Why League is not fun anymore
I want to tell you a little story of my experiences in LOL during last few days. I'm currently Silver V on EUNE server. I am trying hard to climb, and I play mostly jungle and mid to have as much affect as possible, to outcome of the game.
I was in huge losing streak few days ago, I wasn't playing my main roles or champions so won like 1 out of 10 games. I accept I was bad in those games but still not worst in my team. I was really close to drop back to bronze, so I went back to play what I'm best with, and won 5 games in row with pretty good scores except one where I got carried since played in top and didn't do too well (don't understand why toplane and adc just don't fit in my playstyle, I'm horrible adc)
Well, I was one win from getting to Silver IV promos, and played Warwick in jungle. Champion that I pretty much mained pre-30 and never played in ranked with, but not found it again and had pretty nice games with him. So, this game didn't start well, all lanes were losing little in start, but we turned it very well and got big lead in kills and objectives. Our adc Ashe was pretty bad, like 1/10 in some point and mid lane Lux also, like 1/5, but I, toplane Yasuo and Leona played very well and turned the game. I ended game 13/5/8 and yasuo 20/8/8. When enemy got only nexus turrets left first Ashe went afk and I thought we can easily still 4 vs 5 them and win. Soon after Lux went afk also, I still had some hope but it was hard to defemd 3 vs 5 and soon we fought front of our nexus turrets and succeed to kill 4 of them 3 vs 5 but last one left finished the game. So we lost game that was like 45/30 because both our "carries" (who didn opposite thing to carrying) left the game at critical point. So as you can quess I was pretty mad about this loss and not getting to promos because of two damn feeding afks. And we didn't flame them, which was one reason why we succeed to turn the game. So I didn't play more games yesterday since that was more than irritating. And I don't understand how I lost 22 LP for this loss which is like 50% more than I got in my latest victories.
So today I started queue with mid/jungle pref and waited 18 long minutes to finally get a game. That's very long queue time for low Silver on afternoon. So this game enemy got afk so they remaked.
I didn't want to wait another 20 minutes so chosed fill. I often go fill and play support, mainly blitzcrank, because it's fun and more "relaxing" and blitz can actually carry hard his own way) Quite a few games dodged, and someone didn't lock pick or ban in THREE games in a row. Finally found a game and somewhy my role was adc. As told earlier, role where I suck the most. So I asked if someone wants to switch roles. Didn't get clear answer but gladly I was last pick. Our mid picked teemo. Hmmm Our support picked HEIMERDINGER that moment I wanted to jump out of lobby but that would have caused me like 5 times 20 minute bans which I don't want. So usual report pla pla pla mess started and our teemo said that he will adc (with teemo...) and heimer should go mid and I pick support. Well i did so, and when game started teemo went mid and heimer bot. Hmmm "Gladly" enemy jungler picked vayne so I thought that maybe we still had some hope left to win since both teams have strange picks. Don't know was it on purpose but our jax was afk (first time ever I was happy of that) and we remaked. Then I prefered mid/jungle again and after 5 minutes got mid. Picked yasuo as counter to Twisted fate but then they picked akali and TF was support :P So after hour I finally got to actually play. So, our top Pantheon went 0/3 in few mins against ryze and blamed jungler Xin about that. Bot gave few kills for vayne and TF in start also. I played safe against akali because everyone else fed and then Pantheon disagreed to go vack to top and started to farm jungle camps :P Soon he went to bot permanemtly and leaved enemy ryze to push top alone. Junglers joined bot fight and my team still was losing there even 4 vs 3. Soon pantheon who was like 0/5 yelled in all chat "Free Kills mid" and walked my lane and let akali kill him. So he just ruined my chances to win only lane that wasn't fed by giving few kills to akali who started snowballing and soon I was 0/2 also. I couldn't hold myself anymore and started raging for idiot pantheon, but soon I calmed down and asked him to please stop trolling. At least he stopped giving completely free kills while still feeding, but I and xin succeed to pick few nice kills so we raised from 20/1 position to 57/24 (lol) while I was 11/10 and xin 9/11. Of course it was sure loss because of 1/17 pantheon and 2/13 jinx but at least we two lost honorably :) But another game in row lost because of seriously dumb teammates. And on top of everything, when we asked enemy to report pantheon, their vayne said "honor pantheon". GG that game I waited an hour.
So next game, jungling with Warwick. All lanes gave first kills for enemy, and Le Blanc was all the time requesting ganks from me. So I ganked him lvl 3, yasuo was pushing hard with half HP. I didn't have any stuns then so run towards yasuo, yasuo run past me towards his own tower while I AA and Q him. LB just sits next to his tower and does nothing. So I went back to farm, lvl 5 tell Jax I'm coming top but he decides to solo against Zac and die. And Zac run under his own tower with one third of HP. Back to farm, lvl 6 I go to bot bushes while minions are pushed to enemy tower so they don't know I'm there. Alistar tells he will flash and knockup Miss Fortune and I should ult him then. So MF walks straight to bush where I am, alistar did what he told, I ult MF and guess what vayne doing? Farming even he was in range to kill MF who was under CC very long. Then MF flashed towards her turret and ulted. Triple kill and vayne uses his ult to escape but dies immediately. I picked up a kill on their support at least but still... Second try to gank LB who is like 0/3 already, I come from bush and ult, LB does nothing again, yasuo escapes. I pinged LB like 5 times but she does nothing. Next gank bot this time from river and again MF does same thing and vayne hit support while I ult MF. And now double for MF, at least I get out. So I ganked my lanes many times but every time laners didn't follow at all. Every time enemy jungler ganked, they got kill and laner blamed me of course. Enemy won pretty easily, Jax and alistar did ok but again our carries were useless. I ended up with 3/8/8 but there was nothing to do when laners had 0 idea how to react on ganks. Probably should have picked some more dmg doing jungler but we needed tankyness andy 2 first items were still bloodrazor and BORK because enemy had 3 tanks.
So since I'm low silver I get matched up with even low bronzes on my team, and I see a lot players with like 15 ranked games played (once our ashe got 1 ranked win) and when I see someone with under 50 games played I have big fear they will feed that enemy jhin with 800 games played. Because that's a even bigger difference than what is your rank. Also seeing people never played that champion in ranked before, or their KDR with that champion is 2/10, I know they probably won't do too well. And everyone who says they will troll after enemy got few kills makes me feel like I want to burn my computer. That's what makes me play with friends or people from previous games who did well, because then I know there's at least someone else who I can trust more he will not feed his ass off.
And reporting people seems to do nothing, you get report or few from like every single low elo game because all negative KDR is somewhy thought as intentionally feeding or trolling. Every game I lose, someone wants to report someone. That's stubid because then Riot won't see real reports they should see, from ocean of complains.
I never troll even I am having a bad game or it's already sure loss. I don't understand why anyone would.
But my point is, that Ranked isn't fun to play because it's very high chance to get afk or troll in your team. Or just player who is not near your or enemy's skill lvl. I'm not saying I'm better than regular silver player, but at least I try my best. I have read many discussuions about how people can't climb ranks because their all teams are full of trolls or afks. They aren't but too many of them are. And saying that it's all about player himself does he win or not (about me for example), is incorrect. I can honestly say I was in higher rank if I had 0 trolls and afks in my teams. Not talking about bad player but real trolls and afks. I feel like every fourth team mate is like 5 year old who needs compliments and babysitting all the time.
If you are having bad game, play under your tower, get as much cs as you can, ask for gank nicely and let your team carry you. Don't cry and don't try to even your lane situation if you just can't. DOT.