For all those players who say ranking up through bronze/silver is luck

I just want to let you know that statement is flase and want to share a few of my last games with you.

Quick FYI about me. Played this game 6 years, but really only started trying to actually improve within the last year. Have two accounts in gold with lowest being gold 4. I am by far not a pro at this game, but I have figured out how to rank out of bronze/silver and know the struggle as it personally took me 2.5 years to get out of silver. I started season as a fill (support) main and got from silver 5 to gold 5 playing support. I switched to maining jungle and adc on my second and third accounts. Main junglers are . If you look at my stats you will see I have roughly a 60% win with these junglers on this account with j4s being at 76%. FYI the reason this account has so many games played and still silver is because I use it for dynamic queuing with my silver/bronze friends.

Links to help show my last few games match history.

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/29800410#matches

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=smalltomahawker

Now there are a lot of lists saying how to get better at the game and how to rank up. Instead of doing that just going to share some quick tips and some of my prior games experiences and what was going through my head.

1. Jarvan 4 game 4 days ago. My stats: 19-2-11 15:00 kda, 70% kill participation. 208 cs. 3 pink wards laid, 36k damage to champions. This game was honestly one of my best games ever where I received a S+ rating. Although I liked my stats let me explain a little background about this game the stats don't show. First, my team was behind the first half of the game. Every lane was losing. While I farmed jungle and got a couple kills ganking, my team was busy feeding. Instead of raging and flamming my team I concentrated on the game at hand. I took two early dragons with my team, which both happen to be infernal dragons. Now I know we got lucky but the third dragon to spawn was going to be another infernal dragon. Even though the enemy was ahead in towers and kills, they lacked warding and prioritizing dragons. They finally decided they should try and take 3rd dragon as it was another infernal. My team fought for it and I ended up stealing it. So were behind in kills and turrets but now have 3 infernal dragons aka 24% increased ad/ap damage..... Basically only thing that saved us and allowed me to go on a killing rampage. Damn was it fun. Now I know what your thinking "you are extremely lucky 3 infernal dragons spawned". Which is true. But its also true we would have been completely doomed if the enemy team prioritized dragons at all over killing my teammates as we could not fight them 5v5. So always pay attention to what is happening in game and focus on any advantages you may have.

2. game 2 days ago. My team lost and my stats were: 9-3-2 102 cs, 8k damage done to champs kda 3.67. Now you see this game is a loss and thinking "why you want to show us this game". Well this game is one of those classic games of "literally every lane feeding their asses off". I am sharing this game to say yes this happens and there little is you can do about it. The thing is.... it does not happen every game and if you have 2-3 games like this in a row then take a break because your obviously going to be extremely tilted. Anyways, this game I was minding my business farming and picking off a couple of kills. My teammates fed every lane and kept on feeding. I had a lot of fun as I was 9-1 at one point picking off kills but my team kept trying to fight them for some reason instead of waiting for a pick or a good opportunity to fight. I really thought we had a chance but my team kept fighting and feeding. I have not seen anything like that in awhile. Anyways.. instead of flame I just laughed. Not really sure wtf my team was doing but I just shook it off and knew it was one game and I would win more in the future. Have won the other 2 after that.

3. Its not in my last games played but I did have a 2-8-6 vi game win a couple of weeks ago. My stats were really unimpressive and I honestly got hard carried. It was one of those games where I did pretty much everything wrong. I channeled my inner bronze and literally dove in on the enemy team probably 4 times that game after my team was already dead. Although we won no one was mentioning "our awesome vi jungle" at the end of the game. It was one of those games where you keep your head down and just move on to the next game praising your teammates for the awesome carry. Its fine to get carried time to time, as long as it not every game. We all have good and bad games.

4. Last 19 games record is 12-7 = 63% win = ranking up. Some highlighted game in there 19-2-11 j4 win, 11-2-12 j4 win, 16-6-16 elise win, 6-2-9 vi win, 9-3-2 loss. Kda doesn't always mean a lot but these just a few sample games. Most of these games were played vs silver players. I keep hearing carrying in these games is difficult.... but I have not had much problem at all. Generally as many mistakes as your team makes so does the enemy team, you just need to be the consistent factor that takes advantage of the enemies mistakes.

Again, I am not sharing this post to brag just to help and say ranking up is possible, but it does take work. I am also not very good I am a noob like the rest of you, I have just become aware of my lack of skill.

Maybe this post will help one player, which would make writing it worth it.