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The Story of My 6 Banned Accounts and What I Did on the 7th One.

If i rage mute·3/13/2016, 6:44:11 PM·161 votes·10,356 views

In the 5 years I have spent playing league of legends I have leveled 7 accounts to level 30. 6 of them have been banned for verbal abuse and it was an issue that I just could not fix.

Any time a teamfight went wrong I would find something my teammates did wrong and point it out to them. Sure, what they did was wrong, and if they had done it the right way it might have led to a better fight, but what I never did was try to see the things that I did wrong.

After switching over to chess and going up in Elo to what master level would be in League I started thinking to myself. "why is it that I can hit master level elo on chess but I cant get past Gold league On LoL?" I started to think long and hard about that for a good while.

THEN IT HIT ME.

When I would play chess I would have absolutely no one but myself to blame for my loss and would use an analyzer (basically a computer that would tell you the better moves of the game you finished) to tell me what my mistakes were and where I messed up.

Because chess is a 1v1 game I had no other choice but to take full responsibility for my loss and blame no one but myself which led to me being focused on improving only myself.

I had finally found my true flaw on league........ Worry about no one but yourself.

And when I say only yourself, I don't mean ignoring to go help your teammates in fights or objectives. What I mean is When searching for mistakes throughout a game, ONLY focus on the ones that you had control of changing in that game. Focusing on mistakes you had no control over has nothing to do with your skill level and is simply part of the game. Search for mistakes you had control of changing. because on average out of 100% of the mistakes in the game, you had control of correcting 20% of them (1 out of 5 on a team). So that means that out of 100 mistakes in a game. You need to find and focus on the 20 of them that you could have changed. The hard part is finding those 20.

So on my 7th account, that I hit 30 on 2 months ago, I decided to take this approach to my gameplay. I am still a little shocked as to how big a change it made because I never in my life expected my negativity change to have this big of an impact.

In the past 2 months I have achieved Diamond 2

Ya I said it. Diamond 2. I spent 4 years pointing fingers, getting banned, tilted, and angry only to achieve gold league. Little did I know that all of that negative bullshit was holding me back almost 1000 elo. Insane right??

BEING A NEGATIVE PLAYER SET ME BACK 1000 ELO!!!

So my message to everyone is this.

Focusing on others mistakes is a waste of time and energy and only leads to tilt. Focusing on your mistakes is a good use of time and energy and only leads to self-improvement.

154 Comments

Samflash33/13/2016, 10:38:44 PM93 votes

Obviously they cant ban the 7th since there are only 6 bans in League of Legends

redniwediS3/13/2016, 6:54:38 PM64 votes

The funny thing is people offer this as advice all the time around here.

Unfortunately people often need to learn things themselves before they are willing to accept a truth like you've discovered. Welcome to the positive side of League.

6KEMBE4ORBA3/13/2016, 11:24:09 PM10 votes

Some funny bits of your post reminded of the ads now turned into memes... Such as "BEING A NEGATIVE PLAYER SET ME BACK 1000 ELO!!!" /BOOSTERS HATE THIS!/ haha

The cherry on top is that you're posting this from a lvl 22 account. :D

Why are you so afraid to post such "insightful" msgs with your "main d2" account in the first place?

brandonf1313/13/2016, 10:11:41 PM7 votes

Cool story, hopefully its actually real because you posted this from a lvl 22 account

Voidwheel3/13/2016, 7:11:10 PM3 votes

To summarize it for you,you can't get better at league because you didn't have a tool to tell you how to play better,which means you pretty much suck at chess too but you had something that helped you.Also the fact it took 5 years to realize such a simple fact is hilarious.

Dealth3/13/2016, 10:43:55 PM3 votes

Except this advice is completely useless because LoL is a team game. So if someone on your team feeds, you lose that game no matter how skilled you are.

Dominick Destine3/13/2016, 10:04:59 PM3 votes

That's correct.

The best tactic I've found and the way I have reached Diamond multiple times is, consider your teammates to be only obstacles (both verbally and mechanic wise), they are human garbage that you can not ever trust to do anything. When you realize that you , as a man, stand alone against impossible odds, those odds become less impossible because you are aware of your situation.

So yes, I find your argument very compelling and very true to how the game functions. 100% agree with you on all counts.

Vikíng3/13/2016, 8:51:01 PM3 votes

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kS7jqhxrGi3/15/2016, 2:01:42 PM2 votes

Ive lost well over 8 accounts to verbal abuse and every single one of them have been wurf. Every single of them were high diamond and about 2400 elo from back in the day. Making kids dig into their skin with teeth marks cause they so enraged that they email riot about it. Nothing but wurf...!!!!

Troll Armada3/13/2016, 7:29:16 PM2 votes

Did you switch computer prior to making your seventh account. You might have just been on the DNC list. When you created a new account on a new computer, Riot no longer had your unique hardware ID's...

DeathBot6663/13/2016, 11:13:42 PM2 votes

But almost every actual champion spotlight says that rule #1 of league is to always blame everyone else?

I'M SO CONFUSED!

ADepressedLeona3/14/2016, 2:10:21 AM2 votes

As a support, at times it can be really hard to have this attitude (Mind you, you should have it all the time) But as a support, you rely 100% on your allies to get anything done. A Leona isn't going to carry the game, she's not gonna be able to get kills, she's not gonna be able to take objectives, all she is capable of is setting her team up for success with her CC

The issue here is, it doesn't matter how good the Leona player might be, if her team has no clue what they're doing, Leona loses by default.

Now I'm not saying go out and rage at your team as a support nor am I giving an excuse for it. But at times, as a support it's really hard to not look at your team and say to yourself "They're the reason I lost."

Monsieur Kast3/13/2016, 8:48:00 PM1 votes

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Penns3/13/2016, 7:14:38 PM1 votes

Chess is a 1v1 game, League is a 5v5 game, with 4 strangers that decide whether you win or lose most of the time, but they use the same elo system. I think worrying about what other people do is not the only problem here lol. Obviously flaming and tilting doesnt help at all, but you also cant deny that League is a 5v5 game basically using a 1v1 rating system, can you?