I've been stuck in Silver 3 for a while now. It seems almost every game has a smurf. How do I not get slaughtered by them, or is it just part of the climbing process to get murdered by players who are significantly better than you playing in lower matchmaking?
That's how you get better. For example I was stuck in gold 5 for about a month, then decided to just play normal team builder and I would constantly get matched up against plats and diamonds, even the odd master tier player. You get use to how they play and what they do after awhile and start doing those things yourself. After about maybe 100 games of this I went back to ranked and went from gold 5 to gold 2 in about 3 days. Now I'm at plat and my climbing is prob over for the season. Just gonna practice more for the next.
If you're getting matched with higher people chances are you earned it. MMR and rank are different I think. I haven't looked much in to it but if you're playing against smurfs like that then chances are you play as well as them unless they just sucked or bought a bronze account
I don't run into that many smurfs. A lot of times its just a really bad player feeding the enemy early. It doesn't take much skill to be a 5-0 vayne or a 4-0 zed against a feeder yasuo and then just run over a bad enemy team comp.
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