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Going into season 5/preseason your goals and reflection on last season.

Mishiy·11/13/2014, 9:05:21 PM·1 votes·468 views

So I was curious, what are your goals for next season? Did you get to achieve your goals this season? What would you do different? Same?

I figure I'll start out.

This season was my first ranked season and I went into it completely blind sided... didn't know what counter picks were anything! First game i picked veigar into talon and well...

Overall I'm happy with my first experience in ranked. I only got silver my goal was gold, but I'm happy with that for my first season! For things that I would do differently is I'm going to try on being a better team mate. I need to be better at addressing confrontation as well as picking with my team mates for the best team composition. I want to try and make it so I can keep the team on track with out all the pointing fingers or fighting some of which I was apart of. With a new season comes new possibilities thou so guys and gals how about you?

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ValyrianBlade11/13/2014, 9:11:17 PM1 votes

My goal was to reach level 30 and complete my placement matches so I could get a feel of ranked then redo my placements in the new season (I know the first ones would count, but my mmr would still be very flexible so I could move up a lot possibly).

I only managed to get to 29, so I didn't get to start ranked.

My goals for 2015 will be: Get 30 start my placements be smart enough to realize quickly if I need to practice a lot more before doing ranked (ideally within 3-5 matches) Finish my placements and place above league average (so at least silver 1 I guess, I mostly want to avoid the trolls everyone complains about). Finish the season in at least high gold (1 or 2).

I'll be re evaluating my goals after finishing my placements and either if I reach them early or will evaluate in May/June regardless.

Good luck with your season! ;)

Eleshakai11/13/2014, 9:31:30 PM1 votes

Riot already posted a fairly similar thread... but just focused on what your goals or resolutions for the next season were... I'll share the same sentiment here as I posted there...

I have, for the past year or two, had a set of 3 rules that I strive to follow... it's hard, and I don't always succeed, so my goal is to do a better job adhering to them.

For those curious... these rules are:

  1. My goal is to improve as a player, not to win games. This means I shouldn't get frustrated at losses and should strive to learn from my mistakes in every game. This also means that if I performed well, but still lost, I should be proud of the game and happy going forward.

  2. My performance is the only performance that matters. If I make a mistake, I should apologize for it briefly and try to correct it going forward. If other people make mistakes, I either ignore the mistake entirely or try to make the other player feel better about it moving forward.

  3. What comes next is what matters - the past is irrelevant. Your focus should never be on how bad something went but in stead on what your next step needs to be to move towards a win.

They can be kind of hard to follow, so sometimes I screw up - but going forward my goal is to do a better job of it.

As far as reflection... I'm really pleased with this season. I was only hoping to make it back into gold since placements had dropped me into silver, but I managed to make it to plat 2 which felt really good. My wife was actually really proud of me too, silly as it sounds.

I do think I tunneled on one role a bit hard, since my games in other roles tended to go pretty well - got my first penta as an ADC in one of my games for example. It's just so easy to just call support and, for the most part, not have any contention for it. It's nice to not have to fight for a role lol

The other problem of mine I've discovered is that I have a tendency to be a bit too risky - I die far more than I should. Usually it doesn't cost us much, and I have been climbing clearly... but many of my deaths are avoidable, and I need to work on recognizing how to do that.

H1ghspeedGG11/14/2014, 12:57:44 AM1 votes

My goal was to hit Gold this season, did that after about 2 weeks of active play. So I was pretty happy, eventually got to Plat as well. Then I decided to get my smurfs to Gold because why not?

My goal for next season? Plat again at the least, shooting for diamond.

As for things I'd do differently? Not raging for one, I received a 3 day ban at the beginning of the season, I'd rather not have that happen again. Also working on map awareness. I swear I'm blind.