u/Sufficient-Cat-7203

Hi, I’m new and solo queue in Emerald.

There was a game where I played support, and our mid and jungle seemed to be duo. Later, I found out the jungle is Diamond 2 and mid is Silver 2, but they both have a Challenger badge from last season.

We were winning our lane (ADC was 3/1 early game). Our jungle was good, but our mid (ex-Challenger) fed 0/5, so we got ganked by their mid so hard that we ended up losing. Our mid trash talked us, saying ADC useless, SP useless, dog brain, etc.

Well… how could an ex-challenger end up in Silver 2, get into an Emerald lobby, feed, and trashtalk? Boosted or account selling? JP/KR server btw.