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I'm at the end of my rope here guys, so I need some advice. My games feel much more like a test of my patience than my skill. More often than not I get multiple teammates who are just terrible players. They go 0-5 or worse in their lane, and then it's impossible to do anything about their lane opponent. I'm going to stop playing for awhile... again... but I've put in more than 600 games of ranked this season and it's actually impossible for me to get out of silver. I've hovered around silver 5 for the longest time, after getting to my gold promos at one point this season.
Ranked in silver has become a real nightmare, and I want to know what Riot plans to do about it. Someone with as much experience as me at this game should not be matched with people in their placements for the first time ever who que up as an important role like jungle. Or have to deal with at least two lanes going 0-5 or worse almost every single game... At this point I could write a book about the terrible players I get tossed up on my shoulders from game to game. I'm not going to tell you I deserve to be in challenger, but I definitely do not deserve to be this hard stuck in silver.
Matchmaking is actually out of hand. There's such an insane disparity in skill levels of my teammates game to game that it makes my head spin. There are too many games that I can know when we're going to lose early in the game because of key things teammates do or do not do. Like not warding at all and shoving their lane constantly, supports that don't buy sightstone at all, junglers who go lane to lane giving kills to the enemy team in impossible to win skirmishes... or something like my support soraka going into melee range against lucian and leona to try and drop a Q on them. Then people act like I am the one who's in the wrong for pointing out that my support is intentionally feeding the enemy. I mention something to the enemy team, and they're all too happy to troll it up saying things like "x person is the best one on your team." meanwhile they're 0-4-0 telling me what a bad person I am for begging them to stop feeding.
I keep around a 4.0 average kda on all the champions I play regularly, I have a positive winrate on most of them... but overall my winrate is 48% out of 600+ games this season. I can tell you that 90% of my losses are a direct result of an afk, rage quitter, feeder, etc... things that are beyond my control make the game impossible to win. As I see it there's nothing I can do anymore to better equip my team for success. Which is why I'm here. I need advice.... because again I am at the end of my rope...
I put an enormous amount of effort into these ranked games, and more often than not I feel like I have one or more teammates who are actively trying to make the game harder to win. The stress and frustration that I get from this game has long since passed the point of being worth it to play ranked anymore... Last season I shot right up to gold 5 with around an 80% winrate on my main champion, and stopped playing ranked because of how stressful it became. This season as I've said, I cannot get out of silver, and it's a really terrible feeling.
I'm not asking for the better team every game, I just want an even game, where both teams actually have a shot at winning the game. Far too often games feel so terrible I can barely stomach playing through it.
I am going to offer you some Epic advice. I'm not speaking down to you at any moment throughout this advice. I'm just trying to Help. I do not believe I am good at this game AT ALL. But in 3 out of 7 seasons I've played this game, I've been Gold every time in Solo, Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, and this season 7, so far I'm almost in my Gold Promo's again. So I'm either good (which I'm not), or smart (which I am a little).
But more importantly Why should you read the following? Because I use to be a toxic 14-18 year old kid gaming online 24/7. I was toxic at times. I was hard on team mates. Hard. But I was filthy good or wicked smart at video games. And I ended up playing and versus the best on the games I liked all around this country, 50-60 live events, paid to play and compete, sometimes carried by famous Pro's both current and retired. Other times supporting or leading former and current famous Pros at events, helping them to make the money or place Pro on multiple games throughout the years. I'm not a 1 trick pony. I've been there, I've done that. I'm still here, just gaming on a recreational level, but I always play to win. I don't ever play for fun, that happens naturally. Sad, but true. I'm now best suited to help younger players or mature stubborn players understand this online grind that I once made it out of.
I've done nothing different then all the above you stated on League of Legends. The game was unlike any other game I've ever played before when I first played it. I'm terrible at this game. Terrible. Always have been. Always will be. And I couldn't agree more with a lot of what you said. My win rates have never been and aren't anything special on this account or any of my past accounts. But I've always made it to Gold. Once in a while, rarely, my Teemo Top, my Ashe Bot, my Varus Bot, my Yi Jungle would carry, but Rarely. I relied on others. I trusted others. After all, this isn't a 1v1 solo street fighter game, this is a 5v5 Team based strategy game.
There are some SERIOUS, serious match making issues and Balancing issues that Riot clearly ignores, pushes under the floor mat, or fails to fix (but at least they try to) and some issues they refuse to even acknowledge no matter what. That's their problem, there's nothing You can really do unless you have connections to the right people or a podium to point it out when and where their ready to listen.
But, its a great, super fun, HUGELY popular, diverse, competitive and again, extremely fun game. So we Grind on!
Step 1, my main Advice, CONTROL YOUR ONLINE EMOTIONS.
STOP TiLTING! You need to CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS. Think about you as a person and as a gamer. Regardless of your age. Regardless of Your past or present life experience or how your day is going. Regardless of who is feeding. Regardless of who didn't upgrade their trinket. Do what You can do to help win that game. Play your best. Try to Carry. Make a suggestion or two respectfully, but then mute or re-focus back onto yourself if the suggestions are ignored or toxic replies. Don't tilt or play with those who do tilt.
I don't want to hear you say you do control your emotions, because clearly your emotions are controlling you strongly enough that you logged in, and created this thread about everything that nearly every player except Pro's (and in some cases even Pro's who don't Duo Q run into). You said your at your end of your rope. If you were in control of your emotions during a tough game, or while you watch people play bad, and You let it affect You, your going to keep losing, and keep losing control of the games and stay in Bronze/Silver and in rare cases Gold.
If you control your emotions, I guarantee you'll win at least 1 more game per day LATE INTO THE GAME AND MAKE 1 COMEBACK PER DAY simply based on not tilting yourself, and not tilting others.
In Life, and on League, you must Control your Emotions to be at your strongest.
After that, Step 2 Trust your Team. This isn't 2v2 or 1v1, its a 5v5 Team based game. Try to use voice comms for easier faster communication, and pings. Mute those who need to be muted. Ignore toxicity and Block and Report those who need to be blocked and reported. Just focus on yourself and being the best player you can be, improving the best you can.
Riot has perma banned I don't know how many accounts of my friends and even a couple of mine. Why? Because I Told Feeders and AFK's and Toxic players Facts, and people can't handle the truth. But Riot doesn't care who instigated the game going south, who tilted who first, and in the end, two wrongs rarely make a right, and League isn't one of those rarities. Riot is all about that money honey. They will Perma ban, so that you can buy again. Community comes after the bills are paid and the money is made. Then it's our turn, the players. But that's cool, thats Life. BUT CONTROL THOSE EMOTIONS.
Complaining on the forums will do nothing.
Being angry or toxic, or even maturely informative will often do nothing but get you reported by the very feeders, AFKers, and terrible players that don't belong in ranked, but somehow are there, and the jokers that your upset about.
Just focus on You. When you lose a game. Move on to the next game. If you lose them all, tomorrow is another day. Try Carrying. Even if you can't, try, its a competitive game.
If your good or great at this game, and truly understand it, which I believe you do after reading your post, then you need to better understand yourself, your emotions, control those emotions, and realize that like the game of Life, Ranked Solo Q in League of Legends is FAR FAR from Perfect or Fair.
Don't tilt. Don't play with players who Tilt. And Focus on you.
Gold will come, and you will keep climbing way past Gold if you are slick on the sticks and quick on the keys.
I wish you luck DB Gaming.
