Not too long ago I finally had my victory on the fields of justice by being promoted to Gold V, something I have wanted since starting my ranked journey. It is also the completion of said journey. I just thought I would share some of thoughts along the way.
I am a Bot lane main but probably close to 99% of the games I played were at Support, which is my favourite position anyway. I find it the role that can best set a team up for success. Whatever lane you aren’t in can feed, but with Support I found that I was predominantly focused on the game as a whole.
In the void that having to cs left me, I had my time free to watch the minimap to call every missing player and every time the enemy jungler appeared. Transitioning out of laning phase, I would ping waves that pushed beyond halfway and try and herd the suicidal lemmings of SoloQ to take objectives and snowball a game to victory.
This is all fine in theory, but the nature of SoloQ is that between the feeders and afker’s and games you just get smashed in, there is roughly 30% of games you simply cannot win. It was about accepting those losses without allowing them to tilt me and focus on the games where a victory is possible. Also in those losses, to not change your game or champion, my highest win rate was with Morgana, the temptation to change to a champion I’m worse at after a loss or two really was tempting but would have only increased the likelihood of mistakes and more losses.
One thing I have found about Silver is that people do not know how to win. Or rather, they know the theory but are unable to remember and act upon it in the heat of the moment. The temptation to chase kills and tower dive almost always overwhelms the need to gather the unpushed wave so we can take towers and inhibs, fill their jungle with wards, back and go to Baron.
I will not be trying to grind my way through Gold to Diamond. The nature of the ranked system means you are punished for so many things that are out of your own personal control. I never really understood why my personal MMR falls when I lose a 4v5 because someone AFK’s.
League of Legends is probably my favourite game. League of Legends played with 4 friends over Discord is a beautiful game. SoloQ however is far more like counselling children to not give up or be mean to each other.
Good Luck of the Fields of Battle.
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