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Why have I lost so many ranked games?

Transcended Tilt·3/19/2017, 5:56:00 AM·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 meta3/19/2017, 6:35:37 AM2 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?

VladCuzBad3/19/2017, 6:58:37 AM2 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.

VladCuzBad3/19/2017, 8:08:43 AM1 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.

VladCuzBad3/19/2017, 8:16:08 AM1 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.