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I just might be the unluckiest LoL player ever. Tell me what you think.

ReturnOfSamus·11/8/2014, 2:54:08 AM·2 votes·941 views

Every game I have to deal with multiple technical issues out of my control. If you can think of one, I have probably experienced it within any given week.

I:

  • Live on East Coast - ping never drops below 100
  • Fall victim to almost every bug that plagues this game's client, usually resulting in me getting into games late about 20% of the time
  • Have people around me who don't understand that this is an unpausible game with 9 other people who, a lot of the time, will demand I leave for various reasons. Even when I am almost positive nobody will need me for anything, they will get ahead of schedule and demand my attention
  • Play on a 5-year-old laptop that wasn't even good in its day. Seriously, my framerate will never exceed 30. During laning, it sits around 15, and when a teamfight breaks out, it will almost undoubtedly drop to 6 or lower (I've had 1 fps on several occasions). This is on all the lowest possible settings, nothing else open, and my League priority set to High or Realtime.
  • I have internet that seems reliable until I start playing. I usually don't have to deal with disruptions. Oh look! Our Lee is coming to gank the two low health enemies! WTF? Why am I frozen? Really? Just last game, I clicked my lane from base and DCed about half way there. No problem, I guess. At least nothing was going on. When I reconnect 2 minutes later, I had a death. Apparently DC pathing hasn't been working lately and I just continued to walk into the enemy team and die, letting the enemy ADC (who I was beating pretty harshly) snowball into an unstoppable monster during the rest of the time I was gone.
  • Have low blood flow to my fingers, so when it's cold it's really hard to do anything (this sneaks up on a person more than you'd think).

I'm honestly not exaggerating when I say that something involving one (or more) of these issues just BARELY puts me behind, leading to a series of super close calls that I end up losing in about 30% of my games. It's really frustrating to constantly deal with a bunch of issues that are legitimately BS (and not that, "I barely lost that 1v1! BS!" type of thing), but somehow I got to platinum. Moral of the story? If you have good playing conditions, being low elo is nobody's fault but your own.

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Dv4nt11/8/2014, 6:23:27 AM1 votes
  • Fall victim to almost every bug that plagues this game's client, usually resulting in me getting into games late about 20% of the time
  • Have people around me who don't understand that this is an unpausible game with 9 other people who
  • Play on a 5-year-old laptop that wasn't even good in its day.
  • I have internet that seems reliable until I start playing.

It seems to me your first and fourth problems relate to your third problem. Get a reasonable desktop PC. I wouldn't be surprised if you need a new router, as well.

Between your second and fourth problems, I have to ask, why do you even play? Are you incapable of realizing that not only is playing LoL going to be a frustrating experience for you, but for everyone you get teamed with?