need help understanding solo 5

[quote=Six Nails]hi all and thanks for reading :) i seem to have serious flaws with my game but i dont know what they are exactly i feel like i am doing well and my stats per game are often pretty good but i think im just overlooking something i am blamed quite often for losses, and im on a 14 game losing streak in 5 solo. i do win 3 premade and normals though maybe someone with experience can play some games with me and help me out? my elo is like 900 and ive lost so many i feel like i will always be in elo hell :( help would be appreciated :)[/quote]

[quote=L1LShadow]#1 Stop playing ranked games, at your elo you'll play with baddies and trollz #2 Ask yourself questions when you do die or someone blames you such as, "Could I have avoided that?" "Should I have avoided that?" when you answer the question you start to realize what you're doing wrong for an example, if you tower dive when you thought you were supposed to, ask yourself could you have avoided that, you would probably say yes, that you shouldn't have tower dived so now you learned not to tower dive. But in a situation where you die but you and your partner got a double kill and your partner lives you ask "Should I have avoided that?" The answer is no because you got double kills with 2 assists while they got 1 kill 1 assist so it benefits you more. #3 Read GUIDES, stop going to builds and copying it. If you don't know why you're building something, most likely you're building wrong. Also, guides teach you tips and tricks most of the time.[/quote]

[quote=Six Nails]#1, you mean forever? or like for a little while? i want to get out of my elo and it seems like not playing is not a solution, just a means of avoiding the problem #2. excellent tip, nothing else to add. #3 i dont go to builds anyways. the only time i look at builds is if i start working on a new champ and want to see about what to expect. example of this, just started taric last night, and had no idea how to build him. looked up a build, got an idea of how he is meant to be played, and just adapted it to what i needed at the time being. also i watch a whole lotta teeeskimo, so that is kinda like reading a guide lol.[/quote]

[quote=Lugignaf]#1 Just for a while. Try to get 400+ games in normals first. Don't only play one champ type but, play it more often than others. Learn to carry like... everything in normals first. That'll help you with ranked. Another solution is just wait until season 3 but, I'm sure you don't want to do that now, do you?[/quote]

[quote=Six Nails]hey i just ended my losing streak with taric going 5/7/27. i guess ill stopped ranked 5 solo for a while ya. maybe with a breath of fresh air ill return to dominate.[/quote]

[quote=L1LShadow]If you get back to playing ranked games, it usually helps to have a friend duo queue with you (you can't triple or quad queue and 5 man premade = 5 premade v 5 premade ranked) so that you have a better chance of winning. It also helps if you're playing a carry and your friend play a tank/tanky-dps or vice-versa.[/quote]

[quote=DuffTime]My tips in order. #1; Get every creep you can get without causing yourself to be at a huge disadvantage for. If you lose half your HP for one creep, not worth it unless you're already going to base. If you miss a creep that was free, and your opponent didn't deny it to you, you need to improve your last hitting. If your opponent is not denying, you should be trying to get 100% of the creeps. #2; Once you can CS effectively, work on harass. You need to harass inbetween your CS, and NOT MISS LAST HITS. Don't harass if a free creep will die. Laning phase is all about the cumulation of gold. If you sit there and deal a billion damage to your opponent, but they outfarm you..? Guess what? YOU LOST THE LANE. Even if his tower is at half HP, even if he was almost dead the whole time, if he outfarmed you, you lost the lane. Harass is just a method to stop your enemy from safely getting gold by pushing them away from creeps. Keep in mind WHY you do what you do. #3; Once you know how to farm and harass and win lanes, do it. Take teleport if you can't win lanes yet, it will help you go heal for free and come back for another go at it. If you're losing, what good is ignite going to do you? None, take teleport, and base twice as often instead. #4; Once you have the lane down, abuse your lane opponents and force them out of lanes at the correct moments. Important moments to wear down your opponents depends on what champs you're using and when global objectives will be spawning. Dragon is massively important and a game winner. You may find that most games are won or lost when a team gets 3-4 consecutive dragons. It's a very very steep amount of gold to try to come back from. #5; Map awareness and warding. If you don't have map awareness, I suggest playing in the jungle for 2 months straight without playing the lane once. You will be force to watch the map more, and also this will give you an instinct for when junglers can gank and such. Wards are important as well. Buy them. Always, unless the other team has no jungler. #6; Communication. You are now a player who wins lanes, and helps get dragons. Your high levels of farm enable you to fight better, and you're keenly aware of the jungler's movements. You know how to get dragons, when to get them, and why. Same for Baron. Now help your team understand what you know but telling them and pinging. #7; Push to win. Group the team, and have a good teamfight with all your gold.[/quote]