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Aegis Dragon·3/17/2019, 11:53:57 PM·7 votes·8,384 views

So, I've been having this problem for a while and have hesitated to write on it, thinking, maybe I just have really bad luck. Maybe I'm not as good as I think I am. But... I can't keep telling myself that anymore. Because despite routinely getting positive K/D/A ratios, despite rarely making a wrong or bad move, despite constantly doing everything I need to put my team in a proper position... I always lose. Always.

At one point or another, it comes down to three things.

1.) The team doesn't communicate or otherwise work together properly. Everyone tries to do their own thing, and promptly spits in my face when I try and organize them

2.) Someone is feeding. Sometimes my ENTIRE team, and usually because of rookie mistakes, like continuing to engage an enemy that they KNOW they can't beat in a fight, or turret diving when they have no mana. As a side note, EVERY Yasuo I've had on my team at any point in time has fed, to the point that i either ban him, or dodge when I see one, and I HATE, ABHOR, ABSOLUTELY DESPISE dodging, so that's how you KNOW there is a problem.

3.) The team is toxic. Full of people that constantly blame everyone else for their own mistakes, which loops right back to reason one. No teamwork.

At some point, I was statistically bound to end up with a solid team, but... that hasn't happened once. I'm stuck in Bronze II, and I'm probably gonna drop, and it's through little to no fault of my own. And that's what pisses me off. Not quite that I keep getting bad teams. But because I'm dropping in rank despite my performance being fine. I climbed to Silver IV last season playing only hypercarries, but that's not working for me now, because I just CAN'T rely on my team, ever. The enemy team always has flawless coordination, but my team has none, and refuses to listen when I try to organize them.

The potential solutions I propose are thus. One, start grouping people together based on individual performance, taking into account average gold earned per match, K/D/A ratio, damage dealt and take, and role and champion specific performances.

Two, and this I would VERY much prefer, is to RANK people on individual performance, or at least heavily mitigate the loss of points based on performance in a losing match. Because it sucks when you go 9 and 0, participating in every teamfight, but get dropped a rank because the rest of your team was feeding or split up or something like that. You could create separate ranking systems for an individual's skill alongside the current ranking system. I would be perfectly fine with that, just... stop punishing me for what my team does. Please. It's breaking my heart that I just CAN'T claw my way up the ranks because everyone I get matched with doesn't play the game like a team game.

18 Comments

Sleep On Stream3/17/2019, 11:57:12 PM4 votes

dude ranked is rigged to keep 90% of the players low rank so they continue to play and potential buy skins last time i was banned of the boards for this but i will say it again !

AntiSJW3/18/2019, 12:05:09 AM3 votes

You're playing rank in the worst time to ever play rank especially for our region.

Matchmaking and autofill are not balanced, which is why dodging and only taking certain matches is the climbing strategy. If you take every game given to you and aren't immensely better than who you're matched with you aren't going very far. Also, you have to play META.

Better to care less at this point

Aegis Dragon3/18/2019, 12:36:12 AM2 votes

I just... I can't stress enough how tired I am of this. I've been dealing with it for three seasons, and I just... I'm done. I can't do it anymore. I might just quit League altogether because I'm SO tired of being PUNISHED for playing the game. I just... there aren't even words. I could post a hundred times and still feel like I haven't gotten my point across. But Riot probably isn't even going to respond to this post. It's just one of hundreds like it, and they probably just think I'm some salty kid.

Aegis Dragon3/18/2019, 12:30:29 AM2 votes

I just want Riot to solve this. They've tried and failed their way, and they need to start listening to us about this. Because if this is how it always is going to be, they might as well just axe ranked alltogether. Because it's worth nothing to me right now. It doesn't give me any reward for keeping on even after all of the losses, I'm not being acknowledged for anything GOOD i do, and every win is complimented by ten losses. There's just nothing I can do. I'm powerless because I'm on a team of four other people, and at least one of them isn't a team player, or is feeding, or is toxic, or SOMETHING. And that destroys the entire team. I have to have the fortune of getting a team of four complete strangers that will actually listen to tactical advice and criticism, actually know when to engage and when to pull out, and know when they've lost their lane and should just sit back and let the lane fall rather than feed.

I like to think that I'm a good player. I've been complimented by people before on my gameplay. But the game is PUNISHING me for playing it, because my TEAM keeps messing up. And that's just not good game design.

Again, Riot... if you can't fix it, just axe it. Because it's just torture at this point. I'm gonna give myself a heart attack over how powerless I am to stop this.

ll3lackbeard3/18/2019, 12:19:46 AM1 votes

I feel the same way. Had high hopes for Iron to weed out these fools but only 3.5% of people fell there

FullmuteAll play3/18/2019, 4:17:31 AM1 votes

Your first and main mistake is to expect teamwork. Stop expecting anything good from your allies. That's how you should play in SoloQ. The less you chat, the better. Pings is the only communication. Use mute actively. I don't know what organized play you want from BRONZE GOSH BRONZE !!! The only more or less organized play I started seeing playing with Golds and Plats.

P.S if it makes you feel better the whole Silver fits your description as well. And yes, it is your fault to take a wrong approach. I bet you play more than 1-3 champions and maybe even play more than 1 role.

Ulquiorra01233/18/2019, 8:49:59 AM1 votes

Play twitch jungle, is what I started to do, have yet to lose hardcarrying even monkeys... Its real good.

Now, have you considered the likelihood that bronze 2 might mean that you along with everyone you could possibly match with is bad? And anyone who is fed can carry a game? Silver 1 is the only division from iron-challenger that is the bane of my existence, a personal thing, dunno why its just a complete crapshow in this division. However, I do not believe in blaming teammates. I've run 2 accounts already to diamond this season from Iron, this one got stuck where accounts get stuck every year or me, in silver 1, once i get past the mindwall will race up again.

Point is, if something is holding you back, its you. Sure your teammates can be monkeys, but the likelihood is the enemy is too. Just be less monkey than them and you will win playing a hardcarry. Good luck.

Edit: I will offer to play 2 games with you to show you that no matter how bad your teammates are you can still win the game.

CHROMEPIPE3/18/2019, 8:13:31 PM1 votes

idk i go bronze to gold every time it aint that hard man