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How to play with friends?

Scottbert·6/6/2015, 8:13:54 AM·1 votes·352 views

tl;dr down at the end.

I first installed League of Legends three and a half years ago, because a lot of my friends were playing it.

I quickly got fed up with being the low-skill one when there was an overwhelming amount of stuff to learn, and quit. Every few months, I'd get hope to try again, have it smashed, and leave.

Finally, late last year I reached the low 20s in levels and got enough hope to stick with it. I started to believe maybe this game was learnable.

I'm level 28 now. Since beginning I've learned about last hitting, smart pings, warding, smart casting, masteries, runes, itemizing against your opponents, jungling, when to go for objectives...

But when I play with friends and we're losing, most of the time there just seems to be nothing I can do. I've gotten to the point where, at least when we're winning, or making a comeback, I can feel like I'm actually contributing and not just being carried, although often the games I do 'best' are ones where I happen to lane against someone who doesn't know some basic thing themselves. But when we're losing... every trick, every strategy, everything I've learned is useless -- they know better than to give me any opportunities, or play well enough to counter anything I can try.

I always thought it was stupid that you had to spend a lot of time soloing to learn to play the game with your friends.

But I now realize that's not even how bad it is, it's worse -- The people I'm facing in solo will never teach me how to deal with the people I'll face playing with friends.

Is this it? Have I just fallen prey to the sunk cost fallacy, thinking I could ever catch up to my friends if I could just learn a little more? Or is there something I'm missing?

No, I do not have time to attempt to powerlevel and play tons of League games every day.

Is there anything I can do to make League fun again, or is it just not a game for latecomers, and I'd have saved myself a ton of grief if I'd realized that three and a half years ago?

**tl;dr: I'm newer at the game than my friends, and the skill curve seems to be one I can never catch up on. Every time I think I'm making progress or catching up, I learn I still have incredibly far to go. Is there anything I can do, or is playing with your friends who started playing before you an impossible dream in League? **

3 Comments

Angry Monster6/6/2015, 9:34:01 AM1 votes

so you screwed up, You quit and your friends did not. Now you guys are not equall skill levels. So you have a few options

you can power learn and farm(runes and champs) You can become a 1 trick wonder, learn one role and 2 champs, then let your friends direct in what you need to do. You can suffer quietly. Slowlly learn the game and take the abuse you have earned for being a quitter. You can quit again.

From you post option 1 and 3 does not seem like it will work. So you have 2 options run or suffer. pick one.

Android Cowboy6/6/2015, 2:22:29 PM1 votes

Don't give up, man. Just keep playing and you'll pick up what you need to get by..... or you won't. But if you quit you'll never find out. Hell, most of the bronze division probably can't even write their own name. If you have the will to learn and a pulse, you're already 10 steps ahead of most of the braintarded bronzies in this game. Gnar

Finn Teh Human8/28/2015, 9:35:51 PM1 votes

I use to be in the same position as you. I would play with friends and they would make fun of me for being a crappy player and yet I had no idea what to do or what I was doing wrong. Now I'm a much higher rank than all of them and a better player than all of them. First off, I'd say find a champion you like or feel comfortable playing. If you're not comfortable with the champion you're playing in a game it would be hard to explain what you're doing/not doing since you're not familiar with that champion. I'm Gold 3 and still learning crap about this game. Once you accept that you're not the best player is when you're able to get better and see what you're doing wrong. Just cause you're friends were playing long before you doesn't mean you can't catch up. A lot of players in League are in lower elo's because they think they're already the best and blame every loss on everyone else instead of seeing the mistakes they made and change them. I think the best thing you can do is pick a role/champion you would like to use for the time being (or even main them down the line) and learn as much as you can about that role through video's and just general tips you get from people who main that role.