Stuck in Platnium 3-4? Advice?

DesmondKaii·6/29/2015, 4:40:29 PM·1 votes·1,090 views

About 2 weeks ago, I was ranked around bronze 1 to silver 5, but started watching streams, and really putting effort into improving and instantly climbed to platinum 5, then 4, then 3 but now its all just stopped. I know it wasn't just luck because I was carrying every game, however something has just changed.

I can't seem to land a kill on my lane opponent as easily as I used to, and im having a hard time keeping up with my team at times in terms of "game sense". I want to start winning games again and get to diamond, but im just not sure what i can do to improve anymore, in the last 2 weeks it feels as if i have improved as much as I possibly can.

In many games my team is visibly feeding, but i always think "man if I only was as fed as I usually am, i could totally carry this" but im not.

I main mid btw. Its the only thing play. If i dont get mid I just play him in another role, even support.

11 Comments

ShuffledPancake6/29/2015, 4:45:24 PM1 votes

Its cause you are as good-slightly worse then your enemies. idek

Live2LetDie6/29/2015, 5:06:05 PM1 votes

Think of it like this. D5 is known as the resting place of players who are good enough to get there but not good enough to play against the other diamonds. This makes it so p2-d5 is heavily populated with alot of competent players(ones that know how to cs, ward, keep objectives, etc..) and alot of really good players(Know how and when to end a game) that could be placed higher. This leads to players having to have a higher skill cap from lower plat to the higher ones. Just keep cracking at it.

BluePolarizer6/29/2015, 5:58:57 PM1 votes

You are a one trick pony and thus if you pick wukong into a sub optimal comp or bad matchup, you are going to have a bad time.

Drunk Rummate6/29/2015, 6:31:08 PM1 votes

Platinum is about the top 10% of players so you've essentially reached a point where you won't climb unless you can improve on mechanics that most players don't even know exist.

That's just how percentile based ranking works. Once you get towards the top it gets a lot harder to climb as quickly.

George LS6/29/2015, 8:15:49 PM1 votes

"About 2 weeks ago, I was ranked around bronze 1 to silver 5 ... snip ....... instantly climbed to platinum 5, then 4, then 3"

my honest opinion is that this is major Alistar
you either troll, or expect people to pm you on how you did it so you can advertise some elo boosting site or something like that

FeelingBlack6/29/2015, 8:18:38 PM1 votes

I wrote this earlier today, you can go and read it, it really will help you a lot. http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/tips-tricks/5AXqMAEl-the-one-thing-you-always-forget-that-holds-you-back-from-climbing-the-ladder

Genuwhine6/30/2015, 2:44:57 AM1 votes

farm more. work on getting objectives and pushing advantages. basic stuff i stomped through plat 5 to plat 1 by farming super good and being stronger than everyone