User blog comment:Lokiwg/My Ranked Horror Story/@comment-7923992-20131002145234/@comment-1985493-20131002211847

I agree with the OP. In my first Silver V game, I went Nunu jungle. My bot lane was Teemo and Varus and they had died at least 5 times before 15 minutes. But because I farmed up and got good ganks mid I think, I was able to come bot, win it back for my team, take drag, and go on to win the game from what looked pretty unwinnable just by keeping my head and making good decisions. I'm a shit player mechanically, if i was placed somewhere just off of mechanics I'd probably be between high bronze and very low silver. But because I'm good at shot-calling, building, picking champs, etc. I managed to carry myself into gold. You just gotta find what you can carry with, and if you can't, you probably should abstain from ranked til you do :P that is, unless you're fine with where you are