Bronze I tips?
So I was just placed in Bronze I, this is my first season doing ranked. Does anyone have any tips for me? I mainly play Olaf jg/top.
Thanks
-Sharukh
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Congrats on your placement - I have tons of advice but the best thing I can say is turn all chat off and focus on the game. Pressure your lane or lanes objectives come first over anything else. If you jung and want to carry then get those kills, if you want to be more of a support jung then feed your lanes hardcore. I hope to face you if you climb the ladder to silver :D GL and HF man.
Buy sightstone always when jungling, because laners are so bad at warding that you need to ward for them. I'm in plat and people still don't ward effectively. Also sightstone is really good with cinderhulk, but even if you aren't playing a cinderhulk jungler it is still a good buy for junglers because of the sheer map control that it can give.
-----------------------------[Critical] ---------------------------------- Upgrade your trinket at level 9 if possible. If not (it would cause you to miss out on a big item), get it at the next opportunity available. Wards are extremely valuable and the Greater Stealth Totem lets you keep 3 out at a time easily. This item is extremely cost efficient and vision is priceless. GET IN THE HABIT OF WARDING EVERYTHING!!!
Get pink wards or an Oracle's Lens to sweep objectives before doing them to ensure the enemy can't see you. If possible, ward the likely routes the enemy will take coming to you so you have forewarning.
If jungling, it might be a good idea to pick strong early gankers rather than late-game scaling champions since you can't rely on your allies to stay even or win their lane. From what I've seen of Bronze games, lane match-ups tend to be very snowbally and can easily go out of control if your ally doesn't know how to play safe and farm.
Consider trying out Xin Zhao jungle. He works nicely with Devourer to scale into the late-game but still provides strong early dueling and ganks. The only other damage item you really need on him is Blade of the Ruined King; get CDR and durability for your other items.
At lower ranks, many players don't bother watching for jungle invades or react to them. Junglers can easily get an advantage by invading whichever buff the enemy doesn't start at (typically top-side) with their top laner and stealing the buff. If you aren't seen, you can easily deny the enemy a buff, secure three buffs for yourself, and cause the enemies buffs to spawn at the same time (which can let you steal them again later).
Many teams don't know how to play around or react to splitpushing. In many cases, both teams will just stand around mid-laner posturing as they wait for a teamfight to start. As a result, strong teamfighters and initiators (i.e. Amumu, Sejuani, Malphite) or disengage and wavclear (i.e. Ziggs, Anivia, Xerath) can be quite valuable.
please dont rank until u have enough rune pages and mastery pages set up to effieciently help your team and not become a weight for carry im seriously not trying to bash on you or your skills we all had to start somewhere but coming from someone whos seen ppl just "start ranked a week ago yay..." both sides of if on team and against it.... against it yea its almost a free win and fun to smack em around and try some flashy moves as for with your team its just the most frustrating thing there is.. there are PLENTY of good solid vids on youtube helping you set up a few starter rune pages id suggest 3 pages for BASIC that gives u ad/ap/tank pages everything u might need....sure you may occasionaly have 45% cdr or mana /mana regen on a non mana user such as gnar but if your gonna play ranked take it very seriously try to do your best HAVE FUN and do everything u can in your power to help your team win and what you can do is to do your part which starts BEFORE the actual game!
olaf is a ball of stats champ, when he works it's amazing but when it doesn't there is very little he can do when behind.
i'd suggest someone who wants to abuse devourer jungle at the moment, so much power is coming out of the jungle with runeglaive as soon as it's build and devourer as soon as it's stacked warrior junglers are kinda meh atm