Diary of a Noob
Hello there, my name is Ray. I am a bronze noob that is fairly new to league. I would like to share my thoughts on the game and record my progress. I thought this would be a good way to do so. I intend to write down my experiences, rants, and opinions on this thread as well as update it frequently with my progress in climbing ELO (or lack thereof).
- Disclaimer: I am a pretty bad player. Be wary of taking any advice from me written here and please go easy on me. I recognize that I am terrible and am striving to improve. I am also new to the boards. If I have placed this thread in the wrong category or broken a rule, alert me to it.
Day 1:
RANK: BRONZE 4, 38 LP
Today I played quite a few games. I did fairly well. I had an awful game in which I fed as Trundle, fortunately that was not ranked. I think I will stay away from Trundle. I don't know what I am doing with him. I went 2/12. Truly, I think it was the worst game I have ever played and feel embarrassed about it. After that though, once I was ready to take another crack at league, I played some ranked games. I did very well in both. I played support Blitzcrank, and went 9/4/6. we won that game by a landslide. Afterwards, I played blue Ezreal and finished 13/3/24. It was my first time playing ADC in a long while so I started off shaky but later in the game, after the Muramana power-spike, I really began to carry. Adc and support are not typical roles for me so I was surprised that I did so well both games. I am now a third of the way through bronze 4.
I was thinking about it, and I don't believe in this stupid idea that it is only luck that gets you out of bronze at all. Some players on my team and enemy team seem to constantly blame their afks and feeding team for their not being able to climb out of bronze. This is a little frustrating to me as it is illogical. If you do not afk, feed, or troll, and you play well, then overtime you will climb out of low elo. That is indisputable. I have, however, decided that ELO hell exists in the sense that bronze is a very tiresome place to be. It is riddled with awful, awful people, both in terms of skill and... well... ability to disregard the emotions of your fellow man? Again though, that doesn't mean a skilled player can't climb out, and a part of becoming a skilled player is ACCEPTING that you are not a skilled player so you can improve.
SO, to all of my companions down here in bronze, to the people on my friends list, STOP blaming your team. We are here because we are bad. Focus on getting better. I watch all of the pro matches and am constantly attempting to get better at the game in any way I can. It is working.
On another unrelated rant-thing, I have noticed something strange about bronze. Everyone and their mother demands you "group" at all times. For example, I will play Shaco (one of my favorite champs because nobody knows how to deal with his counter jungling and ganks) and build hydra and shiv, some really great items for pushing. I will then go off to top or bot lane with wards and begin taking towers. When I split push with these items late game, I am very effective in both creating a distraction as well as destroying objectives. My team however, will constantly ping me back and demand that I group. Why do people do this? I am way more effective in splitting than I am in fighting. The best I can do is hit an E here and there, or maybe clean up a kill afterwards in a teamfight. If I get lucky enough to have a dumb enemy ADC that is out of position, I can also probably take them out, but that is a rare occurrence. Here in bronze nobody seems to understand what split pushing is. Perhaps they just underestimate it's value. Of course, I am a bronze player too so maybe I am the idiot. I don't know. Either way, I have given up on split pushing champs for these reasons. I now usually just pick really good teamfighters. I can usually guarantee a fight win with a malphite ult placed at the right spot. He is an easier champ anyway.
Stay tuned for the next diary entry.
