Am I The Only One Feeling Like My Losses Are Outside Of My Control?

Prince Purge··22 votes·10,994 views

I know that if I played perfectly in each scenario, that I could potentially carry these games to victory. There are just so many champions that, once fed, are unstoppable. But I have literally lost 50% of my recent games on Nocturne, and all but 1 I was doing amazing. I get the majority of dragons, I have stolen baron on many occasions, I gank a lot and don't take the kills most of the time I gank early, I power-farm to 6 with Nocturne, and I do good myself in every game. As a jungler I cannot help every single lane do good, but it sucks that one lane loses hard and the game flips around from a win to a loss pretty fast. I do have a tendency later on in games to die once the enemy becomes more ahead based on greed. I am working on fixing that. But seriously, once a game becomes slightly favoring one team, it's usually impossible to come back. I consistently do good for my team and focus objectives, and as an assassin, kill and focus priority targets, even when we lose games. There are even games where I do f*** up and should lose the game, and then somehow my team wins 1 single teamfight and snowballs from there, and I sit there wondering why we're winning now. This whole game is so explosive now. This has affected my ranked games as well. Both of my ranked provisional losses so far were games where 1: I was doing great and 2: we were winning at the beginning. Then one teamfight goes wrong and the entire game flips over. I still did good on my losses. It's just aggravating because it feels outside of my control.

29 Comments

Furious Delisha6 votes

When get good is not enough, get gooder

z63XnLCMwX6 votes

Some games are unwinnable. Even if you want to try, but your team gave up, their's nothing much you can do.

MYSTlCFLOW5 votes

no I usually take games into my own control. I play zac support and dominate the enemy lane 2 free kills every 1-2 mins, roam mid get them kills. ward enemy jungle territory, call shots

I always invade, so right there you can get your team ahead

Imbetterthanmoe2 votes

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no I usually take games into my own control. I play zac support and dominate the enemy lane 2 free kills every 1-2 mins, roam mid get them kills. ward enemy jungle territory, call shots

I always invade, so right there you can get your team ahead

At first i doubted the fact that you were completely honest. But after checking your op.gg... gold to diamond within weeks thats crazy as a zac support holy cow.

MYSTlCFLOW2 votes

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At first i doubted the fact that you were completely honest. But after checking your op.gg... gold to diamond within weeks thats crazy as a zac support holy cow.

oh, haha yeah XD 7 win streak to diamond, then in my last game I was smack talking cause I was doing well, my team started being boosted, the enemy got ahead and legit I kid you not all 5 of the enemy team started flaming me because they were so upset, needless to say I was tilted by a number of things and got myself banned. that game I was the ACE on op.gg with a score of 8.9 higher than the MVP on the winning team kennen who had a 8.6, I was upset about losing when I clearly played well, I didn't tell them any zero tolerance words but I had come off a 14 day ban like 140 games ago, now I have to smurf back up REEEEEEEEE

zac support is the most effective tactic available, it's super oppressive, just no pro's have played it yet so nobody knows about it

EthanAttacks1 votes

Why are people downvoting this man? Looks like he's got a good strategy. And I definitely agree with the mindset of trying to take games into your own control.

uNhoLeee3 votes

jungle is currently complete garbage. rely on idiotic laners without an iota of any skill or brain. great game.

iChimp4 votes

Nerf the ENTIRE jungle, nerf jungle masteries, and nerf jungle champs. AND STILL your whole team will flame and spam ping you because you couldnt camp every lane, secure all dragons/rift, and 1v9 the game. Either play a millions games and hope to luck streak diamond for competent laners or find a new role.

Sir Saltarin2 votes

Good, Jng deserved these nerfs for a long time

OHminus7 votes

Good. ADCs deserved 8.11 too

Eleshakai2 votes

No, you're not.

But just because you're not the only one, doesn't mean it is correct to feel that way.

Prince Purge2 votes

I AM NOT SAYING THAT ALL OF MY LOSSES ARE OUT OF MY CONTROL, I DO MAKE MISTAKES AND I DO LEARN FROM THEM, BUT I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO SUFFER THIS DRASTICALLY FROM TEAMMATES MINOR MISTAKES COSTING ENTIRE GAMES

Prince Purge1 votes

^Capitalized for emphasis, not anger^ [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

EthanAttacks1 votes

Thanks for clarifying, haha! Was confused as to why you were "yelling".

SirPurrr2 votes

Even when they're not, you'll feel like they are. League is a game where it's notoriously difficult to spot your own mistakes and often much easier to spot (or at least think you do) those of others. A big part of this comes from it being a team game of incomplete information rather than 1v1 like chess. You can get rewarded for bad decisions and punished for good plays that were +EV but happened to not work that particular time. However, if you had a Diamond+ player maining your champion go on your account, you'd find they perform far better and in those same games would have probably won. With that said, there is such a thing as a game outside your control. I bet even Challengers would lose ~10% at low levels.

Sir Saltarin1 votes

Nah

iChimp1 votes

Bro do you even play the game?

iChimp1 votes

So you've played nothing but Adc and a little bit of mid since season 4. I don't wanna use the credentials fallacy but that requires you put up some sort of actual argument instead of a broad statement.

RaQqa1 votes

1st look at the teamcomp, and if it is ok to take nocturn, second u can build more tanky on nocturn, like a bruiser instead of asassin, or play Khazix Evelynn they are the best assassins to carry 1v5 from jungle. Right now in the meta JarvanIV RekSaiAmumu Rammus u don't want to see assassins jungle except 2 above, other will be hard outscaled.

Prince Purge1 votes

Okay but Kha'zix was my main for years and he is weak as hell right now

Sillae1 votes

I've literally had games where I've done more than my entire team's damage combined as a support (admittedly it's only when I play Vel'koz, but still).

Sometimes your team mates just don't want to win and think charging in to 1v1 the fed Riven is a good idea as a squishy.

Jayce Account 351 votes

Not all my losses are my fault, I had plenty of feeders of trolls. That doesn't mean I couldn't have done more to win those games tho.

Linna Excel1 votes

If certain champs get fed or are allowed to steam roll, it is out of control to a degree. If all the other lanes are feeding, then there's a good chance there's not too much you can do about it if you aren't on a split pusher.

AFKs/Trolls are out of your control for sure.

Ambitious Minnow1 votes

JG is screwed this patch. I've had MANY games this patch where I literally have more kills then the entire enemy team put together, 10+ when they have 2 or 3 at ten minutes, and still top laner is two levels above me? I never fall behind in CS practically, I have consistently maintained an early game gold advantage of 600g - 1300g. Riot nerfed xp gain in jg 20%. TWENTY PERCENT IN ONE PATCH! They have literally no clue how huge a portion 20% is apparently. Could have started with 2, 5 , 10 max... but no, 20%.

It's like the recent change to Nasus stacks. They increased from 6 stacks to 12? They EFFing doubled it in one patch! Riot employees such at math, cold hard facts.

Warpes1 votes

No Bro It Happens To Me Too, Pretty Often, And My Buddies Too. Rito Pls Fix Pls

Pandeonor1 votes

Even if you are the best player on earth - especially if you are the best player on earth [because immanent part then] - your losses are out of your control. ;)

EthanAttacks1 votes

There's this good video made by DongHuaP detailing why we are matched with bad teammates and how to deal with that tilt. I changed my way of thinking about carrying in league because of it. I hope it helps you with your question! https://youtu.be/iJUHO_r388k

5050BS1 votes

You are not alone.

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