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Let's build a Ranked 5's Team that will last! Learn and grow together! (Bronze to Challenger climb!)

Dark Zany·12/1/2015, 4:20:09 PM·1 votes·999 views

TL;DR - Bronze 4 Jungler Main looking to make a Ranked 5's team with the main focus on creating a team that will last and learn to get better together.

If you're only going to look at the TL;DR and see that I'm Bronze and dismiss me as some scrub or noob then that's great because that's precisely not the type of players I want to have on my team. I do NOT have a giant E penis like most people who play League of Legends. I do not think I'm better than everyone or feel like I am entitled to all the farm, etc. I do NOT get angry and rage or leave games. I DO sometimes get frustrated, we all have bad days and bad games, and what I've learned is to just go and cool off so I don't stay on tilt.

I've played League of Legends ever since Vladimir was a "new champ". I don't even remember how long ago that was, but definitely during Season 1. I own every single champion in the game. I have lots of skins for lots of champs and I definitely enjoy this game a whole lot. Ever since around Season 2 or so, I've been trying to play in Ranked games with the hopes of getting better and maybe form a team and get competitive at the game. However recently, and this is after several seasons of trying this approach, I feel like it's not really worth the time trying to climb the ladder in Bronze as a solo queue player. I feel like, I'm not learning anything new by playing Bronze players, and I've gotten such a "good sense" of how things go that I can often predict the outcomes of lane match ups and also I know exactly when to back off in a fight and when to hard engage, and as a result I get really BORED playing this game because everything is so predictable and I can see exactly WHY my Bronze teams are losing so badly. I can also see my own mistakes, and I'm not saying I'm a perfect player and everyone else is a scrub. I know there are many things I can work on and improve, but at this point I've made a very big realization: League is a TEAM GAME!! SO... it really doesn't matter at the end of the day if I can get 100% CS in a lane or if I can do a full clear in the jungle (I can do both... but usually if I am mid I can get about 80% to 90% of the CS and then I still lose because it's hard to carry games when I don't play hyper carries every game).

GOAL: If you've read this post to this point, let me say that I have a very clear goal in mind. I want to form a team of players who will have fun, struggle, grow, and learn together and work as a team. Teamwork is what I want to focus on when I form this team. I don't care if you are Bronze 5, as long as you are willing to learn, and willing to work as a team, then I can work with you.

I have already a few players interested who are very specialized in their roles. I myself am best when in the jungle, but I can also mid quite well. My greatest strength in this game is having a strong game sense, and this is why I think I would do well if I can form a team and help create great team work and "shot call". I know when to hard engage and when to back off, and when to juke, etc. I have decent mechanics. My weakness is being able to have that "teamwork" in solo queue, and obviously that is hard, because you've never played with these strangers you get placed on your team before so it is very difficult to know their playstyles or what they are thinking and you end up having situations where one player hard engages in a fight, but the other player backs off, and then giving the enemy team free kills. I am hoping to create a Ranked Team to solve this problem.

PLAN: In order to reach this goal of having a fun Ranked Team to play with, I want to focus and emphasize on getting players and making our team be about learning and getting better together, and teamwork. If a player on our team is bad at a particular skill, we should work on that skill with him together or create solutions to help him be better. I also don't expect this team to rise to the top immediately or even rise very high, and if we do that's great, but as a Bronze player, I am just totally sick of playing with people who I want to smash their face in with a brick. I'd like to find players who share this similar interest of finding friends and other players who will have the same patience as I do in getting better and playing as teammates. I plan on first gathering such like minded players who have the free time to commit to this, and I would like to have regular practices together. Ideally that would be daily, but hopefully at least 4 times a week.

IF INTERESTED: I am Dark Zany on the NA server. Feel free to look me up on Lolskill or Lolking or just look at my summoner profile in game. I have already a few friends who I might consider for this team, and I have a guy who's a very decent lux/nidalee support player. But at this point, nothing is fixed, we're both Bronze and we both carry games in Bronze... whoo hoo, means nothing, because with enough practice we can probably end up playing any role later on and switch to something different once we have a team. The greatest importance is the attitude of the player and the level of commitment. Please contact me ingame and we can talk on skype or call.

Requirements to join:

  1. A great attitude that includes the patience to work with other players and learn together. This can be hard I know but this is the most important thing I am looking for.
  2. A fairly available schedule. Please be available at least 4 times a week if not daily.
  3. Please have a mic. Voice communication in team games is a must.
  4. Please have an open mind and bring everything to the table. If you're a jungler, don't think "oh he's already a jungler"... if you're a better jungler than me, then I'll let you jungle! I don't really care which role I play as long as I can get a friendly team of players to play with regularly and improve together!
  5. BE WILLING TO ADMIT YOUR MISTAKES AND LEARN FROM THEM!!! If a teammate tells you that you're doing something wrong, please don't try to defend yourself and say why you're always right! Let's discuss things together as a team and figure out how to work with each other, and then we can figure out how to improve together! We could even play cheese builds together and group up super early or something, so long as we're all communicating with each other and working together as a team!

Thanks!

I'm not sure how hard I'm going to get trolled for posting this. If you're just going to say something rude about a Bronze player, please go do that in a mirror. Otherwise, I hope to hear from interested players who wants to play together as a team with others!

19 Comments

Ceramic Lemons12/1/2015, 4:29:26 PM1 votes

My name is HeroicValley, Heroic for short. I totally agree with your statement. I am a support main is bronze 2 and i want to get better! Teach me and i will teach you. This is all i'm asking

See you later!

[slayer-jinx-catface]

RCGTooTall12/1/2015, 4:38:43 PM1 votes

yo im down

RCGTooTall12/1/2015, 4:39:09 PM1 votes

support / mid but i can fill

Sustained12/1/2015, 4:50:31 PM1 votes

I can adc :)

Dystopian Future12/1/2015, 4:54:52 PM1 votes

I'm in. Preferably top, but I can do whatever.

The real question for me is time - when are you on? I'm on daily and available to play 9-12 CST, sometimes earlier. Is this comparable with your schedule? Edit: ^ Thats 9-12 pm

OrganicT12/1/2015, 4:58:44 PM1 votes

OrganicT , silver 1 main top,Mid, support, Adc , im pretty versatile . Add in game if interested , see you.

hyunislove12/1/2015, 5:53:25 PM1 votes

Hi

Jr Crysis12/1/2015, 5:58:17 PM1 votes

Added

JackShack12/1/2015, 6:01:54 PM1 votes

Yo, I'm silver 3 but would love to join. Just add me. I main supp/jg.

SARIKAYA KOMZIN12/1/2015, 6:39:02 PM1 votes

Hey Im a Top main in silver and I would love to join a 5's group to play with. Shoot me a message any time and id love to play some 5's. I can also support.

Dark Zany12/1/2015, 7:52:58 PM1 votes

Hi guys! Here's an update. As of 11:35 AM Pacific Time I've managed to get together with 4 other players to play 2 normals games together. This is not necessarily the finalized team, nor does it have to be ONE team, but what I'm getting the sense is that there are a good number of people who are interested in this, and have very decent attitudes. What I will do is this: I will continue with the recruitment process. I will try to form 2-3 teams worth of people... so maybe 10-15 total people, and try to form 2-3 teams out of the players who contact me. This way we can match players together based on the lanes they want to play, as well as try to fit people together based on their time schedules.

As of now, I've played 2 games with 4 other players... Panda is a Pleb, HeroicValley, SolemnJustice, and Renegade92 and this is what happened immediately after I posted this thread. I would like to sum up our experiences here and I welcome further interested players to contact me.

Game 1: We did well communicating all game.. the only issue was a bit too much chattiness during laning phase, but overall we were able to call out targets in teamfights and we grouped up to take objectives well throughout the game and secured the win.

Game 2: Overall I thought we did a good job of NOT RAGING and getting upset with each other because this was our first loss. I messed up jungling by not getting potions (I was still in my midlaning mindset for some reason), and enemy shaco invaded my blue and took the lead after getting some kills. It was fairly unclear how we could come back into the game and we were constantly picked off by the enemy team, which led to a lot of deaths (especially myself) and eventually we lost. We did come back in terms of gold several times during the game but it was not enough. I think it is important to note that no one got too upset with each other and that we were able to carry on a very respectful discussion at the end of the game on how each of us could have improved and done better.

In the next few days/weeks, I'm still open to hearing from interested players.

Please:

  1. Add me in game (Dark Zany on the NA Server) and we can talk or get into some matches if we have enough people on.
  2. Again I hope you have a mic/skype.
  3. I'm not limiting this to a 5 player team... chances are people might rotate in or out, and I'd actually like to create 2-3 teams so that we can scrim against each other, or also have enough players online to get into games. (And obviously to also match players to their roles better, since currently we have like 3 support/junglers.... or mid/supports. I forget which but we definitely needed a top main. (this is definitely not a constant, since I expect that once I have more players interested I can gather people together into teams that match all their roles and personalities.

If you've posted on this thread I'll try to add you in game and send you a message. It will help me and my sanity if you reach out to me as well, as that will make life a lot easier for me. Thanks!

Pengod12/1/2015, 8:18:38 PM1 votes

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/team-recruitment/L0y2NKAK-lf-team-as-a-sub-or-main

NAuditore12/1/2015, 8:40:16 PM1 votes

the only thing im worried about is that youve been bronze since season 1

FoxTrots12/1/2015, 11:00:33 PM1 votes

Yo I like the idea of improving as a team. I'm adc main trying to switch to maining mid add me

Dark Zany12/2/2015, 12:36:10 AM1 votes

More updates...

SO I've managed to get more games together with more people and different people this time as well as some of the previous ones. So far so good. The pattern thus far has been that we play a game and win, and feel good so we play another and then lose. After the loss I ask for everyone to speak up and talk about how to improve and give each other feedback. Thus far this has worked well. I would like to implement a few more things now that we can get people talking and playing together.

I may or may not be able to get access to a TeamSpeak server with the help of Jifo. I also am planning on making a spreadsheet of people who are interested and organizing them by their roles so they'll know each other (I'll make it accessible to everyone involved via Google Docs) and know how to get games together when they're online to play league.

Initially I have the idea that over time with people playing many games together they will start to gel together and start figuring out who they want on their ranked "team". However I have decided to change the idea into something more beneficial to everyone and that is having 2 teams that scrim against each other and afterwards providing analysis and feedback.

I will soon look into programs and things that can help with watching replays together so that we can actually really go back and analyze things. I feel it is especially valuable to look at replays of games in which we lose because then we can see what we need to improve or work on.

Finally, I ask those who are involved or interested to be patient with the process, and I know that our skill levels are different and a lot of times the lower skill players will have a lot to learn and things to work with... This will not last forever as we will all eventually get GOOD at the game and hopefully this happens faster than before because now we're actively analyzing lost games' replays and discussing ways to improve.

More on that later. For now, until my next update I will simply be getting more players together for more team games in normals on skype and soon work out the technical details of viewing replays together as well as the details of us having mutiple teams that scrimmage with each other.

Atrixio12/2/2015, 2:23:31 AM1 votes

PLs accept my request :) i think i can be a great help to the team

Dark Zany12/2/2015, 3:33:32 AM1 votes

Update: I have about 19 or 20 people interested. All seem to be fairly cool people who have friendly attitudes and want to learn and/or help out with teaching and growing together as a team. I'm waaay sleepy at this point. I'm going to bed. A few players have mentioned setting up a TEamspeak channel for us, and another person said he'll help with recommending ways to record replays. More to follow. I'll see you all tomorrw, sorry if I dind't get to you today.

Dark Zany12/2/2015, 11:39:07 PM1 votes

I want to keep you guys up to date in case you are all wondering what's happening. I've been pretty swamped with people contacting me. I have to message each player individually to get things communicated and that's inefficient. I've got us access to a Teamspeak server.

The Teamspeak info is n5gaming.teamspeak.ninja It is owned by a small but growing community of gamers who also want to get better and stay friendly, etc.

In the meantime I've created a spreadsheet for people interested in joining a team. I figured it would be easier to get people into teams if I know what positions they play and what their goals are and stuff. Here is the form to fill out:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bNx8sT-7FGV2vTxSXW1NsDLq2Ul2fuMVtwW-Ty7y6_c/viewform?usp=send_form

Thanks for being patient! As soon as I've gotten most players' info filled out I'll make the teams!

Aurelian Sol12/3/2015, 12:00:19 AM1 votes

Username: Jamsee Role: Preferably on Support if possible, may be able to play Top but only if necessary Time Zone and availability: Eastern Time, weekdays would depend but weekends and holidays are nearly all day, BUT it would depend. Champion pool: Blitzcrank, Braum, Thresh, Alistar, Jarvan IV, Nautilus, Leona, Janna, Lulu, Zyra, Tahm Kench and etc... Past rank (Season 4): Silver 3? Rank (Season 5): Platinum 3 (Would've been higher but that doesn't matter) Past experience in any teams: Yes, have been on Korean teams when I was visiting Korea. Can you Shot call: Can shot call if needed How often are you willing to practice? May be able to do everyday, but it'll also depend on when you guys play.

And I do have a Skype

Also I follow much of the requirements but can also joke around instead of raging lol. But also there's still room for me to improve so yeah