Quote Originally Posted by Dreadz View Post
Self-improvement can only take you so far until you the barrier of useless teammates. The amount of games I've lost at 9-2-10 because my teammates went 0-4-5 is too much to bear. I don't know what short term goals I'm supposed to focus exactly, since a couple of bad games can drop you out of tiers now. I've been working on the emotions bit though, emotionally disconnecting myself from matches and have 0 expectations for the game mode really is helping. Can't say if that's a good or bad thing though.
Don't get me wrong, you are still affected by your teammates. Like the absolute best players don't have 100% win rates, they are probably closer to like 60% or something. You can't win all the time with random teammates. But if game after game, you are always performing well, and by well I mean always Top 2 damage in your teams, sooner or later you'll climb. You can only get unlucky for so long.

However, I agree that low Crystal rating will be wild at times. Going back to Diamond as soon as you hit Crystal Rating 0 ? It will be wild at first when people are Crystal Rank 100 to 300, but once people start to get decent points going (like above 1000), when you have to lose 10 games in a row to de-rank, it's more deserved.

Just need to weather the storm of lower tiers and low Crystal rating.