How do I not get tilted when I'm constantly being matched versus players WAY better than I am?

Visionova·5/31/2017, 7:05:18 PM·3 votes·1,484 views

I'm now chat-restricted because I lost my cool too many times. Most of it being self-deprecation because I feel like absolute garbage for costing my teams games because I got matched against people way out of my league.

I can't even avoid it either, since I can ONLY play normals. Now I'm chat restricted and can't even earn key fragments, so I'm stuck sitting on 4 boxes and 2 key fragments, so even if I DO manage to scrape a win, it won't get me the last piece I need for god knows how long.

I'm only level 28, stop matching me versus players in high gold or up. I'm not a smurf, I'm not that good, I CAN'T win these kinds of games unless my team hard carries.

11 Comments

NinjaGuy695/31/2017, 7:13:28 PM2 votes

I think that if you're a competitive player who eventually wants to play ranked, the best thing to avoid tilt would be to focus on improvement instead of winning. If you focus on improving your mechanics and game knowledge, winning will eventually happen naturally. I also recommend using the Practice Tool to test out new champions that you purchase or item builds. Practice makes perfect.

Live2LetDie5/31/2017, 7:27:39 PM2 votes

Learn from what they do and what matchups you are losing in. If you are going against higher elo you are learning what they are doing that is allowing them to snowball a game. I know on my d4 account that in normals i don't go all out and make stupid plays but they work becuase just by pure game knowledge i can out scale the player or beat him in lane.

Learn from what they did early and what you could of dont to prevent it. Dodge better, fight back, cs better, ward more, call for help, know your trade potential, etc... Is all about practice my man.

Jo0o5/31/2017, 7:09:10 PM2 votes

Grin and bear it, dude. You're getting experience that bronzies would KILL for, and it'll serve to make you an infinitely better player.

I played virtually all of my leveling games duo'd with my friends in high silver/low gold. I was constantly getting thrown against players with hundreds or thousands of ranked wins, and even at very low levels I faced guys with actual runes and keystone masteries. It kinda sucked at times, but I learned the game FAST.

On the other hand, another friend I know learned the game on his own, and due to his low MMR he has huge gaps in his game knowledge. No appreciation for boots, Flash, or wards. Bad build paths. Janky objective awareness. He's going to have a huge road ahead to ever make it out of low Bronze. I got to start my climb at high Silver, and if I ever get enough free time to actually grind this game a bit, I'll probably wind up gold/plat this season.

Dukues5/31/2017, 8:00:20 PM1 votes

wish I could play players better than me at this point. My normal mmr after thousands of games has me at like silver elo I think so playing that is generally not difficult. It makes playing new champs easy since enemy easy to play against but I don't feel like I achieved anything when winning. And playing ranked is worse because people are supposed to be similar skill level but most are just.... not even sure anymore. Both norms & ranked are boring as shit for me. Never really get tested in them but to play higher content I need to win multiple multiple games to increase mmr enough. Now... this wouldn't be a problem if I hadn't already played thousands of thousands of League games. You would think after thousands of games I would play more evenly match games but... pretty much just a yawn fest.

archerno15/31/2017, 8:48:19 PM1 votes

Start playing support role , i suggest someone passive like Janna. That way u can focus on learning and improving by watching others. And that way u will focus on vision control which will help u in any other role.

Telephone Booth6/1/2017, 4:20:04 AM1 votes

Yeah there's a certain point where it goes from good practice, to completely useless because you don't even know what you're doing wrong because they just outplay you at every turn.

The only thing that helps me is to remember to just play safe at all times. It's more important to not feed, than it is to get kills. Just farm. If they extend past your creeps and it looks like they're in a bad spot, don't even trust it, just back up. Let them win lane and let them make the mistakes. I guess im trying to say Don't focus on killing them, just focus on defending yourself. Keep yourself alive and wait for them to lose patience and make risky moves on you. Hope it helps.

sardiniii6/1/2017, 5:16:27 AM1 votes

I think that with a simple adjustment to your mindset going into game, issues like this could become your best opportunity to learn.

One of the silver linings of playing against a smurf or higher ranked player is that you get to watch them and learn from them.

Rather than going into every game expecting a win, assume that the enemy will be better.

Wish you the best of luck in your future games

Ps Are you/have you been duoing with higher ranked friends? That might cause the issues

KORGtuners5/31/2017, 7:13:18 PM1 votes

/mute all

and hyper-focus on your own game play

Wiggle Dat Butt5/31/2017, 7:44:12 PM1 votes

Realize that Riot's matchmaking system is the worst matchmaking system in history of competitive gaming. Realize that you will never get someone worse than you are and you will have to outplay them or not feed and hope your team carries to win.