what to do when BADLY on tilt

ItsASledgehammer·8/11/2015, 10:59:34 AM·1 votes·509 views

So let me tell you a story about how a single night of bad games can turn a person into a salt mine.

So I'm working at my job in housekeeping over at the local inn. It's a pretty hectic day, and near the end, during closing duties, things keep interrupting me when trying to finish up. I had just recently, on my first ranked attempt, been placed in silver 2, higher than all my friends, and this thought is what keeps me going, what really fuels me. (well, that and the massive dose of caffeine from maybe 2 energy drinks)

I get home after a long, tiring, tedious day of work, a full 8 hour shift. I look at my profile, proud of my silver status, and excitedly edit some of my runes and masteries in preparation for a full night of trying to climb that ladder.

Now people have often told me "silver is basically a glorified bronze, full of terrible players and toxicity", but I didn't believe them, nor did I really care. I thought "hey, I should be fine I got placed in HIGH silver, its practically gold elo, right?"

Heh.

So my first game was great. it was pretty even all game, with them getting a massive early lead but my picks and well timed ults turning the tides of a lot of teamfights ( I main support and was playing blitzcrank that game). I really felt I earned that win, and my rise in lp gave me a warm feeling inside that made me have a positive attitude and even joke around with teammates in the next game. In this game I believe I played nami.

My adc fed, top lane fed, and jungle fed, and eventually the lead mid lane had dissolved as well as we didn't have the utility, tankiness, or damage to protect him.

This was discouraging, but after losing that game I thought it was only fair. and reminded myself of the old adage, "you can't win them all".

The next game I lost thanks to a leaving jger after he started to get a good lead going, and the rest of my team constantly spitting without wards, and never turtling or defending. While getting baron, two of them pushed nexus and beat us.

The next couple of games were a bit of a blur as they all sort of ran together, but very similar things happened: I played support or top, I did fine, and everyone else either fed hard, or did dumb engages with bad positioning and no vision and threw.

Now here's where the salt comes in.

I fully mastered thresh with the new mastery system league put in and fully mastered him in a week. He is one of my favorite supports and has a lot of nice early aggression and utility. I even have the Samsung white skin. imagine that. I landed about an average of 80 percent of his pulls almost every game, even on champs with built in jukes, and often secured kills nearly worthy of madlife, or so I thought.

I did not land a single pull that game.

no, the game was not less than 20 minutes.

no, I didn't just land them on minions.

I literally cleanly whiffed them with pulls every time.

Ever time I would get more and more frustrated, as it seemed that prediction, that natural muscle movement, that easy yank and pull, was gone and in its place was a quivering mess of nerves, second guessing, and general screw-ups.

I went 0/8/0 that game as one of my favorite most played champs.

But the final straw was when after doing badly in bot lane, bot lane followed me around the map and my adc as well and focused us all game for fun. All game. nobody else.

midlaner dying? nope, chase the underfed thresh and draven into unwarded bush, then beat anyone anyway thanks to early feeds from feeder thresh and dinner draven and kill them too. Dragon? more like DRAVEN. All game with that.

And then, the final straw. the one the broke the camel's back.

"gg, too ez lol"

I snapped.

I am ashamed to admit this, but I went OFF on that jinx. I don't even remember what I said, I was so done. I said something about her being a typical CoD tryhard kid or something, then went even further and started cussing. I got about 4 reports that game, half from my own team and half from the other team.

Now heres the kicker.

even with feeders, I never once snapped. I have always been the farily polite or positive attitude guy, but stayed silent most of the game other than general team communication.

This game made me snap.

it is now 4 in the morning and I have no idea what to do. obviously I'm about to sleep, but I really don't want to take massive breaks between ranked matches, especially since that's the main reason I think I got rusty on some champs recently.

I am sure you guys have similar stories of bad games like that, where people feed HARD and throw all their leads away on too many risks and make you lose game, and I want to know what you higher elo people do in those situations. This is my first year playing league, and I already want to uninstall after today. What should I do?

2 Comments

Otaku Akuma8/11/2015, 11:28:53 AM1 votes

what i like to do is watch some funny videos to make me feel better. for me sometimes this can take up to 3 hours.

ShuffledPancake8/11/2015, 11:32:43 AM1 votes

Into a salt gtfo.