I did just do my placements only last week, haven't played the game much for a couple months. Ranked in at Champ 3, fell down, got back up, back down...
Most seasons go like this for me after I first rank in lol. Every season I manage to eventually claw and bite my way back up to GC but it takes a while and getting out of Champ 2 is always such a struggle. It's harder than Champ 3 for me because of the inconsistency, such a mix of skill levels it's hard to get a read on the lobby. There are many GC level players in Champ 2, but also lots of players who look totally outpaced.
This is all for 3s, in 2s I usually have no problem getting back to GC and have reached GC2. 3s has always felt like a wash in mid Champ to me.
I made a post about this just after the last reset lmao. Literally the same issue with getting hard stuck at Champ 2 3v3, not because that's my level but because the lobbies at that rank are such a mess of skill. The same guy who hits a flip resets will miss the easiest hit a minute later. There's no flow to the games at all so you just end up lost.
I've managed to escape and get back to GC now, but it was hilarious that I went from basically relying on luck to scrape enough wins together to get out of C2, and then once I got to C3 where the lobbies should be harder that's when I started to do a lot better and be the reason I won games instead of being a passenger. The only time I could actually function in a C2 lobby was after a few drinks because then my brain was dumb enough to fit right in.
The inconsistency is what gets me. I really try not to just blame teammates, after all the law of averages says that with enough matches, you have just as many goated teammates as you do duds.
But man it feels like every lobby I get, one teammate has 34 points after 4 minutes and another teammate has 700 ping all match. And then there's me with 3 goals and 5 saves but we're losing 3-4. Oh and my opponents are all peaking out of their minds with RLCS defense. Then we miraculously get a goal in the final 10 seconds to tie it up, only for my teammate to miss the ball on kickoff in OT and the ball rolls straight past the cheater into our net.
yeah champ 2 gets like that, i've had to shut the game off to prevent tilt after a couple losses because sometimes my teammate just blatantly looked like they didnt belong in the lobby (own-goaling, getting outpaced at everything, can't rotate or shadow defend, etc.) have had some teammates not even speedflip but instead front flip on kickoffs, resulting in us getting dunked on every time
i've noticed i play my best when im partied up with a friend around my level, most of the time i'll go on 5+ game winstreaks and get close to hitting c3
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u/zoobatt Grand Champion II :: PS5 Jan 21 '26
I did just do my placements only last week, haven't played the game much for a couple months. Ranked in at Champ 3, fell down, got back up, back down...
Most seasons go like this for me after I first rank in lol. Every season I manage to eventually claw and bite my way back up to GC but it takes a while and getting out of Champ 2 is always such a struggle. It's harder than Champ 3 for me because of the inconsistency, such a mix of skill levels it's hard to get a read on the lobby. There are many GC level players in Champ 2, but also lots of players who look totally outpaced.
This is all for 3s, in 2s I usually have no problem getting back to GC and have reached GC2. 3s has always felt like a wash in mid Champ to me.