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New Meta Made Low Elo Impossible to Climb

pls dont eat dog··3 votes·3,743 views

Silver is damn near impossible to climb out of. I keep getting people that want to play Jhin or Ezreal and they're completely oblivious to the fact that they've been rendered useless. Riot needs to stop making these big changes it makes the game much less enjoyable for people in the bronze silver elo which is 80% of all players. Riot needs to take second to actually think about what they are doing.

33 Comments

MoldyCheese12 votes

I will openly say brand needs to be removed

Iron V Skills2 votes

Climbing in low elo is very limited due to the fact that we aren't challenger or diamonds. We are low elo. Ranking up should be gradual and shouldn't be a "carry" in a "team game". You are saying he should stay in bronze because he can't "hard carry" every game. Ofc pro's get out because they are pros for a reason they are really good and you shouldn't have to be really really good to climb. Even if he plays good consistently if he has a team thats running it down it doesn't mean he belongs there. It means "hey you're doing good, but sorry your gonna stay here because you the rest of the team is bronze 5 skill, not you though just the rest of the team."

pls dont eat dog1 votes

I have no problem climbing. I won 3/3 last night and got 15+ kills every game. But I had decent adcs that didn't start the game 1-7.

TrainerRobo1 votes

Sorry to say, but before the new meta it was already impossible to climb. Elo hell is a real thing and always has been.

MrFawknSunshine1 votes

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Sorry to say, but before the new meta it was already impossible to climb. Elo hell is a real thing and always has been.

expect for those who are good and constantly climb into diamond n higher? kinda funny how you always see the same good player/streamers etc constantly in higher elos regardless of meta or season

TrainerRobo1 votes

Yes, because if youre a diamond player, you can carry literally every game low elo and win just by yourself. When people say elo hell, we mean the players who play like high silver or low gold, but cant carry games and still rely on a non braindead team to work with

MrFawknSunshine1 votes

so good players climb and players who arent good or at their skill level with elo stay where they are?

hmm seems like the elo/mmr/rank system is working as intended

there is always meta changes. being good at the fundamentals of the game dont change. learning how to adapt and evolve with the game is part of the being good process

take TF BLADES this guy constantly starts a new account and goes to rank 1 over and over ... but its not his teammates holding him back, its not the meta etc.... he is just that much better at the game. faker, doublelift... name after name

if you are silver and cant get out of silver that is where you are suppose to be cuz youre not good enough to be higher

TrainerRobo2 votes

Im not saying the meta has anything to do with it. What I'm saying is I play just fine against high silver and low gold players, and can easily hold my ground against them. I cant do much when the rest of my team in bronze is straight inting into their carries.

MrFawknSunshine1 votes

so bronze players which are mostly new to rank and new to game are playing as such ? wow you dont say

but if u are still in bronze and cant get out via placements or climbing then u arent skilled enough to be out of bronze.

to climb you have to be better then what you are in, and you must play a consistent level over a number of games to win more then lose therefore rising /climbing til you dont ... that is your elo is where you no longer climb.

average player skill level is about silver 3 mmr. now skill level is a very vast and complex topic. there is all kinds of skill and knowledge and you may not have all of it together at once.

i know at my best if i was going back to grinding the game and playing serious ill be somewhere in mid to high gold. last time i ranked i had an account in gold and did placements on another and got silver 3. in games i play im against gold , plat and diamonds pretty regularly , i do hold my own vs them and there are times my inconsistencies come out and i look like a worst player.

this is the difference between low elo and high elo ... mechanical skills are typically in range of each other , its being consistent game in game out, trade in trade out, laning , rotations, item builds etc. that is why if you get better at fundamentals the meta changes dont mean anything.

this goes for pro play as well, ever wonder why the asian teams ( Chinese and Korean ) constantly do better at worlds then NA? well regardless of meta they are better fundamentally then the NA teams. and this is why they constantly win.

TendiesRdoom1 votes

Did you notice that most of what you're saying is a personal attack? "You're not good enough". The system has set people up to be unable to climb, to be forever hooked into a cycle of win/loss win/loss. Riot has admitted this.

TendiesRdoom1 votes

and this is what low elo matchmaking will do to you. You get knuckleheads if you win too many games and they drag you right back down. They simply cannot be carried.

Bronze7Main1 votes

just again. is there one who played any support that is planned for supporting? .. i guess no .. oh wait ... i´m right ...

MrFawknSunshine1 votes

i dont know what you are trying to say...

you bring up support for what ?

TendiesRdoom1 votes

TF Blade isn't starting in low elo, he skips right over it. He also plays about ten hours a day. He's not the norm by any stretch and should not be held out as an example. The majority of players do not climb, are you saying it's that difficult to improve? So difficult that its nearly impossible? Or, is it more likely that MMR is set up so that one cannot climb? The whole idea of being able to climb is a psychological trick meant to hook players.

The player base is not meant to climb, it is meant to stay silver and gold.

pls dont eat dog2 votes

BUT WE ARE NOT DIAMOND ELO. IF RIOT WANTS TO BALANCE THE GAME LOOK AT THE LOW ELOS.

TrainerRobo2 votes

buhhhhhh im on your side, dummy

Bronze7Main1 votes

there r some ppl like you who couldnt though with own mind ..... 9 million dollars no1 of them played support for this climb .....

btw ... if you look for eloboost where masterplayer boost accounts from silver tell me the duration ... oh from bronze 1 to silver 1 5-7 days with 10 hours per day ..... this explains much ....

and the target is that you play like gold when you want to be gold and not master when you want to be gold .

Malix Farwin1 votes

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there r some ppl like you who couldnt though with own mind ..... 9 million dollars no1 of them played support for this climb .....

btw ... if you look for eloboost where masterplayer boost accounts from silver tell me the duration ... oh from bronze 1 to silver 1 5-7 days with 10 hours per day ..... this explains much ....

and the target is that you play like gold when you want to be gold and not master when you want to be gold .

Elo boosters use 2 people and it still takes them around 70 hrs to go up 5 divisions. Coaching sites say on average it takes 3 months(which is about as long as it did for me to get out of silver this season).

SugeMinPikk1 votes

It's only real for people who belong there.

TrainerRobo1 votes

No one who isnt there understands it. I dont wanna be that guy who says im better than the people i play with, but typically in ranked i dont into out of my ass like everyone else does. Theres not much i can do against busted fed carries

SugeMinPikk1 votes

My first gold account started bronze.. Huni was placed in bronze.. I dunno what to tell you man.

Malix Farwin1 votes

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Sorry to say, but before the new meta it was already impossible to climb. Elo hell is a real thing and always has been.

Do not think its "always" existed, just this season. That has a lot to do with how low comeback potential is right now and how fast games are ending.

Primaquarius1 votes

Im planning on dropping support for jungle, shits too depressing to keep going in...

Unstoppable Monk1 votes

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Im planning on dropping support for jungle, shits too depressing to keep going in...

maybe you should consider getting better before doing ranked again

Gabresol1 votes

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Im planning on dropping support for jungle, shits too depressing to keep going in...

just do it. We are better junglers anyway since we actually look at the minimap

Redskinsrock26111 votes

I seriously need to get to gold before the next patch.

MoldyCheese11 votes

as a jungle i can go from silver to gold in 3 days and my main is only gold 5, dont get me wrong silver and gold fucking blow but everyone is just oblivious, all you need to pray for is the less retarded people. Kinda why league needs less rng

pls dont eat dog2 votes

bull shit nobody climbing that fast.

Malix Farwin1 votes

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as a jungle i can go from silver to gold in 3 days and my main is only gold 5, dont get me wrong silver and gold fucking blow but everyone is just oblivious, all you need to pray for is the less retarded people. Kinda why league needs less rng

I am G4 from starting point of S3 this season and i call BS on this. Previous seasons, heck yea but this one, no way.

Fízz v21 votes

if anything the people you get on your team cant play Jhin or Ezreal well enough lul

SugeMinPikk1 votes

Low elo was impossible for low elos to climb anyway. They're low elo.

Bronze7Main1 votes

cant rly believe that new meta makes it more impossible than before. i mean ... as support main this could be my only chance for a little hope of climbing cuz with the actual meta the SUPPORTER! can already play a champ that can carry the game while on old meta you just could stand dumb around and watching y adc feed feed feed feed feed feed and even more feed cuz the brain amount from 99% of silver is below zero percent .....

so i guess everyone who is hardstuck silver based on these teams riot gave have NOW the chance to get out of this fck ..... cant be real ..... i win more than 60% constantly in diamond 5 and cant climb out of silver? fun as fck when you have higher winrate in higher elo xd

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