Easy step by step guide to go from silver to gold

Hey you. Silver player. You have a 50% winrate in silver, but you understand much more about the game than your teammates normally do. You're frustrated-you try to be the nice guy, you try to fill and not troll, and you still can't budge your win rate. You just want to be friggin gold already, you have beaten golds, and you know you're just as good.

Well, let me tell you something you'll like: you are, about half to a third of the time. Now let me tell you something you don't like: you're also bronze level half the time. Let me explain.

Think of your brain like a computer. You've got all the important information on your hard drive, all the things you need to do tactically and strategically to play the game. But you've only got so much processing power. And when you have to think about how to play a champion, the nitty gritty of their mechanics and landing their skillshots and timing their abilities...you can't think about warding, and map awareness, and team coordination. Unfamiliarity with the champ takes up too much space. That's bronze level play.

Step 1: I need you to go to the website OP.gg. Were going on a fact finding mission together. If you've never looked at this website, start now, it's a fantastic source of info. Search your summoner name and head over to the Champions tab.

Step 2: the math step. Take a look at your top four most played champions. Calculate your win rate when you play those champs, overall. Now, tally up the games from all the champions you played less than ten games with throughout the season. I'll tell you my ratios: 68% and 35%. See what I mean by gold play and bronze play? Your comfortable champions, in silver, in the roles where you know what to do and you do it well, are always going to be better than filling to avoid rage, or a "great" counterpick.

Step 3: The game plan. First off, you will always call your comfort role or roles in ranked. Call them, but if someone else is ahead of you in pick order, let it slide. If youre ahead in pick order, say "Sorry X, I'm going Y " and if they throw a hissy fit, let it slide as well. If you have 2 comfort roles, you should get them 9 times out of 10 if you follow these steps particularly if one of them is support/jungle.

Step 4: Find your backup picks. When forced into the roles you are not comfortable with, you need to have a SAFE, EASY fallback champ whose mechanics you are comfortable with. I use Heimerdinger mid, Maokai top, and Caitlyn ADC. These games, you want to cultivate a zen attitude. It's out of your hands. You're not going to carry, you're just going to be one member of the team who absolutely does not feed. That's your objective, a nice, even 50% win rate. Much, much better than trying to carry in a role you're bad at and getting hammered and losing the game for your team. Just maintain a positive atmosphere, and be totally chill-you know it won't be your fault if your team fails here, and hey, with you making sure you don't feed they have good chances of winning too.

Step 5: Watch your winrate rise to be much closer to that of your best champs. This was it, for me. I went into the site, saw " oh hey, I have a 74% winrate with Rammus, a 65% with Thresh and a 80% with Leona. I'll just call supp/jungle every game and play them no matter what" and I was gold in 25 games from Silver IV all season.