Just a rant that is coming to mind after reading some of these posts, and posts I read from some friends on facebook who are in Bronze/Silver/too nervous to play ranked
If you want to save yourself even more time- pretty much ignore anyone that says "it's hard to get out of 'x' ELO". whether it be bronze 5 or masters. It isn't. You just need to be better than your opponents, and play enough games. You will lose games because of your teammates, you will lose games your teammates should've won but you threw, you will win games because the other team outplayed you, and some games are legitimately unwinnable. That's why you shouldn't give a flying shit about what other people are doing, focus on how to make yourself a better more flexible player, and the wins will come when they come. All you can hope to do is win the games that are winnable. Because yes you did lose that game two days ago during promos because someone disconnected. Yes, it was really silly that your top laner just kept on building damage when he fell behind instead of going tankier. I completely agree your ADC should've purchased QSS the moment Warwick become a problem. But they aren't on your team for more than one, maybe two games. You're stuck with yourself for every one of those games.
What separates you from diamond/masters/challengers/lcs players isn't the disconnecting players from your team, the build order you follow, the masteries you chose, the rune pages you work with, your last hitting, your mini map awareness, your trading and lane pressure, your use of power spikes, your teamfighting, your positioning, your objective control, your champion pool, your use of knowledge of picks and counterpicks, or your rotations. It's literally all of that combined. Those players are better than you in nearly every facet of the game and do something better than you every 5 seconds. You can think "that may be true for some, but no not me I know I'm great at..." and I can tune you out and realize you are exactly where you deserve to be just for your mentality alone.
P.S.: Losing streaks happen. Get over it. I got upset that I lost 8 in a row and my friend looked at me and laughed explaining how dumb I was to be upset over it. We looked up Faker's profile and noticed he had only won 4 of his last 15 games, with a 7 game losing streak. If the guy who tops the korean challenger ladder can lose 11 of 15 of his most recent games, you're far from safe. Shit happens.
Last edited by Bodhisattva; Mar 8, 2015 at 12:52 PM.