i do man, but its so frustrating teaching 4 players how to play while playing perfectly myself and still get shit on for every little mistake (sometimes it wasn't even really a mistake).
I would personally never think that I'm playing perfectly. Even if the team feeds and all is lost, still should be finding things you could have done better to have helped.
i'm no pro and i know that but i'm better than bronze 5, as i said my friends are all around 1800 elo and i'm usually the best of us if we play teams.
Just to note, just because you're in Bronze 5 doesn't mean you're against Bronze players. You're still matched vs your MMR, not your placement.
That said, not entirely sure how relevant "best of us" in premades really is. A lot of how you carry games in solo queue is different than in premades, especially if it's a role like ADC where you can get by with good peels.
I mean, sometimes you have to learn the rough ways to win and that's snowball champs and early dominance rather than playing for the long-term.
Unless it was something with the transfer, I assumed that the ranked average was brought down.
Regardless of how it works, this isn't what merc was saying. He meant that it averages the MMR between the duo when determining matchmaking.
So I want to play my first PvP Matches. What do I need to know to not completely scrub it up more than I already will? I hear about stuff like picking/counter picking, jungle ganking (hell jungle-ing in general, Baron, etc. that simply doesn't come up in bot games (baron I've taken down a couple times actually when people were just wanting to fuck around and get kills, but yah).
Ward. And then actually watch your ward. It does nothing to ward an area and then never actually pay attention to it. Get into the habit of watching the mini-map periodically. Get in the habit of calling mias
and did I mention pay attention to the mini-map? You should do that.
Timing of towers and objectives (Dragon, Baron) will just kind of happen. It's hard to really give a hard and fast answer to this as it varies a lot. Just play games and you'll start to pick up on when you should take a tower and when objectives are free-to-take or easily contested. It's more an experience thing than set rules.
I wouldn't worry too much about counter-picking sort of things in low level games. Unless they're a smurf, you generally won't see too many people familiar enough with a champion that these sort of "this kit vs that kit" discussion really means much. Personally, I used my 1-30 time to just play a champ I liked and to figure out how to read my opponent so I can get a feel for what they're trying to do as a player (e.g., being able to tell when you're being baited for something, how they'll prioritize last hits or harass, etc.).
I already know the game has a reputation for its playerbase being a bit... toxic, so I'm a little scared of going in and completely fucking up.
Just ignore people. Easier said than done but it's the simplest solution :x
