Can someone please tell me what the most common mistakes bronze players make? I have some mistakes I make in a list but I want to add to it so I can get better

I play tanks a lot, and the most common one I make is initiating at the wrong time, usually when some of my team is missing or we are on cool downs. But I'm not doing it as much anymore.

chasing a 10 hp guy.
who happens to be shaco.
through his own jungle.
filled with shrooms and boxes

Most common Bronze mistake: They think they are good when they aren't. This means they are unwilling to improve.

This is an interesting game from an improvement standpoint because in some ways, seeing correctable mistakes is obvious:

- CS being high or low
- Kills vs deaths in early lane phase
- Whether you're warding and how many you place
- Item builds

You can look at things like that and ask "did I do this effectively", see a number, and answer "yes" or "no". If the answer is "no", it's usually pretty easy to figure out why.

But then, you have issues like these:

- Team positioning
- Engaging when you shouldn't, or not engaging when you should
- Prioritizing objectives
- Where to fight and/or force fights

These kinds of things are more nebulous, and the game has a ton of them. Low-tier players will often do them poorly, but still think they're playing the game well. There's no obvious indicator otherwise, aside from a very statistically noisy win/loss column (and W/L is undeniably noisy; the best players have very good %, but how many people win 70% of games or more when not playing on 5 man teams? The % of players is very small). So, when players are bad at these things they have a big tendency to blame teammates...and it's often true in bronze that the teammates are *also* bad at it, which doesn't necessarily mean the person complaining was good.

By FAR the most common low-level mistakes in this game:

1. Warding - It is everyone's job to ward. It is everyone's job to ward. It is everyone's job to ward. If you're anything other than ADC and aren't warding, you screwed up. Even ADC can/should help later.

2. Overextension - One, several, or a whole team goes into enemy territory mid-late game, with 5 enemies alive. Majority of times, doing this will kill you and you will lose structures on the counter-push. Objectives are in the middle for a reason. Force your fights there or build a gold advantage if they hide.

3. Chain feeding - Everyone can make mistakes early on. All of us have bad games. What separates bad play, however, is its tendency to repeat mistakes that got them killed in the first place in lane over and over again. If you lost lane that hard that you can't farm anymore, cut bait and start trying to claw your way back in via ganking and fighting with teammates. You won't suddenly beat that guy who is 2-3 levels higher than you in lane and already killed you by going back in lane. You might beat him if you start warding, helping in ganks, and get a few kills or assists to get back into the game.

4. AFK/Throwing - Self explanatory, but painfully common. Don't contribute to this problem.

Not ending the game. Playing for kills. Not ending the game. Playing champions they clearly don't know how to play. Not ending the game.

You'd be surprised how much I climbed in the ranked ladders simply by learning to go for objectives and knowing when to push. Pushing towers wins games. Doesn't matter if you're 25/0/10 if you're just going to waste time farming jungle camps.

Just awful positioning from overextending on their own.

I can't count how many times I've watched my team chase one person across the map while our towers got creep pushed. The whole point of winning fights is to get the other team to back off so you can take the objective. If they don't back off, they die. If they back off, acquire the objective(s)...chasing loses games.

At the same time, I admit that I probably need to be more aggressive when I ADC and be more quick to give up on a lane when I jungle and all 3 are losing (that is the worst - and they all blame the jungler who has to run from top to mid, to top, to bot to top to mid and never gets to farm his jungle because no one can hold the lane on their own).

I'm also not good at Top. I always ADC/Jungle/Support because no one else will do it, so I just never play top. I am still good mid because mid is ****ing easy. CS, push your lane, gank, win. It's like jungling without the buffs.

It is not just the support's job to buy wards.

Also. Remember that when you are mid, warding the river also helps the outer lanes.

Chasing Singed?

In all seriousness, I think most of what has been said here can be applied to three psychological issues: tunnel vision, going on tilt, and our ego.

Tunnel vision is where you get so focused on one thing and where you get so determined to do something that you ignore everything else. It doesn't matter that to catch the 10-health Shaco you have to tower dive the entire team, you do it. It doesn't matter if the enemy team is threatening you on the outside and pounding on you, you gotta finish baron.

Going on tilt is a phrase used when you mess up, and a fight-or-flight response of sorts is activated. Since this is a video game, we don't know how to act, and get apprehensive. As a result, we rage, blame, and do stupid things in an attempt to feel better, when really it helps no one. It's also why you shouldn't go into a game if you're tired, angry or depressed.

When I first got into Ranked, I won the first five matches and got into 1350 elo (back before divisions). I then summarily lost the next ten or so games because I decided to play while I was tired, on a champion that I needed to be on point for. I stayed around 1100 elo for months because "my teammates were bad" and I was in "elo hell." Since that I had gotten into 1350 elo, I had an overly inflated sense of how good I actually was, and as a result, kept getting frustrated at the system, even though it was working the way it was supposed to. I wasn't ready for a higher tier yet. Only two weeks ago did I finally get into Gold after almost a year of Ranked queue.

When you feel any of these happening, then I would suggest you stop playing before you get on a horrible losing streak. Remember, your teammates might not be the best players, but neither are you. You will make mistakes, too. Learning to recognize what those mistakes are can be hard. All of the posts above me give good information about the mechanical aspect. Focus on improving mistakes, and you'll be on your way.

thinking they are good.