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[i don't know her]

@cavendish very helpful, especially what you said about teamfights and not focusing on dying, not confusing at all c: i don't roam effectively at all so i think i'll start there based on what you said. thanks!

[i don't know her]

sigh had a troll, inter and afk each in three ranked games, life is great~

i just noticed taliyah is gone from the mid laners filter. has she fully been optimized for jungle has her main role now? i hardly noticed anything change in her mid gameplay other than the aoe that's gone on her q, but if riot is taking her in the jungler direction...taliyah mains are crying y'all T-T

speaking of which, are there any other taliyah mains out there? sometimes it feels like i'm the only one who mains her P

[Ahri.]

oof hit diamond 3 a while ago zz
just demoted yesterday because my duo decided to trigger my adc into running it down mid 1/19
s(^o^s)

[i don't know her]

i don't mean to sound like i'm complaining, i just really need help T-T

my past 8 ranked games have been plagued with feeders, afks, and just straight-up inting. this has resulted, unfortunately, in 8 losses. i searched up how to climb in such a scenario and the general advice i found was to improve myself and just carry.

for a while i tried that mentality and i did see a lot of areas i sucked in: i started warding a lot more, looked at the minimap more frequently, etc.

however, i've gotten to the point where i feel like i literally cannot climb. no matter how fed i get, there's always someone who feeds like crazy (ironically, it is always my top and jungler). i'm not whining about my situation currently, i just really need help as to how to climb in such an environment. do i need to change the champs i play? do i need to ward more? etc. etc.

btw this is in low silver, and i'm a support/mid main.

thank you soo much for any useful advice~

[Seasonal]

I finally got diamond. I can stop playing this game that's taken over my life! Haha just kidding, my next goal is Masters. >u>

i don't mean to sound like i'm complaining, i just really need help T-T

my past 8 ranked games have been plagued with feeders, afks, and just straight-up inting. this has resulted, unfortunately, in 8 losses. i searched up how to climb in such a scenario and the general advice i found was to improve myself and just carry.

for a while i tried that mentality and i did see a lot of areas i sucked in: i started warding a lot more, looked at the minimap more frequently, etc.

however, i've gotten to the point where i feel like i literally cannot climb. no matter how fed i get, there's always someone who feeds like crazy (ironically, it is always my top and jungler). i'm not whining about my situation currently, i just really need help as to how to climb in such an environment. do i need to change the champs i play? do i need to ward more? etc. etc.

btw this is in low silver, and i'm a support/mid main.

thank you soo much for any useful advice~

I try to stop playing after two losses, even if I played perfectly. When you're discouraged, you are not going to perform to the best of your ability no matter what. It's really hard to do this, especially when I lost both games because of someone else, but it has stopped me from demoting.

Second, unless you play a playmaker support with hard engage (like Rakan, Thresh, Alistar, etc.) stop playing support until you're in gold. I'm a support main and I have been since season 4. Silver players are simply too unreliable for your role to be influential. You can be a great support but it is simply not possible for you to stop someone who makes bad decisions consistently. It is possible to climb on support, but even in high elo, this is the role where you will climb the slowest. Play mid, and be able to play at least two tanky top laners for the chance that you are autofilled. Most people who feed in top lane aren't top lane players, and if you cannot play the role well, then playing a beefy utility tank (think Malphite) is your best option.

In the current meta, early game scuttle control is very important because your jungler wants to get ahead of the other jungler. ALWAYS watch both scuttles and watch your jungler so that you can roam down and be present. I have lost too many games because my jungler lost a 1v2 while my midlaner refused to move, and the enemy jungler snowballed from it.

I also found it really helpful to duo with good players that I met in solo queue. As a support, I like to duo with a jungler and they'll try to get top and mid fed, then we have complete dragon control. They don't have to be the best player or be a smurf, but you'll definitely synergize with some players better than others. Find some that you play well with and queue up with them.

I hope that helps a bit! I know the struggle of climbing; I started gold 5 this season and I found g3/g2 and p3/p2 to be my biggest hurdles.

[salmonnfishie]

ack yes hello idk if there was a form up front but i didn't feel like becoming official anyway lmao.

i just wanted to drop by and say hello because one of yalls darn league of legends youtube ads got to me and now i'm like?? not obsessed but i rlly wanna play it ugh. idk i'll prolly try to play as giant star dad (aurelionsol) or giant cat fish dad (tahm kench) because i'm into those kind of things smh. but once i get a real gaming computer, i'll start playing as fast as i can lmao. but like i said, i hope to one day learn the way of LoL since it sounds painfully confusing oof.

[i don't know her]

thank you seasonal (congratulations on diamond!!!)!

i mained janna (ew, i know) but also play a LOT of rakan -- even after that 8 game loss streak i'm sitting at a 64% ranked WR on him -- so i'll focus on exclusively playing him. i also found my play style to match ori and syndra nicely and have transitioned to more emphasis on mid lane, thank you for your advice! definitely feel improvement in my games after stopping spamming janna.

[Seasonal]

thank you seasonal (congratulations on diamond!!!)!

i mained janna (ew, i know) but also play a LOT of rakan -- even after that 8 game loss streak i'm sitting at a 64% ranked WR on him -- so i'll focus on exclusively playing him. i also found my play style to match ori and syndra nicely and have transitioned to more emphasis on mid lane, thank you for your advice! definitely feel improvement in my games after stopping spamming janna.

I can't tell you how many times I got called a "filthy Janna main" by a friend or even another player. I spammed her in ranked last season so she became my highest mastery champion at 359k. I'm not a Janna main, I'm a Nami main, but no one would listen to me :< I have finally passed her up with Nami sitting at 360k. Getting Janna off of my profile was the biggest accomplishment I've made all season |D

Janna was amazing last season (I played her exclusively from g5-p3) but unfortunately the meta has shifted out of her favor and recent adjustments to her common runes have made her more of a champion that should only be chosen as a strategic counterpick. The decaying shield is bad if you aren't timing it perfectly and her W isn't much to harass with anymore. Her Q and R will always be great disengages but there are just better options right now unless you are in a very specific situation.

Rakan is great! I'm not having much success in my games right now so I've been trying to learn him because I want to play more of an active role in my games. I have completely turned teamfights around and I have also lost a few games because of a poorly-timed engage, so it's definitely been an experience for me. I think he's a great champion in any elo and his disengage is so easy if you have a Xayah with you.

[cutesy]

[quote="salmonnfishie"]ack yes hello idk if there was a form up front but i didn't feel like becoming official anyway lmao.

i just wanted to drop by and say hello because one of yalls darn league of legends youtube ads got to me and now i'm like?? not obsessed but i rlly wanna play it ugh. idk i'll prolly try to play as giant star dad (aurelionsol) or giant cat fish dad (tahm kench) because i'm into those kind of things smh. but once i get a real gaming computer, i'll start playing as fast as i can lmao. but like i said, i hope to one day learn the way of LoL since it sounds painfully confusing oof.[/quote]
it's not as confusing as it seems, but if you need any help you could ask me or any1 on this topic! i'm sure you'd enjoy it, if you want we could play 2gether when you get your gaming pc!!

[xSinged]

Hey! I just have a question for anyone who mains jungle out there .
I usually play top lane or support, however yesterday I got the role of jungle!
Now that's fine I know the paths and I know when/how to gank. But it seems everytime I play out of my comfort zone there's some new meta that I'm not realizing? Or the enemy team is trolling me but.
Early game they went for an invade which was fine my bot lane and mid lane helped and we needed up winning I got fed with 3 kills and 0 deaths as kah'zix. But after that I noticed something after that one invade half the game the lanes where missing and where either camping my camps or following in my lanes. Now Ik what you're. Thinking place wards or go to the enemy jungle to counter jungle. I really couldn't in that situation since it wasn't the enemy jungler in my jungle he was in his jungle while mid/top camped my jungle. Of course it's league and my team flamed me and told me to do camps but I really couldn't and idk what to do then? Has anyone faced similar situations? Because most of the time I was pinging for help yet none of the lanes where paying attention to map so I was just basically inting and that point and I didn't want the lanes to follow me to my lanes whom where pushing their turrets. IDK