User blog comment:TheTobarMethod/Motivation For SoloQ GO!GO!GO!/@comment-24000968-20131002210555

Well, you and me - we are the same. I'm Bronze 1 for the similar reason: I don't play rankeds. I play a lot of normals with my friends (prefering mid and support), and even though they are silver 3-gold 5, we are equal at skill level. However, last week, I went YOLO and clicked on that "Match me with retards" button. Luckily, I got mid. Yep, you know it - I picked Malzahar on their Fizz and gave him first blood. Then I proceeded to get on a 14 kills killing spree while getting 160 cs at 20 mins. We proceeded to win the game because everyone was pretty good.

My point of this is that you should go YOLO once in a while. I mean, you are playing with those guys who are silver-gold, what are guys from bronze gonna look like then ? I mean, you will farm better than your opponent, you know where to place wards (trust me, place a ward near their wraiths when you're on mid because low-elo junglers are really predictable), you will know how to cooperate with your team, who and how to focus in teamfights etc. You should understand that you are better than anyone you will get matched aganist.

You're definetly not the only one feeling that way... Gosh I want to get to that silver (even though I'm getting 25 lp per win), but I'm so scared to do so... And duoq-ing usually means me supporting my friend, so I better reel him in like... 8 kills so he can carry it himself... Best of luck in that elo climb :D