Seriously, I just come across first timers, trolls, people who have no idea what they are doing, as if they just do not care about winning or losing and only want to pass time. People picking junglers with low winrates and going 3/15, top laners being 60 cs down at 10 mins going 2/9.
My issues been bot lane. They feed a double kill in the first 5 and flame me for not ganking when the enemy Lucian is 7/0. After that they just troll and keep running down mid saying in all chat "GG better jungler wins". Its infuriating
I don't really play to win because I realize I do not have control over most games. Only when my team is actually trying will I actually play to win, not when I have a 0 mastery point mid and a jungler who can't do their rotation properly.
It feels like it's back to better bot wins. If I don't have a winning bot lane (which happens a lot) it's pretty much over it feels like. And there is still a lot of smurfs and new players in my elo...
I always try to win every game no matter what until the nexus falls or the FF vote goes through.
Why bother. It's too much effort and too much frustration to actually invest myself into the game emotionally. I win my games by making smart plays and draining my opponent which doesn't work for shit when every lane is rocking 5 deaths minimum by the end of lane phase. Rather just play some dumb shit and take fights nonstop if thats what everyone else is doing. Even the slow games are doomed by whoever has the lower elo players.
People picking off-meta Junglers?
OMG! How dare they!!
Me and my duo have Lucian and Caitlyn on perm ban and bot lane feels so much more fun to play.
I peaked Silver 2 last season... I've been stuck in Bronze 2. :/ I get that they added Iron and that might cause a shift but com'on. I was almost Gold if I could have pushed myself to play ADC a little more(even if the role was dog shit). You're telling me I have to slog through Bronze again?
And these games are depressing and frustrating. I admit the ones I played last night aren't stellar but I played some over the weekend where I honestly don't know what I could have done better. At this point, I'm just tilted and disheartened and severely frustrated. I didn't want to be back in Bronze again. I fought so hard the last two seasons to not be bronze because climbing out of it in Season 7 was a nightmare; it placed me B5 in season 7 after going 8/2 in my placements. Bronze 5.
Like look at these games I've lost: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2979792259/228066420?tab=overview 15/5 https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2979757051/228066420?tab=overview 16/9 https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2979332807/228066420?tab=overview 16/9 https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2978730662/228066420?tab=overview 9/7 https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2978609391/228066420?tab=overview 15/9
Like holy shit, the only common occurrence between all of these games are that my mid, top, and Jungle open up a free soup kitchen. People keep talking about its better bot lane wins. That must mean that I'm dog shit at botlane then.
So, I can explain what is going on at the moment.
Firstly, positional ranked has screwed up a lot. It has created a new level of emergence that Riot never prepared for. In addition, LP gains have been absolutely whack. These two alone may cause this system to be reverted, but we're not done there.
The game currently is about high damage, high rng. Add random players to the mix, in addition to the chaotic nature of positional ranking, and you have more wild games than before. Now, you have less of a chance of influencing if you win games or not. It shows mostly if you watch pro streams of people smurfing or simply trying to climb through diamond. The game can be over by the weakest link rather than by the strongest carry.
This is perhaps the flaw of solo queue, and why I've said for years now that either solo queue be removed, or Riot simply focus all their balance and design decisions on competitive play. Cause at the game's current state, they are not capable of delivering a stable experience or foundation that the game can stand on. I could write all day all the changes they could do to make the game more stable again, but like all the people before me, it's useless in the face of Riot trucking forward and doing things like small incremental stat changes to their champions, forgetting to nerf certain ones, buffing random ones, and just outright having to guess most of their design decisions.
One last thing, I wish we had the old design team back. They knew some semblance of how to balance things.
I barely play rank because of the lack of integrity maintained in the mode.
I give up when I see my teammates aren't worth winning with/for. Maybe if I was matched with my elo and not being put in bronze/iron matches would be nice, maybe then I'd find more people worth climbing with. And yes, way too many trolls or people who disconnect after 1st blood. Boy matchmaker sure has inproved...in being from bad to terrible that is.
I get I a low rank because I was gone 18 months buuuuuut, Teamwork as a whole is terrible. I do better in blinds 90% of the time now. I think you should gave to go against advance bots and do certain key things while wining to get into ranked.
Wont happen but hey whatev.
Look at the bright side: Your opponents aren't trying to win Ranked, either.
Well given that learning anything about the game is irrelevant since riot has already reworked it once and will likely rework it again in the foreseeable future, yeah people don't try anymore.
Nobody cares to be fair. This entire season is a big joke. People have already started to not log on anymore. Automated system throwing out bans like candy.. oh unless you say "I lagged" when you feed, of course.
This entire year is a joke. You autofill me and expect me to give 2 dangs? Man I'ma just type "Sorry, lagging" in all chat and run it down to end the game faster.
After all, #NotMyRole.
