Yes, I am one of these guys (silver V at the moment) who is afraid of playing ranked due to believing elo hell. Most of you would say that low elo players always forget about warding, which isn't really true, since I even have a custom item set build so I remember that I have to ward. Anyways, to the main topic, afraid of playing ranked. What do you guys think about it?
http://wardscore.loltools.net/?name=iReFluX%20®ion=euw you need to work on warding.
Should probably get over it somehow. Maybe look into getting a solid duo partner to ease your anxiety a bit. There is no reason to be afraid of ranked, its still just a game. Practice, try hard, and learn from your mistakes. Review and have your gameplay recorded on op.gg and have high tier players review and critique your games, especially the ones you lose and you will improve. The more you improve the more confidence you have and the more you will look forward to playing because you will feel like you can win, and those retards on your team cant stop you.
Good Luck, Have Fun!
Well I actually just linked a couple of videos earlier in another thread. You have the ever classic ranked anxiety, A youtuber by the name of Foxdrop, he's very easy to find, did a couple of videos on dealing with ranked anxiety. One was brief and gave some quick tips and had a minor explanation of it, the other was a much longer and more in depth video that goes into a good bit of detail, gives explanations, and overall is quite a good video.
That is a link directly to his youtube channel, the videos are about two months old, so you'll have to scroll down a bit. I know that watching other players in higher elo through streaming or youtube helped me, you'll also find that a number of them also do educational content and you can learn quite a bit just by watching them.
What helped me was literally just the fact that they were not only so calm about it, but also were so comfortable, that they could talk about what was going on, and explain why things were happening. So there was really no reason for me to be so nervous about simply playing the game. I'm also a very big fan of classical piano music, which is extremely relaxing, and frankly helps calm my anxiety in all things.
The most important thing that I got out of Foxdrop's videos is that you should treat ranked like any other game, pretend that you're just queuing up for normal games, and most importantly try and have fun, after all that's really the point of playing a game isn't it?
