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Fighting a losing battle: any advice on climbing out of YOLO Elo?

Rakvir·3/7/2016, 12:04:34 PM·2 votes·540 views

Before I was doomed to Bronze mediocrity (I was in Silver, once upon a time...), even Silver seemed to be a little more wary of what champions actually did that weren't the regularly spammed ones (and even then, a lot of times they don't even know the specifics of THOSE ones, they just call them "OP as shit" and refuse to take obvious countermeasures). I know, that's not saying a heck of a lot but come on, I shouldn't have to learn how to spam champions that are frustratingly boring and (to me, in strange ways I have yet to comprehend) needlessly combo-centric to win.

Bronze is almost all about 'who can show they have the biggest e-peen' while also riding on a hope and a prayer that the other team has more toxic and/or incompetent people than yours.

I adapt my playstyle to reflect different situations. I use a variety of runes and masteries on the same champion for different roles or depending on the enemy team comp that I have to take into consideration item build for later on during the match. Or if we're particularly behind, I don't make it an arms race to see who can burst down who first because they already have too much of a lead in that, surviving + objectives is way better. So on and so forth.

So what am I to do? I try to queue with others but there's no one dedicated to doing more than one or two matches more in succession, more or less, and even then a lot of nights they aren't even on the same time as me when I DO find someone that I can get on the same page on.

I'm sick of being unable to keep a consistent win/loss ratio and I just want to play with people who know how to think pro-actively instead of just reactionary, by which most of the time is a loss anyway, barring some crazy-good luck with a teamfight that never should have happened in the first place.

How can I climb if the only person who IS changing and altering their playstyle to better learn the more delicate intracacies is ME? It's a team game but I'm rated and judged as an INDIVIDUAL and I lose more LP than I gain because I'm the only one not dying before the second wave of minions hit or stupid things like that. I have honestly lost track of the amount of times I've seen the same names come up on both my team and the enemy and it's very disheartening because it further cements my belief I'm not going to play with new people who want to make any more than the bare minimum effort. I don't expect to be carried. I don't —want— to be carried. I just want some sort of assurance that I'm not going to, if I'm lucky, by the end of S6, be in Bronze 2 or something, defeating the purpose of doing ranked at all.

I don't claim to be good. I just know I'm (objectively) better than a LOT of the people I just so happen to, by sheer coincidence, be matched with. I can take my lickings and admit to being outplayed and I deserve various losses, but when you see your teammates dying twice before 3 minutes into the match or other, equally infuriating ways, that snowballs because they can't be reasoned with and get defensive and mute at even the most positive and polite constructive criticism, and then feed even HARDER....holy shizniks, people, how do you pull this kind of game out of the fire? It's a daily occurence and I'm debating just doing normals because I see WAY more skilled players there than I EVER have in ranked!

4 Comments

enraged in flame3/7/2016, 12:28:04 PM1 votes

I can feel your pain.... have not played ranked on this acount yet ( I have 2 other account s that I have had to 30). But went I played ranked with those I can tell you I desurved to be in low elo. I had no consept of lains or jobs. I didnt even know that the jungle was supporsed to gank other lains and add map preasure. I have learned alot from this third acount that I feal like I am ready to try ranked agian soon. But I was in hopes of finding more skilled players then I have been playing in normals. But after reading all these threads I am beginning to have my doubts. ( My only objective in playing ranked is to play aginst skilled players and have fun). I dont know if I am weird or something but I like close games that we get out played and loose sometimes... because it makes me think more critically at what I could have done/ played different to have not lost. Anyway that is my 2 cent. Just wanted to say I was the most tippical feadier in game and I have learned alot sence then and felt awful when I was the feeder.

weeaboomer3/7/2016, 12:30:33 PM1 votes

What do you call this... condescending?

To reply to your thread, Git Gud.

Also, fairy tails don't apply to league match making. You need to climb out with your own skill level.

KrugLyfe3/7/2016, 12:34:32 PM1 votes

Silver is just as bad don't bother climbing until you're positive you can reach gold.

I am Pacman3/7/2016, 2:06:47 PM1 votes

Well I've never been in bronze (for the record I couldn't even get my smurf to bronze lol, mmr was too high apparently), if they are anything like what I have faced in silver then climbing is easy. People make so many stupid mistakes in low elo on top of not knowing how to close out games. The problem is that the other team also doesn't know how to capitalize on those mistakes.

Play someone who can easily win laning phase, (I play a lot of top so my go to is jax or renekton) and procced to just deep ward and catch people out. One of the easiest ways is if you see your own large minion wave bot or top (this is assuming you can't do anything else on the map when someone goes down to clear it) is to just follow it down, hide in a bush till the adc or mid comes and then kill them.