Continously getting awful games

Scazie·8/29/2016, 12:29:14 PM·7 votes·844 views

Not once, not twice, but legitmately for the past 40, maybe 50 games? I've been marathoning league since like Friday and outside of the odd game here and there, my play has been consistently good, best on my team in most cases, better than my enemy counterpart in like 90% of cases, and best in the entire game quite frequently too. I'll even link my matchistory, because I legit have nothing to hide; http://euw.op.gg/summoner/userName=Scazie KDA, solid. Kill Participation, solid. Damage, solid. Damage taken, solid. CS, typically solid. Wards? Could do with a bit more work I guess...but still not THAT bad, it's far more than I usually ward and if I could get away with it in Plat 1, I don't see why I can't in gold freaking four. Now before you try to dismiss this as just another case of QQ based off a single, or couple of games, I implore you to look at my match history. I don't get feeders every now and again, or sometimes, or even occasionally, I get them often. Check the losses and you'll see a hard feeder in most of them, 1/8, 2/10, 2/7, 0/9, 3/13 etc. Hell, you can pull up the graphs on some of the wins too, and you'll see that in quite a few if them there was a (sometimes even multiple) lanes that were feeding pretty hard early but managed to come back, so it's not like I'm tilting off of the face of the earth the moment my team dies, there are quite a few games in there where the scoreboard was like 1-3 vs 7-11 or some variation thereof early, but I'd still keep going and bring the game back. Nor am I flaming, if I flip it'll be after the game is over, sometimes a comment escapes here or there but I don't let salt overtake me.

Nor have I tilted, my play has been consistent, there's a couple hiccups here or there where I obviously haven't done too well, but they're few and far between and it's impossible for your typical player to not have a bad game once in a while.

But you can see, even though I outdo my jungle counterpart in like 95% of my games, and absolutely crush them in more than just a few, I'm losing over, and over again. Sure my winrate is currently displayed as 50% over my past 20 games, but that's not enough to climb and I absolutely do not feel that it's what I deserve. There are people who are playing 'slightly better than average' and climbing hard, meanwhile I'm pretty much dominating the early in the vast majority of my games but still struggling to get a 50% winrate. It's not been over 5 games, 10 games or even 20 games, it's been like 40, probably verging if not surpassing 50 games by now and I have yet to even get to gold 3. I started playing seriously again at Gold 4...and I'm currently still in Gold4...

I apply early pressure, I'm usually ahead in kills and farms, I out pressure the enemy jungler, I put them behind, I help my lanes, I group, I take turrets, inhibitors, dragons, rift and barons, a lot of the times I'm the driving push behind our turret taking and siege, I win skirmishes, I do what I can in teamfights, often taking out high priority targets at the start or, or sometimes before the fight even starts... And it's not just that I'm playing Nidalee either, I've tried Yi, Kha Zix, Shyvanna and it's been the same. I've seen so many feeding botlanes by now that it's starting to hurt. So many useless tops that it pains me, so many underwhelming mids that I'm honestly just confused. I can understand a bad streak of say ten, fifteen, hell maybe even 20 games. But 40? That's legitmately insane. All this time I've been telling myself that as long as I keep a level head and keep my play consistent, aiming to improve on every game then eventually it'll break and I'll get matched into decent games, hell every once in a while I do get a decent game, I won't pretend that I don't. But they're few and far between, even most of my wins have been struggles. How can it be that I'm thoroughly outperforming my enemy counterpart in most games, yet most of my games, wins and losses included, are struggles?

Rant over, some of the frustration is out, downvotes incoming I guess.

19 Comments

Sylvant8/29/2016, 7:32:43 PM2 votes

i had that happening to me, the matchmaking is just bitch sometimes, im not sure what mechanics are causing this, but its a thing. You get good games, stats and whatever but your team constantly sucks so bad to the point its uncariable and this happens in consecutive games

venomous frost8/29/2016, 12:53:30 PM1 votes

You are duo and trio queue'ing, the system balances this out by letting you face higher MMR opponents if they are solo, or by playing vs duo/trio queues. Essentially you are putting your team already at a disadvantage because they have to play vs premades/play vs higher MMr opponents. Don't expect your team to win lane if you put them at a disadvantage by dynamic Q'ing.

You also duo/trio with a low silver player, which just fucks up matchmaking overall, high golds will face low silvers in lane etc.

If you have superior communication, you are expected to carry the game with it, since your teammates are just at a disadvantage from the start of the game.

grug8/29/2016, 1:07:47 PM1 votes

you should probably dynaq with smurfs because when u dynaq the quality of your group has to be substantially greater than the skill of the enemy team to compensate as thats how the matchmaking is done i believe.

perhaps you should buy sweeper's more often so you can ambush people successfully more often.

Dukues8/29/2016, 3:08:46 PM1 votes

I have two accounts in gold 4 but have not really tried to climb on them too much. Went on nice winning streaks once hitting gold and got gold 4 right away. One has 57% win percent the other at 54% (which I use to dynamic queue with silver friends).

I am currently struggling to get gold 4 on this account. Usually win 1 then lose 1 win 1 lose 1. I will admit I have not been playing the best, but just seems the games are a lot less consistent on this account compared to my others. Maybe its just a mental thing. I have been maining jungle but starting to get sick of it. I just feel so dependent on my teammates. I main Vi JarvanIV Elise. Have not really played a lot of jungle on this account yet and my stats pretty shitty. Even though I would not consider myself a good adc, I have been playing that more on this account lately. I just feel although I may not win lane hard every game, I can generally at least guarantee my lane won't feed hard and I will be around to fight late game. I had a 0/10 Sejuani support last night at one point. We ended up winning the game and my stats weren't great but I was able to use my ult to wave clear late game and my team peeled and fought really well together and we ended up winning. Felt so much less stressful than trying to carry as jungle.

I am still fairly new to gold so not sure what to think yet. Even though I have 3 accounts in gold I have not really played many games in it yet. Probably 40 total across all 3 accounts. Just have not been motivated to try and climb the ladder lately. Probably going to stop playing on this account once I hit gold 4 and get the solo emblem. Not sure if emblems will be part of season rewards yet, but want to have the solo one on this account.

Woook3r8/29/2016, 3:22:49 PM1 votes

you have probably been playing so much you are tilted. play a new champion. one that is spammy and fun and easy. i used to play fizz bot when i get tilted. hes not spammy tho.

Great Muta8/29/2016, 4:08:35 PM1 votes

One thing I see is that your CS counts are a bit low. As a Shyvana fan, I aim for 200 CS by 30 min. More CS = Higher XP = Being ahead levels of other players = More gold = More items.

GULAG 4 U8/29/2016, 6:04:56 PM1 votes

That shit happens to me too :^)

Blanchimont8/30/2016, 2:02:42 PM1 votes

Two words: Death Timers

Longer explanation: Matchmaking under Dynamic Queue is just bad. There's too much of a difference in player skill in an individual lane for starters. On top of that, there's numerous snowball mechanics in the game, like first tower and dragons that make a team insanely more powerful by the 20 minute mark so if someone gets ahead, they are REALLY ahead. Dynamic Queue just makes it easier for one team due to how random matchmaking feels. There's also the longer death timers where it feels like once you get past 15 minutes, the death timers are 10 seconds longer than they were in the previous season, making it even harder to make a comeback.

Gibberwatt8/30/2016, 2:13:55 PM1 votes

From what I see, you are winnin about half of your games. There was a bad patch about a week ago, but not really. And if you are winning half your games, you are either doing something really wrong, or you are at the elo you are supposed to be at.

Also, you coudl try something other than jng. I see your two irelia top games, but I feel like, if you wanna get really fed, and get lots of objectives, squishing a lane, then roaming would do more for you.

Borkahn8/29/2016, 12:42:28 PM1 votes

Actually, I back you up 100% on this. I was gold 4 at one point during this season and yesterday I was S2. I just now dropped down to S3. Although I didn't do damage junglers, I typically do tank junglers and try to soak damage for my carries. Not to mention funneling resources such as blue buff to mid. It still doesn't work for some reason. And the funny thing is although I was 0-6, I had the fewest deaths with the most being the LB I had who was 13-12. Her response was "but I have 13 kills" to which I said "yes but you have 12 deaths which multiplied on average by 300 gold means you have fed over 3600 gold to their team alone."

This season, meta, and the game as a whole has gone to the shitter to the point I'm ready to sell and switch to another game. This game isn't fun anymore at all and it doesn't reward good play. It rewards cheese picks and terrible players. (Have a problem with smurfs on the enemy side coming to dominate, and smurfs on my side wanting to put themselves behind just to see for fun if they can come back after feeding a lucian 5 kills......it wasn't fun)

genya038/30/2016, 6:45:00 PM1 votes

I feel you. Went from Gold 2 - Gold 4 from bad games. Must be so hard not to feed.