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Finally Hit My Goal for the Season

Navarune·9/20/2016, 4:14:46 PM·4 votes·649 views

I've been aiming for Gold ever since last season where I made it to Silver 3 just before the official end of the season. It's been a windy, rocky road from Bronze 2 but I finally made it this weekend. It isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but the way I look at it is this: you can't reach the clouds without flying through the smog first. I'm slowly improving and climbing bit by bit, season by season.

And for those of you Platinum/Diamond dudes who are thinking, "hmph, scrub..." You are absolutely right! But this scrub climbed from a point he thought he was stuck at forever, so he's kinda proud of that. Besides, we all gotta start somewhere.

Hope the rest of you guys have as much luck reaching your own goals this season. Keep your head up and keep kicking! The one tip I took up this year that I think completely changed how I was thinking was this: instead of considering your goal an option, choose to think of it as an inevitability. If you are really good enough for your desired tier, you will get there.

It's not optional, it's inevitable!

16 Comments

Dukues9/20/2016, 5:44:31 PM3 votes

"If you are really good enough for your desired tier, you will get there."

Hell yea. Pretty much the way I have looked at ranked this season as well.

Went from always having a 50% win rate or even a few more losses than wins being stuck in silver to having 3 accounts this season in gold all with 53% or higher win percentages. Changing your attitude can have a large impact.

Naenia9/20/2016, 4:18:36 PM2 votes

Grats! That's awesome and I know the feeling of getting out of a place that you think it impossible to escape.

Best Kog NA9/20/2016, 4:22:21 PM2 votes

I'm just hoping for Silver this season. I already climbed from bronze 4 to bronze 2 with a consistent win rate around 60%. I'll reach Silver eventually.

Deaddorks29/20/2016, 4:26:33 PM2 votes

Nice job man, I made it to gold last season too the same way, but plat will forever be out of reach. I just cant win in this meta =\

Inquisitor Kane9/20/2016, 4:23:22 PM2 votes

Cg on gold dude. Enjoy the ugly skin you'll get :D

I wqnted to get gold for 2 seasons now. But I rather have fun in normals with friends than tryharding in rankeds.

Then dynamicQ happened and killed my mood for rankeds whatsoever.

Still I doubled the amount of rankeds that I played.... I did about 70 games this season :D

Maybe I can hit gold in next 10-20 games but I doubt I will find the will to tryhard so it'll be silver for me again I guess :)

Unless after 5 seasons of ugly skins they make something cool. Then I would go for it.

Nevertheless congrats and have a cookie. You deserve it ;)

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Lucian Waifu9/20/2016, 8:54:40 PM2 votes

After reading the commits on here I would like to say you don't have to play what is meta to win and climb. I've mained Lissandra for 18 months, have over 500 ranked games on her. She was the champ that helped me to climb to G3 last season and P5 this season, before she became meta. If you get good enough with a single champ you can out play the majority of your match ups, even the counters. I have beaten diana's, kassadin's, brand's, etc. because I understood the match up and knew Lissandra's strengths, weaknesses, and power spikes to know when to go in and when to stay back. Also practicing on your mechanics of farming and efficient poking will help you a lot as well.

Gimilee9/20/2016, 4:17:13 PM1 votes

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