New season problems. I just can't win anymore.

Glowshtick·1/3/2017, 6:48:44 AM·2 votes·693 views

It feels like ever since the new season started I am specifically targeted to lose. Now I know people say this a lot, but it feels like more than that. It seems like if I don't play like faker I don't win. The enemy team has snowballed insanely every match I play, even if I play on par. There's always a significant skill gap between the overall performance of my team vs. there team, and I mean much more than what it usually felt like in season 5.

It feels like the matchmaking system is setting me in particular up for failure, but more than before. I feel punished and frankly cheated. I keep telling myself I just gotta play better but I feel like it's more than that.

3 Comments

Elite4Runner1/3/2017, 7:06:50 AM1 votes

Early season is always chaos.

Silver tends to be the testing grounds for unranked matches, so anyone who ranked above gold last year, who is doing their placement matches is going to sway the outcome of a match pretty heavily.

Also, you have won 5 of your last 13 Ranked Solo matches (or at least the last 13 I can see on your op.gg)

There is a psychological principle known as the Losada Ratio.

It says that for every negative experience, it takes an average of 3 positive experiences to balance your overall perspective of the set.

This means if the average plays 4 games and wins less than 3, they will have a tenancy to feel as though they are doing poorly.

So if you win 2 and lose 2, you have a 50/50 win rate. That is actually expected in a correctly balanced environment, but you will feel bad.

5 out of 13 is actually a 38% win rate, which isn't great, but out of a small sample size and given the previous point, it makes sense that you will be disappointed.

Just stick with it friend, it will balance out.

Look at this as an opportunity to learn from any mistakes and improve yourself.

Sexualsaurus1/3/2017, 8:41:42 AM1 votes

Don't worry, just remember that good things will always come. You don't have to play like faker, once you feel a bit more relaxed the enemy team will need to play like faker to beat you.

If it helps imagine everyone on your team are monkeys with guns. If you get them a head enough then it doesn't matter that their monkeys cause their guns will most certainly do damage. That way you have no expectations to begin with and therefore be impossible to tilt.

Every time I go into a game now I have the mindset of "oh bot lane up to your silly little shenanigans again I see, well it's nice to see you're keeping the game interesting with that 5/0 vayne haha"

Also I looked at your match history, it might be for the best to try mid lane. Last season I was on a lost streak and it involved bot lane quite a bit so I played kog maw for a fair amount. It helped reduced the snowballing I was experiencing. Either that or go top and forget about the rest of the drama on the map. Just relax and farm, it can be nice sometimes not having much pressure even if you lose.

VeterenMantis1/3/2017, 12:56:15 PM1 votes

Bump, me too, Getting camped into oblivion..I was gold last season...