User blog comment:Leyrann/Placement Matches - The toxic that creates the Elo Hell feeling/@comment-5729466-20121215091942/@comment-5729466-20121216083133

Just playing more in general I guess. Though I have seen that you probably don't have enough time to play games (hence the AI games in your match history).

Another tactic can be that after every single match, you don't think what your teammates do wrong, but how you could have changed it/your teammates. Admittedly, you can't win every game, but a majority of games, if you are better than your opponent, you can exploit them just as much as the opponents exploit your own teammates. Smurfing on a friend's account, I played Kat mid at 1k ELO, and destroyed this Xerath mid, and it was first time kat as well. I then snowballed completely out of control, but not for myself.

Mid lane: just gank bot a million times over and over. To be honest, if your bot lane is losing, 90% of the time they won't be pushed just because the opponents are trying to be aggressive. Gank again and again. And rotate top as well; as both of us main top, we all know what it's like to get ganks and snowball. ;)

Top lane: Snowball out of control. You're better than opposing top laners, so use that to your advantage.

Bot lane: if your support's stupid, then don't go in with him on bad trades. If the support dies, then you shouldn't die as well... likewise, if your adc is bad, you either have to go all in, or just disengage/let him die. 1 death > 2 deaths.

Jungle: gank and you win. Farming junglers don't win the game. It's the one that helps the lane win.

But mainly, I feel is that I finally translated my lane control into mid game control. Because you win lane, there's many options you can use. I personally enjoy freezing the lane, and  then gaining a 70 cs advantage over the opponent. But strong other ways are pushing early then ganking bot -> drag, steal jungle -> gank mid, roam with jungler, or take turrets. This will help your teammates, despite how bad they are. And just making sure you teamfight to the best of your extent, and learn every aspect of it, will definitely make you rise. Laning is not the game... I used to be mad too at teammates who wouldn't win lane. But you can't win them all, converting the laning advantage is the key to winning.