[2021] Untalented Players: How did you climb to Diamond?

i just stumbled my way upwards with zyra and orianna mid in season 2 and just never fell out of it

EDIT: Slowly increasing the level of difficulty of opponent you play against to me makes it so that you gradually get better even if you don't realise it. A silver player is going to get stomped by a diamond player most of the time but if that silver player stays in the right mindset to learn things then over time the silver player is going to get better and climb to diamond and may very well just stay there, even if they can't enunciate why they belong there.

I couldn't tell you why I (was) better than a silver player, because a lot of the stuff I learned when climbing was stuff I didn't realise I was learning

There's a soft ladder reset every season and if you've ever gotten to diamond at the start of every season (and your "natural" rank is around diamond), you know it's a trial by fire and you won't climb up into diamond from plat by coinflipping. The plat -> diamond grind at the start of every season is so painful.

The only thing a full ladder reset would do is harm the people who are lower ranks

EDIT: just to clarify this is my opinion as a player, not as an employee. I don't work on these systems. please don't quote this as a position Riot has taken.

yes, but i haven't played league much this year so i couldn't tell you what they were

there's always room for improvement