[Patch 1.0.0.124: Talon] General Discussion - Page 98

Yes, she is. Riot needs to seriously get on fixing this, there are professional tournaments being played for a lot of real money being played right now, and they're playing with bugged champions enabled.

You would think that amongst the pro players, there would be a good-will agreement not to play any champs that have really bugged AoE.... However, the "take no prisoners, play to win" attitude would dictate that those are the heroes that you abuse the most right now. Depends on whether you want to win badly enough to make other people on pro teams your enemies.

I never had the misfortune of landing in that ELO when I started to play ranked, but returning to that ELO on different accounts while elo'ing them up, I find it fairly easy to win.

Minimizing the number of games where you feel that "I feel I played really shitty" for starters will help in "always carry, never not carry".

Consistent results in games are often benchmarked by steady cs as laners, and not dying to ganks or opponent laner alone merely because you did not know how much burst he/she would have (know how strong common lane opponents are at what levels, make sure that you've played as or played against most of them before diving into solo lanes). If you think that you are better than your opponent, deprioritize kills for equal or better farm than them and you will be able to carry. Likewise, if you find yourself with a significant advantage in lane, don't let them cheese that lead back by feeding off of your other lanes or jungle. If any role on your team is having significant trouble and you can help by either following your lane opponent or taking the initiative to gank on your own without losing tower, you could try doing so. *Note this was written for solo lanes, generally if you're AD bot you want to farm up and push your advantage via taking down their tower with ward coverage in the river if you are doing well, as leaving the lane usually gives cs and time to the other laner which is usually a bigger deal for duo lane as solo lanes are likelier to get kills ganking and mid lane in particular has easier access to both top bottom and most of jungle than duo*

As for jungling, a mistake I see some people make at all ELOs but more often at low ones is focusing wholeheartedly on ganking and neglecting their own jungle. Sometimes it pays off in dividends as you feed off a certain lane or lanes repeatedly and become godlike (probably more common in "ELO hell", but more often than not, I see slightly obvious ganks that are avoidable and thus waste both the jungler and the laner who he is trying to gank for's time. Often the few cs that the person getting ganked is missing isn't worth the creeps that the jungler should be resetting / is getting counterjungled as he fails a gank. If you do gank, try to do it on a lane with cc if you want to assure a kill (and make sure that they are in position to deal it when you are in the ganked's line of sight!) or when they are overextended etc. Ganking to blow summoners, especially when your camps are down, is also fine.

There are some heroes I feel are really good for carrying this ELO's level of games with the aforementioned playstyle.
For jungling, nocturne.
For laning top, a lot of people work. Garen's strong because he tends to dominate other top laners atm which against a foolish opponent can mean snowballing into oblivion.
Middle, anything that you are good at farming with while knowing how to abuse their power phases. Annie, brand, etc.
I generally prefer getting any role of the above rather than duo lane as it necessitates some level of dependence on the other duo laner, which can turn out nasty. If you want to duo lane, it might be safest to duo queue with a trusted buddy.

I think I am combined about 50-3 at this ELO (or slightly above) after my first runthrough on my main account.