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My Acceptance into Bronze.

Prior of the Ori·1/27/2015, 9:50:33 AM·7 votes·2,008 views

Honestly I don't know why I'm righting this. I suppose mostly because I'm bored, tired, and about to go to bed and this crossed my mind.

I started playing roughly about a year ago today and I have loved the game ever since. I started playing ranked matches about 6 months into the game and I started off in S4, it was a rough climb as I would sometimes make it up to S2 then just get a series of terrible games that would put me all the way back down into S5 but I learned so much more about the game and all its little mechanics. When I heard that Victorious Morgana was going to be this years Victory Skin I just HAD to get to Gold. Before finding this out however I'll mention quickly that Morgana is my absolute favorite champion and not because I play support. I literally (no joke) played Morgana Mid for 4 months straight. (Not including ARAM matches ofcourse.) I wanted to master it like no other. I know it's actually a pretty common pick/role but I just had to master it, master every possible match up and every mechanic I could. At this point I can confidently say I am EXTREMELY good at it, so I just HAD to have that skin. I pushed my self hard climbing from the depths of S5 all the way back up to S1. I was just on the edge of Gold 5 when the LCS ended. It was pretty devastating but honestly I got over it pretty quickly since I couldn't stand to play matches seeing others with the skin and not my self so I started playing other champs and other roles. I pretty much only played Mid or Sup till now. Admittedly I was one of those players that was kind of like "Mid only or feed" (Not literally but it was upsetting). But it really opened my eyes and I started to practice other champions and roles I never would have thought I could get into. I still avoid most AD Melee types with a passion but mostly because that kind of play style doesn't appeal to me in general.

But more to the point, unfortunately, when the season ended completely I was 96lp from my G5 promos and when I had to do placements the matches wen't so bad and I can promise a majority of them I did really well personally in but lots of feeding from other players and AFK/DC cost me 6 of those matches. I am now officially in Bronze1 for the first time and it was a huge mood killer. I noticed significant difference in the type of players I get stuck with and it's crazy. It's so hard to try to climb out or carry any match with people that are so bad, I mean this in an overall kind of way, not just skill, and don't get me wrong either I am no perfect player. Sometimes I make mistakes or get outplayed too but definitely not as much as some of the folks I have seen in Bronze. I am no pro and I will not even claim to be close to one and that's kind of why I'm writing this. I recently failed my promos into S5 and I had sort of an epiphany. I know most of the well known professionals didn't get that good quickly, or even in a year or two. I know most of them have been playing since the beginning of the game its self, so I'm going to stop worry about my rank and use this opportunity in Bronze to play with some of the worst people ever and I don't expect to make any significant change this year because I know that it could take me even a couple more years to pit my skills with some of the most talented folks in League. For this is the first game I have ever gotten competitive in a game and I really enjoy it, so I will make it my long term goal to hopefully become considered "professional" one day. But until then I will use this "Elo hell" to learn and grow stronger so I can emerge way better and ready to take on them higher ranks. So you know what, I'm happy to be in Bronze because it's going to be my ticket to Challenger and I don't care what any of you say.

Hope to see you on the fields of Justice! -A Prior of the Ori..

29 Comments

Nyx901/27/2015, 1:53:48 PM4 votes

yeah... i was in S3 bouncing around silver all year. I won 7/10 of my placements and carried a few of them. I got placed in bronze 5. I am kinda putting off playing again because of that bullshit. Why is you won more than half of your games, would you be placed lower than where you were to start? Especially when 1 of the 3 lost included an afk that got reported

MugyvrNinja1/27/2015, 10:04:31 AM3 votes

Im not mad about being dropped to bronze at all I am able to take what I learned in silver and play it in bronze I see my progress as a player in this and I am stateside #Iain'tworriedaboutnothing

Luner Hunter1/27/2015, 9:57:16 AM3 votes

i'm not sure if rito has hit you over the head too hard and now your just slinking back to bronze where they say you should be, or if your really okay with being fucked over by the new shit MMR ranked system, but from High Silver to Bronze is a bullshit drop... a bit like what just happened to me... 1500 MMR Silver 5 ONLY played my placements... droped to Bronze 3 940 MMR... how the fuck does this shit happen and rito doe-never mind i forgot its cuz we're not challanger it doesn't matter if we get fucked over by the rank system... >.>

Remunial1/27/2015, 2:32:05 PM2 votes

Bronze 1 isn't too shabby. You'll be back to silver in no time and on your way towards gold promos again. This time you'll have the experience from last season as well as more time to actually make it to gold. You have a good attitude about your placement in bronze though, so that's a refreshing change from what I normally see on here. Good luck!

Janna Windgale1/27/2015, 10:46:31 AM2 votes

My friend, you deserve any rank you desire to have in this world Show all those bastards out there what you can, that's the only thing you can do to make a change.

"You wish to change, what you want to change in the world, so start at yourself" My friend go on the battlefield and show them what you can!

ftftfftftftf1/27/2015, 11:01:11 AM2 votes

I was Silver 3 last season and got placed in Bronze 4. :/ I did have a pretty bad ending to the season though so my mmr was probably garbo. It's pretty depressing tbh, especially since I know I'm not a bad player and I know my knowledge of the game is so far ahead of the players in Bronze and Silver. I can carry because I have single handedly carried a team to victory before, but sometimes it's just too much. It's hard to really improve in low elo because they just don't have the knowledge or mechanics. They don't know how to play so there's nothing to learn from. I can't leave this elo either because one bad move from anyone on the team, me included, ends up in the enemy team fed and snowballing because of the fact that, well, it's bronze/silver. I understand the mistakes I make, I know not to make them again, but most of the players I get matched up with don't. I'll have a support who doesn't know how to trade or how to engage and when I do, knowing we can win, they won't follow up. Idk it's just a mess lol. So much more to write but tired lolz. They just don't understand the game.

Prior of the Ori1/27/2015, 6:59:37 PM1 votes

Wow, my story has the most views and comments on the front page.... Nothing like has ever happened to me before. :) Thanks for the conversation guys and not being a dicks. Which is sadly all to common in this community lol.

Bresn1/27/2015, 7:04:01 PM1 votes

According to somebody, we're getting booted down because Rito wants to give us a LP boost to promo ourseleves into the proper rank.

Dropping so low has broken us and discouraged us. And we have to carrying shitty Bronze Fives?

Riot : YOUR PRE-SEASON RANK WILL AFFECT S5

Everybody powerhouses and DROPS below their S4 and Pre-season rank.

#HashTag RiotPlacementFailure

Spread ^

KlNG ACE1/27/2015, 7:42:59 PM1 votes

bronze 1 isnt that bad, you will get gold someday dw. :)

Hellkite Drake421/28/2015, 1:10:24 AM

so i started last season in s1 at just over 90, 6 months later i sign on to league and i'm B1, i accepted it, i mean i was gone for 6 months. So i began the climb back to S1. Wasn't easy, i did lose a lot of my skill but just after the lcs ended i got back in silver. so firmly in S5 then the ranking resets. when i finished my placement i had 6 wins. i go in figuring s5 at least then BOOM bronze 2. BRONZE 2, like da fuq? im a support main with thresh and leo, with skill in jg with mao and vi, how do you carry with that?