User blog comment:Lokiwg/My Ranked Horror Story/@comment-9092778-20131002165329

it is very important to know what role do you play, could you tell us? if you can excel at one role you should focus on playing that role and not switch to another in each game

My experience in rankeds: I play this game since season 1 but I started playing rankeds at the end of season 2, my first ranked was a 4v5 (xin jungler left us at 0:00) paying as mid brand(brand was my main for a long time) yet we managed to make them surrender at 20

in season 3 I was placed in silver 3, managed to climb to silver 2 quite fast but then I went on a losing streak and droped to silver 4, after a 2-weeks break (summercamp) I got back to the game and climbed all the way to silver 1

I lost my first pomotion to gold on the last match, an epic and really close series (when you go from silver to gold or bronze to silver, etc you have to win 3 out of 5 instead of 2 out of 3, but you probably knew that) but I won my 2nd promotion soon after that, I am currently gold 5 at the promotion to 4

my advice: 1.It is very important to have a main role and to be very comfortable with it and be ready to win trades and win your lane even without the help of the jungler

2. It is extremly important to have a big champion pool, if you can only play 1-2 champion for each role and 2-3 on your main role it's very hard to have high expectations, you need to be prepared to counter any pick

3. Having a premade it's quite helpful, I just helped my premade, which is a very good jungler, climb from silver 5 to silver 3, even if he's silver 3 and I am gold 5 we get opponents around silver 1-2 level and teammates silver 4 or higher.

4. As I said, I main mid and I can play pretty much any mage but I particullary play long rage champions like ziggs, xerath, syndra, zyra, malzahar, brand. My mains at the moment are syndra zyra and ziggs. I prefer taking teleport instead of ignite and I make my support place aggressive wards because it doesn't matter how good you are and how hard you win your lane, you will still lose quite badly if your bottom gets crushed. Your adc is very important, probaby the most important member of the team and by constantly ganking bottom you can get your adc ahead and secure an easy victory. Playing champions that can carry a team or roam and gank can help you do that. As top a shen can make the difference in low ranks or even higher or a burst/ mobile mid as kassadin and ahri can also help you win games. Lee's early presence can also get lanes ahead but if you can play an utility jungler as nautilus sejuani or zac properly then your chances of winning grow drastically.

5. Summoner spells: teleport is just perfect for carrying games, just think about it - ganks, split-push, great farming from a lane to another, attacking from behind on teamfights, making a 2v3 fight in a 3v3, constantly surprising your opponents.

Maybe I missed some details but that pretty much covers everything.

I apologize for my terrible english, hope you got the point and that some of this information may be helpful^^