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ashamed of my rank and feeling bad about my skill level

thanks ugly god·11/13/2014, 7:45:04 AM·2 votes·1,640 views

I feel like from all the streams of league players I watch, which are both to improve and for entertainment, I have a warped sense of what a league player should be. I watch tons of people from challenger down to silver. I'm trying to gain a broader understanding of mechanics and how to improve.

Yet, I ranked silver this past season. My friends are proud of their silver ranks and love their icons, but I'm over here thinking how horrible I did. Not because I played like absolute garbage; on the contrary, I tried my hardest and received the rank that I deserved. But I feel like garbage still because there's such a strong emphasis on the whole "if you can't carry your team, you deserve to be your crappy [enter any rank below diamond 1 here]".

Shouldn't I feel proud of my accomplishment? I'm ashamed of it. I'm never going to use my silver icon because it's embarrassing. I try to improve with every game yet I feel too awful to want to go into games with my silver loading screen border. I wish I could turn it off. Overall, it makes me want to not play when I look at my profile and see the border.

Does anyone else feel the same? I'm not really sure how I should go about this for the future (beyond the whole generic "improving and getting better" speech that happens to be MUCH easier said than done).

6 Comments

Diljic11/13/2014, 8:03:11 AM3 votes

Unless you have another account you appear to be a very new player with a low game count. I wouldn't feel that Silver is bad at all with the amount of games you have played. As you play the game more you will get a better understanding of what you need to improve on. If you are worried about tanking your rank I would recommend more normal Summoners Rift games to improve before you jump back into the fray.

Alljoy11/13/2014, 7:51:14 AM2 votes

Alot of people might not agree with this since it certainly doesn't hold for different kinds of people, but for some, self-loathing can be a powerful motivator. But if not.. well, for someone with your amount of normal wins, your current rank isn't as horrible as you'd like to imagine.

If you keep letting your rank bother you, you'll eventually end up going on tilt and impeding any chances of improvement you have.

zane yalgir11/13/2014, 9:28:37 AM1 votes

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=zane+yalgir

since we got some decent posts help please or is this not a good time to ask since im clearly on a climb or doest it not matter? my biggest thing to be mindful of is not dieng? or so i'm told

btw not dieing is hard as the tank is usually play since its hard to get mid and top as a ranker in draft mode most games

Toothless Lion11/13/2014, 9:56:15 AM1 votes

Don't sweat it. Season 2 I made silver elo somehow, placed into bronze for Season 3 and ended gold. Season 4 I made platinum, almost got to diamond promos, but slid to plat 3.

As long as you try to improve and don't fall into the blame game, you will improve. Even in gold and plat you will run into players that make you question how they got there. Even you will have games like that some days.

Some easy advice for gaining elo:

don't use locked screen, tap or hold spacebar if you need to focus on your champ
learn smart cast/quick cast (I recommend using range indicators, this option is at the very very bottom of the hotkeys tab).
get stable internet if you don't have it
learn a few champions very well
focus on last hitting and abusing your opponents mistakes. Also learn how to last hit under tower.
stop playing ranked after 2 losses in a row and take a break

Saskothehunter11/13/2014, 10:49:32 AM1 votes

If you're really ready to rise up to gold besides doing the obvious i.e. working on mechanics and objective control/ game knowledge. I suggest duoing with a gold 1-3. The games will be harder than you're used to but if you can hang with them your mmr will shoot up and the next time you play alone you'll end up gaining more points and losing less. This of course means that you have to actually win these duo games consistantly to raise your mmr. If you were getting the massive amount of trollage i was getting on my push to gold one non idiot besides yourself can make a world of difference in a game. It goes from 4 vs 5 potential trolls to 3v5 which is much better odds. This of course is all assuming that you know your duo and know that he is consistanly good as well. if possible playing adc/support together works very well if you have synergy, if niether of you play those positions jungle/mid jungle/top also works very well.