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Losing feels worse than winning feels good

Bob the Toastr·8/18/2018, 5:44:53 AM·27 votes·11,633 views

Like the title says, stomping your opponents feels just okay, it's not super fun to just wreck them all game long, but getting stomped feels awful. I'm talking about when every lane loses hard and it feels like all you can do is sit and wait for the other team to end the game or for the surrender timer.

A perfect example of a smaller version of this is Draven's passive. Getting lots of stacks and getting a kill to cash them in feels alright, I mean, it's just extra gold, but dying and losing 75% of your stacks feels horrible. Especially because it has to be a kill to get the stacks, so if you have a support with there's a good chance you're not going to get the first couple of kills, and then you end up dying and losing your stacks and fall even farther behind champions that have a real passive that they get to use.

I don't have any good solutions to this problem, I just wanted to explain how I feel about this game.

16 Comments

BigFBear8/18/2018, 5:47:27 AM18 votes

I just read title.

It's normal human psychology. Losing money feels worse than winning money feels good. It has nothing to do with LoL.

Q1opz8/18/2018, 9:16:44 AM6 votes

The problem you're facing is due to the 50% rule that they try and impose on matchmaking. You get on a hot streak, your MMR rises and you're paired with dog shit players and you get stomped. Then your loss streak starts up and you drop MMR until you end up against that other dude that's on his hot streak and you stomp the shit outta them. Back and forth at every rank.

Challenger players sit around the same win/loss as Silver players. Just once I wish they'd hard reset MMR and not back out of it a month after it happens because the minority of players start whining about having to play with/against less skilled players. Let things sort themselves out and you'll end up with a more competitive environment.

JackMcSnipeyz8/18/2018, 5:58:05 AM2 votes

Human mind is kind of an asshole. You probably experience the same in most of your life's ups and downs.

AR URF8/18/2018, 5:49:44 AM2 votes

I feel the reason to this is because when you want to experiment outside your skill level. Like for me, I have a hard time playing Vayne and Draven . When I decide to practice with those two. I'm always put up against Twitch Jhin etc. Top is almost the same. I decide to play Riven and someone picks Tryndamere .

Diana hole8/18/2018, 4:31:54 PM1 votes

losing is supposed to feel worse than winning LOL

Vlada Cut8/18/2018, 8:48:09 PM1 votes

Fealt like this until I started playing Nexus Blitz. I get excitted and too distracted from events to be bothered(mostly), or lose so fast I don't even get to ask myself "Wtf just happened?". Lol. [sg-miss-fortune]

Sensanaty8/19/2018, 6:09:11 AM1 votes

It's called loss aversion and is a basic psychological trait of most animals on Earth.

Not eating for a day is much worse than having 1 day's worth of food (will make you feel). Losing 100 bucks feels a LOT worse than winning 100 bucks will feel. People would rather get a 5 dollar discount off the total price of an item than having to pay 5 dollars out of pocket for a surcharge (in reality the price stays the same and you pay the same amount). Winning a game will pretty much never feel as good as losing feels bad. It's nothing new, you're just trying to blame the game in whatever manner you can.