How are you supposed to climb from Platinum?

Nidken··1 votes·362 views

It's a 4v5. Zed is split pushing top. "Don't fight" i say "Defend. Wait out Barron"

For the second time this game, Vlad decides to ult and flash into the enemy team. For the second time, we are outnumbered. And for the second time, we drastically lose the fight.

I don't understand. Was i supposed to write in Caps? What am I doing wrong?

4 Comments

Votable Jester2 votes

The key to climbing is to play more than just those games that go bad. You also have to play those fun/average games that you tend to forget about after because negative experiences stand out more in your memory. Then, if you have enough average games with a >50% win-rate overall, you climb.

About the specific game of which you speak, there is little that you have mentioned that you could have improved on. If you're team won't listen, you can't do anything about that. Still, I'm sure you made your own mistakes that game as well. Just focus on improving those.

EndlessSorcerer1 votes

If an ally is dumb enough to flash-ult and engage an unfavourable 4v5 fight, it is often the correct decision to abandon them to their fate.

One death is far better than four.

This season is rather iffy since lower quality players have managed to climb higher than they should be using Dynamic Queue.

Quite a few Diamond streamers (i.e. HuzzyGames, Phylol) have been running into similar issues in their Unranked to Diamond series since the skill level of players at that ELO is lower than it was in past seasons.

Sadly, the toxicity makes the climb rather frustrating even when the players are skilled enough to belong in that ELO.

Death and Doom1 votes

yacant use one game as the reason you cant climb out of plat. btw i cant either.

Azure Hamster1 votes

Play better on average than other people with your MMR. That's how you advance.

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