I don't care what anyone says, bronze is a trap and it's impossible to climb out of it.

Emerald Fang··4 votes·1,142 views

Because of this ridiculous thing we call matchmaking. It doesn't matter anything. Bronze is a hellhole. People are so fucking self-entitled to whatever they want, throw a giant fit when they don't get their way. Hell, someone AFK'ed in one of my games because our team wouldn't help him with drag. AND HE STILL KILLED THE DRAG ANYWAY.

And you can never get the damn role you want because of dumbass autofill, which makes yours and everyone else's day cancer. Oh, are you at 500k with Veigar and want to play him mid? Nope, autofill support. Level 7 Vayne? No, autofill jungle. And when people get autofilled THEY LOSE THE WILL TO PLAY THEIR BEST. Supports are an actual JOKE now because half the time they are autofilled and just go Lux / Annie and spam AP, having no idea how to play the role.

And champ select is literally just a mad rush to championcounter.net to see who counters who, making the last pick more beneficial.

It doesn't even matter if you have skill to be Silver or not. Even if I feed in many games (true), that ONE GAME where you do amazingly well, get 12 CS per minute, etc. your team is a potato.

Let's say you win a game. CONGRATULATIONS! Now your NEXT GAME Riot will purposefully try to keep you at 50% winrate by matching you with worse players. THIS ACTUALLY IS A THING. This is not a made-up system; it happens. So it's nearly impossible to squeak out multiple wins in a row, making you have to pass insurmountable odds just to raise winrate by 2-3%.

I would LOVE to hear any kind of advice. I feel like I'm cursed with better opponents, bad teammates, and shit games in general. I try to main a few champs like Veigar and Kayle; easy, simple champions I can spam. Although I'm always autofilled as bot or support, and it annoys the shit out of me. I can't play bot for the life of me, and I beg and beg to switch with a probable ADC main, but NO, they want to try out Zed jungle or some BS. I say "oh then I may feed unintentionally b/c I suck at ADC." Go into game, go 0/5, and get flamed by the same guy.

IDK what to do at this point. I play easy champs like Veigar and Kayle. I mute everyone at the beginning of the game. I play safe. I CS for the first 15-20 minutes. I do everything that should make me climb. I would say at least 70-80% of the time I have a positive score by 10-15 min. But then top lane feeds out of their ass. Bot feeds out their ass. So what happens? The enemy gets bored and roams mid where they start Teamfighting at 12, 14, 15 minutes. So then I'm screwed because I'm fighting a 1v3, and can't farm for shit.

Look, I'm admitting that I feed sometimes. And I sure as hell am not blaming the ADC when I'm 1/10. But every time I start out well (with Veigar I can easily go 3/0 by 10-12 minutes), something fucking ruins it. And we lose.

Please help me. I'm so low in Bronze 5 I don't think I'm even ranked anymore.

8 Comments

Weathered5 votes

Half your title is right. Bronze is a trap and the environment definitely does reduce the amount of a chance you have of winning because sometimes games are uncontrollable.

But by no stretch is it impossible to climb out of.

Cosmo Memoria1 votes

Its impossible to climb because you belong in bronze 5. Assuming you arent a rager/afker/troll/feeder then if you are as good as you think you are then you will climb because statistically, you have a less chance to get one of these on your team.

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Its impossible to climb because you belong in bronze 5. Assuming you arent a rager/afker/troll/feeder then if you are as good as you think you are then you will climb because statistically, you have a less chance to get one of these on your team.

And it takes how long again? 50-100 games? Why would I waste that much time just to be demoted because of the matchmaking?

Emerald Fang1 votes

True

FoxFyre1 votes

For some reason, Silver 3 is harder than Bronze to me. I can climb my way out of bronze pretty quick early in the season but Gold help me when I hit Silver 3.

Kukan Seishin1 votes

If it is impossible to climb out of, then........................................................................ Why is there anyone higher then bronze? Like, at all, inc Faker, Bjerg, and so on. they all start on a smurf in bronze when they transfer somewhere

LBmyBB1 votes

I got out didn't I.

RocketRelm1 votes

I'll give you some advice on climbing.

If I were to spontaneously get teleported into Bronze 5, I would just instalock Annie , and dumpster everyone. Once you're that low, forget high tier coordination, people don't even know what a threat zone is. Learn your all-in potentials and when you can kill enemies at what HP level. Dunk bitches every time Tibbers comes off CD.

Get 3 kills and 30 cs above your opposing mid laner, they're a Bronze 5. Don't let them farm. When the jungler comes to pitch a tent in your bush, then dunk his ass too. When the enemy bot gets bored and roams mid at 14 Minutes, wait for Tibbers, then dunk dey asses too.

Granted, once you get to higher tiers, you'll need to start using those strategy things. But if you're even Mid Gold in skill, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to do this.

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