Zero motivation to improve as a player

Resonance x LFT·12/6/2018, 11:24:30 AM·1 votes·2,000 views

I genuinely have zero interest in improving my play. After spending 5 years playing this game, and playing mostly in Silver I'm just not seeing a reason to improve my play. Over the course of my history with this game, I've played in groups of higher and lower elo players Bronze-Master. I tend to stick to normal games, but even ranked is boring. The higher in rank I go the more challenging the game. I usually don't mind playing a challenging game, but playing with high gold and platinum players is antifun. They know the matchups better than me, are better players and punish my mistakes harder. I always thought I wanted to climb, but honestly, if I have to look forward to high gold/plat Riven, Yasuo, Vayne mains and getting smashed in lane it's not fun. It doesn't help there are zero champions I'm interested in one tricking.

Honestly, I'd rather stay in Silver. The games are spicy.

8 Comments

XL BENCH PRESS12/6/2018, 11:27:26 AM2 votes

I don't even play ranked, but am matched against silvers/golds/plats and the occasional dia. Games are challenging enough. Content with however unranked mmr works.

AeroWaffle12/6/2018, 12:18:48 PM2 votes

I mean, the same can be said of pretty much any game with some sort of competitive mode. High elo players constantly search for the best combination of choices that will lead to the greatest chance of victory. You see it in Smash Bros, Overwatch, Street Fighter, and so on. When presented with a choice between entertaining or higher chance of victory, they will often choose the higher chance of victory. It's how many of them got there in the first place.

I came to the same conclusion as you but with Smash Bros. Yeah, I could spend hours practicing my wave dashes and near-unlimited combos, but it stopped being fun. Not only for me, but for many of my friends that only played casually. A one-way stomp-fest, no matter how skillful it was to pull off, is not fun for the one getting stomped.

Kei14312/6/2018, 3:47:53 PM2 votes

Don't you think it can be a challenge to think about how to outplay those riven, vaynes and yasuos?

While most of them are pretty good mechanically, doesn't mean there's no outplay. If you can't outplay them, it means that there are lots for you to improve.

Telephone Booth12/7/2018, 12:06:18 AM2 votes

Yeah... i went through that phase long ago. Used to think i will get good, but over the years I just stopped caring about getting good. Its like, no matter how good you get, there will always be times where it just doesnt matter in game. Sometimes matches are decided without any influence from you and its just a bit deflating. Thats kind of why I exclusively played starcraft and starcraft2 1v1s. I just hate having to rely on teams lol. So i only really play this game cuz its fun with a couple friends on weekends. Occasionally ill log on for a couple solo games, but I find myself spacing out as i try to force myself to hit that play button. Ill go on youtube or pack a bowl or go have a cig. When you have to force yourself to play another game, you know youre just not that into it anymore.

I tried one tricking anivia, and im up to near 400k on her i think, but that gets old too even though shes really fun. Theres just something about crushing a laner and going like 11-0 in a game, to then go against a kass the next game and just get wrecked like the guy you just wrecked last game. Its just like, did i even improve at all? Did it matter that I wrecked a Fizz, when the next Fizz destroys me? Half the time I win lane, I just think, am I improving, or was that guy just bad? Lol.

Also, I played a ton of master yi on an alt account, and even though he is fun as hell, theres something demotivating about starting over every game. You gotta go through all that jungling again and be weak and slow until you get those items all over again game after game. You get used to being a murderer and then its like okay next game; start over. And whos to say their jungler wont completely fuck you this time. Its like each individual game doesnt matter. You can wreck one game, and then the next everything is out of your power due to the circumstantial and team nature of the game and you just lose for playing just as well as you did the game before.

So yeah, I feel you. I feel you.

Chalze12/6/2018, 11:56:49 AM1 votes

I mean this is quite subjective, when I still played I was in the same boat as you are. Honestly this is just the mentality of a casual which I am, have been and forever always will be.