Bronze Elo (not a complaint thread)

First off, here is my ranked background, you can skip if you want to see how to climb bronze elo. Season 3: 40% win rate (NOOOOOOOB) Season 4: 29% win rate (HAHAHA) Season 5: 33% win rate (TRASH) Season 6: 62% win rate (HAHA YOU NO...Wait.. WHAT???)

SUPPORT MAIN (We supports rule :P Bow down to your white mages, ADCS)

Season 3-5 I did not care about ranked, I was afraid of Bronze elo, thought only toxic people played in ranked and had an overall salty experience in ranked. Even I was one of those salty little bastards lol. I told people to stop playing ranked, I called them noobs and trash talked. It just was not fun for me, I was afraid to take my main in to ranked because I didn't want to be told "You main this? God you suck!!!" Season 3 I started in Bronze 2, Season 4 I was bronze 4 and Season 5 I didn't even finish my provisional matches.

Over the whole of Season 5, I had one hell of a change in my attitude for league. It hit me that I was playing the game all wrong. So I stuck to normal's and aram for the rest of the season.

Season 6 came and all of my friends got borders, I was kinda jealous because I didn't have any of that. I decided I wanted to have a border.

I was still afraid to bring my main champion in to ranked at the beginning of this season. I still did not want to be told I suck with my main. So I picked Leona. Getting wins with Leona was pretty easy, but It just felt so boring. I love Leona, but I just cant stand playing her. It made my wins feel empty and my losses hurt like hell, but I kept on going. I got through my provisional matches 7 wins 3 losses and got placed in Bronze 5. At first that absolutely crushed me. I felt like riot was cheating me. I blew that thought away as fast as i could, because I caught my self going down the same path as previous seasons.

I got out of Bronze 5 that day. Hit bronze four and thought "sweet, I'm actually climbing!". Bronze 4 was also relatively easy to get out of. Lost my first series match in to bronze 3. I was afraid that I would lose the next two, so I held it off for a while. After I got back in and won those game, I had a sense of "I should try my main in ranked!" Lost three matches in a row. That crushed my spirit again and I didn't use my main in ranked for quite a while.

Bronze 3 took me the longest to get out of, around 24 games I believe. After I hit Bronze 2, Mastery 6 and 7 were released. I stopped playing ranked for a while so I could now try and get my main, Sona, to level 7. Well, That went south in normal's, none of my games lasted long enough to place enough wards and we rarely got over 15 total kills in a single game so I got very few assists.

This is when it hit me, ranked games in bronze tend to last 35-50 minutes. So I decided to toughen up and play her in ranked. I got bronze 1 the same time I got mastery 7 on sona. I was doing pretty well with her in ranked. I over came the fear of what others would think about me playing her in ranked.

I started to climb Bronze 1. It was interesting. I saw new strategies, people that would actually punish me for being out of position and some relatively good matches. I hit my Promos yesterday with a 3 game hot streak. I took my promo matches slow, I won the first one, then played a match of poroking. Won my second match, then took an hour long break. Then queued for my third match, things got interesting here.

The whole enemy team was Silver, three on my team were silver, I was still bronze 1 and we got the first time ranked player. That did not crush my spirit and we actually tried. We got our asses handed to us on a bronze platter for the first 30 minutes of the game. Then the enemy got cocky. We turned it around and won, giving me my silver 5.

I did not feel to good with winning that game though, because this guy that was new to ranked, was toxic. When we started winning, and in the post game chat, he trash talked the enemy team. He went 1/14/4. He is the perfect example of how to get stuck in bronze. Nothing was his fault, everyone else was trash, and he was a god. None of you should have that attitude if you want to leave bronze.

HERE IS HOW TO CLIMB BRONZE!!!!

1. Have a good attitude. Don't rage, flame, blame or troll anyone. They may have had a bad baron call that got you guys aced, but you know what? your at fault too, because YOU followed them. Flaming, blaming and trolling hurts you more than it hurts the rest of your team. They will likely not get paired with you again, but you are more likely to get paired with someone who pissed you off like they did.

2. Play a champion you like to play. If you play a champion you dislike, you wont have any fun, not having fun leads to tilt, and tilt leads to bad attitudes and decisions.

3. Take breaks. If you just won a game, don't just re-queue instantly. Take a 5-10 minute break and go in to the next game refreshed. If you lose, take a longer break, play a couple normal, aram or featured games. It helps a lot, even if the normal/aram/featured is a loss.

4. Have something in background to keep you positive. For me I have some music that I can sing along to when I'm playing. If I am losing, it keeps me optimistic and away from the flames.

5. Ignore your current rank and LP gain/loss and try your best to perform better than you did in your last game. There may be some of you out there with 300 wins in bronze 5 thinking "this guy is an idiot, there is elo hell, I gain 7 lp and lose 14 lp." If you are losing LP greater than or equal to you wins, just ignore it. Keep tabs on your performance and worry about yourself, if top/jungle/mid/adc/sppt gives first blood, just tell yourself "I don't care, I can still out perform the enemy".

This is how I climbed. Its really simple but many people ignore it.