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Will to Ranked (The bottom of the pit players)

RhInoserocity·4/22/2017, 4:16:29 AM·1 votes·528 views

So, every year we get ranked resets, every year any player who started super low their first season and/or ended super low their first season will start lower than before. For the past 3 seasons of my 4 playing I have started Bronze V, 0 LP. The absolute bottom. And I never do ranked, because no one has the will to climb from that low to anywhere near acceptable.

I feel like riot should be more lenient to someone during their first ranked season. Like, I rushed right into ranked the day I hit 30, 0 wins/10 losses for my first placements ever, started in Bronze IV, ended in Bronze V that season (because I was new to the game of course) ever since then the motivation has been missing because let's face it, even some bronze arent meant in bronze, 4 seasons in bronze V and now I'm the only acceptable player because I have learned skills.

TL:DR How do I get motivated to climb when I know it'll be a 1 step forward, 3 steps back scenario (win 1, lose 3, etc.)?

4 Comments

Kei1434/22/2017, 4:22:39 AM1 votes

you just have to learn to get good so you don't win 1 loose 3.

play all the champs a few times to learn what they can do.

try building all the items to see how it affects you in every situation.

READ THE TOOL TIPS FOR ITEMS AND THE CHAMP SKILLS. So many people at the super low ELO don't even know what the champs / items do.

Learn to CS if you are playing a lane. if you are jungle, learn to path efficiently.

GET PROPER RUNES - Probably more important to get a good set of runes than spending all that IP in getting new champs. They'll go on free rotation in 2 weeks after release. You can try them as much as you want at that point.

DeathBurst4/22/2017, 4:51:22 AM1 votes

And I never do ranked, because no one has the will to climb from that low to anywhere near acceptable.

I was placed Bronze3 this season, climbed back to Gold5. I had a 60+% winrate all the way to Silver3. You don't stay Bronze5 if you don't belong in Bronze.

Icydeadppl234/22/2017, 5:04:06 AM1 votes

I'm sure everyone and their mom will argue this but whatever, elo hell exists. it sucks when you want to climb and the state of the game is god awful but your determined to do it, then you get teammates who feed or pick champs that just don't make sense in the matchups and of course you lose, over and over again. makes the game really fun and climbing just oh so doable.

play jungle- lanes struggle or feed then spam beg for help when your trying to clear and path adc- adc2k17

DemainaNyx4/22/2017, 9:11:46 AM1 votes

You just play the best you can and hope for the best honestly You have to find the motivation to climb on your own. Just pick champions that are decently strong on their own and do the best you can.

For example, Lulu in pretty much any lane is really strong. If you can kite, on hit Lulu does a ton of damage and has the peel in her kit to protect herself surprisingly well. Fervor with Bork, Guinsoo's, Runaan's and you pretty much win most mathc ups. If you are losing but have a strong teammate, you can make that person almost impossible to kill as well.

Since I'm low elo, I've been getting away with bond of Stone Lulu/Karma support and rushing Ardent Censer. Censer is already strong on Lulu and Karma, but with Bond you can not hit people with your Q or W and anyone who auto attacks that chamion now gets the Censer buff as well, not only the ones your use your shield on. Granted, both of these champions take a little learning to know when to use what ability, but they offer a lot to a team regardless of how you play them.

Just work on improving yourself over climbing. In a lot of your games, you have multiple items complete yet no boots. Not even tier one boots. Especially if you are the jungler, you really want to be getting boots since you have to run around to get your gold unlike your laners who get to just have to run to lane and wait for the minions to get there.

Also a lot of your CS numbers are low. Practice CSing a bit till you can get better. Obviously in the jungle your CS can be odd, but in lane you should be able to get a rather consistently score so long as you aren't dying constantly.

Lastly, look at sites like Champion.gg and Probuilds.net to get ideas of how to build your champion. MF normally takes Deathfire or Fervor, depending on build. Yi really wants Fervor if building attack speed, cause it means more damage from his E.