Silver is harder than Plat. (Just another QQ thread.)

Hey gang. I'm just here to vent a little bit about my recent loss streak. I've been having really really bad luck with teammates for basically the past month, but it's really gotten worse this past week, and now I'm fed up with it and I have to vent a bit.

Little bit about me, I'm a Plat ADC main, and I've been playing since season 2, and I've been playing ranked since season 3. And when I started I was an Uber Scrublord and I got placed Bronze 4, and promptly fell to Bronze 5 and eventually 0 lp. and in season 4 I managed to climb from bronze to gold, and then in season 5 I managed to climb from low silver to Plat.

This whole season (6) has been pretty rough for me the whole time. Ever since placements I wasn't having good luck. I went either 4-6 or 3-7, I can't remember which. And got placed silver 2. Which is a pretty substantial kick in the nuts from being Plat 5 last season. But my buddy who I sometimes duo with, who was also plat 5 last season, went about the same in his placements and got silver 3, so I wasn't too upset about gettting a division higher than him. We used to play together a fair, and we're very similar skill. This will become important later.

So as the season started I just couldn't seem to catch a break with winning games. It was an extreme case of win lane lose game syndrome I had going on. And my winrate has tanked from 54-55% all the way down to a measly 39%, 59 wins, 86 Losses. And It's not like I've gotten worse, I'm the same guy that climbed from silver to plat last season. And my buddy and I have had our schedules basically inverted so we don't get to play together anymore, but he's already climbed back to plat 5. And I've dropped to silver 4.

Now I'm sure there's some things I can do better, I won't deny that. But sometimes I really think there's nothing that can be done to salvage the games. Maybe it's because I'm too soon to throw the white flag since I've been losing so much, I've got a bad attitude, but when I'm fed, or atleast ahead in lane. For some reason my team just can't seem to just not feed. That's all I ask, if it's 25 minutes in and they're 0-1 in lane and down 50cs, that's fine. That'd be great. But the games are never that even.

I'm going to attach a few games that I just can't believe the poor level of play from my team. And keep in mind that these are only from my last 20 games played, and I realize some of them are from draft normals, because I couldn't take the beating I was getting in ranked anymore. I had to stop for a while.

So if you look at Picture 1. There's not a lot to say. I was further ahead than that most of the game, and the score was even, so there was no real feeding reason we lost, their team was just so much better than ours in fights. We could never coordinate, but I put it in here anyway.

Picture 2. I was 2/0/1 for the entire game, and my buddy who I talked about in the earlier paragraphs, is the jhin player. And I ganked his lane getting him first blood and then he and janna snowballed it. but our Yasuo just couldn't not fight zed. He kept trying to fight him after dying once in lane, and then keep losing by more and more hp until eventually zed would 100-0 him and leave with full hp. And we surrendered at 20 because zed could just ult jhin and win the game.

Picture 3. This is an afk, so that's all there is to say about it. It's in normals too so I guess I didn't care that much, but that's the kind of thing I've been getting stuck with.

Picture 4. Our Oriana is 5/16. Granted she does have 17 assists, but she still died 16 times. The game did go late, and I thought we had a chance at one point, but when we had an opening to end the game we couldn't decided to focus the nexus or try to kill their leona and singed, so we split up and didn't kill it in time before they respawned and pushed to end.

Picture 5. Here's where things start to just make me so upset. Our morde was 2/7/2, and everyone else on our team fed except me, and I was 6/1 at one point, their kat just kept killing me in fights over and over until eventually then ended. Also Annie missed her ult on kat I'm not kidding atleast 5 times.

Picture 6. I didn't do excellent in this game later on, but I was 2/2/1 at one point in the early mid game. But more importantly Vayne is 0/13/3. That's the finest example of feed I've seen in pretty much ever, and If you notice this was the first ranked game I played after taking a breather and playing all those normals, so that set the tone for the next few games quite accurately.

Picture 7. I didn't do well later on in this one either. But I was particularly pissed off about this game because they had a blitzcrank with smite, that was trolling and following lee sin around in the jungle on their team, and their jinx was alone bottom. And I zoned the shit out of her and the 3 deaths that she has, all came from me in lane. I was 6/1/0 at one point in this game. But our midlaner and top, and eventually support couldn't just play safe and farm, let their troll blitz starve their leesin, who already scales into the ground. They straight fed the Volibear, and more importantly, Malzahar, who would just ult me in teamfights, and I didn't even get a chance to build Qss before they ended. This game was not a surrender.

Picture 8. I was the only one positive for a long time in this game, at 4/1/2, although it was a losing battle. Their jhin is ungodly fed and could one shot our all squish team. And he did end up getting a pentakill in this game. But our khazix is 2/11 and build full damage with mobility boots, if you could argue maw is semi defensive, but still.

The reason I titled this thread what I did, is because Myself being and ADC main, I feel like in Silver, teams aren't able to stop the bleeding so to speak once they realize someone on their team has the potential to carry. I also feel like, being an ADC main, playing in silver, the game is already decided who will win or lose before you ever become relevant. The games are ususally snowballed one way or another too far to repair, and you're just along for the ride, for better or (lately for me) for worse.

I also want to note that at no point in any of these games, or ever when I play league, do I ever, ever, ever, flame or rage at my teammates for anything at all. I never do that. So you don't have to worry about any toxicity in the games that led to the demise of the play of our team or any specific members of our team.

If you took the time to read this, I thank you, and I feel better about having written it just because I needed a break and a time to vent my frustration. See you on the rift.