Now that the season is over, let's hear from all those who didn't make it to gold!

Tonaia·11/11/2014, 1:39:38 PM·5 votes·4,167 views

This thread is dedicated to all the delicious tears and rage that people have over not getting gold this season. Since everyone loves a little misery of the other guy, I'll start.

Got promos last night, sweet. Game 1: Internet cuts out for the first time ever -loss Game 2: We win easily Game 3: We get stomped Game 4: Another easy win.

So now I'm sitting 4 hours from the deadline. I'm feeling tense, I've been playing all day, I'm a little tired, nervous and excited, so I call up my friend to duo with me so I have at least 2 people in the game who won't be silly.

Then comes the 6 minute queue time, I think "Okay, this is weird." Then comes our mid getting exploded multiple times, it's okay we still got this.

Then our top laner decides he's going to farm until he has 1000 stacks, even though we are a bit behind and need a tankier fronline.

5 minutes later they get baron and finish us off like a delicious sundae.

Goodbye Victorious Morgana, now I can never say I have all the skins for my favorite champion. Morgana item 3070

So fellow failures of the gold race. What are your stories?

43 Comments

Worgslarg11/11/2014, 1:41:18 PM11 votes

Decided that morgana skin wasn't worth the strife of silver 5 to gold 5. Didn't even try.

Succeded at remaining silver.

HardstyleAddx11/11/2014, 1:48:15 PM8 votes

It's so easy to get to gold though. I know that you deal with baddies in a lot of games (trust me, I know), but you have to learn how to play with them and how to take charge of the game so you can lead your team to victory. I started at bronze 5 this season and made it to plat 4. On my smurf I got to silver 1 in provisionals and got to gold 8 games later. The best thing for you to do is to watch the pros play and look at their playing style. My suggestion to you is to start playing carry lanes. One of the easiest ways to carry is going jungle in my opinion. You can get every lane fed and then you can make all the decisions about objectives easier seeing as the jungler usually leads the game. Sorry you didn't make it though dude. Just keep practicing and you'll get there.

Alljoy11/11/2014, 1:45:21 PM4 votes

Decided to remain Cardboard V after hearing all the horror stories because I value what's left of my sanity.

For now, anyways, least till I get good enough.

Creamy Eevee11/11/2014, 1:44:27 PM4 votes

Riot kept firewalling me and getting me suspended for their own problems, my response to this thread about those who didn't get gold is... I'm salty... like so salty its sugary

BestSupportGold11/11/2014, 6:34:59 PM3 votes

I was at Silver 4 Saturday. Made it to the promos. Once I made it to the promos, Olaf's divine strength in the heavens, was like, you know what Bruh, we're going to make this ultimately harder for you.

Olaf spawns trolls in que. Desired Position or Feed troll. Then out of nowhere, he uses another troll: 25 second champ pick waiter. One who waits to the last moment to pick a champ, and does not communicate it in chat. This is the ultimate troll of all. Now we have 2 people with the same position. Person #2 graciously waited in hopes that person #1 would pick a champ. Rather than risk causing an argument of the Pick Order vs Pref issue that could start a team fight before we hit the rift. If that wasn't bad enough, Olaf, The Devil in Sheeps Clothing, decides, Hey, you know what? and I'm like what Olaf? He's like guess what. As if I am not surprised enough at what is happened 3 picks into the champ select. You won't know this, but your ADC, is about to pick a champ they are 100% unprepared to play with. They actually just bought this champ prior to Queueing up. But I won't tell you this until they're 0/11. Feeling pumped to get on the Rift yet?

Then there is me. I'm not complaining, I'm not commenting, I am just here to play the game. Rally the troops against this War Path Promo from Hell God Olaf. I pick Brand Mind. (Zombie) to be exact! And I am doing my thing, have 145 farm at 20 Min, decent build, I am shoving lane, and rotating, helping the jungler out, and it is just not working out for me.

I realize after 2 team fights this is going to be a tough one. So I battle cry, and rally the troops for a baron! We take it, uncontested. Feeling good yet? Yes! Pumped! about to push lane and take a turret! Right? Wrong.

The crashing sound of Olaf's hammer is enough to kill me. He tells me that our jungle, just decided to go Back and buy, but never really comes back to the game. The silent disconnect of death. I'm already demoralized from Olaf earlier, and with all my sanity I put everything I had into a team fight, we lost. The counter attacked, and Olaf laughed hysterically.

Needless to say, it was hard fought, 4v5 but after that loss, I snowballed out of control and made it all the way back to Silver 5 where I tried to climb Sunday and Monday with little to no success.

Good news, I have made it to Silver after being in Bronze for 1 season.

That's improvement right?Olaf item 3022 summoner 3

Drunk Rummate11/11/2014, 2:51:02 PM3 votes

so I call up my friend to duo with me so I have at least 2 people in the game who won't be silly.

This was your mistake!!!

Duoing sets the MMR of your remaining teammates lower than the MMR of the other team. You doomed yourself from the start :[

Unless of course you and your friend were capable of carrying the game hard. But if you're stuck in S1 and can't progress that doesn't seem likely.

Frothing Loins11/11/2014, 3:27:13 PM3 votes

I escaped from gold and am now platinum.

Suck it jabronis

BruisingEmu11/11/2014, 5:56:28 PM2 votes

Got to Gold Promo once. My friend I always duo with got there at the same time because up to that point. Every ranked game we had was played together. He plays 2 games without me. Which is cool. We win his 3rd despite the entire match being a 4v5 in their favor.

I swear from that point on I could never win a game. I just had a really bad losing streak and went all the way to Silver 3 (This will sound like an excuse but it was just as the DDOS attacks were starting and the servers went to hell. Just made it more frustrating). I just quit playing ranked after that. I'll start again in S5. I don't have an aversion to ranked, but I just can't stand my teams right now. The rotation calls and the baron/dragon throws hurt to watch. I started learning some carry champs for S5 because maining support just isn't getting me there.

disregardable11/11/2014, 1:52:46 PM2 votes

I made it through Bronze V promos then figured I should be happy with "not the worst possible option".

Commit Sudoku11/11/2014, 3:43:16 PM2 votes

I made it to Gold

Ju1cyJayce42011/11/2014, 5:52:59 PM2 votes

im kinda pissed that i did grind all the way up to gold 5 and got the morg skin, summoner icon and no load in boarder, but tis life i suppose

Vanaith11/12/2014, 12:30:30 AM2 votes

I started playing just over 8 weeks ago, made silver, just not enough time to hit gold. Really like morganna as well.

CLG Factor11/11/2014, 4:16:06 PM1 votes

Silver promo Game 1: Close game but we lost baron fight and got aced Game 2: We won cuz i pantheon jumped into their base and killed their nexus while my team held them at baron Game 3: (pressure is on) It started off so well, we thought they would surrender we had an inhib in like 15 mins. Then things started to shift, our yi stopped split pushing, we had no one to tank, their vlad had like 500 cs from farming top..... then we threw, goodbye gold :(

DragonSIayerPoro11/11/2014, 6:13:38 PM1 votes

Plat 5 here :D

Zyaph11/11/2014, 6:17:28 PM1 votes

Slept for 4 and a half hours, went to work at 7 to 330, came home and won 10 games straight, straight through silver 2 and up to 70 LP in silver 1 Last two games duo queue captains took my best rolls, didn't ban Syndra and forced me to mid vs her. This is 20 hours after waking up. 50 LP and 3 hours to go

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fall asleep item 3070 item 3070

Ryu the first11/11/2014, 3:16:25 PM1 votes

Didn't even try after I got demoted from S4. 10 game losing streak and I just gave up. Silver rewards are good enough.... ;-;

McDestiny11/11/2014, 8:48:07 PM1 votes

Didn't even try ranked this season. It's way too much effort to move up. Even if you win consistently, well over 50%, I think some people last season calculated several hundred games to move from bronze to gold. Not nearly enough time for that. Tiers and rewards are cool, but I wish there was more flexibility in gaining and losing ranks within a tier. Maybe it got better this year though, I didn't try. I think I will next time around.

Brenticus1211/11/2014, 3:01:19 PM1 votes

I couldn't even attempt it. Got suspended by leavebuster for 14 days cause my internet was being wonky. (Just a few days back I had been suspended for 3 days cause I had to urgently leave for class, which I was totally fine with).

Before all the hate comes in, no it wasn't in ranked. I only play ranked when I know everything will be stable (My internet connection is normally stable. It was just being weird that day)

Healin11/11/2014, 11:03:56 PM1 votes

Didn't even try this season. Got gold season 2, Silver Season 3 and didn't want a bronze border for season 4. Until I can guarantee a support spot when queuing up ranked holds no interest for me

AJStarhiker11/12/2014, 10:46:58 PM1 votes

Didn't have the money (I play at a gaming cafe because I own a toaster) or the motivation to grind out of Bronze. I generally prefer Teambuilder or ARAMs.

John Berserk11/12/2014, 1:12:56 AM1 votes

I didnt make it to Gold, but I did almost make Silver III. Im rather close in LP, maybe needing just one more win to get into my promos for that.

However, my last game before the season ended wound up being probably my most well-played Nami game to date, both in terms of score and i nterms of just how generally well I played (landing bubbles, clutch heals, multi-person ults, keeping my adc and teammates alive, enabling my team to get more and more kills and objectives, etc), so that was enough for me.

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1627695673/201115609

Incognonymous11/12/2014, 1:47:27 AM1 votes

Decayed out of S3 while clearly still on a climb because Ranked is stupid, rewards are bad, and I was having far more fun in ARAM and Dominion then SR for the 1500th time.

MungoGeri11/12/2014, 2:46:07 AM1 votes

I got to gold twice this season and lost them both. The first time, I stupidly started messing around with new characters and lanes in ranked (yes, after trying them out in a few bot and normal games first) and lost enough games that I got reduced down to Silver. I fought my way back up and got to Gold V a few weeks ago and foolishly kept playing. I played a lot of the new Soraka, and although I got better and better with her and found her to be quite strong, not enough of my teammates understood how to work with her, and I lost more than I won. Combine that with a really bad run of games with afk'ers and trolls, and I lost my Gold standing a week ago. I couldn't get back to gold in time for the end of the season. Doh!

Chromatic Eagle11/12/2014, 5:42:27 AM1 votes

I can't even get out of Bronze 5. Get to Bronze 4 by some miracle, only to lose back down in part due to trolls, afkers, and ragers.

Konidias11/11/2014, 5:45:45 PM1 votes

I started playing this game in August... Jumped into ranked the moment I hit level 30. Big mistake. :P

I lost the majority of my placement matches and ended up in S5. Been clawing my way up as I learn the game ever since. Made it as high as S3 so far... My win rate is phenomenal now (hovering around 70-80%) but I only just recently started winning this much after improving over several months...

But it was just too late to climb to gold... so I am content to end with silver this season. It really doesn't matter to me because I plan on getting way past gold eventually... Even Pobelter said he started this game as a silver player, and a couple years later he has ended up with 2 accounts in the top 5 rankings in NA.

Grashnim11/12/2014, 10:01:28 PM1 votes

Better Luck Next Time.