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22~ ranked losing streak after a win streak

MkzXwing··7 votes·30,459 views

So, i was playing ranked for a long time now, didn't quite make it to gold last season, and landed back in silver 1 in this season. I was playing a ranked game or two per week, and wasn't too serious about going up in divisions, until i made a friend who mains jungle. He plays pretty well and we started doing lost of games as a ranked duo. instantly, we started winning most of the games, and it got me into gold 5, then 4 and eventually gold 3. We had a pretty long winning streak. But it was more or less balanced, with about 1 loss for every 3 wins..

And then suddenly, we started getting horrible teams. I'm not talking about just bad players (though they where there as well), but people completely unable to communicate or ping (just didn't speak or spoke in one or few foreign languages, unable to understand each other and us), people that didn't discuss picks at the selection screen, people that dive 1v 2-5, people that flame you after a single death (and keep at it the whole game) and people who just troll or intentionally feed... I'm now on about my 20th loss in ranked, with 1 or 2 wins somewhere in there(with one of them being because the enemy had an afk, and we barely won that one too..). thanks to that i'm back at gold 5 with 50 points.

Now tell me, what do i do about it? I tried taking breaks, one of them was even a week long, i start and stay positive each game until we get to such amazing scores as 1/13 to the enemy team or the whole team dives one by one vs 5 people and dies, and then anyone would get annoyed, especially when its like that game after game.. I heard about the popular "tilt" thingy, but i don't have it, because i always start positive and believe i can win.. What is up?

I posted this on the balance board, because such long losing/ winning streaks are clearly abnormal and have to do with how the teams get balanced. For now i'm just quitting until the next season, i see no other solution to this.

24 Comments

Kaldorain7 votes

Simple. Riot's formula says you can't have above a 50% win rate. When you do, you will be paired with people who have horrendous win rates (20-40% typically). This is to drag you back down, or as the system sees it shows how good of a player (completely carry) you are on a terribad team.

Ghi5 votes

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Lordofthepittt4 votes

Its kinda common sense once you think about it. Personally, I sometimes go on long win streaks and then long lose streaks. Riots goal is to make sure you can 'carry' you 0/20 mid lane and ADC.

brad2 votes

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Where did you get this information from?

fuck if anyone knows dude

this shit always comes up and i always ask them where the hell they get that idea from and they always say "well i went on a loss streak after a win streak so it has to be"

Wubzey11 votes

ik this is old but it makes sense because think about it,. if riot actually let u keep ur winstreak, then everyone will be ranking up and no one will watch pros. its all business

XaviorZeroBlazer3 votes

I know for a fact world of tanks does this, they even have a patent on the technology behind it.

Ghi2 votes

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MkzXwing3 votes

I don't believe bad luck can land you in losing teams for 20+ times in a row, especially if you're good enough to carry losing teams with your duo partner (an that happened quite a few times in my previous ranked wins, and prior as well, in normal games). i do have champions i main, and i carry with them often, but its impossible to carry teams that can't communicate at all, make irrational decisions all the time, and just overall CAN'T PLAY THE GAME. It has to do something with the balancer, no way you get a team against you with 5 people playing as a team (while 3-5 of them play well), and you get a team who can't play as a team at all (while only 0-2 people play well on your team, have no map awareness, don't ping and don't communicate). Its impossible.

D0omyD0om2 votes

You haven't even dropped a tier yet. My worst (and only, really) giant losing streak dropped me from P4 into G5 over the course of a month or so. Then I took a month worth of break, changed genres completely (FPS, singleplayer RPGs and such) and when I came back to LoL it took me about 10 days to instantly climb back with almost no losses. Really, there's a lot of fun games out there. Take a break from QWER-ing, it helps.

MkzXwing1 votes

Wow, that's harsh.. Guess i'm not alone in this then. Doesn't it still have something to do with balancing though? now way you can lose infinitely just because of "bad luck" and be on the losing team 20-40 game in a row..

nitwitty1 votes

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You haven't even dropped a tier yet. My worst (and only, really) giant losing streak dropped me from P4 into G5 over the course of a month or so. Then I took a month worth of break, changed genres completely (FPS, singleplayer RPGs and such) and when I came back to LoL it took me about 10 days to instantly climb back with almost no losses. Really, there's a lot of fun games out there. Take a break from QWER-ing, it helps.

so true so true

Beerstein1 votes

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You haven't even dropped a tier yet. My worst (and only, really) giant losing streak dropped me from P4 into G5 over the course of a month or so. Then I took a month worth of break, changed genres completely (FPS, singleplayer RPGs and such) and when I came back to LoL it took me about 10 days to instantly climb back with almost no losses. Really, there's a lot of fun games out there. Take a break from QWER-ing, it helps.

Yup, you need to break long enough for riot algorithm to think you're quitting. Then play straight when you come back, eat up as many free wins as possible til your goal, then stop for the season. That's how I got gold.

LORD V0LDEMORT2 votes

I don't know what is it.i Took a break from lol for a week and after in 3 days climeped 3 divisions and now i start losing again i really can explain it item 3070 item 3070 item 3070 _

SDPovac2 votes

Bro i littearly have the same problem now i had a 6 win streak and i climbed to s2 promos and i lost the promos and 11 games now in a row i lost idk what happend bad teammates only flame and feed

OilegibtKoile1 votes

2 year old thread man

Muted Summoner1 votes

Im on a hard losing streak I may soon hit silver 1 at this rate...out of every game so far. I've had at least 1+ people toxic. Sometimes they bitch at me sometimes its just others bitching at others in team chat. Sometimes I have got mad and cut lose a little bit but I try to never insult anyone but give them advice whether they like it or not. But the toxicity I have seen. Im starting to get to the point where rank is a waste of time and leave it to normals where there is still bitching but because its normals it doesn't really matter so I could care less.

ABlueQuaker1 votes

Wouldn't you stop playing after like 5 losses?

Muted Summoner6 votes

[{quoted}](name=A Blue Quaker,realm=OCE,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=8FnPWy2O,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2015-08-16T11:04:00.836+0000)

Wouldn't you stop playing after like 5 losses?

you take a break come back and still lose. it happens. Sometimes Matchmaking deals u a bad hand

The Great Jaggi2 votes

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you take a break come back and still lose. it happens. Sometimes Matchmaking deals u a bad hand

almost always*

Ben Sharpio1 votes

I can relate so much to this omfg. Like one minute i'm in wood division, 50 game losses streak later now i'm in plastic division. I get in the worst teams and all they do is food, i deserve challenjour gg

KønigV21 votes

[{quoted}](name=Ben Sharpio,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=8FnPWy2O,comment-id=0005,timestamp=2015-08-16T19:43:00.854+0000)

I can relate so much to this omfg. Like one minute i'm in wood division, 50 game losses streak later now i'm in plastic division. I get in the worst teams and all they do is food, i deserve challenjour gg

na is like the wood division of servers

Bardmageddon1 votes

Even tho it's an old thread, This really is a thing. I have it too... i've been playing some ranked to climb the ladder, everything goes well, some struggles but overall decent people. I get in my s2 promo's and suddenly i start losing game after game (8game loss streak). And it doesn't look like a coincidence at all, it's quite clear there has been a huge change in the population i play with or against... Almost every game is a mess, I keep starting with a positive attitude but some games are impossible to win. There are people on the team that start flaming pre game about how they are going to INT and how they don't care about being reported. I've had guys talking about how they wanted our team to lose at the very beginning of a game, people that go afk after one death, people that stop farming etc.

Meanwhile i went from promo's to 0LP and the fear of dropping on the ladder, same as you I fear to play more because of this, and it's really the most frustrating experience ever.. I have to deal with flaming, trolling, afk'ing every game, again and again..

Vranesh1 votes

this shit is just getting worse. I am in silver right now. Here how the games go. One team destroys the other team and no close games. I cant remember when was the last time I played a game and said, wow I enjoyed that game. You either win a few games in a row and lose a few more after, or win one and lose the other. Let's be honest, the match making system is broken af. Riot can't fix it, or simply don't want to fix it. The stagnation is just beyond control of Riot now. I think its because of LCS. They are focusing on that aspect of the game so much, they really don't care about lower elos. I have stopped spending money on the game now, and unless I see an effort from riot to fix this, I wont spend another dime, and will be looking for other games to play

Colte1 votes

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this shit is just getting worse. I am in silver right now. Here how the games go. One team destroys the other team and no close games. I cant remember when was the last time I played a game and said, wow I enjoyed that game. You either win a few games in a row and lose a few more after, or win one and lose the other. Let's be honest, the match making system is broken af. Riot can't fix it, or simply don't want to fix it. The stagnation is just beyond control of Riot now. I think its because of LCS. They are focusing on that aspect of the game so much, they really don't care about lower elos. I have stopped spending money on the game now, and unless I see an effort from riot to fix this, I wont spend another dime, and will be looking for other games to play

look at the date bro...

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

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