Flagged to lose

This is part of the reason why I hate when people say "if you're good, you'll carry and you'll win". And that's usually coming from some pro player or Diamond player who smurf on the regular. There are just some games you can't win no matter how good you are.

I believe this flagged to lose thing. Just when I think I'm starting the climb and seeing some success, BOOM. 7-10 game losing streak. Then I'll get a win or two to keep me where I started. Very frustrating. Yes, that's with breaks and not with a negative mind set and all that other crap. Those losses always feel so hopeless, as if I were set up to fail those matches before they even started.

Actually I think you have it backwards, it's not how bad your teammates are.. they will always be the same MMR as you are. What really changes is how GOOD or not good.. The enemy is. Learning how to play the map and match your team is vital if you're trying to win and your team is outclassed. For example, if you are Top lane and you know that Mid or Bot are probably going to snowball out of control it's better to lose YOUR tower than let your other lanes feed 9,000 kills to the enemy. It's the same principal anywhere whether you are Jungle, Mid, etc.

After you help your teammates not feed, you have to consider wave management as a lot of low players don't understand when a wave is pushing and when it's not pushing. They don't watch their map and they don't care about farming. This is the biggest reason why it's important you never stop moving when you are playing.

Objective control is another big thing. Trading a Nexus tower for a Dragon is probably worth if you don't die.. Trading your whole team minus you and a dragon for a nexus tower is most definitely not. When you are playing in an ELO where you are definitely better than the majority of players split pushing is usually not a good gamble. Even if your team appears to be winning they can still throw if they focus the wrong targets in a fight or make mechanical mistakes. This is usually where a higher tier player will excel as they have experience and better decision making.

It's not possible to win EVERY game, but it is possible to win ALMOST every game. The more you win, the more the system expects from you. It's not flagging you to lose you are just playing against better enemies while your teammates are staying around the same rank that you are currently. If you check my match history there was a game I played about 3 days or so ago.. I was Bronze I at the time. I was matched on a team with Silver 4 players while the enemy team had a Gold player and a bunch of Silver 2 players. If you consider getting matched against higher players "getting flagged to lose" then sure, but if you are actually play at a higher tier then you should still be able to win. Personally, I tilt fairly easily so if I play too much I start making bad choices and losing a lot.. but up until around Silver 1-2 ish I think most games aren't really too hard when I'm in a good mindset.

I like to think its a smurf-checker in the system. At some point if you're winning a lot it your mmr is skyrocketed so that if you are a smurf you're moved out quickly.

Trolls will say "GIT GUD SKRUB"

If you look at my match history over the last few days, I think I'm flagged to lose as well lol. I have had at least 12 feeding top lanes and at least 8 "open mid" players on my team.

I was at like a 56% winrate, then from monday on I managed to drop to a 44% winrate. I dropped from plat 2 to plat 4

I clawed my way to diamond 4 last season, now I cant even stay in plat.

IDK, either people are born naturally unlucky or some divine being is trying to test my patience

Either way, I'm starting to think that there is more than just the bullshit of the elo gulag (low plat) at hand.

Was just on a hot streak, one game away from promos. I thought I had figured out how to carry bronze after taking a team that was getting stomped by an Azir of all things - and carrying with Ashe of all things.

Next two games, my teams got a grand total of zero turrets. Not even exaggerating. Third game, I was the only player on my team with more than 4 kills. (finished 12/9/3 after the fed Garen started headhunting me)

Just negated my win streak completely.

did u lose 3 games in a row today with teammates going 0-15 in every single one?

did you hate the game and leave for a week?

how about for the next 2 games when you come back we give u an inting jungler for one going 2-9 and the next game u get a 30 percent winrate 60 game plat 3 elise who goes 4-14 invading the enemy jungle when shes 0-6.

how about it?

then when you claim you're being targeted we will have our forum users who have yet to play ranked to let you know you're just bad and cant carry to make you hate the game evn more.

A lot of games do this. You're always supposed to be around a 50% win rate.