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How do you guys deal with losing streaks?

Niskii·5/13/2015, 4:08:21 AM·1 votes·1,096 views

So lately I've been improving in league, in-fact my confidence and what not has sky rocketed, this is in part due to playing well above my MMR. Now while I will admit I DO have my feeding games, mostly I don't feed infact lately I've done pretty well 9-3 on Darius for example, or 12-3 on Pantheon even a few 17-4 games on Vayne, however the past 10 games have literally just been absolute disasters. I've either done horridly like 3-7 or done a 6-6 sort of match. I've had matches where an 8-0 draven just leaves the match for no reason (I'm 9-1 at the time at we're literally right at the nexus but the draven dies and leave the lux gets rolled and the inhib comes up so I can't finish the Nexus), Blitzcranks say brb and just leave the game and never come back. Other times I'm simply out played. I just don't understand how people can just accept that, knowing that no matter how well you play someone could still just leave and lose you the game or the other people are simply incompetent (I am too at times I have my moments).

How do you guys deal with these streaks? Its honestly so frustrating for me. I try not to flame anyone or harass people as I know it'd suck if someone bashed on me. I'm just unsure how much longer I'll be able to keep this positive persona up in game.

Perhaps I'm far too serious and need to chill out, and need to sit back and assess myself or something....

Thanks anyways guys.

8 Comments

DarkPhoenix24205/13/2015, 4:13:14 AM1 votes

I understand your frustration and recently i had a similar streak. Was troll picks and feeders all around. You just have to push thru it. There will be a nice win streak when your losing streak is over. Because that is what i got, although i wished it was as long as the losing streak. Nonetheless, it was still a nice streak. Also, try aram. It is a good way to vent off some of that frustration

AJStarhiker5/13/2015, 4:50:19 AM1 votes

I'll walk away for a bit, make a temporary switch to a different format, or play a noncompetative game like the Sims or and easy Kongregate game.

Trídent5/13/2015, 4:51:53 AM1 votes

Take a break from SR, play another game for awhile, or just play ARAMs After you've won a couple, head back to SR

Ice Weasel X5/13/2015, 4:57:07 AM1 votes

True story:

  • Losing streak
  • Grumble
  • Log off
  • Poop
  • Log on
  • Winning streak

Status quo achieved.

Niskii5/13/2015, 5:24:54 AM1 votes

Yeah I'm playing ARAM at the moment, I took a breather and decided it wasn't worth playing this game if I'm just gonna get mad. So I'm going to the most frivolous of places; Howling Abyss.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate all the suggestions and such.

Niskii5/13/2015, 6:48:04 AM1 votes

Oh my god after 15 losses the 16th was fantastic, I decided I'd play a cheese game. I picked Darius with TTL, it started off fine, Annie was uptop, I was on the bottom lane with Aatrox. Now I quickly went 8-2, and the Aatrox started to flame the other team. This quickly turned into 12-3. By then I'd built a sunfire, a tiamat and a phage. As you can imagine with the previously mentioned items, my passive and Ignite I was doing a TON of DoT and AoE damage. I got a double dunk, and instead of congratulating me for it my team flames me calling me a kill-stealing noob Darius bronze player LOL, bear in mind my Aatrox is 1-8 at this point. by the time I get to 16 kills both Annie and Aatrox are flaming me to hand the kills to Aatrox, which I've been trying to do, I also tried to suggest build help for the Aatrox. I started trying to hand kills over but my passive and the sunfire made it kind of dificult due to the damage I was putting out. They said they quit and AFKd in the Nexus, I asked them nicely not to quit that I'm incredibly fed and Annie is doing well too so we should keep playing (the enemy team was 3 towers up on us) so I kept playing and they eventually joined back in, the Aatrox despite flaming me constantly came back and did really well and we managed to win, even though they both started surrender votes. My final score was 17-7-14.

I realise now no matter how lost a game may seem it's always worth pushing on. Being positive even if your own team mates are being toxic as all hell, really does pay off. The victory was great and I hope anyone else who reads this realizes there's light at the end of all the darkest roads :D

Ÿun5/14/2015, 8:18:20 AM1 votes

Karaoke. Cheesy songs. Songs from Back Street Boys, Spice Girls, or Britney Spear's Hit Me Baby One More Time. Once you feel better, back to SR you go :>

Only Play Darius5/14/2015, 8:31:02 AM1 votes

I'm on a loss streak right now and i'm on tilt because of it. Don't use chat at all, just focus on doing your personal best in the game.