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Ranked Woes

webstar1108·4/19/2018, 3:30:38 PM·1 votes·2,670 views

WARNING: RANTING I have lost the last 8 games in ranked. Won two before that, but one of them we had a Diamond booster on our team. Before that was a 4 loss streak. I know I cannot blame my team for all these losses, and I am not doing that. Two of the games I got camped and fed. Sure my team did not capitalize and camp other lanes, but I will take a the fall for those two games. Other than that though I have been getting very unlucky in matchmaking and just overall luck in the game. [slayer-pantheon-popcorn] My last 2 games I played Ahri mid. 6/7/10 and 13/6/6. In the 13/6/6 game we had a duo dc. 3v5's are impossible to win. In the 6/7/10 game our support was barely playing due to lag and went 1/13, so our Master Yi top went afk. WOW. [slayer-jinx-unamused] The game before that i was Voli jg. I did not end with the best score because this was also a 4v5. Our Varus was lagging bad and got flamed by our mid so he inted 2-3 kills and rage quit. [zombie-brand-mindblown] The game before that there was a smurf Kai Sa on the other team. We got hammered. [sg-jinx] In two of the games someone actually stole my role! Who even does that? My worst role is ADC for sure. I enter queue as Jungle support/fill and get top then somehow I am forced to ADC?!?!?! WTF? This is actually elo hell. I was borderline on uninstalling League. [sg-soraka]
This is just awful. I went from Silver 1 with 99 LP to Silver 4 with 54 LP. This is bullshit really. In none of these games was I the AFK or the toxic one. I do not deserve this shit. Yes I am very tilted. [darius-angry]

9 Comments

Silent Gravity4/19/2018, 4:32:18 PM3 votes

When people watch the stock market very closely, they notice and worry about every individual stock's dip, and rejoice over every individual stock's spike. This can lead people into panicking, which can lead to selling at a loss or buying when the price is high.

When people get a yearly or quarterly overview of their stock portfolio, there are some minor falls, but if they're properly diversified then they can expect to see a certain percentage increase of their overall investment. In general, the stock market increases in value. If certain sections of the economy have a poor outlook, it can be prudent to reallocate your money elsewhere, but panicked buying and selling has lost many fortunes.

Right now, you seem a little panicked by the very tiny set of 8 games, and their effect on your rank. Rank is a season long objective. Worrying about every dip in LP can cause discouragement.

Sometimes, it can help to have someone with more knowledge examine what is going on, to see if you need to make changes. But, a longer view than just 8 games is needed.

There are some things that everyone improves at naturally with experience. Knowing all the different lane matchups can essentially only be learned by facing every matchup. Improving your spidey sense of when a gank or countergank is likely to occur comes from being surprised by ganks. CSing also improves with practice. So, essentially, just by playing, you'll improve. Just like the stock market always rises.

It is also possible to intentionally improve. You could watch replays of your games with Fog of War on, and occasionally pause and try to figure out where the enemy jg could be, and what camps they have up. Then turn FoW off to see how close or far you are. You could set CS goals for yourself. You can set vision score goals for yourself. You could focus on kill participation. You could watch every death of yours to see what objectives the opponents could/did push for. You could watch every kill you get to see what objectives are available for you to safely push for.

I'm seriously not good enough to give advice on how to specifically improve on any of those points, so you could study on your own, find online guides/videos, find a more skilled friend, or ask for help on the gameplay section of the forum.

Stuzbury Pie4/20/2018, 12:50:54 AM2 votes

Fellow summoner, I feel you! I haven't played ranked all season aside from my placements. Get ranked down from silver to B1, oh well. I decided the last couple weeks I was going to play some ranked and try to get back to at least silver bc why not, its one rank away right?

Game 1 - No mastery Lulu support rushes redemption then, builds static shiv and berserkers greaves. Says, "it's a game have some fun" Game 2 - Teemo support. I almost dodge but don't want the timer, LPQ, or the LP loss. The first thing he says when we get in the game is "you can report me, I just like the mushrooms," he goes 1/7 we ff eventually. Game 3 - I got lucky and won one, huzzah! Game 4 - I pick heim into fizz for the push game and build banner and zzrot. My team is playing for kills and not objectives. They all flame me bc "heim does no dmg" "what the fuck is that build?" and "were losing bc heim does no dmg." I'm 0/4/4 at the end of this game I have a 2/8/3, 3/10/3, 0/7/4, and 10/10/2 as the other 4 people on my team. Get to end game lobby after ff, I did the 2nd most dmg on my team. (I cant make this up) Game 5 - ff at 15. I'm 1/1/0 brand mid. The rest of my team combined is 4/19/3 AT MIN 15 Game 6 - I say in pregame lobby. "Let's play safe don't feed. Back 20 times if you have to its better than feeding" Team proceeds to feed mid lane (my lane) and she carries.

5 of those 6 games above are still in my history if you want to peep them out. 5 of 6 games are losses, I couldn't have played any different to change the outcomes. I'm pinging, communicating, building adaptive, roaming, getting asists, ganking, I have good kda, map awareness is solid, wards where I need em. Like I said look at the games. Watch em even.

Playing ranked is like betting tomorrow on 2025 NBA championships. You can do it, and it'll be a ride, but good fucking luck getting anywhere. I already know the haters will be like, "if you were a plat player then you could climb," "don't blame your team you're obviously not good either, " and "blah blah blah Im boosted to plat so you're just trash."

It's cool I get it, but I seriously:

How do I stop 4 people from feeding? How do I combat troll support picks? Why is there a hefty penalty for deserved and rightful dodges? How is ranked climb not luck based?

Good luck to you out there. I feel your pains.

Telephone Booth4/20/2018, 2:40:00 AM2 votes

Ooof. Happens to me every season. Climb up to silver 1 or 2, and then start getting all the bullshit at once. It's like Rito just has to even out your win rate lol. But like Silent Gravity said, 8 or 13 games, is nothing. If you expect to climb, you better plan on playing at least 300 games this season. If you don't plan on playing nearly that many games, you shouldn't really be taking ranked seriously anyways. You shouldn't expect to really move anywhere with such a limited amount of games over an entire season. So don't let it get you down too much... you'll bounce back eventually. I've never reached gold because I always get discouraged at some point throughout the season and stop playing ranked. I teeter at the brink of gold, yet I just stop playing. If I kept at it, I probably would have hit gold by now. It's possible to drop as quickly as you did, just like it's possible to climb just as quickly.

Not HeIping You5/14/2018, 3:25:32 PM2 votes

I'm in absolute agreement with you here, I started off the season pretty decently, i finished last year with gold 4 like 22 lp or something, and then i played a few here and there through the pre season, the placements went poorly, i've never had good placements, most of the games were silvers(my team) vs plats, and I think if i remember correctly i was 4/6 in placements, it put me silver 4, I double jumped to silver 2 after winning the silver 3 promos and then slowly worked my way back into gold, I was following some guides from my favorite streamer on the champion i don't really one trick but mostly main for probably 80% of my games. And I was doing really well, mostly played solo as jg and a few top games and I occasionally mixed in an adc or support game because I used to main bot lane back in season 5/6.

I was about 29 games in wins over my losses, not sure where the numbers were at but it was maybe something like 219 wins 190 losses, and I was at gold 2 100 lp on my way to gold 1. All I wanted to get was plat and I really thought I was going to do it.

Unfortunately the exact opposite happened. For some reason I immediately started massive loss streaks the first one off the bat was 8 games in a row, and then I think I won two and then after that I lost 15 in a row, I failed my g1 series and dropped all the way back down to gold 5 0 lp and I think like negative 5 games as well. (I had the red triangle show up on my rank in my profile that I was going to be demoted to silver If I kept losing).

In no way, and I mean no absolute possible, beyond reasonable doubt, is even the slightest bit more than like 5% of it, my fault. Toxic people can flame me, rage at my playstyle, blame me, say I'm garbage, but if you actually took the time to sit down, and line up all of the games and watch every single one of them you would very clearly see why I was taken down and how it was all based off luck.

During all the losses, any one or more, of these things were happening: Teammate target bans my champion, Teammate target bans someone elses champion, teammate target bans someone elses champion, and that someone else toxic rages and forces a loss, the game starts and someone disconnects at 5 minutes and never comes back, bot lane dies 8 times before 5 minutes in and says "trash jg gg" and the game is an immediate loss, top lane is 0/8 vs the enemy riven and she roams and flash double kills bot lane to almost instantly close the game out, enemy team invades with blitzcrank and both of my bot lane players die to the invade and then proceed to feed the rest of the game, someone picks soraka top and I target ban it in the lobby because its legit trolling so they go janna top and do nothing the entire game and we lose 4v5, my team is doing really well and were ahead and have baron too, and top lane is pushed to us and its about 33-38 minutes in game, I head up top really quickly to grab the minion wave and get it re pushing back towards the enemy, in the 30 seconds I'm gone my team 4v5 engages, all 4 of them die, and the once very far behind enemy team takes our base and wins, our mid laner picks teemo and goes 0/2 in 4 minutes and the enemy zed and zac 4man bot lane for freebies take both turrets and the infernal drake and steamroll the rest of the game for a 18-23minute game.

Just as I'm typing this, i'm sitting in the fountain afk, because in under 12 minutes, my ezreal lulu bot lane is 0/6, they haven't been ganked by the enemy jungler, all they've done is try and fight the enemy, and continue doing so even when dying and consistently dying, and even at a huge disadvantage, the enemy vayne comes top takes that and steamrolls the remaining 15 minutes of gameplay.

Any time an ezreal is on my team is actually a bad luck curse, If you check my profile, I must be like 10/50 for ezreal wins and losses, not my personal gameplay, but just having been on the team he's on, ezreal is such a bad champion at low elo, any crit adc destroys him with such ease and he's so easy to kill due to a lack of mobility and movement speed but I would say 30% of the time my adc happens to be just that, ezreal himself....., every time I have an ezreal It's almost an autoloss for me, as toxic as it is, if i see it selected in the lobby, I actually have to target ban it, I have no other choice.

Anyone can say what they want, but when you get people that basically force a loss, sometimes before I can even get level 6 as a jungler and grab my ult, it absolutely ,positively, is 1,000% luck based rng.

I was a jungle main and mostly played that except when filled. So I thought, maybe If i just mix it up a bit and play some top and the occasional support game, the variance itself would change things around, unfortunately this just costed me even more games down the road and more losses, I'd get top, and we'd have a akali jg that doesn't show up on the map for the first 10 minutes, I'd get jg, and our top laner would be a 0/6 mordekaiser thats ragequit and left the game because I'm playing wukong jg and although I had two successful early ganks bot, i spent a few minutes farming to get my ult and my duskblade so that I could destroy people, but I'm a trash jg for not holding his hand and saving him, I'd get support and go braum and me and twitch would be doing amazing, but not quite amazing enough that we can 2v3 or 4, so i'm asking in chat and pinging for our jg to help us take the first blood turret bot and then the mountain drake, but because he's chinese and duoing with top, he says what every other one of those kids says "cao ni ma" and never helps us push our lead, his top lane duo is garbage, and he's playing sejuani jg and goes bloodrazor,

I could come up with 1,000 different things in the last 200 games that have happened to make them a complete and utter struggle, that were entirely out of my control, and that "being challenger" would not have helped in reversing.

It's all rng,

who gets the bad players, and who gets the good ones.

I definitely feel your pain, and I replicate it 1,000x over.... [slayer-jinx-unamused]