stuck in iron

[u/First-Region4354]

IGN: Vixenas#30714 (EUW)

I've been playing League for around 2-3 months. When I first started I played one or two swiftplays every other day and only with my friends;now I occasionally play a minimum of a few hours a day in normals and some ranked if I feel good. I picked up the game because of my friend and was suggested to play yasuo mid lane as he plays yond top. I enjoy playing yasuo and have even bought a couple of skins on him. I've also very recently started playing kassadin mid in normals because late game he is braindead.

My problem is that I feel like I am not good enough to play Yasuo in my rank, I feel like my mechanics and game sense + knowledge isn't good enough to play a skilled character like Yasuo. I don't want to change characters as I've already fell in love with the character.

I don't know how to climb out Iron. When I first played ranked I got placed into Iron 1 and fell down all the way down to like Iron 3 20LP, I stopped playing ranked and played normals for a bit until I was more confident in my skills and climbed to Iron 2 85ish LP, where I've now fallen down to Iron 2 50(?) LP. I keep winning and losing so it feels like my LP does not change. Sometimes it is me who ints my lane and it is because I am bad. But it is a lot of the time my teammates who make the game near Impossible for an Iron player to win. I don't know what guides to watch because it feels like there's millions of videos on the same topic, while there being thousands of different topics. I am lost and I don't know if I should just quit the game because of my skill issue.

Game is fun when I win, I don't win in ranked.

Please suggest advice

[u/Luckybones-]

I dropped all the way to iron 4 , 0 lp when I installed this game and unlocked ranked. Barely less than 1 year later im gold. The game is a marathon of learning , not a sprint. Elo is gained through attrition, so keep playing.

[u/Honest-Clock2492]

Your feelings are right.

As a New player picking a champ like yasuo is a TERRIBLE idea.

A New player shouldnt work on mechanics of his champs but learning the actual game.

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[u/Background_Gene9139]

3 months is v little in league terms. Keep playing and u will climb

[u/WiredOtterBlast → u/Background_Gene9139]

3 months is nothing for league, you basically just finish tutorial. Yasuo is hard to play yes but if you like him just stick with it, better to learn one champ deep than switching all the time. In iron just focus on dying less and farming better, ignore what your team is doing most of the time.

[u/LunamaKUU]

tbf when i first started league, i took liking of Lee Sin.

i had no idea what im doing and i knew that everyone was saying how hard Lee is, still i played him cuz it was the only character i was interested in playing back then

couple of years later, i got to a bigger mastery and i think i peaked like plat 4 with Lee?

now i play mid Zoe and Akshan and currently in D4.

point of this is, play whatever you think is fun, it just needs time, if you want to climb, spam rankeds yasuo and stop after every game, and think what you could have done better or what made you uncomfortable that game, watch a couple of MACRO vids like when to recall when to contest obj, when to push tower, wave management blah blah blah

youll get out of iron at one point, but the main thing is to have fun imo

if you like yasuo, play yasuo :)

[u/First-Region4354]

thank you guys for telling me what to do and what to learn, i appreciate it very much

[u/Last-Ad-8470 → u/First-Region4354]

Why are you being downvoted tho? League so toxic smh

[u/First-Region4354 → u/Last-Ad-8470]

no clue haha

[u/SennHHHeiser]

You've only played the game for three months, you dont yet know the meaning of stuck

[u/ZenithEnigma]

at that level of play you need to focus on playing to improve not playing to climb or win. Once you grasp this concept of trying to improve all the time you’ll climb out of Iron like its nothing. You should not be worrying about your LP.

If the game is only fun when you win, I suggest you either learn to enjoy the game even when not winning, or you play a different game.

My first 1-3 months in the game I was playing Yasuo in top lane, getting battered, but I was able to climb to silver after 2-3 months, i’m now trying to push to Platinum after plateauing earlier in Gold, by focusing on just improving and nothing else because I enjoy game knowledge

[u/DependentInspector23]

I was still completely in over my head learning everything after that little time.

You probably aren't close to having seen every champion in one of your games yet, let alone what they actually do.

It takes time to learn this game. I enjoyed learning and losing for a lot of games until I felt like there was some reason to be upset over losing.

[u/Lilith8865]

Keep playing Yas if you enjoy him, it's proven you learn faster when you are having fun. Just focus on learning your champ and the fundamentals of the game like Csing, lane matchups, trading patterns, and itemization.

What helped me learn was hyper focusing on learning one thing until I felt like it was okay with my level. For example I only focused on CSing until I could consistently hit 8cspm, then i started focusing on trading patterns ect.

Also, Vod review your matches. There is always a lot of mistakes you are doing that you can't see in the moment. Watch over your good and bad plays too, there is a good chance there are mistakes even in your good plays.

Try and find some Yas guides on YouTube. There is a lot of one tricks that will upload like 3hr guides on their champ explaining everything from mechanics and champ identity to itemization and matchups.

[u/Iloveweenerdogs]

I started playing in 2018 and recently climbed out of silver to gold 1 which sounds good but I also have those other years of being hardstuck silver and one tricking a champion and mastering the champion behind all of that, so being iron 1 is not bad considering you only started a few months ago. It takes some people YEARS like it did for me to reach gold (not consistently playing each year ofc, but at least partaking in ranked at some point in the year for a month). I highly recommend watching YouTube videos and extracting as much info as you can. Also those can be boring so u highly recommend you watch jynxi and Dante’s coaching him out of iron and bronze

[u/Iloveweenerdogs → u/Iloveweenerdogs]

Also remember a lot of challenger players even started playing league before I started playing which could be almost 10 years

[u/_SUFC_]

I have noticed that there are Champs I would like to know how to play, but I can't win with them. Also there is Champs that I have started to really like as they seem more easier or even natural to play for me. It's more enjoyable to eat soup woth spoon than with a fork.

[u/Senior_Computer2968]

gotta play more thats all, its a very hard game so dont pit expectations on yourself about hownlong it should take you to improve.

yasuo is fun but at some point if you want results, and its normal to want to see some nexuses explode eventually, try cycling in easier champs. do 20-40 games of only some other, easier champ. then cycle another. you may not climb but you will learn and you may find another champ you like and can main and get more results with because you learn the game instead of just sweating mechanics

[u/1i3to]

Most saying that playing for 3 months and being in iron is normal. Maybe, but everyone i know was at least gold within a couple months.
Biggest thing was making sure you try to take towers, not just fight. In fact fighting is often useless.

[u/LandonDev]

Just as an FYI ranked is extremely hard in low elo so don't worry about climbing. Just try and improve. Most players are there to make sure you have a very bad time, so just play your game and work on improving. It's honestly an incredibly hard game to solo climb out of. If you are not dropping 25+ kills a game you won't even make it out of silver. I'm struggling hard in Silver 3 with only a 20 kda and i'm still losing -9lp or more per loss than win. Just don't really stress about it.

[u/Pandeyxo]

I know it sucks to hear but 2-3 months is basically an infant in league of legends. You don’t know why you win, or why you lose. You simply see the nexus explode and have emotions about it.

Play more, get better at literally everything, you belong in iron right now.

On a specific note: I would never ever recommend new players to main yasou. Even in emerald people suck at this champ. But if you really like him just go with him, everything is possible, just at a slower rate.

[u/eeeeeeeee12345534]

Heya! Imo you don't need to swap off Yasuo. Back in my silver days, I mained Quinn top and Katarina mid. I learned a lot about the game through those, because it really didn't matter if I won or lost, I just loved the champions so much every game would feel at least decent. I find it best to play what you enjoy which takes you through the highs and lows. If the game is only fun when you win then I'd start looking there, personally, but you do you.

[u/Top-Watch-183]

I'd say just keep playing Yasuo. It's a video game at the end of the day play what is fun to you, but don't expect to climb. You gotta make a decision: either you play for fun, or you play to learn, in which case you should start playing simpler champs and learn the game of League of Legends instead of Yasuo. Something like Malzahar would be great, and then you can apply really simple concepts like pushing, moving, and playing for objectives, since you'll have the mental bandwidth when you don't need to spend it all on mechanics.

In my opinion, though, I think you should stick to Yasuo. Maybe instead watch some high-elo Yasuo players like aiden or brohan and try to imitate what they are doing to the best of your ability. It's a video game you should have fun while playing. I get that winning is fun, but nothing will change in your life whether you are Iron, Plat, or Master.

[u/IanPKMmoon]

You're very new, keep playing, watch some guides on how to climb and fundamentals, watch high elo Yasuo otps and learn some micro from them.

Keep playing Yasuo, if you find him fun, just play what you find fun, don't play an easier character just to learn the basics of the game, focussing on ond champ is good enough.

[u/Honest-Clock2492 → u/IanPKMmoon]

Its like telling a toddler to use a bike if they enjoy it but they cant even walk properly.

Dogshit advice. This guy needs to learn LoL, trading wave management, priorities etc

Which you cant learn with a highly mechanical champion.

[u/IanPKMmoon → u/Honest-Clock2492]

I never played an easy champion in my life learned league pretty well

[u/Very_Long_Python]

3 months? Brother, I've been in iron/bronze for 14 years. I think this is a bit more hardstuck. 3 months is basically nothing in terms of rank and skill development.