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What the hell am I doing wrong????

brothermarksman·6/3/2017, 5:52:07 AM·2 votes·728 views

Hi there <o/ I've played league for over a year now, I'm as you can see an adc main. "But adcs suck this season." Well so does my mom, but that never stopped her, why should it stop me. (Ok not as funny as I thought) Any how, I own almost every adc in the game now, and I have taken a liking to Draven, Vayne, Ezreal and Twitch recently. If I go against squishy weak early game champs it's Draven, if it's a long game with a tanks support and I need dodges it's vayne or Ezreal, and twitch because he's fucking twitch mate <o/

So back to my problem. I play a lot of league now. I mean a lot. And in my normals I don't know if it's me but I seem to dominate. Take a look at my match history. Ignore the ranked (there's my problem) and look at draft. When I'm falling way behind or lost first blood I go 2/2, 11-7, 9/5. Now when I do good, more at the bottom and my recent twitch game I go 30/6, 10/1, 15/3, 21/3, etc. I popped off hard in these games and it happens quiet often and I lost 1 normal out of 12. And more than half I carried hard as hell.

Now glance again at my ranked. Holy shit is it bad. I've lost 7 out of 8 placements. 7 damn games when I dominated in draft. My only win? 5/5 Draven. The game before, a normal 15/3 Draven. I only got 5/5 because I began to ks when I was 1/4. And holy damn my kdas, I am the scum of league in ranked. 2/8, 2/4,1/4, 4/7,1/6,3/10 on fucking Draven. Now I understand one or two bad ranked games, but when I dominate so damn hard in normals how can I suck so bad in ranked. I use champs I previously never played and still go hard in draft, and dominate,such as ekko and riven. I love assassins, but sadly don't have many as I only focus adcs because they use to be meta rip. Any how, how am I doing so damn good in draft and suck in ranked?

Compare my two twitch games for example. Let's go to my good one first, 1/8 top lane teemo vs cho. 3/8 alkali vs ekko mid. Ekko is 19/10 late game. Ashe led by 3/0 early game. I buy my time as twitch, farm all game and get kills by going invisible and clean up team fights with ult, Morgan's support, and boom 30/6, pentakill. I can 1v4 at this point (Not bragging I'm still fucking wood 5 basically, and ever try to 1v5 against a cho??) ok so great game, twitch on ranked now. Another Morgan, and I'm against Twisted fate should be easy. Top lane fiora, goes even. Ekko 1/3 in 15 not that bad. Me? 0/3, can't even farm correctly this damn game. I try to play from behind, get fucking destroyed. Like my monkey brain can't comprehend what I'm doing. I can't even blame mid, le Blanca didn't show up once bot. Got banked twice by kindred, died once to her but nothing major so can't blame jungle. Morgan's misses a few qs but pokes with w and shields like a champs so can't blame her. Top is even and no to ganks. That leave me. The boosted monkey <o/

Now I ranted enough, I want to ask what am I doing wrong? How am I doing so well in draft and not in ranked? It's not nerves I feel hell of confident since I usually do ranked off a good win. It's not the champions because I can carry hard and dodge in draft. So what's holding me back? I've taken mentors, I've watched climbing videos, I've read step guides to csing, poking, trades, etc and can do it decently in draft. So why am I so bad in ranked? Thanks for reading hope someone can lift my curse.

12 Comments

ReySolomon6/3/2017, 6:00:17 AM1 votes

Norms/drafts people don't care and there are new people playing and there are trolls...rank is where you play against smurfs that tryhard and players that have been playiny for years that have a lot of experience like a diamond player, so I say just keep playing ranked until you start seeing improvements!

TheBenchedKench6/3/2017, 6:15:07 AM1 votes

Maybe you should start blaming your support.

But in all seriousness, its because in draft/normal noone really cares, they don't play their best because they don't have the ever-looming fear of being Kench'd into bronze 5 like I was.

Also in ranked you experience things like toxic players, smurfs, tryharders, Yasuos, yasuos, rivens, yasuos, and yasuos, while in normals you probaly only face Trashsuos, badimirs, whorakas.

Escheton6/3/2017, 6:42:49 AM1 votes

Normals has the occational person trying out a free week champ. Not as much as in season 4 where normals were just hella chill. Lotta tryharding. But if you tryhard and face a first timer...well...enjoy?

Darth StepVader6/3/2017, 9:11:37 AM1 votes

How about you try these champions in ranked: Xayah Lucian Caitlyn and also keep your Twitch .

The first 3 especially are currently dominating the scene. How about you give them a try in your ranked games, after a few normals ofc, and see if there's any difference.

DemainaNyx6/3/2017, 11:07:15 PM1 votes

First off, you really can't compare normal draft to ranked. Normals are whatever to most people. They will be playing champions they are learning or champions in roles they don't know. Plus you'll get strange matchmaking there you'll have a Diamond player on your team and the enemy team is all Bronzes.

Ranked however, people take more seriously. People will play the champion they know the best, in the role they've mastered most of the time. Plus you are generally matched with people around the same skill level as yourself, so you don't have that one Diamond player to carry the game for you if you have a bad early game.

You appear to be new, but it's hard for me to tell cause the first game in your history you're level 30, so I don't know how long you've been playing. You might not know enough basic knowledge about the game yet to do that (I don't know what your mentors have told you or what videos you watch). You've also chosen one of the hardest roles in the game IMO.

So, first off, I'd say don't be so hard on yourself, especially if you are new to the game.

If you are new, you should be focusing on learning what every champion does so you know what their abilities are. Play a few games with every champion (check free champ rotation so you can save your IP), so you get an idea of how they will be played against you or along side you. Additionally, find a video on youtube or a stream to see how to play the champion, cause these higher level players will play differently than us lower levels.

Because of autofill, you should really know how to play at least one other role and know how to play support for the off chance you get your secondary role or get autofilled. I personally queue up as ADC/supp cause bot lane is completely different than any other lane. Plus, as an ADC, you need to work with your support, so knowing their role will help you understand what they will do and what they expect you to do.

The best thing I'd suggest is work on CSing, get used to looking at your mini map, find ideal builds for your champions, and understanding what you should be doing at different points in the game.

In most of your games, your CS numbers are low. Ideally you'd want around 70-ish CS every 10 minutes. The first 70 are the hardest cause you lose out on the first minute due to minions not even spawning yet, and you actually have to last hit instead of just demolishing the minion wave with your abilities like you can in late game. As an ADC, CSing is your primary goal. Getting kills is good, but if you have good CS, that's way better cause CS is easier to get, whereas with kills you may get 30 kills one game and 1 kill the next. Relying on getting kills for gold is not a good idea because of how inconsistent this is.

LOOK AT YOUR MINIMAP. It offers a ton of information and allows you to have an idea of what's going on around the map without actually needing to move your camera to look. If the enemy mid is visible mid, then you know they can't be ganking you, so you don't need to worry about their abilities right now. If mid is missing, maybe you should be playing safer cause you may be getting 4 man ganked by mid and the jungler.

Some of your builds seem off to me. You should consider looking at sites like Champion.gg and Probuilds.net to get an idea of how other people build this champion. You might not know why they are building that way or why they have certain runes/masteries, but that's something you can look up if it doesn't make sense to you. I wouldn't worry too much about having ideal runes since that may change soon anyway, but at least getting good masteries a build should help.

The next thing is understanding what to do during different parts of the game. This sorta depends on each game, but you should have a relative idea of what to do. If you kill the enemy jungler and a laner, maybe it's time to do dragon/baron or to push and try to get a tower/inhib. If you double kill bot lane, try to push the wave and maybe get some damage on the tower. If you are losing lane, try to farm safely under your tower and don't expect help from your jungler. There are a whole host of other things you need to keep in mind, but these are just a few.

This guy is overwhelming, but this new streamer on Twitch called Prismal_lol (https://www.twitch.tv/prismal_lol) is a challenger ADC main, so he offers a ton of advice and will answer questions in between games. Every stream I've viewed of his is educational, so while we might not understand why he makes certain decisions, he'll try his best to explain what he's doing.