Unpopular opinion:Climbing is practically pointless in soloquo
So i had a realization... you go up in rank, your team is now of that rank, your opponents are now of that rank
when all works properly you're no better off than before. Since your placement is based mostly off of your winrate.
Honestly I can't for the life of me see an actual reason to climb other than for a skin that goes to a champ that you realistically don't play that often, because your normative champ pool is probably 1-7 champions, of which you probably only play 1 to 4 regularly....so the likelyhood that you are gonna have one of your champs get that skin is extremely low.
so why get better? so you can do better in games? Well that doesn't do anything because you should be doing as well as your team if you're placed correctly so you're going to be doing relatively as well as before, only you're a bit more knowledgable.
did you not have fun when you didn't know how bad you were? I had a lot of fun in b5, actually it was the most fun i ever had in ranked. so many strange things all around me. full ap nasus mid played seriously... things were odd but great
no matter what rank you are, you will still sometimes be the biggest reason your team loses, and you will sometimes be the biggest reason your team wins.
No matter what rank you are, you will still occasionally run into someone with an attitude problem,
the game doesn't get better as you get better, it doesn't actually become more intricate. The more you learn about this game the shallower it becomes. the more flaws in the system you have the potential to notice
this game is fun, but only if you take it for what it is. otherwise you just get all self concious, worry about a missclick, rage at a bad support, do whatever it is you do. Why the fuck play a game you're not happy to play regardless of winning or losing?
Now to add on to this and be clear: it makes sense if you and your friends all want to get on the same level of play, maybe your bff is gold and you're bronze so you want to at least not be the dude who tanks his teams when you duo. I'm speaking mostly of the solo experience.
