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How do i win this?

Elapidaé·9/5/2018, 3:19:49 PM·3 votes·1,977 views

How am i supposed to recover a ranked game when my jungler literally runs it down? Its not fair that i cant climb because every game i get a player who wants to be the star of the show and when theyre not carrying they dont try to win. Or this; I had a game where my wukong was mad he didnt have all the kills and refused to group and we kept getting 5v4d. We couldnt play around him because he wasnt doing anything productive, so we just had to take the loss. He knew he was throwing on purpose but i cant report him because he didnt actually int or say any trigger words, he just purposely threw and did it because he knew there would be no consequences. This happens far too often where people can get away with throwing games and i feel like its really preventing me from getting better. What do i do here? Its ranked so i dont want to go into the next game in fear of a similar situation. I admit, there have been games that i underperformed on and i was the reason we lost, but what is there to do when a player completely stops trying to win and theres no way to tell them they were wrong for it?

33 Comments

Holaku9/5/2018, 3:25:55 PM5 votes

So you think you're the only one who gets these kind of players? We all have to deal with dysfunctional players.. I used to complain like you too. I've learned that in order to climb I needed to 1v9 and carry the team..If theyre not feeding or are ahead then its a bonus.

Learn to blame yourself for not solo carrying a game if you can't then you're not good enough to be on the elo above you. Instead of complaining learn to analyze games change what you couldve done better.

usul12029/5/2018, 3:51:33 PM3 votes

Some games are guaranteed losses. Pretty much the exact same number are going to be guaranteed wins, for the same reasons. Those, you shrug and say "welp, shit" then move on and play the next game. The only thing you can effect in your climb is your own play, so even on the guaranteed losses try to improve something.

Maybe you want to try bejng a bit more aggressive in laning/mid game, a guaranteed loss is a good time to try. Or perhaps you know your farm always falls off midgame. No time like then to work on rotating while still showing up to fights, even if you don't make it its a 5v4 vs a 5v3.

Yea it's - 20 LP or whatever, but you have to use it to make yourself better so that next game, when you play can decide it, you're better than you were before.

Mc Truck9/5/2018, 3:50:30 PM1 votes

I am a passive player who waits for the opponent to make a mistake and never carries by himself. Considering that I am not silver 5 and you are, I can conclude that you make some horrible mistakes way too often and don't notice them.

Let's start with the small one. What champion do you main to climb the ladder?

BlinkZZ1829/5/2018, 3:57:17 PM1 votes

Let me tell you a real life story. I have a good friend (also a once roommate of mine) who is Diamond. He has a girlfriend who is roughly mid-silver skill level. His girlfriend will always ask him to boost her account to platinum 4, which is no big deal for him. Then she can play ranked solo by herself and after she has done abusing her account to gold she leaves her account to my friend again. My friend takes her account to platinum 4 again and this goes back and forth. She simply just want to play with platinum players. Winning or losing does not matter to her.

We all laughed when we heard my friend talking about this. However, he had a very convincing and sound explanation.

Aside from her, there are 9 players in each match. If her team loses the match because of her, only 4 people loses the game, the majority (5 of 9 people) will still win. She does not count because she is selfless, she is indifferent to winning or losing. So overall, what she has been doing is a good thing, as it turns out to be beneficial to 5 people and only harms the other 4 every match, assuming all other 9 players play the game to win.

While I have sympathy over those random teammates who lost LP because of her bad play, I pity those among them who had ferociously insulted her for they were unable to see this truth.

In other words, the reason that you screamed at that Wukong was not because of his behavior, it was because that Wukong was on your team. If you were one of the five guys on the opposite team you would be tolerating Wukong's behavior. Perhaps you would even be delighted for having such a player on the enemy team. Statistically, 5 out of 9 (55%) players will benefit from Wukong's behavior. You just need to suck it up when you end up on the losing side and avoid inviting these people to your premade duo.

Uriel9/5/2018, 7:37:46 PM1 votes

Very simple; Carry harder. And yes, I know it's the most general thing you'd hear, but it's true.

If you see a person messing up, don't let it distract your game. Keep in mind there's a person to stay aware of more than the others, and keep focussing on your own gold gain, so you can purchase items fast enough to take him down. Ward objectives so they can't take them without contesting it or at least demanding something in return.

Just because one person is falling behind, doesn't mean your ENTIRE team is falling behind. If you make sure you don't mess up your own game progress, you can still execute your game plan just fine. In the end, the game objective isn't an amount of kills.