Player creating problems in Ranked

VII Prophet··3 votes·3,084 views

I'm no longer enjoying playing ranked.. I have lost almost 40 games in a row now because I'm matched with people who genuinely do not have a clue about closing a game or pushing your lead and keeping the advantage. I was Gold 2 last season as a support and top lane main and now can't even get past S3 0LP because every one of my games has had a troll or players who just don't know what the hell they're doing. I'm being very serious, the stuff that I hear come from players like my last game for example: "we need to baron now so we win" while all our lanes are hard pushed and the entire enemy team is alive with vision control over baron. like what the actual frak. who thinks like that????? have they ever watched streams?

Problems I'm seeing regularly:

  1. ADC's split pushing solo without vision. (STOP IT, JUST STOP DOING THIS) you're meant to be the back line of a group not a split pusher! save that for champs like Jax , Renekton , Nasus , Tryndamere , Garen etc. (aka TOP LANERS!)
  • Jungler's ganking from in front of the enemy laner and chasing under tower without a minion wave and the laner's ability to support/secure. (don't bloody do this) always gank from behind the enemy Unless they're already very low health and you can easily secure the kill. and I mean easily

  • Jungler's not pushing the wave in with laner after a successful gank. (please learn to do this, as the wave pushes back to your laner and the enemy loses gold/XP

  • Mid laners over extending and not warding or understand the enemy jg pathing. (know where the enemy JG has been and where they're going next (whether that be a camp or, more importantly.. are they heading to you!?)

  • Supports playing more aggressively than the ADC can follow up on. Learn to mirror your ADC's behaviour, if they're passive, then play a little passive and look for picks or punishable mistakes from the enemy ADC/Support. Agressive ADC's are champs like Lucian , Draven , Tristana , Jhin , Caitlyn , and MissFortune . Passive champs are Ezreal , KogMaw , Twitch .. anyone that is late game is passive (naturally). Lane bullies are aggresive! (I'm not just talking about preferred play style, I'm also talking about the champ and their power spikes).

  • Probably the biggest issue I still see is ZERO MAP AWARENESS. Players... Please WATCH the FRIKEN MAP!

  • Also players... stop lying in League about random crap. you'll just piss people off and end up throwing the game for your team because they won't want to play with you.

I don't always play the best in laning phase, I mean... sometimes I have terrible games in laning phase. But I certainly do what I can to get a lead, whether it be split pushing, then immediately grouping for a team fight or making picks and then letting my team secure the kill, Controlling objectives, keeping vision, knowing where the enemy is and how to counter their play etc.. we have a bigger community in League then ever before yet players in lower elo still aren't learning the basics. wtaf!? I want to enjoy and feel challenged playing Ranked... not end the game and want to hang myself from the endless disappointment or constant bullying from people who refuse to just think/understand.

what do you guys think? is anybody experiencing the same issues?

6 Comments

FioraWillCarry1 votes

Yea, there are too many noobs that belong in Iron 4 running it down in Silver. Shit is infuriating.

I've started sending tickets every single time I get a trash ass feeding team.

preternatural1 votes

I would gladly drop down to silver if ranked rewards were there, cause honestly the quality of game is better than gold as far as I'm concerned. literally traumatised from allied jungle Pyke not even being able to clear his jungle.

Baby Ghoul1 votes

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I would gladly drop down to silver if ranked rewards were there, cause honestly the quality of game is better than gold as far as I'm concerned. literally traumatised from allied jungle Pyke not even being able to clear his jungle.

I thought I was alone in feeling this way.

Silver feels like a breeze. I only used to do ranked for rewards, and climbing to gold was simple. I'm trying for plat this season, and man, it's like hitting a wall over and over again. Not fun in the slightest.

High gold to low plat is hell because everyone thinks they're secretly a Korean challenger player and then there's a bunch of "smurfs" who are usually low diamond struggling like the rest of us, and so they throw on their side when they don't get their way.

preternatural1 votes

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I thought I was alone in feeling this way.

Silver feels like a breeze. I only used to do ranked for rewards, and climbing to gold was simple. I'm trying for plat this season, and man, it's like hitting a wall over and over again. Not fun in the slightest.

High gold to low plat is hell because everyone thinks they're secretly a Korean challenger player and then there's a bunch of "smurfs" who are usually low diamond struggling like the rest of us, and so they throw on their side when they don't get their way.

plat in previous seasons has been the pits of hell, literally worst elo to be in and around even if you're finding success in climbing. now with the new iron and grandmaster tiers that seems to have shifted to include gold elo now and i just can't lol. these games have one at their item 3091 by min 10 consistently.

Zero Shingetsu1 votes

Only thing I'd argue with is... Some ADCs (Vayne comes to mind) can split push if they ward key escape routes. I mean, Yi invented the split push and he hasn't been a top laner for years. I also tend to have good split pushes with Qiyana, but Qiyana does everything well.

VII Prophet1 votes

yeah yi is pretty good at splitting for sure. Vayne still takes time, but is still better suited to staying with 3 others in a team fight rather than splitting.

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