I started playing League when Season 7 began

Note: Just a story I wanted to share for those in Bronze. Someone who went through elohell and made an Elohaven. I hope this motivates you to climb out of Bronze or whatever elo you have.

At first I thought mid and top were my roles, but I only did decently. I also was new, naive, and easily beatable. I got flamed, people said I would never make it past Plastic V. Inevitable for a newbie.

Funny thing, I only played ranked. I felt normals was where everyone had fun where I wanted to get better with people who tried super hard. Ranked was actually worse than normals for me, but I pried through it.

My first game was with Golds if I remember correctly, and I won that game too. I was hyper but later collapsed into Bronze I. Now, hysterically, I thought Bronze I was the lowest tier and Bronze V was the highest. I wasn't thinking about leaderboards or noticed the harder promotion series in Bronze I, so I messaged a Riot moderator that there was a glitch where if you were demoted, you went to a higher division.

I feel bad for that moderator reading my message. They literally told me they're sorry for the confusion and the system was correct. It was a funny experience and all my naivety was at fault. That was great customer service.

So, I was stuck in a hole. I was stuck in Bronze V and knew nothing about League. I thought it would be easier to climb back to Bronze I but boy was I mistaken. I watched videos, I applied, built my game knowledge. Believe it or not - that only got me to Bronze III after 50 to 70 games and I was stuck in a loop. And I only played ranked mostly.

Then Discord came into existence. Discord - one of the most recent innovations that spiraled into popularity into the gaming community gave me servers to join where I could play with Golds, Platinums, Diamonds, Masters, and Challengers. I played with Diamonds and against them with some platinums and golds. I applied my knowledge from the videos and I noticed an exponential increase. I could steal their tactics, exploit their egos, and study champion statistics.

I knew a lot of champion abilities and I knew a lot about the game from this point on. I started reading on how champions work, cooldowns, powerspikes, counters, relations to other champions, and so much metadata, macromechanics, and micromechanics. This increased my game strength so much that my winrate went from a staggering 48% to a 72% as ADC.

I was a Vayne one trick pony with Jinx as a secondary option and Lucian as a third. I was on hot streak after hot streak and clutching and making comebacks you could never imagine and outplays and doing all these small things that carried my team. One time I even carried my team through pure wave management even when we were done the entire game. Winions do destroy the nexus. I got so good people thought I was eloboosting or a diamond smurf. I even got the Diamond rank in some discord servers for my skills.

I got to say - hitting Silver V isn't great. I main Vayne but I don't even have a skin for her or a skin for any other ADC I play. I also have a laggy Mac and I can't go to any other role other than ADC/support. I know I can do better. Gold V is my goal. However, looking back at my journey to my first league/elo promotion - it's amazing.

But hey - I make the haven. I'm Elohaven.