1,000 ranked games and 300+ games with Riven and I'm still in gold WTF PLZ

pslyrabe·10/9/2015, 4:14:01 AM·2 votes·1,272 views

I have no clue. Am I just bad at the game? When I play riven or seriously almost any champ I either crush my opponent or get crushed and I crush my opponents honestly like 8/10 of the time. I don't get what I'm doing wrong lmao and I'm getting frustrated. What are some tips on winning or how do you win more? If you want to go beyond and spec some gameplay of mine and tell me what I'm doing wrong that would be awesome, and well I don't think I'm just bad at the game I can carry hard sometimes I have a "warning, carry!" on na.op.gg on riven so idk. FML

9 Comments

Flaherty10/9/2015, 4:34:47 AM2 votes

There's a lot more to winning games then just crushing your lane opponent. Killing people and then taking no objectives is worthless. IDK if that's what you do but you seem to be pretty focused on the killing part of the game. When you crush your opponent, take the tower. Or roam and help your team get kills. Call your team to get dragon or push a lane and get an inhib. A bad thing about having all the kills on your team is that if the enemy manages to kill you, the rest of your team has no way to hold your objectives.

Yummy Sashimi10/9/2015, 4:38:57 AM2 votes

Decision making, know how much damage you can do and how much damage you can take. For riven, it's a lot more complicated because you have to know the when to use each specific combo. You also need to learn the flash 1 shot carry combo to be a good riven. Honestly, it doesn't really matter in gold, riven is a champion that can be used to face stomp lower elos. I'd say work on your decision making, it matter a lot more once you hit near plat.

4ManVotedAgainst10/9/2015, 4:41:23 AM2 votes

Queue-Dodge more often against unwinnable matches. That is how I got out of Bronze (that I would have NEVER ended up in to begin with in the first place if I just queue-dodged obviously inexperienced team-mates who Four-Man Surrender-Voted me into Bronze twice this season). Also, winning lane does not automatically equal winning game, you have to stop other lanes from winning against your own team-mates even harder than you crush your own lane-opponent or you forget lane-opponent when there's a good opportunity to help your own team-mates crush their lane-opponents so hard that you don't have to worry too much about them surviving on their own if you return to your own lane to crush your opponent.

Overfeels10/9/2015, 12:16:59 PM2 votes

if you've played 300 games as champion, and the best you can manage is gold, you're probably not doing it right.

Byakuya Kuchiki10/9/2015, 9:31:36 PM2 votes

riven is actually difficult to carry with so that might be why

Il Korean Il10/9/2015, 8:23:39 AM2 votes

100 games, you should be fine, 200 games we're getting near an answer here, 300 games, getting closer, 1000 games, bingo.

You belong there. Something is wrong with you. Fix it.

AyRe CoNteMpT10/9/2015, 8:36:01 AM2 votes

"crushing my lane" is a non-existent concept and as long as you cling to it, it means you are rather losing your lane than winning it in terms of usefulness.
if you get strong 8/10 games and you still lose, YOU lose the game. means out of your initial laning and early levels, you suck mega hard. work on that.

Malaborath10/9/2015, 6:10:56 AM1 votes

Want a tip? dont play a champ that relies on a snowball to destroy. play a champion that becomes a midgame god such as elise to play safe and than destroy with her at 20 minutes.

magic pole10/10/2015, 3:10:03 AM1 votes

if you really crush your lane so often, sounds like you're not helping your team.

you goof