I finally got Silver after years of trying, and in the best way!

So, I learned about League in what I believe was Season 2, and loved it, played it for a month, quit for x amount of time, and basically repeated that same Play for a few months/leave for a few months on and off. I was on one of those break periods when I noticed on my newsfeed that MSI was on that night, and CLG was playing their semi final games. vs SKT The three games really blew my mind especially the whole Repeat of the first game champs in the 2nd game. Something about that series of games and just the communities reaction to it all really brought back to light why I love league, the community. I know sometimes it's toxic af and it's not every single game you get to come across non shitty people, but for example the other day when there was a shooting at Pulse in Orlando, the first game I played the next day, the very first thing said was an enemy Vi say "If anyone cares, make sure to donate O+ and O- blood for the victims from the shooting". Little things like that make me realize how much I love the people who play this game.

Now more towards the title, I believe I first started playing ranked in Season 3. I had an old account that I no longer use that I forget the name to, but I was pretty bad. I mostly played Ranked teams with people much better than me in hopes I would pick up some good habits, but I was bad af none the less. Like, not bad in general, like I was bad for Bronze. Anyways, so when I came back a couple of months ago, I started grinding out ranked games hard. I followed what people said that I always ignored. I mained a champion , had backup champions , and I mained a role. I got to know the game and I researched how to play certain matchups etc. I tried my best to be positive (And a wierd thing happened, 90% of the people were generally positive back, regardless if we were losing or not! Which I found was weird since before when I was more neutral or hateful towards mistakes (which me and my low elo peers make a lot of of course #gottagitgud) Finally, I climbed out. And why was it in the best way possible? I got my 2nd Penta with my main, right before we were able to finish the game. Honestly, I know most of the people on these boards are relatively high elo and this may seem pretty insignificant to most of you, but I'm honestly super excited to have finally achieved this.

Shout out to the Yas that carried the early game for my team, here was the match guys: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2219939844/211364577?tab=overview I've got a long way to go before I'm not a pleb, but everyone's got to start somewhere. Thanks for reading! :)