Climbing isn't really that hard. I just started playing again about 1.5 months ago since I stopped last season. I was Plat 2 last season, and got placed in Silver 3. I am currently Gold 1 63LP with 44 games played.

I just spammed Jungle Gragas and have a 65% win rate. As long as you play smart, don't feed, win your lane and dominate the game you will climb.

Good players win the games you are supposed to win, and win some of the games they are supposed to lose. You don't have to be a mechanic god to get into Gold, or even Plat. High mechanics are needed in High Diamond and above. Just by building the correct items and farming correctly you will be richer than your opponents in Silver/Bronze/Gold.

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Posted by Drewbie

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Member since Jun 2012

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Posted on 9/20/17 at 5:55 pm to Taffeta

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As long as you play smart, don't feed, win your lane and dominate the game you will climb.

Figured that out myself. Took my account from over 40 games below .500 hardstuck silver 5 to 18 lp silver 2 and nearly back to 50% winrate in a week. Just forcing myself to greed less has changed everything. That and getting small doses of gold/plat elo playing games with momo and translating the pressure in those games into silver has been freelo. The random 7 game Lee Sin winstreak didn't hurt either.

Been winning at about a steady 65% clip for about a week.
ETA: 62% over my last 63 games, apparently.

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Posted by dcrews

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Member since Feb 2011

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Posted on 9/20/17 at 9:35 pm to Taffeta

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As long as you play smart, don't feed

False.

Again, I don't even know how skilled my teammates are in most games because we are down double digit kills in the first 10 minutes. I'm not saying I deserve any certain rank, but I just need my teammates to not be inbred retarded.

I don't need them to carry, get fed or win lane hard. I literally only need my teammates to not be 100% pure trash. I just need them to be average and we can win more often than not.

I will forever stick to my theory that your skill has at most maybe 10% to do with your climb. The other 90% is lucking out and not having feeders, ragers, trolls and morons on your team.

I shouldn't have to have 20/3/15 type games every single game to get to silver I. That's retarded and makes no sense.

9 times out of 10, if I lose a game, it's because someone or multiple players on my team afk's, ints or goes 0/10 before 10 minutes.

9 times out of 10 if I win a game, it's because the OTHER team had an afk, inter or someone who feeds hardcore very early.

Very rarely do I lose and think "That was a fair and close game".

Very rarely do I win and think "It was evenly matched and we just came out ahead thankfully".

I don't feel I'm Plat level or above, but the ridiculousness and shenanigans that occur in silver and bronze is absurd.

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Posted by Raz

Member since Oct 2006

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Posted on 9/20/17 at 10:53 pm to Taffeta

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Taffeta

Teach me how to plat. I've been gold forever.

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Posted by Tiguar

Montana

Member since Mar 2012

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Posted on 9/21/17 at 11:47 am to Taffeta

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I was Plat 2 last season, and got placed in Silver 3. I am currently Gold 1 63LP with 44 games played.

I mean, you're kind of proving our point. Someone plat 2 should not have to play >30-35 hours to not even be back at their original tier. 44 games is a lot to me, especially since they made it easier to win promotional series' you lost the first time.

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