A story of a shit player.

YoungFarmer·Mar 20, 2015·2 votes·826 views

I hate being bronze, it makes me feel like a piece of shit. I try to climb out but I suck. Its the same old routine everyday play a ranked climb to bronze 2, fall back to bronze 3. Its honestly sucks. League is my favourite thing in the world I invest more time in league than pretty much any other thing on earth, because its frankly the only thing that brings me happiness, but unfortunately i'm the worst one out of my like 20 friends at league so thats fun right none of my friends want to play with me because I suck, no one ever picks me to be on their team in customs yady yady yah. It sucks. I just want to be good at league, but i probably never will. What do I do?

23 Comments

AerothalMar 20, 20152 votes

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I hate being bronze, it makes me feel like a piece of shit. I try to climb out but I suck. Its the same old routine everyday play a ranked climb to bronze 2, fall back to bronze 3. Its honestly sucks. League is my favourite thing in the world I invest more time in league than pretty much any other thing on earth, because its frankly the only thing that brings me happiness, but unfortunately i'm the worst one out of my like 20 friends at league so thats fun right none of my friends want to play with me because I suck, no one ever picks me to be on their team in customs yady yady yah. It sucks. I just want to be good at league, but i probably never will. What do I do?

Stop playing ranked. (for now) Play for fun only, not to climb. Every game try to isolate a mistake you made (something that immediately makes you realize "damn, that was so stupid") Write that mistake down. In your next 20 games focus on NOT making that one mistake. Keep up a list of your common bad habits/mistakes and eliminate them one by one. You'll get way better in no time!

edit: oh yeah, before i forget, write this down and pin it somewhere in vision as a constant reminder:

1 - I want to become a better player 2 - I will not criticize others 3 - Only my own mistakes matter

J EpsteinMar 20, 20151 votes

honestly, trolling games is more fun than actually playing them. Because as soon as you start caring about winning, a troll appears and makes you hate the game Play champs like teemo jung, or ww mid. just do what you want, have fun, fuck everybody else. thats what you need to do.

SheikaReiMar 20, 20151 votes

But try not to be toxic at the same time.

IcyPepperMar 20, 20153 votes

For normals, I hope you mean.

GodhriMar 20, 20153 votes

that's the worst, most irresponsible and childish advice you can give to someone. God I hope he only applies this to his gaming if he does take your advice.

disregardableMar 20, 20151 votes

Sometimes some really good things come about from trolling. Like one time I wanted to play Quinn top, and the guy below me instalocks Riven top. I could've been a rational person and just went adc bot like I do almost every game. Instead, I decided to pick Kalista and troll him.

He gave me perfect CS that laning phase. We got 3 kills in the first 5 minutes. We just melted people. We didn't carry the game, the jungler did, but that day I learned that Kalista+Riven is even more OP than Kalista+Yasuo. Like it's OP as fuck.

GodhriMar 20, 20151 votes

It wasn't the trolling I was talking about. It was the part about doing what you want and "fuck everyone else". I'm always shocked to see it when a full grown mid 20s adult gives that kind of advice out to friends or family or kids.

J EpsteinMar 20, 20151 votes

No its not. Thats why i told him "honestly". He could get all bent out of shape and try to climb the god forsaken pure- luck biased matchmaking system, or just have fun. Its the same with any solo Q team based game.

Example: some people can go play the penny slots all day at the casino and lose $100 dollars and get pissed off. Another person can go in there with $100 and walk out with $1,000+; claiming the gambling system is perfectly balanced. lol its just common logic, don't be fooled.

But most you fools arent even in your 20's anyways so i dont expect you to understand the gambling experience...

GodhriMar 20, 20152 votes

the fact that you don't see how irresponsible your advice was just shows how behind your thought process is relative to your age unless you really are that young. I am in my 20s and that's why I can see how bad your advice was.

There is a certain amount of luck/gambling that goes on with everything you do in life. No one is misinterpreting or arguing that point. It's an obvious fact of life, but there is also no arguing that this game isn't based entirely on luck which is what you are insinuating.

I do like what you tried to encourage despite your horrid advice though. That is, he should just try to have fun as this is what it means to play games for most people.

hh the thinkerMar 20, 20151 votes

how long have you been playing? if only a year, you are still new and a lot of players get bronze within the first year. if longer, you might just be learning the game slower.

you have two choices, keep improving or give up. giving up isn't a very good choice, but it is there. if you want to improve, focus on your mistakes and what you need to improve on. do you need to work on cs? less deaths? better builds?

sometimes it's hard knowing your mistakes and it's good asking for help sometimes. some mistakes you can spot on your own if you re-watch your games.

ZACKandATTACKMar 20, 20151 votes

Iv'e been playing for a little over a year and I am Plat now

hh the thinkerMar 20, 20151 votes

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Iv'e been playing for a little over a year and I am Plat now

I've heard of people getting plat and gold before. it's just more rare than it is common within the first year of playing.

ZACKandATTACKMar 20, 20151 votes

You should just play your favorite champion in normals until you can carry yourself out of Bronze.

DeloricVIMar 20, 20151 votes

Honestly, I'm doing something that you might be interested in, and seems to be solid advice...

I've been advising that a lot of people having trouble climbing out of bronze try to pick up carry roles and carry the game themselves! I did this after realizing that the champion I was playing was really dependent on my team not being crap, which is far from probable in bronze in general. So, what I am in the process of doing is picking one champion, preferably an ADC that has been known to work VERY WELL (Sorry Urgot, not the time for you yet). Once you get to be good at ADC (or mid, and some top lanes can carry, like Nidalee and Nasus, respectively). A lot of the people I've been seeing are support mains, or they main a champion that's all tank and no damage, and the carry doesn't know how to position in team fights, so they die a lot, and the rest of the team dies a lot because they can't live long enough to deal damage.

So, that's what I've been going through, and things have been pretty successful for me thus far; my Jinx game is steadily improving, and so is my TF and Veigar game (I use both of them on and off if I have to go mid). I have been having a bad season too... my provisionals landed me in bronze two, where I went up to bronze one, back down to two, then back up to one one more time before getting demoted straight to bronze 3. I feel your pain, lol.

GodhriMar 20, 20151 votes

I definitely recommend Jinx for carrying yourself out. She's just so easy to use and hard to mess up and carries hard. The rune build I use on her is 27 scaling armor 27 scaling MR and 19 armor penetration. I feel the armor penetration really makes her W and R hit hard and also makes her late game pretty hardcore against everyone even tanks. Early game you will have to level up her W first though. You'd still start Q but max W first so that you can remain consistent with the damage output of your enemy laner due to your lower AD rune build.

I wouldn't recommend TF since he's rather difficult to use properly though. I was never in Bronze though. I placed Silver 3 and went up to Gold 2 after 2 seasons. I don't really have much time to devote to this game though. Only weekends. If I did have time, I've no doubt I could get to plat like everyone else.

DeloricVIMar 20, 20151 votes

I was just saying these were champions I used because their play styles line up with mine. I like having options, and with Jinx a lot of her abilities are dual use, as most of them can be used as a poke, a cc to secure a kill, or cc to escape all at once. I also seem to have this problem where enemies get away with just that little bit of health, so her ult helps me out a ton. Many people say I should have bought Graves, Caitlyn, or Lucian, but they didn't work as well with my style.

TF's middle name is options, because he can aoe slow, stun, or sustain with one move, while his others just give him mobility and damage, which is good enough for me. Veigar after his slight rework is a bit difficult because his wall now has a delay... it might be why I had a real rough start with him, but if you don't lose early, Veigar just blows people up with his ult. When you have more than 1000 ap, you delete people off the face of the planet with that thing.

In hindsight, TF may not be the best APC, but I had him after i got his harrowing skin a few years ago, might as well put him to use, amirite?

YoungFarmerMar 20, 20151 votes

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Honestly, I'm doing something that you might be interested in, and seems to be solid advice...

I've been advising that a lot of people having trouble climbing out of bronze try to pick up carry roles and carry the game themselves! I did this after realizing that the champion I was playing was really dependent on my team not being crap, which is far from probable in bronze in general. So, what I am in the process of doing is picking one champion, preferably an ADC that has been known to work VERY WELL (Sorry Urgot, not the time for you yet). Once you get to be good at ADC (or mid, and some top lanes can carry, like Nidalee and Nasus, respectively). A lot of the people I've been seeing are support mains, or they main a champion that's all tank and no damage, and the carry doesn't know how to position in team fights, so they die a lot, and the rest of the team dies a lot because they can't live long enough to deal damage.

So, that's what I've been going through, and things have been pretty successful for me thus far; my Jinx game is steadily improving, and so is my TF and Veigar game (I use both of them on and off if I have to go mid). I have been having a bad season too... my provisionals landed me in bronze two, where I went up to bronze one, back down to two, then back up to one one more time before getting demoted straight to bronze 3. I feel your pain, lol.

Oh i main ADC im just shit so I lose

DeloricVIMar 20, 20151 votes

Which adc do you play? Sometimes, people pick the wrong adc for the job, or one that doesn't suit the way that they play... I'm pretty aggressive, so Jinx has a lot of things in her kit that I use either to secure kills or disengage when I'm in too deep... and her passive is great if I can eek out that one kill or destroy that one tower...

But anyway, if you feel like you're just being outplayed, then watch some videos about how to adc (scrapcomputer on youtube has a really extensive one that helped me a lot with tricks that I didn't know existed). I noticed that my problem was my reflexes were slow, so I started playing bot games alone. The bot ai is forgiving enough to give me more than one chance to win the game, and helped me get faster. The skill shots and engages usually happen around the average speed and gives you about the same time to react, maybe a little more. If you find that your problem is having a crappy team (like I struggle with) I actually played the game with all bots, my team on beginner, their team on intermediate.

Now if you thought intermediate ai was bad, you're in for a treat when you have 4 teammates that perform like they're coming down from the effects of general anesthetics against a team of people who who are about average. Definitely below bronze, they're like... cloth 5, but beginner bots are like... cardboard 7.

YoungFarmerMar 20, 20151 votes

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Which adc do you play? Sometimes, people pick the wrong adc for the job, or one that doesn't suit the way that they play... I'm pretty aggressive, so Jinx has a lot of things in her kit that I use either to secure kills or disengage when I'm in too deep... and her passive is great if I can eek out that one kill or destroy that one tower...

But anyway, if you feel like you're just being outplayed, then watch some videos about how to adc (scrapcomputer on youtube has a really extensive one that helped me a lot with tricks that I didn't know existed). I noticed that my problem was my reflexes were slow, so I started playing bot games alone. The bot ai is forgiving enough to give me more than one chance to win the game, and helped me get faster. The skill shots and engages usually happen around the average speed and gives you about the same time to react, maybe a little more. If you find that your problem is having a crappy team (like I struggle with) I actually played the game with all bots, my team on beginner, their team on intermediate.

Now if you thought intermediate ai was bad, you're in for a treat when you have 4 teammates that perform like they're coming down from the effects of general anesthetics against a team of people who who are about average. Definitely below bronze, they're like... cloth 5, but beginner bots are like... cardboard 7.

Graves and jinx mostly

DeloricVIMar 20, 20151 votes

Well, like I said, you may want to check out a few videos... like, at first, I didn't understand why you would want the lane to be pushed towards you or be in the middle of the lane... yikes. Needless to say, knowing what kiting was was pretty far away for me, lol.

Don't worry, you can get better. It just may take a little while. ;)

arcinexMar 20, 20151 votes

Immediately after look at your recent match history I suggest you better position yourself in team fights as adc and not getting caught out. Think of it this way: "What good is an adc that is the first one to die in team fights?"

ModKnightsKemplarMar 20, 20151 votes

If you aren't that good at LoL, you should find something you ARE good at. There's something about LoL that draws you. Try to find out what that is, and see if there's another activity out there that would bring you the same joy, but you're actually good at. Simple in theory, perhaps more difficult in practice.

GodhriMar 20, 20152 votes

RITO! he's trying to push away a potential customer! Repot!

This is true though. If League causes you an excessive amount of stress just because you aren't improving at the speed that you'd like to be, then perhaps another activity would be advisable.