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Not sure where to go from here..

45mice·6/8/2015, 2:51:01 AM·2 votes·844 views

So I was in Bronze 1 (no this is not an ELO Hell thread, I don't believe in it even though I'm in "elo hell"), and I was a game away from promotion. And then I've just been on the worst losing streak of my life. The problem with that is, is that it doesn't feel like I should've gotten demoted in some areas. I'll be the first to admit I'm far from a perfect player. Some games are my fault. I recently played a game on zed (my main), where all lanes won hard but I just got crushed by a Mord. My fault and we lost. I don't have a problem admitting that and I played like crap. That was just one game in the losing streak, and majority of these games I felt like I played pretty well. Just this last game I played I was Thresh and we absolutely destroyed our lane. Like up almost 5/0 and 30 cs. And it didn't matter since top fed Voli to the point he was 13/0, and mid fed as well. And I got demoted for that. This has happened literately 4 different times in this streak. I win my lane, try and gank when I can (though as I play support a lot I can't exactly help top lane if he's feeding hard, and leave my ADC to get gang banged), but every other lane loses hard. And now I'm back in bronze 2 where I started this season. I've only got to level 30 since February, and compared to the player I was when I first entered bronze I am so much better. I can actually farm worth a damn, my team fights are no longer atrocious, and I have some semblance of objective control. All this I could hardly do when I first entered Bronze 2, and I deserved it when I did my promos. It's just incredibly frustrating to know that I have improved so much since I first started playing this game and entered that league, and yet I'm still in the same league. And I can't crack bronze 1 to save my life.

Does anyone else feel this way or have some advice? I just find ranked sometimes just to be a grind, and I almost don't find the black and white you either win and you get rewarded, or lose and you're punished in a system all that fun. I have fun knowing that I do well, or I'm doing the best I can to help my team and if we lose despite my best efforts, I'm fine with that. I care way more about how I played, and punishing me for a Yasuo who went 1/7 in the first 20 minutes against an Ahri just isn't fun to me. And again it goes back to my point of how I just feel it's a grind sometimes. I find normals way more fun. Hell, my Normals MMR is mid silver. I'm constantly matched up with S2 and S3 players, and I usually do well. Does anyone else feel this way? Or does it seem I'm just bitter after a continuing losing streak that cost me silver promotions that while I didn't play my best and 100% carry, I played very well in most of them and still lost.

2 Comments

Teachan6/8/2015, 8:48:01 PM2 votes

It might be best to play normals for a while. Honestly, when i hit summoner level 30 I didn't touch ranked for almost a year. It's good to get some experience under your belt before going into the...ahem...glorious joy that is ranked.

That being said, yes there are games where people will have rough lanes and not do well. The best you can do is keep your chin up and try telling whoever is struggling to "put a ward or two down, farm it out and we'll come back in the mid game." As gently as possible of course.

I glanced over some of your ranked games you've played and for the most part there are times where you go even through most of the laning phase, gold/deaths/kills wise they're all equal but no objectives are pushed. Any loss shows the other team substantially took advantage of any death and took objective after objective.

There's nothing glaring of what you're doing wrong, just not working as a team or taking that extra step. A good policy to follow is should you get a kill, find something you can do to press the advantage. Maybe you're in good health and can get a good roam off or put a ward, trinket ward deep in the enemy jungle. Or you just push hard, get some turret damage and base. Just try and get a little bit more after a kill.

The only tiny thing I can say to 'fix' is on some of your ap rune pages you take Runic Affinity (increased buff duration), swap that to get biscuits, the instant hit is bigger than you think.