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Quitting League of Legends

Twisted Skyline·7/14/2016, 6:50:38 AM·3 votes·665 views

I have been playing this game for almost two years. I must say this is one of the best games I have played. For the past few months league has been my life.

I consider myself to be an intelligent individual. I have a Masters in Mathematics. Although I believe mechanics is very important, you can beat a more skilled player with your intellect in this game. This is what I enjoyed the most. Twisted Fate is the champion which I found the most elegant.

Anyway....

I have become a bad person. This game has influenced me negatively. Getting out of bronze was a daunting task. It was not challenging. It was not difficult. It was just a pain. Dealing with AFKs, trolls and completely immature players. I have read the logic of higher elo players that if you are good the odds are in your favor of carrying the team.

But let me tell you something - elo hell does exist. And I dont think anybody can do anything about it. A bronze player playing against bronze players doesnt make him any better in the game. If it was a 1v1 match up, sure one of the bronzes will go ahead and play a better one. But if 5 monkeys play another 5 monkeys then its a joke.

I really put a lot of effort to reach an elo where I can find players taking the game seriously and fight with some intelligence. But I have come to believe that I cannot reach there or it will just take too long for me. And even if do then what. I don't get anything. It frustrates me. Recently I have been toxic to people who I played with which neither helps me, nor helps the game nor defines me. It makes me feel failure, anger and helplessness. But its just a game.

My life is more important. So I need to stop. I will miss this game so much. I will miss outplaying opponents with TF, miss counter ganking like a hero and miss out strategizing my opponents.

6 Comments

HaXource7/14/2016, 7:37:19 AM2 votes

ikr

Immortal Fenix7/14/2016, 12:31:28 PM2 votes

My problem is that the matchmaking system, as it is, is a joke. I had a friend that has never been ranked before get placed into Silver III this season, but his overall score was WORSE than my placements when I've been consistently getting put into Bronze I or III. This season, I was placed into Bronze IV with a 6-4 or 7-3 W/L in placements, his was something like 4/6.

That aside, I managed to climb to Bronze III, and spent a WEEK there going from 0 LP to 75, back to 0, before finally being demoted back to BIV. Now I'm almost BV. I'd get so frustrated I would straight up pick 'troll picks' champions in an attempt to find ANYTHING that would give me the upper hand on the opponents, but it never worked out. Either my pick was bad (That's on me.), the opponent was too good (A mix of me and an uncooperative jungle that prefers to blindly farm jungles rather than help out struggling lanes.), or the team was incompetent in mechanics, plays, and overall function of the game. Why would we take Baron if they saw us going to fight Baron? Only Bronze knows.

TL;DR: I feel your pain, but I have monetary investment in League right now, and I don't want to just pick up and quit until I know it's utterly worthless to continue on. My only advice? Wait until August, and try to come back when all the little kiddies are back in school.

Xidphel7/14/2016, 10:51:04 AM1 votes

Rammus ok

Zaryelle7/14/2016, 7:50:57 PM1 votes

I believe ELO hell exists but it's not exactly how people describe it.

It's largely due to a combination of lots of new players, smurfs, bad players, and bad matchmaking.

When I first started playing normals, I was consistently matched against gold ranked or higher in normal games. Not just smurfs (although there were plenty) but tons of people that had gold or higher ranks in the same games with these complete beginners.

You can tell how imbalanced the matchmaking is when the skill range in 'elo hell' games is too wide. I'm not good enough to be gold, but probably somewhere between Bronze and gold, and I still get complete beginners in my games. If I'm struggling to fight golds in my games, then what chance do these new players who are in the same games with me and the golds have? None.

The skill gap between random players in 'ELO hell' is why it actually exists. You have a variety of smurfs, new players, ranked golds, and 'bad' players all in the same games. The matchmaking may be balanced higher up, but it is for sure not balanced at all for low level games. This is why a lot of games seem like random luck, because it actually is when one gold player can carry the whole team and easily 1v4/5 the new players.

Scary Door7/14/2016, 8:00:08 PM1 votes

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I have become a bad person. This game has influenced me negatively. Getting out of bronze was a daunting task. It was not challenging. It was not difficult. It was just a pain. Dealing with AFKs, trolls and completely immature players. I have read the logic of higher elo players that if you are good the odds are in your favor of carrying the team.

But let me tell you something - elo hell does exist. And I dont think anybody can do anything about it. A bronze player playing against bronze players doesnt make him any better in the game. If it was a 1v1 match up, sure one of the bronzes will go ahead and play a better one. But if 5 monkeys play another 5 monkeys then its a joke.

Came into this thread ready to downvote, but after really considering what you said here I can't really disagree.

I love League, play it daily, will still do so, but there is no denying that it is a game more rooted in frustration than it is in fun. I am rarely one to fight back against toxic teammates but I see the malicious things said toward myself or others and it does make me wonder why I continue to play.

I have friends that often fight with one another when they play together despite the fact that they get along just fine out of game. Competitive games can do this, but none has this odd effect more than League of Legends in my personal experience. I've been playing almost five years to the day and it's just not the same kind of community or game from when I began. As stated previously, I still play and I understand things evolve, but sometimes I do feel odd when I think of myself getting worked up over a video game and then to see what others say to each other makes me sad for humanity.

Anyway, good for you to recognize how you feel and writing a clearly thought out post OP.