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Anybody else feel like ranked is a waste of time lately?

EugeneSims·1/26/2016, 8:26:06 PM·3 votes·1,279 views

I play and do my best to climb, I end up winning a few matches and then losing all of my effort.

People bring in premades and don't do anything useful, they bring in people who don't know how to play they're roles instead of doing that in other PVP modes; losing feels like Hell and it seems like no matter what I do, unless I have reliable people to premade with, I'm going to be stuck in Bronze IV forever. I want to get better at this game, I can see where I'm improving and where I need help but I just can't...every loss demotivates me beyond belief, every time I lose so many games in a row just demotivates me.

It feels like no matter how much I improve or how many wins I can get in a row, it's all going to be robbed from me and I'm always going to be stuck in this rank...I'd love to play with other people but they're either in the same spot or they just don't want to join me even though my scores aren't even that bad...I genuinely feel like if I don't have a premade with two or three people, I'm just going to keep losing and getting demoted...

Anybody feel like all of this just means nothing? Like there's no point in even trying to play ranked?

I don't want to give up but God, it's so goddamn frustrating to go through the same stuff game after game after game. The fact that I have to rely on other people because this is a team game just makes it worst because I know what I'm capable of doing but then I see some of these matches where people can die ten times in twenty minutes and so demotivating. Yes, I know that not all games are going to be like this but when that seems to happen more often than actually decent games, where does my motivation stand?

It's hard to be motivated...it really is.

5 Comments

disregardable1/26/2016, 8:51:29 PM2 votes

So spectating had a weird glitch, I wasn't able to watch more than 23 minutes of your last game, which is I assume where things went wrong.

I will say you should've tried to trade and win your lane instead of standing there, doing nothing, and missing so much cs. Also, you wouldn't have gotten any of your early kills if not for your team. Later in the game you spent like 3 minutes doing nothing but walking from lane to lane to lane...it was weird and pointless. You waste a lot of time, and you don't push your advantage often.

Grandmaster IV1/26/2016, 8:32:35 PM1 votes

Play normals, it's fun just like ranked.

Opportunistic1/26/2016, 8:35:24 PM1 votes

I know how you feel man. My last match I was a 12/4 graves that was against a tristan sona in lane. I had a braum. I stomped that tristana in lane but because of 3-4 man ganks bot lane 24/7 and no help from my jungler except for like 2 ganks early game, I lost my tower and then it seems it all went to hell. almost everyone on my team died at least 11 times except for me. I did most damage to champs and most damage over all on my team and also took the most towers. We had the chance to win that game but because our vi never took dragons that left me to do it and I was only able to get two of them. The one time my team listened to me is when I told everyone to sneak baron. We took the baron and backed then made an awesome push down the lane. After all that they stopped listening to me and did their own thing and then they aced us and we lost. So trust me I really do feel your pain. The only thing you can do is just play your lane the best you can. Find someone to play with if possible now since you can queue as 5 man again. If you are tilting don't play ranked. Take a break or you will never climb out.

Powderkegg1/26/2016, 8:48:30 PM1 votes

Focus on csing and taking objectives over kills and you will become a carry lord.

x TACTICS x1/26/2016, 9:45:34 PM1 votes

REALITY CHECK. People pull themselves outa bronze and silver on the regular, stop blaming others for your losses and man up and figure out what you can do better/different next game. If you get fed and lose think about what you could do differently next game to try and win, if you feed analyze how that happened so you can prevent it from happening again.

The fact is that the common denominator for you still being in bronze is you, not your teammates. Focus on yourself, and gain something from every game. Enter every game to learn something and not to win if your getting so discouraged.

a few simple tips that should help:

pick a position and main the piss out of it and learn it in and out and how to snowball and how to get back in the game when you lose your lane.
pick 2 champs for that position and learn them in and out the same way you do your lane. (make them easy champs to play... Ex. Amumu, Udyr, Annie, Morg, WW, Malph, etc.)
MASS game... dont spend all your time reading guides, just play and analyze your own game (record them if you can) or even better post all your games and make threads and have the community critique your game while you continue to gain experience.
be humble, take advice, implement it, chances are they are right not you.
be positive, you can do it man but focus on yourself not your trash teammates.