Fuck bronze. It's so messed up. All my friends that just got into the game the past month or so are getting placed into silver, and I'm stuck in bronze because my mid or top laners feed so hard or afk all the time. That or nobody but me buys wards. Bronze is a black hole and I'm stuck on the event horizon.Originally Posted by Archangel
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
Not getting into ranked before you're good enough to place silver is LoL 101, it's your own fault for not pacing yourself. That said, find someone to duo with so there's a lower probability of having trolls in the team. Learn to farm and trade better, win your lane and carry the team.
Honestly i'd help you if you were on my server.
I'm pretty sure none of what you said was relevant to my post whatsoever except the duoq part.
Most of my friends that got silver placed within a week after they hit level 30 on their main accounts. One of my friends in particular took a break for 2 months before even hitting 30, then got placed in silver 1. He's gotten pretty decent at the game at least, but most of my other friends are still terrible, and ALWAYS under-perform when we play together.
I'd say I win or match my lane in about 90% of the games I play, but the biggest problem at my level are people who don't know how to lose their lane gracefully, and feed the enemy laner 8 kills before laning phase even ends. There's always someone on my team that does this.
Last edited by Assertn; Wed, 08-28-2013 at 02:48 PM.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
You curse bronze when you're the one who put yourself in there, the first thing i told my little cousins when they hit 30 was NOT to play ranked. Pretty sure my tip to farm and trade was relevant as well, they're both major aspects of the game that low elo has no grasp on. Improve those and you'll be carrying games regardless of how the other lanes did.
I think i said this before but i found it harder to carry from silver to gold than i did from gold to platinium, but there's nothing you can do besides work on the fundamentals and try to lead your team to victory.
I've also made the mistake of choosing to specialize in bot lane. I normally play pretty aggressive as both adc and support, but unfortunately this doesn't work well in bronze soloq when you don't even know if your partner is going to follow up. Also, it doesn't matter how fed I get as an adc, if my team doesn't know how to peel for me, I can still die instantly, as opposed to, say, a fed Jax or Akali. That's really one of the main reasons I mostly play Tristana. I can play safer and not rely on my team at all.
All things considered equal, I don't think there's much of a skill gap between high bronze and mid silver. Most of my lane opponents are silver. The only difference as far as I can tell is there are more wildcards in bronze that determine wins and losses. Whichever team has the derpiest teammate loses. It's always hard to adjust for bad teammates in a game, because when I have good teammates, I can make a play, and count on my team to be in the right place at the right time to follow up, everything just synergizes well. This just compounds to the frustration when I try to make a similar play in soloq and, lo and behold, several teammates die stupidly because dickbag is farming wolves or some shit.
Last edited by Assertn; Wed, 08-28-2013 at 03:01 PM.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
In that case i'd go for ezreal instead, do the blue build and you won't even need peel. Nobody will catch you unless they burst you.
Is blitzcrank still permabanned in bronze? If so you should give him a go, nothing says go aggressive like landing a pull. Or zyra, her ult has a short cooldown and is also a "go aggressive" button.
Blitz is permabanned in bronze, though honestly, I've played Blitz enough to know his weaknesses. When the enemy auto-locks blitz, I just take Leona or Taric and stun their adc. Seems to work pretty well. I did have a lot of fun as support Zyra for a bit, but I'm not used to how fragile she is. Funny thing, though, despite having nothing but support items for her and dying stupidly a lot, I'd go check the post-game stats and see that I still do the most damage to enemy champions on my team.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
Her base damages are quite ridiculous, i usually take ignite with her and build liandry's after the core is done for some great combination of damage and utility. You have to be very careful with your positioning though because of how squishy and show she is, has one of the lowest base ms in the game.
Decided to try another ranked game after ragequitting for a week. We win all 3 lanes pretty hard (our mid laner was up 3 levels and 60 CS, and as a whole our team was up 14 to 4). Then the mid laner DCs. 10 minutes later, still nowhere to be found, and we lose the game.
I hate LoL.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
What did i tell you? Find a duo partner so the chance of trolling and leaving diminishes as much as possible
I did have a duo partner
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
For the record, if that happens again wait 1 minute to see if he comes back and if he doesn't force objectives hardcore. The more time it passes the more you start running out of advantages, go for baron and then siege the fuck out of a lane.
My normal game mmr is ridiculous for some reason, i'm being set up with and against soloq challenger players.
I think the whole mmr system is random as fuck, i wish we could at least see our numbers
I figured I'd ask here since LoL is a MOBA. Does everyone here play LoL exclusively or does anyone play Dota 2 as well?
At Plat 1 i'm now getting like 5-7 points per win... this is gonna be tough.
Just had a game with NiP's Freeze who was smurfing and carried him with heca
Edit: http://www.twitch.tv/freezecz/b/464374514
Starts around 5:30:00, he even compliments my jungling a bit
Last edited by Archangel; Mon, 09-23-2013 at 03:38 PM.
Steeve are people in bronze banning corki? If not you should pick him up while you can, free elo yordle.
Heh, elohell is hitting me so hard right now. Been playing with a diamond 1 smurf, and I'm the lowest elo player in our games. Just played one where I had a 14/4/2 kda and we still lost HARD. Nothing I can do about it. :/
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
Wildturtle has 4 accounts in challenger, there's no such thing as elo hell
Bronze is a black hole that sucks you in. At any higher league, you can carry games if you play above average when the rest of your team is average. In Bronze you have to play like a Diamond 1 player to be able to carry beyond the incompetence of your team.
My overall win/loss still seems to hover around 50%, but my personal performance has been really consistent for a while now, at least, so that's cool. I have a 5:1 kill/death ratio or higher in every game I adc now, with the exception being one game where my support just kept taking all the kills.
Last edited by Assertn; Fri, 09-27-2013 at 02:04 PM.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
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