Climbed through Emerald in four months because of my process, AMA

Some of you might remember a Leona OTP made a post about hitting Emerald about four months ago. That was me, since then I've had a little change in my champ pool.

Something about enchanters unlocked my performance, and so in just over a month I went from scraping the bottom of Emerald to basically smurfing my way through it.

I'm not the complete master on Lulu or Nami, but if you guys have specific questions on those I'll give it a shot. Mainly what made me climb was consistently playing a good amount (2-3 a session, 1-2 sessions per day), reviewing my games (only a few minutes focusing on a small list of things I'm focused on learning in the short term), and doing my best to stay in a good headspace. The best things for my headspace:

1. No distractions. Being in discord, listening to music, etc. Anything taking your full attention and intensity from the game is poison to your performance and you might be throttling yourself 400 lp or EVEN MORE. It's okay to say that you'd rather have fun by distracting yourself, but just be honest to yourself that you are compromising your performance (and thus learning).

2. Separate inputs from outputs. Do not expect positive outputs like lp, wins, your teammates to be good, etc. You're not entitled to anything. Expect that today you will have three losing lanes. But be confident in YOUR ability to do your job and play the best given the scenario. If you can lose a game and shrug and go "well I played out of my fucking mind so I'm not mad", then that's GOOD. Ignore your KDA, your grade at the end of the game, the "ACE" or "4th" or whatever opgg gives you for the game. Only focus on how you think you performed and be honest. Energy spent on teammates is holding you back.

3. Always be mentally invested in improving something. When you are dialed in on certain learning objectives, you will be playing to perform rather than to extract LP. Figure out your weak points or seek help from more experienced players in your role. Your champ is a good place to start. You learn the game through the lens of a champ, so if you're champ hopping or trying to improve without having solid champ mastery, you're putting the cart behind the horse.

Accountability, accountability, accountability. You are accountable for your actions and how they affect others. Your jungler didn't make you do anything, your ADC didn't make you do anything. I might have lost games, but I always gapped the opponents and my allies in terms of how much accountability I took, and so in the long term, I won.

Let me know if anyone has any questions on having a good ranked process and I'll do my best to help :))