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Stuck in bronze

Stuck in bronze

OP.GG: https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/OrangeChicken-69420

I feel like I’m sort of at a wall in terms of climbing and learning. Im fairly new to the game and only started playing consistently in the past year, with this season having by far the most games played for me. I was a top main for the longest time and earlier this season switched to jungle where I found a lot of success. I stick to mainly one role and one champ, but I struggle in consistency I think. I generally do good as far as getting the objectives like drag, grubs, etc. but I find I can’t find a way to push the game forwards.

I’m not sure if this is a me thing or a team thing, but I try to just focus on my own performance and not blame others as I obviously have plenty of space to improve. What should I focus on to be more consistent and actually help my team win?

u/Hardened_Midget — 3 hours ago

Struggling to stick to a role or champion pool. How do you handle it?

I wanted to ask if anyone else deals with this because it is starting to feel like it is holding me back.

I enjoy a wide range of champions across multiple roles. I like a lot of jungle champs, a lot of mid lane champs, and even some from ADC and support. Because of that, I constantly find myself switching roles instead of sticking to one. Right now it is mostly jungle and mid, but I still bounce between them a lot.

On top of that, the champions I enjoy are not even from the same class. It is not like I only play assassins or only play mages. It is a mix of everything, so there is no real consistency in playstyle either.

The issue is I do want to climb, not just play for fun. And I know that playing too many champions and roles is probably hurting my progress. But every time I try to narrow things down, I end up getting pulled back into playing something else I enjoy.

Has anyone else dealt with this kind of problem? If so, how did you actually manage it? Did you force yourself into one role or a small pool, or did you find a way to balance enjoyment and improvement without feeling restricted?

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u/Many-Translator-8512 — 9 hours ago

what's the play when I'm even/ahead and one of my lanes is running it?

Hi I'm a new/returning player (haven't really played for 10 years so might as well be new) so this is probably a very basic question but here it goes:

what do I do when I'm slightly ahead in mid lane and either top or bot get completely dumpstered?

I've had a bunch of games like that recently where I did fine in lane n got slightly ahead but a player on my team got mega gapped and in some of them I stayed mid and it felt wrong and in some of them I moved to help them and that didn't help us win either.

Is there just nothing you can do? Do I move to help them or stay and try to further my lead? Are there basic rules when to do either? Do I do something else entirely? Those games I had trouble understanding our win con since everyone else was kind of even in the game.

This isn't to bitch about my teams btw I've been playing for 3 months and obvs suck at the game myself and have games where I just kinda don't get to play, I'd just like to know if there's something I can do in this situation. I play Syndra, Galio, Ahri and Morgana in mid btw.

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u/whyromy — 6 hours ago

What role do you think has the highest carry potential in Gold League right now? Or, maybe a champion/strategy?

I am curious, is there anything that stands out as exceptionally overpowered when it comes to carrying Gold-Elo games?

Is there a certain build with a champion thats busted secretly?

Is there a strategy that wins games at this elo?

Is there a role that you would spam?

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u/WorldlyForerunnerxdd — 14 hours ago

Support mains, how do you climb out of bronze?

I've recently reached plat on support. But since I main enchanters and mages, I decided to go to draft pick to learn tanks like Naut or Leona. However I find it impossible to win there because my teammates are mainly bronze and don't follow up on ANY engages. So yea any support mains who climbed out of bronze with mainly tanks can give me advice?

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u/BodyGrouchy4787 — 7 hours ago

What to do if the early game strength of junglers is of similar levels?Should you invade or not?

Suppose you are playing Nocturne jg and enemy picks Karthus jg.This is a huge mistake and unless you invade him and kill him 2-3 times ur not a good player.However what happens when you have Lee Sin vs Jarvan both of which are very strong early game?Even if you are a bit theoretically stronger(Lee sin)is it worth risking to invade?Thanks.

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u/Routine_Comb_7277 — 12 hours ago

I'm a silver 3 Briar jungle main trying to improve and climb while being restricted by RSI

This is a follow up to a post I made about a year ago. Since then I have played about 100 games (roughly 150 total, not counting normals with friends).
I'm posting again because I'm limited to two games a day max due to RSI in my right hand, so I really want to make the most of each game and learn as much as I can.
I enjoy laning but I have very weak nerves, this wouldn't usually be a problem if I could just spam games but obviously that isn't possible.

Here is a link to my OP.GG
I've found that I can consistently get ahead in the early game, but mid to late things start to fall apart. (I'm ignoring the games I played with my friend Sir fetus because he raised the lobbies MMR significantly, for now I just want to figure out how to carry games in my regular high silver / low gold solo q lobbies).

Here are some replays
21/04/26
11/04/26

I think the newest replay is a perfect example of what I'm talking about, I got a nice lead over Graves but I threw it. I try to force plays because nothing happens if I don't. I make these bad decisions and take risks hoping it all turns out alright because I feel that if I don't, the game will drag out and my lead will even out. I don't know what the alternative is.

I stream most of my games on twitch.tv/alcatrazz5
I delete vods sometimes because I hate hearing myself complain
If anyone wants to watch some vods together send me a DM

Any advice is welcome. Thank you for reading.

u/Winter-Steak-9332 — 8 hours ago
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When you ban or counter pick as a jungler, who are you banning/trying to counter?

Should I be focusing on countering the other jungler if I know who it is or should I be countering a lane I want to gank? Additionally, when selecting a ban, are you banning a jungle role or a laner than counters you pretty hard?

When you play in a lane it makes sense to ban someone else from that lane that you dont want to face or counter pick to have a better laning phase, but if you're jungling you're all over the place so where is a ban/counter pick most impactful?

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u/fairydommother — 1 day ago
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Why is jungle Bel'Veth so unpopular?

Hi.

I would like to know / would like for someone to explain to dumb person like me, why is jungle Bel'Veth so unpopular? According to Lolalytics website she has only 1.30% pick rate (patch 26.08). She is slightly more popular in high elo, in Master+ she has 2.41% pick rate, but that is still pretty low. In Iron she has devastatingly low pick rate, only 0.86%. I just don't understand why isn't she more popular. Her kit is amazing for jungling. Her win rate is fine too, 50.19% to be exact. In Master+ her win rate is 56.15%, which makes her the highest win rate jungler in that rank, just below Rek'Sai who has 55.18% win rate in Master+. So what gives?

Any insight is appreciated!

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u/desktop_monst3r — 1 day ago

I am going to Master, and you can too

Hello everyone, it's Miura.

I started the challenge of reaching master tier a couple of months ago. At the time I was a plat peaker (I think) but platinum games never felt difficult: my real elo was probably high emerald but I wasn't really playing ranked. Diamond 4 was probably too close to my level to feel the challenge so I decided to aim for master.

What's the motivation beneath all of this?

It's full of content of streamers doing "unranked to challenger" climbs. To be honest I always thought these "challenges" were complete bullshit: these people are way better than the rest of their lobbies and as a result they win without much effort. While this might be fun to watch, it is very far from what a real climb looks like and I think the educational value is non-existent. This brings us back to the challenge: I am reaching master for the first time (and you can too).

How can you benefit from this?

I decided to record every game and upload it on youtube. For the most part you will find ADC gameplay, in particular Aphelios games. Although some recordings got lost, you will find the great majority of games on a channel named "Miura The Journey" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz9iwCMZpvfBIbCG2c79cw

Also here's my OPgg: https://op.gg/it/lol/summoners/euw/M%C3%AF%CE%BCra-EUW Sidenote: the videos you'll find are without commentary (if they are not reviews).

I only have one rule wihch is to play solo (duo players are boosted, in my humble opinion). Wether that it is true or not, I believe that having to adapt every game with a random supp will make you a way better player.

Few tips:

  1. you already know it. Mute the chat, your teammates don't have anything intelligent to say.
  2. playing while listening to music does hurt your performance.

Other tips I use no one talks about:

  1. you should be a "squeezer". It's easier to explain with an example: imagine I'm playing aphelios against a draven. Everyone knows that draven's autos deal more damage than aphelios'. For this very reason many people accept that they outscale and will play the matchup in the most passive way possible. Instead, you should try to abuse your range advantage every time you can (squeeze every auto you can). The fact is: if you are like me and you are not challenger, eventually you will mess up the spacing and get blasted in the face. You will lose games playing aggro, but the games you lose trying to outmechanic your opponent are worth losing. This is in my opinion why I won almost every lane in emerald: I was better at laning than my opponent.
  2. Instead of viewing the games as a win or a loss, view them as "did I outperform my counterpart". If the answer is yes, it's all good; if the answer is no, there's a problem.

Last thing: it took me some time to decide if I wanted to write this post or not, beacuse this is infact a side project. Being a top student, playing the piano and seeing my friends are all above playing LoL in the priority list. For this reason the challenge will be suspended if needed.

I can imagine this post won't get that many views, but at the end of the day if it can help one person it's already good enough. That's all.

Greetings,

Miura

Do high deaths matter if i get my items fast.

For context i average 9-11 deaths per game, some times outliers such as 12+ or under 8

But i get decent gold per min so is it ok?

I feel like if i get behind the game is unwinnable as well, possibly due to my high deaths per game. I don't know though

Any tips to die less. Is it even bad to die alot

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u/CritOlaf — 23 hours ago

Is it bad to play duo ranked?

So a friend told me "When u go duo ranked the system puts you with bad teams because u have the advantage of communication with your duo" but idk it sounds like a hoax to me, also wanted to know if it's bad for my MMR to play with my friend gold 1 if i am platinum 1 / 2

TY

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u/ExpressionGold6323 — 1 day ago

Smurfing?

Hi guys!

So I am currently bronze 1 and I am trying to learn the game and get better at it as I just started and I am confused about something. I was playing ranked as ADC and my enemy ADC was destroying me and he claimed that he was normally diamond on another account and that he was ****ing on me and laughing at me.

I guess I am wondering how it is possible that I am in a game with someone who is diamond normally and I am just bronze. Is this something that the game cares about fixing or will this be something that I will just have to deal with for the rest of the time that I play the game?

Also while I am here if there is any tips that you guys could give me for improving as I am pretty new and I am struggling to figure out the best way to counter lanes that poke me down and I never really have an opening to be able to trade because I am too low. I currently mainly play Samira and Varus and I have the most fun with them!

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u/West_Investment1359 — 22 hours ago

Keep losing lane no matter what...

Hey all,

I havent had this bad of a losing streak since I was a newbie to the game. All my recent matches are like 2/8. I keep dying, lose my lane, feed my enemy laner and the whole chat is angry at me. It demotivates me to play.

Im not a good player by any means but I used to be way better than this, I have no clue whats going on, if my MMR's fucked or if im just degressing.

Other than playing more games and get even more demotivated, what are things i can do? Ive been practicing my CS in practice tool beacuse ive been lacking there too.

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u/RiverKun — 1 day ago

Mechanically decent but terrible at SR?

So I played ARAM clash for the first time recently. Somehow did most damage on my team in 2 of 3 games and second most in 1. Games felt super easy. I'm a bronze player and there were golds on our team too. They invite me for ranked flex, probably expecting I'll do similarly well, and I just get destroyed on the rift. 0/4 multiple times. Literally couldn't get a kill. People always say that if you have mechanics you'll climb through low elo so I focused in on that. It's the first time I've realized that my mechanics might not be my biggest issue.

Anyone have any thoughts or advice for this?

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u/ThrowRA_Candies290 — 1 day ago

Wild difference in winrate from blue side to red side(60% to 40%)

In a 184 games with Akali, I have played 100 games in the blue side and won 60% and 84 in the red side and won only 40%.

On other champions I still win more in blue side but it's 55 blue and 50 red.

What could be causing this? What should I look into correcting?

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u/CLR833 — 1 day ago
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I Made a Video Guide for Urgot Jungle

Urgot has been my favourite champ for years and urgot jungle is one of my favorite off-meta picks. I think it’s legitimately really strong but underutilized because of the necessary changes to his playstyle. I made this guide to help people pick it up and I hope you will have as much fun with it as I have!

Here is the video, i put a lot of time and thought into it and i really hope you enjoy as well as learn something :)

u/jennervk — 1 day ago

Free Coaching (All Roles) – 350 LP Master

Hey, I’m currently around ~350 LP Master on EUW and mainly a Toplaner, but I can coach every role.

I’ve been helping a few people recently and I actually enjoy coaching a lot, so I’m offering 1 free session right now for anyone who wants to improve.

What we’ll do:

- live game review or you play while I watch

- I point out your main mistakes

- simple + clear things you can fix immediately

After the session you should have a clear idea of:

- what you’re doing wrong

- what to focus on in your next games

If you’re interested just comment or DM me:

- your rank

- role

- what you struggle with

I’ll pick a few people 👍

DSC is „monkeydluffy17“

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u/aeon_discipline — 1 day ago

What should you do when jungling and team just don't understand your macro decisions making?

Just had this game where I was able to secure the first scuttle. I planned to contest the second scuttle cause I know the enemy is pathing for it instead of resetting. Enemy mid backed so we had prior mid. Everything was set for a level 6 lead dragon fight till I ran into mid to help my lb mid push so we can secure the scuttle.

Lb started to pinged me for messing with his lane. Mind you there was no one there. He stated that he want to freeze the lane. Right now in my head there was absolutely no reason for him to freeze. With enemy mid backed he need to match his back and shove or gain something from roaming. Instead he stayed in his lane typing to me about messing with his lane and there was no reason to touch his wave. Enemy jg make a play for second scuttle and enemy mid shown about 5s later. I had to back off cause I didn't want to risk a 2v1. lB stayed in lane cause he didn't have a chance to back.

After my second clear, drag is up, bottom lost, mid bought statikk shiv component. Enemy mid was cho and he was there for dragon. Absolutely no chance that we can secure dragon. Everything after this was horrible because team mental gone to complete shit. They have scaling champs. We have an ad lb into tank cho. I can't contest for anything because I don't have any prio and we just FFs at the end.

My cs is up, my gold is decent but I just never had the chance to get any obj. What should I do?

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u/Boyal103 — 2 days ago
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What’s the logic behind people calling high ranks ”low elo”?

Posts keep getting removed on r/leagueoflegends for some reason that I don’t know so I’ve decided to ask here.

This has always been such a strange phenomena to me. Diamond is objectively top 4% of the playerbase, yet I see people calling even that rank ”low elo”, or even ”pisslow”. Let alone emerald or even platinum elo which are better than the majority of players. I’ve seen it mostly rampant on Tiktok but even in other platforms like Reddit, although the community is a bit more supportive here and usually disagree with these comments.

And although ranks are very slightly inflated, there’s a narrative out there that even a silver player from last season could become emerald with the same skills, which is just plain false.

Is this an ego thing because they’ve just hit a rank that’s slightly higher? Are they maybe stuck in that rank and are mad that their teammates could be ”holding them back”? Or is it just plain ragebait?

Is this also as common in other games or is it just an LoL thing?

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u/Choice-Drawer-5318 — 3 days ago