I only started playing LoL in the early summer of 2014. Season 4 had been my first season ever, the first time I stepped foot into the soloQ world, and I had landed myself a comfortable spot in Silver 1. It wasn't long before I ended up falling down to Silver 3/4. I had very little knowledge of the game at the time and my champion pool was small and untrained.
This was around Oct/Nov 2014. The reason I stopped playing was largely due to my increasing frustration with myself and the game. I was so obsessed with the idea of climbing the ranks that I'd be spamming ranked queues almost all day every day. But since I was unskilled and hasty this did more harm than good. I would spend an all-nighter with the single goal in mind that I would, say, make it from Silver 3 to Silver 2. After a long night of grinding I would end up exactly where I started after winning and losing games. It felt like I was just wasting my time and my life on it. I was going nowhere fast yet I sunk incredible amounts of time into it. No work seemed to be getting done. Instead of trying to figure out how to improve I decided I should just stop.
It's now Season 5 and I have decided to once again try my luck in summoner's rift on soloQ. Instead of getting back up to scratch before my promo games, I decided to just yolo my promos after having not played for a considerable amount of time. I got myself placed in Bronze 1 and after more and more games I fell as far as Bronze 4. I am now Silver 4 and showing steady development. My short-term goal for this summer is Gold 1. My long term goal for this season is, of course, Diamond 1.
This blog is just a way of keeping track of my personal growth out of 'elo hell'. I feel like it would be nice to get it down in a blog so it's more than just a memory.
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