The Bronze Climb

So, In season 3, 4 and 5 I was dragged in to ranked by some of my friends. Didn't really know what the hell I was doing, and as you can probably guess, my MMR tanked. Pre-Season 6, I thought "I want one of those pretty boarders!!"

My season 5 "op.gg" MMR (not accurate I know) was 834. So obviously I got placed in B5 even after winning 8 out of my 10 placements. No big deal, but it scared the hell out of me, people always told me "you will get stuck in B5 for a long time, its hell down there." So I avoided playing ranked for a few days.

I decided to play a few ranked matches after that short break. Got to B4 that day, only losing a few of my games. The last B5 loss i had was the first game of my series. The jungle wanted to support, but I said id rather not jungle coughI FUCKING SUCK AS JUNGLEcough. Well I did not know they were a 4 man pre-made and they thought it would be funny to tell me to go in and they all flash away =u=. One of them apologized in the post game chat though, he threw his series that game.

Once I hit B4, i got a small losing spree. (Thank you 4v5s. love them so much). But no real biggie, I just stopped playing for a couple weeks. (BnS addict) Started playing again yesterday. Won a couple and lost a couple. Then I noticed something, I was gaining a lot more LP than i was before. My highest gain has been 32, my lowest gain so far was 24 (I think, close enough though).

I just made it to Bronze 3 on this small winning spree of 4 games. Its been an interesting down here in the lower half of bronze though, I'll tell you that.

22 wins/12 losses 65% win rate. "op.gg" MMR is now 1079 - 1099 you know how op.gg is super consistent (yea right)

I have noticed though, In my normal games, i don't have to play Leona as much because I usually get paired with people that pick a tank jungle or top, sometimes both. In ranked bronze, It seems the concept of a tank is non existent, so out of my 34 games, 28 have been with Leona. Most teams also seem to have a full AD comp with a "tank". This is pretty much Leona and Taric Freelo. The ADC down here seem to need a lot of direction, I have to constantly tell mine to attack the enemy ADC when I stun lock them. On top of that, The enemy ADC seem to think Leona is not a tank, and will constantly focus me when I play her and let my ADC kill them with little to no effort.

I wonder what the higher levels of bronze will be like (if there is any difference at all).

Shooting for, at the very least, silver 5 by the end of season 6. Have not found this "Elo Hell" people talk about yet though.