20 game loss streak in ranked.

Mavëríck·Apr 3, 2019·1 votes·1,783 views

I'm willing to admit I'm the only common factor in my games, but holy shit I have NEVER had a loss streak this huge ever. Surely there is SOMETHING outside of my control here? (Not this account, this account still has a 60-70% winrate and good LP gains).

I main jungle and support.

Vi, Jarven - Jungle

Galio, Morgana - Support

I KNOW these champions. I try to get a lead and then intentionally give kills to my teammates when I roam, I try to push open lanes and secure dragons and rift heralds, I save my big ults and cc for the carries. What the fuck am I doing wrong?!

I went from Silver 1 promos to 26 LP Silver 4 in the span of a couple days... :'(

What am I doing wrong? Why is this happening? I just want to see Gold elo ONE TIME in my life.

8 Comments

MavëríckApr 3, 20191 votes

Also I am not at all blaming my teammates in any game. I turn all that toxicity I would throw at them in chat at myself. I will openly admit a bad play was completely my fault so my team can at least be united in hating on me if they go down that road. The idea is to keep THEM united up until the end of the game. I'm a reformed player, I don't do that shit to people anymore, especially over a video game.

I also dodge any game I can see going badly in champ select, and any game where it looks like my allies are not doing so hot themselves. I've tried to make sure i have all the cards stacked in my favor.

So what am I doing wrong??? Someone help! I'm going insane!!!

usul1202Apr 3, 20191 votes

Do you mind linking the account? Not much we can help with unless we can see what's going on.

MavëríckApr 3, 20191 votes

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Do you mind linking the account? Not much we can help with unless we can see what's going on.

Unfortunately I do. I don't want my accounts linked so people can track me.

usul1202Apr 3, 20191 votes

That will make it difficult to help you then, but I'll try and offer general tips.

I'm guessing you're playing only on the other account for the duration of your loss streak, since this account doesn't have much recently. I'd bet that you're pretty tilted. Even if it's not a super angry tilt, a demoralized mind that's expecting a loss hurts your own ability to impact a game a lot. Play a few normals not with the intent of detilting, but with the goal of learning a combo or skill that you haven't picked up yet. It gives you a solid goal to work towards and gives you something to focus on instead of how your team is doing, or what it'll do to your lp.

I have 0 clue of your supportive style, but from working with a number of silverish supports, the biggest mistake I constantly see is a lack of lane presence. One of the best things you can do in laning phase is to use your strengths to dictate the enemy adc's position in lane. Especially if you're playing morg and such into a weak/medium laning supp, you can make the entire lane revolve around your positioning. This isn't just setting up kills though, it's mostly about making sure your adc had a free time csing and the enemy has to be scared of poke for their cs. It's a small thing that stacks up fast. Enemy comes to lane with pickaxe when your adc has bf, now you can pressure a little more. Now yours has ie and boots to their bf + pickaxe, and you can zone/take 2v2's freely. It builds, and starts with small position based leads.

Jungling, it's all about them pathings. Pick a high exp camp (krugs or raptors usually, but sometimes gromp) and focus on keeping that camp on cd. Krugs is best cause it's the most exp, but not everyone takes it well, so adjust based on your pick. Beyond buffs and stuff like drag, make sure the moment that camps up, you're taking it. This will give you patching goals, and you will better keep up/get an exp lead while you gank, which is really underrated in low elo for high ganking jungling.

MavëríckApr 3, 20191 votes

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That will make it difficult to help you then, but I'll try and offer general tips.

I'm guessing you're playing only on the other account for the duration of your loss streak, since this account doesn't have much recently. I'd bet that you're pretty tilted. Even if it's not a super angry tilt, a demoralized mind that's expecting a loss hurts your own ability to impact a game a lot. Play a few normals not with the intent of detilting, but with the goal of learning a combo or skill that you haven't picked up yet. It gives you a solid goal to work towards and gives you something to focus on instead of how your team is doing, or what it'll do to your lp.

I have 0 clue of your supportive style, but from working with a number of silverish supports, the biggest mistake I constantly see is a lack of lane presence. One of the best things you can do in laning phase is to use your strengths to dictate the enemy adc's position in lane. Especially if you're playing morg and such into a weak/medium laning supp, you can make the entire lane revolve around your positioning. This isn't just setting up kills though, it's mostly about making sure your adc had a free time csing and the enemy has to be scared of poke for their cs. It's a small thing that stacks up fast. Enemy comes to lane with pickaxe when your adc has bf, now you can pressure a little more. Now yours has ie and boots to their bf + pickaxe, and you can zone/take 2v2's freely. It builds, and starts with small position based leads.

Jungling, it's all about them pathings. Pick a high exp camp (krugs or raptors usually, but sometimes gromp) and focus on keeping that camp on cd. Krugs is best cause it's the most exp, but not everyone takes it well, so adjust based on your pick. Beyond buffs and stuff like drag, make sure the moment that camps up, you're taking it. This will give you patching goals, and you will better keep up/get an exp lead while you gank, which is really underrated in low elo for high ganking jungling.

My supportive style is very hard engage style. Especially with Galio. I will try to burn bot lane summs without burning my own, wait for them to come back having popped all potions, then flash taunt to get the early double. In Silver, this works 80% of the time even vs amazing enchanters like Soraka or Nami whom I typically struggle against. With Morgana I'm spamming pool on them for easy spelltheif gold and making them shuffle around their own minons being afraid of my snare.

For my jungle paths I typically go from one buff to the other and THEN do Krugs or Toad depending on where I'm at. This is so I can avoid losing my two buffs to enemy jungler trying to steal my unwarded buff. In Silver I find people don't ward despite me asking them to before minion spawn.

If I notice an enemy laner is squishy, i will look for the level 2 gank right off of Red buff or Blue Buff kill and typically aim to get summoner spells only but will go for a kill if there's no risk of me dying.

When coming to lane for a gank, I will avoid using spells at first and simply get way ahead of enemy laner so they HAVE to go through me to escape. At which point I will start using abilities to hold them there. It's the same principal of Jax where you don't pop dodge before you leap, you save it for after so YOU are in control.

usul1202Apr 3, 20191 votes

Fight heavy lanes are pretty prevalent in low elo, so winning those early fights is pretty important. Once you have a lead, using it to bully and extend rather than force fights that make everyone back is very underused (if your adc misses more than 2-3 waves from fighting and doesn't pickup a double, it's rarely worth). Take care of w spam on morg though, if it hits minions you can really mess up your adcs lane control (rare in silver but it happens) and/or last hitting (really common with reactive last hitters. Even a few bad puddles can cost them way more gold than you earn).

Getting both buffs early is usually best, just make sure you're keeping an eye on those high exp camps throughout the game. Especially on farm to 6 junglers like vi, it can be tempting to let your farm fall off after that point.

Not dying is always a good goal. If you can keep your deaths per game under 4 that's an admirable goal. I fail hard at that one quite frequently :(

QuáxApr 3, 20191 votes

It's probably not so much you so don't take it to heart. Sometimes shit just happens and all we can do is learn from it. However, I've found that finding a duo partner is really helpful.

PachydermApr 3, 20191 votes

Many factors go into whether or not you win or lose a game. Simply looking at your K/D/A and CS score won't help a lot in terms of what you're doing wrong.