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Ranked anxiety.

DeadRose·6/16/2016, 7:50:09 AM·3 votes·1,430 views

Recently I've got the urge to try ranked again but like the title said, I have a the "Ranked anxiety". In the past (I think 4 months ago) I've played three ranked games with friends and lost all of them so I decided to give it a bit of a break. I still had my doubts about doing ranked at that time but my friends made it bearable. Now I fear playing ranked and I have no friends who wants to do ranked with me, don't want to do ranked at all and some that would help me but they take a very, very long break from LoL (I blame Overwatch). While "talking" to my therapist (looking at the void in my room) I've understood why I have this anxiety. The reason I came to is that I'm afraid of the reactions of my teammates to me. Although I can play every role decently and even very good (beside top lane) I'm afraid that I'll make a mistake that may make us lose the game in an instant and I'll get flamed super hard, I know that no one is perfect but I horrible after making a mistake and I'm being harsh on myself afterwards. But what I find weird is that in normals and in real life I mostly ignore it, sometimes I'm rekting them and sometimes I even join along for some reason. But in ranked for some reason I find it much more harsh and I don't know what to do when it happens, I feel like no matter what I'll do it will backfire at me in some way. After all of this boring stuff I wrote I would like to ask you a question. How can I deal with this anxiety? What could help me in my scenario?

Thanks ahead for helping me, I'm sorry for taking your time with this long story of mine and I'm sorry for any misspelling that may be in here.

5 Comments

Shadowatom6/16/2016, 8:08:44 AM2 votes

Hello! I have the same problem tbh, in fact I had the same problem just for playing this game! (I hadn't played since season 1, so with so much having changed since then, I was pretty nervous of not being able to perform well for my teammates). One thing that actually helped me out was this video from a Youtuber named "FoxDrop", he's a jungle main, but he puts out some other educational videos about League too (which is the other reason I watch him).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssUKlkgzMBU

You can also watch this one which goes a bit further in-depth and actually has an experienced therapist explaining the concepts of anxiety and such, it does have some overlap, but it isn't the same video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M303HPEjSYY

Hope these help!

DrCabes6/16/2016, 8:11:35 AM2 votes

Try muting your teammates and listening to music while you play for a few games. Also remember that you'll never play with these people again so don't dwell on it if you have a bad game.

TheThundersRoar6/16/2016, 8:13:58 AM2 votes

You overcome it by just playing Ranked. Go through your placements, get placed wherever, and climb from there. Who cares if you end up in Bronze 5. Honestly, having done it, the journey from Bronze to Gold is really interesting. You run into all sorts of players.

Ranked is just more League, except a bit more serious. People are less likely to fool around, and are a lot less tolerant of (relatively) shitty builds/plays, but if you play with a serious mindset you'll be fine. There's nothing more to it.

DeadRose6/17/2016, 5:42:26 AM1 votes

Thanks for helping me out guys (or girls). I'll be sure to try everything you told me to the moment I'll get home. A lot of people say that the "League of Legends" community is toxic and egoistic, but people like you just break those myths. I hope that more players will be as kind as you are guys (or girls) and be willing to help other players instead of making other players feel bad about their mistakes, their game's knowledge, their origin and their physical and mental problems. Just one more time, thank you all guys (or girls) for being "saints in Sodom".

Narvuntien6/17/2016, 5:50:29 AM1 votes

I don't know, I am the same. :/.

I am hard on myself harder than my teammates could be. Being bronze would basically kill all enjoyment in the game for me but being gold or higher doesn't really give me the enjoyment or sense of achievement that it should. So being/doing bad is a huge negative but doing well is only a small positive and its not worth it.

Strangely also a fill main (support main).. and play everything, (although top the worst) perhaps its a personality type thing.