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Griseous·6/18/2019, 2:32:33 PM·1 votes·1,210 views

If I am “bad” at league of legends and I have tried to “get good” for almost four years and have only ever gone as far as silver elo, does this make me mentally inferior to those who are higher elo? What are your thoughts on ranked? I feel like I’m trying to prove something to myself because I have crippling insecurities. I wont be offended by your answers. I want to better understand myself so I can stop mentally destroying myself. When I play against those in high gold or above, their skill dwarfs mine to such a degree I feel like their mental processing speed is on a higher plane of existence entirely. This feeling of helplessness completely shatters any positive opinion I may have of myself because intellect is my most valued quality above all else. I don’t care about anything as much as a clear view of my reality, the fact that my vision is blurred scares me and is killing me. Thank you for reading, sorry it sounded super emo. I don’t think anyone could understand how I feel better than another league player. Like I said, don’t be afraid to tell me like it is. The insight, whether good or bad is valued greatly. The truth hurts and I feel like because I’m not hurting enough I’m living a lie.

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AIQ6/18/2019, 3:30:10 PM1 votes

I rarely look at op.ggs, but you seem genuine so I'll try a break down of your recent history.

You have plenty of off meta things like, Kayle item 3078 item 3301 support. Bard : On-hit

Trying new things or things you think is correct will not help you climb. Established builds are most effective for your elo.

Practice something and stick with it stop deviating to other builds and things. If you want to carry as a support, picks have already been established that are most effective at it.

Pyke Lux Velkoz Zyra

Are all great DPS options for varying reasons.

Even when you do commit to more meta picks, your builds hold you back significantly. item 3302 Veigar item 3026 Zilean

Are things that I immediately understand your logic ( I think)

You want to stack with vei, and get gold to both you and your ADC. However it's better still to go item 3098 because it provides AP and you can Q the enemy champions which is your job and get stacks that way.

If you have GA on Zilean than you don't need to ult yourself right? But it cost you 2800 gold that gives you NO useful stats. A small amount of armor wont be the difference of you living longer than a second.

Upgrade your support item to T2 and Relic sheild to T3. Stop selling it late. Wards are critical late game as there will be limited vision. Seeing the enemy at Baron can be the difference between a win or a loss. BUY CONTROL WARDS

Use sites like OP.gg to keep up with the most effective core for your champion. Don't try to add your own spice, learning when to deviate comes in time. Obvious things like building item 3065 into an all AD team is an easy change, but when to build over item 3194 or vice versa is not your concern when trying to learn.

You seem to love Zilean, run him, exclusively. Have a back up support and autofills, but know that Zilean is the champion you are going to climb with. Learn ALL his mechanics and soon they will be second nature you will say "I want to do this" and your hands will do it. Once you have some mastery on Zilean you can focus on the Macro of the game more. Objective taking etc. and you will climb faster.

It's not that you are bad, its that you refuse to build/play properly, whether that be because pride, ignorance, or something else. It's your core issue.

Main Zilean Build correctly, keep up with the proper build on Op.gg or any site. Play support to support your team not carry. Enable them.

All I got hope it helps.

preternatural6/18/2019, 4:59:56 PM1 votes

forget about winrates for a second, or mastery score, or proguides and all of the sundry stuff. if you want to climb i would suggest picking 2 champions and learning as much about them as you can, don't worry about reworks there's generally enough carry over for these things as not everyone get's aatrox'd. play your champions in as many ways as you can fathom, support, top, jungle, bottom, mid, regardless of their design or construction, regardless of your teamcomp etc (ofc be practicing in this manner in blind pick or normals with friends)

for your 2 champions, decide on 10 items that are a part of your builds for each separately and any combination of 6 of them must be able to win you all matchups. repeat, all matchups must be winnable with your combination of items and sidenote, there must be no wasted scaling or gold (this will teach you faster how items work to a serviceable level) i mean, i can get the idea of building a GA on zilean but my league brain is telling me there's too much wasted gold in that choice for it to be reasonable to do even if i can get off 12 auto's every skirmish or what have you, so i reckon simply getting rid of weird item choices like that and figuring out worthwhile synergies by actually investigating all the items will lead to the progress you're looking for.

also, this might be a weird one, have confidence in your theorycrafting. this above all else is why the next step on the elo ladder is so jarring to comprehend, yeah there's a knowledge gap you're encountering but more than that it's a confidence gap if you report that it seems like peoples brains are just working faster than yours, they aren't working faster (or perhaps that much faster in the context of a game) they're just working with more confidence in their own ideas of how to win the lane and so they execute cleaner than you do because they lack hesitation. when i reach p5 that's how i feel having climbed from g5, or at least that's how i felt in previous seasons i'll have to see what it looks like this season. in g5 i have all the confidence to make plays because none of these folks can actually punish me no matter how badly i fuck up, i'm just better than them at the end of the day. in p5 i don't have that confidence anymore because my mechanical and theorycrafting advantages start to be equalised or just surpassed outright.

the knowlede gains to make as you climb become smaller and smaller as there is less room to perfect gameplay in an environment with mechanically gifted players, the potential knowledge gains and therefore existing knowledge gaps in lower elo means a small understanding today could put you waay ahead of your contemporaries because the game unpacks itself from one understanding to another.