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Stuck in Gold 2 for 3 years now, literally losing because of teams despite doing well - Read First

captcha or lose·6/10/2019, 5:13:17 AM·2 votes·1,983 views
captcha or lose - Summoner Stats - League of Legends

When you play a game for a long time, like 5 years, you shouldn't be stuck at the same level for 3 of them - a well known fact is that with practice at something you WILL get better with practice so long as you are mildly intelligent. I started unranked, silver, gold, gold and now gold again.

I have lost my promos to plat because of unfortunate games, but I find that when I get to around the low plat mmr I start getting horrendous teams. This will change, but look at my most recent games - I am performing fine to well in every game I have lost, what is the glaring obvious weak link? The feeders on my team, or the terrible builds such as a nasus who rushes tri force against a darius and doesn't build armor first, or a zed top or having no tanks and no cc. I try picking according to a comp, but I can only get so far given the others are making rational picks too - which they often aren't. I am actually so sick of losing games because of teams who throw and feed, don't listen to instruction and let their egos get ahead of themselves.

In my last 10 games, I have lost 6 - almost all of which were out of control due to my team for the most part. I'm not denying I lose a lot of games because of poor performance, but specifically when I start to climb to plat, past gold 2, I start to get screwed with losing streaks and sudden mmr drops. I ranked from silver 1 to gold 2 in just a week, getting 26lp per win and -10 per loss, now that has changed to +20 and -16 respectively. I don't know how or why I am getting paired with people who seem ill-equipped to play at this skill level while the enemy team always seems to be in-sync and cohesive.

I communicate with team, trying to talk about picks, all I get is "you talk too much" "stfuidc" This community really takes the joy out of playing a game where I enjoy progressing and playing competitively, but I can't progress and just become frustrated when I lose because of reasons beyond my control. I can deal with a loss that was my fault, but it's difficult to deal with being held back when you're relying on others.

This is too recurrent for me to think Riot is not intentionally sabotaging my win rate and my games with horrible matchmaking. I had above a 55% win rate, I am now on a 6 game lose spree after having gone on 4 game lose sprees for the past 2 days. Damn this game, it's too frustrating to enjoy, I had previously quit because of this very reason, now I remember exactly why - you start losing a shit ton for completely idiotic reasons that just leave you frustrated and tilted that have nothing to do with my own performance.

Lost 14 of 20 games just now, getting demoted to G3 despite climbing from S1 to G2 in just 3 days - This game is rigged and it actively works against you climbing, I had very good MMR, gaining 26+ LP per win now it's down to 19/20 per win (if I'm even so lucky)- screw this game and this company, they make me sick.

16 Comments

BrightWîngs6/10/2019, 5:31:12 AM2 votes

It's not your teammates at least not entirely you need to look at the games you've won and then take a look at the games you've lost.

You get a handful of kills but also get a handful of deaths when you lose BUT when you win you TRUELY do pop off and die much much less.

If you are hardstuck it does not mean your team is bringing you down it means you're not letting YOURSELF improve because you're too busy blaming your team for losses.

Now don't get the idea that botlane hard feeding can't be the reason you lost and I'm not saying it's all your fault. What I am saying is that the way you climb is if you improve if you don't improve as a player you don't climb.

This dumb game placed me in silver 4 this season close to bottom of the barrel and I trucked through that division as well as gold I'm currently Platinum 1. And believe me I've had lanes hard feed and lose because of it I also had toxic players be the result of a loss. But what I NEVER would pay any attention to how other players are playing and ONLY critised myself when i make a bad play.

Side note: Don't try to justify bad plays or when you fuck up because if you do this you will have the mindset that you always make the right decistions and will never improve.

Attitude goes a REALLY long way if your attitude sucks then you're games are gonna suck simple as that.

KVbqbFsC8e6/10/2019, 8:48:59 AM2 votes

After 3 years you have to acknowledge that Gold 2 is where you belong.

PositiveMental416/10/2019, 8:31:41 AM1 votes

Just become a K/D/A player and you will climb because even in the games you win your scores are pretty bad. If you play for kda you force yourself to go for kills putting the enemy team behind and doing so just power farm and take obj. Stick to fizz and if your team is behind just let them die and go for kills in teamfights. Play for picks and force fights depending on how many you killed. Team comps dont matter much unless the enemy team is just stacked then just dodge as tanks take literally no skill to play and are broken anything else you can actually outplay. You can play whatever you want id say just 1 trick fizz and become a god at him.

Vonyalo6/10/2019, 9:19:39 AM1 votes

Go play starcraft if you dont wanna lose because of teams

usul12026/10/2019, 12:14:57 PM1 votes

The highest mastery heimerdinger in the world has over 9 million points. He's bronze 4 currently (https://euw.op.gg/summoner/userName=GeT%20CoN%20TRollED). Playing a lot does NOT mean you're going to improve.

What are your current improvement points? When you go into a game, what are you thinking "this is the skill/gameplay element I'm going to improve/fail less at"?