Silver 4 ADC/Support/Mid - LF DynQ/Team - Serious/Dedicated - GOLD+ PLEASE READ
First off, I just want to say I'm not Silver 4. I know everyone has heard this story a million times, but I'm not.
I'm extremely serious, extremely skilled, and extremely dedicated. So what's your problem then? If you're so good, why are you in Silver 4?
Well Buster Brown, that's a good question, and there's a very simple answer.
I quit playing for a year at the end of Season 4. During that time I achieved:
Gold 2 - Main account Gold 5 - Smurf Silver 1 - Smurf 2 Played on a Gold ELO ranked team ( had Diamond ELO supervision, we were the B team of a diamond A team, Hybrid Theory ) Defeated Diamond tier opponents Defeated Platinum tier opponents Competed in daily tournaments Scrimmaged high ELO opponents in a Ranked Team setting
Overall Information
I've played since I was 12 years old, 6 years later I'm 18. The reason i quit at the end of Season 4 was because I thought that I was wasting my time on League, and I felt that I wanted to pursue other things. WELL THAT ALL FLEW OUT THE WINDOW!
I've played over 5,000 games, over 2,000 games as adc I recognize the difference between solo queue/dynamic and Competitive Team Play
So just carry yourself out of Silver blah blah blah
As someone who as already climbed from Bronze 5 to Gold 2, this was my first thought as well. Get to Gold then make a forums post. A couple months later, I am exhausted. THERE WAS NO DYNAMIC QUEUE IN SEASON 4. The ranked system no longer in ANY way favors solo queue players. Game after game I can perform as well as ever, and still lose due to poor matchmaking. Here's why:
This happened to me today, and sparked this forums post. Mind you, it is one of many times this has happened. Ranked is broken. I play ADC and get matched with a premade group. Each of them has ONE ranked win. My opponents all have well over 150 ranked wins. Riot is telling me that I need to carry this game to gain ELO, and that if I can't carry it I will be punished as severely as I would be rewarded if I could win it, when it has clearly given my opponents the 5 man advantage on my team across the board. I am sick and tired of throwing my heart out, my sweat, my effort into games where my teammates simply aren't putting in NEAR the same amount of quality playing time. At this point its just beyond carrying myself, I just want to speed up the process. Dynamic Queue has just destroyed solo queue carrying, it really has. I can't control whether or not I get four 12 year olds and the enemy team gets mature adults who are on skype call. Its not that I can't carry myself to Gold, its just that I would rather ENJOY DOING IT THAN PUT MYSELF THROUGH ELO HELL FOR A SECOND TIME. I want to enjoy League of Legends, and I just can't do that when I'm playing a game 50x more complex than my teammates, and my opponents NEVER ( Silver/Low Gold at the moment ) outplay me. I always win my matchup and I do not whole-heartedly wish to switch my role from ADC to something else, just because I have to rely on a random support and random premade teams to PEEL for me etc. etc. etc. However u put it Solo queue = ALL RANDOM TEAMMATES I CAN'T GUARANTEE MYSELF A CONSISTENT WIN PROBABILITY WHEN I GET THROWN INTO DYNAMIC QUEUE RATHER THAN PLAYING AGAINST SOLO QUEUE OPPONENTS/TEAMMATES and, throwing so much effort, so much time into it over and over and over, when I've already done this before, I've already been to Gold, it is so painstaking. Clearly the only thing to do, is join the dynamic queue. I just want to know that having consistently good teammates doesn't have to be a dream, this game's ranked matchmaking is so broken right now, please give me a chance.
My schedule is wide open at the moment and I am looking to play soon, all feedback is appreciated.