Tips for breaking a losing streak
Lately I feel that im losing more games than winning. What are your tips for breaking the losing streak?
Yes, yes "git gud" etc etc.
Im just looking for real advice.
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Play a few norms, and focus on CS, Roaming and making good stuff happen. Every game that you lose, watch a professional or high rank player play the matchup and write down 2 or 3 things that you could have done better. Stick to a few champions and take a good break between games and youtube sessions. If you lose two games in a row, go and play normals or a Q that doesn't matter.
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Try playing outside of "prime-time" - i.e., in the daytime on weekdays or early mornings. (Simply, if you are playing games in the evenings, then you are playing with all the cranky middle-schoolers who had a bad day at school and they will troll, complain, flame, moan, bitch, chew, spew, swear, whine, whimper, rage, ragequit, engage in self-blame, engage in blaming others, afk, quit, int, throw tantrums, call for ff@20, taunt teammates, taunt the opponent, kvetch, feed, fill chat with drivel, etc., etc. -- and generally increase your chances of getting a loss.)
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Practice basic skills in custom games - especially last hitting, lane freezing and occasionally getting in a poke on the other champ while last hitting.
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If you do start losing your lane, learn how to prepare yourself to be carried by someone else.
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Stop blaming others on your team for your mistakes and avoid getting your teammates tilted (IF you do that).
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Be positive.
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If you are stuck with some middle schoolers or overgrown man-childs on your team, learn the value of ignoring chat and/or muting other players. Focus on your own game in these situations - and turn the chat back on if and when the game turns around.
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Learn how to ward and read the map. Ignore the map and vision at your own peril.
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Focus on mastering three to four simple champs. If one is off-meta, but is still simple and viable (i.e., has an ok win-rate), so much the better. Why? A less likely to be banned champ which is simple, easy to play and understood, can be as good as a popular champ - and sometimes better - if you know the combinations and tricks needed to get off that killing hit or avoid being hit.
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Re-read #5.
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Start tracking the timers on key objectives - it's part of the interface. It's useful. Learn 'em
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Make deliberate decisions as to why your rune pages and masteries are the way they are. Don't just stick in random runes without knowing what the runes are supposed to do.
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Re-read #5.
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Watch higher-ranked players play. I don't mean pros necessarily - because the problems at lower ranks are different than the problems at higher-ranks. But seeing how a player a few ranks higher than you handles things with your champ does come in handy.
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Make notes on your games. Watch them after you have played them. Find out what mistakes you are making. Even better, view them a day or two after you played them so that the mistakes are fresh in your mind.
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Keep track of patch notes. If you have one piece of information that the other side may not, then that is an edge.
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Re-read #5.
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Don't beat up on bot lane - if you are in another role. They have enough to think about - with twice the chances of things going wrong.
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Keep track of ideas and builds that seem to work on those champions you play. Sometimes a new idea comes out that fits your play style and may net you an improvement.
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Play with friends - or rather, people who are interested in improving their play - like you are.
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Re-read #5.
That covers all I can think of.
Pray you don't get autofilled
Buy a bucket of Rabbits foot and Chinese lucky charms.
git gud
Its called tilt. No one knows how to cure this disease. Every pro gets it. :P just comes an goes
Only thing i can ever advise is for me one i hit two or three i just stop playing for a while as usually my games kinda go like this (me being a jungle main).
- Non stop pinging before my first clear begging for help cause they think they need it or over pushed and got beat down.
- They are over pushing the lane get killed and blame me cause they got ganked or say hello i need a gank useless jg.
- They push them under the tower and expect me to gank and dive the tower so i get killed they get a kill and blame me for them being fed(i refuse to do this btw) I only dive gank if i know it will 95% of the time work.
- Or insert other reason cause i am not babysitting them .
I usually try just to ignore it i won't mute incase something useful is being said but i just get annoyed with it. That and some of the stupide plays my team will make so i just take a break even if it's just 15 minutes or hour(s).