advice on a losing streak? (WARNING: LONG, NO TLDR)
So it's a thread we've all seen before. Of the last 15 ranked games I played, 3 wins, 11 losses, and 1 loss with AFK. Ironically, it was the loss with the AFK that bothered me least: my team accepted from minute 2 that it was an unlikely win at best, and the opposing team were real classy about it too; they took the win, sure, but weren't rude about it and all of us generally had some fun.
Here's the issue: I've read the previous threads. You know, don't play on tilt. Take breaks. Find a routine that works. Main a select few champions in one or two positions, you can get at least one of those spots just by asking a good amount of time. Lead your team. Don't throw leads, push objectives.
None of that seems to be working. After two losses in ranked or three games of any result, I'm done for the day, at most. I can really only play well as soon as I get home from work; playing at peak hours gives me an extra 40-220 ping, varying be each second. for the first couple hours, however, it's a steady 88-90. I main support and jungle, thresh/raka for support and naut for jungle, kayle when he's banned or taken. Since I primarily main support, I'll try to lead by, say, calling dragon timer at 2 minutes, then 1:30, then 1 min with a pair of help me pings while I go drop 3 wards, a pink, and a sweeper since no one else is warding.
I really can't seem to identify most of the issues in my play. As support, high CS is typically a bad thing, and in the jungle CS is less of a mechanical thing and more decision making. my kill participation is high, and the vast majority (though admittedly not all) of my deaths come after 20 minutes, when the enemy team has functionally won but are having issues closing properly, just killing us all over and over. So I'm not feeding in lanes most games. As support, or jungle naut, I have minimal splitpush ability, so that's not really an option. Most games I have highest or second highest kill participation, and am often second/winning at the same time for lowest deaths.
As for leadership....I really don't know how to get people to care what I'm saying. because of my follow through (see above) people follow me on dragons much of the time, but 2 warning pings and "Jarvan they'll collapse you, leave their wolves and get out" typically results in 10 seconds followed by "An ally has been slain". Seeing their team pick vlad and volibear, I told my team we'd probably need %HP damage and recommended ruined king/liandry's. Ruined Kings got built but I think the warwick wanted to do that anyway, but I built liandry's on soraka because our APCs weren't going there and I really felt it necessary.
The one thing I CAN see wrong with my play is that I never seem to be where I'm needed most at a given time midgame, but I also don't see how most of that is really my fault. Enemy waves are more often than not pushing our lanes back, but if I go to clear them, the rest of our team gets engaged. fights often break out at random times and I'm warding up for the dragon, or headed down to help my adc take out their midlaner at bot. My adc will win without me on a sudden engage, my northern jungle will take a 2 for 1 loss and our tower is now being pushed, and I got....nothing. But I don't know how to predict these fights.
As my last point, you knew it was coming, teammates. You'll not above that I did not mention them much. However, I really do feel like I cannot rely on any of them, which is a big issue for a thresh/raka/naut main. Akali jumps in, I silence/hook her, and....nothing. The CC is let to go to its full extent and she'll just pick up where she left off on my ADC. A lucian will stray too close to graves, take a buckshot, and dash backwards, essentially taking damage and losing mana for nothing at all. people will chase kills all around me map, ignore the warnings, get killed, and ask me why I didn't ult. I'll go drop a ward in front of dragon, only to come back and see my ADC solo diving their bot lane. Lanterns are pathologically clicked at any cost UNTIL I'm trying to bail them out, then they flash past it.
Does anyone have any tips relating to these specific issues?
