What i've seen, & tried to fix in my losing streak (Tips, & help appreciated)

Stand Alone Wolf··1 votes·285 views

SO! I love League, & try my best to stay informed of any, & all updates. I watch vids, & read articles on not only how to better myself, but items, what I'd benefit from most in certain situations, & how I should play in my lane based on who my enemy, & the rest of the team is. I've wanted to work my way into gold, & reap the rewards (primarily the gold border for loading screen) & decided "Meh, I'll go ahead, & hop back into ranked." This was probably the worst mistake I made all month. So this is how it all started. I hop into a ranked match Solo Q (Which may be my prob right there,) & try my damnedest to not feed, to drop mia pings, tell team to look out for things, ward, & even leave my own lane when I can to assist mid if possible. So far, I've dropped from Silver III, and into Silver IV. I'm slightly terrified of being thrown into bronze, & haven't done anymore ranked at this point, but I still want to climb into gold, & I'm looking for solutions. The match I cracked in was a match with a toxic Ezreal. He fed early, but as long as he got his kills, his toxicity meant nothing, & although he carried he felt he should be exempt from his verbal abuse to not only me, but the team. I was top as Vlad against Ryze, & not only won my lane taking barely any turret damage, I managed to take out the enemy Jungler Ohdear as he ganked top. Prior to the match I read up on counter building, & worked on building against my opponent, & although I've noticed slight improvements, It's apparently not enough for players like said Ezreal. Now I'm not here to entertain, or do well for a single individual, but when I'm on a TEAM, I'm there to work with everyone. So far, that match included, this is how I see each match, & depending on how bad it is I can tell before it even makes it to the five minute mark:

LEROY JENKINS: Just about very match I've had this month, & this week being thee worst, there are usually 1-3 of these players on the team. They run in, & pretty much feed the enemy team, & they may, or may not have the traits of the next category I will talk about. These players tend to ignore all pleas against their actions, & JUST DO IT! They may stay silent, get upset with themselves, not understand how what they did led to the consequences they received, or might not even speak any English at all. They may even tell you they are having a bad game, yet refuse to even listen to anyone on the team as if to signify they are trolling, or doing it on purpose.

The best player in the world!: Yep! Exactly what it means. You should feel honored to have him/her on your team this match, regardless if he's feeding, being toxic, playing as Riven, or just a diamond smurf. Typically (Like the Ezreal I mentioned) they think they hopped onto their PC, & clicked the Call-of-Duty.exe, when in reality, they clicked League of Legends.exe, & I'm pretty sure you are not the team, & while you like to think you are getting a nuke, you aren't. They go for the kill no matter the cost, & although sloppy, they get the kill, even if it means he/she had to die in order to do so. Getting 15 kills, & having the only kills on the team, yelling KS! at anyone else who even tries to get some kind of income other than Minions with seven deaths early-game means you are playing Team death-match, while LEROY JENKINS runs in somewhere from enemy jungle to try, & . . . well, do whatever it was they'd hoped to achieve. These players Carrying sloppily, or not, also tend to be completely innocent, & hope you don't realize their mistakes right then, & there, & may even ignore you if you call them on it, since you want to catch them so bad after their toxicity towards you, & or everyone else has finally gotten to you.

The mom, & the dad: Seriously, mom usually goes chasing after the guy/gal like they were her child who ran into enemy jungle for whatever reason, or decided to go farm all the way into enemy territory, when 3-5 of the enemies are mia, only to meet the same demise as LEROY JENKINS! Where as dad usually tries to tell everyone to work together, stop arguing, fighting hardest with the guy who is obviously thee best player in the world, & either doing well, or having a bad game, alongside the mental stress he's getting from the toxicity. Mom either tells the person to stop running in, stop going in alone, or wait for us, & dad's busy trying to work with someone else to help scavenge a win (Usually mom)

The quiet guy in the back: The best player in the world is "too good" to even notice him/her to realize they are the only member of the team this match (Probably raging out loud) who is doing good even if he has just one kill, zero deaths, eight assists (Support, or not) 3 turret's destroyed, drops mia pings, or just tries to be there to help out anyone else who decides to get their heads out of their arses. Nothing else to really say about him/her due to their quietness, & positive enforcement towards the match. usually if they do speak, it's to say "good-job," or "ggwp." What I can say is the more matches I have that consist of players in this category, the more I feel like playing, the more we win, the more friends I make. These are usually the players that make other players that aren't the first two categories feel better about their work, although these players have their bad games as well, due to the first two categories just like mom, & dad.

I flop between Mom, the quiet guy, & sometimes I become a confused mom-dad. The majority of the time I try to do what my team asks of me, usually not my team, but a single individual who is barking at someone in hopes of some change, & dying, only to get barked at some more while they went in late, due to farming, or clearing jungle while we trickled into our deaths chasing LEROY JENKINS in hopes of pulling them out with the best player in the world to be the last one sent back to fountain the "Shut-down! Aced!" way. Aside from Ranked, I also frequently encounter:

Friendly Giant: Tanks that are scared to engage, & or will let the squishiest glass cannon on the team die, before pulling, knocking up, or even just going in first to start the team-fight that you could have easily won had he been there to help, but made it nearly impossible to team-fight later. you shouldn't be told "Pull someone already man, we've been running in circles 5v5 waiting for you to make this a quick 4v5 with that pull on the ADC, Supp, or Mid laner for like 2 minutes every time we are together to fight as a team"

Seriously, you pick a supp to supp the ADC, & help the team when you can. You pick the Tank to try, & be your teams wall, & prevent your team from becoming fertilizer, & usually as ADC, you try your best to widdle, & poke the enemies health-bars down; What could I do to better myself? I've tried counter building in this terrible losing streak. I've even tried taking breaks that last up to three days. I studied up on the items I choose to get to better understand why I need them, over other items. When I do everything I possibly can in my lane, & I'm heavily countered, I usually hold my lane asking for help, only to receive a janitor to come, & kill the enemy I face if he hasn't helped at all, & noticed I actually weakened him to around 20%, & he want's some more kills, because you know. . . Team Death-match. One solution I have found to work is to not get on at night. I've encountered more problematic matches at night, then I have in the morning. So far that's all I have for my problem. Seems like more communicative players get on in the morning, & more toxic players, & terribly behaved players are waking up from staying up all night, only to repeat the process. Other than that, I've got nothing. I'd like some pointers, or some help on what I should do. I've gotten to the point where I feel like Team-work has died. Amumu

4 Comments

Little Stick Man1 votes

tbh if you can snowball bot with a 4 man gank you might be able to get the enemy adc to just afk, it's worked for me more than it should have during my climb and it's a lot easier to win a 5v4

if you do it youre kind of an asshole but alls fair in league and war so...

Stand Alone Wolf1 votes

I'm primarily a top/Jungle/mid guy in that order. I could supp, or adc, but it's like the last resort, the "If I have to -_-" kind of role that I get by in. Should I go, & assist other lanes more often when I get the chance to giving up recalling to base for items?

Little Stick Man1 votes

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I'm primarily a top/Jungle/mid guy in that order. I could supp, or adc, but it's like the last resort, the "If I have to -_-" kind of role that I get by in. Should I go, & assist other lanes more often when I get the chance to giving up recalling to base for items?

it really depends on a lot of factors like if the enemy lanes summoners are down, how healthy they are, how healthy you are, but if you get the chance, roaming down from top to mid to at least exert pressure is a good move in most cases. one of the worst things you can do as a top laner is let yourself be on an island, making yourself known around the map and enemy jungle puts so much more pressure on them and is just generally helpful

Stand Alone Wolf1 votes

I'll keep that in mind. Lately I have felt like I'm on an island. it's like I'm on a cloud with my enemy top, & jungler may, or may not come to visit us. then when I go back down to earth after winning, or loosing my lane, it's like raccoon city down there, & I'm not Alice.

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