How To Climb Out Of Iron
League of Legends | Season 13 | FREE GUIDE

There is no right answer here.

In the current meta, you can climb with every role in League of Legends.

The best strategy to go with when choosing which lane to climb with is to pick the lane you are most comfortable OR the lane you have the most success with. If you’re unsure about what role/champions you’re most successful on, go to op.gg and look at your statistics.

The most important tip to remember when trying to climb out of Iron is to try to just stick to one role and master it. It’s much easier to become a god at one role rather than constantly switching roles and being indecisive when trying to climb.

There are three ways to approach choosing a champion pool when trying to climb in League of Legends.

1. Play the champions you have fun on – this is best recommended for players who want to make sure they always enjoy the game. Usually, if a player enjoys a champion they will also perform better on them, will learn faster and climb quicker.
2. Play the champions you are good at. Go to op.gg and look at your most played champions. Look at your wr%, games played and KDA. The champions with the best numbers across these three metrics are usually the champions you are best at playing. Generally, any champion above a 53% winrate over at least 30+ games is a good champion for you to focus on mastering and playing to climb.
3. Play the meta/OP champions. This is the hardest option as it generally requires you learning a new champion which can be very difficult and actually detrimental to your climbing, particularly if you’re a new player or haven’t played the champion before. If you use this approach, make sure to practice the champion in flex-queue, on your alt. account or in normal games before bringing it into your solo-queue games on your main.

In my experience, having coached hundred of players in Iron, the best strategy is to choose a small champion pool that focuses on a balance between the champion you’re good at and the champions yo enjoy playing.

There is always a synergy between high performance and champion enjoyment, so make sure you keep your champion pool small (3-5 champions) on your primary role, make sure you enjoy playing those champions, and make sure you can actually win games with them!

This is a question that almost no-one asks themselves yet one I ask to all my Iron players.

Goal setting when aiming for a higher rank is critical because it makes you start to get specific and focus on areas of your gameplay that aren’t up to a gold elo standard. See the following goals as a general guide for a silver player wanting to become a gold player.

1. Have a wr of 53%+ across your most played champions.
2. Have a cs/min of at least 5 for junglers and a cs/min of 6 for top, mid and jungle. This should be across all your most played champions.
3. Have a KDA of at least 3 across your most played champions
4. Have a KP% of 50-55% as a jungler, 40-45% as a top laner, 48-52% as a mid laner and 55-60% as a support.

Now, just because you have these statistics, it won’t necessarily mean you will reach Bronze, HOWEVER, if you are achieving these statistics in Iron, it proves that you are in fact playing better than the average silver player and therefore if you keep that level of performance, you will eventually climb out of Iron, whether it’s in the next 10 games, 50 games or 100+ games depdning on your rank, MRR and consistency.

Climbing out of Iron is hard in League of Legends for three main reasons.

1. Most Iron players do not have a ranked climbing strategy. Most plat players do. If you don’t have a “strategy” for how to climb out of gold and stick to it, for example, I am going to one-trick Yasuo in the midlane to climb out of Iron, you will most likely ruin your MMR and destroy you win rate by playing too many roles and champions.
2. Most Iron players don’t know what to focus on to improve their gameplay. The biggest areas holding most Iron players back are their CS/min, laning phase and dying too much. Focus on these three things for in-game improvement.
3. Tilting and mentality. It’s easy to get frustrated in League of Legends, but it’s easier to climb when you don’t get tilted. Mute all and ally chat in system settings to stop other players tilting you. Never play more than 2 losses in a row in one sitting. If you are tilted, switch from ranked to normals or go on your smurf account.

It is easy to climb out of Iron, once you have the right strategy. The problem is, 95% of players don’t have a strategy to climb out of Gold. 

Once you create a strategy that allows you to have fun, play the champions you want and maintain a 55% winrate, it’s only a matter of time before you climb out of Iron.

The easiest way to create this strategy is to pick your most enjoyed role, and pick 1-3 champions with a 50%+ win rate. Once you have this pool of champions, you now need to focus on mastering them and continue to play only those champions until you climb out.

Yes, you can drop out of Iron in League of Legends if you lose enough games in a row. However, you cannot decay out of Iron. League of Legends rank decay does not occur when you are Iron. Ranked decay only occurs in Diamond players and up.

Yes you can. Every player and every account has the potential to climb out of Iron. If you are unsure or don’t believe in yourself or don’t know how to climb out of Iron, book a call with me HERE and I will show you everything you need to know.