14-26 my last 40 games. Need some help.

Horse Grenades·Mar 15, 2016·1 votes·341 views

Long story short, I hit gold with 64% win rate. After that I went to gold 4 99 lp, from that game on. I've went on huge losing streaks. 5-6 losses before I win 1 or 2. This has spread out over a couple weeks. What changed? Can someone help? Meow!

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RandomoniumMar 15, 20162 votes

I ran into a similar experience. I was climbing with a 60%+ win rate and then this past weekend I went 1-7 and since then every game seems like a struggle.

The first thing I did was analyze my own play. Was my cs/min lower? Was I warding less? Was my damage to champions down? You have to be really self critical before you consider any other possibilities.

The other thing to look at is changes in your champion pool. Did you play a lot of one champion and lose with him? Might be time to bench that champion from ranked and practice him a bit more in normals.

The other possibility is your MMR might have gotten so high by consistently climbing that now the system is matching you up with much worse allies. I definitely noticed this. As soon as I started winning a lot I was getting matched up with allies who had like a 30% win rate.

It's frustrating but eventually it evens out. Just be completely honest with yourself and be very self critical of all your mistakes and you'll eventually start climbing again.

Horse GrenadesMar 16, 20161 votes

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I ran into a similar experience. I was climbing with a 60%+ win rate and then this past weekend I went 1-7 and since then every game seems like a struggle.

The first thing I did was analyze my own play. Was my cs/min lower? Was I warding less? Was my damage to champions down? You have to be really self critical before you consider any other possibilities.

The other thing to look at is changes in your champion pool. Did you play a lot of one champion and lose with him? Might be time to bench that champion from ranked and practice him a bit more in normals.

The other possibility is your MMR might have gotten so high by consistently climbing that now the system is matching you up with much worse allies. I definitely noticed this. As soon as I started winning a lot I was getting matched up with allies who had like a 30% win rate.

It's frustrating but eventually it evens out. Just be completely honest with yourself and be very self critical of all your mistakes and you'll eventually start climbing again.

Thanks!! I appreciate all the helpful responses!

OnegarionMar 15, 20161 votes

Gold 3 is really the turning point for a lot of players. its my own personal elo hell for the past 3 seasons. Once i got through it it was easy. Gold 3 is where you get people who were boosted, lucky, just slighty better than silver and where players are really starting to develop skills to move even higher. Its going to be hard.

I seeded silver 1 and made it to gold 3 in under 30 games. I was stuck there and now have about 80 wins with ~50% wr. Gold 3 is the difference between boys and men. The real challenge.

Horse GrenadesMar 15, 20161 votes

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Gold 3 is really the turning point for a lot of players. its my own personal elo hell for the past 3 seasons. Once i got through it it was easy. Gold 3 is where you get people who were boosted, lucky, just slighty better than silver and where players are really starting to develop skills to move even higher. Its going to be hard.

I seeded silver 1 and made it to gold 3 in under 30 games. I was stuck there and now have about 80 wins with ~50% wr. Gold 3 is the difference between boys and men. The real challenge.

I would love to battle in gold 3. I'm worrid about going back to silver now!! Lol

Maybe I suck, but i know I'm the common denominator. It just seems like the teams have been so uneven lately

OnegarionMar 15, 20161 votes

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I would love to battle in gold 3. I'm worrid about going back to silver now!! Lol

Maybe I suck, but i know I'm the common denominator. It just seems like the teams have been so uneven lately

Thats low gold for you. Its a mesh of everything i describe which brings in a ton of uneven matches. I don't think i've had more lopsided matches than the times I was in gold 3. Always the hardest for me to climb through. Since getting out of gold 3 I've jumped up and into my promos for plat. So go into the next few divisions knowing its not going to be easy and it will really force you to improve on yourself. If you can get through it you will come out a much better player.

Horse GrenadesMar 15, 20161 votes

Appreciate the encouragement

SkorpioMar 15, 20161 votes

I'm stuck in the same thing. Had an almost 70% win rate climbing up to silver iii 96lp (placed b1 this season). Then started a serious slide. I'm still silver iii but not by much. I stopped paying ranked for a bit, played a lot of normals with some "new" champions for fun. If I'm honest I think I started to get cocky and it became my own downfall. I worked hard on my consistency and was suddenly very inconsistent again. I'll be getting back into ranked this weekend with a fresh approach.