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Ranked game as beginner

xciarah··4 votes·1,413 views

First my English is very bad, but I would still like to talk about 'as a beginner in ranked games'. The last few weeks I've focused for gaming as Orianna, I have watched a lot of movies about how to play her, and I have practiced her a lot in Normal games. Tonight, I thought; let's just try a ranked game! Because the regular games started to bored me. But like most ranked games I've played, it wasn't fun at all, because by an annoying teammate. I have now played three ranked games because I find it challenging and just want to try it, but in all three games there are people that keep complaining about how bad I am, I understand that it's annoying when you lose thereby but I'm not so bad and I'm still learning from my mistakes. Because of this, playing is not fun anymore and just think it's disrespectful, everyone began once everyone is bad at the beginning. But for them all to go and insult the courage to continue to take away is even more annoying than losing. I wonder if there are more people who think like this, because I am quite done with that peoples.

I hope you can read this, i've done my best to explain myself in english :D !

25 Comments

single eboy4 votes

Do not play ranked before you know what you're doing 100%.

Zerfallen1 votes

^ This ^

Also, @OP, you might want to finish getting your runes for a particular role prior to ranked.

xciarah1 votes

oh, i didn't knew that. Thanks! I like people who wants to help, and dont complains me !

xciarah1 votes

I know what i'm doing with ori, really. But when someone is 'scolding?' on me like every minutes, i can't focus anymore how I play her.

single eboy1 votes

If they're telling you you're bad "all the time" I doubt it. It's easy to learn a champion and how they work, but being good at them takes time and practice. It's not enough that you know how to throw your ball and press W. There's so much more to Orianna than you know.

xciarah1 votes

so i've to be more patient and look more video's of her ? When was your first ranked, how long were you playing ?

single eboy1 votes

I never meant to be rude or hateful towards you. Just saying. I'm in Gold 4 right now so I'm NOT by any means as good as, say, a Diamond player. I've played since the beginning of season 4 and I've played some Orianna during my League career as well.

Zerfallen1 votes

Another good tip: If someone is flaming/scolding (not constructive criticism), mute them and do not sink to their level by flaming them back.

It will only get you in trouble pay attention to them.

xciarah1 votes

Yea indeed, i will do that the next time.

Kei1431 votes

well, you know orianna. How well do you know other champs?

Do you know what to build when you are against a malzahar and you are behind?

What do you build when you are against zyra?

If there was a Garen in your lane, how would you play against him?

Jhin is also sniping you from afar, how can you play around it?

Fiddle is in the jungle, how do you play against that?

Top lane pantheon is 6 and MIA. what are you going to do to prevent him from landing on you?

Enemy has 3 tanks and you aren't doing any damage to them, what do you do?

3 lanes are pushing towards to inhib turret, which lane do you go defend first?

Point is, LoL isn't just about knowing your champion. Its about knowing what other champions do and how they interact with your abilities. Its about knowing the different items and what to build in different situations.

There are lots of small things here and there that make a good player. Just knowing how to you play your champ probably isn't enough. Now I'm just bronze2, but I know alot more than most bronze4. I'm probably missing out on alot of information compared to the silvers. But saying that I don't suck because I know my champ is farrrrr from reality.

Troll Armada1 votes

this.

Astôlfo2 votes

Incoming downvotes from people who take Ranked too seriously.

Anyways, to you, @OP, if you really want to play Ranked, I'd recommend getting to at least Level 4 Mastery, if not 5, on the champion first. Sure, it might seem a bit excessive, but you'll almost definitely know a lot of different tricks and possible combos or such you can do with the champion by that point. While I don't necessarily agree with some of the rampant behaviors in Ranked, the fact is that it does exist and probably won't be disappearing anytime soon. So my best recommendation is to either avoid Ranked, practice the champion you want to play further, or simply just mute people if they start to become abusive and just enjoy the game.

xciarah1 votes

Thank you for the help! I think i'm not the right person for playing ranked haha.

Dakintosh1 votes

Somebody with your ranked match history would say "Incoming downvotes from people who take Ranked too seriously". Do you realize that in your last five ranked games you've had a combined KDA of 4/30/4? How?

Edit I don't mean any sort of disrespect to the OP or you here. It's just if you aren't skilled in the game why play the competitive "ranked" portion?

Astôlfo1 votes

I know I'm not good, that's why I'm not playing Ranked that much. On the few times I did, I did really bad, as did some of my teammates. I just view it as another game mode personally.

And since Ranked is what most people consider to be "competitive", I just felt like trying a few games every now and then to see about where I was?

OH MAN NOT GOOD1 votes

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xciarah1 votes

true true, but it's still unfair for the beginners.

Troll Armada1 votes

First of all, I agree with you and it's really sad. Only rarely will anyone have actual advice or information on what you are doing wrong.

[SERIOIUS] My advice to you is to STOP playing ranked. I know you don't want to hear this, and you will hear many delusional people here saying go ahead play and the more you play the more accurately you will be placed with people of your own skill.

However, this is not true, and when you play ranked too often as a beginner who isn't ready you will end up screwing yourself in the long run.

I tanked one such account and basically had to start another one, I was placed in an elo I didn't belong. I played ranked TOO MUCH and before I was ready. I mean when I stared I had no rune pages!!!! Then when I was ready, you will get stuck in a place on the ranked system you don't belong and can't get out of without a huge effort on your part and a lot of luck/

If you don't want to stop playing ranked completely then you should at least cut back.

EL HAMSTERO1 votes

they start new accounts at around silver 5 mmr, which is likely above your true elo.

you will have to lose for a while until your mmr drops to where it belongs. then the ranked are not any more difficult than normals.

Gimpy891 votes

I would recommend only playing champions with lvl5 mastery in ranked this is usually how long it takes to know the basics of a champion. Once you have learned the champion there is still learning the game. You should also know the matchups for that champion and should have backup champions so you dont have to pick into a counter.

1)know how to ward 2)be able to keep track of the JG even without vision (try to think like them and predict their decisions and also look at how lane opponents behave as they often react to the gank before you can see the JG come) 3)know how to roam/rotate 4)know what objectives to go for and when 5)know how to communicate to keep people from throwing or being dumb (this requires you to have good map awareness and know what everyone is doing) 6)dont overstay

xReadyPlayerOnex1 votes

Honestly I think there should be a minimum Mastery or Games played needed for Ranked. Most players go into it WAY to soon and just expect their team mates to carry them.

And I mean 200+ mastery or 500+ games.

Until you hit that kind of number you're essentially useless to your team. Think you did good on Oriana? You probably weren't even comboing correctly. Thought you hit that ult right? I bet it wasn't even close. The cold hard reality is there's 130 champions, tens of thousands of combinations of those champions in a particular game and knowing a good 30% of them is about essential to doing anything more than auto attacking and getting lucky. Add in your ability to out cs your opponents, push objectives, counter jungle, ward, team fight effectively, and the slew of other things that are basic level MUST HAVE knowledge to ranked and you're probably about as fun to play with in ranked as a beginner bot. Remember when Normals were hard and bots were easy? Remember that Normal game that someone was goofing around as a plat in your bronze mmr and beat you SO BAD you didn't even know what happened? That's the problem dude.

And the utterly sad thing... is that I'm stuck playing with you and people will downvote what I've said here and pretend that I'm wrong and make it so that you will be an absolute burden on your team for the next 50-100 games minimum.

Sorry, but TL:DR is that RIOT allows you to enter ranked WAY too early and gives it to you as a RIGHT. The cold reality is you're in over your head and it's not.

Dakintosh1 votes

After reviewing your match history, I wouldn't exactly call you a blessing to your teams.

xReadyPlayerOnex1 votes

{quoted}

After reviewing your match history, I wouldn't exactly call you a blessing to your teams.

Your opinion is purely that. It means nothing.

Dakintosh1 votes

{quoted}

Your opinion is purely that. It means nothing.

Something a Bronze 4 would say. Don't tell him he's not helping when you don't do anything at all to help your teams. I'd steer clear of giving advice when you're stuck in that elo, it doesn't speak much for your game knowledge.

xReadyPlayerOnex1 votes

{quoted}

Something a Bronze 4 would say. Don't tell him he's not helping when you don't do anything at all to help your teams. I'd steer clear of giving advice when you're stuck in that elo, it doesn't speak much for your game knowledge.

Troll is a troll. Your opinion is your opinion. Your name means I shouldn't even respond. You have absolutely no reason to do anything but STFU. Trolls like you are why real posts don't get answered well.

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