Finally feel like I am playing ranked again only took 200+ games & 6? months

I really don't understand how ranked can be so fucked for so long even when we do soft resets at the start of the season people still have the same mmr, yet ranked feels like complete shit for so long. Maybe I am just lucky but I have felt like I am finally playing around my elo again.

I get it I am bad. Took me like 6 years to figure out this game at even a mid gold level but I finally had it figured out in season 6 & 7 and then bam season 8 hit. I still don't know wtf to tell people about silver, except its a fucking cess pool of shit. And I get it.... gold is pretty shit too but damn once you get to at least mid gold feels like I can kinda start playing the game.

**Start playing the game what you mean? **

I mean actually playing the strategy part of LoL. Like finally thinking about more than ARAMing mid for the entirety of the game. I mean being able to somewhat actually trust my allies to maybe kinda know what their champion does and actually kinda maybe understand their role a bit. I mean being able to push a side lane and ping I have TP up in case a fight breaks out and my teammates actually understanding what that means a good chunk of the time. etc.etc.etc.etc.

And I get it.... I know I am still shit at the game especially compared to high elo. But honestly it's so hard to improve different aspects of your game in lower elo because you just don't experience it. And I am finally back to a point where I have to think more stuff through and it's been fun. Like if I play support I generally can assume my adc knows how to relatively farm and will follow up on most my plays as long as I give them an idea I am engaging. If I adc my support may actually try to help keep me alive sometimes. I can actually play mid and not try to 1v9 carry every game with him but instead abuse him as the R bot he is :))))). (plz don't nerf him until I hit plat).

Probably just riding a lucky win streak high but at least for 10ish games I felt like I was playing where I left off before season reset. Actually like challenging myself and having to think more things through and try to improve. Its a different elo for everyone but this is the more chill but a little more serious gold vibe I been missing from ranked. Silver is so much more chaotic with teammates that it's really hard to even feel like you playing League a lot of the time.

And thanks to Riot (I still disagree with the decision but here we are) moving ranked distributions up like 2 divisions I actually have a pretty decent shot at hitting plat 4 (which is basically old gold 2 lul). So now I can pretend like I improved when really I am the same player as last season. But hey.... if you don't tell people what you did who going to notice right?

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