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What is wrong with me?

Statikin·12/1/2016, 11:28:14 AM·1 votes·529 views

I've done a couple of rant posts similar to these before, but I'm going to take a different approach this time.

I'm a Bronze 5 player, been playing (in a competitive manner) from S5. I know I'm no where near an amazing player or whatever, but seriously... What is wrong with me?

If you look through my match history (http://oce.op.gg/summoner/userName=SkrillRKnight) you can see there are obviously some games that I did absolutely trash on, but then also look at all the Xerath games. All positive, dare I say, quite good, KDA ratios. Now I have a decent winrate on him for the recent matches, but of course I'm not going to win EVERY game, and I don't expect to, but then I want you to look at the wards. Almost every game, (I want to emphasise the Rek'Sai one), I am the person that places either the most or second most wards. Now, especially in the Rek game, I may have gotten an absolutely trash KDA, but I still placed the most wards (not saying much but still), which I also would like to point out the absolutely pathetic amount of wards placed by others.

It probably seems like I'm putting too much of an emphasis on vision. In other factors that help win games, encouraging statements, praise, positivity, objective control and etc, I honestly think I cover most of these well. I always start games positively, I encourage my team and try to keep a positive mind throughout games. I could keep playing Xerath over and over maybe, but I'm honestly not sure how much that will accomplish.

5 Comments

Deep Terror Nami12/1/2016, 11:36:58 AM2 votes

You might be decent with and have a lot of promise with Xerath, but I see you've also used 35 other champions for Season 6. You've got a lot of losses on those other champions you are less familiar with which only serves to hold you back. I recommend limiting your champion pool to a few per role and mastering them, and not using anything in Ranked that you haven't practiced enough in Normals first.

If you are maining mid you might get autofilled every so often, so you should have a little practice in every role, especially Support (since it is the most frequently autofilled).

Even after all that, keep your options open by learning different champions. You might find that you excel at something you haven't been using.

Thrëat12/1/2016, 11:43:35 AM2 votes

To fix your champ select:

Limit yourself to selecting Mid / Jungle. Go Xerath and Velkoz when mid and Zac when jungle. Don't play anything else. If you somehow don't get to play 1 of those 3 champions then just dodge.

To fix your in-game shit: Your CS is low so you need to put more emphasis on clearing waves.

Your builds aren't optimal. Work on improving your build PATHS as well as your final build. Think more about why you would use a certain item for early game, mid game and then team fighting. Also think about alternate builds where certain situations might require different items. Read what every item in the game does and make a list of what items you think would synergize with Xerath and then think about which situations each one would be best in.

Finish your rune pages. Get Tier 3 runes and get runes that are actually good on your champions. Runes = invisible items early game. Having a shit rune page could be about the same as starting the game 2k gold less than the enemy who has an efficient rune page.

Try to find a balance between farming efficiently and being involved in as many fights as possible. If you are involved in too many fights and don't farm enough then you are doing it wrong. If you are farming too much and not being involved in fights then you are doing it wrong. Try to do it right.

Vision is important but not as important as what you do with it. Seeing the enemy is nice, making a play off your ward is better.

Niyumi12/1/2016, 11:49:12 AM2 votes

I'm by no means an expert, or even really high ELO, but I do play this game way more than is healthy. So, take anything I say with a grain of salt.

But, to me, it looks like you need to play more champions, even if you don't plan on playing them a lot, just to learn how they work. Your picks don't always make sense given your team comp and the enemy comp, like that Rek'sai game -- I would have picked someone with a bit more CC, and a faster engage, maybe Poppy, to keep the Cait and Annie under control and away from your team, which was fairly squishy outside of Alistar.

Also, looking at your builds, it looks like you like to play really offensively, and be in the thick of things. That could sometimes work out, but sometimes you need to play more defensively in order to come out on top. Instead of building three mana items on Xerath (Archangel's, Morello and ROA), you could drop the Archangel's and get something more defensive or utility-based, maybe an Abyssal or a Zhonya's -- and that build is going to have a really strong late game, but next to no early game.

Honestly though, I can't tell you a whole ton without watching how you play. My advice would be to just spam all kinds of different champs, and learn how they work, what beats them, what drives you crazy while playing them, all that. Then, use that to your advantage, both to help your team (Sol, for example, doesn't like people on top of him, as he does no damage. So you could play someone with a bit of displacement to keep them at just the right distance) and to hinder the enemy team (Kha likes to jump on people, and LB likes to jump on people as well -- instead of Rek'sai, why not Poppy, and laugh as they bounce off your wall and then die?).

That's all I've got, whether it helps or not. : /

(Don't listen to all the people telling you to one-trick things, by the way. That's a terrible, terrible idea that will just lead to frustration in the end. The more you learn about the champions and roles by playing them, the better you will do in the end.)

Maximum Morde12/1/2016, 12:49:07 PM1 votes

You are probably just bad at the game.

I mean, it's just reality that in a population some people will be better and worse than others. Nothing wrong with it. Just play the game and have fun, don't let your rank bother you. If you get better you will climb, if not, just keep having fun.