Should I boost my LoL rank?

If i were u i wouldn't boost to gold, just boost to silver 1 and try to carrier on from there since u might have some g5 players on ur team

 

Theres no point buying a boost in my opinion,
if you do buy one and realise your not as good as the other players
in the division you bought boost for, you're gonna fall straight down.

 

I was in a very similar situation to you, I have been playing LoL for around 4 years, but I never owned my own computer until around 1.5 years ago, previously I would play ARAM a lot and had a very mediocre understanding of the game and was just playing it as a past time to enjoy with friends. However, my interested developed for the last 2 years much more.

I got a bit more serious, last year towards the end of Season 7, I enjoyed playing Tryndamere a lot and started one tricking him, however I was still very naive and never considered proper matchups, counter picks, itemization and hence when I tried my placements got placed in Bronze 3 and was heavily demotivated. That combined with my final year of university I didn't get much more time to play and hence just ended there, however, post Season 7 I really got into LoL, learned a much bigger champion pool, studied matchups, analyzed pro players, watched streams/vods and self improved a lot. I do my placements for Season 8 and placed in ... Bronze 3 again, as tilting as it was, I vowed I will improve and carry through, successfully managed to make it to Silver 5 with around 60% and maybe 50 games. Some games were hell but I managed, recently however I duo with many friends most of them are around Silver 1/Gold 5 MMR and Rank. I honestly play very well with them and don't struggle lanning or winning games against people with a relatively higher elo. However, due to my new job and time constraints I don't have as much time to put in as before and hence I did purchase a boost from Silver 5 to Silver 1, if i int and drop down whatever, but I really feel that I can play good at this level and have been doing this and have put such a strong emphasis on learning and improving my self that I believe I am fine playing at this rank.

I hope you find success and can climb your way through Silver with or without boosting. Wish you the best.

 

Yeah, I'd honestly get some coaching. Boosting isn't something I would recommend unless you honestly think you're Gold worthy then get boosted up to Gold and climb from there.

 

I would only boost if you think you have the right skill set for that level otherwise just wony enjoy it

 

Boosting is just a waste of money. Might aswell try hard for the rank.

 

I wouldn't want to have boosted players in my game. (my team or enemies). If you're stuck in silver, you'll just end up back there sooner or later.

 

If you boost and can maintain yourself, then you deserve that rank. If not, then you at least got to learn.

 

if u want really .. just buy a ready account ! with high rank is better

 

So i think I am just going to tough it out.

I am now S5, but my KD with shen jg is 3.0 so at least I am playing well!

I am 200+ games stuck in silver, but eh that's okay. Maybe I'll get some good placements next season.

200+ games this season should have paid off lol

 

Didn't read other posts but yes it's your fault if you can't climb out of silver, whether it's because you're not playing enough games or because you're not good enough to do so. In the long run there will be an equal amount of troll picks/trolling players on the enemy team. The only thing that remains constant in each game is you. Some games may feel like a 4v5 and others will feel like a 5v4, but if you consistently perform higher than the average S3 player over a large number of games you will climb. So just keep at it. I got boosted once and just fell back to my original rank. You are where you're supposed to be.

 

When I was probably a year into my LoL career I was around the silver-gold ranks couldn't seem to get out of this groove forever, my friend quit and gave me his D5 account, played on it got to d4 within a couple days eventually it hovered around the d5 mark and I went back to my original account and climbed progressively.

You get better playing against better opponents, you don't get better by getting stomped by a single smurf/booster on the enemy team.

 

Have you tried coaching?

 

If you were asking me, yes I did last season when I was abit more knowledgeable about the game state.

 

My buddy gave his diamond 5 account to his buddy for free, now it's silver 5

 

I have boosted a lot of people myself, doing solo/duo boosting and what can I tell that boost is only worth buying if you are as skilled as rank you want to be in. People who are buying boost without having skill to play in that rank is just wasting money. In other hand if you are a good learner you might learn faster in higher elo games.

What I suggest is first of all to ignore all negativity and trolls. Just mute all or simply don't reply or reply as a mature person. Wasting time arguing with your teammates will never help you to win games. Name one game where you telling something for your teammate that he did bad actually helped and he tried to do better.. Cold nerves and calm gameplay will definitely help you to focus on the game more.

Secondly, find your strongest role or champion and become really good on it until you will feel you can do as good on other champs or roles. There are a lot of to learn on every champion and you have to learn them slowly.

Thirdly if you want some boost you better just try to play with a bit better friend on the game and keep improving together.

Anyways, if trolls are the main issue, just try to ignore them. Boost won't make you better and higher elo won't really help you cause there are trolls in every rank.

 

If you spam games you will eventually climb out.

 

People have been saying this since I started playing in 2010. If you are better than the league you're in you will climb, no matter what. If you're better the enemy team has a higher chance of having a troll than you do. I know it's discouraging to lose because of someone else but you should focus on learning how to carry. This is coming from someone who started in bronze 5 and ended in diamond 1 playing against challenger and professional players.

On top of this, gold isn't going to get better. If things are still like when I played gold is even more toxic and has more trolls than silver, and platinum is even MORE toxic than gold. You gotta focus on yourself and maybe if you're not climbing find another champion or new strategy you vibe with. In season 2 I went from Silver to Plat when I picked up Rumble, d5 the next season ,and d1 the season after.

Good luck!

edit: just realized I already commented before lmao

 

If you're on NA, ill play some games with yuo and show you how to carry.

 

People always say there's no thing as elo hell but evidently they've never been to Bronze/Silver, I've been stuck in silver basically all season due to it being a coin flip on winning or losing, you get some team mates who have great knowledge of the game and good mechanics which is a definite win and as you said you get others which have no idea what's going on, decide to practice champions first time in ranked and that's most definitely a loss.

Honestly the season is almost over, start a fresh on the next one, I seen somewhere stated in here that if you buy a boost and get put up a division, you might not be good enough to handle the better players that'll also be up there.

Get your champ pool that you're good at and play to the best of your ability and eventually you'll carry yourself out, it's a tough grind but it's a learning experience at the same time.

Good luck on the rift bud.