. Xin, singed pure AP cho. You are rolling the dice to see if you are going to be ahead or not. Ahead you get strong and win but these champs almost never are able to play from behind. So you steam roll through cause your ahead.

Then you builds get questionable when comes to builds. A jungle xin going straight for a bork when Item is not completed, another xin with IE...., a sight stone on lee but places 8 wards, tri force and ER on a MF build.

You may be able to out play people in b5, but your item and game choices are awkward.

TheHypeGoku6/27/2015, 10:36:51 PM2 votes

You went 11/8/3 as Annie.

  1. 8 Deaths in 30 minutes is giving the other team a lot of gold.
  2. You bought a catalyst but didn't get the Rod of Ages. In terms of itemization, you HAVE to rush the Rod of Ages early game in order to start the passive stacks early on, otherwise don't even bother buying the item because then it's a waste later on.
  3. Like others said, upgrade the trinket. You went 8/8/5 as Corki.
  4. Again, 8 deaths in 30 minutes is too much, especially for an ADC
  5. Buy the orb trinket once you're out of lane phase so you don't get stuck in situations where you feel you have to face check with no vision. This allows you to gain temporary vision without being in immediate danger. You went 6/1/7 as SUPPORT Blitzcrank.
  6. You're support. Your job is not to pick up kills and do insane damage, it is to peel for adc and initiate strong fights. Upgrade that face of the mountain if you need to keep adc alive or get the token for a team speed up to help initiate fights or disengage fights.
  7. When you buy a sightstone, you don't need your yellow trinket anymore, buy the sweeper. You're wasting an 'item' slot by keeping it. You went 14/6/9 as Orianna.
  8. This was a good game for you and maybe there was nothing you could do.
  9. On the other hand, look at your itemization. You have a tear at 41 minutes in. Why is this not upgraded? This gives a LOT of AP.
  10. Also, maybe try an Athene's/Morello's for your first item instead. It allows for lower cooldown which is extremely important on Orianna. You went 13/6/4 as Ashe.
  11. Nice game, good KDR.
  12. Let's go back to itemization. Why BT after IE? Ashe's damage doesn't scale well without critical strike items. If you feel you need sustain, then maybe get a vamp scepter or just keep health pots on you. But you should stick to the basic build path of IE > Phantom Dancer or Static Shyv > Last whisper.
  13. No reason to waste gold on a QSS vs that team comp. Only really need it for things like Nasus wither, supresses, and Zed ult. If you want to get a defensive item early, get a GA or Banshee's after your static shyv/phantom dancer. You went 14/9/12 as Kassadin
  14. Nice game in terms of kills, bad game in terms of deaths.
  15. I understand the reasoning behind the thornmail but you should also realize that thornmail does not work for these following conditions: You do not have a high health pool The enemy AD's have life steal / MR to counter it
  16. Try Randuin's/Frozen heart. They have no way to really counter an item that lowers their Attack Speed, which in turn lowers their damage potential. Also give a lot of health/armor, which is nice.

Hope that helped.

IcyPepper6/25/2015, 9:09:44 PM2 votes

Are you too focused on trying to carry your team that you forget to work with them? You don't have to carry alone dude, it's a team game and it feels great to win as a team than to solo carry.

Oh, I see, you main mid. You're focused on killing the enemy team. Yeah, I suggest playing other roles as practice to understand different roles beyond the surface and learn other mechanics and strategies that midlaners don't really practice or have the opportunity to.

Also, in your latest game as Annie, you put down 4 wards in 30+ minutes. That's... terrible. If you want to get better at this game, you need to look beyond the KDA. You are not pretty decent if you do not have good warding habits, especially if you want to climb higher elos where people ward. Buy wards, get pinks, all that crap.

If by any chance you're not going to ignore my advice, I present some tips so you can improve and climb:

  1. Play support to get better warding habits and map awareness. I'm not suggesting this because it's the support's job to ward (it's not, it's everyone's job), I'm suggesting it because sightstone replenishes and it's easier than remembering to buy wards all the time. It's good practice, and you learn how to lane with someone and communicate and cooperate with both your adc and the jungler for objective control. It's also great for learning how to play defensive as well as offensively with certain kits (Hint: Don't spam Leona or Blitz, play Braum and Soraka as well. It helps).

  2. Play jungler to reinforce map awareness, timing, objective control, and global pressure. Also really helps with teamfighting.

  3. Play adc to learn how to be a little more team and positioning reliant. Learning how to rely on others, and to return the favor, is a valuable skill. Of course, you can't rely on everybody, so make sure to use good judgement and find that one guy in the game who makes the plays or whatever. And stand behind the tank.

  4. Upgrade your trinket at level 9. If you need to finish an important item, it's okay to delay the upgrade. Otherwise, 20 extra AP just isn't worth skimping out on vision.

  5. Get sightstone, or at least buy wards. I see your "support" Annie game where you set down 8 wards in 37 minutes. The enemy team set down more than double your team's wards, it's not a surprise at all you lost that one.

As a final note, you're too focused on solo carrying than helping your team. Your vision control is abysmal. Vision is an important part of the game, just as important as KDA can be especially in higher elos, so if you want to be a decent player you need to learn how to ward.

S2C2Xd9KOy6/30/2015, 6:47:59 AM2 votes

To improve mmr, win games :D qq

Incarceration6/25/2015, 8:56:23 PM1 votes

But I can't help them because if I leave the opponent without watching it properly, it can do something devastating. If it can't push the tower, then it can probably farm and try to catch up until it catches up with me entirely, and even if I kept the jungle there, I can't always guarantee a successful gank. Maybe, I need to buy wards more, but most of all I need a decent team.

Randomonium6/25/2015, 3:30:37 AM1 votes

Yeah, you've lost 4 out of your last 5 but you're still sitting at a 55% win rate over your last 20 games so its not too bad.

Your KDA and cs per minute are pretty good but you're horrible at buying wards. I'm also guessing based on your post that you go on tilt easily. My advice is buy more wards and work on staying calm even when things go bad.

Oh, and in games where your KDA is 4 or higher your win percentage jumps to over 80% so I would focus tightening up your mechanics just a little more because it seems like one or two extra deaths per game is costing you a lot victories.

And watch your replays! You'll be surprised how many mistakes you catch yourself making that you didn't notice during the game.

Incarceration7/20/2015, 4:47:18 PM1 votes

How do you get out of bronze 4? What do you notice about most of these players and how to take advantages of their common mistakes?

Incarceration6/30/2015, 4:09:24 PM1 votes

Went 15/4 zed 18 wards tho ... improvement don't u say...?

Incarceration7/1/2015, 1:48:42 AM1 votes

Wards and the shrooms op teemo mid 16/4/5 AWESOME 15 wards i think?

Incarceration6/27/2015, 9:56:33 PM1 votes

The thing I have for buying wards is that I want to buy some other stuff like more dmg more tankiness. Also, I've always wondered what the point of vision was if my team and I don't even pay attention to the map. For example, in my mf game, I was dived by this garen and he survived with minimal health, and the shyvana went after him to secure the kill. However the garen put up a good chase and ekko went to help the garen, but the veigar on our team was in lane and all he did was ping mia. If he went to help shyvana the moment ekko was missing, it would have been a successful skirmish, but it was not and someone else had to join to clean it up. Veigar had vision and he could have easily saw that ekko was helping garen, but all he did was just farm and ping mia instead of paying attention to the map and the reason why ekko was mia