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Completely lost any emotions when playing ranked.. what do?

Excalibait·5/25/2017, 12:40:34 AM·2 votes·502 views

Sounds stupid, but it's pretty much that. I was one win away from my Silver 2 promo, but then I hit a wall and now I fell down all the way to Silver 5 with 0LP. I really tried to be positive, never tilted when someone played bad, because let's face it: everyone can have a bad game where one's the feeder; but there's only so much I can do.

When people start to blame each other, then you know the game is pretty much done anyways so one might as well be better off just to mute everyone who talks and just try to salvage whatever there is. The sad part is, I changed from someone who doesn't care for people I probably only spend the next 30ish minutes with to someone who doesn't bother anymore seeing the team drown and I just stand next to it with a lifebuoy in hand. Does that make me a bad player? Skillwise? Teamwise? Yeah, probably both.. But I've lost any trust I had over the last couple of weeks, just because of all the disappointment over and over again, and I'm sick of it and I don't want to just take it this way any longer.

I love the game, I have fun playing it, playing Champs I grew close to, closer than any stranger I met in this game, and will ever meet in the game pretty much. I won't stop trying to climb, not because I think I deserve a higher rank, or I have anything left that's remotely close to faith. I probably will never get past that barrier called Silver 2 promo. I failed to get to the point the last 3 seasons. I don't know why that is, it doesn't feel the game suddenly becomes more competitive, just the players in this region are ... I even lack the proper words to describe it, but that's not the point of this text anyways. Everytime I am at arm's reach of the next step, it's like I get put into a new player pool full of people who don't even know how the very core mechanics of the game work, how to win a game. All I see are egoists who lock in 4 champions without any sort of AoE or CC and it's just sad to be beaten by a Top Lane Sivir (true story).

tl;dr - I'm hardstuck, dropped really far down and lost any interest to really go in for the teamwork part in a teamwork game where no one else even bothers to pick champions to have a solid team balance in first place. What can I do to revive it?

7 Comments

Nahui5/25/2017, 1:20:55 AM2 votes

Mute all from the beginning. No fun comes from typing to your team. It's either toxicity (Usually) or little congratulatory statements, which aren't important to see. Once in a while you'll get a funny guy, but overall, it's not good. This cuts the negative words from your experience, since you get told your shit and play worse.
Overplay your success. Any time you do something good or cool, overplay it in your mind. Smile, laugh, be excited. Outplay someone? Talk to yourself, tell yourself about how you did it. Tell yourself what skills you used in what order and why and examine how it worked. Not only does it make you feel good and feel powerful/confident, you're actually memorizing what you did and you'll be able to replicate it, or something like it, more often. Positive attitude wins more often.
Examine your deaths, your mistakes, your mishaps. I don't care if your teammate entirely baited you into a gank or something, or abandoned you, examine why you died. Every death is your fault. Getting camped and your jungle won't come? Why didn't you ward properly? Where the ganks coming from? When are they coming relative to your position in the lane? Did you read your enemy's aggression correctly? Playing a farm game vs orianna, then suddenly she goes in deep on you, yet you thought you could fight her and got ganked? Chased someone too far, got killed? CS is shit and underfed? Etc? Examine each death and how it could have been avoided. Every death is avoidable. And the answer is never "AFK under tower", that's a rage response. Instead of getting angry, you'll be treating every death as a learning experience and then you'll improve. They took baron randomly? Where were your wards, your knowledge of missing champions? Your laner went and ganked bot? Did you MIA? Did you shove the lane, did you follow?
Find your core group of champions. We all want to be amazing at the game and be good at all champions. That's not how the game works. You need a core set of climbing champions, champions that you fully understand the mechanics of and build paths of. Don't one trick, because that leads to repetitive gameplay which is bad for you, and if banned/counterpicked, you're fucked. but get a core group. Season 6, my core group of champs were Zed, LeBlanc and Diana. Covers mid/jungle, my two main roles. AD/AP assassin mid, AP assassin/fighter jungle. These champions I knew in and out and got extreme results from. Placed in Gold 5, climbed to Gold 2 before season ended (Span of only half a month, just began senior year of college so I was satisfied with ending in Gold 2.) Now, don't get me wrong, I've played since Season 3, so I know how to play most champions and can play a lot pretty well, so not all was lost if those didn't fit as I had back ups (Viktor, Khazix, Reksai, Ahri, Orianna, Nocturne), but the 3 cores carried me hard. AD mid for those AP comps or if they picked some stupidly immobile and squishy mid/top, AP if our team was mainly AD. Jungle was mainly Diana due to her sheer snowball but I'd go Reksai if AP didn't fit. Figure out your core. Don't ask anyone for advice on who to pick. This is a decision YOU need to make. Don't metasheep, that only really matters Plat+ or if you have the time to learn all champions well. Just get really good at a core group of champs. And don't try to be the special snowflake who mains Heimdinger, Ivern and Singed. Pick real champions with real impact on the game. And don't touch Teemo, he's not a real main.
When your team starts throwing, ignore it. Don't treat a game as win/lose. LP is just an arbitrary number assigned to a team effort, and doesn't tell the full story of your performance. You can go 0/20/0. If you win the game, you get LP. 20/0/0? Lose LP. The way to win each match is to visibly improve. Think while you play, talk to yourself, be your own caster evaluating your own performance. Mentally note every creep you miss, especially note the ones you could've gotten but messed up on. Game starts going south? You 5/0 mid lane but bot and top are combined 0/14/3? Lost game? Maybe. Your lost game? No. This is where you buckle down and practice your mechanics and knowledge. Try and CS as hard as you can, not to just win the game, but simply to practice. Try and place the best wards. Try and play well mechanically. Work on freezing the lane when needed, shoving when needed, taking objectives. If the game is going to be a loss, try to make it as much of a win as possible. A game that you feed your ass off and play terribly but win is worse than a game where you actively got better and lost. At least you made good use of your time and it will carry on to the future.
Have fun. Don't focus on others' faults. People do idiotic things in this game, but getting angry or blaming them does nothing. I was playing Ivern the other day, landed a Q on the enemy ADC under their own tower. Blitz, at about 200 health, took the Q, got one shot by the tower, and proceeded to flame and blame me for being a troll. I didn't send him forward. He chose to go, but he's doing what you're not supposed to do. Blaming others. He refused to acknowledge that he killed himself, and because of that, didn't learn and proceeded to feed and flame more. It got to the point where his ADC literally int'd into the enemy Warwick and died, and Blitz's response to it was "This Ivern" even though I wasn't involved at all. We lost that game horribly. But did I let his retard attitude stop me? Nah. I had fun with it. Worked on my clears, worked on my Q positioning and bush positioning. All was good. Just learn and have fun. Mute the team, focus on your performance and not theirs. Don't even look at their score, it's irrelevant whether you know their score or not.