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Considering the option of uninstalling

3lue·12/27/2014, 11:00:05 PM·1 votes·1,448 views

Good afternoon and happy holidays!

Lately I've been seriously considering uninstalling League, regardless of the amount of money I've put into it; skins, champs, etc.

I joined League in the mid of Season 3. Since then, about mid Season 4, I've been having a lot less fun in terms of enjoying the game. Up until the midpoint of Season 4 I honestly had the most fun (in any game I've ever played), but as soon as I entered ranked (I played quite a bit of games in S3 - Bronze 4) and set a goal for getting Silver+ the fun of the game starting going downhill. Yes I did meet my goal of making Silver, but after rising quickly to Silver 4 -> Silver 3, I became a toxic player. The road of trying to hit Gold before S4 ended in me only reaching Silver 2 promotion series to get into Silver 1 which I had lost because 2 out of the 3 games had AFK'ers (I aint even mad). Around that month during the road to Gold I received a lot of chat bans (I never had one prior to that, and I never AFK'd unless it was an emergency or I had legitimate connection issues). Around the point where I got banned, I decided to clean up my act and improve on becoming a better team player, but it just hasn't seemed to work. The day I logged in after becoming unbanned I was determined not to talk smack and focus on improving. All I wanted to do was practice, but since the day of coming back practice seemed impossible. In normals matchmaking is wack, and it's really really really hard to win with 4 unranked players going against other high Silvers and low Golds (at least in my experience). In ranked, every game I get toxic and unskilled players (not complaining). In champ select, its not surprising for someone to instalock a role when that role has already been taken, and it's frustrating not being able to dodge. If I jungle, every lane expects you to help them (and a jungler should help his/her team), but when they do badly of course the jungler is to blame, even when they walk into a bush 1 v 3 which you pinged them not to do, or when they cough up first blood and continue to push the lane with no summoners and die to a gank. Yes I do want to be everywhere and helping everywhere, but that is just not possible unless there's good in exp and jungle farm being lost. I'd say 7 or 8 out of 10 games that I play I get very unskilled bot laners, especially ADCs, and the 2 or 3 of 10 games that I don't get crappy bot laners, I usually win. Even when I support and set up kills for them they still find a way to die or not pick up kills and continue to rage throughout the entire game. Again I am not complaining, but I'm just trying to express what I go through 70~80% of the time and its become really hard to improve by getting toxic/unskilled teammates all the time.

The only time I really enjoy the game is when I am with my group. I do not have to worry about bad games, toxic behavior, or even doing bad myself. Sadly, this is not everyday gameplay, we group merely 2 times a week now as compared to 5/6 during the summer.

No I am not the best player, but all I want to do is improve and most importantly have fun. In the 2 seasons I've played I've never left a game, and just out of these past 2 weeks I'd say I've left a good 10. Recently I've AFK'd about 3 or 4 in a row. Just now I threw my hands up in defeat playing Top because every time I ulted with Shen, the person would just run away (wasting my ult) then go back in indecisively and die. I had been doing good that game, but when 2 lanes/jungle each all have 7 (total of 21+ deaths) within 22 mins I usually see no hope. Yes I've come back before, or won 3v5/4v5's, but that is extremely rare. The ignore all and the mute button has been working a bit to be honest, but when I see people dying a lot and just spamming pings (especially on purpose) I usually just accept defeat.

All in all, I am not having as much fun as I used to and I no longer see League as something productive in terms of time and having fun. All I've been wanting to do is practice and improve, but that is only becoming harder because of the crappy/unskilled community (at least in Silver). My question is, should I uninstall and move onward in doing something productive? If I should stay, what should I do? Main ADC (seems to be the skill gap in Silver) and no longer worry about average 0-14 bot lanes? Once again, I know I am not the best but I do know i try my best and I definitely don't go 0-7 or 0-10 early, I'm just really tired of having unskilled teammates/toxic ones in champ select every queue and there's nothing to be really done about that, is there?? I want to be a less toxic player (even though I havent been expressing it in chat lately) and have fun again. Once again, I want to stress that I am not trying to complain or anything, I just want some advice on what I should do; should you think I should stay and not uninstall League

Any tips, constructive criticism, etc. would be wonderful!

#NotMadJustWantToImproveAndBeLessToxicAndHaveFun

Happy Holidays

11 Comments

ChexMex12/27/2014, 11:05:07 PM1 votes

If you want to become a better TEAM player, first you have to become a better SOLO player.

Stop looking bot, see who is dead and move on. A fed enemy is not a defeat sign, it's a puzzle you need to solve it.

Let out your frustration by http://www.rainymood.com/

ChexMex12/27/2014, 11:05:24 PM1 votes

You're welcome to come play with me as well :-D

Sirin Gioro12/27/2014, 11:24:31 PM1 votes

Well, that's the reason I main bot lane. Everyone wants to play mid. No one plays ADC or Support. Every ADC - braindead and toxic; Every support: Stfu idiots im not the only one warding, am i? (Doesnt even buy sightstone pls kill me) When I'm supporting, I don't even care when my ADC is braindead. I'm a trashcan, ADC is a trash. Trashcans carry trashes. I stun, you trade. Easy as that. You just right click, I land skillshots, I ward, ping danger, I call dragon. You right click (I just made that sound so easy). But if you're raging at me, then lata. Don't cry because I'm going to support top/mid. No one in bot lane (low ELO) knows what to do when they hit level 2 first. Yea even if I ping the enemy, they're just sitting at the back brush like "lol dafuq u wan me 2 do"... I rarely duo queue, because I prefer to duo with bot lane players/junglers, or just chill players who doesn't rage. Btw, just keep trying. I stopped raging long time ago, but I still go like "LOL you don't care about losing your LP either, huh?" when someone throws the game.

fdissht12/28/2014, 12:32:57 AM1 votes

If you actually look through this forum, you'll see lots of suggestions and tips. To condense it 1)Practice on your own game, ignore feeding teammates 2)Ignore other players 3)Always try to improve 4)Enjoy

You being a chronic afker is just adding to more people like you, like my teammate always afks and leaves why bother? Or I should be able to AFK bad games too because everyone else does it, so on so forth.

Sirin Gioro12/28/2014, 12:38:31 AM1 votes

You should main bot lane, to guarantee that bot lane doesn't feed. That's how my bot lane never feeds, unless first pick is playing ADC/support, that's when I believe in ELO hell... Just don't help bot lane when the enemy ADC is already like 4/0/0. It's gone, unless your mid-laner and jungler comes bot for a 5-men gank. Yes you should main ADC, but no you don't need peels as long as you're playing mobile champions (Lucian, Graves, Trist, Corki). Just save your escape ability for when that Zed ults you (lol JK he kills you using his auto attacks anyways without shuriken and E)

Yandere Carry12/28/2014, 2:15:14 AM1 votes

mute them. stop worrying about it so much.

The Chin12/28/2014, 9:35:54 AM1 votes

Every time you feel yourself getting angry or frustrated, just laugh about it. Try and find some humor in the situation. Sounds like you're taking this way too seriously. Don't forget it's just a game.

JungPaoDragon12/28/2014, 9:17:33 PM1 votes

I actually laughed when I read this thinking it was a summary of my league situation a few weeks ago.

No but seriously I completely understand that despicable typical bot lane, with that Ashe (dat Ashe!) that decides to lvl 1 invade enemy blue and die, all the way to the jungle TF that knows that he will carry because he saw LCS streamers do it...but then dies to blue buff.

Beyond my just telling you how I was the same as you I'll move on to how I progressed through what I now call league depression.

Screw your team. Screw them noobs. Mute every single one of them at around 10 minutes excluding one other person who you think that is relatively nice and will carry with you. Then try hard league and destroy them.

Yes, you can't necesarily do this with every champion in the game, but with Master Yi for example I literally have so much fun playing league now because you just farm items and splitpush 24/7.

Idk about you but I've spent literally so much time "getting into" league by immersing myself into pro scene, champ stats, skins, etc. And I don't really want to waste all of dat (Ashe) for the trash can because of some noobs that I can carry pretty easily.

Friend me!

/bro fist/

JungPaoDragon12/28/2014, 9:21:59 PM1 votes

Oh almost forgot.

Go to YouTube, search "siv hd", then go to his video "hungry Ashe games".

Or just search it in the first place.

If in the end you do decide to uninstall, let's do that as a parting enjoyment

:)

spawnman6212/30/2014, 6:52:13 PM1 votes

Minus the bans and chat restrictions, this is exactly how I feel. I'm silver 5 support/jng. There is just too much toxicity and unskilled players in ranked. Normals/TB is quite useless as well. The only thing that I think may help is getting on a 5's ranked team. Good luck though.