Game Time! / General:Now, you have your solo lane, ward that damn thing! Make sure to have wards up nearly all the time during laning phase, and key points after laning phase. Its essential for the fact that junglers will try to gank you, other lanes may try to gank you, and with a ward, you can both have a better chance to escape, as well as be able to attack the opposing champs in your lane without fear of counter attack from river.
Here's a pic with points to wards at (grabbed from another guide, Green = standard, Red = Situational, Black = Fancy spots)
Boom, got that ward down, couple more in the inventory for when it fades (if ur melee, and some ranged, wriggles is a free ward for the entire game, might be useful). Now you need to concentrate on your lane and getting money. Early game, last hitting is priority in this ELO. Top players can last hit and harass etc. at the same time. You’re in ELO hell, you should be concentrating on pretty much purely last hitting mobs, and only harassing when they’re over extended, out of place, or a gank is coming from jungler/another lane. To clarify, Last hitting is not auto atking creeps, but waiting until the creeps themselves put each other at a hp low enough to only hit them once, and get the gold from it. Auto atking creeps will yield far less gold, and will push your lane, leaving you over extended, and open to be ganked, none of which is good. If you are unable to last hit well, I suggest you play normal and practice it up. Some champs make last hitting Ezmode, i.e. annie, whos disintegrate refunds her mana used when it kills a target, or Nasus whos siphoning strike gets more powerful each last hit, etc.
Simple Video on how lasts hitting works, and helps:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3nqyzQo2rk&feature=relatedOk, so you’re warded and last hitting like a pro, now attempt to cordinate with your team, especially your jungler (assuming you have one), its gank time. If you do have a jungler, try to get him involved in ganks as much as possible, it will help both of you greatly, towers can get dropped, and can severely hurt the other team by starving the opposing champ/s in your lane by be dead. Try to pick out the decent players on your team asap, and cooperate with them as much as possible. If a feeder isnt listening to you try to help (not rage right?), don’t attempt to cooperate with them as much, they’re clearly bad, or having a bad game, and are stubborn/ a troll. Do the opposite for the other team as well, try to pick out the bad players on their team, and focus on feeding off them early to get as big of an advantage as possible.
Never expect your team to be good, assume they are all bad (although don’t talk down to them, just don’t rely on them). Simply don’t assume they will play correctly. You will have rammus’s on ur team that initiate fights at 50% hp against 3 guys when you’re the only one around. Unless you both are fed to high hell, don’t engage with him. Its times like this that will decide whether u can carry or not. If you go in, and die, you just gave them 300g and made it that much harder to carry. Same goes for suiciding for kills, you may get a kill, but so do they, ur dead now also, which means ur not getting creep kills. So really, ur not getting ahead at all, contrary to what u may think.
Another point to mention is a lot of people play poorly after a loss. Something that may help is take a short (or long) break from the game. Go get something to eat, take a shit, rub one out (cause none of us have GF’s amirite?), then come back optimistic about the next game. If you lose two or three in a row, maybe take the rest of the night off and try again tomorrow.
You now have some basic knowledge to better your gameplay. No, you wont win every game if you do everything I said, you will still have teams that are uncarriable, leavers, afkers, etc. That is inevitable, but what you can do is give urself the push to win those few games here and there that will get u out of the rating bracket you’re stuck in. (I.e. if you were winning 5 for every 5 lost, you’re stuck, not moving up or down. But if you can change just one of those losses into a win, you’re now winning 6 for every 4 lost, and that’s approx 25-30 rating every ten games. No its not huge, but it will slowly get you out. But if you werent doing any of what I said in this guide, results could be more drastice, 7-3, 8-2, etc. Given like I said, you’ll eventually level out again, but it will be in a new higher rating bracket.
Thank you for reading my guide, and I hope it helped you. I know its not flashy, but the info is good, and thats honestly whats most important.
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