You won't truely improve much if you don't grind the ladder!

Many players on this sub ask for help and stuff to improve when they already have decent winrates, more than enough to climb. Often they are already at a decent skill level with respect to their current MMR, but the lack "the grind" to move on.

Don't get me wrong, contiously searching for options to further improve and push limits is perfectly fine, but don't forget that you also need to grind it out. To climb, you need both...improving AND grinding.

1- Competitive environment

You will only get significantly better if you are playing with people that have about the same skill level, occasionally meeting players that are definately better. Only this environment will force you out of your comfort-zone and demands pushing your limits, you can't learn everything through guides and by watching others. Get your own hands dirty!

In order to reach this zone, you'll have to make MMR jumps. If you have +55% winrate in silver 3 and play better than everybody around you, you will need to climb to at least low gold before you get into that competitive environment again. Don't waste our time thinking about this and that, grind those 100 ranked games, so that you reach the next challenge zone. This is far more effective than theorycrafting in silver, it won't make you win those unwinnable games because you need skills you can't learn in this MMR and those other games, you are already winning anyways. Grind and move on.

2- Going the distance

Even if you had the skill of a diamond 5 player, if you are in silver 5, more than 1500 LP and lots of promos are separating you from "your true MMR". A high winrate will cut some corners, but even unranked-to-challenger series need +30 games on clean 100% winrate streaks, skipping through divisions to reach the holy land, on "only" 65-70% winrate, we are already talking about ~150-200 games.

So even if you already "solved" silver/gold/plat MMR, you still have to go the distance and grind it out.

3- Experience and gameplay feedback

Sometimes you just need that experience to make the right decisions, to correctly spot weaknesses or sense a cheeseplay. In order to maintain a solid winrate, this experience is invaluable...but you can't obtain this from reading a guide, watching Korean challenger games, while you are NA silver, or through "here-is-my-op.gg-pls-help" posts. Grinding helps to build that experience, even if you are not focusing much on improvement.

Grinding and improving are two faces of the same medallion. If you are stuck with 1k games, you neglected the improvement part and if you are (also stuck, but it doesn't feel like it) asking for tips on a 20 game basis "because ranked is hard", you neglected the grinding part.

If you want to climb, make some plans, focus on playing to improve, but then grind it out.