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My First Ranked Match Alone

GhostUser177··1 votes·438 views

So, here's my story...

I, an unranked player with about 55 normal wins decided to try out a ranked match with a skilled player, and although we lost, it was still a good game where the opposing team was simply more experienced, despite being mostly bronze players. So, today i decided to go experience ranked alone... yeah... well done me. i checked the ranks of my teammates and opponents. it was as follows:

My team:

  • gold 5 (7LP)
  • silver 3 (100LP
  • unranked (0 LP)
  • silver 3 (100LP)
  • silver 1 (0LP)

Opposing team:

  • Silver 2 (58LP)
  • Silver 2 (60LP
  • Silver 3 (13LP)
  • Silver 2 (43LP)
  • gold 5 (29LP)

[zombie-brand-clap]

I happen to be playing thresh in this game, and i also happen to be in the same lane as the gold 5, and we were up against the 2 silver 2's. What followed was a long and painful attempt to not die while suffering 250ms, and get shat on by my teammate. You can only imagine the fun I had trying not to mess up, but i did, and when I did, the gold 5 didn't hide his negativity towards me. The game only got worse for us when one of our players disconnected, so that took some attention away from me. Honestly, I never felt so lost in a game where i played support. My score at the end was 0/10/4. A nice D+... worst score I ever got with thresh.

Now, i understand that not all games go as planned, or sometimes you are just having a bad game, but against these odds... how is there a chance for me to even think of competing when going up against such overwhelming odds, and playing with players that play on such a high level that they are almost guaranteed to label me as a liability? I am trying to improve myself as a player, and trying to find out if i belong in bronze, but it's almost as if the game just says: "nope, you don't belong in gold or silver, therefore no rank." Yay me...

Hopefully the next few games will go better, but i doubt it. ~~~~

14 Comments

Hyperiön2 votes

Here is my advice. Don't do ranked until you have atleast 100 games on a champion played in normals. This way you get familiar with everything about the champion, and know your power spikes, and when you can trade. Even if it is just thresh, he is a lot harder than people think he is.

GhostUser1771 votes

Thanks, I think I'll do that

Hyperiön1 votes

My guess is that you are new to league correct?

If you do it this way, you get to learn more about the game too, and just think, if Thresh gets picked, or banned, then you have no backup pick that you are comfortable on.

So work on 2-4 champions (guessing you like to support) that fit your playstyle and how you like to play.

GhostUser1771 votes

You are correct in that I am still new to the game, however I use a fair variety of characters, most of which are support for the time being till i can get others. Nonetheless, your advice is appreciated.

TS Media1 votes

Keep your champ pool under 10 champions for all lanes, trust me. You'll see major improvements and be able to do much better if you pick small and stick small with champs. Increase your pool only after you get a decent mastery (not mastery rank on champs, but actual mastery OF the champ) and do this one champ at a time. This is months worth of work, no simple days or weeks.

GhostUser1771 votes

What do you mean by pick small champs?

TS Media1 votes

As in the number of champs. Keep it small. There's 5 lanes, pick flex picks for mid, meaning you can take your 3 mid champs mid and sup, 1 or 2 flex picks for top meaning they can jg and top and 3 bot champs. This allows you to practice a very small number of champs with a good enough mixture to not get bored.

And keeping it under 10 gives you sufficient time to learn them without taking years upon years to get good at the entire roaster.

GhostUser1771 votes

That is really good advice, thank you.

KirynDawn1 votes

people have to start somewhere. since you have such a clean slate your first 50 games are going to be like this. You just have learn from it as best as you can

GhostUser1771 votes

I always try to, but are you telling me that i am going to be pitted against and with players so far out my rank all the time?

KirynDawn1 votes

not all the time. Since you are just starting out your mmr is extremely extremely malleable. wins will effect it a lot. losses will effect it a lot. this will happen until you have a suitable average or until the season ends (when a season ends you get almost locked into the mmr until pre season. making it fair for teams ). after about 50 games or so you will see ranks closer to yours.

im gonna go ahead and mention 50 games go by pretty quick

GhostUser1771 votes

Are these 50 ranked games, draft or blind?

KirynDawn1 votes

Ranked games. when you begin ranked for the first time the system will give you benefit of the doubt and say you are gold 5 this is about: 1400-1500 mmr

so you would play with people from 1200-1700 (which is quite a large gap but the system does its best for you)

now based on the mmr you win/lose against determines how much mmr you gain/lose. kinda like a give and take process.

heres the twist that league does. it builds games off a teams average mmr. so even though you are 1450 range (because you just started) you can be against gold 5's that earned gold 5's. while you have mostly silvers and a higher gold on your team.

thus creating an average of lets say 1500 on your team. and 1450 on the other team. (even though the other team is more experienced. you get punished more for losing because their mmr is lower).

its nothing to worry about and its a process that everyone goes through when they first start. its built for longevity to keep a player interested in the game. or if you are a God you can hit gold 5 right out of the gate (winning all 10 games)

GhostUser1771 votes

Seems a bit harsh though, and setting up new players to be the frustration of the high ranks. Also being the on the receiving end of that frustration is anything but fun. At least now i know how the system works, so that helps.

So I simply just have to get really good at it at, and then be less of a frustration when going for ranked till some balance is achieved. I understand now it is a problem with no real solution, but at least understanding the problem helps.

I thought perhaps it would be better if people could choose their league to compete in when they first start, like bronze as a whole before advancing to silver, or if they are really confident, just skip straight to gold, and then proceed with the current system from there. Suppose every solution has its own problems.

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