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Here are the steps to become Challenger or join an esports team: 1) become unemployed 2) spend 10 years playing the game, to see if you have 'esports genetics or talent'

"I could be this rank I just don't play enough" is definitely true to some extent though, was Plat in S8 and S9 but then got a full time job so for about 4 years I hovered around Silver and Gold. Got laid off recently and I'm back at Plat again in like 2 weeks, sucks that I had to stomp a bunch of silver players over 100 games to just get back to where I was

I got to emerald after 20-30 games this season with 90q winrate. Now im 60% eme1 and i hate my life. Diamond is going to be better no?

i want to be iron because its funny and you dont have to sweat and just fuck around lol

league is a game where you litterally just play 50 games and buy another account. The MMR system in this games an actual joke. Fresh account is always 2 divs higher then your main

I just want to be good at the game, the rank will come eventually

But why am i getting less lp than loosing with 55.6%wr out of 350games its just unreasonable

honestly, I think the biggest problem (depending on elo and circumstances) is that this is happening to ALL of your teammates and they have a higher MMR than they are actually skilled. I think that is when people say "team diff" and I understand it completely.

So I ended emerald 1 last season, now I'm stuck in plat.

This deserves way more views honestly

how do you explain someone having 59% winrate in 150 games but having lp gains +22 / -27 ? ( without loosing more than 5 games in a row ever ) seems like being chat restrict impacts your mmr too edit : you took kirei exemple , but most of people doesnt have the time and the will to play more than 300 games a split to get the rank they deserve, in a fair system, 150 games should be more than enough to get your real rank, which isnt necessarly the case for league of legends, and that is criticizable

Theres still 1 question open to me, I might just not understand it. I‘m at a 51% WR after about 200 games, and I still get about +22 and -26 so negative LP gains. Why is that?

I lost like 8 games in a row, then won like 2 out of 3 games, and i ranked up.. 🤔 I'm almost consistently the highest kill ratio and rank in my team, but still a loss streak like this is crazy.

Just uninstall dead game 👍🤣

3rd option. Derank to lower tier where the game thinks you belong (I.E plat dropping bronze) then win streaking back into your rank. It re-inflates your MMR because of the large winstreak you will achieve from playing at such low ranks. Can confirm this works after doing so 4 splits in a row.. Only negative is the amount of games needed to play just to accomplish this but if you play the game often anyway it’s worth the attempt.

Im E3 rn 60% wr on 150 Games. 65% on my OTP 60% on my autofill Champ. I got but in Silver 2 this split lol. But now since im Emerald i get 17 and loose 22-23 My ACC is really old (season 1) Maybe i need even more games to fix it ? But its crazy 60% wr and still loose more is crazy. (My wr is consistant 60 percent, so no big loose streaks) Rellay well made good Video ✌️

Hi maybe you’d like to check out my games. I came from plat4 and queued up with a good jg and we still lose despite having a lead because of stupid teammates. Da Densest ph server

Vod review tips please 🙌

Okay but play on the PH server and tell me it’s not the teammates. Every game teammates go a collective 50/60 deaths. Fight nonstop. Junglers just fight fight fight fight even before objectives and dying.

Coach CUPCAKE :)))))

I have an account that I created since Season 7 in NA. It has been stuck in silver/gold elo throughout s13. I recently started playing league more seriously on a separate account and was able to climb to master(albeit demoting back to d3). But when I go back on my main account, its just hard to climb on it as I was just getting +18 -27 LP. It took more than 300 games this season to somewhat fix my lp gain/losses and get back to d1. One thing that helped me aside from sticking to what I know works is to duo queue from time to time with a higher mmr and get a winstreak. Cant keep doing though as you need to solo queue to make the system think that those wins are not just a fluke or because you played with a smurf/friend/booster (w/e you call it).

im stuck because I out dmg everyone in the game. Have the best cs and kda. Team refuses to build armor or magic pen or literally anything that doesn't fit their narrative on how to play. Im in the 'lets mash buttons and see what happens' elo and my rank looks like its doing pull ups. Im in the elo where they give towers for free because they are busy chasing kills. Im in the elo where my stable foundation isnt enough 40% of the time. This game isnt merit based at this elo. Just how lucky you are to not get someone experimenting an off meta build in rank for the first time. The elo of mental hell. Muting just lets their negative thoughts fester and even tho I can't see their chat. I know they are frozen at tower flaming someone. This isnt the real game in this elo. Its about how lucky you can get to find normal players. Not someone that can carry you but someone that remains consistent in their good and in their bad playing.

So there is another secret Smurf detection algorithm. I have no clue how it works, but it’s for sure there. My account had ~1,000 games between bronze/silver and hit gold 4 at the end of the very first season I made the account (10th). Every season after than it was bronze 4/silver 3 I think Idr. I then duo’d with a previous challenger and over ~100 games hit diamond 1. I don’t really care about rank, this was for their ego/challenge to see if they could do it while with me. I haven’t played ranked since. I’ll let the account fully decay until I play ranked. If I ever do again. I’m pretty casual but I like certain levels of competition. Over those ~100 games the win rate was 75-80% and at certain elos my account got 75-100 LP for a few games. Before returning to the normal 25-30. Now this happened before the diamond 1 climb, but happens more frequently now. I will run into other accounts that 1) have either super decayed or are level 500-1000 and never left bronze but only have diamond - master friends. I assume these are Smurf and alt accounts. My challenger friend had some alts like this and often played in lower elo, but not to stomp. He just liked to play more casually and lost like a typical gold player when not being sweaty. He boosted other people I’m sure, but with me and many other friends he just liked to play casually. I assume many other Smurfs between bronze - gold are the same. Riot has some way to find these accounts or similarly experienced/skilled players and tries to match make them. Some people may look like they are good enough, and run into Smurfs more based on their skill and game number in that elo.

I dropped from masters to D4 in 1 week i know what Elo hell is and its real it i aint solo 1 vs 9 i just don’t win games. All i ask for is for my jungler to play amumu and not Viego for once and let my top laner play malphite and not darius

awesome video dude

I don't think I'm the target audience, but I think your video does a good job of demystifying why those things happen, and the systems behind it, so it's easier to feel less bothered by it. You also give clear actionable points to be proactice towards being stuck and get improving. The video quality and slides are great btw! I would also love to see a video talking about VOD reviews, as its something I started to implement recently.

Great video❤

buy lots of smurfs gotcha

I have a lvl 360 account and I’ve been playing on and off again since 2011. Taking year breaks sometimes. Yet with that account, I’ve never been able to make it out of bronze, sometimes being stuck in iron for an entire season. Split 3 this year I made a new account, and was placed into Gold 3 right away and I’ve been hovering Gold 3/2 for a few months now. Go back to my bronze account and I literally cannot even move to Bronze 2. I’m playing the same champs, the same way on both accounts. It’s absolutely messed up.

"A rank should not be your goal" my goal is the skin that comes with the rank xD. Idc about my rank all that much i've been dia for a while and I have peace with that. I don't wanna have to deal with decay so I usually get emerald 1 80+lp throughout the entire season, and then play my last game/s till dia in the last month so I don't have to keep playing.

I'm glad there are more voices in the space advocating for this fact. I think the thing with league that people don't respect as much is how much work it actually takes. I've been playing for a little over year and a half but still find that there are some situations where I just don't know how a character or an interaction works. Let alone trying to lane in the 1 in 500 games where you go against a Senna in a solo lane or some other BS and have no idea how they function in role they don't normally get played in. It really is a, "if you aren't moving, then you are not improving" system.

18:55 but azzap says never dodge 🤓

Thank you, i didnt knew the MMR hard stuck mechanics, i am playing my 30 level account now it has 7W 3L now, i will also stop myself from spamming games, i was continue to queue although i feel tired and dismotivated

Yes pls, I’d love that vod review video, the more i engage and think for myself the more i learn (may take longer but def better than watching guides for me)

ikd man, if you play better you will climb xd thats all 😅

yo i just found your channel im pretty sure im gonna stay:D

Yeah so explain a 57% wr on Ashe and a 61% wr on kaisa over 224 games and being stuck in bronze 2 Oh I can explain it. Autofill, jg diff, support diff , top diff, mid diff. Smurfs, some bs like my client refusing to allow me to connect to the game. Random internet cut outs while I’m literally listening to TH-cam music in the back ground just fine. another notable mention is vsing duo support and adc 5/10 when I only play solo. Let’s face it the game is fucking rigged and it’s keeping everyone addicted. Ahh you mentioned dodging. What happens when you dodge then que up and get another troll lobby. Dodge again and get another troll lobby? Every time you dodge your forced to play the next game

As for champion pool - I understand this is a video about climbing, but I think there's worth in trying different champions so you understand better how to play against them, understand more play styles, are able to counter pick etc. I never understand when people type in champ selection "they picked/banned my main, gg" ... having a favorite is fine for sure though

I have a few questions i'll be happy if answered: Does your mmr always become flexible again at the start of a split/season? And does unranked games affect your mmr?

how do i pick a main? there are too many champions that i want to play and i haven't been able to commit to 2-3. it's 100% the biggest thing in the way of me climbing and improving but idk how to go about deciding what i like enough to play for at least a full split. i've decided that i want to play either mid or top, but there are still like ten champions that i'm interested in playing in each role (mostly either mages or bruisers/skirmishers) and idk which role and champions to pick. i'm trying to solve this problem before next season so that i can start grinding ranked without wasting my time.

Thank you I needed that video ! I found myself in many examples you showed, climbing from being unranked for 2 splits (previously plat 2- plat 1 before emerald existed), skyrocketted to emerald III at start of this split, with like 70% w/r over 50 games, and dropped back to plat III, with still over 55% winrate, and 60%+ with my mains champs over 120 games. Just had a rough time with negative lp after a loose streak at emerald IV 0 LP which fckd my MMR for like 30 games. Now I'm slowly grinding back, trying not to tilt (which is very hard). Just playing less and focusing on quality games, and i will try to get back to emerald before season ends, and will stop playing ranked on this account for the rest of the season. I will wait for the rank reset and try to hit diamond next season. Thank you very much. I would also be interested to see how you can review games with a real purpose (as a jungler).

With all due respect and from my perspective, after playing ranked games since 2013, I have to say that much of what is presented in the video seems incorrect to me in the sense that the part that doesn’t depend on the player (the system) is immense, unfair, and deliberately hidden due to Riot’s interests. I mean, no, the problem isn't that the game tries to balance your win rate by matching you with better players; it's that they do it by giving you teammates who are much worse. It's not your case, but many people just say "git gud," and that if you deserve to climb, you should be able to consistently carry four useless teammates. Gold, as you say, is more or less the mid-tier where people are approximately in the top 50% of the game. Fine... How many hours might it take for a Gold 4 player to reach that level on a new account? I'll tell you: hundreds or thousands every year. In a game where individual players objectively influence around 10% of the outcome (and it's actually much less, because you'd also need to factor in smurfs, eloboosters, autofills, etc.). In chess, an intermediate Elo player starting from scratch in a game where each player impacts almost 50% of the outcome would only need 10-20 hours, maybe 50 at most, to reach their real Elo. League of Legends simply makes the ranked experience unfair to force players to grind games and increase their profits, completely sacrificing the competitive integrity of the game. By making people invest hundreds or thousands of hours a year just to reach their real level, all they achieve is worsening the competitive experience for everyone during that process. As for the recommendations you give about focusing on oneself, I agree. I’ve been applying the Bo3 approach for a long time, dodging 1 or 2 times per day if necesary, etc, etc , and it helps me perform more consistently. However, in my opinion, it’s important to remember that everything is futile because it ultimately depends on what the system wants to do with you, and most matches are decided by the system from the moment you accept the queue.

Fantastic video dude! Great to have everything all in one place that's right to the point. A video going over how to properly review games would probably be beneficial too. The broken by concept podcast had an episode on VOD reviews but not everybody wants to spend that much time to find all that info.

Hello Boc

Good video, but i have something to say, bc you can't deny that matchmaking is in the worst state EVER right now, is the most inconsistent matchmaking we've ever had. Players that don't even have silver skill lvl are playing in plat/emerald with players that were literally master the last season (this happened to me btw, i hitted diamond a a year ago btw, having a master in my team was a free stomp for us). The thing is that when i saw this guy's OPGG he was HARDSTUCK in emerald, he did tell me that he was so frustrated with the game lately. I think that right now middle elos (high gold, plat and emerald) are a salad of players that don't really take their skill on count for matchmaking and duoqeue is just making it even worst.

Did your normal game or aram affect your mmr? Because i play aram and normal with my friend for fun + trying new champ. And yes, we lose a lot, but still have fun, and i never have 1/10/1 kda or anything like that. But when i'm going back to soloQ. All of my teammates are at the skill different than their opponents that they lose all 3 lanes so hard, i can't do anything as a jungle. And now, i drop straight from silver to iron

11:52 Although it works, it's hilarious to hear about a casino analogy in a game where people often complain that queuing up is a coin flip of "who gets the better team mates" like it's a casino looool

True ELO hell happens at the lower ranks around the places where your teammate that go "oh thats a bad play mb" and below it your teammate that go "gank me now with this low chance play" and then ping you if you don't do it. And usually you stumble from the place above to below with a few unlucky games, so the psychological damage is immense. It is also the place league place new accounts at, so you'll have to deal with that too. Which makes it an actual mess.

mmradar gg gives some good info on your account and scores for your team and enemy, that's pretty much showing losers queue or winners queue lol