My first Ranked game.
I would first like to say that I absolutely love league. I think it is an amazing strategy game that really tests your decision making. When I first joined league about 6 months ago or so (Could be longer I'm not really sure). I set out with intentions of destroying my opponents and being the 1v5 champion. This strategy failed quickly and I realized this is a team game shortly after. Since then I have improved by leaps and bounds. I played blind pick and spammed mid or top like most beginners. Until my friend gave me some advice. If I ever wanted to play Ranked I should learn all positions. So I began to learn all lanes, playing normal's and earning precious IP. Each day I put up with toxic players and other noobies like myself. All in hopes that by level 30, people would have learned the basics, as I was doing. Warding, cs, effective trading, not trading chunks of hp for cs, and itemization to name a few. When I reached level 30 I realized that people were still making the same mistakes as people brand new to the game. This made me terrified to try ranked, because I seemed to be a magnet for afk's and trolls. So I waited a long time to try it, I wanted to be efficient with at least 3 champions in every role and lane. I did this in hopes that if I became a better player that I would be able to help carry my team mates to victory, provided they carried themselves as well! (Sometimes its just not possible to win with the mates you get). But like I said, I was terrified to try ranked because I knew I generally get toxic team mates that give the enemy an early lead and proceed to blame me (Jungler, My favorite position). Fast forward to last night, I try ranked for the first time. Building up tons of courage to do this. I get into the lobby and introduce myself. I call jungle and told them I could play any role if someone else needs to jungle. Nobody has a problem and I proceed to tell them about my bad luck with toxic people. Which they assure me they're not! In fact, our Jinx, says that she is silver and constantly carrying games. I think to myself that this is great!
We get into the game. And that's where it all went wrong. Jinx flashes into alistar under turret level 3 and dies giving the enemy first blood. This wasn't too big of a deal. Until mid then died, and top did as well. Current score 0 - 3. I try to gank the lanes but receive no follow up, and am not able to pull a kill. I ask my laners to go in with me next time to ensure a kill. I go back to farming so I can hit 6, but my team lets the score hit 0-8 before I do. This is where jinx begins to flame me and blame the jungler. Calling my shit jungling the reason for them losing. I did die 1 time at this point because the enemy jg caught me low hp in my own jg. (oh well). So I try to put up with this and continue jungling and being positive and trying to encourage my team mates. Jinx begins to steal my jungle farm and buffs. After taking my red, and then doing my birds, I smite the bird she is killing for the buff to clear wards. She threatens to afk because of this. I am annoyed by this point but continue to play the game denying each surrender vote. So I guess all I'm saying is Ranked sucks and is everything I thought it would be. I wish there was a Ranked version of team builder so I can weed out the trolls in champ select. It would test players abilities to build their own team comp, which is definitely a factor in your win loss record. I love this game but I just don't I can constantly put up with swarm of bullshit that flies around Ranked. So like I said, I tried my first game of Ranked. However it will be my last game of Ranked.
Any tips to dealing with this in my future normal games?
