Nobody is suggesting putting them in iron.

Put them in low gold, slightly below average.

In your placements, you pretty much jump a whole division, gold -> plat in terms of mmr from one win, so smurfs are out of low elo very quick.

It’s better a smurf ruins 5 games than a new player ruins 20 games, gets flamed and quits playing.

Early game top is actually zero presence, and depending on your champ, some don’t even scale.

Being near dragons means that if you’re the better adc, you have early impact because you can almost guarantee your team gets early drakes.

I think you’re confusing lane agency with impact, but even with that in mind, there are lots of ads with agency early, like Caitlin and kaisa.

You have one of the most impactful roles in the game, and on top of that you’re given two babysitters to hold your hand until you scale (jgl and support).

Glhf in a role that isn’t gigapampered.

Probably, but j was never good.

In the two years I played previously I only made it to high plat.

But that doesn’t change the fact that this season was awful for toplaners

And what roles were those?

I’m guessing not toplane.

Either way you’re missing the point of the post.

I’m saying as a toplane player this season feels much worse than previous seasons.

I’m still climbing to my old rank albeit a lot slower. It just feels a lot worse.

I dislike it quite a bit, especially when the meta is “teamfight for drakes” and you’re unable to contribute for the first 2 drakes unless you tp mid or bot tower and walk.

I see more and more ignite laners now, because at least you can stat check, snowball your lane and be more relevant than enemy top at 20 minutes if the game isn’t already over by then

No.

If you make a new account and win your first game you’ll start your placements g4, almost g3 with just one win.

No smurf will be silver because silver is very much below average.

Even if you don’t stick to the same champ and OTP, I would recommend staying in the same role and picking 2-3 champions to play.

This is no exaggeration, but if you can hit 6cs/m that alone will be enough to probably get you to like high silver.

Really low elo players struggle to keep their cs up after lane phase ends as they tend to just 5man mid and fight on repeat.

If you dip into a sideline, not only will you have more gold than everyone because you aren’t splitting it, you will be way ahead in exp because you’re getting SOLO exp rather than sharing it 5 ways.

If you follow the above, you’ll be able to easily carry teamfights when there actually is a reason to teamfight, like when drakes are up.

Don’t feel bad for not being there for unnecessary teamfights 24/7, regardless of what your teammates tell you. If they were right about anything, they wouldn’t be in that ELO.

Aatrox.

Similarly easy safe lane phase outside of a few matchups but his counters aren’t that unplayable.

Wait how are you hardstuck b4 after 2 years?

Legitimate question, what’s it like there?

The only time an enemy splitpusher becomes a problem is when they become so strong you have to send two to stop them. Which is a power level they have earned.

Ah yes. Enemy 0-5 yorick with sunderer hullbreaker down 50 cs definitely earned it.

Split pushing is fine. What isn’t fine is when one single item means my 2k gold lead no longer matters.

Fun fact: you can’t call anyone in bronze or iron a griefer because that entire mmr bracket is literally griefing.

To escape that elo, pick a split pushing champion like tryndamere or yorick.

Don’t leave toplane until you take the t2 top turret.

Then go bot and don’t leave until you take t2 turret.

Then go to the opposite side of the map of the obj, and continue taking towers and inhibs.

Nobody in gigalow elo knows how to play against a split push champion.

Congrats you are now gold.

That’s the problem though.

Bork is such a disgustingly meta warping item. It’s either too strong or not worth building.

Irelia SHOULD be able to build triforce titanic and deal damage, but she’s literally balanced around building Bork every game, so if she doesn’t build it, she doesn’t deal damage.

They can’t buff her damage so triforce titanic is good because then she’ll be even stronger if she just builds Bork.

Here’s a list of items that should be deleted when we get rid of mythic:

Bork Hullbreaker Ibg (delete this one twice)

Thanks

It’s because of mythic items and Bork, mostly Bork.

They can never properly buff or nerf irelia when she builds Bork every game. It’s good on her but she’s stuck in this loop of being an on hit assassin that builds almost no hp, so she’s essentially lost her identity and any build variety as a result.

I would love to play triforce hydra Steraks irelia again and be a Frontline engage champion that sets up fights, but now with no hp, you’re more of a follow up engage.

I just want a way to proc grev wounds in lane vs your champ so it’s not hopeless short trading vs you as a melee champion.

Lol this.

If one player is playing poorly go out of your way to run them down repeatedly until they tilt off the planet, which won’t be hard because their teammates will also be tilted that they have a 1-6-0 player on their team or something.

Riven.