How to never go on tilt, and do better

JhomasTefferson·Oct 8, 2015·2 votes·579 views

Blame your team. I started doing that. Every game i lose, unless it was me who fucked up, i blame my team. They call me toxic, and its getting me reported. That i don't get. All I'm saying in chat is "well, i'll just chalk this one up to bad teammates." Then, when they argue with me, i mute them all. Because i know it's them. Why else would i have the most cs, best score, and be the only one to upgrade trinket? So, when i realized that that was a common occurrence each game, instead of blaming myself and looking at what i can do better, i realized, not every game is winnable, and most games i lose at my current level will be due to my teammates. I say that to myself now, and I find myself never frustrated with league, and I'm climbing slowly, winning more games, and doing better overall, because i like to prove that it is them, not me. Now i know that many on the boards will say "If you truly are better you will climb, and instead of blaming your teammates, look at what you can improve on." The reason i've found that that is bullshit is because i can play a perfect game, and still lose because my teammates are bad. People will argue with me. I've got a challenge. Add me, duo with me in normals, or in ranked if you can, and tell me to lose the game, and i guarantee you will lose. You can't carry if one person on your team is a fuck up. So, just blame your team - don't flame them with stuff like "OMG FEEDING NOOB UNINSTALL AN KILL YOURSELF %%%GOT", just say, "well, my team cost me this one". Then when they argue with you, mute them, because, if you're like me, you're right.

Don't get me wrong, i have games where I'm the one fuck up. Then i don't blame my team. But when I'm doing everything right, when I'm warding, helping other lanes, have awesome cs, never died once, and the enemy lee is 7/0 at ten minutes, well, i blame my team. If i fed my lane opponent and they end up very ahead of me, well, then of course i don't blame my team.

And this isn't to say that you don't still need to be self critical, you do. Correct your mistakes and get better. But if you lose, it's not on you all the time. It's on your team sometimes.

Tl:dr, you can blame your teammates when they deserve it.

What do you guys think? This makes sense right? I've been doing it and it's been awesome.

17 Comments

FlahertyOct 8, 20154 votes

650 ranked games and Bronze 4 means it's definitely not your teammates.

FlahertyOct 8, 20152 votes

You might know how to farm and kill other Bronze/Low Silver players but there's more to winning games than that

JhomasTeffersonOct 8, 20151 votes

I know. That's why i said to still be self critical. I still say to myself, "maybe should have warded more, or bought a green or two more and a few pinks." or "i should have been more aware of the map, i had that warded and still didn't see him" Sometimes it's me, yes, but the majority of the time, i've found it's my teammates. So i just blame them, write the game off as a loss, and stop caring.

Yes it is my teammates. My challenge stands.

Also realize that, while a statistical anomaly, it is possible to get a fuck up/ troll/ afk in every promo you play. I know, people will tell you that that won't happen, or shouldn't happen, but what they're not telling you is that, mathematically, it can happen. Some people are lucky, some people aren't.

And i didn't say that my cs and score are all there is to me being better. I check postgames and I'm usually second behind the adc for damage dealt to enemy champs, or first, i was the only one on my team to upgrade trinket, and the only one to buy pinks or greens, and the only one to use the trinket after early laning phase. I also have the most turrets dropped. And the best map awareness, which i know isn't really quantifiable, but if you see how some of the people in bronze play, you'll realize that they have bad map awareness. And i know, i could just be saying that mine is better, but i can also point to my lack of deaths as evidence of it. I know there's more to it than that. Obviously you didn't read the post though otherwise you wouldn't have made this comment.

Also, this isn't a post saying "I'm better than everyone at my elo" Im not saying that, nor am i implying it. This is a post saying "I've found a way to not go on tilt guys, try it out."

And, i was bronze 5 a few days ago, so it's working slowly.

FlahertyOct 9, 20152 votes

Ok I see what you're saying. My bit of advice, which you can take or leave, is that at some point you can't just write off teammates as being bad, but need to actively try to help them in your games, whether it be by helping them get kills/giving them positive reinforcement when they do something good/guiding the team to take objectives. That's the way I've found to rank up, I was Bronze 5 at one point in season 3, ended season 4 as Silver 4 and ended this season as Gold 5. One thing you can do is constructively tell your teammates what to do in a way that is more like a leader and less like someone just pissed off at shitty teammates. You seem to be able to do well in your games but maybe you don't control the team as much as you should and that's why you lose. IDK just giving you my thoughts.

JhomasTeffersonOct 9, 20151 votes

I know that. I just blame them to avoid going on tilt. I ended last season as silver 2, lol It was my first season playing ranked. I was placed into s1, but i fell to b1, then climbed back. People don't believe in elo hell, it's real. I know from experience. There are more trolls in b5.

And i don't act pissed off. I tell them how to be better, but because they're bronze idiots they don't listen and tell me I don't know how to play. So i usually say, "lol, you're bad, and if we lose i know who to blame." Then i try to explain to the rest of the team why i was right, and what we should do next.

Games my teammates actually listen to me on, i tend to win. I don't know how to get people who can't understand basic logic (b5-3) to listen, though.

edit: Forgot to say thanks for your tips man.

FlahertyOct 10, 20151 votes

Yeah it's tough to try and direct people some times. You pretty much just have to try and lead the people who will listen and hope it's enough to get the rest to follow as well. I've learned that once a person is upset in game they WILL NOT stop being butthurt so it's best to not say a person is bad because they will continue being bad and there's no chance they will listen to you. I know it's pretty hard sometimes because the vast majority of people are really stupid but I've found it helps me win more.

colesyOct 9, 20151 votes

being in bronze 4 is nothing to do with your team mates, that's to do with -you- sucking

JhomasTeffersonOct 9, 20151 votes

You didn't read this discussion.

Also, My challenge stands. i guarantee by me being the one fuck up on your team you will lose. Then will it be your failure that you lost?

I'm bad, but i know that, in general, I'm better than my teammates. I also know i get way more trolls in bronze this season than i got in silver last season. I also know i could handle the stress of climbing last year, as i did it, i fell from s1 to b5 back to s2. So, doesn't it stand to reason that, if I was silver last year, and stayed there just fine, but this year I'm bronze and i can't get to silver, and there are more trolls here, that it could, in fact, be the trolls, or bad players?

colesyOct 9, 20151 votes

the fact that you can't get back in to silver means actually that your level of skill has dropped

if you were "in general better than your team mates" you would climb, but you aren't. it's why high elo players can make smurfs and hit diamond in like 24 hours because they're just better than the people they're up against. but people like you and me, we're in our elos because we belong in them and we aren't better than our team mates.

JhomasTeffersonOct 10, 20151 votes

No. It doesn't mean that my level of skill is lower. I know I'm a better player this year than I was last year. I don't need a rank to prove that to myself. I just do to prove it to everyone else.

See, you said yourself high elo players can make a smurf and be diamond in 24 hours. These players, they're all like, plat or diamond or better, right?

I think I'm about s2 good, maybe g5 good at best.

But being s2 good will not let you solo carry really any of bronze. To carry bronze, you need to be better than the average g1 player. That is what a lot of people think, and close to what i think.

See, i think that, in addition to being good, you have to get lucky and not get any trolls, afks, or shit players, in your b5, b4, b3 promos if you actually want to climb. Then , you need to take advantage of not having trolls, afkers, or shit players, which you do by being good.

The reason that the plat+ smurfs can solo carry is because they're that good. I'm better than most people i play with and against, but I'm not that good.

colesyOct 10, 20151 votes

you aren't a better player if you can't translate that in to a higher league or division

it's all a mind game. you -think- you're better, but when you put that "better skill" in to practice you actually suck more than you did last season. so you are actually where you belong. you aren't s2 good and not g5 good, otherwise you wouldn't have been in bronze 5 until recently.

and thinking you're better than you are won't help you climb. accept that you suck and figure out where you're going wrong. i wanted diamond, went on a giant losing streak and now I'm going to focus more on ironing out my issues rather than climbing because focusing on the climb won't improve me, whereas focusing on my errors will.

JhomasTeffersonOct 10, 20151 votes

I know i do things wrong. I never said i didn't And if you read my post you would know that i'm still self critical. Also, My original post was to say that when i go 12/4/24 and have the best cs of anyone, the most damage dealt to champs between the two teams, the most towers dropped, the highest kill participation percentage, and yet i still lose, i need to stop being self critical because there is no point for a situation like that, it literally was my teammates.

Strive for perfection, yes, but don't be unrealistic.

And again, i know I'm better, you never addressed that. You're only evidence that I'm not is my rank, and I'm telling you there's a problem with the system of ranking so, you're evidence is, really, quite poor.

Last season i never bought a pink or a green. I never did. I hardly ever upgraded my trinket too. I rarely had a decent cs, i died way too much, i rarely thought about good times to pressure objectives, or what objectives to pressure when, i didn't understand a "poke" comp as opposed to a "pick/split" comp, as opposed to a "deathball" comp, and i didn't really understand powerspikes.

Now i understand all of those things. I buy pinks and greens, i cs more, i try to pick champs that fit into my team's composition, and i realize just how bad even a kda of 2.0 is if i actually should be climbing, and I'm sure my kda from last year to this year has improved. I also upgrade trinket every game. I can give clear evidence that i am better. You can't. You also can't give evidence that i got worse. And no, my rank is not evidence.

Your argument is something like this.

"Me: There's something wrong with the ranked system You: No there's not. What makes you say that? Me: last season i was silver. You: And? This season you're bronze? Me: I got better You: You clearly didn't, as your rank indicates otherwise "

At which point i say "there's a problem with the ranked system, so how can that be evidence?"

You create a circle instead of answering the question because you know there's only one answer and you don't want to give that answer. Because it means you're wrong.

You're wrong, and will remain that way until you actually prove me wrong.

Warning ShotOct 9, 20151 votes

I read both of your posts, and this is what I have to say, I placed b4, im now s3 almost promos. look at your own ranked stats http://www.lolskill.net/summoner/NA/JhomasTefferson/champions

Now look at mine (no im not saying im pro) http://www.lolskill.net/summoner/NA/Optikz/champions

you die, A LOT. THAT imo is the main reason you're not silver yet.

goodluck ony our climb.

JhomasTeffersonOct 9, 20151 votes

Im still gonna blame teammates,

But i actually realized this a while back, and I've gotten a lot better, but if those all show averages from this whole season, i expect it to be a little low. Still, i realized around late July my one of my problems is that I die too much. I've been correcting it, and in the ranked games i played i could say i was doing consistently better.

Also, thanks for the link. I'm gonna play more janna now. Lol. It said i do 95% better than most players with her. That said, i've only played 4 ranked games with her.

Anyway, yeah. Thanks for your tip. I knew i died too much. i'm getting better. I've been working on warding a lot more recently. I started always upgrading trinket in july too. Vision is really helpful in not dying, and i've been checking out warding strats too. Everyone just says ward more. They never tell you how to ward effectively, or where to ward, or when to ward.

My cs is kinda bad too, but it's usually better than my teammates, so I'm getting there.

RandomoniumOct 10, 20151 votes

Its fine to blame your teammates but there's no reason to type it in chat. If you think your team sucks you can shout it all you want, think it all you want and complain about it all you want, just don't type it in chat.

Why? Because while some games aren't winnable there are a lot that are. Being toxic to your team doesn't do anything but distract them from winning and put them on tilt. Plus, typing in chat how bad your team is just wastes time. You really think that telling them they are bad is going to change anything? Absolutely not. Its wasted time and effort and is only going to result in fewer comebacks and more throws for your team.

JhomasTeffersonOct 10, 20151 votes

I tell them how to do better at first It's when they tell me I'm wrong and don't know how to play that i go "lol, you're bad, i know who to blame when we lose" and mute them After that though, i continue being amicable with the rest of my team.