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Simple solutions to get out of bronze/elo hell

Crocele·1/20/2015, 10:41:41 PM·4 votes·1,756 views

here is a list of simple things that can be done to help you get yourself out of elo hell or low elo.

1: admit to yourself there is no elo hell, its the same in all division and tiers. there is trolls and afkers in all divisions not just the one you are stuck in.

2: Don't flame people or put them down. people that are playing bad deep down know they are having a bad game and pointing it out to them or flaming them for it is not going to help. in fact it will only make it worse and it is unproductive.

3: wards can be bought by everyone not just the support. everyone can buy them and they help alot more than you may think. everyone should have a pink on the map at all times to help control vision. the more vision you have the better chance you have at winning.

4: Standard summoner spells. for the best chance at winning just take the standard spells. there is no need to take teleport ignite as an adc or some other combination that to be honest just sucks. granted there is very few specific examples that work to some degree but the standard is a standard for a reason.

5: Dont give up games can be won even if it seems like you have no chance to win. when people are ahead they sometimes try to do things that throw games such as 1v2ing or just making bad calls in general. granted at higher elo people tend to make less mistakes but down in low elo people do some crazy things.

6: Standard items again they are standard because at the moment they work the best. stop building frozen mallet and guinsoo's rageblade aside from very VERY few examples these items are terrible. the snowball items are also bad in low elo because lets face it you probably die ALOT.

Thats all i can think of ATM and if you would like to add in on the list feel free :) and good luck!!!

21 Comments

Seth Lightheart1/20/2015, 10:45:32 PM2 votes

VERY solid points. :)

I would also like to add one of my rules:

It is always your fault, even when it isn't. It doesn't matter if you are 22/7/18 and everyone else is 1/30/2, you died 7 times, that is a lot, what did you do wrong? You arn't those guys, your goal isn't to make them better, what did you do wrong to die 7 times?

Edit: Also, it doesn't matter if your team 'baited' you or should have been there with you. All your deaths are your fault.

SEKAI1/20/2015, 10:51:14 PM1 votes

You just asked every low tier players to follow and only follow meta because it works the best, while in the environment that no one is competent hence their elo bracket, not sure how to feel about it. It really shouldn't matter much unless you do something that frankly just doesn't work in theory like AS Akali or whatever.

You should give up depending on situations, when you are 2 Dragons behind, 4 - 5 towers behind, 200+ total cs behind, a Baron or 2 behind and 15+ team kills behind. I am pretty sure nobody wishes to waste any more time on this if the enemies are just trundling around, might as well just surrender. It's no sin in surrendering, it's simply a strategic retreat unless you vote surrender the moment enemy team scored a triple or something then sure it's bad.

I agree with point 2 and 3, that's about it.

Princess Loliiii1/21/2015, 4:15:31 PM1 votes

I am bad at this game and know i will most likley get bronze, but i know how i am going to get out. I will listen to Miley Cyrus "The Climb" on loop as i play ranked

Miku Lv991/21/2015, 6:05:44 PM1 votes

Really the main thing is to get passed blaming other players. Yes it may have been their fault. But it was also that 10% your fault. You should still fix that 10% even if you felt like it was all their fault. Focus on getting better and carefully consider every exchange or fight you ever participate in and try to figure out anything you could have done better in any of those.

And group up and take objectives if your team is really far ahead. Don't just keep screwing around farming until everyone is full build. You've completely wasted your advantage.