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Promos are an absolute stress nightmare

MrWasjig·5/2/2019, 8:59:26 PM·1 votes·922 views

Pretty much what the title says. Not only are promo series the most stressful thing you can experience playing this game, losing one (especially if it's going up an entire League) can feel like a colossal waste of time. "Best of 5? Well let's see, you're going to play ALL of those games. And your final game is going to fill your team with feeders. You're welcome" says the matchmaking...

So not only have I spent my entire evening working through these games, I've now also wasted my evening. I literally could have sat here for about 4 hours or so doing nothing, and still be up on the deal. But as it stands, I'm now back down to 76LP. So not even a single win will net me the chance to try again, I have to win two games in a row (and that's best case scenario). Not to mention it means my chances of losing a game and dropping further have effectively been doubled.

The point I'm meandering towards is that climbing ranks all together is a complete slog. I really question why I continue to bother, because after hours of continuous play I haven't come away from this feeling like I enjoyed my time...in fact the only reason I can think as to why I even bother to try is because back in 2014 I made the mistake of downloading this game and slowly getting invested.

Fuck.

4 Comments

Jamaree5/2/2019, 9:03:07 PM1 votes

Don’t ranked then, hell don’t play, you don’t lose anything for not playing.

YokoNomi5/2/2019, 9:13:33 PM1 votes

Having come back to League, I've so far lost one promo to get into silver, and am either one loss or one win away from deciding if this is the one. It's... trying. I won't deny that a part of me still wonders why I played the last match that I did, giving it my all, only for it to just perish in the end.

I'm learning as I get back into the game, viewing the game from a new perspective, and acting in ways I can't imagine I'd have done so in the past. Even in my losses, I retain the feeling that I'm getting better. Frustrations are still there, yes... but eh. I'm inherently short tempered, and while I am getting immensely better at dealing with that part of me, it's still fairly easy to relate a loss to any sort of negative emotion, whether internal or potentially external.

It is what it is. We are our own masters in terms of what we do or don't do. If you find yourself stressing too much, then take a break. Take a step back, do something else. Come back, and before you get into another game, meditate... rather than just playing again after cooling off. Evaluate your actions and the actions of those you've played with, and see what you can do to learn from it. There will be plenty of matches where it's clear that a snowball the size of Sona's boobs have decimated your match. Those matches also happen. But the matches where you can get your foot in and experience it... those you learn from. As weird as it sounds, it has helped me quite a bit with my overall view of the experience as a whole.

By the way, if at least part or all of this post feels or is nonsensical, it's because I'm balls tired.