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Starting to feel constricted when it comes to this game

Teknotic·5/22/2015, 5:23:33 AM·2 votes·548 views

So I just joined League back in the beginning to mid March and I loved it. But now, I'm not so sure anymore. Mainly because ( and please don't take this the wrong way) I feel like the community is terrible. Now not all of it, but when it comes to certain things, like getting help/advice on boards, playing the game in general or just trying to get riot to listen to you and a lot of the people in the game. That's where my main issue lies, it's in the game play. I just turned lvl 30 as of a few moments ago and I decided to try to play a ranked game, just out of curiosity to see what it was like. It was a one time thing. Now mind you I am not the best when it comes to playing PvP normal games but I try my hardest. And I got a lot of crap for it, a lot of put downs, a lot of people getting angry with me even though I've told them before the game even starts that I am not the best player out there. I'm still learning, so if I die a lot please don't get too mad. And it's like what I said goes out the window and I get things like "you suck, you're stupid, we're losing cus of (insert champions name here) is on our team. And then I get reported and I don't understand why. Then to make matters worse I get told to practice, how am I supposed to get better when my team gives me crap. This is a team based game, so if I do terrible then they tell me to back off (when in team fights that I could be useful in), or they don't help me at all. And then when the game is done, I get reported for "Intentionally feeding" or "bad game play", ect. And I'm not trying to do any of that, I'm trying to learn how to become a better player but people don't understand that. This is why I feel constricted because of all the crap people give me, the only games that I feel entitled to play and that I'm actually good at are Aram and bot games. But after a while, they seem too easy because I get so good at them. So I go for a bigger and better challenge which is PvP normal games and we're back to square 1 with all the bad talking. Maybe it's just me, but a lot of people take this game WAY to seriously. A game is to be played for fun, whether you win or lose shouldn't matter because lets face it, everyone wins and loses in a game, no matter what kind it is or what the name of it is. There's always going to be a loss somewhere down the road. But this kind of stuff makes this game not so fun anymore. It makes it very stressful, sometimes to the point to where I don't want to play anymore because of it. Am I the only one out here that feels like this? Also for those that have gone through what I have (if there's anyone that has), how did you over come it? Because this is driving me insane.

2 Comments

COWmanLord5/22/2015, 5:40:31 AM3 votes

Honestly the best way to make it past this is just thicken up you skin, ignore anything they say that isn't helpful to winning, and report those who deserve it. The amount of people who act like this is by far the biggest problem with the game, but progress is slowly being made. The lowest levels in ranked are also the worst. What I recommend doing is just staying out of ranked for awhile. I jumped in pretty quickly after hitting 30, and honestly it was a mistake. You still aren't really ready until long after you hit 30. You can go in if you really want to, but if you just spend some more time in normals grinding up the ip for a bigger champ roster and some a couple of rune pages life will go a lot smoother.

Davy Crockett5/22/2015, 6:11:09 AM1 votes

In terms of mechanics... I'd suggest start focusing on a single champ in a single role, for each role, become competent enough, then switch to a different role for a while and then return to the original role you started with. I started out playing adc and then switched over to playing mid & support, back to adc, and then Jungle. After I was tired of jungling I returned to bot and saw a large improvement in my performance (cs has improved but i still struggle). Also learning specific match-ups will go a long way to lane success.

There will always be trolls in the game. If there is a troll: Do not feed him. If the troll persists either mute them or be nice to them. That's it. If people want to report you for being "unskilled" so be it. You shouldn't worry about being banned for it. The pros were at that point once too, and the majority of players in this game seemingly have no idea how to cooperate with 4 other strangers they just met. Be friendly and communicate, that's all the advice I can think of. If someone starts mouthing off ignore him or put him in his place. I've had people rage at me for loosing both mid towers in under 10 minutes. It really comes down to how focused we are to do better than the opponent.