Can never get into a normal ranked game

Zavtra·2/24/2019, 1:48:24 PM·2 votes·3,459 views

This season seems as if every game / lobby that I join is filled with some sort of nonsense and trolling. Either the players in games are unevenly matched, or there is some outright toxicity and trolling.

In my most recent lobby, our mid-laner decided he would like to go Amumu mid. I thought people were supposed to take ranked more seriously, but it seems there is just not enough punishment for toxic behavior. I understand that its possible to dodge, but why should I and everyone else be punished for the actions of another player.

I enjoyed pre-season a lot, however now I find league unenjoyable; not because the game is bad, but the toxic environment that surrounds it. I don't know what has made it change this way in such a short time-frame.

2 Comments

Otaku Akuma2/24/2019, 1:55:29 PM2 votes

True this game does have a problem with its environment and you're prone to getting trolled a lot but what I do is play a couple of norms before I start grinding because one trolls are less consequential to your lp in norms, but also I find my luck to be a bit better too when I do play norms. Although it could be that after I play my warm up games so my decision making is better.

Tzi2/25/2019, 9:57:35 PM1 votes

Seeing as you’re silver Elo unfortunately that’s just going to be extremely common until you get to like Plat 2/1ish with a Plat1-Diamond MMR. (I know MMR doesn’t exist anymore but basically until you start getting grouped with Diamond+ players). Low Elo is full of Zed/Yasuo one tricks and people that want to make their off-meta pick the next big thing. I still see things like AD Janna top or Nidalee mid as a Plat 3 player all the time. It gets better the higher you go but people don’t start really taking games seriously until High Diamond.

The only thing you can really do is always try your best and try to work around the fact that they’ll probably lose lane but MAYBE offer something useful in teamfights and try to synergize somehow. But yeah it sucks and I wish people focused more on building viable team comps instead back when tank meta existed.