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To give a little context. I’ve been playing league for many seasons and would always end either in plat or diamond by the end of each season. I didn’t improve much but I never got worse either.
This season I wanted to climb for real and I started to watch successful challenger players on twitch and YouTube and notice how they played, learned their macro and noticed how they view the game to gain a different perspective.
Fast forward, I’m now sitting in master and I’m close to reach Grand master, I probably won’t hit challenger by the end of this season.
The reason why I’m giving this context is to briefly say, because I improved my skills on all parameters, macro, micro, build knowledge and lowered my roster to only 3 champions instead of playing many. I climbed much easier… however, the biggest “challenge” in climbing for me, was actually (might sound like an excuse) my teammates.
And no, I’m not referring to bad players on my team, I’m not saying my team was holding me down, I’m purely referring to “selfish players on my team”
The “teammates” who don’t play to win, those who give up because he got killed one time, those who throw a tantrum and afk, ints, run down mid lane because the jungler took one of this cs. Etc
Basically the players on your own team who just give up because they are an emotional mess. Whenever I have these games, the chances of me winning goes tremendously down in that specific scenario. I have to go ultra instinct mode and perform extremely well because I have to fight for two players at once.
TLDR: griefers on my own team is the biggest obstacle I’ve encountered, I don’t mean bad players who perform bad but those who intentionally give up and just want to lose.
What’s your biggest challenge when trying to climb?
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