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How do you climb in ranked?

TheDarkinLegend··1 votes·276 views

I posted the below a while back, it got down voted. That pisses me off more than losing a match. There is no reason to down vote this. Read what I have to say, THINK about it first, and then decide.

For example, I was Voli last game....our GP at top who was 4/1/1 destroyed the enemy Nasus...I was doing well too, I was 5/2/2 when he said our vayne sucks and said he was going AFK. And he did.

The game before that, something equally stupid happened. And before that and before that. Things that are completely out of your control.

So....HOW do you climb when there are so many stupid people? I don't get it. Its beyond frustrating which (duh) is why the community is so toxic.

Yes, lets all be polite after wasting 5 hours to lose every match because of stupid teammates. Sorry, but that's not how human nature works. Go put a pro athlete in a game with random teammates and tell him is personal reputation and stats are on the line...and lets see how nice he is during the game and after.

Solution is that your individual score after a game gets increased or decrease based on your performance.

For example, if you lose a match but go 10/1/5, instead of losing what your MMR dictates, lets say, 16 LP, you lose an amount less than that based on your KDA, turrets taken, and creep score. So maybe you only lose 8 for that match. And if you win and kick ass, you should win more, like maybe 26 LP instead. And some games you will just win or lose that 16 because you were average.

This way, players will have some control over their climb even with a lost match---and that feeling of control will mitigate the frustration that comes from feeling powerless.

This is entirely reasonable, and I have no idea why this shouldn't be implemented. Great players are great players even with losing teams. Junior Seau of the Chargers (football for all of you nerds) was great player, but in a shitty team. But his individual performance still shined through (despite his team losing all the time), and he was known as a great player.

5 Comments

BluePolarizer2 votes

How to climb:

win. don't lose.

TheThundersRoar2 votes

You climb by being better than your Elo AND (more importantly) by going out and winning the game yourself.

By winning yourself I mean you can't climb if you just 'play smart'. Sitting back, farming decently, avoiding stupid mistakes are all necessary to stay in higher Elo, but you have to actually go win the game for your team to climb. You either stomp lane, or engage hard late game, or camp someone and snowball them, or invade constantly, or farm extremely well and carry, or land great ults/catches. That's how you climb.

Because you're right. Low Elo teammates are...exactly that. Low Elo. You can't necessarily trust them to not fuck up the game. You gotta do everything by yourself. You play Volibear? Great, get good at him and keep playing Volibear. He has engage, catch, tankiness, damage, early gank potential, CC to peel or focus. Everything you need to carry.

Take it from a Volibear main who used him from Bronze 3 to Gold. http://imgur.com/Ii6viSh

Finally, remember that communication is important. Sure, that player might be a feeding bastard this game, but somewhere in there, I like to believe that there is a player who somehow made it this far. That is a potentially good player who is tilted, behind, and needs a hand. Talk to him. Tell him to sit back and wait for the ganks, or just farm, get tanky, and help the fed teammate win the game. Get people to group, use pings, tell them who to focus, encourage them by praising good plays and CALMLY discouraging shitty plays. Be stern, but never insult them.

That's how you climb.

And about AFKs, relentless feeders, flamers, and morons with no common sense: It's a damn shame. There isn't always something you can do about it. You can try to reason with them, get the rest of the team together, and hope it works itself out, but it doesn't always work. Sometimes, a loss is a loss, and even LCS players streaming Bronze to Diamond lose a few games. It's usually in Silver, as the dense people are extra dense in there. And it blows, but that's how the team game is.

Just remember that for every game, as long as you aren't the AFK/feeder/flamer/moron, there is a 56% chance he will be on the other team, not yours. Should work in the long run.

Jyoeru2 votes

^^ What this guy said. Also, you need to work on your KDA. No, KDA isn't everything, but it is a solid indicator--in general--of the decisions you're making and whether or not you might be capable of carrying a game. You're sitting at 1.75, and a lot of your recent games show you with double-digit deaths. That really does indicate that you should be asking what you can do better in your games.

Darfaller1 votes

How to climb:

Que with a diamond, works everytime

james1212341 votes

just que with good players like me and get dynamic boosted to an elo you dont belong in mane everyones doing it! riot promotes toxic games so its fine!

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