Currently Silver 1 and have gone into series to Gold 5 two times now. I perform extremely well in games up to promos but during promos I either tilt really hard once we start losing or just flatout have an afk (or a mixture of the two). I have climbed from Silver 5 to Silver 1 in less then a week but for some reason I feel so much pressure on me going into these promos and everything goes wrong. I'm lost, any advice?
just treat the promo games as any other ranked game
Yeah don't weigh too much on the promos. Just treat it like a normal ranked game, you want to win. If you go " omg If I don't win this I'm going to be stuck in silver forever" then of course you will perform worse as the stress will distract you.
ehh just play normal drafts for a couple days and tell a sibling to put your gametype to ranked when you aren't looking. thats how i got to gold i didnt even know i was playing ranked.
Just keep playing as best you can, and take it easy. You will win eventually. I've always had to do Silver 1 into Gold 5 promos at least 3 times to pass it.
On top of changing your mindset towards those games, like others have said, you can reduce tilt by listening to music while playing. Another thing I've done to reduce my tilt and have more fun is give my itemsets (yeah I use them...) funny names to give myself a laugh at the start of the game.
