Am I grouping enough?

[quote=VexRoth]I read that if your contribution for kill numbers is low then you aren't grouping with your team enough. Mine seems rather low even though I've had some games with good KDA numbers of late. https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=VexRoth Around this I've observed that at Silver level 1) Teams quite often don't bother clearing sidelanes before going to contest whatever objective 2) Teams quite often go contest an objective without having any ward coverage With regard to 1 I find myself quite often going to clear lanes and try to start them slow pushing back toward the enemy base so we don't lose a tower and can give the enemy something else to worry about. With regard to 2 this just seems dumb and I think my teams mostly luck out (except when they don't) that the enemy team isn't savvy enough to take advantage of the 3v5 or 4v5 and the potential for flanking due to our not having decent ward coverage. So how should I be playing this? Just cowboy up and go dive in with the rest of the squad since a 5v5 is probably going to have a better outcome than a 4v5 and damn the towers? Communicate what I'm doing more? Try to direct traffic? I'm not the quickest at typing in chat and only rarely do I get to play on 5-man squads where we are all in a voice call.[/quote]