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Bronze Isn't About Playing Well to Get Out

Woodakoodashooda··3 votes·1,075 views

Bronze here, probably won't ever see the light of silver let alone gold this go around.

But I've noticed something.

Success at this tier does not depend on player skill.

It all boils down to whichever team lands the troll, the afk, or the griefer, and then the team that doesn't is the one that gets a free win.

I've dodged so many troll comps as of late and it's the only reason I'm even able to stay above bronze 4 right now. It's all I can do to stem my LP and MMR from bleeding out again. And any time I think, "maybe it will work out this time" and I give that far off meta pick the benefit of the doubt...SPOILER ALERT, it doesn't!

So, yea, so long as I'm the guy on every team that doesn't troll pick, grief, or afk and as long as I'm the guy who opts to dodge at the 2-second mark whenever I see trolls on my side, I guess I can content myself with being king of the trash hill that is bronze.

15 Comments

letsfeedtogether4 votes

No. It is. Lets be real. If youre hard stuck bronze youre not good enough. Dont blame afk and trollers for your skill level

Pika Fox4 votes

Players in bronze make so many mistakes you can literally 1v9. It doesnt matter if you have a troll on your team, youll still be able to hold a 90% winrate if youre good enough.

Ontop of that, the enemy team, by default, is far more likely to end up with a troll, because you are 1/5th of your team.

AlienPrimate3 votes

Also, before you complain about trolls, keep in mind that you have games like this where you by no means deserved a win.

https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/3076149450/38503985?tab=overview

Woodakoodashooda1 votes

Check again. Ashe and I focused entirely on objectives in the match. If you'd look beyond KDA and see the progress we made with enemy structures then you might reconsider your stance.

And I don't claim to deserve to win all the time. I just want to play a game without trolls having free reign over the entire fucking player base.

AlienPrimate1 votes

You are like people in Salem. You see trolls everywhere you look. That is on you, not your team. The number of actual trolls I have in my games is maybe 1 in every 50 games because I know what a bad game looks like.

M Dragon143 votes

You are less likely to run into trolls than the enemy team, unless you yourself is a troll. Enemy team has 5 chances for a troll, your team only has 4. Elo hell doesn't exist.

Death by Glamour2 votes

Tbh thats the same all the way up to low diamond.

The main thing is accepting that you are getting carried and do what you can to help the person carrying you.

Saezio2 votes

Skill carries you out of bronze. If you don't play stupid tank characters, and instead go for picks that can solocarry.

Tryndamere MasterYi Hecarim Jax

PimpStickNasus2 votes

As someone in Bronze you’re just wrong, it completely comes down to skill. I started this season in Iron 4 and have very easily made it to Bronze 2 with a positive win rate because I am usually better than who I play against. I’m barely above bronze skill level but I still win more than I lose because I am.

Simplicate1 votes

if more low elo players had a mental like you these boards probably wouldn't be so salty. Keep climbing brother!

AlienPrimate1 votes

Statistics show that trolls actually help you in the long run. Assuming you are never the troll and there is guaranteed a troll in every single game, the enemy is 11% more likely to have the troll than you are because your team has a 4/9 chance while the enemy has a 5/9 chance. These odds are further spread when you turn that into 3/8 and 5/8 by duo queuing.

mack91121 votes

If you deserve to climb you will.

If you are stuck in bronze it means you play like a bronze player.

I play like a gold player so I climbed out of bronze into silver into gold and if I want to get better I need to learn how to make Play as a plat player.

Upgrades1 votes

If you worry about your teammate's performances rather than your own, even in the slightest, you will never climb.

Pandemic Punch1 votes

In Top lane, you have two options. Play something that can help other lanes as soon as possible or play a champion you know you can dominate the lane so hard with that if the enemy team doesn't send 3 or more members to you, you take towers and inhibitors.

If you can't do either of those things consistently in every game, pick a new role and a new champion. If you stay Top anyways, why aren't you playing more Yorick? You already have a good record on it, he is capable of DESTROYING lanes which makes multiple enemies have to respond, AND he statistically DECIMATES Silver and Bronze

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P4ppino1 votes

Actually you are right, to get out of bronze you don't have to play well, you can play any bullshit you want and still win. Gold is where you kinda have to focus on the game a bit, because people want to get better there.

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