User blog comment:ObsidianLazarus/Grind for Gold has killed me./@comment-17429926-20131112134126

I was trying to do the same, and oh boy, did I regret it all.

After messing up half of my provisionals (5/5), I ended up in S5. At that time, I didn't really care about that, I was happy that I wasn't in bronze. Than, my friends started too, and they ended up S3 and S2. That was where I started to feel bad about myself, so I played some, and lost most of them. My win-loose ratio was negative.

A few weeks ago, after attempting to get to gold with various ranked teams with my friends, and failing, I posed myself a challenge. Try it in soloq! First week went awesome. My win-loose ratio went positive faster than the speed of light, maining Sona, Viktor and Malzahar (mainly Sona), I climbed up to S3. Next week, hell came, and I started to loose a lot. Tried duo-ing, it sometimes helped, but lot of losses followed. My win-loose ratio is now negative (I have one more loose than a win), and I started to hate Sona and supporting althogether (especially that when I'm the adc, supports beside me seem half-assed for some reason).

I admit, some of those matches, I threw them. Had a really bad Karthus match, a strangely sucky Sona one, but most of the time, I was good and did whatever I could in my opinion. I didn't always carry, but I always tried to adapt to the situation: J4 vs. Trynd? I couldn't kill him, even with the jungler's help, but I laid low, let him farm (because I couldn't do anything to prevent it); we destroyed them in teamfights. Died to Fizz pre-level 6 with Malz? Went on, was careful, got some kills, and then we defeated them. Accidentaly steal blue from jungle WW who smited early and ragequit? Destroyed mid lane and carried the game with Malz (even had a quadra).

I will try my best next season, when I'll have enough time, and hopefully, I'll get what I truly deserve. Even if this past week was a horrible nightmare with higher than average amount of leavers and trolls, I believe that I can climb to Gold, not just G5, but higher. I also learnt many things and became really good with Sona (whom I will love again eventually).

Stay strong: it wasn't for nothing! Valuable lessons were learnt!