Just started ranking after two years of playing normals

SteelMankind·Jul 17, 2016·1 votes·974 views

Carried and won my first 8 games. In my 9th, one of my teammates had a bad game and fed an Irelia 8 kills in laning phase. This cost us the game.

My question is, how do people deal with this sort of thing? It's never bothered me in the normal games I've played until this point but now that I'm trying to rank up it actually matters. It's so upsetting to see my LP DROP from 100 to 84. I ended up reporting the guy for intentional feeding even though I'm sure he was trying his best, and reporting the fed Irelia for carrying so hard and ruining my game. I know that's not fair in the slightest, but I needed to do something to channel my distress.

How to most people cope with losing a ranked game due to teammates?

27 Comments

DynikusJul 17, 20162 votes

{quoted} I ended up reporting the guy for intentional feeding even though I'm sure he was trying his best

Because of things like this, Riot has a harder time punishing people who actually do intentionally feed.

and reporting the fed Irelia for carrying so hard and ruining my game.

wut

I know that's not fair in the slightest, but I needed to do something to channel my distress.

false reports isn't the answer. If someone tilts you, just take a break and come back later when you're feeling better.

SteelMankindJul 17, 20161 votes

Maybe I'm new and not yet a jaded, emotionless soloQ robot, but what your're suggesting sounds like forgiving the players who ruin my games. When I lose and I know I did everything I could reasonably do, I view that as a transgression against me. I pay that back by reporting them. I know it doesn't mean much, since my reports devalue quickly if I report 4-5 people every game, but it's the thought that counts. To me, the act of purposefully enacting vengeance really helps with shrugging off a bad loss.

BlueThingamajigJul 17, 20162 votes

How to most people cope with losing a ranked game due to teammates?

For that, look to your first sentence.

Carried and won my first 8 games.

That's great work. You played well. Your team played well, and as a result, you won EIGHT games in a row. That's not pocket change. So, when you see the LP drop from 100 to 84, and where nothing seems to go right, try to think about the EIGHT games where things did.

Enchiridion

SteelMankindJul 19, 20161 votes

Alright, I'll try to explain my thought process in a bit more detail. I EXPECT myself to win every single one of these low-elo Silver games. Losing a single one is a major blow to my confidence. Losing six in a row? Someone's gotta feel pain for that, so I bash my wrists against the edge of the table I play on and report the other nine players in my game just because it's something I can do to make their day less fun. That is how I feel better, not reminiscing on win streaks or something like that.

IMO if Riot added the option to report yourself or lose champions for having bad games that would really make me less toxic. I'm a pretty emo guy, and when my options to hurt myself are limited, I look towards others. Just being your standard flamer doesn't really appeal to me though since so many people do it, so I report people for things like carrying or outplaying me to be edgy :P

XydemJul 19, 20161 votes

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Alright, I'll try to explain my thought process in a bit more detail. I EXPECT myself to win every single one of these low-elo Silver games. Losing a single one is a major blow to my confidence. Losing six in a row? Someone's gotta feel pain for that, so I bash my wrists against the edge of the table I play on and report the other nine players in my game just because it's something I can do to make their day less fun. That is how I feel better, not reminiscing on win streaks or something like that.

IMO if Riot added the option to report yourself or lose champions for having bad games that would really make me less toxic. I'm a pretty emo guy, and when my options to hurt myself are limited, I look towards others. Just being your standard flamer doesn't really appeal to me though since so many people do it, so I report people for things like carrying or outplaying me to be edgy :P

I love this statement. Completely toxic subject matter. But said in an extremely non-toxic way. It'll make me think of hearing "refund whatever champ/skin/wardskin /name/installation/life" in a little different light. I mean, I think you're wrong or possibly just trolling. But I'll be damned if I didn't enjoy reading it for the imagery.

SteelMankindJul 19, 20161 votes

I think that's because most toxic people are angry, whereas I'm more sadistic.

XydemJul 19, 20161 votes

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I think that's because most toxic people are angry, whereas I'm more sadistic.

I feel like this might kind of make you an equivalent to a LOL serial killer.

McFatalJul 17, 20161 votes

Look at my threads buddy boy. That's how I deal with it. Take their bullshit and release it on this site infested with silvers

RiverWind0407Jul 17, 20161 votes

I know this might bring a lot of downvotes raining down upon me, but my advice is to duo with a friend. In my experience, it takes a lot of the stress out.

FioraWillCarryJul 17, 20161 votes

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I know this might bring a lot of downvotes raining down upon me, but my advice is to duo with a friend. In my experience, it takes a lot of the stress out.

If you're in Bronze or Silver this isn't going to help much. 80% of the time the other 3 players on your team will feed out of control. Nothing you can do about that really. Only people who can don't care about feeding allies are super skilled Diamonds and Plats smurfing. Being only slightly better doesn't cut it though.

RiverWind0407Jul 17, 20161 votes

But that's exactly it, the other people are feeding out of control. Am I so much better than them and deserve to be diamond? Of course not. It's just that being on a team that feeds can be stressful and a duo or friend can help to alleviate this stress. Just my two cents on the matter tho so I hope nobody takes me too seriously. :3

FioraWillCarryJul 17, 20161 votes

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I ended up reporting the guy for intentional feeding even though I'm sure he was trying his best,

LOL thought I was the only one. I do this too. If you're playing ranked and dying close to 10 times before 20 minutes, fuck it has to be intentional. I would think anyone that bad would know better than to play ranked. If play ranked knowing that you can't lane properly and you feed its intentional feeding.

BakedLotionJul 17, 20161 votes

I mean, I get people who flame and go 0/10 all the time. As long as u get more fed than their fed person, you can carry :^)

ThePainusJul 17, 20161 votes

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I ended up reporting the guy for intentional feeding even though I'm sure he was trying his best, and reporting the fed Irelia for carrying so hard and ruining my game. I know that's not fair in the slightest, but I needed to do something to channel my distress.

And this is why we can't have nice things.

It's bad enough your average league player will report for even the slightest trash talk, but this? Come on. Lose with dignity.

FioraWillCarryJul 17, 20161 votes

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I ended up reporting the guy for intentional feeding even though I'm sure he was trying his best, and reporting the fed Irelia for carrying so hard and ruining my game. I know that's not fair in the slightest, but I needed to do something to channel my distress.

And this is why we can't have nice things.

It's bad enough your average league player will report for even the slightest trash talk, but this? Come on. Lose with dignity.

Even if you're Bronze there is no fuckin excuse to be feeding the enemy team 1 kill per minute in a ranked game. Assuming everyone plays champions they are comfortable with in ranked I cannot ever understand how people can feed the way they do in Bronze. You deserved to get reported if you do this and I say this even for myself. When I do this, I try to make damn sure I understand why I fed so much and not make the same mistakes in my next game. However, the common practice is to blame the jungler so I have no sympathy for feeders at all. If you're in the habit of blaming the jungler for dying 4 times within the 1st ten minutes, you're going to leave the game thinking you did nothing wrong and then you're going to end up in one of my games doing the same shit. Fuck that, I'm reporting you if you die 10 times in 20 minutes, no question and if I do it, report me too.

However, as for punishments. I don't think people should get banned or anything. They should get some kind of penalty related to ranked play. Like not being able to play 5 ranked games or something and if you manage to die less than 5 times in a few normal games, you get to queue up for ranked again. People should not be punished for being bad they just should not be allowed to play ranked games so easily.

Feeding is the number one problem in Bronze and perhaps Silver(I get a lot of Silver borders in my ranked games who feed out the ass too.). I don't say this for myself but I strongly believe a lot of people would be higher ranked if it weren't for feeders.

ThePainusJul 17, 20161 votes

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Even if you're Bronze there is no fuckin excuse to be feeding the enemy team 1 kill per minute in a ranked game. Assuming everyone plays champions they are comfortable with in ranked I cannot ever understand how people can feed the way they do in Bronze. You deserved to get reported if you do this and I say this even for myself. When I do this, I try to make damn sure I understand why I fed so much and not make the same mistakes in my next game. However, the common practice is to blame the jungler so I have no sympathy for feeders at all. If you're in the habit of blaming the jungler for dying 4 times within the 1st ten minutes, you're going to leave the game thinking you did nothing wrong and then you're going to end up in one of my games doing the same shit. Fuck that, I'm reporting you if you die 10 times in 20 minutes, no question and if I do it, report me too.

However, as for punishments. I don't think people should get banned or anything. They should get some kind of penalty related to ranked play. Like not being able to play 5 ranked games or something and if you manage to die less than 5 times in a few normal games, you get to queue up for ranked again. People should not be punished for being bad they just should not be allowed to play ranked games so easily.

Feeding is the number one problem in Bronze and perhaps Silver(I get a lot of Silver borders in my ranked games who feed out the ass too.). I don't say this for myself but I strongly believe a lot of people would be higher ranked if it weren't for feeders.

I think you missed the part where he said he reported the irelia for carrying so hard. Which is the main shit part.

But really, this would be solved easy if we could knock some sense into them. But you can't call them stupid wankers who need to stop playing ranked without getting banned, so they might never learn [zombie-brand-mindblown]

SteelMankindJul 17, 20161 votes

The way I see it, I deserve to win these initial Silver level games. For every silver-level game that I don't carry in, the chance that I'm actually a silver-level player increases. By carrying the game, Irelia gave me so much insecurity and self-doubt. That's why I reported her.

FioraWillCarryJul 17, 20161 votes

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I think you missed the part where he said he reported the irelia for carrying so hard. Which is the main shit part.

Well don't agree with reporting an enemy for carrying.

But you can't call them stupid wankers who need to stop playing ranked without getting banned, so they might never learn

The other day I managed to carry a game where our ADC was feeding hard and not doing enough damage mid game. I told him very nicely in the post game lobby that he needed to improve his cs. It was terrible, even for a Bronze player. He told me to go fuck myself. These idiots have no interest in learning anything. They will feed out the ass and blame the jungler and shit on you if you try to teach them anything. If they don't want to learn, let them go into normals with that attitude. These kind of people should not be playing ranked games, not even at Bronze.

ThePainusJul 18, 20161 votes

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Well don't agree with reporting an enemy for carrying.

The other day I managed to carry a game where our ADC was feeding hard and not doing enough damage mid game. I told him very nicely in the post game lobby that he needed to improve his cs. It was terrible, even for a Bronze player. He told me to go fuck myself. These idiots have no interest in learning anything. They will feed out the ass and blame the jungler and shit on you if you try to teach them anything. If they don't want to learn, let them go into normals with that attitude. These kind of people should not be playing ranked games, not even at Bronze.

Funny, last time I criticized someone for being bad at the game, Riot banned me and the forums all took a collective shit on me. Yes, players have a huge problem with taking advice.

FioraWillCarryJul 18, 20162 votes

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Funny, last time I criticized someone for being bad at the game, Riot banned me and the forums all took a collective shit on me. Yes, players have a huge problem with taking advice.

Recently I've gotten into the habit of not talking. Example, I was in a game where as usual, my team feeds and they took every opportunity to team fight despite losing every single one due to them being better fed. I started split pushing because I realized team fights were a waste of time with these retards. I took towers and these assholes started flaming me because I didn't want to group. I didn't even bother trying to explain. Fuck that, as far as I'm concerned, I'm the only human playing, my team are just bots. Why the fuck would I bother talking to bots.

ThePainusJul 19, 20161 votes

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Recently I've gotten into the habit of not talking. Example, I was in a game where as usual, my team feeds and they took every opportunity to team fight despite losing every single one due to them being better fed. I started split pushing because I realized team fights were a waste of time with these retards. I took towers and these assholes started flaming me because I didn't want to group. I didn't even bother trying to explain. Fuck that, as far as I'm concerned, I'm the only human playing, my team are just bots. Why the fuck would I bother talking to bots.

It's a shame it has to come to that. Even worse that Riot is still under the impression that the players who are toxic are the problem not the game itself having no outlet for stress.

archerno1Jul 17, 20161 votes

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Even if you're Bronze there is no fuckin excuse to be feeding the enemy team 1 kill per minute in a ranked game. Assuming everyone plays champions they are comfortable with in ranked I cannot ever understand how people can feed the way they do in Bronze. You deserved to get reported if you do this and I say this even for myself. When I do this, I try to make damn sure I understand why I fed so much and not make the same mistakes in my next game. However, the common practice is to blame the jungler so I have no sympathy for feeders at all. If you're in the habit of blaming the jungler for dying 4 times within the 1st ten minutes, you're going to leave the game thinking you did nothing wrong and then you're going to end up in one of my games doing the same shit. Fuck that, I'm reporting you if you die 10 times in 20 minutes, no question and if I do it, report me too.

However, as for punishments. I don't think people should get banned or anything. They should get some kind of penalty related to ranked play. Like not being able to play 5 ranked games or something and if you manage to die less than 5 times in a few normal games, you get to queue up for ranked again. People should not be punished for being bad they just should not be allowed to play ranked games so easily.

Feeding is the number one problem in Bronze and perhaps Silver(I get a lot of Silver borders in my ranked games who feed out the ass too.). I don't say this for myself but I strongly believe a lot of people would be higher ranked if it weren't for feeders.

Thats why they are bronze and silver. Cause they are bad. Thats worse punishment than any report can get them. Feeding isnt number one problem in bronze and silver, people are in bronze and silver because they are feeders. Its like saying "biggest problem in prison is that they put criminals there, we should fix it and kick all criminals out of prison". Divisions are designed for different types of players that wanna play ranked. Bronze for unskilled casuals. Silver for unskilled hardcore players. Gold and plat for average skilled players. Diamond for high skilled players. Master and challenger for well, master players.

FioraWillCarryJul 17, 20161 votes

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Thats why they are bronze and silver. Cause they are bad. Thats worse punishment than any report can get them. Feeding isnt number one problem in bronze and silver, people are in bronze and silver because they are feeders. Its like saying "biggest problem in prison is that they put criminals there, we should fix it and kick all criminals out of prison". Divisions are designed for different types of players that wanna play ranked. Bronze for unskilled casuals. Silver for unskilled hardcore players. Gold and plat for average skilled players. Diamond for high skilled players. Master and challenger for well, master players.

Wait, Gold and Plat are average. You just made me feel even worse about being Bronze lmao. Not everyone can be exceptional but no one wants to be below average rofl.

archerno1Jul 17, 20161 votes

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Wait, Gold and Plat are average. You just made me feel even worse about being Bronze lmao. Not everyone can be exceptional but no one wants to be below average rofl.

Yes. I am gold 1 in promo for plat. My main acc is plat elo and my newest 30 is g3. And im just average player. I make alot of mistakes, i forget to ward sometimes. And most of players im matched with/against are average too.

FioraWillCarryJul 17, 20161 votes

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Yes. I am gold 1 in promo for plat. My main acc is plat elo and my newest 30 is g3. And im just average player. I make alot of mistakes, i forget to ward sometimes. And most of players im matched with/against are average too.

I guess it's relative. To me you're exceptional. You have any idea just how much of a struggle it is to climb in Bronze. I feel its next to impossible to get out yet you're talking about Plat and stuff. That's like pro to me.

SteelMankindJul 17, 20161 votes

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Reporting people does make me feel much better, so I think I'm going to start being very liberal with the report button. For instance, I just lost my first series, so I reported my teammates for not carrying and the enemy team for winning. Now I'm refreshed and ready for the next game.