by Raymond » Mon Oct 19, 2015 4:17 pm
I've been stuck in silver for around 3 years now. Maybe longer. I just can't climb out and it's infuriating me. Maybe I should just give up and save myself the frustration.
About a week before Season 4 ended, I pumped out around 10 ranked games a day in order to climb from silver 5 to gold 1 so I could at least get the border and get the fuck out of elo hell. I made it to Silver 1 the night before the season ended. I had a chance to play 3 promo matches. Unfortunately I lost the first, but won the next 2. So I went to go play my next promo, but ranked was shut down because the season just ended. The fact that I didn't make it in time sucks, but it didn't piss me off that much.
So when Season 5 started, I waited a few weeks so most of the noobies would finish their 10 ranked games and get out of promos. (So when I do promos I don't get completely new ranked players). I won 7/10 promo matches and it placed be in Bronze 1. That was the turning point. I loved this game and even accepted not making it to Gold before Season 4 ended, but after that I realized Riot's ranking system is beyond fucked. Idk why, but for months I've been playing 2-3 games a night in order to "try" getting back to Gold since I had almost a full year. I was just promoted back to Silver 2 last night after being promoted and demoted at least 12 different times.
I don't want to be that guy who says it's because of his team mates, because I am occasionally the reason why we lose. (Everyone has a bad game), but 80-90% of the time it's because my team finds it more enjoyable to come up with witty comebacks towards each other. Or when you try to give some positive feedback and ask someone (for instance jungler) to join in on the team fights, they take it the wrong way and camp jungle because a simple "hey man your doing great, but lets join up in team fights now" gets their panties in a knot.
I don't think I'll stop playing ranked. I'm kind of addicted, but riot should consider revamping its ranking system. I mean even if someone goes afk or disconnects all game and you lose a 4v5, riot pretty much says well fuck you learn to carry a 4v5, when the game is supposed to be a team game. You would think they have some preventive measure where your team doesn’t take such LP hit when 1 idiot decides he wants to afk or just has internet problems. But no Riots system sucks. I've just accepted it lately, since we all know it won't change.
Ok my rant is over, maybe I really should quit ranked. Look what it's doing to me lol.