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Why have I lost so many ranked games?

Transcended Tilt··1 votes·1,397 views

I would like to preface this by making a few things clear: I do not accept the concept of Elo Hell. I believe that if there are 4 potential trolls on your team, then there are 5 on the other. Elo hell does not exist. I do not think that I am really good or even that I deserve gold or anything like that. I accept that I'm not great at this game. I am not here to whine about trolls or anything of that nature, I just want to know what could be causing this I do not experience these things in my Unranked games, ONLY in my ranked games (which is what has me the most confused).

I started playing ranked at the end of Season 6; I went through my placements and lost 9/10 games. Didn't seem like a big deal so I played about 7 more ranked games and lost those as well. I then went on to Pre-Season 7 and did 7 of my placement matches. I went 1/6, and decided to take a break from ranked. I finally decided to do my Season 7 placements this week, thinking that I'd do alright and maybe get high bronze or low Silver. Boy was I wrong. I lost 9/10 of my placements, and got carried in the one that I did win. This puts me at 2W:32L in my ranked games. I play mostly top/support, and I understand that I can't expect to hard-carry from these positions, but I am still amazed that I can't manage to win without the enemy team throwing super hard. I constantly have DCs, trolls, and just bad players on my team, but have only experienced them on the other team a couple of times.

Now, I'd like to think that I have proven that I am better than B5, as I am constantly matched with/against high-bronze to low-silver players in my unranked games. I have encountered far less trolls/afk players proportionally in my 950+ unranked games than I have in my 34 ranked games. What am I doing wrong? am I just super bad and un-able to accept it?

8 Comments

psuedo meta2 votes

I suggest you stick to normal games for most of the season, but aggressively try to grind, watch some coaching sessions online over the champions and roles you generally play. troubleshoot software and hardware components and troubleshoot your connection.(riot support website has alot of indepth guide and even a youtube account where they go over these troubleshoots) Try to start of with the easier champions, just because your playing an easy champion doesn't mean your not a good player pick up on several skills and mechanics and practice them on the easy champions. look at op.gg / champion.gg for extremely optimal champion builds/runes/ and masteries. Pretty much play to learn. but dont feel like im shaming you by telling you to play normal games. normal games can get quite competitive and serious(but at the same time be a huge relief from ranked). I'm im gold 5 on three accounts but cant even win bronze and silver normal games. Trust me spend most of the season in normal games but aggressively try to grind that normal elo. play to learn. always look at any mechanics and skill you can pick up.

I can give you a really good starting point. take tryndamere. op.gg/champion.gg tryndamere stats try to mimick runes and masteries and build, bot its okay for you to put a little bit of your creativity in the mix( if your a little short on runes to mimick it well you can downgrade to some tier 2 runes that are extremely inexpensive but still have great results and then you can latter upgrade the runes to tier 3. practice last hitting with him.( if your rage "the red bar under your hp" is above 50 or full you will have a higher, crit chance and thus this is when tryndamere last hits easiest and fights best with. start q and max q. max e 2nd max w and r last. also try to only press your q when you need to heal and when your rage bar is full( over time you will learn to abuse tryndamere's full ragebar and q heal, especially during your ult) practice attack moving with trynd ( at your elo you probably dont see much attack moving or/ kiting maybe not even on the adc's) but trust me melee champs can abuse attack moving/ and kiting very well. if you dont know what attakc moving / kiting is go search it up on youtube and practice it. also notice that you can use kiting defensively or offensively. you need to decide how your going to use it according to the situation. maybe the enemy used all his spells so you can be a bit aggresive so you kite in a way that you will be advancing with the enemy while they try to retreat, but then maybe you spot a zill roaming and that zill is pretty fed and ur primary enemies cooldowns are about to come back up so they might be able to turn it around maybe it would be better if you start kiting defensively to get your e cooldown faster( critical strikes aa lower ur e cooldown) so you can e out and q for heal.

also since your going to be begining tryndamere right now the popular and "good" masteries for trynd are 18-12-0 fervor. but since your going to be begining him its best you take 18-0-12 warlords. so its pretty much the exact same except you take warlords and 12 into the defensive tree(like 12 in the diffensive tree like adc's do sometimes) and tbh 18-0-12 isnt that bad when your a good trynd either its really strong right now and warlords does stack on crit and trynd gets free trynd stacks. and the extra healing from 12 in the defensive tree does help his q healing and his warlord healing. so it makes you a really strong skirmisher and its alot more forgiving than 18-12-0 fervor, and altough fervor is alot more damage. i currently preffer 18-0-12 warlords because of the recent warlords changes go very well with trynd's kit and free crits and with the new botrk. anyhow just play to learn. but grind it out in normals first okay?

psuedo meta1 votes

http://www.lol-mmr.com/profilev2.php?summoner=SEXYLORDHANKHILL&region=na

you can always check this page to see how your progressing in normals

Transcended Tilt1 votes

I appreciate the advice, but I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "start out." I've been playing for about 9 months and I have 950+ games. I play mostly Vladimir, Irelia, Poppy, and Sion top lane, so I'm not exactly playing difficult champions. I know how to farm, ward, roam, etc. Admittedly I can be pretty bad at those things, but it isn't like I don't know how to do them. I'm usually pretty good about warding, and my early game farming is pretty strong (late game not so much). I know the majority of my matchups on the champions that I play most (Thresh, Irelia, Sion, Taliyah), and I know at least the basics of just about every champion's kit.

psuedo meta1 votes

I mean you need to take an easy champion into normal games and grind out mmr and elo, practice all your mechanics on simple champions. The reason is because your going to be seeing the fastest results when you trying to advance mechanically. And when you see results, naturally you will be more inclined to pick up the pace and start doing more advance things. Because easy champions are the best way to get results(thus they are the best to practice on) and will give your brain positive feedback, in turn making you more susceptible to learning/advancing. Think of it like wavedashing in melee, people normally practice it on someone like luigi because the have the longest and easiest wavedashing distance, thus something so mechanically intensive is done at ease and you practice it more because its rewarding and stimulating your brain(at a higher rate it would with harder champs) and eventually you master it. and it just become muscle memory. also This is same for anything that isnt mechanical. like simply having alot of game knowledge items masteries summoners. abitlies. cooldowns. good ward spots bad ward spots good time to ward bad time to ward. how to play that champ how to play against that champ. all of this knowledge would be most beneficial to you on an easier champion. learn some ingame knowledge afk -look at lolking.net op.gg champion.gg look at your own stats. look at enemy stats. know how to play against champions. learn how to play your champion. learn the matchups. On easier champions its easier to stimulate a learners curve as you will get better and faster results, that you catch onto and make you feel good about yourself. Like seriously be open minded. dont be offended if im telling you to learn your champ if youve been playing a certain champion forever. there is always something new to learn. micro or macro. mental or tangible.

also by the way the champions you mention as easy champions actually may not have that steep of a learning curve but they do have a decent skillcap.

Tryndamere is very good for this. it doesnt have any on click abilities(so he's not incrediably easy like maoki or fiddlesticks but he is an auto attack relient champion). Playing champion as easy as maoki or fiddlesticks are the easiest champions to play because they have mostly on click abilities and contain pretty good sustain and cc, at relatively low cooldowns are good champions to abuse. But they are not good champions to practice mechanics and skills that are more universal to every league champion. Trynd has an instant reward system of getting a full rage and becoming more powerfull with the more rage he has, having a higher chance to critical strike, and increasing his q heal(if he decides its time to heal) He has a w that both lowers enemy Ad and slows them if they are turned back. he has a e that has a nice dahsing distance that damages throughout its whole pathing. and also the cooldown of the e is lowered by AA crits. then your got the mother of god forgiving tryndamere ult that im sure uve experienced, but that ult also gives a good amount of rage on cast. He can practice pathing, kiting, attack moving. last hiting. skillshots(because his e is a skillshots) and you also practice skirmishing(because he has a very forgiving kit overall, but still a very hard hitting kit). So he is a champion that relies on the basic universal mechanics needed on every champion. but he is also able to practice advance mechanics, when you start to implement them. And he can be pretty low risk high reward. When you master this champ you can then move into something like kayle who is pretty much an hybrid/ap damage version of tryndamere but has range, and does have on click abilties.

VladCuzBad2 votes

Use op.gg or lolking Also You started at the end of s6? I started beggining s4 and I MIGHT get gold this season. Granted i did get silver from s4 5 and 6 but both s5 and s6 were because of my friend carrying. S4 was because i got placed s4??? This is the first season I am actually climbing on my own, and I am doing so fairly quickly. I felt that My main weakness was exploiting other weaknesses and pushing my strengths. Although i had mains i did good with, I never really carried, or if i did, rarely. Now, I realized all these things I am doing, such as warding more often, focusing on cs, ROAMING BOT (this is probably the main reason i started carrying, picking up 1 or 2 kills before 10 mins.) Or tp for toplaners. Since you're pretty new, i am going to assume u arent good at cs ( I didnt check stats im in a rush) Do not constantly hit them until they die, only hit them right before they die. It keeps the lane in the middle so you arent able to get jg ganks. I will continue post after my game lol.

Transcended Tilt1 votes

Not sure where you got the idea that I don't know how to farm. I've been playing this game for almost 9 months. Admittedly I'm bad at farming, but I'm quite aware of how to do it. I know where to ward, and I do it, I keep vision on objectives. I also know to roam bot whenever I'm playing mid/TP there when I'm playing top. I know most of my matchups on the champions I play, and whether or not I'm going to have a hard time.

VladCuzBad1 votes

I main vlad. So maybe I could see what u are doing in games that are causing you to lose? If you could show me a recording of a game that would be nice.

VladCuzBad1 votes

One thing i Noticed right away is your vlad build. Never build spirit/Randuins. Ever. Unless they have afull ap team where u need more mr. But def never randuins. Its kinda complicated how i decide to build, but in essence, Cdr if im losing (lucidity, rush kindle gem and feindish codex) or if im winning (Finish proto and rylais) rylais is core on vlad. Always get it. (And sorcerers boots) Then either build abyssal or zhonyahs based on if the enemy team is mostly ad or ap. Lastly build rab and whatever u t hink u need. Ludens is nice if u want speed.

I also usually run vlad mid with ghost.

I think its just general game knowledge of what to build and when to do what is your weakness. I saw ur cs and its pretty on point.

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