I've been playing this game since season 3, and I've finally hit platinum! I've gotten to gold the past couple seasons simply for the victorious skin but this season I thought I'd try out climbing (it's a bit late but better late than never!) and I actually hit platinum!
Novalas10 voteso3o congratz friendo.
Sun Wu Ryuumoku7 votesGG... Welcome to this monkey elo*[sg-miss-fortune]*
Kimuto3 votesCongrats. This year is my first time to reach to gold and platinum too! Welcome to the top 9% of the player base in NA.
dominusx2 votesjust reading this makes me sad.. plat top 9% LMFAO.
Håppy3 votesWelcome to low elo of high elo! No, but for real, good fckin' job dude. Hitting Platinum's a struggle, now make sure you don't lose it! Keep striving for Diamond, you got this!
SnakDatSmilesBak2 votesNoooooo don't listen to this guy! Get out while you still can!
Håppy4 votesLIVE YOUR DREAMS GET THAT RA-RR-R-R-RANK 1
Xenomancers2 votesI just got gold 1 promo - last night. Hopefully I can join you soon. I hate to count my eggs before they are in the pudding but gold is really easy compared to silver. Congrats man! [sona-playing]
ARAM ZooKeeper1 votesI hate to count my eggs before they are in the pudding but gold is really easy compared to silver.
I've heard the same thing from pro players ranking up from the bottom... once you hit gold it is far less likely to have Riot sabotage you with un-carryable liabilities as "teammates". I had hoped during the transition from bronze to silver the same thing would happen, but it somehow got even worse.
Xenomancers1 votesI always told myself it would be better on the other side. Really though - the key is finding a niche and understanding the game - you will still have some crapper team mates but as long as you do your job on a competent team you are going to win a lot more than you lose in any ELO i think. A lot more competent teams in gold. Teams that don't give up because they are down 8 kills. Teams that fight for objectives even if it means they have to stop that jungle camp. Teams that will flash to save a player without getting a kill. I mean it's amazing how much more fun the game is when your whole team knows the flow of the game.
nice table2 votesi mean the most uncarryable shit is at plat-dia according to every good player that has smurfed
ARAM ZooKeeper1 votes[{quoted}](name=nice table,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=tjYgvxQW,comment-id=000800000001,timestamp=2017-10-10T22:16:26.986+0000)
i mean the most uncarryable shit is at plat-dia according to every good player that has smurfed
Because they dont want to admit bronze/silver is a nightmare because it makes them look bad
nice table2 votesthere are some uncarryable games in bronze/silver but in most of them you can have large enough of a impact to win 80%~ of your games
ARAM ZooKeeper1 votes[{quoted}](name=nice table,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=tjYgvxQW,comment-id=00080000000100000000,timestamp=2017-10-10T23:56:01.103+0000)
there are some uncarryable games in bronze/silver but in most of them you can have large enough of a impact to win 80%~ of your games
Simply not true. I've seen a lot of players pull that statistic out of their ass.
The way the matchmaking operates currently in ELO hell (Silver) there are going to be 1,2,3+ players in any given game that simply have no business playing ranked, and whichever team gets stuck with the most of them will lose. If your team gives you an opportunity to carry, consider yourself very lucky. That is nowhere close to 80% of games though
nice table1 votesi mean don't get me wrong while what you are saying about elo hell and there being up to 4 people that have no business playing ranked being on your team is true it is still quite possible to carry these games with the enemies also being trash. i have played on many silver accounts and 80-90%~ win ratio is usual and i'm not even good.
this being said looking at your account it does seem like you should be higher ranked than you currently are but i feel like this is mostly due to lack of trying and tilting (been there my self so i can empathize).
ARAM ZooKeeper1 votes[{quoted}](name=nice table,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=tjYgvxQW,comment-id=0008000000010000000000000000,timestamp=2017-10-11T17:34:50.271+0000)
i mean don't get me wrong while what you are saying about elo hell and there being up to 4 people that have no business playing ranked being on your team is true it is still quite possible to carry these games with the enemies also being trash. i have played on many silver accounts and 80-90%~ win ratio is usual and i'm not even good.
this being said looking at your account it does seem like you should be higher ranked than you currently are but i feel like this is mostly due to lack of trying and tilting (been there my self so i can empathize).
I think I could grind my way up out of silver if I played Higher tier snowballing hyper carry champs, or the ADC, and I understand lots of players do that to prove you can escape bronze/silver.
My point though, is that you shouldn't have to, and it speaks poorly of Riot's system that you have to do that.
If you are consistently out-performing your lane opponent in every conceivable metric and helping other lanes more, you should win more than you lose, in theory, given enough sample games. I think that is a fair expectation.
Yet in Silver, with such a discrepancy in skill among players, the majority of games are all ready determined based on who the matchmaking sticks you with.... and no amount of ganks, no amount of wards placed, no amount of friendly advice given will stop them from throwing the game. The vast majority of games are landslides in Silver, win or lose... and when it is that skewed individual performance means less and less.
nice table1 votesthis really isn't a silver specific thing, as of right now games are coinflips in almost every elo due to shitter matchmaking. the thing with silver is that if you are good enough you can still have a high enough impact to win the large majority of your games but when your opponents are actually 'good' this becomes much harder when you have the tilted guy in your team.
ARAM ZooKeeper1 votes[{quoted}](name=nice table,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=tjYgvxQW,comment-id=000800000001000000000000000000000000,timestamp=2017-10-11T19:54:18.586+0000)
this really isn't a silver specific thing, as of right now games are coinflips in almost every elo due to shitter matchmaking. the thing with silver is that if you are good enough you can still have a high enough impact to win the large majority of your games but when your opponents are actually 'good' this becomes much harder when you have the tilted guy in your team.
I think that is fair. It would make sense that diamond+ players could stomp silver players about as hard as they would stomp bronze players.
I think the unique thing for silver though is that of all the leagues, it has the widest skill range. The bottom of silver is just as bad as the bottom of bronze, and the top of silver players can be decent. So my point is given this difference, a game with all-silver players will have the most uneven lane matchups, leading to allies/enemies snowballing regardless of how well you perform. (from the perspective of an okay player that can win lane against silver/gold/plat consistently but not carry the entire game)
nice table1 votesyeah if i remember correctly its worst in silver 5-3 because that's where most of the fresh level 30s end up.
Firethorn1 votesPlat5 promos suck. I lost like 4 of them in a row before finally making it to plat
Unvictus2 votesCongrats dude! I was kinda in the same boat. I’ve hit gold the last 3 seasons and I actually made it to play in season 5 but wasn’t actually good enough to stay plat and go demoted. I’ve done some improving and this season will be my first season ending in platinum and will get the plat border. I’ll be trying for diamond next season for sure!
łnśane2 votesWelcome to the land of asshole Janna supports. Spam ping central No brain land and rage river! where all the rage/sweat/fem & manly tears slowly builds up and becomes a nightmare which ends with a waterfall that can be heavenly*[sg-miss-fortune]* ....or deadly*[sg-lulu]*
Congrats Time for that Diamond climb next season*[slayer-jinx-catface]*
What Is Smite2 votesWelcome to Clowntown
OyddAWqJ5r1 votesHahahaha but that can be said for any elo. We all got our clowns but hey, they got there somehow.
hi ìm groot2 votesCongrats!
Man there's alot of platinum hate on this thread... seriously people wtf, I liked plat alot more than gold.
GayFluffyUnicorn3 votesBecause plat is really a terrible elo. Plat 5/4s who are basically golds with more games played have attitude as if they were masters and can't manage to climb because the skill gap between high and low plat is so frickin high. High plat who are tilted they don't get into dia vice versa with the occasional low mmr d5s you will get into your team. Lots of OTPs who can only stomp or get stomped and tilt of the face of the earth. Just my personal experience tho. Esepcially in normals when i play against low plats they are among the most toxic players shittalking you and their team.
hi ìm groot1 votesYa but in gold games its impossible to tell when someones trolling or tilted compared to where they're trying their hardest. At least by plat players generally have the basics down so it makes the games more fun to play.
NoxianShrooms1 votesGj, hope you don't decay when the boosters and Trolls start appearing in bulk now that you're in their natural habitat.
Snowplosion1 votesSame fam. We did it!
Red Wreckage1 votesplat in NA hehe
Raven Redeemed3 votesYour board profile is basically all negativity and sarcasm, not to mention you are silver three. You must be one of those legendary internet trolls!
CarameI Frappe1 votesHey man, congrats! It's said to be the graveyard of 1 tricks and people who can't reach Diamond .. but i'm cool with that XD anyways hope you enjoy your stay, turns out a lot of Diamond players want to stay Plat because Diamond V is just terrible for some reason? (Don't quote me on that, a few say it's just filled with boosted people who are literally boosted and paid to get there).
GayFluffyUnicorn1 votesIt is. Nothing is more horrible than low dia. Best elo i've been has been d3/d2. Good players, good attitudes mostly. Every second low dia account i look up is a first season dia account/last season fresh dia account. Someone who has been silver for 5 seasons is adc main but his highest champ is riven with 80% winrate in dia this season. Not fishy or something nono. Aside from memes there are actual tons of boosted egrils who are among the most toxic players (on EUW atleast). Not to say boys aren't boosted or something.
Dream High1 votesCongratulations you will now have a worse icon for next season. You will probably join the rest of us desperate to make it into diamond.
La Belle Sauvage1 votesCongratulations ToxicPrint! I hope to make plat someday myself! Curious, how many games this season did it take?
Fegone1 votesPlat in NA is like what, Silver in Korea? ;) jk, good job.
MillyNotMiley1 votesYay congrats :D Must feel great :3 [sg-kiko]
Kloqdq1 votesSame here man! Feels good to get to a decent ELO! Nice work!
ReySolomon1 votesNice job bro! When you get to plat 4 let me know if you want to DUO etc.
Barcid1 votesSooooooo you hit silver then.
Not silver in Korea or some other meme, just silver. Plat is basically identical to silver except more drags are taken.
CrazFight 1 votesGold is one of the hardest elo's to get out of, proud of you <3
OyddAWqJ5r1 votesHonestly, keep going. You got that far by playing support and you have some pretty insane winrates on a few of them. 
Climb to Diamond man!
ChuShoe1 votesHave fun with the toxic dump known as plat.
