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Smurfing in low silver

Wandering Senpai·7/4/2017, 4:34:11 PM·1 votes·1,033 views

I am hardstuck on my main account so for an experiment I decided to try to start from the bottom, bronze 5 -12 LP. Climbed all the way up to silver 3 so far. What I've noticed is that there are A LOT of games with bad feeders. Even in silver 4 it is hard to carry a game with 2 incompetent players. I'm sure similar ratios exist on my main. Does ELO hell exist? YEAH. The frequency of two feeders is very high. I'd say about 1/3 of the games I have 2 feeding laners and the game is almost GG. 20 minutes wasted right there, 1 whole hour if you win the next just to get back to where you were.

Sometimes I can carry even 2 feeders. Not all the time. Games where I go 17-1 I have been able to carry them back. I literally have to play perfect if I die its gg.

The picture on the right shows the incredible loss streak I can get even against low silver opponents. Despite how tilting these games can be even on a smurf, I win 67% when I play my adc main.

It has been a great exercise I feel like I have improved as a player by expanding my champ pools and playing more HAM against lesser opponents to see what trades I can get away with.

http://imgur.com/a/Js7lB

4 Comments

Evil Yasuo7/4/2017, 4:49:51 PM1 votes

I finally got to silver V an now almost in my promos for silver IV. I learned to carry pretty hard because no matter what there's going to be at least 1 bad player on your team. The only matches I haven't been able to carry are the ones with trolls. I had an anivia take all of the adc's farm and cut him off with ice wall to get him killed.

Sujiren7/4/2017, 4:56:31 PM1 votes

Low elo is interesting in a sense that you can get away with greedy builds/champs runes.Say a standart champion build that most pros use in high rank does not work or is not as good in low rank. There is a youtuber for examplen He mains sion, in challenger and diamond he is playing normal sion, but in platinum and below he is playing full ad sion.

Thrëat7/4/2017, 5:02:54 PM1 votes

As you improve you will find 1v9ing in lower ranks easier and easier. Once i hit gold 5 I started to smurf to fet a feel for my improvenent. I remember having mid silver games that felt impossible. I did it sgain when I hit plat 5 and silver games were a joke and 1v9able but by high gold the games were rough. Did it again when I hit diamond the first time and again, ganes were jokingly easy until hitting a divisions from main rank.

There is no elo hell. Games just feel rough if you are within half a tier from your rank. If you play on a smurf and games are hard 2 tiers down when playing your main role then you need to be open to the possibility that you are not able to play at your highest rank consistently.

Starcraft243ver7/4/2017, 5:07:45 PM1 votes

To be honnest I'm sitting at a solid 83% winrate with veigar on my smurf. And I would have had 97% winrate if I didnt play on this account while drunk sometimes. (4 loses while drunk :( )

There's litterally one single game out of 30 I couldnt carry while being focused.