Climbed from B4 -> S5 in <50 games with a 71% win ratio Climbed from S5 -> G5 in around 50 games with a 75% win ratio Climbed from S5 -> G5 in 6 days
B4 -> G5 in 92 games with a 73% win ratio
I'm gonna go pass out now, it's like 4am and I probably shouldn't have done this grind...but I made it.
Good luck to those who are using this last day to grind ^-^ As of right now, you have 23 hours and 4 minutes to make it
Sarutobi6 votesAwesome mate, and just in time as the season is almost over. Im planning on playing Rank next season, although ive been saying that since season 3 and still too chicken to actually stick to it. Ill mostly play my Placements, but never continuing. But i feel next season will be better for me to actually go up!
Slythion8 voteshonestly, the only reasons I did it was:
a) players can't use my rank against me when talking about balance on the forums and b) players can't rank shame me if I have a bad game
I knew I was gold-plat level, I was just too lazy to actually grind it out until this week lol. You should give it a try though, just don't stress to much about it. Ranked is a lot more fun and easier to climb with if you treat it the same as a normal (assuming you still try to win in norms)
edit: plus the border looks cool :3
Sarutobi2 voteshonestly, the only reasons I did it was:
a) players can't use my ra nk against me when talking about balance on the forums and b) players can't rank shame me if I have a bad game
I knew I was gold-plat level, I was just too lazy to actually grind it out until this week lol. You should give it a try though, just don't stress to much about it. Ranked is a lot more fun and easier to climb with if you treat it the same as a normal (assuming you still try to win in norms)
Honestly you shouldnt take those people serious. I cannot stand people who use rank as if they are the only ones that matter. Anyone playing this game should have their words heard, and Riot believes the same. So its nice that you got the Rank you wanted. Keep it up and work harder for next season!
I just wanna play rank and get Gold to get the reward. Thankfully none of the recent Victorious skins are skins i really want, but it would be nice to have!
Plastic Mem0ries1 votesWell, just the accomplishment of completing a goal in life has its exhilarating feeling. So I'm sure that was also part of him getting to G5 :)
RisenDarkKnight1 votesHonestly if you enjoy playing normals or whatever just stick with them. Play ranked if you get bored of normal games and want a more competitive experience. There's no "right" way to enjoy league, so if you are having plenty of fun in norms or ARAM that's fine.
That said, rank is pretty meaningless until high diamond+ (where players are competing to be good enough to join lcs). So you can just play ranked and be chill about losing since it doesn't really matter and have fun that way. If you get too stressed just switch back to norms.
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RQ Amiable15 votesNot luck. You need to have the skill to be able to carry your team of feeders
rtbf2256182416 votesThere are many games when carrying is just impossible. The enemy can just use that to their advantage that they're fed.
Zepper2 votesI feel like people don't realize that having a single feeder on your team/they lost lane doesn't mean you'll lose. There will always be that single person who does person on your team. If everyone else on your team is doing well then that means the enemy is bad and you should win. If you don't win when most of your team is doing well, then it's you. I climb from S5 to S3 with only support recently, the role that's most difficult to carry with.
rtbf2256182411 votesOh you sweet summer child. If only a single player was feeding or screwing things up. Then it'd be fixable.
That is definetly not the case in my games. It's almost always bot lane or more than a single lane getting completely owned and rotated around. I was Diamond before i got demoted because of low Plat MMR hell.
Zepper1 votesYou forget that the enemy team can also have players who feed or screw things up, and it's you who has to be the one who gets them to do that. Your job to climb is not just playing well, it's also getting the enemy to out crap your own team.
rtbf2256182411 votesYou do realize i'm talking about the whole team falling apart in the early game or making critical game-losing decision, right? I'm a Support/Jungle main. Good luck telling Low-Platinums to play better when they are all tilting and yelling at you for not ganking the already overfed Darius who can just 2v1 vs Jarvan and Diana.
When they are too strong too quickly, there is nothing you can do but pray your team doesn't allow them to push before late game. If i was a Mid laner or an Adc main, sure. Except that Adcs also rely on good Supports.
It's not up to me only. One person does not make a team.
The Blue Rajah2 votesOr maybe this guy is just skilled?
Ale non è male2 votes[{quoted}](name=The Blue Rajah,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Mv56sJJp,comment-id=00010001,timestamp=2016-11-07T14:37:45.513+0000)
Or maybe this guy is just skilled?
But he is like a smurf, tbh. A guy with plat skill (self admitted by the guy) obviously can easily carry games at bronze or silver, so the guy has a point
A ton of people say it is easy to get out of X division...but is easy if you are much MORE skilled of that division or you are extensively abusing the system to rank (and I'm not talking about cheating, I'm talking about one trick ponies, extensive dodging in champ select, FF@20 when game is winnable to save time and play more games)
If you are just a bit better than the division you are playing in, or you play in a role or with champs with lower possibility to carry alone cause lack of damage (support, followed by non-duelists top), luck has a lot of do with climbing, sadly
To recover from a very bad streak you need 4-5X times the amount of games with slightly above 50% win ratio to get back to the point to where you previously were - if you are not unlucky in what are those "key" games you need to rank, like landing at 73-78 LP range, where because of a pair of LP you need two straight games to get to promos rather than one and so if you got unlucky you can get stuck for a number of games even with 50% win rate -, and not everyone has the time to eventually do it
Only Play Darius3 votesMy trick was to play a ton of normals where the shitty matchmaking WOULD place me against plat players and full premades etc. The games were not enjoyable but I did get better fast.
After that playing ranked in bronze-silver felt like smurfing
ShaolinToilet1 votesI'm level 24 or something and I always get placed vs 5 man gold's sometimes people with plats. I just wanna play a normal game not a stomp.
Slythion1 votesearly level game matchmaking is pretty rough. I was placed against consistent all plat/diamond teams while I was still fairly new to the game and instead of being upset about it, I taught myself how to play safe and not feed when the opponents are clearly better than me. I put faith in my teammates while trying to stop myself from being a hindrance and let myself get carried. If you maintain a positive and open attitude, I find that high elo players don't mind taking an L so long as you did your best and showed that you learned something from the game.
I may have gotten my ass kicked during those times before my mmr was put back to an accurate area, but it was probably the fastest rate of growth I've ever had in league simply because I got to play with players significantly better than me.
Don't fret too much about it, your mmr will normalize after a little bit. Take these games as an opportunity to learn and grow better. Watch their movements, their decision making, and notice their map awareness. It's a blessing in disguise if you get matched with higher elos as a low elo, so long as you possess the right mindset ^-^
TyrekGoldenspear1 votesYou have a great attitude for ranked.
I should try next time I play tanked next season.
The Blue Rajah1 votesIf you have a 50% win rate, then you won't climb. That's intentional. If you have a 50% win rate then you are ranked exactly where you're supposed to be. The issue I was responding is that he said that it is ALL luck, when it very clearly isn't. Skill matters. Even you said that if someone is vastly more skilled then they will climb easily. That's exactly the point I was trying to make, that skill does matter. It is not ALL luck.
Ale non è male1 votes[{quoted}](name=The Blue Rajah,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Mv56sJJp,comment-id=0001000100000001,timestamp=2016-11-07T18:11:38.056+0000)
If you have a 50% win rate, then you won't climb. That's intentional.
Nope, it is exactly the opposite, you don't know how the system work, LOL
The system is intentionally designed to make you climb if you can keep 50% win rate, even albeit slowly, because it gives you "free" losses that does not impact your rank (the protection they give you when you go up 1 division and the "free" losses in promo as long as you win it in the end) In addiition to that, if the teams are evenly matched by MMR, you gain a pair of LP more in victory than the ones you lose in defeat
The problem is that in practice when you are in such a situation when you are some better then your actual rank, luck matters a lot, because some games are much more important than the others and get bad luck in those games can completely turn the tides, and it needs time to get to that point again if you are not displaying a 60% win rate. You can have a lucky guy with a 50% win rate a tier above an unlucky guy with a 50% win rate with both guys having about equal skills
Your point is just a lapalissade, IT IS obvious that if someone is much better or become much better skill wise than a certain rank he plays it he will rank up given enough games because he will boast very hig win rates And it is obvious it is not all just luck, otherwise Faker wouldn't be the best player in the world for a lot of season straight
But the ones that discard completely the role luck has once you are somewhat in range of your "true" rank are just as much ridicoulous as the ones that say it is all luck, imho
Athenes Lulu1 votesYou do have to get a little better at the game if you really want to get out of the most populated division...
Even if you are kinda bad and want to "get carried" you still have to do some work on your behalf.
Toplane Fencer1 votesYou are just bad for not being able to rank up.
VladTheMage1 votesAwesome for you! I didn't meet you in real life but I am happy for you! I had pretty much the story like you did B5->S5 only 4 days at the start of the season then Silver in about 2 months.
RQ Amiable1 votesAlso, good for you! Positive mind positive energy positive outcome!
WiegrafOfValor1 votesGrats dude.. :D
Just chill in normals tomorrow, see you in S7
THE RlVER KlNG1 votesCongrats, and same here! I was B5-B2 pretty much all of season 5, now I'm Gold 5! Can't wait for my sweet border!
Battlebeaver1 voteshow much did the booste cost guy?
Slythion1 votesthe majority of my games were solo, although some were duo and maybe about like...5-10 games were with a trio (most of those trios were in bronze where I just wanted shorter games though). That's about it though
DarkDeamonDragon1 votesFantastic job with your grind. :) I'm trying to get into silver by the end of the season tonight. In my promos to S5 right now, I hope it goes well.
Only Play Darius1 votesCongrats man! I also made it to Gold last week in a similar number of games and it feels great to get victory skins for the first time
grug1 votesnoice one.
For me there are only 2 ranks worth striving for
Gold and Bronze
you either live, fight and die amongst the bronze legends or ascend to the golden gate of victorious skins.
Silver is a death sentence to be in, nobody wants that yucky silver border barf. rather not have a border at all.
deadlychuck1 votescongratz i know that feeling. I did the same thing back in season 3, except i had the added complication of a new router which would cut out every 30 minutes for like 3 min.
dBSau1 votesClimbed from G5 to Diamond 5 in 94 games.
Athenes Lulu1 votesThat's actually really little games on how far up you have climbed.
Congrats, Victorious Maokai will be waiting for you to get that awesome high-five.
Chromatic Eagle1 votesGod hates me and wants me to be in Bronze forever.
Chatillon1 votestook me around 200 to get from b4 to gold 5, gj!
The Letter H1 votesI could of gotten to gold this season, but to be honest I was pretty lazy and didn't try. I stopped at Silver II about 3 weeks ago, and started playing with friends a lot. I could of done it, but I decided not too.
Next year though, it will be done.
The Yetii Rider1 votesCongratulations! Welcome to Gold.
Hrd2H1t1 votesI wish I had the time to play more than one ranked game a day, if it did I could have at least climbed to Silver
NoxiousDragoon1 votesWish I could have climbed that fast. B5-S1. Don't have enough time to climb to Gold :( It took me from March to now to get to where I am, and I played alot (500+ games). RIP I suck at league xD had a 50.8% winrate
TyroneWatermelon1 votesAmumu and Darius. Would be surprising if you didn't climb with those.
Slythion1 votesDon't forget my trusty Gnar c:
Eraenis1 votesHat quite a fun experience spectating a friend last evening. When he managed to get into the loading screen of his last game, only 30 seconds before the deadline where left (You had to finish champion select before the deadline for the game to count). He won the game, finished his promo and got to gold.
Welcome to the cool kids club :D