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Serious Discussion: Is League of Legends based off of skill or luck?

Ben Sharpio·11/8/2015, 7:37:17 AM·2 votes·581 views

I've been playing this game for a while now. I've been thinking a lot more about this game now that i had lost my promos to S4 twice last week, and now being in B2. This has really had me thinking: Is this game based off of skill or luck? I mean... I try my best, i am a utility jungler. I let my teammates get the kills and i build utility items to help the team. So, i had some positive results because i reached my promos to S4, which was rather impressive for me. But then, I went on a losing streak because i was having frequent AFK's, adcs that refuse to build items, and if they do, they build a full inventory of , and just straight up feeders. So i began asking myself, that maybe i can't rank up not because im unskillful, but rather** unlucky**. As in, I'm either placed on a team that works well, and can work together to win, or i am placed on a team that cannot pull it together. You either get placed with a group of people who are better than you or worse than you.. I know that people in higher elos are bound to say "youre in bronze, so you deserve to be there" but i don't think you guys understand how hard it is to climb in low elos. Most of us actually want to climb, but there are an abundance of trolls and frequent afkers in almost every game. The game is so heavy on teamwork that it is almost impossible to win a 4 v 5 in this division, which happens so very often. As of right now, i think i've accepted my place this season. I will end in bronze 2, but i hope to climb in season 6. So what do you think? Is this game based on skill or luck?

7 Comments

LegendaryLemur11/8/2015, 8:21:04 AM4 votes

Any individual game is probably as much luck as skill, but over the course of dozens or hundreds of games, that luck balances out (the usual argument: there is a 5/9 chance to get an intentional feeder/afk on the enemy team, only 4/9 on your team, provided you never afk/intetntionally feed) and all that is left is skill.

Play well every game and eventually you will rise.

Niyumi11/8/2015, 7:42:10 AM1 votes

Okay, so, here's the thing: Individual performance is dictated by skill/knowledge/mechanics/all that, while overall performance is dictated by luck.

So while you can go 10/0 in lane and just absolutely stomp, roam to other lanes and stomp them, get all your teammates fed... you still lose. The reason is because those teammates can't do anything with the opportunities you give them, and they just feed / lose. So you have to hope that you get a team that can actually play the game, or you have to like, hyper carry.

Sad, yes, but that's what League is.

Lucky Iccy11/8/2015, 8:17:06 AM1 votes

I think its a bit about consistency. Like you will lose when you get an afk 90+% of the time, even more with an intentional feeder. You will lose more often than not with a bad team that cant work together. So the biggest thing you have to do is not be capable of good games where you do well...but always have them. For example say you lose every game with an afk or a feeder and you are unlucky enough that a third of your games are that. You really need to make sure you just nail the other 2/3s. Climbing is about winning more than you lose, not winning all the time. So imo its better to have a good game all the time than hyper carry have amazing games some or even most of the time.

Zipped Pants11/8/2015, 12:17:21 PM1 votes

The highest elo I've ever been at was 1492 in season 2, and since then, I've always fallen just short of gold every season. That being said, I've gotten 2 accounts out of bronze this season, in less than 40 games on each. Learn the game, bud.

NextGeneration1811/8/2015, 12:23:07 PM1 votes

This is a true statemanet i totally agree with you . And not just you have this problem i were in S4 last season and this season i can;t go upper than B2 becasue i had won 2 matches and i lost 3.