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I dont get it, why do I lose?

DankDaddyDizzle·9/1/2017, 1:36:26 PM·3 votes·345 views

My goal this season was to get to silver. This is the first season I've taken climbing seriously. I've gone from mid B1 to B3 and back several times but, never quite able to break into Silver.

I rarely ever lose lane when I go mid, I try to be as helpful and get as many objectives as possible when I play jungle, and when I'm support I do everything I can to make my team successful. And I almost always have a positive KDA.

But. Nothing. Seems. To. Work. And it's so frustrating. I'm ready to give up on ranked all together.

Now, I know with what I'm about to say people will reply with "don't point the finger at others", but I've had so many games that no matter what I do my team feeds, gives up lane and/or objectives, or afk's etc. I rarely ever have a solid team that has game knowledge.

I'm starting to think that climbing has more luck involved with who you are matched with than actual skill in the game. It feels like the match making system is really broken. Do you agree? If not, I'd love to hear how you were able to climb.

17 Comments

Geauxx9/1/2017, 1:40:37 PM3 votes

Short story and straight to the point... you're bad... don't worry though, 99% of us are.

Detailed story that if would be a normal case in bronze is a lack on how to cs properly and play the lane along with roaming and when to etc. people would actually have to watch to know what you're doing wrong.

LostFr0st9/1/2017, 1:45:05 PM2 votes

Step back for a sec. Pick a replay of a game you lost but don't understand why (not a game where you think there was an enemy smurf, but a FAIR game you think you should have won). Play the replay.

I only want you to watch for ONE thing: the sidelanes. Don't even glance at the champions. They don't matter.

Count how many times do the minions reach the side-lane towers in big piles with no-one there to clear them. You need to expect those waves, ping them out, and get someone to catch them by blue-pinging it 30 seconds before it gets there. Don't fight if a big wave is pushing to you, but if a big wave is going to them, go ham. Even if you lose the fight, you'll likely still win or at least go even due to minion dmg.

BALDG1VEN BOOMER9/1/2017, 2:58:51 PM2 votes

If you rarely lose lane then you're not pushing your individual lead hard enough.

ModKnightsKemplar9/1/2017, 3:03:01 PM2 votes

Both of the other responses here have some good points.

It is sometimes really hard to understand how to get better. There have been several times (I've been playing for 5 years) that I felt really hard-stuck in a bracket, and it truly felt like when I finally got out that I hadn't actually been doing anything differently.

That isn't true, though. When I play against people from those tiers now, I see that I've improved in a lot of the areas that people rarely point out. Simple things like positioning, holding skillshots instead of using them to poke on cooldown, poking at the right times, wave management, vision, map awareness, etc.

There are so many moving parts in League of Legends, and I think that's why many people say that you should watch one game at a time and try to understand what your mistakes were in that game. Sometimes you weren't watching the map. Sometimes you went for a stupid baron. Sometimes you went in and died with a teammate who was obviously out of position. It takes improvement on all of that stuff to climb, imo.

Frightning9/1/2017, 3:39:00 PM2 votes

I really wish there was an easy way to share replays, because the I could just watch 1-2 of your games that way and probably give you some useful and specific feedback, but riot still hasn't made sharing replays easy for reasons I don't understand.