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This Is The Most Depressed I've Ever Been Since I Began Playing League of Legends

Best Ekko NA·8/9/2017, 8:10:27 PM·3 votes·441 views

Recently I was chat restricted on one of my other accounts. I'm not here to justify my negative attitude towards my teammates, I'm simply the most depressed and irritated that I've literally ever been since I began playing this game back in Season 2. I'm about the same rank on the said account as I am on this one and for some reason the past week or maybe even two, all I've encountered are really abnormal things which usually most people would agree would amount to some "bad luck".

I can check back on my match history for the last 20 games, and there were about 4-5 games where I have had a "normal" game. In my last 15-16 / 20 games I have had someone feeding (whether intentional or not, it's still feeding), AFK, or intentionally trolling. Now, the biggest cause of this frankly, is usually someone being auto filled or someone banning another player's champion. I can't even begin to explain all the stupid things I've been dealing with in the last 20 games, I could write a book on it.

Did I lose all of those games? No, I actually didn't, but the fact is that these stressful games are affecting me. I've tried taking a break to calm myself. I've tried playing every other day and I've also tried limiting myself to one game per day. The problem I'm facing is that, no matter how much I'm limiting myself I'm coming back to the same problems over and over -- they don't just magically disappear. Joe Moe got auto filled Support and he wanted Top, so he's banning that guy's champion and telling him that our Top laner should have gave up his role for him. Big Molly got put in ADC, she doesn't know how to ADC so she picks Kayle and goes 0-10 in the first 10 minutes of the game. Benjamin Franklin got put in as ADC and he doesn't like his Support or Jungler, so he says "Fuck this" and AFK's for the rest of the game. Big Buck Paul see's his some of his team struggling so he says "I'm not even trying anymore" and refuses to help anyone and starts feeding because he's not making good choices now.

These things are happening, almost all of games that I've played in the past week it's happened. If someone wants to try to deny it - I don't care, your opinion doesn't matter. These are some real issues with the game right now. I can't say if it's just the tier that I am located in or not, as most of my accounts are around the same ELO. I understand there's no real way to avoid it, but it's disheartening when you are trying as hard as you can and the game ends in 15 minutes before you can even surrender because of intentionally feeding players. Better yet, you are trying your best to carry these players for 40+ minutes just to end up losing, when if one player was actually trying or not AFK you may have actually won. Dealing with this over and over is enough to drive even the most disciplined player insane.

What's the point of this thread? I honestly have no idea. I'm an extremely down and depressed player who is starting to give up hope on this game. Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Right now my match history looks like a roller coaster -- and it's not because I'm playing worse. I recently lost 7 games in a row, the most I've lost back to back in an extremely long time. The weird part? That huge loss streak came right after winning 5 games in a row. Even more funny? After that loss streak I then proceeded to win a bunch more games in a row.

It's at the point where, winning or losing doesn't mean anything. I'm simply not having fun. I love this game to death, it's my favorite game, but right now... it's just not fun - at all. The percentage of trolls, AFK's, and feeders, feels like it's at the highest it's ever been since I began playing and it's ruining how I feel about playing or even queuing up for matches.

3 Comments

RAT IN GAME UwU 8/9/2017, 8:14:41 PM3 votes

it's been the same for me, played for 8 years almost and after the 4 tattle's rule = perma ban on any account even one that's almost 8 years old, they ban you whether it's swearing at trolls or inting or afking or whatever it is without a real human being looking at the case

i have been taking months off between games ever since they permanently ruined ranked in season 6

the game just isn't fun anymore, gives the terrible players and trolls 100% of the power in games to drag you down, and if you say anything about it they can get you banned

they turned on their fan base that made them something and are catering waste of life bottom feeders. and these bottom feeders feel so empowered and entitled that they will come on the forums and tell you that a game where you only move up by winning isn't about winning, they have officially ruined this game.

Sorin Alucard8/9/2017, 9:00:23 PM3 votes

Autofill (at least for rank) was a MAJOR step backwards from securing our role selections, and since its inception the boards have been filled with testimonies as to why it hurts people more than it helps. Its pretty simple, regardless of Riot's intentions to speed up queue times they've introduced another random element that can burn games before they start.

Auto-fill in its current state doesn't even guarantee that two fills will be on both teams, thats imbalance number 1. If the theory of MMR places 5 v 5 counterparts that are equal, just the 1 autofill role could be the handicap for the match. The MMR isn't perfect either, so you're piling another factor onto an already imperfect base and expecting it to steady itself.

The player frustration from this is the reaction to the unfairness. We waited so long to have protected roles that let us play what we were comfortable just to have this random role placement that creates the same freaking problems. Its especially frustrating because people will dodge queues to avoid autofill, so EVEN IF YOU GET YOUR ROLE YOU CAN GET DROPPED OUT OF 10 QUEUES JUST TO FINALLY BE THE FILL YOURSELF.

If auto-fill was only in normal draft, i wouldn't have such a complaint, but when it comes to RANK its absolutely hindering to accurate representations of win/loss records. The power is simply out of our hands as players right now.

You're also right, that trolls can start non-verbal troubles and almost never receive bans because they avoid saying things flagged by the auto system. There are plenty of videos of trolls that have still not been banned despite quietly ruining games. You're more likely to get the ban for complaining about them than they are for going 0 15 and dancing in fountain