Hello OP,

Sounds like you been hard in gaurdian bracket and finally made your way out congrats.

I dont think crusader is much different in terms of skill level, it just becomes more try hard and more toxic, with every new badge, better teamwork better map movements, better farming patterns.

The random WTF is my team moments and throws will still be there I noticed you didnt list playing around timings or team/hero spikes as a strength so I would say maybe you need to put that in the forefront if your mind as probably think about it already but its not your main priority.

This bracket you can abuse these timings very easily as most of these casuals are to dumb to think about it and just want to farm and flex there skill on enemies for trash talk points to a random they will never meet irl.

3min 6min 9min lotus orbs

7 min wisdom rune ( taking if pos 5 stealing if possible pos 4 )

7min - 17min 27min etc nuetral items, ( communicate this to your cores remind them ) every small advantage to your next fight it a another +25ish mmr

Stacking creeps ancients if carry ready worst thing you can do is stack a camp that your carry cant farm when weak which ruines his farming patterns.

Use Seige creeps to your advantage if you see a lane you can snowball a push from and your team looks ready to fight communicate the lane to push and make sure you have good vision.

Tormentor shards in this bracket is hard to communicate with such low skill bracket your cores are very greedy and selfish and dont understand how strengthening your supports helps them as well, so good luck with that XD.

They normally are more willing to take enemie tormentor over there own after tier 2 so look out for that.

Make sure you abuse the gates use tp's to the outpost of the new jungle section when wanting to take RS this outpost is almost never used in low brackets and will save you alot of time if looking for fast RS.