I coach all roles. I play all roles at a high elo (GM – Challenger level).

I also coach several semi professional, college, high-elo and casual teams.

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 55% win rate 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 Platinum, 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 Diamond elo standard. See the following goals as a general guide for a silver player wanting to become a gold player.

1. Have a winr ate of 55%+ across your most played champions.
2. Have a cs/min of at least 5 for junglers and a cs/min of 7-8 for top, mid and support. 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 Diamond, 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 Diamond, whether it’s in the next 10 games, 50 games or 100+ games depending on your rank, MMR and consistency.

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

1. Most Platinum 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 Platinum and stick to it, for example, I am going to one-trick Yasuo in the mid lane 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 Platinum players don’t know what to focus on to improve their gameplay. The biggest areas holding most Platinum 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 Platinum. 

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

The easiest way to create this strategy is to pick your most enjoyed role, and pick 1-3 champions with a 55%+ 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 Platinum. League of Legends rank decay does not occur when you are Platinum. Ranked decay only occurs in Diamond players and up.

Yes you can. Every player and every account has the potential to climb out of Platinum. 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.