Need motivation to play ranked! :(

Nisic·3/19/2016, 4:46:26 AM·2 votes·1,241 views

So i have been playing league for a couple years now and most of that time has been spent in normal's (1,500 wins). And i just need some sort of motivation to play ranked. I have done some of it in the past got placed in sliver 2 and i felt like that i was a'lot better then that and some of my friends who been playing this game a'lot shorter then me have been placed higher. in most of my normal games i have either carried or came close to it and i don't lose my lane a'lot. My biggest fear is that i will get place low like sliver and not have the determination to get myself higher. So what do you guys think i should do?

7 Comments

Sariat13/19/2016, 4:51:27 AM1 votes

Its hard some days, when you get so close to winning but then your team throws, or feeds or something. But what gives me the motivation to play ranked is: oh lets face it, I find it hard to play ranked when I know that the aforementioned will happen. But you know what I do? I go outside and enjoy the non-pay-to-win, idiot-free game of real life. Oh wait. Sorry bud, I really don't know what to tell you.

Revali3/19/2016, 5:05:28 AM1 votes

Juicy Victorious skin

plain and simple.

wish I would've bothered with ranked during s4 and s5

Dreadlocks3/19/2016, 5:07:58 AM1 votes

Uhh.. if you are asking people on the boards to give you motivation to play ranked its not going to work. You have to want to climb that's all there is to it.

Chaos Milk Tea3/19/2016, 5:18:18 AM1 votes

The best motivation I have is the desire to do well with my main against strong opponents.

III BAKURYU III 3/19/2016, 8:43:03 AM1 votes

As for your " I need some sort of Motivation to play ranked" here some motivation for you " U SUCK- GARBAGE FILTH- You will Not make it because you are too SCARED to even try anymore Last ranked game was OCT really water too deep want to play normals and test the water out first before jumping in and having the courage to either sink or SWIM. Silver season 4 Silver season 5 whats next let me think oh SILVER season 6, its like a plane ticket and its already on the passport for you just.. sit down relax and soon enough you will have a nice Cup of SILVER AGAIN.
F*** MOTIVATION from other people no one cares the lower you are the better chances other people have to LEAPFROG over you and pass you up.
Do you want to be a car that drives like you stole it or do you want to be the road that everyone DRIVES on.

PS I'm not really a DICK so please put down the pitchforks.
You don't need motivation dude you can do this just buckle up(safety first) and ... Drive
You can do this Good Luck

Lemons223/19/2016, 8:44:54 AM1 votes

You'll often find you're not as good as you think you are. Don't think in terms of "I should be X rank by now!" That just causes frustration, and when you get frustrated you start losing.

Basically what happened to me is I got placed in Silver 1 at the beginning of the season. I had gotten gold before so I wasn't worried, and I easily got to gold again. But once I was in gold I decided to try to climb to plat, I thought "well I'm wayyyy better that gold 5!" Turns out I'm not. I'm still sitting in gold 5 now, and a big reason for that imo is that I was putting so much pressure on myself saying "I should be better that this!" I think if I had maintained the mindset I had at the beginning of the season where I was just having fun and wasn't worried too much about my rank because I saw getting gold as predestined, I would be out of G5 by now, but instead I put a lot of pressure on myself, and that caused me to lose a bunch, and now I'm basically in ELO hell (losing a lot more LP when I lose than I gain when I win).

So just live in the moment. treat each game as a separate microcosm, and don't bog yourself down with this "I SHOULD BE BETTER!" Thoughts. They are really not constructive...just play, try to win, try to have fun. You will climb that way for sure.