How to not get mad while playing League?

Niyumi·Sep 1, 2015·1 votes·1,290 views

I have a strange question today for you guys, but I've noticed something; when I'm having fun and laughing, when I'm in a good mood, I play incredibly. Every time I buy a new champion, I'm smiling the whole time thinking how fun it is and learning all the tricks and combos and whatnot, and I do really well (My first game with Ekko, I went 13/7, my second game, 17/1. My first game with Heimer, I went 13/0 and ANNIHILATED mid lane, for example). However, most of the day today I was in kind of a sour mood, just ticked off at everything; I was yelling a lot and getting upset, and I was playing horribly. My last match, however, I was laughing and having fun trying to "outplay" a Garen with Fiora (Like, parrying his ult and all his Qs), and I actually did really well! At mid game I was 14/1, but then the enemy Vayne started to get fed and I ended being 19/9 and lost (and I started playing worse as I died more and more to Vayne). So! It seems that I play much better when I'm in a good mood, and much worse when I'm in a bad mood or convince myself I can't win.

Basically, I just want to know how I can STAY in that good mood, and continue playing well.

League, and PvP in other games, tends to kind of tick me off, though I don't know how, as I'm usually VERY hard to even slightly irritate in reality. How would I play League while staying in a good mood and having fun? And, in a broader sense, how do I stay in a good mood in general? I think if I could figure this out, and stay positive throughout League games, then I could actually look at starting ranked games and placing. Right now though, my performance is kind of iffy -- I'll have one great match, and 9 horrible ones.

So... any help you could give is greatly appreciated. Thanks! ^^

TL;DR: It's really not that long... but! How do I not get mad at League? I play a LOT better when I'm in a good mood and having fun.

7 Comments

DynasticMuleSep 1, 20152 votes

For me, I would listen to funny songs. I got from Silver 4 to Gold 5 with only a handful of losses, once I started listening to this song. I'm not even kidding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh7lp9umG2I

NiyumiSep 1, 20151 votes

I mean, music can affect your mood, that's true, but I'm kind of weird. When a song might make me laugh or feel good, the effect quickly wears off the more I listen to that particular song. After a while, there's just no effect at all. So that might be a short-term help, but it wouldn't really work all the time. : /

GummyBearWookieeSep 1, 20151 votes

Stop caring. Seriously...it's a frickin' game. You'll learn this when you're an old fart like me. If you can't laugh and getting stomped...then you probably shouldn't be playing. Additionally...playing with friends and laughing about crap on Vent or TeamSpeak helps.

CrunchyfiedSep 2, 20151 votes

Probably shouldn't play with so much emotion and just relax more. Always have the mindset that anything can happen in game, enemy comeback, teammate afk or something like that. When it happens you're less shocked and less angry. You should be doing good whether you are in a good mood or not, shouldn't let emotion dictate your gameplay, it should be logic. You seem like a really tilty player and that's not good.

NiyumiSep 2, 20152 votes

Haha, yeah it is kind of silly, isn't it? :P But I'm just the type of person that gets really immersed and invested in something when I start it, even outside of gaming. It's not so much that I get angry about things like teammates going AFK or the enemy team coming back... it's more like, even though I do the perfect combo on someone like Ekko, I just get clicked to death and die instantly -- and it upsets me for some reason, the way that easier champs perform far better.

What is "tilt" anyway? I've seen the term thrown around a lot, and from context I can guess, but what is it, really?

CrunchyfiedSep 2, 20151 votes

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Haha, yeah it is kind of silly, isn't it? :P But I'm just the type of person that gets really immersed and invested in something when I start it, even outside of gaming. It's not so much that I get angry about things like teammates going AFK or the enemy team coming back... it's more like, even though I do the perfect combo on someone like Ekko, I just get clicked to death and die instantly -- and it upsets me for some reason, the way that easier champs perform far better.

What is "tilt" anyway? I've seen the term thrown around a lot, and from context I can guess, but what is it, really?

It defines people who can't recover from bad situations. If you get camped all game and become increasingly frustrated instead of say buying wards, farming under tower or attempting to play safe then you are a tilty person. You bring this frustration to your next game and continue to lose. Edit- also the reason why you should camp people who rage since they are more likely to tilt and throw the game.

NiyumiSep 2, 20151 votes

Thing is, if I'm getting camped all game, I'll remember how they killed me, what they did, all that. I'll put wards everywhere I need to, I'll stay under my turret, but it all just doesn't work -- I still have my ass handed to me and get more frustrated each time. Then, when I'm behind in farm and kills, I just can't compete with everyone else.

Maybe it's more just that I'm upset I couldn't handle the situation properly, and I couldn't play better, and all these things. Maybe I'm mad at myself. ^^ The thing that really gets me going the most though is champions who either lack skillshots are are so painfully simplistic mechanically, yet do 50x the damage I can do with more skillshot-based or complex champions.