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I need a break from Ranked...

Stephenizgod·7/16/2014, 1:29:56 AM·2 votes·2,308 views

Im getting really frustrated with ranked right now. It seems my promotion series puts me with worse people against better people. I cant always carry with the champions i main, only do really well. I can stomp my way to 100 points and lose the next two instantly. It seems i need to learn a champion that can carry like Kat, Yi, Fizz, Lucian, etc... Its just so frustrating to win lane, roam help others, focus their carries, peel for mine, take objective and come up with a loss even though im doing so well. Even when im supporting i hit my skillshots do everything i can but it seems most of the time my ADC falls behind or we do the best and everyone else on our team loses.

Any advice? should i just learn "OP" champs since i cant carry with the ones im using?

i dont know how it will stop my team from making bad plays or make them listen to me...

I feel like im trapped in Silver forever because League doesnt like me.

...just me venting frustrations and im lost on what to do

39 Comments

Stephenizgod7/16/2014, 1:31:08 AM1 votes

Just want to add no i am not the best player, i lose lane or i make stupid plays sometimes too. It happens i understand that, its just frustrating when i do good 9 out of 10 times and yet still lose 9 out of 10 times.

Dr Clueless PhD7/16/2014, 2:02:15 AM1 votes

I'm actually gonna advise playing different games for a bit. If League is nothing but frustrating for you right now, continuing to play it will slowly turn that frustration into a desire to quit entirely. It happened to me, and I quit for months until my friends finally got me to play with them again (I never play solo anymore, only with them).

Personal recommendation for another game to play: Guns of Icarus Online

OWNHAY7/16/2014, 2:50:52 PM1 votes

I haven't been playing for even a year, but through my experience with ranked, I was able to figure out how it mostly works... feel free to correct me if you feel otherwise. I used to think promos matched you with extremely bad players, but after taking a break from ranked, it turned out to be simply the pressure that can make you perform worse in a promotional game.

First of all: What champion do you main? I don't think of champions as OP or underpowered, I honestly like champions based on their character design. Stuff like Jinx's personality or Zac's squish. My first champion was Ashe, who I bought since she was like the cheapest thing I could find, but I personally loved Katarina's character design. At around level 8, I got Kat as my second champion and mained her even until today.

I got to level 30, and I thought ranked would be as easy as carrying all the games I carried in normals. Well, I was a dumbass. I got placed in B2 because I hardly got mid and dropped to B4 from frustration.

I decided to take a break and practice my methods of playing Katarina. I was practicing chaining flash into e as fast as possible, creating my own builds, and figured out MY play style. (it also annoys me when people complain about how easy it is to play lat. It really undervalues the time I spent in improving my skills as a kat player, plus pretty much everything counters her :p) I practiced laning against counters, and I'll admit i'm still trash at Kat vs Malzahar and Kat vs Mordekaiser, but that's why we keep improving. Long story short, I spent about a month just getting better with mechanics, while having fun at the same time. When I was ready to play ranked, I started playing again. I'm currently sitting at B1 with 50 lp and am about to push for silver.. (yes I know, pretty low ranking but the same rules about improving apply to all ranks)

If you main mid lane I'm sure I can lend some help as to what I learned from examining how my mid games played out, but here are other tips:

Top: I'm honestly shit at top. I don't want to screw you over with fraudulent information :D

Jungle: -It doesn't matter which lane is yelling at you for help the most, just help the lane doing the worst. Keeping track of timers to make the game hell for the enemy jungler is one of the most common things players miss in low elo. -Always have a plan for ganking: don't just walk down bot an expect an opportunity to arise every time. TD;LR: Practice ganking.

ADC: -freeze the lane just after your turret. It prevents hard ganks and tower damage. -think of your support. supports need gold too! (i.e. give them a kill or two once you're ahead) -play safe until you have enough power to actually do something to the enemy TL;DR: practice general laning skills

Supp: -hitting minions constantly actually annoys some ADCs (me? it honestly makes me screw up my cs.. lol) -stay in sync with your ADC, because most ADCs don't care about staying in sync with their supp.. they do as they please. TL;DR: Keep in line with your ADC and suck up to them.. anything to win lane, right?

Mid: -always expect the enemy junglier to gank from their second buff first. this might not always apply, but it works 90% of the time for me. -I position myself towards that second side, and ward the nearest bush. so If the enemy junglier comes from the other bush, I can run away (since I'm closer to my bush) otherwise, I'll see the junglier coming from my bush, so I can get a head start with running away. -(some champs) Ward jumping OP. -Get tricky. (like i mentioned earlier, Kat's flash->e can easily smack an enemy thinking they are safe backing behind turret) -CAMP BOT. This is the most important part of my Kat routine. The enemy adcs usually are going negative 10 when I'm done with them.

General rules for Ranked Frustration Syndrome (yeH, it's a thing) -Take a break, practice your mechanics -Preferably practice no more than 2 champs (Kat and Akali for me) -Don't get tense when things go wrong -and have fun!

Caoil7/16/2014, 3:50:03 PM1 votes

Honestly, I think the best role to carry from is support because you set up plays for your team. I play a lot of adc, and no matter how well I'm doing I just can't win lane with a support who doesn't know what they're doing. It's the support who gets the adc fed by keeping the enemy laners off him so that he can farm, and then when the enemy laners overextend using the support's innate utilty to set up the kill for the adc. I have played 4v5 games where my adc hasn't connected as support, and despite having a tough time laning, my team has won team fights because I know how to focus the enemy carry out of the fight. The funniest thing I have ever done as support playing amumu was just chase the enemy adc away from the fight so that my team could kill the other four. I probably chased the adc halfway across the map.

Seriously though, it's less about carrying your team and more about making sure the rest of your team doesn't fall behind. You can't win when the other 4 players on the enemy team are fed no matter how fed you are yourself. I'd rather go 1-0-5 during the laning phase than go 10-0-0 while the rest of my team is 0-5-0 because LoL is a team game. Make sure kills are dispersed fairly evenly among your team, and whenever you can try to get one shot in, or let your teammates get one shot in to secure assist gold. Assists add up quickly.

MrBuffington7/16/2014, 4:43:36 PM1 votes

I feel you man, was on a 6 game losing streak, only won my last game since two of their teammates AFKed (wasn't a deserved win). I'm really on tilt right now so I'm just taking a break from playing the next couple days (just played today to try to break this freaking losing streak). I think how the system works is that if you're on a winning streak, they match you with better players, and if you're on a losing streak, they match you with lower ranked players. I definitely understand the feeling that you're purposely getting match against a better team, though.

I'm not sure about the Silver -> Gold transition, but I got into Silver from Bronze rather easily while playing tanky supports. Honestly I'd say take a break, if you're on tilt like I am just don't play for a day or more, however long it takes for you to get back to feeling normal. If you're a support main, maybe try to find an ADC to duo with, one who you know is consistent and plays intelligently. Unless you're woefully mismatched in terms of skill, there's always a way to win with good decision making and proper rotations. Not sure about you, but everyone at my level just mindlessly shoves mid even though there's nothing to gain from it.

As far as carrying, Jungle may be one of the better options, since they have the ability to affect every other role, not to mention can provide deep vision/pressure from the jungle. It's also one of the harder roles imo, since there is so much decision making you need, game knowledge is so important, and knowing what lanes you need to snowball and what lanes you might just need to give up on and tell to farm under turret.

High Lord Blaze7/16/2014, 4:57:48 PM1 votes

I know the feeling, was trying to get to S5 and I had to do the series 3 times... And I had no problem getting their :P

Riotmoonstones7/18/2014, 5:53:06 PM1 votes

I totally understand your frustration. I jumped into ranked really early on, got stomped, and then had anxiety every time I queued up for it, hah.

Honestly, one of the best things I dd to improve my ranked play was playing ARAMS. Might sound silly, 'cause it's way more laid back than ranked, but hear me out.

Playing an ARAM allows you to be locked into a champion you might nor normally play (for me that was a lot of the melee champs ~ I love support and ranged!) Because of this, you learn how to play them, learn their skill sets, and learn who can play well against you (champion-wise) and visa verse. Alternatively, you begin to learn to play *against *champions you might not normally play against, allowing you to get some practice in on that end.

After playing ARAMs for several months, I had much better results in ranked. I was less aggressive towards some champions, and more aggressive towards others. I knew my limitations much better, and had a much better idea of what I was capable of.

Good luck!

midorii7/18/2014, 8:12:29 PM1 votes

I feel ya dude, I've come to the conclusion that I am not allowed to be on a team with a positive attitude.

Ever.

And every game im always playing the referee for the team chat, trying to keep morale up, keep players from fighting with each other, try to keep the peace, try to bring the focus back to the game at hand, the objectives, and the engagement at hand...

It's tiring. It makes me miss playing Starcraft 2. At least the ranked community on there is for the most part polite, sincere when winning, and understanding when witnessing someone with frustration. BM is frowned upon in that community

Even doing 1v1s on ranked in sc2.....every opponent started the game with a glhf (myself included ^^) and always ended with a gg or ggwp. It's sad when starting a game with glhf on LoL and having players (on either team) replying with derogatory remarks, negatives attitudes, and on occasion sadly even not knowing what it means (of course after explaining happily it means "good luck have fun" the typical response is usually ridicule).

It's just disheartening

themaddscientist7/20/2014, 3:00:46 AM1 votes

I feel you, my rank has been dragged through the dirt recently with promo drama and a bunch of other nonsense. What's kept me humble about it is realizing all of the times that I've screwed up for a variety reason (right now my Nami bubbles aren't hitting their mark as often as they need to, and my roaming hasn't adjusted to the elo I'm currently in). I think the best thing that you can do is go into a game or game mode that's more casual, be it with friends, an aram, or anything. I went into a Team Builder game and wrecked face since my mmr in normals is shot, and the next game was my most recent victory. Just try to keep a cool head through it all and focus on what you can change rather than what you can't. If it makes you feel any better, getting into Silver II was hell for me, as well.

Just from looking at your LoLKing, here are a couple things that I notice. I would suggest investing in flat magic resistance glyphs for some of your early game matchups, as well as grabbing another rune page. You seem to have reliable, albeit limited, champions for each role, so make sure that you can properly set up each one. The elo that you're at is starting to make the transition of importance from early to mid/late game, but it's only just starting, and won't get into full swing until Silver I/Gold V. Until that happens, and even in some matchups afterward, such as against an AP top, you might want flat magic resistance glyphs to help you win that early game. No amount of scaling runes will ever be able to beat someone who has one core item up on them.

Another thing that might be worth mentioning is that it could be a good idea to start looking around for another top lane champion. It's hard to give up on a champion that's been your main for a long time, and it looks like Garen definitely did help you through Season 3, but take a look at his toolkit and see if there's a similar champion who can fulfill the same or similar role, but might be more effective at team fighting. Just off the top of my head, Shyvana comes to mind, so look around the free week and see if there's a champion that you might want to try out. And don't just give up on the first bad game with a champion, by that logic I would have never become a Nami main. My first games with her in Normals were abysmal, and the only reason I unlocked her was a snap decision to get myself at 0 IP. I randomly played her in a Ranked game as I was transitioning away from my support at the time, and suddenly had this ridiculously awesome game, followed up by a bad one, but then an even more awesome game. It's been fun playing with her, even though I disagree with people on how to build her and all that fun stuff.

Either way, good luck on your climb. Just keep your head above the water, and you'll find a way to get past this issue.

Hyrum Graff7/22/2014, 12:35:06 AM1 votes

My best advice is to play safer. While risky plays can pay off, it's almost always better to do the safe thing (take the long way around, back off from the close fight, etc).

Specifically, see if you can end every game with 0 deaths. It's often very hard, but if you do, you'll be surprised at how much of a difference it makes.