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WTF is wrong with Silver 2??

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I’ve gotten into silver 2 about 3 times now. I don’t what problem is, maybe I’m just extremely bad or this game has cursed for not getting past silver 2. In the last 10 games I’ve played in silver 2 I’ve either had teammates that had were DC/afk or just people flaming and then starting to troll. It’s ridiculous how many times this has occurred while I’ve been trying to climb in silver 2. When I get demoted back to silver 3 I get good teams and easily go on a 4-5 game winning streak. As soon as I get to silver 2 to everything just falls to shit.

Now I understand that this is all part of the climb and farming to get your rank higher but it’s quite unnecessary if you ask me. I lose like 20 LP because people go afk, flame, or feed 10 kills in lane and the game is completely out of my control. When I started playing ranked this season I had a great start. I was placed into silver 5 and easily worked my way up into Silver 3 going undefeated in a day because I got a decent team to work with and was able to carry easily. It really makes me question how this matchmaking system works because the way some people play just doesn’t seem like they belong in this elo.

Honestly I’m not saying that I’m a pro by any means, nor am I saying that belong in something like diamond however is sucks to know I won’t be able to climb to an appropriate status because of uncontrollable factors. I have bad games too, and I don’t always have a great record in every game, but I don’t feed like 10 kills in a lane. I have a lot of room for improvement in my game and I’m acknowledging the mistakes I make and what could have been done instead to prevent those losses.

I try to stay intact with my team as much as possible, even if there are people that rage and or being toxic. I try to ignore the abuse and try to make resolve with everyone because two wrongs don’t make a right and it will just make matters worse. The community is just filled with a large immature player base that will drag you down with them no matter what you do.

Silver 2 is DA real ELO HELL!

21 Comments

Bill Gatez5 votes

Think of it like this, if you require "good" or "decent" teams in order to "carry," are you really carrying? Or are you actually the one being carried?

My point being, there's plenty of people who can carry you out of Silver, regardless of the same feeders/trolls/afk that you claim are holding you back.

I was stuck in Silver for the longest time until I learned what it actually meant to carry a team. It's about being so ridiculously impactful that you end up winning what Silver players consider to be hopelessly lost games. If you can win a 4v5, or a game where all 4 of your teammates are feeding hard, just imagine how much easier will feel when you get an even game, or easy game. You can eliminate much of the luck factor by playing at a higher level.

If you think luck is the reason for your placement on the ladder, then you're exactly where you belong. You only win when your team is better.

SwapShadows2 votes

This is so true, I got out of silver in a week then out of gold in 1 month.

Now im just having fun in ranked and playing w.e until now cause im trying to get back into plat again

This post means so much, if you can only win games when your team is better than the enemy team then you do not deserve to climb. You must improve so much that you have a impact every game no matter how bad your team is.

CoolSpot21 votes

When playing in Solo Q it is not uncommon to have 10 wins in a raw or 10 losses in a raw . Matchmaking is a big factor that determines many outcomes .

Top lane in my opinion is the hardest position to influence a game so I wouldn't pick it to climb the ladder. Where good Mid or Jungler can make a bigger impact .

Keep in mind that even best players only have 60% win rate.

The best advice I can give you is to focus on 2 roles and only play them .

Nucleophilic atk1 votes

It is luck. Just keep playing until you get lucky enough to have some good teammates in a row. Now, obviously you have to play consistently well in your games, but remember that 9 other players have much more of an impact than 1 player. I was silver 5 for the longest time. I went up to silver 1 and back down to silver 5. Everyone on the threads just trolled and "carry harder scrub", which is just a really bad argument. I went from silver 5 to my current gold 5 in about a month. Just takes a couple streaks of getting good teammates that allow themselves to be carried.

NEED FOR CH4OS1 votes

I hear you man, I was actually lucky enough to go completely undefeated in silver 5 by actually winning 8 or 9 games in row which it made me skip silver 4 and i jumped right into silver 3. Silver 3 wasn't bad, I lost a few games here and there but the climb was relatively easy, as i stated i got promoted 3 times now from silver 3.

You are right. The fact that aside from skill, you do need a good team and that just depends on getting lucky. I also have to agree with you that its really is annoying when someone just puts you down by saying "get good nub" or "carry harder scrub".

I just hope that I get a lucky streak in Silver 2 soon as the season is ending in about a month. Trying to push for at least gold 5 which will mean a lot considering that I was Bronze 3 in season 3 (my first ranked season).

Nucleophilic atk2 votes

Gold 5 is by far worse tho. Everyone knows that they aren't going to get into plat, so they just dick around. first time champs in ranked, troll builds, sion, etc. It is very frustrating lol. At least some people in silver like to try to win.

NEED FOR CH4OS1 votes

Sounds pretty frustrating. It doesn't really matter to me though, because if I do hopefully get into gold 5 this season I will stop playing ranked and just chill in normals until the new season begin. Trying to snag those rewards.

Nucleophilic atk1 votes

Yea, I've been playing a lot of normals too. I still occasionally play ranked, but know that I am not getting to Plat by the time the season ends while going to pharmacy school. Really sad that I finally reached gold and the skin is Morgana -_- I hate her lol.

NEED FOR CH4OS1 votes

Kind of pointless as she's always instabanned in ranked lol.

The Chin1 votes

Yeah I'm in silver as well. I have a friend in diamond who said something interesting... Apparently he's been paid to help people climb divisions, anyways;

He said climbing out of silver is more about luck than anything.

In silver your teammates are more likely to feed a bunch of kills, which can make it almost impossible to carry no matter how skilled you are. But it can happen on either team so it's kind of up to chance whether it's your team or not.

H1ghspeedGG1 votes

Yeah I'm in silver as well. I have a friend in diamond who said something interesting... Apparently he's been paid to help people climb divisions, anyways;

He said climbing out of silver is more about luck than anything.

In silver your teammates are more likely to feed a bunch of kills, which can make it almost impossible to carry no matter how skilled you are. But it can happen on either team so it's kind of up to chance whether it's your team or not.

definitely not luck, if it were then elo boosting wouldnt be so lucrative.

The Chin1 votes

If you're a diamond player and can crush every game with your superior mechanics, then you're right it's not luck.

But I meant for players who are not smurfing, winning in silver is mostly just the luck of the draw.

Hypochondria91 votes

Silver 1-2 is just one side stomping the other most of the time.

soccerdude971 votes

This. I have the same problem. All I ask for is Gold V by the end of the season. This post is how I feel right now. Silver 3 or low is ez, now I'm floating around Silver 1/2 and going down. I heard Silver 1 and 2 are quite the grind... I'm just gonna keep playing. (And keep an eye on this post for tips! :P )

NEED FOR CH4OS1 votes

Ya I'll let you know what ever can be of help.

5xk8bWHDJL1 votes

Silver 2/3 players seem so bad, and ofc toxic. The toxicity of Silver 2s, 1s, and Gold Vs are to the extreme. Sure their mechanics and gameplay suck, but their attitude is that of a 12 year olds. So, once you get into Silver 2, you will be placed with Gold Vs most likely and you will encounter even more toxicity and noobs with 1500 wins at 0 LP. Oh did i mention Gold V 0 LP 3000 games players are super common? I'd rather duo queue with a bronze V with 0 LP and 2000 wins. Im thinking of buying a boost just like most Gold V's and Plat V's have, then i'll call myself good too and put my teammates down every game.

HashTagForeverStuckInSilver2&3BoostMe2GoldLikeMostGoldsHaveDoneWithTheirAccounts

I should know, i have two accounts in silver 2 and i honestly think i had better teams when i climbed out of bronze earlier in the season, and i had better teams in silver v even when i was stuck at 0 lp

NovemberrRose1 votes

Silver is an absolute joke. I go ~20-2-X most games because of how bad people are. If you can't get out, it's because you don't deserve to.

5xk8bWHDJL1 votes

Silver is an absolute joke. I go ~20-2-X most games because of how bad people are. If you can't get out, it's because you don't deserve to.

So we deserve all the AFKs? We deserve toxic players/bitching players every game? How is it our fault that 3 die before we even clear our 2 jungle buffs? How is it our fault that we help as much as possible but people have no brain at all? How is it that we have perfect games, but yet people give up because theyre 0-10 and sit at fountain buying wards? How is it our fault we get queued with autistic monkeys and we play against a team thats is exceptionally good and cooperates with each other and enjoys the game? How do we control players dying to 1 v 4's when the enemy team passed through 3 wards we placed? How do we control the mid laners that SEE the enemy jungler in the bush that wejust warded and still continue to farm after a good 10 seconds when they have no summoners?

Many people deserve to be Gold, but people get teams that should be in Silver V or lower and they get teams that have players that should really, really, go jump off a bridge because they are so MISERABLE and make others toxic. No we should not have to mute them because they should not be miserable in the first place, or at least playing when they are mad. There should be 0 tolerance for toxic players because they should not exist. Why should our lazy asses have to: hit tab and right click 4 mute buttons? Thats 4 cs. Worrying about 4 idiots should be our last concern. Why should our lazy asses have to: hit enter then type in /ignore all? Many of us have supported Riot by purchasing RP, so shouldnt we at least get a half decent community to play with? The toxic/unskilled players should not have been queued with us in the first place. Riot should make the unskilled player button worth something..

NEED FOR CH4OS1 votes

This ^

5xk8bWHDJL1 votes

Let us SIlver 2/3 experts unite and purchase elo boosts like the majority of Plat and Gold Vs! That way we can brag like them and disrespect teammates every game and not give a flying kite because "Im Plat/Gold, ur silver u suk, look at ur cs/kda, its better than mine, but u suk, ur noob cuz i say so and i am adc main bitch, 1v1 me, youll never get out of SIlver HAHA NOOB"

Yeah i'll never get out of silver cuz of dem scrubs. Confirmed, boosting 3 accounts to lvl 30 and having all 3 stuck at silver 2 after 50+ games, elo hell exists, even with perfect games with high KDA Ratios, CSing, Warding, etc.

NEED FOR CH4OS1 votes

I knew this post would attract those cocky players that would just say "carry harder". If that's the case they must be playing at an amazing god like level to be able to carry games where there are players bitching, going afk and giving 10-15 kills in lane and still win.

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