When you're the problem...

SinonXP·5/12/2015, 6:46:58 AM·1 votes·674 views

I started playing League of Legends around the beginning of February and now I'm at level 30. When I play pvp, it usually goes pretty badly. It's always stressful to me, to do well and not feed. I feel like it's my fault we always lose. I'm just too nervous, unconfident, and stupid. I want to improve yet I'm stuck (feeling like a hopeless case). When I see youtubers play with friends, they have fun with each other, and are good players. In conclusion, I yearn to be a good player at League, play with friends yet wouldn't have to burden them and bring them down, and not suck so hard that people think you're trolling. I love league yet I dont want to ruin other players' experience in queues. League of Legends is fun, but not when you're on tilt. Was that confusing? ^^" Thank you for reading...

4 Comments

BrutaILegend5/12/2015, 12:55:23 PM2 votes

I feel that this post actually shows that you're a great player. Let me explain. No doubt as you've started to play this game, you've noticed that the community has quite a few people that tend to flame you for any small thing you do that goes wrong. There is always someone to play the judge when you're team starts losing, and they will blame the entire loss on other people.

Now here's the thing. These are the people that are likely, never to move past silver or gold. You need to take responsibility for you own mistakes, and learn from them. When ever you lose a game, it is your fault. If you play with this mindset, and then take it a step further and aim to understand what you could've done better, or what did do, but shouldn't have, you're going to see a drastic improvement in your game play.

As for how to improve in general, I recommend you look to YouTube. There are a lot of content creators that have dedicated their channel specifically to helping summoners improve. I personally recommend gbay99 or Jeremy "Curious Gaming". The highlights I can remember off of the top of my head are things like, always ward when playing every role (I saw an adc place 40 wards alone last night), play like your team doesn't even exist (this will prevent a lot of deaths where you expected your teams help but it never came), it's better to stay alive then get a kill (most of the time -Exceptions: shut downs, distractions for objectives, etc.), never underestimate your opponent, and objectives are far more important than kills. Notice that, theoretically, you could win a game without ever getting a single kill. Most importantly, you will never win a game without a leader on the team. Whether it's you or someone else, someone must be telling people what to do. I understand if you're not comfortable doing that right away, but you should try it sometime, remember that it's just game and you'll never see these people again afterwards. Just tell your team what you're doing and what you think they should be doing. If you're not feeding super hard, they will listen.

Ultimately you have to ask yourself, are you willing to put the time in to get better and improve. If so than you'll watch these guys, learn from your mistakes, and spend a lot of time getting to know the game and match ups. Just ignore/mute the flamers and do you. Better yet, and this is what I do, call them out. If they say something like, "stop feeding". Then ask how. Tell them you want to learn, and if they are worthy of telling you what to do, they had better be able to tell you how to do it.

Most of the time, friends that are having fun playing this game, don't care if you're good or not, it's about having fun.

Hope this helps, Brutal

junglerboy165/12/2015, 3:09:58 PM1 votes

The key to overcoming that nervousness is just to play a ton of matches. When I joined a year and a half ago, for the first couple months, I would literally shake in my seat because I was so nervous. I kept playing, maintained focus on important goals like high CS and not giving unnecessary kills to the enemy team, and just logged a lot of time. After a while, the nerves just left and I felt confident and impactful in all my matches. I still get a little jittery when I try out a new champion, but other than that, i don't get nervous anymore. If you are worried about ruining other's experience, stick with normals until you are confident mechanically and know you can play well. There will always be matches that you lose (you have a bad game, or a bad team, or an enemy smurf), and once you are able to accept that fact, your play actually improves because it boosts your confidence.

Dataless5/12/2015, 10:23:32 PM1 votes

The problem always contains the solution, and if YOU are the problem, then YOU are also the solution.

It's pretty damn obvious reading your post that you have little to no confidence in your abilities, and that is the very reason why you fail. League of Legends is a skill, just like riding a bike, painting, cooking, or doing math by hand. You learn by doing.

The first time you tried to do something, odds are you failed miserably at it, this is totally fine. Pain and pleasure, joy and despair, they are all the exact same emotion just viewed through a different lens. Every time you fail ask yourself this, what did I do wrong? Because whenever you die it is always, and I do mean ALWAYS, your fault. There is no point blaming other people for your own fuck ups, accepting this is the first step towards improvement. If you got ganked and didn't see it coming you lack vision. If you lose a 1v1 fight you misjudged your damage and/or did not respect the damage potential of your opponent. The only streamers worth watching (if you want to improve and not just be entertained) are the ones who admit to their own fuck ups.

I started playing this game several years ago when Elise first came out, it was my first ever MOBA, and my first real experience in PvP. When I started playing ranked I seeded straight into Bronze 5 and you know what? I deserved to be there. Now fast forward a few years later and I've managed to climb to Plat 4/3 (depending on the week, I get knocked down a lot). I got there by learning to admit defeat with grace, using my mistakes as learning tools, and (the most important part) LEARNING TO TRUST MYSELF AND MY OWN ABILITY. This story is not unique in any way.

The only way to get better at League of Legends is to practice, you have to play for yourself, THINK for yourself, learn about the game and rise above the mindlessly chaotic solo queue mindset most players find themselves locked into.

Also, if you spend all your time thinking that you are a burden to your team, or are afraid of being called a troll just because you are having a rough time. Get over yourself, please. That insecurity isn't helping you win, it's holding you back. If your "friends" treat you like a liability when you play with them then they aren't your friends and you shouldn't play with them. Ever. A real friend will pick you up, not shove you down.

If you want to be good at this game you just need to keep putting one foot in front of the other, regardless of who tries to tear you down. Success is an iceberg, we only see the top, but the truth is it's built upon miles and miles of failures lying beneath the waves.

BluePolarizer5/12/2015, 10:29:16 PM1 votes

Don't be scared of losing. I'm trying to learn ADC right now. First game, I go legendary as Ezreal. Good. I think, wow, why did I not get good at ADC sooner? I should be playing marksmen every game for the Ez freelo.

Then I feed 5 games in a row, including feeding Sorakas who were 2 tiers lower than me in rank.

Did I think "wow I suck I should go back to jungle and top"? No! I'm going to keep trying so I can find the weaknesses of marksmen that keep kiting me when I play melee bruisers.