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Ranked games and promos (YES ANOTHER THREAD)

ToolooT··1 votes·786 views

Help me out. A few months ago I stopped played ranked games because it was pissing me off. The community is simply terrible. The raging players, the trolls, the AFKs, the "I watch the LCS so I know it all" guy, the negativity, the lack of logical thinking in lower elos etc.

I went from silver 1 to silver 5 and back up to silver 2 and now I'm stuck silver 4.

Just started playing ranked again and I got up to my promos and lost em AGAIN. The last game I had intense feeders in ALL roles. I was 2-1 tristana with 20-30 CS advantage over their Ezreal but there's nothing I could do once laning phase was over.

This lost made me lose about 17 points which meant that if I was unlucky I had TWO other games to win to get back to my promos (why the hell do you even lose points on your promo loss).

Played another one which I was dominating but again, all lanes, all roles fed the other team HARD. Our Hecarim was toxic even in the champ select saying "fuck you" to Soraka for picking her simply because he thought she was a bad support pick. He starts feeding and tilting hard and insults everyone saying "you all suck" and then intentionally runs into the enemy team to feed em.

How can you carry yourself out of silver? I know im good enough and I have the game knowledge of a gold player ATLEAST.

Promos are destroying the fun of this game. Atleast make it so that when you lose you stay at 99 points so you can go right back into your promos when you win your next game.

14 Comments

S H A Y C 03 votes

Look man...i know its hard to accept. But when you are truely good enough, you will power farm your way out of silver. The fact of the matter is that one person can carry enough games to get all the way to diamond from an unranked position, i know this because ive watched several streamers do an unranked to diamond series in 2 weeks...and more than once. So it is undisputed that if you are good enough, you will climb out and retards cant stop you.

You are in what is called "elo-hell" it is a very real place, but its not a real place in league, its in your head.

Elo-Hell:

The division where you are better than everyone else around you, but not yet good enough to solo carry yourself to victory for 70% ish of your games. Coupled with not approaching this ladder plateau with the right mind set, you end up frustrated and raging at your team mates, not understanding that you have something in your own play that you need to work on and feel "stuck" and its "everyone else's" fault.

To avoid elo-hell: Climb until you reach a point where you seem to be stuck (like right now) then instead of posting a rage post like this one, post a thread in recruitment looking for a coach/ analyst and record all your matches on op.gg so when a diamond+ player reads your thread and wants to help out, he can watch a match or two and give you notes of things to work on with time stamps so you can see what hes talking about.

If you do this, you will never be in elo-hell. You will perpetually be in a cycle of climbing -> improving /training and always be in a positive place. It took me this entire season to understand it, but once i did i went from bronze 5 to silver 5 and i honestly believe i can make gold this season. Going from feeling helpless and ready to play smite or any other game cuz fuck this shite, to I CAN DO THIS NO SWEAT is an amazing feeling. Understand that even lcs pros have to step back and work on their gameplay once and awhile and are always looking to improve...thats how they made pro with that attitude. You can have that same attitude and climb to plat regardless of personal skill cap, i think everybody has the potential to make plat5...beyond that you have to actually have some talent.

You can do this man!

Ozias of Scagnar1 votes

First of all, I love the encouragement, as someone that plays mostly in mid to low silver it's a nice thing to see! Here is the problem I see, at least from my point of view, I don't know about the OP, but my computer wont handle recording equipment and run LoL as well, I know it for a fact because if I don't turn off Facebook during a game I will start to lag. That being said, I'm a support main, how do you propose I 'carry' myself out of Silver? I feel I am good enough to at least be higher tier silver, or at least Gold 5, but I can't stop my team from going on tilt or just generally making poor choices, I know I am guilty of them as well and only more games will help me improve, but it's discouraging to watch your ADC face check the dragon pit because my ward just died.

S H A Y C 01 votes

but my computer wont handle recording equipment and run LoL as well,

if you go to op.gg and find your profile, you can request that the server record it. it does not use any resources on your computer ,the server records the spectate data for viewing for a few days and is availible for anyone to watch using the spectator client. That is why i suggested it, its free and your coach can view it at any time without having to contact you first and you dont have to set anything up on your pc, just click an html link and your done.

As far as carrying yourself to gold as a support, i dont have the answer...but a Diamond support main will have the answer so just make the thread and get the coaching :) you can do it man, ive carried games hard as a support before...i am actually pretty amazing on thresh and leona (im allowed to toot my own horn thank you :P ) and ive had those games where i know it was my hook + flay +righteous glory + talisman that got them those 32 kills and its why my team has so much power. Its what a support does, we enable the damage carries NOT JUST ADC to deal their damage...top lane most of the time in lcs is a support role, jungle as well...they are just "solo lane" supports. Full tank gragas isnt doing any real damage lets be real, so they are supporting the bjergsons and the fakers and sneaky's just as much as lustboy and yellowstar...so go find someone who knows what they are talking about, and LISTEN to what they have to say, no matter how much you disagree or how much it hurts just listen and work on what they tell you to work on. you can do it!!!!!!

Spicy Rice1 votes

Tglhe right supps can even make the most unskilled adc l9ok like double lift. Supps like braum leonand thresh are incredibly tanky and have a great amount of cc that they can use to literally force their team to win fights

Herder2 votes

Thats pretty much it, Once i realized there wasnt an elo hell I went from b5 s3 to plat in s3 and s4 and im d5 now

S H A Y C 01 votes

See OP? You can do it man, you just have to stop and take a breath, find out what you can do better, practice to make it better, then climb (^_^)

DrNova1 votes

And THERE is the massive problem with the ranking system. You need to be several levels better to climb one level, or be lucky and get good teams at the right time.

It doesn't matter if you are good enough to play the next stage. If you aren't better then where you belong, you can't get where you belong without good fortune in matchmaking.

Anyone who believes this is a good system for a ranked game is an idiot.

Diamond players who power from unranked is a shit example, because they by nature are much better then the lower levels and can smurf past the levels where you get no help from your team. That's like saying beating a middle school basketball team then high school teams to get to college level as a pro level player is a fair judgment of anything.

System is broken

S H A Y C 01 votes

Im not going to tell you that the system is perfect or even good, but the diamond climbing from unranked to diamond does prove a very important point, which is that a single player "can" carry a game to victory and climb on his own merit. I can see this is a sore spot for you, but all you are succeeding at doing here is shitting on other peoples hope and spreading a piss poor attitude. You have successfully trolled this thread. This guy asked for help, and were trying to give it to him, all you are doing is being negative. It makes no difference how accurate your assessment of the ranked system is. People make it out of bronze, and into higher elo, therefor it can be done without any changes to the system. Besides, the only thing we can control is ourselves, so its a waste of energy to try to change anything else. If you really want to make a difference in the ranked system, this is not the thread thats going to make riot listen to you...go start your own.

DrNova1 votes

Melodramatic much?

Amelie2 votes

http://freelo.gg/summoner/NA/ToolooT

Your CSing is consistently low. Your warding is average/low. Improving just these two things will help you climb up through Silver fairly easily.

Penns1 votes

If you lose with 10/4 because the rest of your team has 7-10 deaths you just got bad luck. All you can do is play more games. You might be able to do more with over 200 farm minute 40, but...

ToolooT1 votes

yeah I know my CS is low in those games but they were pushing hard because of their huge advantage and I was pretty much on defense the whole time. The xerath game was ridiculous I had to roam from top to bot because no one was doing good.

My warding and my farming are pretty bad in general though I agree.

ToolooT1 votes

LOST MY PROMOS AGAIN. First game everyone sucked. Riven was silent and fed garen hard and he carried. I also didnt play well so its ok i'm not mad. Second game I destroy mundo top as wukong. I'm fed as fuk. Our bot lane is the most atrocious duo ever and our shyvana can't even use the extremely OP devourer build she has to do something good.

Jinx says "she's the only gold in this team" but sucks so bad I don't even want to be gold anymore. Nautilus basically was a bot getting caught and spamming his summoners for no reason. Worst part, I LOST 38 points this time. WTF 38. From 100 to 62. Fuck this shit.

GetBoomedOn1 votes

You gotta realize that there are a certain number of spots in high Eli and you playing well alone won't get you there. You either need luck or SERIOUS skill. Be patient you'll get there.

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