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Stop assuming you are bad if you are low rank

ZergReap·8/21/2015, 12:17:56 AM·137 votes·9,883 views

If you are in bronze / silver even gold don't let it get you down. You can beat a plat player if you are silver, it's not like they are invincible. If you let yourself think you are automatically an inferior player it might stop you from improving at all (the self-fulfilling prophecy). From what I've seen, the majority of players don't end up higher then silver their first year or two anyway. If someone is "better" than you chances are they have just played the game longer or made better use of their time.

EDITED: Well since I was borderline ranting with this It's nice to see how positive and informative everyone is. Lots of good posts for anyone who plays ranked often.

EDIT-2: I just like to see other players who spend a lot of time on League, but struggled to get anywhere (like myself) start climbing and improving, as corny as it sounds. Lots of others simply want them to feel bad cause they are lower rank and that they suck for whatever reason. Losing badly on League sucks more than losing at any other sport or video I've ever played. It's unrealistic and cheesy, but I wish everyone could just chill, so I don't have to mute half of the players I meet and low ranks don't feel like it's pointless to keep playing, not even for fun. Just my final thought, I spent way too much time on this today, so I'm out. (I might check back in a couple days if this is still up).

130 Comments

Sniper 08/21/2015, 2:09:06 AM38 votes

Op is trying to be a positive influence on the community and people are downvoting him... lol

IcyPepper8/21/2015, 8:09:44 AM25 votes

No, OP. I am bad.

"I am bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me."

http://33.media.tumblr.com/fb2d669db0379ff66da9c3a00266509f/tumblr_mi1akq8TSY1r3tpp2o1_500.gif

gubigubi8/21/2015, 7:55:34 AM8 votes

When I was silver I thought I was good. Now I am plat and I think I am bad. When I am diamond maybe I will know?

disregardable8/21/2015, 12:21:12 AM8 votes

But you are bad ._. You're so bad that Rito completely ignores you when making balance decisions.

Blade of Justic8/21/2015, 7:37:46 PM7 votes

Wait a minute!

Am I seeing this correctly!?

Rubs eyes in astonishment

Someone actually posted a thread that says that just because you're bronze/silver doesn't mean that you're lowly human trash with a double digit IQ that will amount to nothing in life!?

AND PEOPLE UPVOTED IT!?

AM I SURE I'M ON THE LOL FORUMS!?

This almost seems human and decent!

Torenthal8/21/2015, 2:07:39 AM4 votes

This is true. Don't overestimate your opponent! If you decide to play safe in lane because you are scared of losing just because they are a higher rank you WILL lose.

This is why it's not so great to check lolnexus or such sites because you will either become overconfident of underconfident.

Loken Stoneheart8/21/2015, 12:40:59 PM4 votes

I mean, to be honest a far better attitude/view is actually: I am bad at the game, but I have the potential to improve if I seek to better myself.

Objectively, if you're lower rank, there is a distinct chance that you're just... well, worse at the game.

There is that whole 40/20/40 theory that does a decent enough job explaining how soloqueue sorta goes. Something like 40% are lost by your team, 40% are lost by the enemy team, 20% are directly your responsibility. In soloqueue, its all about influencing those so called 20% as much as possible.

Just work at improving and don't get hung up on blaming your team, more or less. You'll climb eventually.

MajorPain98/22/2015, 12:03:24 AM3 votes

I disagree. I climbed up out of that area because I finally excepted I WAS bad at this game. Mind you gold isn't going to be getting any streams, but because I was able to take a deep breath and realize that I was making a lot of mistakes was when I started seeing improvements.

It's OK to be bad at this game. Hell I have some noob moments still to this day. Realizing you are bad can give you a gift of peace. You suddenly don't care as much if your team berates you for a bad mistake.

Being good isn't what helps you climb elo. It's being bad and fixing why you are playing that way.

Ramuhdo8/21/2015, 10:01:11 PM3 votes

I managed to reach Silver I, and I started the game in February. Trying real hard to get to Gold. The attitude that's working for me to is to always assume your team mates are at the rank they are because they deserve to be there. Are they getting beaten? It's not that your team is horrible or bad, it's just that the enemy team is better, and that happens. Sometimes, I'll be up against players who are simply better, or our team work just isn't as good, or the champions we picked weren't the right ones.

And that happens. It's OK when that happens. I only need a 50% winrate to keep climbing, going to 60% for promos.

As far as "you're not bad because you're Silver", I always think it's a good idea to look at what players in higher divisions do or ask players who've reached higher divisions for advice. Maybe I'm just as good as they are (and when I play Normals, my MMR games are around ~1450 lately, versus ~1250 Ranked), but they managed to reach their divisions for a reason. There's stuff they've done that helped them climb, and it's a good idea to listen to them.

Getting to Silver I was disgusting though, I got carried on my last promotion game. Like, carried hard, I played like garbage. I'm still beating myself up over that. It's OK to recognise when your play is garbage, so long as you're willing to improve and remember that rank is a reflection of your current standing, not your current skill.

Trumpet8/21/2015, 7:28:03 PM2 votes

Better use of their time. http://cdn.meme.am/instances/400x/47403844.jpg

Count Buffon8/21/2015, 7:33:43 AM2 votes

Nature/nurture is a really fiddly thing. But people definitely start out waaaaaay below their potential. Most of us probably won't make it to the LCS no matter what, but if you're not dedicated, then you're playing below your ceiling for sure, wherever that ceiling is.

Read about Remilia a little after Renegades earned the LCS spot. She started Gold, and more or less climbed one division per season. That's kind of slow.

Chatillon8/21/2015, 1:46:04 PM2 votes

Im silver and i fight a plat every once in a while.

OH, HOW I LOVE A GOOD FIGHT AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

Hashtag anime

KingWanahakalugi8/21/2015, 3:35:14 PM2 votes

All my friends that I play with are ranked Plat or Gold. I rank mid-low silver just because I choose not to play ranked queues most of the time. I know I'm against a gold or plat most of the time, but I don't let it affect my play style. In fact, I rather play against higher ranked players, because laning against other silvers just seems easy for me now. I used to look at what the other player across from me ranked, but I've decided it doesn't matter and my game have improved because of it. If seeing how the other player ranks affects your game, simply stop looking at it you'll do much better if you stop worrying about the other person and just work on improving yourself.

FistOfSharkiesha8/21/2015, 5:30:07 PM2 votes

I just carried a 4v5 and I'm sil 3 and I consider myself to be a pretty bad laner but a good jungler. Went 23/6 with Jax and won. Our adc never even connected.

ArkenStorm8/21/2015, 6:16:11 PM2 votes

OP is not saying you are better than everyone else. He is just saying that you have potential, you can always improve, no matter what others say.

Zyorhist8/21/2015, 8:02:16 PM2 votes

many higher ranked people will say that the difference between bronze and gold is simply cs/min and communication. Those two things can cause you to rank up. Unfortunately I suck at cs so i'll be bronze forever

agbudar8/21/2015, 11:34:11 PM2 votes

been playing since 2011

my goal initially when divisions first came out was to get to gold thats were i felt my true rank lies but ive been silver ever since.

pretty sad how with the Season 4 > 5 they made me drop from silver 3-2 down to bronze 1

now im back in silver 3 and taking a break... if they drop me down again ima stop playing ranked and this game.

30% of my losses are due to stupid disconects ragers and afk.

that means that if none of that ever happened i would have been gold long ago just that the system allows itself to be flawed.

i know that im better then the average silver player by a long shot (especially if you see how the bottom of the barrel performs) would i get higher then gold? i doubt it but i want to be recognized for my skills and this system won't let that happen. it judges my ability to suffer raging trolls and dc's. for at least 30% of the time.

ToothpickSamurai8/22/2015, 1:30:12 AM2 votes

I believe the most discouraging thing in League is the fact that everyone in Bronze/Silver are being held there by either 1/100 players being idiots and forcing a loss on people with terrible play, or people being plat and diamond smurfing making for a very imbalanced game because, even though you might be a decent player they are actually pretty good in their own right otherwise they wont be Plat or Diamond. Smurfing causes so many problems cause it gives one team a huge advantage cause they have one better player in the midst of 9 potentially decent players. Smurfing also leads to discouragement cause some of those smurfs are silly full of themselves and make fun of you struggling against their better mechanics.

Low elo really is just a place where pure potential exists but they are being held their by others who are either actually bad or much better than the rank they are in and are just smurfing.

Furi Kuri8/22/2015, 6:56:33 PM2 votes

ROFL!

Jeƒƒ Goldblum9/2/2015, 4:39:11 PM1 votes

We need more people like you in this game, super positive and I love it. Keep it up friend! ^_^

calicko kitty8/22/2015, 10:01:06 PM1 votes

As a silver with +1040 wins in normal games I always play with and against people of higher rank and I always do fine and win lanes. So when I play ranked the enemies and teammates are worse

WolfChases8/22/2015, 10:27:28 PM1 votes

I saw countless silvers and golds beating high platinum and even low diamond players.

The main problem is a bad mindset tho. A lot of "Low" Elo players are playing like pussycats when they are facing higher rank in laning phase. For example, I am lurking between high Gold and low Platinum Elo, few days ago I Played Zed (my main) and I got matched against Diamond 3 Ekko who had Champ lvl 5 Mastery on Ekko and I annihilated him. I am not saying that I am better player, maybe he performed badly that game or whatever but there's still high possibility that you are gonna win even against higher Elo players.

How many Silvers I saw beating to the ground platinums in bot lane :O Will always remember that Silver 2 Jinx and unranked Thresh pooping on Platinum 3 Graves and Gold 1 Blitzkrank :D

stickydubby8/22/2015, 3:42:13 PM1 votes

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If you are in bronze / silver even gold don't let it get you down. You can beat a plat player if you are silver, it's not like they are invincible. If you let yourself think you are automatically an inferior player it might stop you from improving at all (the self-fulfilling prophecy). From what I've seen, the majority of players don't end up higher then silver their first year or two anyway. If someone is "better" than you chances are they have just played the game longer or made better use of their time.

EDITED: Well since I was borderline ranting with this It's nice to see how positive and informative everyone is. Lots of good posts for anyone who plays ranked often.

EDIT-2: I just like to see other players who spend a lot of time on League, but struggled to get anywhere (like myself) start climbing and improving, as corny as it sounds. Lots of others simply want them to feel bad cause they are lower rank and that they suck for whatever reason. Losing badly on League sucks more than losing at any other sport or video I've ever played. It's unrealistic and cheesy, but I wish everyone could just chill, so I don't have to mute half of the players I meet and low ranks don't feel like it's pointless to keep playing, not even for fun. Just my final thought, I spent way too much time on this today, so I'm out. (I might check back in a couple days if this is still up).

down voting because i can 1v1 me but you call me trash because i lose...reaps carry me bby <3