If You're Annoyed Where You Landed With Your Placements...

Umbral Regent·Dec 8, 2016·8 votes·1,292 views

Then just climb. Making a forum post isn't going to have Riot force their Placement system to magically reconsider where you wind up in - what you get is what you get, you just have to work for what you want. So, instead of typing up some post about "Oh I was Diamond 5 last season and got Silver 3 this season wtf is Ranked" - just keep playing League of Legends and CLIMB to Diamond 5. Making forum posts about your placements isn't going to change them.

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rtbf55359909Dec 8, 20164 votes

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Umbral RegentDec 8, 20162 votes

Well, you've got a whole year, all you need is gumption.

Mr CarbonDec 8, 20163 votes

Hard work.... since when did league of legends become about work and less bout fun...

rtbf55359909Dec 8, 20163 votes

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Mr CarbonDec 8, 20164 votes

It's a game m8... at the end of the day It's all pixels. It's supposed to be fun... you aren't lifting a trophy.... you aren't getting paid money... It's a game...

rtbf55359909Dec 8, 20161 votes

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Mr CarbonDec 8, 20166 votes

But is it healthy that people find their worth in the achievement of something that doesn't help their life at all...

People are pissing their life away chasing the illusion of success that they find on a "Competitive Ladder" in a video game.

Competition is still meant to be fun. What you are describing (More than likely about yourself) just seems like a miserable way to play the game...

I didn't need to be miserable to get to D3, I just played the game and made friends along the way. Try it sometime

At the end of the season... don't feel so entitled to a rank that you "worked" for... you "played" for it... it should have been fun... if it wasn't you should probably re-evaluate why you are playing the game...

Nobody who wins a championship in a competitive sport gets to start the next season with a record of 5-0 instead of 0-0 do they?

TyrekGoldenspearDec 8, 20161 votes

Thanks for this.

This really helped me with my ranked anxiety.

Mr CarbonDec 8, 20163 votes

I feel you. Some people are shamed out of even attempting to play ranked because of people they come in contact with who are trying to rank up like it's their job... You don't have to act like a douche bag to get better at the game.

Having People in bronze, silver, and gold screaming at you for playing bad and not making shots is like: Parents screaming at other peoples kids during a peewee soccer or basketball game for missing a shot...

TyrekGoldenspearDec 8, 20161 votes

That first paragraph fits my ranked experience so much.

Not to mention the "badge of shame" and overall laughing stock the rank of Bronze has become.

Nobody wants to be a Bronze, which I beleive causes more stress.

rtbf55359909Dec 8, 20161 votes

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Mr CarbonDec 8, 20162 votes

This is where your worldview is skewed.... Try finding worth in the things that improve your life, lifestyle and the people around you. What you just described is a miserable and selfish way to look at life.

You keep saying people have to "grind" and "focus" and "work" and "dedicate" to get good at this game...

I didn't start playing video games as a kid to be the very best at all of them... I started playing them as a fun way to interact with other people and to achieve a level of escapism that you can't get in reality. ( Like most of us)

Beyond that, when you start to warp that motivation into something different, like "grinding" to get gear... you sir have an addiction to something that isn't rooted in satisfying anybody else, but your own addiction.

It's miserable, and you'll never understand the freedom it brings to just play a game to have fun.

When I grasped this... I improved across the board in all of the "competitive" games that I played.

I hate seeing people literally psychologically and clinically depressed and addicted due to a video game... It's sad and breaks me...

rtbf55359909Dec 8, 20161 votes

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Mr CarbonDec 9, 20161 votes

An achievement is working for something worthwhile...

If I worked to dig a hole 50 feet deep that led to nowhere... I highly doubt anybody is going to pat me on the back and say good job... ( If I found oil... maybe...)

Working and finding a cure for cancer is an achievement...

get the picture?

The entire discussions was never about "working" and what is means, but rather "What" you were working towards.

Umbral RegentDec 9, 20162 votes

Dude, just take your narcissistic psychobabble elsewhere. This is a forum for a videogame, not a place where you can preach your "holier than thou" enlightenment crap. If you were really made a better person across the board, you'd be smart enough to keep to yourself and not call every instance of gaming escapism or addiction.

Mr CarbonDec 9, 20161 votes

Don't show up at the end of a conversation to kick the can down the road. Nobody has a holier than thou attitude. Some people literally have to hear this stuff to get out of a rut and snap back to reality. Clearly from the responses I've gotten it's hitting a nerve somewhere...

ShaolinToiletDec 9, 20162 votes

You care too much what others think. That's why your view is so skewed.

Mr CarbonDec 9, 20161 votes

I don't care about what they think (In a way I do)... I care about their literal physical well being and what actually matters.

ChargeItDownMidDec 9, 20163 votes

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Umbral RegentDec 9, 20161 votes

That is actually a lot more sound reasoning to it. I must admit then, that my problem was both seeing too large of a trend to actually care about the matter (seeing a lot of people posting pretty much the same post about being ranked lower etc. and just saying "wtf riot" and "i quit" kinda bogs down perception) - and that was giving me tunnel vision.

I thank you very much for telling me this, and I apologize for any undue disrespect.

StephenizgodDec 8, 20162 votes

You are correct indeed, but the issue is it can be "difficult" to climb because the game can be lost by one person feeding uncontrollably. Silver right now is you either get the team that stomps or you get the team that gets stomped. A lot of the time your individual performance doesn't matter because either your team chain fed a Vayne 10 kills by 12 minutes or their team chain fed you or your carry. At that point not much you can do as an individual (unless you are the fed person).

i know this is a team game, but that word means absolutely nothing below Plat. They can have all turrets and inhibs down, but if you say "hey lets work as a team and push for the win" you better believe your team will walk in 1 by 1 and die to the enemy team... This has happened damn near every game I have played during preseason, to one team or the other.

That is why people are so disheartened with climbing when they are placed in the garbage dump of the Ranked ladder that is Bronze-Silver. Although after a few weeks the dust will settle and it will be easier to climb.

GreenWithEnveeDec 8, 20162 votes

People have a right to voice their frustrations. Its completely demoralizing when you work hard all year to climb to where you were only to get knocked back down. Its poor game managament and makes people lose interest. Ive given up on ranked altogether and ive decided to just play normals after countless hours of work to get to gold then just to get fucked by Riot. "Your rank from last season will have an effect on your placements this year" What a joke.

Baemax1Dec 9, 20161 votes

If people never complained, problems would never be discovered and fixed.

I placed into Gold the last 2 seasons. Gold ONE in Season 5, and FIVE in season 6, but now I get placed into SILVER TWO? What the fuck?

Yes, I will climb to Gold 1 and beyond once again, but HOLY SHIT if I have to start lower in the ladder every season what the fuck is the point??? Am I becoming a worse player every season? Really?

I was so pissed I came to the forums to see if other people are having the same issue. I am definitely not alone, and I now learned it's always a fuckfest during the start of the season. So in the future I will start waiting a few months before starting my placements. That's if I haven't tilted to the point of uninstall xD

I am so sorry if my language is against some rule or something. I have never been a forum lurker. I tend to type how I speak irl.