flips a coin Heads or tails?
Unbeknownst to you:
Heads- you get a tilted player, an intentional feeder, or overall bad player undeserving of the rank they're at. Tails - the enemy team got the tilted player, intentional feeder, or hyper-carried scrublord.
Train hard, young summoners. May RNG be forever in your favor.
Blazingflares19 votesflips a coin Head or tails?
...lands on the side.
Both teams get tilted players, int feeders, and overall bad players undeserving of their rank.
ReadyxPlayerxOne4 votesflips a coin Head or tails?
...lands on the side.
Both teams get tilted players, int feeders, and overall bad players undeserving of their rank.
Pfft... Twilight Zone proved that a coin on it's side allows us to read players minds... what a noob.
Blazingflares2 votesPfft... Twilight Zone proved that a coin on it's side allows us to read players minds... what a noob.
aw shit I've been found out
Romtheguy1 votesFor the unaware, this is the episode that is being referenced! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Penny_for_Your_Thoughts_(The_Twilight_Zone)
AkaliTheOP10 votesHeh. That's a very possible situation. I'm sorry for missing it! In that case, it's like that episode of south park where the boys try to lose baseball games. The team with the worse of the worst gets the L there.
SzGamer2274 voteslmao I just saw that episode last night
Just think... 24 hours earlier and I would have no idea what you meant...
gets lost overthinking completely irrelevant timespace phenomena
chipndip113 votesPeople were so worried about premades that they forgot that this community is generally akin to a bucket of crabs.
Even if you COULD climb out, you got a bunch of dudes that are supposed to be your allies that are pulling you down intentionally.
Suspicious Xebra7 votesakin to a bucket of crabs
one of the best descriptions of the LoL community. +1 for you good sir
Romtheguy4 votesAt least a bucket of crabs is useful. Decoration akin to a goldfish. Foooood. Or just be cute!
Suspicious Xebra4 votesI am severely allergic to shellfish, so it holds additional humor to me.
ReadyxPlayerxOne9 votesIt's really fucking sad that matchmaking is so god awful that all our efforts purely comes down to a coin toss. Which means we have absolutely no effect on the outcome of our games whatsoever with at MOST 6% exception to that rule. Unintended consequence or RIOT's failure of conceiving a grand design for it... the player base may never know.
Supreme Senpai691 votesAt least with solo queue, it shouldn't be as bad. The bad players that prevent their teams from winning will fall, and they won't have up to four of their friends to put them back up, so that they can fall again when their friends go offline. Once they fall they'll stay fallen. Keyword being should though
idontgiveabother2 votesThis.
I had a game where I was autofilled support and I ended up winning bot lane with a randy adc. Somehow I did it without feeding because I literally have no clue how to play bot. It was a bumpy lane thought but we eventually won it. No one got fed on the other teams bot lane. But you know what happens? We have a previous PLATINUM (keep in mind this is silver) where he never ganked. Im not making this up. Gangplank had a rough lane against teemo but I can't hold that against him. Our midlaner straight up fed. I think he was 1/9 or something at the end of it.
Now whats my point of this rant? Basically what you said. I don't know if I deserve to be in silver, higher or lower. I don't know what to work on to improve my game. All I see is people dying over and over. Let me say one thing, of course I have my bad games and I've lost plenty of them myself. But really? Almost every damn game, not even joking, this happens with my teammates.
I seriously want to get better at this game but I am struggling to find a good foothold because of this shitstorm.
AkaliTheOP2 votesIt's difficult to know where to look for improvement in a lot of the games I've found. Last season, I could point to events and say "that's where we lost it", but now it's rough when I have people of unqualified skill level trying to play and it's infuriating. As a jungler/support, I watch these lanes feed, feed, feed. And the gold deficit becomes too great to manage, especially if a snowball champion got fed. I'm even on chat restriction for 4 more games due to going off on these people for playing so badly and threatening to feed. I get told to drink bleach, but I don't see them getting punished. Telling someone they are bad a video game is more offensive than telling someone to kill themselves. Thanks, riot.
idontgiveabother1 votesA lot of the times I can pin point where things go wrong. But then I wonder, did that bad play I make really shape the game any differently because our adc is still 0/10? I will admit my faults, but at this point the line becomes more and more blurred and I can't tell if its me or them. I don't want to be the person that blames my team but when someone dies over and over...
I also main jungle and mid. I get flamed all the time as the jungler and sometimes I just get tired of dealing with peoples shit every game and that ends up tilting me. Mid lane you get the jungler that never touches your lane except to walk in and out and take some xp which screws you over. Or they will straight up blame the team for them feeding. Thats what the platinum khazix did in that game. Damn if he's platinum I might as well be challenger by that logic.
Over Innsmouth9 votesIt physically hurts because of how true this is.
AkaliTheOP3 votesIt's quite sad. I've had plenty of games where someone gets called out for a misplay and their disproportionate response is "you want me to int?" and I always tell them go for it. Enjoy that fat perma ban.
Over Innsmouth3 votesOr you just lose because your top laner doesnt know how to handle Nautilus.
Next thing you know, it's 20 minutes and their lone Nautilus is tankier than your entire frontline, and he removes the ADC with a R-Q-E combo.
idontgiveabother2 votesThis reminds me of when I saw a rengar main lose to soraka top.
Melledoneus2 votesThis just in: Cats also fear bananas in addition to cucumbers!
idontgiveabother1 votesCats and cucumbers are hilarious
ømg2 votesIt's quite sad. I've had plenty of games where someone gets called out for a misplay and their disproportionate response is "you want me to int?" and I always tell them go for it. Enjoy that fat perma ban.
depends how you call them out on it
enjoy being stuck in p5 while they don't get punished because it's their first offense, I'm sure you deserve challenjour but it's your RNG holding you back
fuffychan5 votesYou forgot the AFKers
AkaliTheOP2 votesThat's a valid point :P I suppose I grouped them in with the tilted players haha.
Troll for Trump4 votesHate the people that say you can carry everygame, and that every loss is your fault.
It's not never your fault, sometimes it can be, but most of the time, it isn't. And you'll often beat yourself up thinking that for no reason.
It's a team game, you can't influence your teammates. You can't usually fix incompetence within the span of a game. One person falls, and they will burden the rest of the team.
Flustig4 votestheory: you should get less bad players because you get 4 random teammates while enemies get 5 random teammates
in practice: well.....surr 20 again
MonkeyMadness3 votesUm what? First of all, assuming you are not the troll, that leaves only 4 spots for that "tilted player, an intentional feeder..." on your team and 5 on the enemy team, meaning that you should be winning 5/9 games by your own logic.
GULAG 4 U2 votesNo, it's simply destroy the nexus.
DHBGrimReaper2 votesMy earliest gameplay of League was in season 5, so I have no idea, but apparently in earlier seasons you could 1v5 carry as Lee Sin or Jax etc.
AkaliTheOP3 votesThere have been DotA level moments where having a team isn't necessary. Currently, that's not the case in most games, thankfully. Nothing says "Fun and interactive" like getting 1 v 5'd.
DHBGrimReaper2 votesThere have been DotA level moments where having a team isn't necessary. Currently, that's not the case in most games, thankfully. Nothing says "Fun and interactive" like getting 1 v 5'd.
I'm all for team gameplay but I feel like it shouldn't take 5 people to win a game. Which of course it doesn't, I've won 4v5s and intent feeder games. But yeah if your team gets fed you should be able to end the game.
Bisaknosp2 votesyup i tried my best to stay positive in ranked and let my team know there is (almost) always a chance but still some biatches decide to stay afk and cry the whole game in fountain so pathetic
nm10101 votes1 player isn't bad enough to lose every game, 2-4 gets to the point where you really need to hard carry if you are going to win though.
Supreme Senpai696 votesTbh all it takes is one. Had many games, almost every game actually, but my more recent example will be Draven top. Went 0/9/1. Everyone else won their lane, everyone else did fine, but it just wasn't enough to overcome the gold difference.
nm10101 votesIf you are losing games with only 1 player doing poorly in anything below plat you simply don't know how to carry games. If I can win with a 1-32-0 teemo in plat 1 you can win with your 0-9 draven.
AkaliTheOP3 votesIf you are losing games with only 1 player doing poorly in anything below plat you simply don't know how to carry games. If I can win with a 1-32-0 teemo in plat 1 you can win with your 0-9 draven.
Well, I was in Platinum 4 last season. Additionally, that's not true. I've also won a 4 v 5 without an ADC - disconnect - but that doesn't mean therefore ADC's aren't required, you shouldn't need one too. That's awful logic. The fact of the matter is having any number of players who either don't belong in the bracket they're in or who intentionally help the enemy team are detrimental to the game and reduce the impact of the individual's skill.
nm10101 votesYou claim that rng determines games in league by giving one team a detriment, my claim was that one player is recoverable and therefore rng does not determine the result of the game.
People like to play the helpless victim card too much and quite frankly I'm well over a 50% winrate in games with afks, enemy scripters, or intentional feeders on my team. You are probably the guy that gives up at the 10 minute mark when you are behind :P
Supreme Senpai692 votesLol let me ask you a question. What happens when 5 good players go against 4 good players and one horrible player? It's simple math. Unless your post was just to point out how good you are, carrying in plat 1. Unless you're gold level skill in a bronze level game, this won't happen. Assuming all sides are equal skill, this physically cannot happen. All it takes is one player and that's why intentional feeding and AFKs are so disruptive. That's why remakes are a thing.
All that aside, I play support.
nm10101 votesMy post was to point out have easily people give up on hard games just because they don't want to play with a disadvantage. Thinking of players as gold or bronze level already shows that you don't quite grasp the macro play in league. If you are at a disadvantage you can make risky decisions to carry the game, yes it isn't going to work all the time but as I said above I have well over a 50% winrate in games with afks, enemy scripters, or intentional feeders on my team.
https://i.gyazo.com/31d236d84b03e88d5099e9e97d5aeb93.png We won (this is the one where he ended 1-32-0)
Match history is down for me or I'd find you another 3-4 examples, but I'm sure most people would rather complain here on the boards then actually have to think about how to win a 4v5 with an int'er though.
Supreme Senpai691 votesThe difference here is that instead of saying "This is funny, but you can still win! Never give up!" you're saying "Lol git gud everyone sucks but me." I'm exaggerating honestly, but... yea. Just because your Teemo went 1-32-0, supposedly, doesn't make this any less true. Maybe you got lucky, the enemy team fed more than yours, they had an AFK, or you closed out the game fast enough which can't be the case because that was at least a 45 minute game. Either way, not giving up = good content post. "Git gud" = shitpost.
nm10101 votesPardon my lack of humor, there were almost 1 million silver or lower players at season end. I'm sure at least half of them have this same "qq I can't win games because of rng" mentality that op has.
Honestly it gets old, its like listening to excuses of spoiled kids. "I failed because my teacher hates me" "I don't understand the material" "Who needs math anyway?" I've been listening to the league equivalent of these excuses for 5 years, just learn that problem in games is your attitude and start winning games.
Maybe I am just getting old, I get tired of seeing the younger generation who you can't leave alone or they won't accomplish anything either. Either way it isn't a "git gud" post, its a stop complaining about things you can fix post.
Supreme Senpai691 votesTo be fair, in bronze-silver that usually is the case. If someone wins its because the other team had a horrid feeder or AFK. Higher up that problems because less frequent, but it really does plague the lower ELOs. My advice would to play a carry jungler or mid laner, so you can help other lanes not feed or capitalize on the feeder on the enemy team.
warpenguin5551 votesyou forgot the guy who leaves after remake is up
MunchCrunchLunch1 votesthat is the biggest factor to winning games. either that or your leagues above the rest of the people in your game and you can hard carry. which is kind of lame and stupid ideally you learn and climb over time but thats unrealistic for most people.
Marshbouy1 votesHey remember when nonsensically complaining about how RNG would get you downvoted into oblivion? http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/011/425/But_Pepperidge_Farm_aint_just_gonna_keep_it_to_Pepperidge__5c6a319f9b808bca3f929f02bc45f1b8.png
AkaliTheOP3 votesHey remember when nonsensically complaining about how RNG would get you downvoted into oblivion? http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/011/425/But_Pepperidge_Farm_aint_just_gonna_keep_it_to_Pepperidge__5c6a319f9b808bca3f929f02bc45f1b8.png
Downvoting factual statements isn't as acceptable in higher functioning groups. I can see why it may be in yours.
Marshbouy2 votesWell in my functional groups you also post actually factual things, while you are just complaining that ranked is RNG with no factual basis.
