Get LoL replay, post replays.
Have, will, but embarassed to. I feel like I need 1 on 1 coaching though; Numbers your style is to watch the first 10 min of a vid and pick shit apart which is useful but I'm not sure it'll help. I'll send you one if I can find a good example of a game I lost but still think I performed well in.
Not a LoL player here, but it seems to me that if you want to improve faster and player against harder opponents, maybe you should just start playing ranked matches again. The more difficult situations should make any mistakes that you make much more apparent as opponents will be more likely to capitalize on them and this could help force you to improve your game. Plus by playing ranked games you can see your progression/ lack of much easier if I understand correctly, so just do it.
I understand that you wanted to get +100 but if your not making the progress you would like I think this might be the best option, after some ranked matches you could always come back to normal to see if you have improved.
Go gain ranked ELO in LoL, that really not matters not 100 more normal wins.
While those suggestions to make sense, theoretically there should not be a huge difference in the level of players I end up against in normals vs ranked (you have a hidden normal elo; mine should be pretty static right now since I have like 1500gp). I know normals don't matter (neither does ranked, really) but it's just a goal I feel I need to reach, and supposedly I should be able to carry harder when there are statistically fewer tryhards in normal games, even if I get those people not trying on my team, which brings me to this:
A fundamental flaw of what you're doing is that LoL is not a 1v1 game. You actually may be (and likely are) improving a lot but you have 4 other people dragging you down. Don't base your success on games won, but on something else like how often you make good/bad decisions and how effective you are in whatever else your goals are.
This argument seems fundamentally flawed to me. Obviously LoL is not a 1v1 game, however if I was improving I would see a change in my rating or W/L one way or another over the vast number of games I've played. Blaming failures on my teammates is no way to win or cope with loss; and it has been proven many times that those pro players who belong at high elo will get back up there despite a few games with feeders/leavers/trolls/etc.
Really appreciate all the advice/well-wishes so far, guys. I'm going to keep at it I guess...nowhere to go but up (I lost another...now at +86 >.<). One thing I'm particularly guilty of is not playing the same role constantly or the same champ constantly and I've heard mastering a champion is a good way to rank up. Last season I did it with Trundle, carrying myself from 1k elo to 1400. Maybe I should try again....Last edit: 2012-02-21 12:36:55 | 
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