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Why you CAN get out of Bronze

ZombieCrusher07·9/9/2016, 4:48:54 AM·3 votes·506 views

The Fact of Life: League of Legends Motivational Speech You’re in your lane, it’s a Yasuo vs. Ahri lane and you have experience with the matchup. So you windwall Ahri’s combo and almost kill her but you go for a greedy dive and die. Luckily, your comp is better, so 20 minutes later you are standing at the enemy nexus after an amazing comeback, bming and flashing mastery. Your whole team runs into their fountain and 10 minutes later you’re sitting in your chair wondering how the hell did we throw that game away? You get saltier than all the oceans put together. Naturally, you start to blame your team for the loss. You think about how hard bot lane fed, you think about how the jungler didn’t gank, you think about how your support didn’t ward, the jungler never gave you blue, and how your top never tp ganked or split pushed the whole game. This player thinks they did a good job and they don’t improve at the game. They don’t think about how they could have roamed bot to feed the adc, or how they could have not fallen farther behind by playing it safe or pinging the jungler to go in, they don’t think about how they could have placed wards, or realized that the jungler is mana hungry and needed their blue, they don’t look back and see that the reason top never tp ganked was because the wave was always pushing in. This player is you. To make it clear, elo hell does somewhat exist. It is true that the players in bronze are literally the lowest division in League of Legends, although not everyone in bronze is bad and some will climb out, statistically speaking, the majority of players in bronze belong in bronze. This includes you. You always blame your team for feeding and making you lose. But, how about the times when you feed and win? The elo hell mentality is totally flawed because if you lost a game, that means THE OTHER TEAM WON. What is stopping you from being on the other team? Assuming you don’t feed, there is are four possible players that could feed on your team and FIVE POSSIBLE PLAYERS that could be feeders on THEIR TEAM. You can’t control factors out of your reach such as the enemy having a diamond smurf, or someone on your team being in 3rd grade, but there is one factor that is consistent in every single game no matter what. This factor never changes and can be the thing that overrides the course of the game to tilt it in your favor. This factor is you. Focus on how YOU could get better at the game. Nobody on this planet could give two shits about how your adc only had 60 cs at 20 minutes. Because you can’t control that adc’s csing skills but you can control your own. Instead think of it this way: Ashe has 60 cs at 20 minutes? No problem I have 200, I’ll carry this. You need to step up as a leader, make the calls. You are pissed that last game the Amumu made a crappy baron call that cost you the game? Then YOU start making those calls. Support doesn’t even have sightstone? Pick up a pink, place a deep ward, and SPAM DOWN YOUR TRINKET. Every second your trinket is up and not being placed you are wasting the cooldown. Make every effort to win lane and not get killed in a gank, but remember, won lane is not won game. In bronze your teammates are always SO trash right? THEN GO ROAM TO THEIR LANE. Make them so fed that no matter how trash they are they could press all their buttons and win the 1v1. Someone on your team might do this and carry the game for you, sure. But you can’t guarantee that will happen in every game. However one thing is in every game you play. Every game you play has you playing the game, so if YOU are doing all those things then you should be consistently winning games. Every game of League of Legends is different. But one thing stays the same. This thing is you. This message applies everywhere. You can’t expect people to do ANYTHING for you. You have to realize something: “In real life, if [you] want to get better at something, it doesn’t matter if the people working with you are trash.” (Me 2016). For example, if I struggle in a math class the same way that someone would struggle in bronze, my math teacher is supposed to help me learn math the same way my team is supposed to help me win right? NO! Just like your fucking teacher, your team doesn’t know jack about what they are doing. For all I know my math teacher doesn’t even know her multiplication tables and doesn’t give a shit about math. For all I know, my team is complete dickheads and they stroll around the map attempting plays half-assed and look for any chance they can get to throw the game. That’s the fact of life. If you want to achieve something, if there is something you really want like a job, a grade, or a rank is League of Legends, other people may give a leg up to your final destination, but in the end, the person who crosses the finish line, feels the fruits of their labor, the only person that will get you to the end. Is you. Thank You.

TL;DR: If you're still bronze ur trash, just get good and carry cuz ur team wont lol.

11 Comments

oSEXYPLATYPUSo9/9/2016, 4:50:42 AM2 votes

can you boost me to bronze?

Dynikus9/9/2016, 4:55:10 AM2 votes

the jungler never gave you blue

Why are you taking blue as yasuo?

but yeah, if you've played enough games and are still in bronze, there's a good chance that's where you belong.

ZombieCrusher079/9/2016, 4:56:02 AM1 votes

In bronze a lot of the time your team comps suck, so just instalock Urgot with summoner 1 summoner 11 and someone will dodge PROOF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPENP0azII0

Liquid Sloth9/9/2016, 5:46:07 AM1 votes

That or you have super bad luck and the league of legends devil places you on a team full of deaf mutes who support yasuo players.

BlueBilberry9/9/2016, 6:16:09 AM1 votes

It is worth observing that Silver IV-V is actually the median rating tier of all league players. So, there are literally more bronze than there are in silvers, or in gold, etc. Also, note that for many of the players saying that "you too can get out of bronze" were able to do so when there were less bronzies around.

Thus, currently, imagine the player who is going solo into a game who may even know enough to get to silver or gold. And, he or she is repeatedly finding him- or her-self on a team with lots of these players who are still learning the game - like most bronze players. Sprinkle in some toxic types who want to blame others for the fact that they either haven't worked out how to play a champion or figured out how to work as a team. And you can bet the time spent in bronze is a long one.

BTW, the people who put regularly put down bronze players or hold them up to show (like the Salty Teemo stream) definitely don't help the situation. Just noting, ironically, quite a few silver, gold and platinum players often fail to realize that their own skill levels are nothing to brag about. Mathematically speaking, they are within 1.5 standard deviations of bronzes. A sobering thought - how many of the negative types actually understand the math...

Mokkun9/9/2016, 6:28:39 AM1 votes

As someone who managed to push an alternate account into bronze, and get it back out (and is not some diamond-grade player), I assure you that it is possible

There is a distinct skill gap even between the top of silver and the top of bronze.

What I found is that I, who have poor mechanics for my MMR, outclassed most people in those bronze games, and I'm not entirely sure that some of the ones I didn't, weren't in fact smurfs. It wasn't just mechanics. Taking advantage of mistakes was probably the biggest tool I had. People in bronze do dumb things, and you can punish them for it. They overstay, they chase, they greed out the ass. By stepping on them every time they do that, and minimizing how much you do it, you'll sail past people.

What isn't true about bronze is that people don't ward, or they don't understand the basics of the game, they don't really rage more either(although they do rage about dumber stuff). That might be true in the pits of B5. Above that, people understand the shape of the game, they just can't execute it for shit.

Keep calm, punish mistakes, and don't be greedy. Exiting bronze is that simple.

(If you're curious as to how I got an account into bronze, I played Nasus and farmed. Because the most reliable way to lose is to simply never be there in time to help your team. Take that as a clue of what NOT to do.)