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How do you stop a losing streak?

Provengreil··1 votes·5,030 views

I honestly don't even know. My last like 9 ranked games, every lane (mine included, about half of them; other half I'm jungle) loses. Teammates ignore pings, rage instantly, and just lose every lane every time. I myself at best go even; I don't take too many risks so my rewards are rarely going to carry that.

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Blunts Moses1 votes

If you're losing practically all of your lanes/games you probably don't belong in your rank. You could keep losing and eventually fall to the rank you do belong in and slowly climb out of there. Or you could just play normal games until you get better. Hell, maybe even play bot games to practice your cs so you lose lane less often (or at least have an impact when you do lose lane because you farmed up items regardless).

Also people have bad days, so maybe you just played ranked on a day where you were performing poorly in general. If you lose 2 or 3 games in a row you should probably take a break - play normals or just take a break from league altogether

Edit: I forgot to mention, when you do play bot games, make sure you focus on getting perfect cs and not on getting kills (anyone can kill bots...)

Zmuecat1 votes

Well, if you are on a losing streak in ranked, I'd probably stop playing ranked.

Like, after 3 games I'd probably call it quits for a little while.

Passed that, stop blaming your teammates, find what you did wrong. you went even? Was that 1-1 or 13-13? If it was that latter, you aren't helping the problem, and are actually causing more of a problem if you gave up the additional gold for killing sprees.

And as always, ward more, ward better.

Provengreil1 votes

Stop blaming my teammates? which ones? the 0/9 jax at 15 minutes? the double jungle mixup crew? the ashe/riven who both couldn't ADC or top, but went there anyway after straight declaring that in champ select? the ahri who got mad fiddle wouldn't give blue, sold her items for zeals? the pantheon AFK? each of these happened at some point int my last 9 games and led pretty much directly to a loss. that leaves 4 games in which I theoretically could have made an impact. of course, If I'm warwick and the game is 0/12 when I hit 6, that game's not really winnable. so of my last 9 losses, that leaves 3 in which I had meaningful opportunities to win. So I guess the question is, why do I have to outplay my opponents so hard as to carry these idiots each time?

Zmuecat1 votes

Right, how about this?

When you queue by yourself, you should be the only constant in every game you play. If you are suffering from a 9 loss streak, you are most likely not helping win the majority of these games. Three game lose streak? Maybe got a bad string of games, but anything more than that it starts to become more and more your fault.

So guess what you options are? Stop playing ranked, go to the team recruitment forums and find a team, or treat each game as a damn learning experience and take something away from it.

Or you could always keep bitching, that solves problems ALL THE TIME.

DestructoDave1 votes

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Stop blaming my teammates? which ones? the 0/9 jax at 15 minutes? the double jungle mixup crew? the ashe/riven who both couldn't ADC or top, but went there anyway after straight declaring that in champ select? the ahri who got mad fiddle wouldn't give blue, sold her items for zeals? the pantheon AFK? each of these happened at some point int my last 9 games and led pretty much directly to a loss. that leaves 4 games in which I theoretically could have made an impact. of course, If I'm warwick and the game is 0/12 when I hit 6, that game's not really winnable. so of my last 9 losses, that leaves 3 in which I had meaningful opportunities to win. So I guess the question is, why do I have to outplay my opponents so hard as to carry these idiots each time?

I had a game where i was 7/2. The rest of my team was a combined 11/48. It happens. This game was during my losing streak too, where I lost like 11 games in a row. It was just a bad time. A lot of it comes from "bad beats" like that one, or afks/quitters/problems, which puts you on tilt and makes you play worse and worse so the few games you might have won during that losing streak was thrown because of how poor you are playing while on tilt. I'm honestly a super easy to tilt person and I know it. It sucks. The vast majority of my losses outside of things out of my control like afks/feeders/etc is me raging and playing worse.

Big Bang Bob1 votes

Akali Azir Cassiopeia Kassadin Katarina Khazix Lissandra MasterYi Nidalee Pantheon Poppy Riven Talon Teemo Tryndamere Udyr Vayne Viktor Warwick Yasuo Xerath Zed

Kill you're laner 2 or 3 times, get some kills off of roaming, and boom. You're hopelessly fed and you're teammates aren't as under fed.

If you hate these guys, you can always try Shen. He's great against most melee tops and his ult allows him to save most teammates from their own stupidity.

Thresh Lulu Kayle Zilean Anivia Braum

Also kind of work for this, but I'm not sure about most of these guys' effectiveness in other things though.

Leti the Yeti1 votes

lose enough the game will eventually give you some mercy

turtlecoon1 votes

You're literally just setting this thread up as a situation where you come out as the loser no matter what anyone says.

Go ahead and whine - you're going to come out of it with nothing useful.

Maybe after you throw a fit more fits and make a few more threads, you'll start to focus on actually fixing your mistakes. Then you'll get somewhere.

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