Does League of Legends intentionally ruin your chances of winning promo matches?

Azazel Aerternum·4/23/2018, 7:57:33 AM·3 votes·1,496 views
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Entered promos twice today, both times I lost. It wasn't b/c I fed, performed poorly, or didn't do well. My teammates were literally so bad, that there's nothing I could do, no matter how much I handheld, there's nothing I could do.

This is specifically for all the people who are going to tell me how "super easy to climb if you're good", no, it's not. Yes, I can carry quite easily in Diamond or Plat elos, typically when someone gets behind in those elos they know the bare minimum of item builds to swap to, they don't continue to bang their head into the wall harder and harder.

Picture 1 to 6 are all 6 Promo games I lost (two promo series)

Picture 7 is the game I won after I lost my first promo series, in between the two series (which put me immediately back in)

Picture 1: SUPPORT Lux, yes, I built her as an APC, doesn't mean I didn't sacrifice all of my gold gen in order to 'support'. Garen was inting into the enemy the whole laning phase, building incorrectly, he did very little all game. Yes, look at my damage as well, we lost purely b/c I couldn't carve through the overly and ridiculously fed Tahm Kench.

Picture 2: Irelia Top, I did a respectable amount of damage, meanwhile our Tahm Kench decided it was a good time to randomly int into the enemy team every ten seconds, while I was able to shut the Jhin down (in a 1v3 at one point), he was simply too fed for me to do anything. This dude lost me my second promo series of the day.

Picture 3: SUPPORT Vel'Koz, yes again, another APC build while altruistically sacrificing my gold generation in order to benefit the team, Katarina spent the whole game trolling, not going in or doing anything (as referenced by both score and damage done).

Picture 4: This dude was trolling the whole game, went afk and hid in the enemy jg awaiting to be found and killed, all the while insulting me, and laughing about how I was going to lose my promos b/c of him. This was the first promo series that I lost (the final game of five). You can see based on his damage that what I'm saying is accurate.

Picture 5: Malzahar was trolling a lot in this one, gave up firstblood for no reason (went into an area we already knew was warded), began laughing at me and telling me that I was going to lose my promo, as you can tell between the two I had my hands full (Graves suiciding every 5 seconds).

Picture 6: This Renekton lost me my first promo-game of the day (I was on a four-game winstreak), yes 2/12, he fed the enemy team to the point of our Yi not being able to carry. He kept suiciding in, and while this Yi was great, it didn't matter when it came to late game and we were essentially down a player at all times.

Picture 7: We won this one, what you can't see is that our jungler didn't take smite, but ignite. I'm a very good Lux player, so I managed to carry rather hard. We didn't have anyone randomly afk, or start telling me about how they're going to watch me lose my promos, and start laughing at me while doing so. We won despite having a massive disadvantage, b/c we didn't have anyone intentionally trolling (or completely out of their elo; i.e. new player placed in Gold despite being Bronze-quality).

4 Comments

Hawthorn Tree4/23/2018, 8:04:43 AM2 votes

You picked the wrong champion in low elo, lol. Pick someone who snowballs out of control like MasterYi Akali Khazix .

trunoob4134/23/2018, 8:04:39 AM1 votes

Just keep playing sucks but if you keep getting into your promos youll win it eventually. Although I don't see how you can run into so many people intentially feeding/ saying stuff like that to you unless you are being toxic yourself if you really are in plat/ diamond elo. I understand trolls happen and people feeding but you literally said people trolled you in more games than not.

Kai Guy4/23/2018, 8:13:39 AM1 votes

I have had promos from hell. I have also had WTF why cant I make it passed 65 LP. Promos into loss streaks stand out more then a loss streak near any specific lp.

Despìca Bìll4/23/2018, 11:22:40 AM1 votes

Matchmaking has always felt fishy to me. Not sure if that's just pessimistic bias, or behind-the-scenes evil, but either way, I refuse to play ranked anymore.