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Frustrations Of Climbing

Stephenizgod·3/20/2016, 8:31:37 PM·10 votes·773 views

I'm not really here to complain about my Teammates, even though I just lost two games because of bot laners feeding. Its more about LP gain and Promos. I just kind of want to vent some frustration with people who are also feeling it, the seemingly inability to climb. So feel free to vent here, although I just want to point out that this thread is not about Teammates feeding/afk/troll, this is about Winning and Losing, Lp gains, and Failing/Completing Promos.

I win 3 games to go from 63 to 80 to 96 to my Promos, which makes me sad that I need 3 games to go up 40 LP... I only needed one win because i had recently been demoted, but I lost the first game and won the second. So far I am at 4 wins and 1 loss, Silver 2 0 LP. Cool, I am climbing, slowly but climbing. I win 2 games after that and it puts me at 42 LP, then I lose 2 games and Im back to 2 LP. So I am at 6 wins and 3 losses, Silver 2 2LP. In the past 2 days i have won double the games i have lost yet it feels like i have gone no where. Mostly because 1 loss is greater than a win, I know that it is because the game thinks im at the correct elo, but I don't want to get into that because it has to do with my teammates.

It just feels like a grind trying to climb, specially if most of your wins are in your Promos because they don't give you any LP. I was on a very bad tilted loss spree awhile ago, so im sure that tanked my MMR, if i continue my 6 wins to 3 losses, I know I will climb but thats going to take a really long time to go anywhere.

Just frustrating that I can't win more often.

8 Comments

Omega T33mo3/20/2016, 8:35:23 PM6 votes

My frustration is the fact that every once in a while i go on an endless tilt, getting the worst team possible in every game no matter how long of breaks i take and get demoted lots

Curious Kat3/21/2016, 2:17:28 AM1 votes

I was silver 2 last season, easy peasy, this season it hit me with a silver V punch, so i got to silver 4, then went straight to silver 2, and now i am stuck yet again for the second time, for a number of reasons that are completely out of control and unfair.

First reason being dynamic queue, I will get the team of all solo queue silvers, and we will have to go against a trio in the same club of golds on voice chat, aswell as some other duo also on voice chat. That right there is basically a guaranteed loss, how can no voice communication silvers, win against voice coordinated golds? It's not possible in the slightest if they earned the rank and weren't carried.

Second reason, I seem to lose more than win half the time, i'll win one, get 25 LP, then lose a couple and be stuck at 0 LP again multiple times over, in fact, this week was the first time iv'e got over and STAYED over 50 LP, i'm sitting at 81 LP and pondering if i should even try more matches or wait for friends to log on lmao.

Third reason, idk about you guys, but silver 2 seems to have more afks, laggers, dc's, trolls, and feeders than most of the tiers combined, there is so many people in silver 2 with over 100 games played in silver 2 alone, like holy shit, have you seen how many people are in silver 2 with over 100 games played?!?! it's insane! It only takes 1 feeder to ruin the match for everybody, but when you get 2 or even 3 on your team, what can you possibly do to make up for it? nothing, you cant make up for 2 or 3 people feeding on your team, so it's basically always a 2vs5 in terms of player ability.

Like ill be jungling, ill gank bot lane, then our top lane will die, so i go top lane, i gank that lane, and our mid will die, i then go mid, and our bot will die and then they start pinging me and i'm like i can only gank 1 fuckin lane at a time, just play safe till i get a chance! "An ally has been slain" FUCKING SMH, what part of safe didn't they understand! Like god damn, it's not hard to not die! the only way you die is if you over extend, get caught out, or just don't know your champs capability!

I'll get 2-4 of these matches in a row, before i get a team who at the very least DOES NOT DIE, like, that's all i ask for, is for you not to die over and over again before i can help you, i can't help you if you fed your lane 8 times and already lost a turret in 10 minutes, at that point, they are even more fed than me! Only way around this kind of crap is to play with good friends, then you can at least rely on them not to feed or die at the very least, they may not make progress kill or turret wise, but dammit at least they aren't dying over and over lmao.

Delphinium3/21/2016, 9:18:03 AM1 votes

That's pretty much what ranked is. My frustration is I always go on tilt when I get promoted to the next divion. 4 losts on 0lp is a demote and I am currently have two more trys to prevent myself get demoted

Sythriel Draken3/21/2016, 9:27:30 AM1 votes

My frustration is that riot does not do anything about the intentional feeders or afkers in ranked for the side that is the victim of them. I was silver 2 the other day, 6 games in a row filled with trolls, afkers, and people exploiting dynamic queue by queuing with someone two to three levels higher than them. Hell, in one game I had someone who JUST GOT INTO RANKED.. Silver 3 matches, and they put someone who queued solo with only TWO RANKED GAMES TO THEIR NAME EVER.....

The free win is nice on a demotion, but I think that you shouldn't be demoted because of those types of people, hell, I would say if you're below gold 5, you can't get demoted at all. Why? Because riot doesn't care about the bronze-gold ELO and the toxicity that goes on, so that those of us who are victims of this toxicity get punished because not only does riots intentional feeder system NOT FUCKING WORK, but that the damage has already been done by the time you are able to report the person.. so they get punished.. whatever, what are you left with? -20-25 IP that you have to work back up.. hell, right now I'm getting on average 18-20 points.. all because of these feeders..

Zenithir3/21/2016, 4:42:44 PM1 votes

I'm silver 4. I've been trying to climb lately to keep up with my friends who are starting to head into plat and can't que with me anymore. After playing with them and seeing a bit more of the opportunities they see and they decisions they make it's really frustrating to actually play with people on my level when I solo.

There's zero coordination, zero respect for the capability of the enemy team, and seemingly zero interest in playing an objective-oriented play style. Don't even get me started on wards, vision is shaky enough this season with everyone doing their part. But if only 2 people are warding the map still feels like lights-out because people are uncoordinated, wandering all over and you can't ward the whole map. You need to ward points of interest in anticipation of where the enemy will be in response to you. Which means that you have to move with a purpose and a goal in mind for your being in any place on the map at a time. You can't just aimlessly split push while the rest of your team is farming jungle or solo farming lanes and hope you go unnoticed. It's suicide, but I've lost count of how many times I've seen it happen in my games. Trying to man up and become a shot-caller to help your team is honestly like herding cats, worse still, they frankly don't like you because you're trying to tell them what to do which makes them even MORE uncooperative.

But I think what frustrates me the most is my champion pool. I'm a fill main who likes to mid and ADC (mostly with friends). I love, LOVE, to play utility/control or late game based champions like Nasus, Vladimir, Anivia, Orianna, and Jhin. Pretty much none of these champions do well in an assassin-oriented solo que that revolves heavily around the early game snowballing into a mid game victory. Even as Nasus, who can literally give zero fucks about most people who enter his domain, if people don't abuse the presence I create by splitting and get objectives while I keep two or three people occupied to deal with me there's no point to play him. That's the way I feel about most of my champion pool right now. There's just no point to playing them because I cannot carry hard enough.