This is coming from someone who has climbed solo from iron to immortal. As I was exploring this community, I discovered that there is a very common sentiment among players that "you don't have to get kills to have impact." From a high elo...

Climbing in gold and below is so frustrating and disheartening with so many no rank last season with 40+ kills at least in South East Asia right now.

Mine is probably either that smurfs and bad teammates aren’t keeping you from climbing or that instalocking isn’t an inherently a bad thing.