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Genuine question about feeding

Wicked FlamezZ·7/10/2018, 5:04:52 PM·5 votes·2,837 views

I want this to sound the least toxic it can but do people around S1 have ranked anxiety or something trying to get to gold. Every game is either a 15-2 or 2-15 blow out filled with hard feeding. I was amazed when I took a break and played in bronze with a viewer to find that in 8 games of ranked bronze 2/1 elo, not a SINGLE lane hard fed. So it makes me genuinely curious why people an entire division up seem so much more likely to hard feed?

It is making getting to gold pretty hard because I've never been a hard carry player, I've been the "if nobody goes 0-6, we win the game" player because when someone is hard feeding it makes me not even want to win the game even if it's winnable because it's not enjoyable what so ever to deal with a 6-0 katarina at 5m. It seems that as a general rule bronze tends to be toxic but silver tends to have the hard fed lanes more. It actually made me miss bronze :(

5 Comments

Unker1397/10/2018, 5:12:19 PM3 votes

I'm guessing that at s1, people are trying too hard to make wins happen to get that promotion to gold.

I find that if I try to carry, it often backfires and I do even worse than if I just focus on keeping my mistakes to a minimum.

Elite4Runner7/10/2018, 5:19:05 PM2 votes

Gaining rank tends to be a matter of CONSISTENTLY making good choices.

Or at least that is what I have heard.

I wouldn't say that I am good at this game, but I do have a lot of game knowledge.

The problem is, IN THE GAME that doesn't always come to me.

But, I am learning to turn some of those things into habits and I do see improvement in my gameplay.

I am not ranked however. Most of my games lately have been ARAMs, Normals, and rotating game modes.

Ranked games are definitely nerve racking. For one reason because you are actually against players who are about your skill level, and they are actually trying to win, where as you will often see people in the other gametypes I mentioned before that are generally just trying to have fun (which is really the type of player I am). And of course your teammates put a lot of pressure on you if you make ANY mistakes.

So yes, I do think people have 'ranked anxiety'

webstar19957/10/2018, 5:27:22 PM1 votes

Silver 1 and Plat 1 are the most toxic leagues. Silver players want that Gold border. Most of the players that play league are in Silver. Plat 1 players strive for Diamond. When you hit Diamond you can finally say you are actually good at the game, and you get the sick border.

heroikc7/10/2018, 5:57:37 PM1 votes

That...is genuinely surprising. And definitely food for thought.

Tegash7/10/2018, 6:20:19 PM1 votes

People in Silver are fresh placed. Bronze players have at least a year of experience behind them.