I feel I have to be unfairly better to deal with this

ReDesign·Jul 5, 2016·2 votes·324 views

Using my last trundle top game as an example, where I went 3/0 with best or almost best cs in game, I can do good myself , and indirectly help team through preasure/making enemy top laner waste tp as well for example, but still just cant do enough to win. That game, hec and back line trist just did way too much (the same hec team fed early).

Feels like if I were to win through "gittin gud" that match and a handful others in the last while, it would have to be where I get amazingly gud , multiple tiers above where I am, which how can you expect that of someone so easily, Im no superhuman korean lcs guy.

[zombie-brand-clap]

edit: Now 0 lP , not just "almost 0 LP", the match after that that I just finished wnt like this: We 15 kils ahead, towers ahead, winning, irelia gets salty over stupid shit and afks ... "if you dont ff I afk"

8 Comments

BluePolarizerJul 5, 20163 votes

lol I get the same thing. Statistically it will even out if you are consistent, don't tilt and are actually better than your elo. I'm saying this as someone who went on a 15 loss streak, then on a 25 win streak, now back on a 7 loss streak after wobbling around a bit. The streaks are bad but if you are consistent, you'll climb back out on a gigantic win streak.

WukongMainJul 5, 20161 votes

Being consistent is almost one of the most important things to practice. and if you take away smurfs, elo boosters, lagging, dcing and all those outside factors that hinder ones climbing, you will find being consistent to be the new biggest thing in your path. Not just you, but the people on your team have to be consistent as well.

being inconsistent leads to loses for both you and your teammates. and can cause unintended butterfly effects. for example while you're being inconsistent you may get tilted due to poor performance, which in turn makes you performance drop some more. your inconsistency could ultimately end up tilting your teammates, who will then go on to tilt more teammates until the whole community is tilted lol.

Recognizing when you aren't at your best, and simply not playing(or playing normals instead) is an underrated way to climb ranks super easy.

ReDesignJul 5, 20161 votes

great insight, gotta agree with many of those points, are you really only gold 5 urself?

WukongMainJul 5, 20161 votes

yeah only gold 5 xD i should climb quickly though now that i really focusing on it.

ReDesignJul 5, 20161 votes

Ive been only improving overall, playing 3 champs almost everytime consitently, yet it truly feels like the stats have been against me, worse teams/other issues havnt been so 50% anymore but 55-60% in my last tens of ranked matches..

Azure HamsterJul 5, 20161 votes

"smurfs, elo boosters, lagging, dcing and all those outside factors" happen to both teams equally over the long haul. The only consistent thing between every game you play in... is you. Sometimes losses truly are out of your control. But even in those games, "what could I have done better?" is a much more useful attitude than "man they lost that for us."

Caitlyn

SwiftKitten88Jul 5, 20161 votes

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"smurfs, elo boosters, lagging, dcing and all those outside factors" happen to both teams equally over the long haul. The only consistent thing between every game you play in... is you. Sometimes losses truly are out of your control. But even in those games, "what could I have done better?" is a much more useful attitude than "man they lost that for us."

just because its equally unfair to both teams overall doesn't make it "fair"

Azure HamsterJul 6, 20161 votes

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just because its equally unfair to both teams overall doesn't make it "fair"

No, but you can't blame it for your inability to climb ranks.

I'm a purist game designer and I hate the idea of smurfs and boosters with a passion. They ruin the game in so many ways. People against the smurf get undeserved losses. People with the smurf get undeserved wins. This puts the undeserved winner on teams where their MMR is inflated and they can't hold up their end of the bargain, and cause all of those people to lose undeservedly.

But in the long term, these effects wash out in the statistics and only your own performance is the constant between your games.

Caitlyn