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I lose Every Match I don't Carry: Ranked is a Broken Cesspool due to Matchmaking

Oxóssi·4/6/2019, 3:54:03 PM·5 votes·2,432 views
Oxóssi - Summoner Stats - League of Legends

I'm obviously not the best player in the world, but I'm solid. I started off rough in ranked, probably lost 10 of my first 15 matches, but as I learned to carry my winning percentage slowly got better. Eventually I brought myself back up to 48% around the middle of this week with some awesome games/scorelines: 15/2/7, 11/2/5, etc. I felt really good about it. I'd managed to pull myself within four wins of reaching .500., and also a win away from breaking into Silver V promo's when elo hell ran happened. I started losing nonstop no matter how I played. I think I dropped 15 of my next 20 matches, give or take a few, and ended up right back where I started. The bottom of Bronze II with little LP.

Now I'm at a point in ranked where, if I do not carry, I do not win. Even more, my matches generally aren't closely contested, but are instead decided in the first 10-15 mins as my teams Mid, ADC, and JG combine for 10+ deaths. Perhaps the matchmaking system observed me performing well over a stretch of matches and misidentified me as a smurf, I don't know, but I seem useless anymore. I can't scale fast enough to cover for my teammates mistakes, and if I make a mistake myself? Game over. I don't get ganks, I don't get help, and my team hardly coordinates because they're too busy chasing kills through the JG blind. It's essentially me versus 9 other players and it's made ranked a horrifyingly depressing experience. The fruits of my labor do not pay off, and I no longer feel like I'm impacting matches one way or the other. I've begun asking myself what's the point is in investing time learning how to play if my contributions are largely negligible anyway? The less invested player that is trying out a new champion for the first time will have much larger influence on the outcome of any particular match.

Granted, I understand that if I were a Challenger smurf I wouldn't be having these problems. I'd be able to carry myself out of Bronze and up the ladder easily with a 75% win rate while dominating matches with busted characters. But I'm not a challenger, and I don't play the best of most broken toons. I'm just a normal player trying to get better and have fun while doing it. But losing over, and over, and over again no matter what I do isn't that.

I feel my only option at this point is to create a new account and start fresh.

4 Comments

5050BS4/6/2019, 4:26:33 PM3 votes

You have described my Rank experience.

Riot does not like win streaks and will Rubberband throw you back. This almost ALWAYS happens at Promos.

To get to Silver Promos you HAVE to have a winning streak of 5+ games. Riots shit system does not like 3+ wining streaks and so will start stacking the deck against you. If you get into Promos for Silver you are at 6-7 wins in a Row and now the system will be placing Plat+ Smurfs accounts against you AND putting known AFKers/Troll int feeders on your teams so it can pull you back.

I know this because last season I hit Promos to Gold 25+ times and this is what happened every time.

BeastMoses4/6/2019, 4:17:13 PM1 votes

Is this your first year playing? If it is then you're a pretty good player. I remember when I first started, I got placed straight to Bronze V 0lp (the lowest rank possible back in s6 lol) and never managed to climb out until s7. So...there's your boost of morale right there I guess.

From your op.gg I do see that you mostly play Illaoi. You do have to understand that she is a very oppressive laner, or a lane bully. You are destined to win lane and get solo kills. Due to this, the champion itself also struggles to teamfight, or just simply work with the team. I'm not good enough of a player to tell you how to improve, but similarly, when I had a streak of Pantheon games (who is also a lane bully) I tend to do very well in lane then basically watch the game turn in the enemy's favor.

Eedat4/6/2019, 5:12:26 PM1 votes

I mean looking at your history I dont see this to be true. There are a few games where you carry for wins and a few where you get carried. The majority of your loses you do pretty poorly though. I might suggest moving away from Illaoi. She's really just a huge lane bully who isnt particularly good at anything else. Not a good split pusher. Not a good team fighter. Not good for objective control. Etc. She does shit tons of damage if people run into her and thats about it.

I dont know your style for sure but I can guess with your low average kill participation you tend to split push. You might wanna try Nasus or Jax. I think they're far stronger split pushers as opposed to Illaoi who is just an obnoxious lane bully really