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Why do I keep getting paired with Horrible players

Dragonfly3r·1/21/2017, 9:04:45 AM·6 votes·22,578 views

So I know I'm a fairly decent player on league not. Gold level but atleast Silver 4 maybe 3 at current. But how is it that the moment I start to see the glimpse of a new area that riot are like "Oh you're getting better. Time for you to go back down the ladder" Take my current Streak.

I started at B3 at 0LP. I climbed to 93LP 1 more game and I would be in promos for B2 I lost a game and then went into a streak of 4-5 straight loss games and ended back up at B3 0LP.

Next couple of days I climbed back up and got into B2 Promos I lost my promos at[ W L L] and then subsejently went on a losing streak and as result got demoted to B4 83LP.

Next few days after that I climbed out of B4 and got myself into B3 and then managed to climb into B2 winning my Promos.

Directly after Winning my B2 promos I won 2 more games so I looked set and fine.

Then Riot says "Time for you to go back down the ladder" and then I subseqently lose 3 games in B2 and get pushed back into B3 and then present I've lost a further 5 games and I've been pushed down to B3 16LP.

Now the reasons for why I've lost these games most of them have been unavoidable losts because I would have unskilled teammates. I can accept feeding as bad game as you can make it back after a feeding.

What I don't accept is the lack of warding. Cause vision will win a fight over kills and objectives alot of the time.

Ignoring Objectives. I.E. I know that there is a drake uncontested to the enemy team's favour after just winning a team fight but my team ignore it and See mid turret as a more useful objective to get..

Players who think they can 1 v 1 other players and basically get baited into being 1 v 3.

And positioning. I've seen so many positioning mistakes it makes me cringe. For example last game Ally Lux in mid the Infernal Drake had just been taken and we had lost the teamfight. Here's lux pushing up the lane ignoring pings and refusing to acknowledge she is in danger of gank.

Couple of seconds later enemy team swarms on the lux and she dies.

I hate also people who lose all sense of common sense or are oblivious to enemy. Dying to enemy gank when you can clear see them in warded bush "I didn't see them"

Going into a unwarded bush chasing an enemy and dying 1 v 4 "I didn't know they were there" Well of course you didn't because it was unwarded so why walk directly into unwarded area..

I've climbed out of bronze last season.

But from a bronze player's perspective this type of matchmaking is impossible to climb up out.

My MMR has taken such a tanking when I was in B3 - B2 I was getting matched with Silver 5 & S4 Now I've gone on such a losing streak I'm now being matched up with B5's which really pisses me off.

26 Comments

Deep Terror Nami1/21/2017, 9:23:53 AM7 votes

Never ever look to blame your teammates if you want to improve and win, you cannot make them play better (even if you could you're not getting the same people in all your matches!).

Take a look at your own performance, and try to break your choices down into a few categories; Why did I die? Was I well aware of where the enemy was? Is my gold per minute low because I head somewhere and don't get anything out of it? Do I feel like my champion can't win?

Oftentimes when a lower elo player asks for advice I look and see they have played 50+ different champions in Ranked, losing frequently on those they have little to no experience with. Don't be that guy; pick a few mains and stick with them. Even the highest elo players agree that mastering a few is much more effective than playing a large variety. At low elo, there is no point in trying to counter-pick; if you don't have experience with it you are more likely to feed than counter.

Aside from individual champion experience, a major flaw I see is an exceptionally low KDA. No, the game is not about KDA, but a low KDA indicates you tend to die for nearly every kill you get. 1 for 1 is not worth it unless you are way behind the person you kill, but even then the risk is usually not worth trying because you're more likely to just feed them one more time. Farm your jungle or your lane, stay away from enemies that will kill you, and push objectives when they aren't there to stop you. A strong jungler will farm very hard so that nobody can survive his ganks, and knock down towers when the enemy is all on the other side of the map.

Back to blaming your team; yes, it is indeed a team game. However, keep in mind that in low elo you're going to get players that belong there. You can't expect Gold players appearing in Bronze 3 on your team only to carry you. You have to be the one to carry your team.

If you want to improve, don't slack on your studies. Playing in Bronze you'll only learn Bronze strategies; watch high elo streams, read high elo guides, spectate high elo games, ask high elo players for specific and general advice! Feel free to ask on the forums about how to do things better.

Touch My Box1/21/2017, 9:26:50 AM6 votes

If your team is retarded just afk.

AfterTheFall1/28/2017, 10:02:37 PM3 votes

Atleast you're not me. Im a gold level player. I started Bronze 1 this season. Climbed to Silver 1 49LP in about 10 days. Ever since then i've won 3 games and lost 12. And every single one of those 12 games i lost were all exactly the same....top gets destroyed and feeds, mid gets destroyed and feeds, jungler gets destroyed and feeds, bot lane gets destroyed and feeds. All 12 of those games were complete shitstomps of my team that ended before 20 min. Wtf am i supposed to do when it seems like it's already been decided before the game starts, that my team is going to lose?! I've been playing Smite the past few days b\c seemingly I am not allowed to win ranked games this season in league

SGT Dingle Berry1/21/2017, 10:01:35 AM2 votes

Looking at your KDA you die 1 for 1. Also since you have this issue with vision why not use a trackers knife and ward that map yourself, it's, imo anyway, worth giving up the dueling power that you shouldn't be focusing on anyway.

CancerBasedGod1/21/2017, 9:56:25 AM2 votes

Queue with other people. Playing 3s I routinely get trolls, afks, and account buying assholes who haven't played enough they should be able to play in ranked. I probably win at least 80% when I go with a team but I lose the majority when solo just from luck of the troll draw.

Monkeydude406/24/2018, 6:15:17 AM2 votes

Frankly based on my current run I don't think that 95% of the player base know what the hell the Rift Herald can do to a match, how useful stacking dragon buffs are or that Baron Nashor even exists.

Not to mention when I play Mordekaiser. I have tried about a dozen ways of explaining that if just one or two people can back me up on the Dragons we get a pet ghost to help push. I tell them Help me with Dragon at level 10 and then I can go solo Baron Nashor while you defend.

What they hear is blah, blah, something about whatever, squeeble, huh, blibbet

RELEJ31311/27/2018, 11:32:11 PM2 votes

DUDE you can feel lucky im playing constantly with fking afk troll ultra feeders flamer ....like this last 15 games i played 3 normal...so thats 12 games with mision imposible 2 win cuz trolers afk feeder flamer ...like man bear pig i suth park but this is their name! also im silver and im constantly plaing vs platina gold even cople of times vs diamond...so my answer its simple RIOT SUCKS ! PERIOD !

RAT JNG 3214322/1/2019, 8:59:59 PM1 votes

"I started at B3 0lp" and i already knew the answear to your question . Ur that mentally ill to be placed B3 so u deserve the ppl ur playing with bcs they as mentally ill as you are . Either consider suicide or another game , honestly now.

moonborn1/21/2017, 9:53:05 AM1 votes

you can only improve yourself. solo queue throws random players at you. you might have "terrible" players in your team. but if you are that good, then you are 1 good out of 5 people. The enemy team does not have you who is "good" so they have more chance to get bad players. If you are that good, you will be climbing no matter what. Luck only applies here in terms of how many games you will need to climb. You might get terrible placement games and end up really low because of no luck, but eventually you will climb where you are supposed to be. Im not even mentioning the fact that the more you play, the better you get at it. even if you have terrible luck, in 300 games you will be on your way to where you are supposed to be. and in 300 games you will learn really a lot, if you provide yourself an opportunity to learn from YOUR mistakes. But if you just blame other people for your loss and dont recognise your mistakes, then you will climb really slowly or not at all. Which is fine also, as long as you are content being in bronze or silver or something.

Vizulix1/21/2017, 10:03:04 AM1 votes

Same thing had been happening to me lol. I get promoted do great then rito decides to just shut me down by auto filling me and matching me with bad team mates.So far I've played around 30 ranked and made no progress started out Bronze 4 got to Bronze 2 went on losing streak got to Bronze 3 Won a few games then I went on a lose streak and got demoted back to Bronze 4. Got Bronze 3 again then got demoted again. Now in Bronze 4 again.

Dragonfly3r2/4/2017, 4:58:38 PM1 votes

New update I got demoted down to bronze 4. Its always the same in game either players pick stupid champions or I'm vs some champion extraordinaire. 1st game today we have:

My Team --- Enemy Team

Heimer vs Renekton Annie vs Syndra Kha (Me) vs Warwick Lucian Vs Jinx lux vs Nautilus.

So we've already lose in matchup cause we have no tanks and they have 2 tanks.

So heimer early stomps his lane cause of his utility in turrets and then loses late due to not able to out damage renekton who has build AD and Tank Annie gets stomped by syndra and doesn't bother to dodge attacks would rather farm standing in one spot thus giving FB in 1st 2 minutes. Lucian comes to help with my jungle camp start at red whilst lux decides to wander around in river on her own. Eventually the enemy finds her and does some damage to her so she has to back. Throughout the fights lucian has in bot lane he's hardly ganked but every time he fights he immediately tries to kill Nautilius who is building tank. Lux having not played a tank supp like blitz or thresh ends up being the adc and taking lucians kills whilst lucian feeds.

Game is over by 20 minutes.

I had taken 3 drakes on my own. we had taken 3 turrets the enemy team decimated all of our turrets.

Another update I'm now at Bronze 4 1lp.

My next game will demote me to bronze 5 where I started at this season.

There is no point playing ranked because I won't climb if I have imbredded %%%%s that don't play as a team.

PEPZI4/27/2018, 12:27:49 AM1 votes

its just crap.. i go from s4 back to s5 back to s4.. all season.. im giving tips all the game.. going for objectives and try to farm a lot bc its easy to get a level advantage in low elo.. but then my whole team feeds or doesnt stop to 1vs5... all game..bot went afk... top cries for a penta while we lose the nexus.. and im the only one who says that. its like trying to prevent monkeys from eating themselves..

and i never get carried when i suck hard or get cheesed.. tried to carry as adc.. after the 2nd support who went "imma go mid u noob" i just gave up the hope..

BronzeArchon6/11/2018, 7:24:06 AM1 votes

I totally understand where you are coming from. This is my first season in league. I came in at the tail end of season 7 and so far I am a good player. I’ve mained Ornn since the beginning and it got my to silver IV where I started off. Ever since I almost got to silver III, my teammates keep getting worse and worse. I become fed early game and my teammates feed and feed. Of course I always end up losing and now I am down to bronze f*cking IV. I bought Illaoi thinking they she’d be a good carry to get back into silver where so belong and I’m still waiting to see if that will work. I’m sick of this happening and riot needs to start paying attention more. Ranking should be based off of individual performance. It should take all of the aspects into account including the aspects are contribute to whether or not you get a D- or and S+.

Wulfumms5/12/2018, 8:02:18 PM

All these people whining is pretty sad just saying every game in bronze silver and to some degree gold are almost always winnable if you can’t win in bronze that’s because you belong there stop looking for stupid excuses just to feel better about yourself try to improve when you play and not get mad at what your team does