Started off well, and now getting lower and lower and lower. About to go below 1100. So sad.
I can't wait till finals are over and I can participate in 5 man ranked.
Issue is, I'm not the type of guy who can carry teams hard consistantly. I play too passively, and if enemy makes a mistake I capitalize on it. I almost always have positive KD ratio but rarely do I snowball because I'm not the type of player who plays agressively enough to get kills all the time.
5-man is all about team coordination. Your play style is just fine and in fact a full team playing like that can often gain a significant advantage by catching the enemy out of position. That said, that's mostly for laning phase, the larger the difference in feed between your team and the enemies the more aggressive you should be.
To clarify:
If you're significantly up: group up (assuming team comp doesn't demand split push) and take objectives, especially inhibitors, baron, dragon, enemy red/blue and towers in that order... anything that gives your team global gold is OP. If someone tries to 1v1 you and they're down levels / gold / matchup is good go for it. If the enemy tries to initiate, fight (assuming the numbers are good).
If you're down I personally think turtling is the wrong strat (unless you're waiting out a baron). You must ward, ward, ward and gank the enemies that go out solo while avoiding full team fights. Turtling just cedes the objectives except tower/inhibitors to the opponents increasing their lead. If no one else on your team will try anything you might as well force the action unless you have a late game supercarry that you're just waiting on farm for (Trynd, Jax, Irelia, Vayne, maybe Yi) in which case delaying tactics are the best.
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Solo queue you cannot count on your teammates so being more aggressive to feed yourself is often times a better choice. Especially if a lane starts 0/2 and won't lane swap, it's time to gamble. This is why duo queue is soo good, you get a small amount of that larger team coordination.
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