I can now say "I am gold" but what weight does it carry?

Dukues·Dec 29, 2015·1 votes·616 views

Gold 5 0 lp. Me saying "I am gold" must mean as much to low gold or higher player as someone saying "I am silver" to me when I was in low silver games. Translates into "yea but you still suck." Or what players mean they say "I am diamond" or "i am plat" but get shrugged off by other players at that their because they are in"division 5"

O well a lot more to learn but its nice to pass a stepping stone. Maybe next season I will get gold before season ends to get those rewards. (Or be once again stuck in that hell pit they call silver 2).

13 Comments

MimyDec 29, 20151 votes

Congrats on gold dude. but if you just got it, it's a bit late to get the rewards for it. :(

BUT this will help your placements when the ranks are reset.

DukuesDec 29, 20151 votes

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Congrats on gold dude. but if you just got it, it's a bit late to get the rewards for it. :(

BUT this will help your placements when the ranks are reset.

Yea I made a push and got into gold promos the last day of season. Sadly went 0-3 in promo games :(. Even though its after the fact it is still nice to get in. Just need to have a strong start to next season so I am not stuck floating around in silver again.

MimyDec 29, 20151 votes

You might get silver at the start of the season.. but you have the skills to climb out.

Keep doing what your doing and I'm sure you'll get them.

I'm stuck in bronze.. I have no plans to get out.. I don't care about my elo. it's when people use it as an excuse to mock me..

Aside from that..

If you get gold or higher, and you lose to some people in lower elo, don't let it get to you it's what they want to happen, for you to tilt. Just remember everything you learned keep a level head and put them in their place.. Unless you have a troll on the team than you can't do anything about that...

like as soon as you die.. one or maybe 2 times.. as you walk back to lane give yourself a pep talk.. it works for me sometimes... helps you calm down.. and you end up coming back from the grave

happened to a gold on my friend list... I beat them only due to their troll support.. I feel bad.. because it's a bit demeaning... mIght 1v1 her in a custom howling for her to extract vengeance.. xD

DukuesDec 29, 20151 votes

Hey man thanks for the words of encouragement. You have the right attitude in this game is about having fun. I like to try and be "competitive" and have played this game a lot for many years. A goal of mine has always been to get gold so I am happy to finally achieve that. For the last two years my mindset was mostly "I have played this game a ton and play many champions I must not be able to get gold because my teams always suck". And although playing the game more & more does help if you stop learning or are unwilling to change then you are never going to climb higher. I finally realized that and changed my attitude at the end of the season.

Well if you are happy where you are at then no worries man. Just wanted to say you have the right attitude to climb higher so if you decide one day you want to climb I believe you can do it.

Getting out of bronze for me was all about just mechanically being better than most the players I faced. So I focused on trying to keep calm while trying to carry as hard as possible. Its not the best attitude, but getting out of bronze into silver has always seemed more about how hard one can carry. Granted, I do believe players in this game are continuing to get better and I think getting out of bronze now is harder than it was for me back in season 3.

MimyDec 29, 20151 votes

I only started in season 4, I was unranked until mid season 5, I had a diamond mentor who tried to teach me but he sadly quit.

I get competitive don't get me wrong.. and I get angry. but I manage to surpress my anger well no matter what things I wanna say in the chat.. How hard it is sometimes... xD

#There's a reason I play Teemo a lot... to express my feelings in my own dark way...

But yea, I mainly try to focous on the fun aspect. Teemo is fun.... (I'm evil..)

#Thanks for your words of encouragement

but, I think i'll stay unranked. If my friends get better around me it'll just me ill have to normal Que with them and get better as I play with and against better players all around. That's how I get better. I like getting thrown in over my head So when I fail it's like Again.. but this time... Better than before... A strive.

I was thrown into level 30 PVP at level 10 strait out of beginner bots.. I begged my friends to let me play with them.. by level 15 I was used to bronze level 30s. everyone has their ways of learning.. Mines more like throw me in the ocean and ill sink or swim.

DukuesDec 29, 20151 votes

haha yea I get that man. Damn where the f does everyone get these diamond and plat friends! I guess I generally only add people I know IRL or friends of friends, but the top player on my friends list is like gold 2. When I started most of my friends were silver or bronze so figured no one else was gold so I did not care as much. A lot of my friends got gold last season and then again at the start of this season and do not play as much anymore. I always wanted to join them but until recently I just kind of stuck around the same elo. I mean... I am not much better but I did improve enough to rank up a bit.

It would be nice being able to play with high level players over and over again. I think a lot of players just see it as punishment and don't like losing. But if you go in realizing you are probably going to get rekted but use it as a learning experience, you will only get better.

MimyDec 29, 20151 votes

He was my only plat/diamond friend.. now it's just high gold who might get plat...

Maximum MordeDec 29, 20151 votes

None, because all the cool kids play ARAM. Grats on gold tho.

DukuesDec 29, 20151 votes

Not sure why but I have never been a big fan of ARAM. Most players I know love it, its just not for me :( lol. I own almost all champions so I usually get stuck with an unfavorable aram champion while playing against the same ARAM champions over & over again, which is probably why I am not a fan.

IonianDec 29, 20151 votes

Gotta climb from there now!

DukuesDec 29, 20151 votes

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Gotta climb from there now!

haha that's the plan. Sadly probably going to drop back into silver once season 6 starts (I would think within the next month) but hopefully it does not take too long to climb out this time. I noticed last season that although I was at a roughly silver 3 elo most the players I played with were prior season gold players. The games were more fun and competitive than what I was used to. I am confident I can get back in gold and stay, just need to start improving from there.

SeedsDec 29, 20151 votes

Gold 1 is different from 5! I can give you tips if you come ask me questions! Watch my stream :)!

www.twitch.tv/ray11021

DukuesDec 29, 20151 votes

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Gold 1 is different from 5! I can give you tips if you come ask me questions! Watch my stream :)!

www.twitch.tv/ray11021

Yea man I will check it out. Busy right now though.

There is probably more than one answer to this question but what is the biggest difference you see between like plat 5 - gold 2 players and gold 4-5 players. I know my csing skills are pretty weak and to climb higher I need to get better. Not sure what other areas I need to work on.