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Grinding vs. Smurfing

Leblonsh··1 votes·608 views

Hello all.

My name is yyaeos, which I do not know how to pronounce, and I am currently stuck in, you guessed it, ELO HELL.

No, this isn't me asking how to get out, I tried that already, and still am using the suggestions that I was given. However, I am seeing little results, and after patch 6.5, and I am highly considering just starting over.

I guess what I really want to know is, is it worth it? By creating a smurf account and spending the time to level it up to thirty, will my skills actually increase? Or is it worth spending that time and effort trying to get out of bronze rather than hoping that placements put me out further ahead at the end of it all. Of course, I will lose all my champions and skins, which is also a drawback considering I have a lot of both currently. I don't know, really I'm just looking for general suggestions for a direction to head in.

P.S. I am a jungle/mid main, mostly focusing on shaco, kha'zix, malzahar, azir, and fizz, looking to throw in Elise too more often

Thanks!

7 Comments

Rossonious3 votes

Grind. You'll be surprised how good you get. The system is set for accuracy over a ton of games. Getting lucky with a smurf only helps a lil in the short term.

Leblonsh1 votes

Thank you! This actually helps

ßurst1 votes

I'll tell you my story well i started playing this game a little before the gp rework in what august ? end of july? and i played started ranked at one point got put into bronze by the end of the season i wanted to get myself into gold it was a grind a tough one. I did it i stayed in gold for a while tho and a little into preseason i started playing ranked again i climbed from gold 5 to almost gold 2 then back into 4! That was previously really hard for me to get into gold in the first place. S6 starts i did placements and got placed in S5 very very very sad. I was like wtf i just climbed into gold for them to only put me back into bronzee almost? I played and got into gold then flew past gold and into plat 5 currently. AS for you, ill give you a little tip you just need to improve i looked at your match history and saw 1 thing that you already did wrong you. You got tri force and gauntlet the passives dont stack and dont need both of them tri force into tanky or more dmg. Gaunlet AFTER tri is just well to simply put it but NOT TRYING TO BE MEAN a bronzie move:/ goodluck broski

Leblonsh1 votes

Yeah man thanks for the help! And yeah over all thats really what I just gotta do:P

ßurst1 votes

No problem bro good luck on your grind!

Old Man Teeto1 votes

Creating a smurf won't do anything.

You are where you belong.

I'm plat. My smurf, which started Silver this season, is now Plat.

You Belong where you are until you improve at beating ** that bracket.**

Play more. Get better at beating where you are. Move up.

Leblonsh1 votes

I'm hearing a lot of "git gud" xD and thanks! It seems like I just gotta grind and improve.

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