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I have 960 hours in this game and still got placed in Bronze III. Should I just quit?

Taelann·2/7/2016, 2:23:47 AM·2 votes·1,017 views

Pretty much what the title says. I finished last season in Silver V after being placed in Bronze I and spending nearly the entire season trying to climb out. Now I'm even lower than where I got placed last year. Let me repeat that.

**I HAVE NEARLY ONE THOUSAND HOURS IN THIS FUCKING GAME AND I STILL GOT PLACED IN BRONZE. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME? **

It seems like no matter what I do, no matter how many hours I spend studying builds, no matter how many pro streams I watch, no matter how many games I play, I NEVER GET BETTER. Not only do I not get better, but even when I do well, I still regularly lose games because of shitty teammates who feed their asses off and/or refuse to group. I'm a support main so I'm pretty much fucked when it comes to trying to carry my way out.

I'm seriously on the verge of quitting, but my twin brother who's better than me at seemingly everything was high silver last season and I can't let him keep beating me. This game is one of the only things that brings me satisfaction, but when I'm losing it's fucking miserable. My throat is sore from screaming my lungs out after seeing that I was placed in bronze again. I already went though the hell of climbing out of bronze as a support main last season and I'm not prepared to do it again. Are some people just not cut out for this game?

21 Comments

TheCeeJay2/7/2016, 2:32:36 AM7 votes

It mainly comes down to: do you have fun when you play?

If no, just quit. If yes, don't let your rank get to you and just play for fun.

MrBuffington2/7/2016, 2:39:08 AM1 votes

Ranked resets every season; you'll naturally get placed lower than where you finished the previous season. It happens to everyone

I was looking over your stats; you seem to have high winrates on Leona and Lulu. Stick with them; you'll climb. The game is naturally pretty grindy, there's no magic bullet to make you climb (I mean, there are elo-boosters, but there are less expensive ways to get your account banned). I wouldn't put so much pressure on yourself; I was the same way before. The game became a lot more fun for me when I learned to take things more slowly

hi im minty2/7/2016, 2:47:01 AM1 votes

Well, do you like playing it?

Kikirino2/7/2016, 2:50:38 AM1 votes

The only way to get truly better in low elo is to put the blame completely on yourself. You lost because you didn't play good enough. It creates a mental challenge to better yourself. You will start noticing little mistakes you consistently make. You will notice bad calls you made. You will start to notice all these little things you could do better and have a desire to correct them and as you do you will get better.

At least, this is what I did to climb.

GGX Millia2/7/2016, 2:51:31 AM1 votes

Stop playing support at low elo, really. As a former support main, I must say support is the hardest role to climb with by far. With a poor ADC you're literally doomed in lane and can only hope that enemies don't ward well to prevent your roams and your ADC doesn't suicide.

A lot of support champs can do well in solo lanes. Morgana, Lulu can go anywhere and still be useful. Karma, Zyra mids. Literally any tank can work top. Choose your poison.

I still put my secondary role as support sometimes tho, but my W/R is much better at mid... even though I have maybe 1/5th of mid games played compared to supp games.

khorney2/7/2016, 2:58:31 AM1 votes

honestly start playing lux or morg supp or annie and go ap carry the game. it doesnt matter how tanky you are you will still end up losing

theArtifacts2/7/2016, 3:03:41 AM1 votes

I had way more hours than that last season.. finished S4 after climbing from B5. I placed B4. This season since the ranks are fixed to mmr after reset you should be able to climb out quickly and work your way through silver. In under 1 week after placing B4 I climbed to B2 with 54 LP (only lost a handful of games)

If it's fun for you, keep working at it.

Mr Fuzzy Nugget2/7/2016, 3:04:32 AM1 votes

Your anger seems to be a major problem. If you're one of those people who say "this fucking lux" "gg trash team" no wonder you're losing games. Need to learn to control your emotions and you'll play a lot better.

Angry Monster2/7/2016, 3:16:47 AM1 votes

yes

DrNova2/7/2016, 3:37:30 PM1 votes

Stop caring so much about your rank, or just stop playing ranked.

The ranked system is a broken mess, regardless of those who say it isn't. So just don't care about it.

You are one of the millions who will never go pro, so lose the mentality for it. Play for fun. You naturally play better that way anyways.

DeynaTaggerung2/7/2016, 4:07:35 PM1 votes

I think the answer to how to get better is focus more on your losses. If matchmaking is doing its thing right (early in the season that's necessarily guaranteed, but it should settle out after a bit) then you're going to have something close to a 50% winrate, even when climbing pretty regularly I'm usually still at a 55-60% win rate. Point being you're going to lose a lot, even when you do really well. If you focus on where exactly you made mistakes. After every fight/skirmish/objective think to yourself, "how could I have played that better". Even when you get an advantage off of the play, think how you could have been more punishing or done it more cleanly. Maybe you should have set up vision a minute before the objective so you saw their collapse in advance and could have been in place to get the first jump in the teamfight, etc etc. I think I've learned so much just from analyzing my own play and the play of others around me.

That aside I will admit that it can be hard to consistently climb as a support because even if you play really well and set them up for perfect plays, you still rely on them to make those plays. One solution to this is play damage supports like Zyra, Annie, Brand so if your team drops the ball you can switch to an APC partway through the game and provide damage your team is lacking. The other solution is to get good at a carry role and use that to climb out of Bronze. I will say though, climbing with support isn't impossible, I have a friend who climbed from B4-S5 playing 60% support and 40% mid lane.

As for why originally you were placed in Bronze in the first place, here's a really informative post on the subject http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/E9nkYATc-psa-regarding-ranked-placement-and-seedings-for-all-who-are-confused Everyone dropped rank, and not every has re-ranked yet so the meaning of different elos is still pretty ambiguous, B3 at the moment is probably harder than B3 towards the end of last season. We all had silly drops and are figuring out what that means (I went from Gold 4 to Silver 3) so I don't think this in itself should be enough to make you quit, but if you can't find a way to have meaning in the losses and enjoy this game even when you're losing then I think you're just going to find yourself miserable half the time and it might not be worth it. Up to you, but if it another shot first before you decide.

ElysMustache2/7/2016, 4:38:41 PM1 votes

There are people who have played guitar for 20 years and are not good at it, and there are players with only 5 yesrs of experience that are incredibly good. One of the differences is that some 20 year players don't have 20 years of experience.

They have one year of experience 20 times.

They stick to what they know and don't progress. They know the G, C, and D chords, but don't know that those chords are formed from the first third and fifth notes of a major scale. They wouldn't be able to figure out the fingering of a Eb6 chord without looking in a book because they don't understand what they are doing.

Obviously this is an analogy to League. If you're just trying to not feed, that's not going to move you up. You need to make as many optimal plays as possible, and minimize every mistake. Doing something good is a mistake if you could have done something great.

If you think your playing is optimal, I assure you it is not. Go back and watch your gameplay. Pause it every now and then and think about what the optimal play was, and compare that to what you did.

Reduce mistakes, and I reiterate: anything not optimal is a mistake.

Laisenberg2/7/2016, 2:32:32 AM1 votes

you should buy an account so u can troll people

Snow Tea2/7/2016, 4:56:15 PM1 votes

It depends if you have fun or not Rank doesn't matter if you play this game for fun. If you play this game to rank up then you can quit if you want to.