Ravishing
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To climb from lower rating I would recommend NOT going bot lane. Too much randomness with what type of support player you get paired with. Supports have a huge affect on bot lane. Jungler affects everyone, but needs to know where to be at what times. Mid laner can affect everyone if they roam. Some top laners can single-handily win games too: Tryndamere & Udyr in particular. A Tryn or Udyr that wins lane can just continue pushing solo all game long, drawing opponents toward them and kiting them forever. This frees up pressure from rest of team and eventually these champs can just take turrets/inhibs/nexus by themselves since it would normally take 2+ champs to deal with them. I just played a Tryn game last night where I demolished a Xin Zhao and then enemy Jungler (Mundo) kept coming and I would demolish him too. I ended the game 17-6-x and would just take turrets/inhibs even with Xin or Mundo attacking me. Rest of my team was losing their lanes but we still win easy cause of how much pressure I applied.
Point is, carrying games so that you win more than you lose requires knowing how to take pressure off the rest of your team. A mid laner that just sits in mid farming up will be less impactful than one that roams and applies pressure on other areas of the map. Sure, you might win your lane, but your potential to take objectives is still shitty. A top laner needs to draw opponents to him to relieve pressure. Junglers need to determine who is the weakest link on enemy team and camp the fuck out of them. Don't let weak players get strong. Camp a lane or invade the enemy jungler or whatever seems best. A reactive jungler is a bad jungler. Be proactive, do the initiating. Typically whoever initiates first will win. Also, trying to help weak lanes hurts your team more than anything. Example: My Tryn game last night, Mundo came to my lane and only made me stronger. But since I was Tryndamere it wouldnt have mattered much anyway unless they started sending 3+ to me. Mundo should have coordinated ganks with the mid-laner too or he should have helped other lanes that were already strong. If you are a jungler and your bot lane is winning hard, go make them win even harder, push turrets/inhibs, don't try to save the 0-14 top laner. A roaming mid-laner should take the same advice. Help the stronger lanes. Don't try to save a feeding bot lane, it is more likely you will just get killed too.
Lastly, aggressiveness wins lanes. It might not always pay off and I certainly do not advocate tower diving, but harassing your enemy and then being the first to go "all-in" is typically a winning formula. Poke them down between last hits and once they are low enough to the point you think you can win the exchange, just do it. (But don't tower dive in most cases). A Tryndamere should almost never win early vs a Xin Zhao but I knew I needed to make the first move so I poked him early and at level 2 I went all-in. He didn't die though, he got to his turret and I didn't tower dive, he lived with 100 health, but he stupidly stuck around since there was a huge minion wave heading for his turret. Once he was on the edge of turret range and before he could react I Spinning Slash+AA to kill him off for first blood at level 2 and he still lost a lot of CS+XP. I won the lane, and the game from that. Another point: never go "all in" when the enemy has more creeps in the lane, creeps do tons of damage early on. You want creep damage advantage on your side.
ok that's enough rambling for now. I still suck and lose too many games.
Point is, carrying games so that you win more than you lose requires knowing how to take pressure off the rest of your team. A mid laner that just sits in mid farming up will be less impactful than one that roams and applies pressure on other areas of the map. Sure, you might win your lane, but your potential to take objectives is still shitty. A top laner needs to draw opponents to him to relieve pressure. Junglers need to determine who is the weakest link on enemy team and camp the fuck out of them. Don't let weak players get strong. Camp a lane or invade the enemy jungler or whatever seems best. A reactive jungler is a bad jungler. Be proactive, do the initiating. Typically whoever initiates first will win. Also, trying to help weak lanes hurts your team more than anything. Example: My Tryn game last night, Mundo came to my lane and only made me stronger. But since I was Tryndamere it wouldnt have mattered much anyway unless they started sending 3+ to me. Mundo should have coordinated ganks with the mid-laner too or he should have helped other lanes that were already strong. If you are a jungler and your bot lane is winning hard, go make them win even harder, push turrets/inhibs, don't try to save the 0-14 top laner. A roaming mid-laner should take the same advice. Help the stronger lanes. Don't try to save a feeding bot lane, it is more likely you will just get killed too.
Lastly, aggressiveness wins lanes. It might not always pay off and I certainly do not advocate tower diving, but harassing your enemy and then being the first to go "all-in" is typically a winning formula. Poke them down between last hits and once they are low enough to the point you think you can win the exchange, just do it. (But don't tower dive in most cases). A Tryndamere should almost never win early vs a Xin Zhao but I knew I needed to make the first move so I poked him early and at level 2 I went all-in. He didn't die though, he got to his turret and I didn't tower dive, he lived with 100 health, but he stupidly stuck around since there was a huge minion wave heading for his turret. Once he was on the edge of turret range and before he could react I Spinning Slash+AA to kill him off for first blood at level 2 and he still lost a lot of CS+XP. I won the lane, and the game from that. Another point: never go "all in" when the enemy has more creeps in the lane, creeps do tons of damage early on. You want creep damage advantage on your side.
ok that's enough rambling for now. I still suck and lose too many games.
