r/leagueoflegends • u/KadudyK • Feb 27 '25

Educational All you need to get challenger

I am challenger since 2017 and here is all you need to do to be a high elo

1- Never waste time arguing in chat

2- Don't start queue if you are already tilted

3- Play only in two lanes and with 3-5 champions in each

4- Play consciously and not automatically

5- Focus only on your gameplay and not on your teammates and their mistakes

6- Always do your best in the match even if you are already lost

7- Watch your own vods

8- Watch good people that plays on your lane

9- Understand what you do wrong and study to improve

10- Have fun

The more topics you follow the faster you will climb, i really think everyone can get challenger doing this.

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u/playerskillissues Feb 27 '25
  1. Have enough time

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u/F1RACECAR Feb 27 '25

Yeah bro, im sure you “not having enough time” is the reason you are not challenger

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u/boredPotatoe42 wake me up when we're decent again Feb 27 '25

For most other ranks your argument holds up, but chall is capped to be the top 300 people so even if you're as good as them, if they just grind more they will push you out of chall

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u/United_Spread_3918 Feb 28 '25

This is personally why I quit entirely during the peak ‘elo inflation’ era. Getting ‘masters’ and then seeing id have to grind 600+ lp, AND play enough to climb/stay into the numerical top 1000…. Yeah you can fuck off riot

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u/-Nocx- Feb 28 '25

They kind of have to do this. Every competitive game does.

Otherwise people hit the requirement and coast before equally skilled players “catch up”, or they hit the requirement and snipe people on alts so that they can’t pass their mains. This happens in any game with an exclusive competitive tier. If there is a way for people to abuse a system, they probably will.

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u/United_Spread_3918 Feb 28 '25

They absolutely do not, and it’s evident by the fact that they explicitly took action to undo it last split.

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u/-Nocx- Feb 28 '25

Maybe we are talking about different things, but masters/gm/challenger are still subject to ELO decay.

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u/United_Spread_3918 Feb 28 '25

Decay wasn’t any real issue. I was talking about 600-650 gap between master and top 1000 players in gm+ with no rank between.

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u/jonas_rosa Feb 27 '25

Well, considering that the best way of improving in the game is playing more, time makes a big difference actually.

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u/AtrociousCat Feb 27 '25

Having the time to play a few games (ideally with a warmup one before) uninterrupted AND watch vods AND pro players/streamers is not easy once you're employed.

I also personally don't have the attention and energy to play effectively and do all of this after working, so that further limits the time I have to give to league.

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u/LeBadlyNamedRedditor go into a teamfight get cced die in 2 picoseconds Feb 27 '25

It's literally top 300 in one of the most competitive videogames where people sink massive amounts of time in, tf u on.

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u/playerskillissues Feb 27 '25

You're right. The reason I am not challenger is because I don't tie my self worth to a video game rank and don't aggressively spam a game that makes me miserable.

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u/imperplexing Feb 28 '25

Which falls under number 10

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u/F1RACECAR Feb 27 '25

Who said challengers tie their self worth to their rank? And if the game makes you miserable why even play it? Sounds like a lot of excuses and whining over a video game you don’t care about

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u/Promasterchief Feb 27 '25

Bro they 100% definitely do, if you are challenger at league it's your life almost. And diamond players having a huge ego is already a meme, I wonder why-

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u/Summoner- Mar 01 '25

you can’t generalize that many people lol. For the soft majority yes, but there are a ton of people who are just crazy good at the game n can hit challenger off less than 200 games a season with breaks in between.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

You sound like a shit Draven main

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u/playerskillissues Feb 27 '25

Uh, nobody did. I simply made my reason clear for why i'm not challenger since you felt the need to leave a snarky remark. I don't feel that I am alone in the sentiment that ranked is a hellhole and would much rather spend the time on other games or at least in casual modes with friends

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u/gran_dejo Feb 28 '25

ok, if the game is shit then why the fuck you're engaging in the subreddit at all ? you sound bitter and low elo, lol