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Realizing my own inabiities with no idea how to fix them perfectly

SneaselSawashiro·1/10/2018, 9:37:09 AM·2 votes·909 views

Good news. I'm finally not willing to actually focus on what my foes really think of me when I lose.

Bad news. I realize that I'm basically titled from my own bad plays and overall incompetence. Cause let's face it, to quote unswlolsoc on his Leaguecraft video on solo queue, most people possess unconscious incompetence or conscious incompetence.

Cause I'm basically angry at myself for being very stupid at this game in general, no matter how long I've played it.

I know I've done dumb shit, and normally when it comes to a game in League, it results in me getting so mad and tilted because I feel as though all I can do is just let my team and lane die for free while I try so hard to find a solution, only the solution doesn't come about at all and I get angry enough to say shit like this:

"Can you honestly rely on my brain level to even know how to exactly win?!" "Fine then, then you tell me how to fucking win this game outside of just farming while they take objectives for free because of my stupidity! I fed my laner in the first place!" "Only god knows what kind of god-level-outplay I need to do in order to win this damn game....cause I sure as hell don't know."

Those quotes basically sum up to me getting mad at the fact that others for expecting someone like me with limited abilities in general to do their job, despite the HUGE chance range of failure on my end.

Just not knowing shit when a game starts to go bad is pretty much one of the biggest sources of my tilt; possibly why I'm also sensitive to what others think about me (via my rank or losing in lane) because in my mind, stupidity is fatal; and NO ONE likes a stupid person a huge amount of the time.

I always compare it to the analogy of me being a war general who's stats for military tactics are in the lowest range possible, and that he basically got most of his subordinates killed due to such horrible lack of knowledge. And because it's considered that bad of a choice (a la "picking a losing battle"), I can't ever forgive myself for it.

Update: Mainly this tends to be something difficult to tackle because most people you see never want to admit their mistakes and blame their team and shit.

Edit: This account I'm posting on is banned; I have a smurf called NewYetOldName

33 Comments

TheProfezzor1/11/2018, 1:14:28 AM2 votes

What is your main account? If this is it I see no recent matches in your history. Yasuo is your 2nd most picked champion which is a problem right there being you are bronze.

Butt Ρlug1/10/2018, 10:58:43 AM1 votes

"Fine then, then you tell me how to fucking win this game outside of just farming while they take objectives for free because of my stupidity! I fed my laner in the first place!"

Keep in mind that you'll always have one or two teammates that do poorly, it's OK the game would not be fun if you were always winning. Sometimes it'll be you who needs to just understand that you can't do much and need to focus on farming, helping in teamfights where you can and so on, yeah it's frustrating because you can't carry, but it'll happen and you gotta deal with it, sometimes focusing on farming is the better strategy..

We all know that guy who is 0/6/0 but keeps trying to fight the same enemy until he eventually spend the rest of the game spamming surrender votes, blow his summoner spells for nothing in front of his team just to get some attention, this even if his team has a late game teamcomp and the game is still winnable, this dude who can't accept that sometimes he is gonna have to be carried, i hate those assholes ).

Focus on trying to give nice advices, while staying positive, something like "we can win this come group we bait baron !!", "help me take some vision around drake team :)", will help you win way more than a "Can you honestly rely on my brain level to even know how to exactly win?!". If you are already fed as fuck try to give kills to your teammates, communicate ! use pings a lot.

You can always give nice advices to your team but you can't control what they do, what you can do is realize what mistake you made and work on those, watch your own replays, if you were behind in cs work on that, your positioning, dodging more at least once per day ! NEVER SURRENDER ! Better understanding on how to win vs certain matchups, focus on your macro, map awareness like ping whenever you see the jungler somewhere, ...

Peritheus1/10/2018, 12:03:00 PM1 votes

Alright don't beat yourself up. but yeah I can drop some tips for you, that is, if I can properly make a sentence that isn't poorly grammared.

During your champ select /loading screen, look up your live game at op gg and check out what your fighting against and with seeing what there strong suit is and such (etc a sona 1 trick with 1000 games trolls u by playing teemo sup cause you took their role lol make sure to dodge during champ select) I generally check out there adc sup vs our adc and sup because they practically revolve the game around them, you get showned their rank, wr, etc like who feeds/loses alot and go kill/ignore them

Games are generally over once the 10 min mark comes around for us low elo, whoever carries are more fed and strong enough to rush 1 shot burst potential practically can just split push the game or take baron and end etc.

Top laners feel useless that is unless they can scale into the game like GP.

I'm sorry... Now I feel like your analogy of a awful war general, Bronze, um... Just enjoy the game man, everyone at that elo genererally plays for genuine fun, you legit hit the queue button for ranked, bam lightning speed of accept queue instead of waiting for mins-hour. Everyones not calling you trash, threatening you with reports for a simple question mark. Practically build whatever build you like in there, it'll work out probably. You guys do have hearts of gold and big 1s at that, don't come to the toxic and stressful place of silver -diamonds, I've seen a good line of bronzes breakdown when there bizarre build doesn't work anymore, it doesn't feel great when they beat themselves up during a ranked match cause they can't beat a "silver" generally because well silvers the place to go for gold, plat, and diamonds to smurf in to get away from their awful stressful tight games, G hates going up against P, P hates going up against D, D hates have P on team but loves it when there are M &C on their team and not on enemy, if the P is the on the enemy team the D is camping them. lol It's hard to improve.

Umbral Regent1/10/2018, 10:17:02 AM1 votes

Hm. I've honestly never dealt with feeling incompetent, so, I'm not really sure how much what I'll say will help, but, I might as well throw what I can out there.

First (and probably most importantly) - when you start getting tilted, breathe. Four seconds in, seven seconds out. Whenever I get aggravated, I always try to do this, and most of the time, it keeps me levelled out for long enough to keep focused on the task at hand. It may not help for you, but, it's worth a try.

Second, perhaps remind yourself that a bad play is just that - one bad play. It may hurt you in the long run, but it also might not, and considering it only a small misstep might help you keep an unclouded perspective on what your next move should be.

Third - in the overall sense, try not to think of yourself as being incompetent in either way. I've never seen unswlolsoc, but, if they're proposing that most people are either unwittingly incompetent or consciously incompetent, then they're just spreading a pessimistic viewpoint. It may be difficult, but try viewing yourself as great, rather than incompetent. Even if you aren't, there's a saying that applies well here: "Fake it 'til you make it."

And, fourth, if trying to find a solution to a problem is proving difficult, you might want to try stopping yourself for looking for it. Try running on instinct rather than logic, think less and run with an action. Of course, I only suggest this within reason - one should always have a mental barrier up to prevent themselves from towerdiving, even if the enemy under the tower is so tantalizingly close to death that a stiff breeze could put them in a grey screen.

I'm not sure how well any of this will help, but I hope some of it does in some respect.

Also - if this was just a vent post and not one asking for advice, I apologize.

YerroFever1/11/2018, 12:26:01 AM1 votes

I know I'm not the best league player and there's always something I can learn from a lost fight or lost game. There are MANY times where I'm like "I INSTANTLY REGRET THIS DECISION!!!!!!" and I know it was supremely stupid to have done what I just did. There are habits I have to break when I get into higher elos. Things that used to fly in bronze don't fly in silver. Things that used to fly in silver don't fly in gold. Things that used to fly in gold, don't fly in plat. Etc....

There are some times where I'm like "wtf happened? why we lose that fight?" and that's when I have to watch replays because I don't understand what happened and this is where I feel incompetent and I know how you feel. It's disheartening to not know why I lost the fight or game but sometimes it happens.

Sometimes the reason is that you had control over the situation and there was something else you could have done... and sometimes you didn't have control over the situation and no matter how well you played, you would have lost the fight or game.

Sometimes having someone else watch your replay helps you understand if there was something you could have done to change the outcome vs nothing you could have done to have changed the outcome.

Eedat1/12/2018, 1:08:00 AM1 votes

You need some serious help on you builds. You should legit never be rushing item 3143 on MonkeyKing. Tank Wukong is 100% garbage. If you're having trouble against stuff like Yasuo then get Tabi.

Don't ever get item 3153 on Wukong. Ever.

If you need lifesteal then go item 3812. If you need lifesteal and waveclear, go item 3074. If you need the extra sticking power from BotRK then go item 3142. Just please never go item 3153.

item 3071 kind of sucks on Wukong now. The build path is terrible because Wukong needs flat AD to function. I rarely ever build it and when I do its because I'm behind and want the extra HP

item 3147 first unless you're against a tank. Wukong is trash against tanks. Get a item 3074 against tanks so you can sustain and match their push. You're really not going to be able to solokill a tank unless they mess up. Get the Hydra so you can at least stay in lane and farm up. Better yet use it to shove the wave under their tower then roam mid or TP bot. Level 6 Wukong TPs are very potent. You dont need to crush lane to win the game

Kei1431/10/2018, 4:43:21 PM1 votes

I'd say focus on the things that are measurable.

If you are laning, CS@10 and CS@15 are good numbers to keep track of and measure game over game. If you are jg, your CS, counter jungling count and number of ganks matter. For supports, how many successful trades / Enemy CS denial / successful times your wards spotted someone are important.

Mid game, count the number of times you have successfully out rotated the enemy to an objective.

Late game check out your positioning and team fighting awareness. Check for enemy CDs and play accordingly.

It helps to watch some coaching videos from youtube.