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I feel like I am cursed to come as close as possible to gold over and over, but never get my border.

mariofan20·10/30/2018, 1:47:56 AM·3 votes·1,903 views

I swear, I feel like I am the most unlucky player at getting to gold that has ever played this game. It all started last year. I was doing well and reached my gold promos. I was excited and easily won the first two games. I entered game 3 thinking "Yes, I'm finally about to be gold!" The next 3 games in a row, I got at least one toxic player, AFKer, inter, or sometimes two of the three in the same game. I lost my promos and could never climb back by the end of the season. This year, I got placed in S4 and battled my way up to my gold promos once again. I tried no less than 6 times, losing them all in multiple different scenarios. I got trolls in some, others I just performed badly, and others the enemy team was full of plats and just super good compared to us. Then, it happened. I won my promos on the 7th try, 3-1. I was overjoyed and continued playing, getting to gold 4. A few days later, I got the flu and my brain was crazily clogged. Alas, in my stupidity and decreased cognitive state, I continued playing and lost so many games that I was down to Gold 5, 0 LP. I had always been told that you needed to lose 10 games or something to drop from gold to silver, so I kept playing. After 2 losses at 0 LP, I was demoted back to Silver 1 and dropped to Silver 3 later. After that, I opened a new account to play with a friend that slowly became my main account. I grinded hard and got to my gold promos on that account. I won them 3-0 and was, once again, overjoyed. I told myself I wouldn't play ranked for the rest of the season and finally claim my border, only to discover days later that I would not receive a border due to being on the last checkpoint of honor level 1 due to a ten game chat restriction back in April. So I switched accounts again, went from SIlver 3 to Gold promos within a week with 2 free wins. Lost next 2 promos, then the game glitched and wouldn't let me lock in during champ select and dodged, failing my promos. I am now Silver 1, 40 LP, wondering if I will ever get a gold border or if I am actually cursed for eternity to come as close as possible, but never get it. Thanks for reading this wall of text.

3 Comments

Olga Rajecka10/30/2018, 1:54:10 AM1 votes

It has nothing to do with luck. The problem you have is that you try to climb not improve. If you start focusing on improving, higher rank will come by itself.

BigFBear10/30/2018, 3:48:33 AM1 votes

  1. Use your second account for 1 or 2 warm up games. Then do your real ranked games where you are focused and concentrated on your main account.

  2. Use your main account only for a few ranked games a day when you are in your best mood. If you just wanna play for fun or brain afk use seconds d account.

  3. Only play with 1 or 2 champs.

  4. Only play one role.

  5. Restart Queue if it goes too long so you get your first role every time.

  6. Learn to play safe, learn to not overstay, learn to take objectives after won fights, learn that sometimes its better NOT to fight, learn to look at minimap more often(!), learn to not fight 4vs5/3vs4 etc. (for example if someone is splitpushing), don't go in if you don't know where the rest of enemy team is, don't start fights (in mid/lategame) if no one is near to help you.

  7. My best tip for you is: LEARN TO LET GO. Sometimes you make a plan in your head for the next seconds. For example: "oh look, this situation right now is perfect to flash and kill that guy" but while you run at him you realize something goes wrong. For example he is backing away. Then you NEED to drop your plan! I know it's hard. But my theory is: most people know when they do a shitty move but they can't let go! Because the plan is already in their heads. It's like chasing someone that is 1% HP. You KNOW you can't reach him anymore but you don't wanna realize it cause you are so angry that he will get away with it. So you chase him and die under turret. Just save your flash and use it next time in a better situation.

ViciousSummoner10/30/2018, 4:17:36 AM1 votes

How to achieve super good win ratio in NA:

  1. Play a maximum of 3 games per day. If you lose 2 games you stop until the next play day.
  2. Play a maximum of 2-3 days per week. Those being Tues, Wed, and Thurs.
  3. Play during specific times. 1-4 AM, 9-11 AM, 1-2 PM. All of these time slots avoid casual and stupid players increasing your chances of winning as well your game experience.
  4. Review every game you play win or loss. Critique yourself on what you did right or wrong. Ask yourself how you could have done better.

If you can't do any of the above then you better start cranking out those 2k games per season.