Why did I go from 7 win streak to 10 losing streak?

ScY Balls x17·Sep 14, 2015·1 votes·5,490 views

I was silver 2 and got to promos and then lost and went to 0 lp. I keep losing more and more and after 7 losses in a row, I tilted and I want to quit. I did some research and found that 3 GAMES IN A ROW my adc was also on a losing streak while the enemy adc is on a winning streak. Not only this, 2-3 other people on my team were also on a losing streak and only 1 enemy team member is on a losing streak while the rest of them are doing fine in their match history.

Someone told me that cinderhulk and tank rek'sai is bad in low elo. I did maintain a 4-6 kda every game and win 7 games in a row like that though. I was told to try out devourer and it didn't help much. I'm just confused because if I get the score to 8/3 and my teammates throw, and I'm only a tank, there's nothing I can do except tank for them. I also thought of playing shyvana because then I was told that it's a waste of time to gank for people and not get kills and ganking for unreliable teammates who do not do much after mid game (pretty much describes low elo players). so I played shyvana and wrecked a game and then I lose again because as I farm, people get to a point where they feed and tilt when score is like 1/7.

The last game I played was we had a jungle vayne who said nothing, I assumed she kept smite because she was jungle last game and wanted to change to heal. I chose jungle and she went support and just fed and trolled. Not fun.

I think I'm done here. I put 3 months of effort to learning rek'sai, mastering strategies and then putting that into ranked. I also put 2 months of evelynn, mastered everything and then when I play ranked, I win some good games then it goes back to losing. Very disappointing.

I played since s2 and quit half of s2. The fact that I get in match-made games with people who are on losing streaks and I play with these people is not fun to me. I think about my last 3 years of playing league, and this game had been nothing but 80% torture. Friends screaming at me, some friend's friends that I do not know that tormented me for a video game and then I put effort and I get no reward.

The statement that "you can 1v5 in low elo" blablabla is a wrong statement because I obviously do not have the skills to do that. It's like telling someone with a million dollars that it's easy to buy a mercedes, then going to some guy with no money to buy a mercedes and making money is easy. The learning curve to things feels like a roller coaster.

Just sharing my story to people to know why it's a good time to quit right now because wasting effort and getting no reward is not fun at all............. :/

21 Comments

DrNovaSep 15, 20152 votes

The system sucks and will match you with worse players to "force" that ideal 50% win percentage (instead of letting you climb to where it happens naturally)

ScY Balls x17Sep 19, 20151 votes

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The system sucks and will match you with worse players to "force" that ideal 50% win percentage (instead of letting you climb to where it happens naturally)

Yeah well, this is no fun. I worked too hard to be in the position I'm at. I practiced evelynn and rek'sai non-stop until I dominated normal games. Working this hard for silver is something I do not want to accept. I could have put this much effort in studying in my classes at engineering school and got a few A's and raised my GPA. Better yet, if I wanted to waste time on a pointless game, I could have wasted time on funner games.

ScY Balls x17Sep 14, 20151 votes

I really don't want to quit, but I tried a million things and put too much effort, honestly idk what to do. I just feel this is a good excuse to quit because I tried many things and my MMR is probably trashed.

TehNACHOSep 14, 20151 votes

You probably just climbed too fast for your actual skill level. Rubber band effect, essentially.

How many ranked games have you played in total? Once you get around the 100+ mark, your MMR becomes a bit more stable, and your skill at that point should be much more honed towards where you as a player actually should be.

Try learning from Trick2g, like don't do the infamous afk farm Udyr thing that people blame him for making (even though he hates that play style in general as well, funny enough), but actually watch some of his my way videos and study how he focuses objectives. If you learn the right things, it gives you the skill set to actually win games (League is won by destroying Towers, Inhibs, and the Nexus, not winning team fights) and its a skill set designed for solo carrying as well.

ScY Balls x17Sep 14, 20151 votes

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You probably just climbed too fast for your actual skill level. Rubber band effect, essentially.

How many ranked games have you played in total? Once you get around the 100+ mark, your MMR becomes a bit more stable, and your skill at that point should be much more honed towards where you as a player actually should be.

Try learning from Trick2g, like don't do the infamous afk farm Udyr thing that people blame him for making (even though he hates that play style in general as well, funny enough), but actually watch some of his my way videos and study how he focuses objectives. If you learn the right things, it gives you the skill set to actually win games (League is won by destroying Towers, Inhibs, and the Nexus, not winning team fights) and its a skill set designed for solo carrying as well.

You're right, which is the reason why I split from my team because they just all go mid and not do anything. I split and take down inhibs and towers

ScY Balls x17Sep 14, 20151 votes

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You probably just climbed too fast for your actual skill level. Rubber band effect, essentially.

How many ranked games have you played in total? Once you get around the 100+ mark, your MMR becomes a bit more stable, and your skill at that point should be much more honed towards where you as a player actually should be.

Try learning from Trick2g, like don't do the infamous afk farm Udyr thing that people blame him for making (even though he hates that play style in general as well, funny enough), but actually watch some of his my way videos and study how he focuses objectives. If you learn the right things, it gives you the skill set to actually win games (League is won by destroying Towers, Inhibs, and the Nexus, not winning team fights) and its a skill set designed for solo carrying as well.

Just realized how useful the Trick2g videos are, there was games that he turned games around by ignoring teams and doing what he should do to win, that's what I should be doing.

TehNACHOSep 14, 20152 votes

Well, ignoring teams is the wrong way to say it. At best, that's only going to get you to high silver before you start running into problems like that.

But yes, learning how to realize when your team is being inefficient (and this includes yourself by the way) and changing your play style to make better objectives for the least amount of effort is going to get you very far. If you watch his top lane videos for example, he loves to proxy farm when given the opportunity. This only barely helps Trick but it helps his teammates a lot. He's not ignoring his teammates, instead he's using a play style to compensate for efficiency (or more specifically, make the enemy team less efficient. Dragging 3+ people top to stop one dude is inefficient as hell).

ScY Balls x17Sep 15, 20151 votes

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Well, ignoring teams is the wrong way to say it. At best, that's only going to get you to high silver before you start running into problems like that.

But yes, learning how to realize when your team is being inefficient (and this includes yourself by the way) and changing your play style to make better objectives for the least amount of effort is going to get you very far. If you watch his top lane videos for example, he loves to proxy farm when given the opportunity. This only barely helps Trick but it helps his teammates a lot. He's not ignoring his teammates, instead he's using a play style to compensate for efficiency (or more specifically, make the enemy team less efficient. Dragging 3+ people top to stop one dude is inefficient as hell).

Yeah exactly that's the playstyle I should work on because if I know when to split a lane and grab objectives, the enemy team has to come to me and if they do not, they lose a turret and possible inhib. Thanks.

ScY Balls x17Sep 14, 20151 votes

I have 33 games in total. I was Gold 5 in s3, did not play in s4 because I did not like so many people d/cing and I'm Silver 2 right now with 10 wins and 23 losses.

TehNACHOSep 14, 20152 votes

Yep. Rubber band effect caused by small numbers.

Just keep playing. At this point in time, the amount of games you have is pitifully small and you're going to get thrown everywhere while the system is panicking about the mathematics behind your numbers. Just keep playing and you will get somewhere.

galdameshSep 14, 20151 votes

most of the games you lost you have the worst KDA on your team.

most of the games you won you have ~%50 kill participation so you weren't really that much of a factor.

all but 2 games you won someone else hard carried.

ScY Balls x17Sep 14, 20151 votes

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most of the games you lost you have the worst KDA on your team.

most of the games you won you have ~%50 kill participation so you weren't really that much of a factor.

all but 2 games you won someone else hard carried.

Out of those 7 win streak games, except for when I played support, I ganked the lane until I got the carry fed. I'm on tilt, I don't feel like playing anymore, therefore idc about dying because I simply stopped caring. After I ganked people's lanes they started killing by themselves and I just came into important teamfights and got objectives.

I went back and checked rek'sai games that I won and I had : 63%, 50%, 69%, and 52%. I think that's pretty good for low elo because you're not supposed to participate in stupid fights people initiate to lose, but get objectives. Once I get some people fed, they can kill people by their own, mostly, they don't need me.

Out of 4 rek'sai games I saw I won, I was a hard carry factor in 2 of them, 1 game I was the ultimate carry. Even 1 game I lost, I was the only hard carry. thats 3 out of 5 games that I was a hard carry factor, that's high enough for me.

galdameshSep 14, 20151 votes

23 KDA cait then you have a consistant team game then you have a bot lane with %86 kill participation and 12 kda. then a 26 kill xin zhao jungle then a good game for you but you also have a teemo do really well Again your bot lane crushes

ScY Balls x17Sep 14, 20151 votes

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23 KDA cait then you have a consistant team game then you have a bot lane with %86 kill participation and 12 kda. then a 26 kill xin zhao jungle then a good game for you but you also have a teemo do really well Again your bot lane crushes

Yeah but I gave them like 3-4 ganks. Teemo did well in his lane and I just managed bot lane. I turned the game around where a mid laner was on tilt and score was like 6/10 or something and we won the game. I didn't count the xin zhao game because I was playing support that game, I'm only looking at my games I won with jungle.

JupıterSep 14, 20151 votes

MMR.

The more you play, and the better you do, the higher your MMR goes.

The higher your MMR goes, the better people you play against.

The better people you play against, the more your team will be on tilt.

Don't let your team go on tilt, get direct tv.

OxycutSep 14, 20151 votes

Play normal draft. Stop caring about ranked. Have fun.

MirkwoodiaSep 14, 20151 votes

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mastering strategies... mastered everything...

Aaand there's your problem. Put on your student attitude and spectate other gold friends games, see the mistakes they make. Next, avoid those mistakes, because your capable of making the same mistakes. Finally, climb elo. In other news...

ヽ༼ಢ_ಢ༽ﾉ Please teach meee I'm stuck in plat

VekknaSep 14, 20151 votes

The thing is that you can't have possibly "mastered" anything in only 34 games. You don't even have experience with tons of matchups still, so of course you're going to struggle.

Even if your were gold last season, this season is completely different. Maybe your normal queue MMR is a lot lower than where you're at right now in Silver 2, so you've gotten used to playing with far worse players?

And if we're being honest, balance is at a pretty shit spot right now. There's a bigger "god tier" than ever, but the gap between them and the rest of the champs is pretty huge. Unless you're fed and they're starved, you're not going to be winning duels with anyone in that category.

You're in the exact same boat I was in when I finished placements. Plan on dropping to at least Silver 5. Just accept it now and get it over with. I would also encourage you to duo queue with somebody IRL or on Skype so you can coordinate with at least one carry. This way you know they won't just throw their lead. OR you can be confident that they won't feed while you babysit other lanes. Find somebody in a lower division to handicap the team MMR a bit so you can play with people closer to where your number is right now.

ScY Balls x17Sep 14, 20151 votes

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The thing is that you can't have possibly "mastered" anything in only 34 games. You don't even have experience with tons of matchups still, so of course you're going to struggle.

Even if your were gold last season, this season is completely different. Maybe your normal queue MMR is a lot lower than where you're at right now in Silver 2, so you've gotten used to playing with far worse players?

And if we're being honest, balance is at a pretty shit spot right now. There's a bigger "god tier" than ever, but the gap between them and the rest of the champs is pretty huge. Unless you're fed and they're starved, you're not going to be winning duels with anyone in that category.

You're in the exact same boat I was in when I finished placements. Plan on dropping to at least Silver 5. Just accept it now and get it over with. I would also encourage you to duo queue with somebody IRL or on Skype so you can coordinate with at least one carry. This way you know they won't just throw their lead. OR you can be confident that they won't feed while you babysit other lanes. Find somebody in a lower division to handicap the team MMR a bit so you can play with people closer to where your number is right now.

More than 200 games on evelynn in normals and about 200 games on rek'sai in normals :/