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How are people not tired of "My shitty teams keep me from climbing" threads?

Leonerdo·3/20/2017, 4:34:56 AM·4 votes·549 views

Seriously, every day I check the boards there are two or three posts that are just rants about someone's recent bad teams and "awful matchmaking". How do they always get so many upvotes? Is Gameplay just the section for QQing and sympathy? I'm not saying ranting and sympathy is bad. It's one of the best parts of an online community. But I really don't think it belongs in the Gameplay section, where people are trying to have serious discussions about game health and balance and whatnot. I guess my biggest issue it that its getting hard to tell the difference between venting rants (with unrealistic expectations) and discussion/analysis/feedback posts that actually stand a chance of making the game (or its community) better.

I mean, do y'all come here to be angry and disgruntled with some sympathetic friends, or to talk about real issues, improve your understanding, and occasionally offer solutions (reasonable ones, not "Revert the game to Season 4")?

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Lil Lewd Witch3/20/2017, 4:42:35 AM3 votes

Eh, I can see where they are coming from. Some days it certainly feels like it, even though its not true. Like today I had a game where I went 5/4/1 and my teams combined kda was 4/32/10.

Its incredibly frustrating at times so its just venting, no need to let it bug you.

A Vel Koz Main3/20/2017, 4:49:59 AM2 votes

Because the game is in a seriously horrendous state and there would be less of those threads if you could actually come back from being behind. But unfortunately unless one of the enemy team members is quite literally the Adolf of Autism. Games are being decided at the 5minute mark. You know what was happening at the 5 minute mark 2-3 years ago?

People could go through and clear the jungle no matter what Champion it was.

Keystones didn't do 30% of early game damage(free 30% damage mind you, guess thats cool?) because KEYSTONES SHOULDVE NEVER BEEN ADDED :D

Turrets weren't as p1ss poor as they are now so turret dives didn't happen nearly as frequently as they do now.

Champion Updates we're few and far between and they were actually good ones aka Sion got a great one, now its all about % dmg, true dmg, and stacking 3 attacks which isn't hard to do.

You could play anyone against anyone and nobody would feel trash about losing the lane, I certainly don't feel outplayed when I am Karthus and Jhin 2 shots me in mid lane without being fed

Lethality is straight cancer in it's highest form

They have a right to complain about team mates. Everyone does, anyone who uses the "U JUST DIDNT CARRY HARD ENOUGH " excuse obviously hasn't dealt with enough of the smurfs making new players quit, or premades running rampant across all game modes. It's not fun, to win or lose. It's literally just autism.

Ralanr3/20/2017, 5:02:20 AM2 votes

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I mean, do y'all come here to be angry and disgruntled with some sympathetic friends, or to talk about real issues, improve your understanding, and occasionally offer solutions (reasonable ones, not "Revert the game to Season 4")?

Just about sadly. We get do get decent discussions from time to time and the whining ones can get downvoted or ignored, but they pop up eventually.

Honestly if Reddit wasn't all Esport threads I'd probably go there for discussions.

Challenger Ahri3/20/2017, 4:44:04 AM1 votes

If it bothers you, I suggest not checking the boards. It won't change.

Qukslice3/20/2017, 4:53:34 AM1 votes

Sometimes it feels like it tbh.

I try my hardest to jungle to my potential every game but when every lane is losing and I'm playing warwick, I want to die.

BakedLotion3/20/2017, 4:55:42 AM1 votes

lol look at my past ranked flex games and guess how tilted i was every single game.

I get fed as fuck (15+ games with minimal deaths every game)

Yes I still won most of them. But it just doesn't feel good. Knowing that your entire team is feeding and being useless tilts u way too hard to have fun.

I completely sympathize with people saying that their team can keep them from climbing, but only to some extent. If it looks like they're doing extraordinary, it's quite possibly true that they got unlucky.

Also: ranked flex mmr is cancerous. I get people ranging from unranked to low diamond randomly placed in both teams when I'm D5 in solo q. I get that it's hard to be extremely accurate in flex, but it seems like riot isn't even trying and this is one of the causes of the whole "my team is useless" thing

Salron3/20/2017, 4:45:39 AM1 votes

"elo hell is real xd"