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1 Wing·1/17/2015, 10:11:34 PM·1 votes·599 views

I just don't know what to do anymore! I feel like I am, at least 80% of the time, the best player on my team. I almost universally out cs my opponent--even when playing a champ I'm unfamiliar with. I just seem to win my lane, but end up losing the game.

When I get into team fights, I react pretty much as best as I can tell how to, and things go well in that aspect. My team just makes horrible choices!

The enemy is pushing mid: I run in through the jungle with two teammates, ping the enemy, jump out and fight them. . . my teammates just leave to do something else; the enemy kills me and takes the tower.

Sona gets frustrated: tries purposefully to take my CS--as Sona! I wouldn't even mind it that much if you're play lux support perhaps.

Yi with a GA tries to chase down my team, but we kill him. I signal to retreat, but the rest of the team just mills around wanting to get the full kill on Yi: the enemy team catches them with CC, then Yi wakes up and q strikes everyone to death.

The enemy tries to take baron, and one of my team is at base. My jungler tries to suicide in to take baron; succeeds. Then two of my teammates run into the baron pit after him, against the full enemy team. They die. The enemy pushes in and wins the game even though we got baron.

I feel like, yah, the better team is winning, so let me be on that team :
It's one thing when I can play with a full team of my friends, but most of the time I'm soloqueing, and the random people are just awful. It always seems like I'm the best player on my team, and if I'm not, then we for sure win. Otherwise my team will just make some collosal error, and even if I can see it and try to do something, I can only save myself usually, and then everyone else is dead.

I just don't know what to do. It's not like I'm getting beaten in lane, and I feel like I turn the tide when I enter an even teamfight. When it gets to be 35+ minutes, though, it always seems like my team is going to do something unbelievably stupid that my skills just can't cover for.

6 Comments

Truly Prideful1/17/2015, 10:18:08 PM2 votes

The only thing you can really do is play your best and try to explain strategy to them. Make some calls, ping the path, and throw down wards. Try to be nice and positive about it, they're more likely to listen. Beyond that you really can't force your team to play how you want. Sometimes people just don't like to listen.

Sassy Bardista1/19/2015, 2:19:28 AM2 votes

The below comments seem pretty dead on, but just my own addition to one of your comments: "When it gets to be 35+ minutes, though, it always seems like my team is going to...". If you're in solo queue, it's pretty known that there's a good chance you won't have a good team-and what I mean by this, is you won't work well as a team. You've never played with this group of people. you have no idea their mindset or how they plan things, and they probably aren't in a voice chat to make it easier. If you're looking to climb, play strong solo champs and end early-WIN your lane, hard. Not like, oh, we both farmed the same or I outfarmed him. You need to push early strengths, get fed, and then most importantly, roam. I see too often the mid laner wreck his lane and sit mid farming. "Guys I have a lot of farm". Great. Now it's 35+ minutes in, and everyone has caught up in build. If you are finding it hard to work with team mates at 35+ minutes, 1: it's probably in part, you. Be more communicative and supportive. 2: DON'T LET IT GET TO 35 MINUTES. If you stick your finger on a stove and it burns you, do you do it again? No. Same thing here. If you cannot win long games, don't aim for long games. TL;DR crush your lane, roam and crush other lanes, win before 35 minutes.

fdissht1/18/2015, 3:21:57 AM1 votes

If you're the only person attacking them, don't do it, even if it's a good idea, if no one is following you're just going to die alone. Remember a bad plan followed by everyone is better than a good plan followed by no one.

Ward as often as possible or suggest good areas to ward, always use your trinkets and position yourself well

You can ALWAYS improve and unless you're challenger there are always a higher tier to strive for

NethOinkz1/18/2015, 3:55:53 AM1 votes

I've seen your kda and that's not a kda of someone who wins his lane everytime. My suggestion is you get better yourself. You don't seem to be a shot caller type, so listen to your team's call instead. Checked your match history too. You're definitely not the type of person I'd like to play as team in ranked. http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-history/NA/33781688?matchType=2&map=1 Never troll in a ranked match.