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Should I Even Play Ranked Anymore?

Fly Fish Master·6/6/2016, 6:07:34 AM·2 votes·761 views

This is my first season to get to play Ranked and I want to quit the game now. I main Yasuo (probably not the best thing ever to main, but I am really bad with champions that have mana or are start up ranged) and I thought I was decent up until after getting placed in Bronze 2 for only winning 2 of my 10 placements. I then dropped to Bronze 3 after about a day, then 4 after another day. Now I am stuck in the dangerous land known as Bronze 5.

I pretty much have to pray my teammates don't feed and will do something other than charge up midlane only to waste time and let the enemy team get their inhibitor back up. I end up not getting kills because I am trying so hard to try and not feed. I have just today started to only last hit minions when they are low (I was kind of doing it before, but now I am actively trying to do it) and try to harass. I have been receiving some tips from a friend who is in Diamond, but that isn't even enough. I know I am not amazing and my friend is expecting me to know how to properly teamfight when I don't feel like I do. He won't just say what to do either. He just tries to show me and expects me to understand why he did what he did and why that was a good decision.

I don't want to quitsince I bought some skins and champs, but since I have depression (real diagnosed depression,not the feeling down every once in a while thing everyone else gets and thinks is depression) and just dropping to the point it feels like even if I improve, I still won't be able to leave Bronze 5 makes me so upset. It is worse too because just waiting for next season will just result in me getting put back into Bronze. I can't really play any other champions as Yasuo except for Zed , who is basically permabanned right now.

What should I do?

EDIT: I do play more champions than I listed such as Riven , Warwick , Sion , and Fizz . I just lean towards Yasuo more because I have the most time ingame with him. The one things alot of teams I get in Ranked don't do is ward, especially the jungle.

8 Comments

Cyndercat6/6/2016, 8:56:22 AM3 votes

Sounds like you arent ready for ranked. You need about 5 champions for your role you are confident with before you should be playing ranked so you can avoid being counterpicked. Everyone has a main, and there are plenty of one trick ponies who ternd to only play one champion, but you should always be able to be flexible.

You also should know the basic fundamentals of lol, such as how to farm CS by last hitting minions like you mentioned in you post, when to group or not to, how to position yourself in team fights. these things really just come with experience but in a ranked environment its unpleasant to learn and you arent going to be as focused on your personal improvement as much as you are trying to win.

Im only a silver scrub but my advice would be to take a break from ranked, play about 100 normal games and try out a couple of new mid lane champions. You especially need some AP mid laners so you can adapt to your team's comp. Focus on last hitting, not dying by positioning and trading well, and warding.

May I Smell You6/6/2016, 6:22:56 AM2 votes

Practice makes perfect is all I can say!

2LUCID6/6/2016, 6:11:02 AM1 votes

Stop playing Yasuo troll

Zalieri6/6/2016, 6:22:33 AM1 votes

Play carry champs in bronze or champs that have good split push. Good champs in bronze are ww, chogath, voli, udyr is kinda on the fence, yi, and there are a few more out there.

MLDzXnRRR6/6/2016, 8:50:51 AM1 votes

Play for fun. Ranked is waste of time, imo - I've been highest Plat 2. No point in playing ranked,

Zalieri6/9/2016, 2:36:01 PM1 votes

With WW you can dictate what the enemy team does since, no one can 1 v 1 you unless they kite. You can make ppl chase you and allow your team to get objectives. In bronze, just play like everyone is slightly worse than you and focus objectives. You would be surprised how many objectives you can take when the enemy team chooses to clown fiesta