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Quitting league

Eckheart·3/22/2017, 6:46:47 AM·2 votes·421 views

Lately I've been feeling pretty down playing league. I'll be playing ranked, and I'll carry really hard and win. After a while the games get harder. People better than me counter jungle me. I lose farm and I just reverse snowball. I try my hardest to find a character and play them a lot when I do good with them. Then after a while some items change or some mechanic changes and I get fucked over. I'm just too complacent with a winning strategy that I stop developing. The highest I've ever got in ranked was gold 3. The fact that there are so many people better than me makes me feel inferior. I don't even think I'm playing the game strategically. I'm just abusing mechanics to win. Building the same build over and over again using mobafire guides. I don't get how lanes push or how to apply lane pressure via ganks. Whenever I win a game it's not that I'm good at the game it's just I am less bad than other players. I've noticed in a lot of games where people who are really good just depress me from playing. I know that life smiles on those who get up after being knocked down. Some people are just more naturally gifted than I am. I've played since 2011 and I'm at gold stiil. My friend who I taught to play has only played since 2015 and he's diamond 3. I don't get how people get better without being complacent.

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ModWuks3/22/2017, 9:26:06 AM2 votes

I feel ya, and I'm not just saying that to make you feel better.

If you look at my ranked matches on any of my accounts, you'll see an unusually high number of Teemo matches, all with the same build. When you mention that you become "too complacent with a winning strategy that [you] stop developing", I think that's where you have to approach how you view your playstyle from a different perspective. Although I play an atrocious amount of Frost Queens top lane Teemo, I don't see each match as more of the same. I look at and evaluate my opponent's champion, their build, their roams, their CSing and wave control, and their aggression. No opponent is the same, and with this, you can learn to solidify your mechanics, because, when it comes down to it, there's no such thing as perfection.

And if you want to get out of your comfort zone, play some normal matches and play a champion or role that you don't normally play. Recently, I've taken an interest in Caitlyn/ADC, and I'm working on figuring out how I can do better with her. I'm bad, and I understand I'm bad, but I'm working to learn with each game.

And if you're still deciding to quit League of Legends, this advice translates into the real world as well. There may be times where you feel that you aren't developing as a person, and when this happens, you can look at the little things and try to improve those, or you can escape your comfort zone and try something new like volunteering, traveling, or mentoring.

Never let yourself get in the way of your own growth.

Best of luck on whatever you decide, friend.

-- Wuks