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Solo Queue Ranked feels terrible this season, anyone else feel similar?

PrinceArchie·9/30/2018, 10:45:33 PM·2 votes·1,162 views

So I already know im gonna get my matches scrutinized so sure go ahead and do it idc tbh. I've had the most odd ball arguments thrown at me by some of the most bizzare players and Im just glad that I dont need to grind ranked to get the rewards for worlds. I dont care about end of season gold rewards, it's meaningless I have many seasons of that already. But this isn't about rewards, no this is about me wanting to come back to the game, pick up where I left off, surpass my peak and continue to improve. I've been very self critical as an ADC main trying to improve, make less mistakes, die less, etc to climb. Chose stronger champs all the little techniques to improve as a player and help ensure success. But theres something terribly off, for some reason climbing out of silver is going terribly wrong.

I stomp my lane a lot of times, not all the time but a lot and I tend to try and transition that into a stable presence mid game, But for some reason these silvers keep dying. So cool whatever, as long as I dont die as often and try to clean up we good right? No wrong. Even then there comes a point where your teammates die 5+ times in the span of two minutes, EVEN WHEN YOU GO OUT YOUR WAY TO WARD and the games lost. Thats it, your team is just useless statistically because their champions are weaker. Then that reality sets in and they mentally check out so now you have to 1v9, and that doesnt happen often. I literately had to stop playing this evening because it came to a point where I realized the more I played out these unwinnable games, no matter how hard I tired, how little my mistakes had gotten, I would lose. and no matter what I tried to adjust, positive attitude, words of encouragement, meaningful suggestions, warding,etc I would just continue to play with players who are exponentially worse or newer.

I've had people refuse to play the game with me, I've had people tilt under enemy turret intentionally, I've had people try to solo baron while we teamfight. These arent one off games either, a majority of my games I've had to deal with horrendously tilting individuals who dont want to win seemingly, they just want to look better than everyone else, as if thats what ranked is about. Im here to win games, not BM every teaamate or enemy and play some flashy champion I just wanna climb and be on a good ametauer team jesus. Like what can a player serious about climbing, with actual game knowledge and experience do to impact their games in order to win? At what point does the nonsense stop. I legitimately feel now that if I dont switch roles or get a vastly superior smurf duo im gonna continue to fall.

Please do not misconstrue I do not think im god compared to silver players, hell im even perfectly fine with admitting that I MAY be high silver at best in this current season. Silver 2 years ago could be vastly worse than silver right now, I dont know I dont have the internal numbers nor do I have metrics to say if its true or not. But I hjave climbed to plat 2 myself in the past, I have al ot of experience, all the coaching out there I've been through. Im at a stage where putting into practice those methods is all I need to really get the engine going and I am getting cleaner every game. But I dunno, it feels a little extreme to openly say that in order to NOT be a silver player I need to 20/0/15 every game I play. Like.... that statement seems very bizarre but at the same time more and more true the more ranked games I play.

3 Comments

Heos0010/1/2018, 5:45:38 AM1 votes

ADC feels terrible to play actually. Its like always a dice roll (the least impactful role) if your team wants to win they will play around you, if not, good luck having an Irelia, Kass, Graves or Akali to solo carry the game, if they are in the other side you can't even play the game lol.

Basically your team decides the game if you do your work like a antworker player.

I tried to shotcall as adc being ahead my recent games but, it's like no one listens even if they are good calls. Says blitz app that im ''unlucky'' lmao. Just had Kha Zix top and my mid laner flaming my jungler for basically inting at diamond elo top 1% btw

Good kda's btw keep playing jhin and with some luck you will get out of silver (yes like grinding).

Salty Mike v210/18/2018, 8:33:21 PM1 votes

Soloq this season is the worst experience I had in my entire time since I started playing league (s3). I feel so frustrated and feel like I have 0 game impact and its not about the game itself, its about the people you are matched with. Idk I feel like mentality of the people is so bad also I am playing already on my second account in d3 euw where people still dont understand basics of the game. It is so sad when I have one of these unwinnable games 6 times in a row or maybe even more where even when you gave your whole team unbelievably big lead you lose the game because of their potato macro game and no thinking. After every game I play I slowly lose the faith in the humanity.