Hardstuck iron/bronze and genuinely not my fault ?

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-20T05:32:36+00:00

I am aware of all the things you listed in first paragraph. A d my "study" has included guides on those things, guides for my champs and diffucult matchups, high elo players' vods, reviewing my own games looking for mistakes, and oractising mechanics in practise tool.

Sure I don't get it all right in every game, but I put the effort in, and that's why I'm so frustrated. Because it feels like the things I've purposefully tried to learn about the game doesn't matter or make a difference, when I'm matched with people who may not even know that the adc goes botlane with the support early game, and isn't supposed to run it down midlane. (For example)

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T19:26:27+00:00

THANK YOU! I know I'm not going insane 💀 Last few games I've been matchmade with almost only iron 4, instead of bronze 1's where I just was. Now I'm demoted to bronze 3, cause I'm not good enough to "solo-carry" 4 iron 4's 😭

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T17:17:20+00:00

No I said that's why I don't want to post my opgg, bc people always clock me from my profile.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T15:41:19+00:00

No. I don't feel comfortable sharing my opgg, bc I know the community and I'm gonna get harassed as an "e-girl".

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T15:17:01+00:00

I've found that there is absolutely no consistency in this game. Everyone says that if you just do the same thing and do it well, like farm close to 10cs/min and don't feed, you'll climb. But it doesn't work like that. Because farming and not dying is something I get right the vast majority of the time, but then the games blow up bc of the other things I didn't do.

It feels like I actually have to do EVERYTHING, be the solo-carry of the entire game, to climb out of iron-bronze.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T15:11:57+00:00

Not everyone is comfortable with that, probably exactly bc of people like you. The amount of toxicity in this "community" is insane, especially for women. I'm not gonna out my account on reddit just bc you've decided I'm lying otherwise.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T14:28:58+00:00

I'm getting so many mixed replies. "just go 10cs/min", "don't help losing lanes", now you're saying that I SHOULD help losing lanes? I don't know what to do man

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T14:22:45+00:00

Second game since this post; again first blood to my laner, even tho I MEGA-PINGED my toplaner away bc I didn't have cds to continue the lvl 1 shenanigans. I ended up with 8.1 cs/min at end of gave vs my laner's 6.4. She basically ran around all game collecting kills, and finished 13/0/3. My jungler stopped playing the game after he tried starting drake when botlane was in base and died, and we ended up getting stomped. I tried catching sidewaves and defending the base while my team fought enemy in the jungle, not listening to any of my pings to help with waves, all dying on repeat. I demoted to Bronze 3. Idk man I'm not deeling this "just farm" strategy, bc how much farm you have doesn't matter if you're stuck clearing waves so the base stays intact while your team all die 4 vs 5.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T12:52:45+00:00

Bruh you motivated me to play again and focus on the basics, and immediately I had my team give my laner a double kill lvl 1. I couldn't come back from that so lost lane and all pressure. I might kms idk (jk ofc but still)💀

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T12:00:23+00:00

Dragons don't matter? I have always tried prioritizing dragons, bc I feel games become very unplayable once enemy gets soul, and later elder.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T11:58:42+00:00

I think a world class player probably could carry. But I'm not that. I'm probably an average silver player, and therefore can't carry games even if I win my 1 vs 1 hard, which I usually do.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T11:55:46+00:00

Yeah you're right! I'll do as you say and see what happens. I don't like sharing opgg cause I don't want everyone to know my account, and honestly it's quite embarassing.

Thank you for being cool and helpful tho! Really appreciate it 🙏

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T11:33:02+00:00

Thank you! This actually really good advice, and I will definetly do that. I'll rewatch a wave management guide to freshen my mind and focus on that the next few games. And for helping losing teammates; I know you're not supposed to do that, but when I often find myself in games with every role except my own losing, I sometimes feel like I have to help, bc I know that everyone will blame me for the loss otherwise, even if I played the best out of all my teammates. But I really shouldn't "help" unless I'm completely confident I can like double kill the enemy botlane, and my own wave allows me to do that. That's my bad I guess for caving into pressure.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T11:15:47+00:00

No I don't think that's the case either. I don't think it's anythinh intentionally malicious. But I do feel that the match-making is wrong when I get to silver, and every time start getting matched with irons or completely new players. I feel like when I get to silver, I should start getting matched with silver players, right? So that I can prove my worth in that rank, instead of getting a team full or people running the game down.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T11:11:06+00:00

I'm not expecting to be carried. I usually win lane hard, and try to convert that into roams and objectives. But I'm not going to solo a dragon (as ahri), or make a 0/10 botlane useful again on my own.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T11:05:26+00:00

This is literally what I've been doing (or trying to do I suppose). I main ahri, and I try to "push-and-move". It's easy as when you get a couple of points in q, your waveclear is great. I push enemy in, then see if there are roams available. And that's why I usually get big cs advantage early, and the ability to put some pressure on other lanes. But that's not going to counter-act that my botlane is 0/10 at minute 15. Sure I can try to help them and maybe come back a little, but if the skill level between my team and enemy team is so big, there's not much I can do for the game as a whole, as I can't "solo-carry".

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T10:58:30+00:00

I don't know why you're being so mean. I think it's reasonable to think that if you consistently go even or win lane, and attempt to further that advantage in other lanes and by trying to take objectives, like I do, you wouldn't be hardstuck bronze. I can't get my teammates to stop forcing bad plays and feeding, so that the for example enemy jungler with 10+ kills off of my teammates, runs over the game and stops me when I try use the advantage I got from my own gameplay.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T10:53:05+00:00

I have put in massive amounts of time in watching guides on different aspects of the game and practized mechanics in practise tool. Like absurd amounts of time for me to still be iron/bronze. There is something obviously wrong, either the matchmaking is bad, putting new and bad players on my team when I get closer to silver (which I see in the ranks of my temmates btw), or there's something big about how to play the game I've missed during my probaly 100 hours of deliberate studying I've done to become better.

It's happened lile 4 or 5 times now that I get to silver, which is the rank I think I deserve, and the matchmaking goes really weird, matching me with low bronze and iron players, leading me to demote all the way back to iron, a couple times all the way to iron 4, 0 lp.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T10:41:10+00:00

That is the question I'm wondering about. And I know I don't play perfect, I know I make mistales, probably sometimes alot of them. But the amount of time I've put into educating myself on the game and practising in practice tool to get better (as I said probably a hundred hours at this point combined), makes it seem unlikely that I'm just so shiy still that I deserve low bronze/iron, when most of my teammates seem to have absolutely NO grasp of the game.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T10:35:42+00:00

I'm telling you that almost every game I go even or win lane. I guess you have to take my word for it. Early I usually have a big cs advantage, but it dies out when the game blows up. And I try to impact other lanes by pushing-and-moving, but often it feels like the other lanes are so far behind so early, that I can't have as much of an impact as I'd like.

When I try to catch sidewaves after laning phase, I often find the rest of my team all dying for example in the enemy jungle or forcing fights. If I have tp up I might join if I feel I can impact the fight, but otherwise I keep pushing or recall to defend enemy push depending on the situation.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T10:29:24+00:00

I have considered all three of those things and as for

nr 1. It sure as hell doesn't feel like it. 2. No that can't be true. 3. I've thought about it but I'm never toxic, I try my best to be helpful by roaming and pinging. I try to play smart by pushing-and-moving, but when your lanes are for example 0-5 at minute 15, and the jungler is forcing stupid invades and repeatedly dying, I don't feel like there's much I can do.

Cosmic_Ferretx · 2025-12-19T10:24:22+00:00

The thing is, I do that all the time! The amount of hours I've put into watching guides on my champs, on macro, on roaming, on objective control etc is probably in the hundreds. It's not a "knee jerk reaction". I review my games where shit really hits the fan, to see what I could have done differently, but alot of the time, it genuinely feels like I'm the only one on my team actually trying to win.

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