Quote Originally Posted by konage View Post
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I can echo this, sitting around a 60% win rate and still stuck in bronze. I've come close to my promotion more times than I can count, but I always run into a string of bad teams and wind up with losses. Or run into people who don't want to play. My first match in my promotional series I got a WHM that went afk at the start of the match so it was pretty much unwinnable. The worst part is this hasn't even happened only one time. I've run into more than a few healers who AFK, or just walk towards the enemy team and don't try to play, or got nuked once and /quit even though we could still win, or just in general players giving up after a single death.

long and short, it's not like ranking up itself is hard, but even if you win most of your matches if you get unlucky for a couple of matches or only during your promotion due to RNG, and players who don't care. You'll never promote. I almost miss being able to report someone for bad play in LoL.