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Falling Into a Low MMR Status.

Deviøuz··1 votes·1,727 views
Katsuu - Summoner search results - League of Legends

Hey I just wanted to make this post to talk about my biggest problem in league right now and how it happened, my MMR.

About 2 weeks ago or so I would usually win 2 out of 3 games I'm pretty sure, I'd make progress in the world of ranked ever so slightly with each win. But then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a wild 7 loss streak has appeared! It was just so devastating losing 7 games in a damn row, my MMR went from normal, (Silver 4) to what is today (Bronze 3). I'm not sure If I've just been playing worse because of it, or if I've been getting more feeders on my team.

Whatever the case may be, I feel I drop more and more MMR each day and some games just feel completely unwinnable.

I want the feedback from YOU guys on the boards, like if this ever happened to you, how do you rise back up gaining less lp than you lose? What champions did you avoid playing, and what mindset would you go in game with? etc.

I just don't want to fall back into the black hole of Bronze again and have to climb all the way back up. I know Bronze & Silver aren't very different, but just the label of being called bronze in almost every game is aggravating.

I linked my OP.GG so you guys could see my stats and tell me what's up. If you're going to comment about my stats in one game, take a look at my teammates KDA's then think about your comment. ;)

Otherwise, thanks for any feedback at all!

Silver 5 0LP Gain: 14-16 LP Lose: 22 LP

17 Comments

Oatz3 votes

Hey, I encountered a similar problem during my climb. I was placed in S2. I cruised through Silver and Gold with virtually no problems until I broke Plat. Plat was a breeze until P3, promos to P2. My MMR was so inflated at this point that I started getting matched with Diamonds. In these Diamond games I played like absolute garbage. I wasn't looking for the proactive plays that I normally look for. I wasn't ganking lanes nearly enough. I was just so intimidated of messing up that I just simply didn't do anything. At this time I mained Ivern with a 70% winrate, and not doing anything on Ivern is pretty much a guaranteed loss unless your lanes get ahead. But I was barely ganking, so my lanes naturally all lost. So I lost my games. Fell to P4 0 LP. It was devastating. Facing demotion, I took a break from ranked and played a bunch of smurf games with friends. I finally decided to play again, and after coming back with a fresh mindset I started winning again. Climbed to P4 100 LP. I hit a bump here and started losing promos, getting back into them, losing them, and on and on (100 LP -> lose -> 60 LP -> win 2 -> 100 LP -> rinse and repeat). I grinded it out and finally got promoted to P3 again. Then I hit a winning streak and got to P3 91 LP where I am now. I don't check op.gg before games now, I don't want to tilt myself before the game even starts. I just play like everyone is the same elo as me. No diamonds.

Here's the link to my op.gg https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Oatz

By no means am I a top tier player but frel free to add me on NA and ask me a few questions (IGN: Oatz).

TL;DR if you're having troubles winning, take a break. Come back to your ranked games with a fresh mind.

Have a good day! ^v^

Deviøuz1 votes

Thanks for that. I just feel like normals have no purpose anymore, everyone breaks out of the casual norm player stage, and once I did and didn't feel like normals were rewarding enough anymore. Good luck on the climb man. My goal is to hit Platinum by the end of the season, but by no means will I stop the climb if I hit it early.

Oatz1 votes

I feel the same way. But normals are a great way to have some fun without having the idea of losing LP/getting demoted nagging you when playing. Once you have a playstyle/champ that you enjoy and do well on, keep playing that. OTPing a champ in your elo is extremely effective, especially if the champ is strong. If you're down, I can duo with you on a smurf and teach you what I know. :)

Deviøuz1 votes

I currently main Katarina, I've been playing her less because of this late game problem I have. I win 95% of all my lanes as Katarina I shit you not. I know how to play lane phase on my main. After I usually take mid tower I try to roam and apply my pressure to the rest of the map, helping bot and top, taking dragon and side lane towers. But Katarina late game can't lone wolf 1v3or4 like she could early game, with all the added tankiness and hard cc that an enemy team has, even with the tank shredder build I always find myself getting bursted because I get no peel. Early game Kat can be played 1v9. But late game Katarina takes massive skill and relies on peel to live. About the duo, I'd be down for that but I'm usually on at night or early during the day.

EDIT: another thing i should mention is that we can completely stomp early game. But sometimes my team doesn't know at all how to close a game. Then late game comes and the enemy makes a comeback, and I lose LP.

Oatz1 votes

I see, I can't really help you there since I'm trash at Katarina and don't know how to play her lol. Objectives win games. Try to take on a leadership role and get your team to follow you to take towers, dragons, etc. rather than playing team deathmatch. What time zone are you in?

Deviøuz1 votes

I don't seek kills, I am legit trying to play proactive to win the game objective wise.

My time zone is UTC-06:00 Central Time

Oatz1 votes

Alright so I'm 1 hour ahead of you then. On what days of the week do you go on?

Deviøuz1 votes

Mon Tue Wed from like 1 AM to 5 AM.

Thursdays 1 AM to 8 AM.

Friday and Saturday nights 1 AM to like 8/9 AM.

Oatz1 votes

Hmmm okay that'll be hard to coordinate lmao

Nursing2 votes

Winning and losing is just a part of any game, you have to get used to it. If I were to recommend you a champ, start playing your MF with 60% w/r right now. She's strong with lethality and she's fairly easy too, all you have to do is worry about your positioning and get a good ultimate off. I'd quit playing high mechanical champions like Yasuo/Cass.

My biggest tip would just to only worry about yourself. If a teammate dies, don't tilt over it. Don't even concern yourself with it, focus only on how you're playing and what you're doing because you're the only person you have control of.

Deviøuz1 votes

What do I do if someone else lets an enemy laner spiral out of control?

Oatz1 votes

Then you still focus on your own lane. Silver games are oftenly decided due to individual micro play, which includes things like CSing, trading in lane, etc., whereas macro play is more important near the higher elos. If someone is feeding, let them be. If you can, then roam and try to help them, but if the enemy is 3/0 at 7 minutes, you're better off ignoring the lane feeding. If you do roam, try to vastly outnumber the fed lanes, otherwise they will most likely kill you too (gank top with 3 people, gank bot with 4+). However, you're better off focusing on your own lane/focusing on the lanes that don't have idiots. For example, your top is a feeding fool and it 0/5 in 5 minutes somehow. Your best bet is to tell him (nicely, dont offend the guy) to play safe, then try your hardest to snowball your own lane or bot lane. Try to coordinate 4 man ganks on bot with your jungler. If this doesn't work, then move on and win the next game. You can't win them all.

RcGjWO640w2 votes

Fortunately for you, it's almost impossible to drop out of silver. You have to lose with a Bronze V MMR, which, if you can beat bots, probably isn't happening.

Deviøuz1 votes

Really? Then I can worry less now, thanks, but I'm gonna push to improve.

RcGjWO640w2 votes

Getting your MMR back up sucks, but it's way faster when you get back on a winning platform. Winning against mid silvers with a Bronze 3 MMR will cause it to climb back up faster than it drops. So if you get your win rate back to ~50%, you'll be fine.

OneTrickZilian2 votes

It happen to me, From gold 3 i dropped to silver 2, even though I am gold 5, my mmr is still Silver 1.

Deviøuz1 votes

Dang man. Good luck on the climb back up.

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