Quest to Play Ranked/Meandering Late at Night Thought Processes/I Don't Know What This Is
That's a tasty quest right there. I'm currently enjoying going 12/38/58 (an awful jungle Amumu game where I would walk to lane and there'd be nothing for me to do, but my counterpart, Tryndamere, would walk to lane and get several kills, meaning he was 3-4 levels above me the whole game being the "highlight") through 5 games. I have the same amount of kills in my last game of Xin Zhao in ARAM as a do in 5 games of Ranked play.
Granted, 3 of those games where support Leona and Naut, and a fourth was the truly awful Amumu game. These are not characters who, when played full tank, tend to have a lot of kills. I'm just... sigh.
The last time I really tried to give Summoner's Rift a go, I ended up as a (relatively new) Caitlyn ADC. I had gotten tired of always being Supports, and the large beefy tanks I often love to play in ARAM, so I wanted something different. That was the game where we had a duo top, jungle, mid, and me, by myself. I would also get repeatedly 3 and 4 man ganked, and, even as Caitlyn, I couldn't escape. My own turret wasn't safe. Nothing I said could convince my own team to help me. Complaining to the other team got more ganks. I had no agency over anything. I had no control. I was useless.
And now, once again, I'm giving the Rift a shot. And, once again, nothing is fun. Yeah, I do my job as support Nautilus and we have a relatively even game down bot, when, oops, our top is 1/5 and now Sion is ulting us from across the map, meaning we can't ever win a fight. Do what I can as Support Leona and, whoops, 11/4 Warwick fucks up everything. Did my best as mid Brand (I don't believe I died to Talon in the laning phase), but, uh-oh, the enemy team has Talon and Kayn, and they both get super fed (because they can leave battle whenever they want, wait a bit, and then assassinate someone on our team who has left the fight with low health). Try out Jungle Amumu for variety's sake. Even get a good early gank in that gets me an assist and ADC a kill. Whoops, Trynd killed our ADC. Don't worry, it won't be too bad. Oh, look, you are never in a position to make a gank the entire rest of the game because they only need a gank after you've left. When you're there, they're doing just fine. And then Trynd kills you in the jungle. And again... and again... Hey, he's 4 levels higher than you are. Good luck winning a Smite fight. Good luck doing anything of any use at all to the team.
It's just... so....
I don't want to play Summoner's Rift again. It's not fun for me. ARAM is fun. Dominion was fun. I want to like it. I really do. I remember I used to have fun on SR. Now, Summoner's Rift just seems to, I don't know, lead to souldcrushingly bad games. All you want to do is help and have fun (and finish the stupid quest). Instead "NEVER PLAY BRAND AGAIN!!" (A champion I've played for years and have a favorite story about making a Zed complain about me stun being unfair) "NEVER JUNGLE AMUMU AGAIN!!" (Said to a guy who has played numerous jungle Amumu games, probably giving me a pretty good win rate with him)
I don't know what this is. If you've read it, thanks, I guess, into this fairly personal rant. But given my normal posts see about half a dozen people, total, visit them, no one is likely to see it. Or care. Or the one guy who will see it will attack me for so very clearly sucking at this game.
TL:DR You can keep your Summoner's Rift. I'll be playing something else. Completionist tendencies aside, no reward is worth this.
