Special thanks to Fluffy for typing everything but the 1st, 2nd and last paragraph, love you<3.
(umm I wrote this stuff but he edited a lot, saying weird shit... I tried to take out certain things that I could find, but I think I still miss quite a bit lol)
I didn't know much about the game when I first started playing ranked in season 1, and I was also very naive when I blamed my team for every lose even though I was the one that insta-locked Teemo top and fed almost every game. My final Elo for season 1 was about 700s-800s, which I wasn't too happy about. I really wanted one of those profile/icon banners. When season 2 started I, set a goal to reach at least 1250 by the end so I could get a pretty number on my profile and some type of end season reward. Well It took a while. I went into ranked the first day maining top/jungle with Warwick. Since it was the first day of the Elo reset I got carried pretty hard to about 1400-1500s then dropped back down to 1300-1400 where I stayed for practically all of season 2. Truthfully I wanted a lot more than just 1400, but I felt like I wouldn't be able to do it. Still kept playing ranked once in awhile, but only found it too frustrating and hard to win.
While I was still in the 1300s-1400s two of my close friends (Teal Kitty/sL Fluffy and splandifers) had a team that recently lost a player and I ended up playing ad for them. It didn't last long as members came and went, including me due to bad team synergy and environment. Me leaving the team had little to no effect on it, but Teal Kitty leaving did. He began to build a dislike for playing with the team and I pushed him into making the decision of not playing for them in a tourney. Splandifers, who I wasn't particularly fond of anymore, was still on the team at the time. He was affected extremely by Teal Kitty leaving the team and there was quite a bit of drama...god, I'm a troublemaker. Now there was a period of time where I wasn't really interested in league, until I began playing Ezreal. He was my best champion for quite some time.
One day I decided to name change from Kelamity. Teal Kitty suggested that I make it a kitty name, so why not? I picked the name Frosted Kitty because it sounded cute and my favorite Ezreal skin is Frosted Ezreal, even after PFE came out. I wasn't a fan of it. Oh and I like frosted animal crackers too. You know, the pink and white ones. Yum. Anyway, there were two guys who were close friends of Teal Kitty that changed their IGNs also, Kevin the Kitty and Melonbread Kitty. This brought the kitty count to four. We made a ranked team called League of Kitties, which doesn't exist anymore since you can't delete a team and use its name again. We would have never imagined who our 5th kitty would be and how we would meet him.
I was playing ARABs with Teal Kitty one summer morning in June and quite an interesting person joined our game. His ign was Fruyti. He was high 1900 elo at the time. Not much improvement haha. The first game we played with him, we thought he was really cool and hilarious. We kept inviting him to games and eventually added him. It became a thing to play arabs and normals with him everyday. About a week after we met him, we had the idea of asking him to join our team. Teal Kitty asked him jokingly, and he surprisingly agreed and quickly changed his name to Fruyti Kitty.
Even though the team was made as a joke it became somewhat competitive when Fruyti joined. I wasn't sure why he wanted to join a 1400-1600 Elo ranged team, but he did. He became our mid player. He would get frustrated with us easily, especially me, which put a lot of pressure on me to get better or just keep dealing with more yelling. Then there was his normal Elo, which was too damn high and made the team go through some hard practice games. It was a nightmare playing with him at times. Most of the players we got matched against were in the 1900-2.7k range. The team kept playing though. I stopped with solo que ranked games completely to concentrate on our ranked 5's and normal game practice. However other players on the team still played solo ranked and I could see that their Elo was increasing by a lot.
Although we had a lot of fun playing together, there was conflict between Fruyti and Melonbread Kitty that resulted in Melonbread leaving. Some time before this though, Teal Kitty remembered someone with the name ArcticKitty with no spaces from solo queue. ArcticKitty didn't accept his friend request, but he accepted mine and we played together a bit. Although ArcticKitty mained support, it became apparent that he could jungle as well and has been our jungler ever since. We didn't get too far in ranked 5s without current line-up. Kevin the Kitty, who was our top lane, felt that he wasn't performing well enough for the team. He decided to leave and spam solo queue to get better. He left when he was 1600 and is in the 1500-1700 elo range to this day, haha. Now, we needed a top lane. Unfortunately, we didn't find a toplane player.
While playing normals, we met someone named NiHowMa, who randomly added Teal Kitty after. He was really cool and had a cool accent. He played mid, AD, and support at an 1800 level. We grew really fond of him and he eventually changed his ign to BBQ Kitty. We wanted to play ranked 5s, but with him, it called for some role swapping. Since I exclusively played AD, this didn't matter to me. The positions were: BBQ mid, Teal top, Fruyti jungle, Arctic support, and of course me as AD. With these positions, we got to nearly 1600 in ranked 5s, but not quite. We had this line-up for less than a month.
We wanted to play ranked 5s, but Arctic wasn't around. We use this weird guy named aLewares as our top laner and Teal went back to being my support. Things did not go well playing with aLewares. Fruyti tried to camp aLeware's lane like he did Teal's but failed to get any kills. This happened several games. The feeling of not being able to do anything overwhelmed him and he decided not to jungle in ranked 5s ever again. This being said, Arctic and Fruyti swapped jungle and support, but this didn't work very well either. Fruyti felt that he could do so much more as AP mid, but he didn't want to be mean to BBQ. When we talked as a team, Fruyti firmly stated that he wants to mid and is able to carry with it. We began to put BBQ bot with me and the two of us alternated between AD and support. Ugh I hate supporting. Over time, we played with BBQ less and less. We still need a real top laner.
While playing normals, we met our top laner, ToiletPills. Fruyti immediately liked him and so did everyone else. We didn't add him after the first game we played with him, but he got queue'd up with him again and things were really cool. He was exactly 2k elo at this time(2200 current). We asked him to join our team and he agreed. With him being top, I get to lane with my wonderful support again. Using this line-up we have managed to get to 1711 top elo in ranked 5s. I very much like our team.
We switched to Silver Lining as our main team since I wanted to change my name to have the initials sL. Everyone followed in changing their names. Teal Kitty, however, was heartbroken after parting with his kitty name. It's alright though since he named himself after his future kitty.
After we had a lot of free time again, I thought I'd ranked to practice builds and ADCs that I was interested in. I was never playing them with the intent to win, more so to test things out to see how it would work with the team. When I started to rank in 1300 Elo again I was surprised at how easy it was to win lane compared to the people I had to vs in ranked 5s and normals. My Elo shot up pretty fast, which was really unexpected and I hit 1720 with about 3-4 loses since 1300s. I started to duo ranked with Fluffy, the support player and we both reached 1900's in a fairly short time. I'm pretty much just dancing around 1900's atm since that's my limit for the time being and it will take a lot of time for me to raise it any higher than that. So that's pretty much it. Everyone's Elo and skill level has increased by a lot since we met up. I'm really happy that I have the opportunity to be with them and learn more about the game as a team.
Silver Lining's current roster:
*sL Anomaly (aka Fruyti, Fruyti Kitty, Peach Kitty) - Mid
*sL Fluffy (aka , Teal Kitty) - Support
*sL Nova (aka nnello, Kelamity, Frosted Kitty) - ADC
*sL ArcticKitty (aka Arctic Kitty) - Jungle
*sL Sainta Claws (aka ToiletPills) - Top
AND PLEASE REPORT sL ANOMALY EVERY TIME YOU SEE HIM IN RANKED OR NORMAL. THANK YOU.