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Lost 62 of my last 85 games...

yougotCAGED·2/6/2017, 5:50:15 AM·4 votes·1,137 views

A little backstory;

I started playing seriously on December 21st (I'd played a couple times on and off until level 10 before that), so I've been playing about 6 weeks. Originally, I had no idea what I was doing but I still managed to do fairly well with Nami. I placed in Bronze 3 when I did my placements, and climbed up to Bronze 2. I stayed in Bronze 2 (except one drop to B3 and a reclimb to B2) for almost 3 weeks.

And suddenly... things hit the fan. No matter who I use; Malzahar, Nami, Annie, Brand, Sona, etc... I just can't seem to influence the game. I know I'm infinity better than I was when I started a few weeks ago. I place close to 1 ward per minute these days. I buy control wards, I break wards (I'm getting better at this). Lately, I've been winning lane pretty much always.

But it just seems like an unbreakable streak. I finally thought I broke it and I was back around .500 or a little higher, and then I've lost 10 in a row again. Admittedly, I got titled and picked a stupid champion one of those games - but still. How am I better at the game now but I lose at such a ridiculous rate?

I know I've improved warding. I know I've improved staying alive (my average deaths is down over 2.0 since I first started ranked). I even know I've improved roaming (it's not rare for me to help my midlaner pick up a kill or two in the first 6 levels).

I know my biggest weakness is trying to stay alive in big team fights (since I feel like I'm always focused so hard), but aside from that this streak which is starting to happen again boggles my mind.

I have a friend who used to be Diamond (now Gold, doesn't play as much anymore) and he says that I'm a lot better than my ranking. While sometimes I get irritated in team chat for not following my commands, not using my wards, not listening/watching for pings... I would never blame my teammates for me being where I am. And that's why I'm here - I want to be better. I don't want to be stuck in Bronze forever. But those things are all secondary to this ridiculous loss rate. It just seems crazy.

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Built to Tylt2/6/2017, 6:53:45 AM3 votes

This, dear person, is what I have been ranting about on these boards for the last year and a half. It is a very rigged system that is designed to keep a certain amount of people (maybe???? who knows with these guys) in an ELO. This is 3rd season for me where I get close to escaping a bracket and just get SHIT ON for team mates. I'm talking 10+ simultaneous games loss streaks. People in high-end of division doing unranked and ignorant shit. There is no winning against Riot, for they really don't care how poorly their system performs, as is evident over the 4 years now I've been playing. I gave up playing ranked 2x in a row because of lack of improvement. And if you were to quit the game - or just ranked - no one can really blame you.

This is just a sub-par product. It's hard to stop playing it, I know, for it is addictive. Why? No one knows. It's rarely fun and most often times frustrating. But as a quality product, it isn't. At all. Every release has some game-breaking bug. There are things they can do to normalize champ scalings for a more balanced game, but they have stated in not-so-many words that they don't care to. This game could be so great, but I don't see that happening at all any time soon. Maybe in 15 years when the entire original staff is replaced...

I am searching for a more fulfilling game to spend my time on. I can only genuinely encourage others to, as well. The more that people 'leave', the sooner they will get the picture that their customers are unhappy and unsatisfied with the product.

Good luck to you. And know that your frustration is shared in no small part.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo2/6/2017, 6:14:53 AM2 votes

your best option is just mute all when you play game... so you dont have to deal with toxicity

it might really help

Nik Nikerson2/6/2017, 2:28:01 PM1 votes

I know this isn't what you want to hear, but it's going to be a grind. The high level players I know literally play thousands of games of the course of the season. A hundred games really means very little over the course of the season. If you really are getting better, over the long term you will win more games. I used to play MtG at a relatively high level, and it taught me that winning is never guaranteed and that long term success is really about maximizing your chances of winning. Some times you will do literally everything right, and you will still lose. Bad breaks happen. It's certainly tough when you go on a bad streak, and it can feel insurmountable. But I promise that it won't lost forever. It never does. All you can do is try and put yourself in the best position to win, keep trying to fill the holes in your game, and keep grinding it out. If you really are improving, the wins will come.

Hi lm Negan2/6/2017, 8:08:07 PM1 votes

Just by looking at your match history made me find like 5 mistakes. Bt first on Ashe, spirit visage on brand???

Wrong masteries

Wrong runes

Way too many deaths each game

You can't go 5/15 and then say it's not your fault while building bt then ie as Ashe...

yougotCAGED2/8/2017, 2:02:41 AM1 votes

At least I'm winning a few games. Although in Flex and not solo haha. Group of 3 and we're winning some games and I had some strong efforts.. It's so easy to have strong efforts with just a little communication.

Two perfect KDA games today. Only previously had one. My last 6 support games, I think I've only died 17 times. Pretty happy with that.

My friends made me try mid one game. Didnt go well. My farm wasn't that bad for where I am, but I couldnt do anything else. I was so focused on not getting ganked lol