Silver is just a shiny Bronze

InMemoryofAxel·10/26/2014, 1:43:37 AM·2 votes·1,389 views

So apparently it is possible to single handedly carry your way out of Silver just like Bronze, but seemingly more and more often people don't want to win. They literally give up before the game gets going and start throwing themselves at the enemy and practically spoon feeding kills to the enemies. Now I know it's fair game that every team can have those, but lately I feel if I screw up and make any mistake I can't do anything for my team because they're worse off than me, on the other hand my enemies seem to pick up on even one mistake. I feel the odds against me, I'm slowly climbing, but there's always these types of games to derail me, what should I do, what can be done.

7 Comments

Xonra10/26/2014, 1:57:09 AM1 votes

Yeah I can agree it is just a polished turd...but you know what they say about a polished turd, it is still a turd.

Went 4/0/6 on ziggs with by far the most farm on both teams

Lost because I had a bot lane with about 15 deaths a piece and less than 3 kills between the two of them.

Go 16/5 on yorick, lose because jungle goes 1/10 and bot starts trolling and got like 18 deaths.

No one in Silver can adc is mostly the issue. The problem isn't just Silver and Bronze the problem is the Meta that relies far too heavily on ADC.

Every game I play is won or lost depending on how the ADC does, usually the game is lost more than won by them but they control the outcome far more than they ever should for one role.

Chewbacca Merkin10/26/2014, 3:52:30 AM1 votes

Yorick isnt a late game champ, and its easy to farm on ziggs. Basically, I stopped reading here because you dont understand the game,

It's about carrying the games that are carryable.

God Mode Enabled10/26/2014, 6:16:04 AM1 votes

always pick vayne, learn how to use her ult / roll combo right to push people, learn how to use her E properly

sit back and laugh your way to plat

up to plat, no one knows how to handle good vayne players... no one

UnicornPurple10/26/2014, 6:17:10 AM1 votes

duo queue helps a lot.

if you and the other person have good synergy it feels like easy mode, lol.

i got stuck at silver 3 for a second, had a good game with our support, he added me to his friends list and we both were gold 5 within a matter of days with very few games that felt like we couldn't easily carry.

DexterousGecko10/26/2014, 6:24:32 AM1 votes

hmm, i was thinking about the whole "no one can adc in silver" thing. It also seems like no one in Silver or Bronze knows how to protect an adc either. I always see silver and bronze people just chasing kills, ignoring the guy jumping on their adc, etc. It's more like no one really knows what top, mid, adc, support and jungle are even supposed to really do at my skill level.

TehomCD10/26/2014, 7:39:39 AM1 votes

Games always feel like they're a tossup when you're basically being matched against people who are the same skill level as you or a bit below. Games can usually be easy or hard based on champ select, where people might happen to get the roles they want while the other team has a bunch of people who could really only play one role well and get forced onto things they're bad at, or whether bans just happen to take away someone's best champion while something strong gets through that someone is good at. Then you throw in more random factors like someone who decides to troll, random 4v5s or 3v5s based on internet problems, and more, and it might seem like a lot of games are completely out of your hands - which is true if you aren't so much better than the people you're matched against that you can win games that are completely stacked against you. So the only long-term path to victory is just getting better enough where you can start to win in horribly unlucky situations.

Ultimately the only thing you can control is yourself, so it's just practical to focus on self-improvement and learning from any mistakes you made, even if they weren't really relevant in that specific game's outcome.