My question is: Should i switch to a
jungler so that we have one, even if
it means missing out on farm for my
team?
Depends on the draft pick order, if you are a good jungler and you are first pick, you can pick one immediately; if you are not first pick and notice the enemy team has already picked a jungler, you can ask in chat if anyone is jungling. If not, it is recommended that your team has a jungler as well, then top lane will be 1v1, you can control the Dragon on bottom lane, and you can set up ganks.
What soft skills do i need as a
jungler, e.g what should i pay most
attention to when going into the
jungle?
You need all of these amongst others:
- Map awareness: Control (a.k.a) warding the river sides during early game usually after your first blue pill, doing so will prevent your bottom and top lanes of being ganked. Warding strategic places during mid/late game can win fights, baron and some of the enemy jungle bushes or even your own jungle bushes.
- Wise use of Smite: If you are going to jungle, you should almost always have smite summoner spell with you (very few exceptions here, perhaps Nunu), it will make your jungling faster and you can also kill Dragon/Baron faster having the possibility of kill stealing if you are aware of the enemy team killing them.
- Lane awareness: One of the most important things a jungler should do is besides killing the neutral creeps and roaming around, is setting up ganks / denying / defending turrets; whenever you see any lane is being outpushed you must leave jungle and defend the turret while the laner pills back, also harassing mid, by just making the enemy mid laner blue pill back will make your mid lane gain more exp/gold by killing creeps alone.
Probably another question, but what
else can i do to carry harder? I
mostly only lasthit and that means
playing safe and not getting many
kills mid in favor of harass.
Last hit is a very important thing to do overall, not only carries should do it, however you can easily harass while last hitting, it just takes a little bit of practice and knowing exactly what your champion skills are. In order to effetively carry, you should just play smart and aggresive when possible during team fights and laning phase, meaning letting your tanks engage and start the fights, targeting the enemy AD/AP carries. Also a very importing thing a carry should do is pick items accordingly to what the enemy team comp is, perhaps maybe just stacking AP flat items would not be the greatest idea if the enemy team is heavy on MR, stacking AP + Magic Pen items would do much better, same idea applies to AD carries; additionally if you as carry are having a good early/mid game, you should also buy some defensive items, such as Guardian Angel / Banshees Veil in order to have a little more survivability.
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League of Legends uses a mathematical system to match up players of similar skill in the “Normal” and “Ranked” game types. Source
So just like in "Ranked," "Normal" uses its own Elo for matchmaking. It's just hidden.
Most likely, though, because your colleagues are new, their opponents aren't as good as the ones you're facing now. In other words, your colleagues' opponents don't capitalize on mistakes as much as your opponents might, because you're a better player, and the people you play against scale accordingly.
That's why your colleagues can get scores like 0/17 and still win a game.
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Ranked games played in between Season 2 and Season 3 count for your Season 3 ranking; it'll be directly carried over.
There are plenty of sources; here's one of them.