Silver is true elo hell

Bronze 5 Teeto·Oct 4, 2017·11 votes·7,532 views

So I just got plat 5 on my main for the first time a couple weeks ago then i decided id get this account to gold. It was at silver 4 0lp. Legit took me about 100 games of trying to get through it. People tilt so freaking hard in this elo and just feed like animals when they lose lane. Then theres all the new to ranked players you randomly get on your team... Like jesus... theres so much trolls, so many toxic players, etc.... i mean not saying being plat makes me super good or anything but to take that long to get through silver for a plat player says something about how trash the matchmaking is here and how tilty these people are. Near impossible to carry half the games. Goodbye silver. Elo hell is real.

28 Comments

woodvsmurphOct 4, 20177 votes

Yes, funny how that works and yet how people claim elo hell doesn't exist and you can carry any game if you just "get good". Some reasons for the challenge:

New players - valid reason for them being bronze/silver

People refuse to take constructive criticism - not ok; people are not toxic for telling you to ward or to NOT engage a 3v5

People are good enough to climb, but they always end up with more smurfs on the other team - this is where I get upset at smurfs. Play on smurf account, try out a new champ or build, that's all fine and good. But you shouldn't go out of your way to hard carry - this boosts bad players and holds down people who truly deserve to climb. Thus creating and reinforcing "elo hell".

Macro play - very few players have a decent understanding of macro play - most follow the famous words of Gambit Gaming - "see hero, kill hero.". This means many swings in who is winning and longer games where it is more of a toss-up and advantages can easy be turned.

Tilt - people lack macro, so they don't realize that they can easily win despite losing lane. They think they must immediately get a reply kill if they die in lane - causing them to feed rather than lose gracefully. Also causing afk, flame, and lack of teamwork in more abundance than what should be expected. There seems to be a few bottlenecks in climbing and I can attest that silver (especially low/mid silver) is one of the worst.

Troll picks - either they saw it on YouTube and have no clue why it worked, or they tried it in bots or ONE TIME in pvp and won with it. Therefore, it must be good against everything in every situation. And then it doesn't work. And they are feeding. And they are useless because their odd pick and build means they are either tanky without any damage or cc to threaten enemy team or they are all damage but die in 1.5 sec before they can make use of that damage.

Bronze 5 TeetoOct 5, 20172 votes

The fun part is when ur enemy top laner and jg are duo smurf and u get dove under ur tower by nasus and hecarim 3 times before 10 minutes while ur jungler is busy with gromps. LOL! Tilting! More of what you would expect if ur plat playing with silver is to just shit all over them 1v5 every game but it doesnt work out like that :)

woodvsmurphOct 5, 20174 votes

Too true.

Trolling as teemo top and kill a fed kayn while splitpushing 1v3, nearly get 2 more kills; called a feeder. Meanwhile they can 4v2 get aced without killing anyone and they aren't feeders somehow.

Die to a repeat gank thanks to flash cheese and laner taking ignite. Then ganked by a 3/0/0 mid at level 4 and die when you were about to 1v1 kill your opponent. Get told to stay bronze. Go on to be able to 1v2 double kill laner and jungler by level 11. Carry the game. Get 0 honor or apology for being flamed all game.

Take a feeding team, stall out the enemy essentially 1v5 for 15 min till your adc can come online. Set up winning baron bait and minion wave to push bot tier 2 tower while you win a miracle 5v5 via tp flank onto the only ward in area - which you placed because team can't afford to use their free wards. Get baron. Pull 3 fed enemies top to stop your splitpush with baron. Get a kill and escape - keeping 2 more people top and giving team a 4v2 easy double kill and bot inhib tower. 1v2 stop enemy backs and let team win the game. 0 thanks - just flame and getting called garbage for not grouping. Never mind we would lose the 5v5 guaranteed.

So many players know so little. And the worst part is, they know so little they think they are right. It's not even worth your time explaining how they are wrong because they don't have the game knowledge to comprehend what you say or how it is better than what they did. Not that I know everything. But I know a lot more than most (low and high elo) would give me credit for.

zarxus1234Oct 4, 20176 votes

silver is the hardest elo to climb out of. You have to be like a gold 3 player to just have a 60% winrate in silver. Its so luck base its unreal.

woodvsmurphOct 5, 20171 votes

You can do it though with some practice. I was s3, got a 2 week 90% auto-loss streak, and dropped to s5 0lp. Got a chat restriction for 2 weeks for replying to teammate harassment with some choice words. Worked to improve my behavior somewhat. Got an end to my loss streak and climbed to g3. I only ever barely hit g4 last year and was always a silver before that. This season I can confidently say I've gone from only deserving g5 to holding my own in g3 barring games against smurfs from plat+. Not bad for starting in b3 due to poor matchmaking in placement matches.

Yeah silver is probably the hardest, but it can be done. Even if you aren't some plat smurf or getting elo boosted by someone.

FatedSaviourOct 5, 20171 votes

really, ive been in both, it was much harder to get out of bronze, i can just consistantly win in silver, but in bronze my teamates have no game knowledge and blame eachother for everything instead of thinking about what they did wrong, and saying, we should stop fighting

Hèntaî Oct 5, 20173 votes

Bronze was a cake walk, I didnt have people quit because they didnt get 5 kills within the first 10 minutes of the game. Nor did I have people rage over the smallest stuff. Tbh bronze was fun a'f

FatedSaviourOct 5, 20172 votes

once i got out of my bad team curse silver has been easy af, bronze tho, i had constant trolls, people who didnt have any game knowledge, no communication, and are displeased when i (the support) isnt their personal slave, or the adc who thinks sion support is trolling so full ap draven he goes, at least sion support is easy af to abuse in bronze, maybe im just lucky in silver and unlucky in bronze, maybe its an OCE thing

Emporio SaboNov 3, 20182 votes

I can attest that bronze is easy , i climbed from bronze 2 to silver 5 by spamming SIon

BańgOct 5, 20176 votes

come to diamond 5 and tell me how long you last before quitting the game for a couple of days.

that elo literally takes your soul and fucks it

Bronze 5 TeetoOct 5, 20171 votes

Well I would be the reason everyone else quit i think lol

kaironenOct 5, 20171 votes

I've been in d5 for a long time (just got it back since i quit for 4 months about a month ago). That elo is just pure elo hell. It always feels like you get the players that either don't care or are boosted. However, once you get to d4+ it starts being decent again.

BańgOct 5, 20171 votes

d4 is literally the same exact thing as d5 but people got lucky streaks.

thankfully im not d4 and climbed past it but holy fuck everytime i smurf i realzie what a worthless cause that elo is.

nm1010Oct 5, 20173 votes

It's a common problem for low plat players to have issues climbing in a clown fiesta environment. You are good at the game, but you don't understand macro enough to fully 1v9 carry and get too caught up in the silver style of games. It has little to due with "elo hell" and is more of a general lack of understanding how to carry clowns causing you to tilt.

Monkey With GunsOct 4, 20171 votes

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/74c4ac/my_last_ranked_game_experience_oh_gawd/

Yeah I just had a silver game where the tilt was R E A L. You can read about it there if you'd like ^

Bronze 5 TeetoOct 4, 20172 votes

your reddit post got deleted by a mod i think lol

Monkey With GunsOct 5, 20171 votes

Huh, doesnt look like it to me, https://gyazo.com/98133be338e7f65ea17caf898bae9afa

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/74c4ac/my_last_ranked_game_experience_oh_gawd/

Maybe i copied the link wrong?

Bronze 5 TeetoOct 5, 20171 votes

idk i cant read it when i click the reddit one but i see ur story in the gyazo and it sounds like a typical game of league lol

MagicFlyingLlamaOct 5, 20171 votes

Bronze is worse. I have watched it, as bad as silver is, bronze is a complete shitshow; all you can do is laugh at it. silver is mostly luck for the last two seasons, bronze is entirely luck.

Bronze 5 TeetoOct 5, 20171 votes

give me ur bronze account lol. nothing is entirely luck. if you play on it long enough you will certainly get out of it.

MagicFlyingLlamaOct 5, 20171 votes

I dont have a bronze account (or any alts at all - i dont have the misguided belief that i deserve better than my rank - Gold V) and never have, i just watch friends that are proud Bronze Vs.

The DeckownerOct 5, 20171 votes

If you play on your plat account you will see way more people rage flame troll int and give up.

Bronze 5 TeetoOct 5, 20171 votes

just the whole play style difference between the two makes the game farrrrrrr more enjoyable. I know theres some bitches in plat too and some ery toxic people but at least they're interactive and funner to play with(example: tp gank in silver-team recalls and u die. tp gank in plat, team reacts and makes play). Silver players start raging in champ select and then go do the most retarded shit like dive full hp tryndameres under tower with no minions then rage at you... fuck idiots lol....

kaironenOct 5, 20171 votes

I think silver is hard due to the difference in skills of players. Last time I went there on my smurf account it felt like silver 5-3 was pretty easy (close to bronze in skill). However, when you go to silver 3-1, they start playing a lot better and it feels like you are playing vs gold players sometimes.

2Charmnot2CharmOct 5, 20171 votes

Makes me glad that 1 of my 2 silver smurfs already has plat mmr so i don't have to worry about bronze-golds refusing to get carried by me.

KVbqbFsC8eOct 5, 20171 votes

I've never had any trouble at all getting through Silver. Plat is a nightmare though.

IBreedBagelsFeb 6, 20181 votes

I made this exact post not too long ago. Plat 3 player here hard stuck in silver lol. In fact managed to lose my way from S1 down to S5. I don't understand either.

JumpingFox23Aug 15, 20181 votes

As a silver player i just wanna say i believe that you cannot relay on team in low-elo if you want to esc. Bronze/Silver you have to focus on every mistake what team is doing meaning lets say they dont often do baron (fuck it build enough lifesteal/attack speed/health) do it solo dragons as well. Most of bronze/silver feed bot/support so the question is not what role do you want to play i feel the question is more of what role you must play (support/adc) next is total score as i did say B5 - S1 you are solo "no team at all" meaning 85% you have to solo carry which is really annoying and often you will find yourself dropping MMR mostly because your team didnt done shit lets say im playing easy mechanical champion veiger my score is 25/3/4 and total score is 32-44 this is bornze/silver if you wanna rank up you have to do solo alone at least more then 60-65% alone because matchmakeing is awful within the players.

If you made by the end of post i just wanna say thank you for reading it and try to stay calm in league