League of Legends (LoL) Question: The New Season

When your skill is only slightly above the skill of those around you, climbing becomes much harder than when it's considerably higher, because you can't always compensate for the skill of your 4 other team mates. However, since it's above, you'll still be able to climb through preserverence.

My suggestion is that you look at your champ pool and consider which champs you have that have seriously good snowball/carry potential, champs that can help you stomp your lane help snowball or throw under the bus other enemy players. Never give up, don't lose your head over bickering or trolls.

Also, try to consider what strengths you possess that your opposition lacks. In bronze, players in general have horrible map awareness + mechanics + objective control, so focus on what skills from these that you excel at and use them to your advantage (warding enemy jungle: enemy junglers will overextend with low hp a lot longer in bronze. Ganking/roaming a lot with champs that have good roam potential. Forcing your team to get towers/dragon/baron. Snowballing)

You want to play champions that can generate a lot of map pressure for your team. Often times, your opponents in lower ELOs don't really know how to react to heavy map pressure and crumple like a piece of paper.

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Aside from that, don't be discouraged about being placed lower because Riot did this intentionally. Everyone essentially got demoted and now you can climb at a much faster pace. Get your ELO goggles on and get to it. You'll be able to gain 25+ each game you win so focus hard and win as many as you can. Good luck!