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Admitting I'm Bad

Ring of Regenera·2/23/2015, 2:14:01 AM·4 votes·1,642 views

I have thought about this for a long time, and now I think the time is right to make this post. I started ranked a few weeks ago, seeing as I like to be a team player, I decided being a filler was the best way to alow myself a chance at victory because it allowed even any bad allies to be what they wanted to be and would give me an edge. However, things did not go so well, you see I realized I am bad with any sort of squishy champion, or mid champion, or champions based around damage, or anything that isn't slows and lots of health frankly. In fact, I realized i'm useless at those things in every game, for years I have always been the friend to the important classes, whether it be healing or tanking, I always tried to help rather than do things myself. The result has been loss after loss, and I am nearing giving up on league of legends. This may be an odd post but I a not really here looking for tips but rather I am here to both list why I am bad, explain to others it is ok to be bad, and ask if I should honestly just quit league of legends.

Lets start with a list of my issues shall we

  1. I can farm fine, but if I am adc I have no ability to poke, take advantage of kill lanes, anything that isn't farming and shooting, this results on me leaning on KogMaw , and being bad at every other adc there is.
  2. I seem to have a moral agenda against meta champions as a whole that I cannot fix, you will never see me pick a flavor of the month, and for whatever reason i can't get over it, so i will never have an advantage over others due to my odd morals.
  3. I can ward great! I can't figure out the best times to do it and my carry dies sometimes because they jump in to the Leona for no reason but I sure buy loads of wards!
  4. Usually because i only play tanks, I end up just being a giant walking wall and my allies just die around me, meaning I didn't block enough things, which means I either need to be closer to allies, or more away and in front I suppose.
  5. Anytime I DO do good with a champion, I assume they must be broken and quit them for months (another moral issue I have that I can't get over, and whenever I try I literally cry and say i'm bad and abuse op champions.)
  6. I don't defend myself from insults, and rather than try to correct people I start to believe them and again start crying because i'm a big baby.
  7. I refuse to play an assassin, which makes my mid lane extra bad, more than any other lane.
  8. Even more than ally insults, if enemies insult me I break down, I think my emotional center must be awful if game insults do this to me.
  9. I came to this came through the idea that I need to play a competitive game because I again feel bad playing single player games because "anyone can win those their easy" and if I play a solo game for a long time I cry and say I am bad" again, which makes me really emotionally invested in winning any game I am in
  10. I can't control objectives for no ones business if I am not Nunu.
  11. I refuse to ever play Zed Yasuo Talon Vayne Warwick Udyr Tryndamere Teemo Shaco Riven Rengar Nidalee Nocturne Nasus MasterYi LeeSin Khazix Jax Fiora Akali for no good reason at all except for the already explained
  12. I miss skill shots a lot.

So should I just quit? I know it would be better for everyone and I don't want to told others back I would feel bad. Just to give you an idea of how much of a baby I am though, I am crying right now...

39 Comments

hh the thinker2/23/2015, 2:25:32 AM4 votes

if you enjoy playing, keep playing. if not, then don't. it's really that simple.

tooitchy2/23/2015, 4:39:10 AM2 votes
  1. Stop crying, seriously, it's a game, the sooner you learn to get over the issues making you so emotional, the sooner you will overcome the things preventing you from improving your game.
  2. Stop caring what other people say, I know it's hard, I avoided ranked and jungle altogether for a long time, simply because I felt too much pressure towards teammates, either to perform well, or as a jungler to make sure my teammates won lane. If they lost lane, I blamed myself, and usually would get blamed by them for not ganking enough (even though in reality it's simply their fault for losing lane unless enemy jungler was camping them and I didn't help). You cannot put your teammates on a pedestal if you want to improve, you need to accept that you are leaning on them just as much as they are leaning on you, if they fail, it's not your fault, that doesn't mean rage and blame them, or call them out on everything.. in fact I never do these things, and often will accept blame for others simply because I can take it and not let it bother me or my game, and maybe prevent someone else from getting the blame and insults, and being put on tilt, and losing the game because of it. I wasn't always this way, to be clear, I managed to get myself to this place over time, you just have to learn to not care, easier said than done.
  3. Start making your champion picks based on matchups, and nothing else, look into adc synergy with your support, or vice versa. Wait and pick based on the opposing laner, for example if you see Riven, Jax, or Irelia on top lane, counterpick with Darius, counterpicking can really help you to improve at a role because you can be the bully and not focus on not dying through the laning phase constantly.

Most of this is mental, and it's a challenge but you can overcome these things, changing how you pick champions can do a lot to overcome whatever mental blocks you have regarding the champion pool, force yourself to only counterpick for a while, if you're first pick, then offer to pick for somebody and swap, or ban out the champs that counter who you wanna play. Just remember it's a game, it's meant to be fun, and a huge part of getting better is knowing why you're bad, and trying to improve these things.

Just some advice from a bronze player who's had similar issues.

LostFr0st2/23/2015, 2:38:56 AM1 votes

Looks like you're on a Gragas binge X3

jokes aside, you are saying you like to play the mid range of champs in terms of power right?

Here is a site that should help you out: http://champion.gg/ This way you can check the mid tier anytime you want :)

-LostFr0st

Russian Doll2/23/2015, 4:51:17 AM1 votes

Just add me, we can talk about it, got almost the same issue.

ABlueQuaker2/23/2015, 6:09:15 AM1 votes

Denying yourself 1/5th of the game's champion pool really isn't a good thing to do - even based on some distorted self-imposed moral 'rule'. Nothing you do in League apart from acting in a toxic manner is immoral. Champions are there to be played. If you leave the likes of Vi or Katarina available then someone else will pick them and that then becomes YOUR fault. Apart from anything, 2/3rds of the champions listed by you haven't been FotM or even high-priority picks for quite a while now. I'm pretty sure Kha'Zix can barely even clear Season 5 jungle after the most recent changes to junglers.

To be brutally honest, this just sounds like you've mind-gamed yourself into a massively prolonged period of tilting. The best thing you can do right now is pick 2 really strong FotM champions for Top, Mid and Jungle and learn them inside and out. Learn how to play strategically and methodically and implement that into your play. Don't play AD Carry or Support unless you really have to, and if you do make sure that champion is as broken as possible while still being easy to play overall (Sivir, Tristana and Ashe come to mind here) and just play like a b*tch all through lane and just farm then press R and catch the enemy team off guard at dragon or something.

insaiyanbacca2/23/2015, 6:19:29 AM1 votes

so i see that you have a problem with mid and you dont want to play assassins give malz and annie a try they are solid mids and arent assassins. just because you do good with a champ does not mean they are broken usually(unless its riven but that talk for another time) it just means that the champ probably fits your style of play best. also dont do ranked for a while people in ranked get way to serious about the game play some normals people there are usually more chill. ok onto other things based on what ive gathered from your post you play passively now i dont really know how to help with this honestly because i have the opposite problem i play way to aggressively push my lane and forget to ward but i would recommend trying to learn some more aggressive jungler/laners darius is a good example of this. now about the whole emotional thing you just need to get over it i know it sounds rude but you really do need to just get over it. now something i enjoy doing when people start going of on me and getting mad at me i like to respond with a simple "lol" or "lel" depending on how i feel it tends to make them even more mad which just adds more to the report they will be recieving from me. i hope some part of this helps you and i dont think you should quit league if you enjoy it

JPlayah2/23/2015, 12:01:13 PM1 votes

Try the following:

  1. Understand that when you do well, it's due to your own skill. Be happy that you did well.
  2. If people insult you repeatedly, press tab and mute them rather than responding. They're not worth your time and it's better for you to be able to focus on the game.
  3. Try Singed and Rammus top lane.
Ring of Regenera3/2/2015, 7:13:33 AM1 votes

Well I have decided one thing, I am not done with this game, I have to take this game down, I must conquer it, that is my path, and if I fail I fail.

dandyangel2/23/2015, 2:35:50 AM1 votes

I think you should be strong and do what you think is right and never give up . I'm bad at league but I don't let that hold me back, just be more positive and get some confidence in yourself and u will be fine. But if you like playing this game I say you shouldn't give the game up