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What is going on in silver lately?

Cj5hIjipGr·11/2/2014, 5:48:20 AM·1 votes·1,165 views

Long time player here, since before seasons and elo resets were a thing....

So i placed into silver 3, and started making progress upwards. The progress wasnt very fast, but it was consistant. I hit gold promos 4 times and failed to progress each time. There were no big winning streaks, no big losing streaks, games were more even. There weren't 20 kills by 10 minutes every game. It was like every other season of ranked ive played.

Now? since about the start of October ive been getting really bad players in game. Massive losing streaks, and smallish winning streaks. Its become very streaky. I've been drug down to silver 4 and have made it back to 3 again, trying to work my way back up. I dont understand what changed solo q so much though. It seems that every game people are playing full tilt from minute one. Its not uncommon for someone to have died 5-10 times by 15 minutes. Every game has turned into a 20-30 minute stomp fest that is really decided around 10 mins. I play conservatively and cannot carry harder than the people are feeding. I dont recall ever experiencing solo q being this bad in all of the 4 seasons i've played. Why did it chance so drastically in october? Why did i feel like i was in control of my rating before, only to be playing a game of dice now?

I just dont get it... is it people chasing rewards? Is it because silver is the placement dumping grounds? Why is everyone playing full tilt? WTF IS GOING ON IN SILVER

Here is my lolking. http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/21063138 Check out the expanded graph to see what im talking about. consistant, no huge swings, then all hell breaks lose in october.

I will say this though, having been at the tip top of silver, and the bottom of silver 4, there is quite a huge difference between the two. Mid silver feels like a complete roll of the dice decided by matchmaking. you can have a mid silver player who does not belong there and way higher, or ones that belong way lower. Matchmaking and chance plays a huge huge huge role in mid silver.

10 Comments

VanillaSweetTea11/2/2014, 5:57:02 AM4 votes

Because season is ending and people are going ham trying to get g5 for the rewards.

Sailor Mint11/2/2014, 6:01:55 AM2 votes

The first and last month of the season are always worse.

Grimspeake11/2/2014, 6:48:47 AM1 votes

in silver, I guess there has been a ton of blitz bans lately from what ive seen

M4nTiCoR311/2/2014, 2:25:51 PM1 votes

Could be way off base, but a glance at your profile shows you have a few really strong picks in ranked and maybe more recently (maybe not, hard to tell) you have branched out with more champions?

Generally speaking, the tighter your pool of ranked choices, the more consistent your results will be. I wonder if you were on say a Thresh kick while you were playing more steady, and just got burned out and began branching into more guys late sept. Every time I do that I tend to drop down the ladder unless...

A. I find a new flavor of the month I happen to grind out a buncheck wins with. (playing them almost exclusively for awhile)

B. I spent a fair amout of time outside of ranked polishing my play with a new champ I have started bringing into ranked play.

Either way, if I find myself playing too diverse a pool at any time I almost always see a dip. A wiser and higher ranked player than me always told me his best advice for consistent play was to play fewer champs. You have to have some diversity, but as tight as possibl, as loose as you need is the rule of thumb for consistentcy.

Vertanium11/2/2014, 9:39:39 PM1 votes

I have basically the same problem, its a complete stomp because of feeders, or it lasts for 50 minutes because people forget there are other lanes than mid post 20 minutes, (ive seen people do it as early as 10 minutes into the game.) But mostly I just want to try out champs and see what I like and what I dislike but, so far its been hell because botlane feeds and our jungle farms all day without even buying flare so he gets outscaled and becomes useless.

Gutsin11/2/2014, 6:46:44 AM1 votes

So close to gold, yet so far.. :(

Command Grompt11/2/2014, 6:00:15 AM1 votes

Start ranked early in season 5. There'll be lots of time so people may be more relaxed, and more time to climb the ladder.