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Need some urgent help. About to just snap and leave the game.

AxlStream··2 votes·1,179 views

Hello LoL community,

First I want to put a little disclaimer. I know I'm not challenger material yet. Nor am I diamond, neither plat. I do not think I am the next LCS all star player like many bronze/silvers think they are. It may sound like I think I am but right now I'm extremely frustrated and extremely tilted. So excuse my tone.

Alright with that out of the way, I need some help. I was Gold V last season. Was pretty proud of myself since I achieved my goal. This season though I'm aiming at becoming Platinum or higher. I have one tiny problem though.... Silver is keeping me down there. Here's my match history :http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-history/NA1/49631664

Notice how it's mostly red? Although I'm not doing bad in my opinion. I don't flame, I try to lead my team, I focus on getting objectives rather than kill and I'm farming pretty well for Silver. I group up with my team, I ward when I think about it but it all seems to be in vain. For every time I'm doing well, I have 2-4 teammates doing horrible. I am now so paranoid that I don't even know where to go to carry games. As a jungle/ADC main, whenever I jungle, my bot lane seems to be awful and whenever I ADC my junglers seem to be awful.

I need help. I am confused as to how to carry games as being a supportive play style doesn't seem to benefit my teams, playing aggressive and actively shoving lanes down the enemy team's brain just makes my team engage 4v5 for some reason. I don't want to blame my teammates because it's Silver, they don't know any better.

So I am kindly asking for advice, tips, tricks, champion recommendations, a duo partner, a possible coach even, LITERALLY ANYTHING. I am lost in what looks pretty much like an elo hell but I know it's not real. I'm missing a piece of the enigma on how to win games reliably and I can't find it. Please help me.

Thanks in advance to anyone taking time to assist me.

PS. Ignore the Nautilus support game. That game was just so bad, the enemy team were getting 1+ kill every minute so I just snapped and gave up with the rough time I was having.

9 Comments

LoRdJeSuS69694204 votes

You're overthinking it. The game is pretty simple. Don't concern yourself with "carrying" or any of that nonsense. You generally play worse when you feel you "need" to make some crazy plays out of thin air in order to win. Take your time and do whatever best suits the situation.

With 5 people on your team each game, chances are someone's gonna do badly most games. Sometimes you'll have difficult games where all your teammates do badly. Sometimes you'll have easy games where they all do well. Sometimes you'll have close games where anyone could have won. You won't ever win every game, but if you consistently perform better than the people you are placed with, your rank WILL go up.

AxlStream1 votes

I know I'll go up if I keep doing well but having only won 4 out of my last 14 ranked games even if I was hyper fed is just that there is a problem somewhere. Since I can't change my teams, I want to change myself so I can win games. Doing good is great and all but with 4 other liabilities, it's not enough.

mvargus1 votes

If you can using curse voice or Skype helps a lot. Not every player has it, but if they do the verbal communication allowed really improves play. Last night in a normal I had one person ask if anyone had Skype. I did and we were online during the game. He even during the game admitted that with the way the game unfolded he'd normally be raging, but instead had fun. (he later joined the teamspeak community I belong to)

the other thing is to improve your team play in general. Learn to ward and ping. Try to use your chat to call for the team to take objectives or to group for a teamfight. League is a team game and even if you are carrying, having the team work together can win games. You can't change them, so learn to work with the team you have. Again, going back to just last night for me. I was in a pickup normal where I had no one on Skype/curse/teamspeak. I offered to fill and ended up playing Sona in support of a Caitlyn. This team I was on pinged and chatted. Everyone got into working together so that we had regular visits from others to help in bot lane where we faced a Jinx/Blitzcrank lineup. We ended up destroying the other team. In the end our Olaf had the most deaths for our side at 8. Only Blitzcrank on the other team had less and 3 of the enemy champs had 10 or more deaths. It was little things like pinging MIA and coming to help the other lanes in a timely fashion. I even semi-abandoned Caitlyn after we had bullied the Jinx/Blitz from lane to help in mid where the enemy jungler had started camping our mid. She would ping if she needed me back, but otherwise would push a wave and come join the teamfights we were having mid and near dragon.

The big issues I've found.

  1. never try to force a win. Yes, a good player can "carry", but you can't force a carry. You need to play the game as a team and a good player will end up carrying because the game flows to him. When you try to force it you'll often put yourself on tilt.

  2. Communicate, communicate, communicate. Even if all you use is pings let others know what you are doing and why. Don't berate others or even offer unsoliticted advice. Tell people if you see a ward or if you want to group for a major objective. When I play a jungler I often will say at the start (every dragon is ours) and then keep close watch on dragon spawn timers and opportunities. It doesn't always work, but its rare that the other team gets an uncontested dragon if my team is still fighting at the river. Only if we are pushed back to base do I not encourage my team to make every dragon a contested one.

And that's about it. Maining a champion can help as once you master them you'll be more able to roam and help others, but the key is to just relax, communicate and let the games come to you. If you do that, you'll find the wins.

LoRdJeSuS69694201 votes

Well then just accept where you're at for the time being.

If you think being at a higher rank is going to makes games easier, or inherently less frustrating, you are sorely mistaken. Your teammates will still have bad games, people will still fight, rage, whatever. There isn't some magical elo where this stops. If you don't think you can carry the games where you are now, what makes you think you'll do any better when your opponents are even stronger?

AikidoLawnNinja2 votes

Here's my solution:

Don't play ranked. People are more toxic in ranked because they feel like something is on the line (their LP) and are thus more prone to rage when they feel they might lose it. Ranked also attracts more trolls, because said trolls know that people playing ranked will be more likely to get frustrated by their trolling antics.

Then there's the Elo system. While it is applicable to your overall skill from a statistical standpoint, the fact that it was designed to rank chess players (which is NOT a team-based game) makes it all the more bitter when your rank drops even though you personally performed well. Over the course of several hundred games, the games you lose because of bad teammates will even out (thanks to the games you WIN due to bad opponents), but that doesn't stop the frustration from the former.

I get that some people dig the competitive bragging rights of ranked play, but if your rank really gives you enough grief that you feel the need to post about it here, I'd venture a guess that you'd have a lot more fun with League if you just played normal matches with friends instead.

AxlStream1 votes

Hey, no offense but I'm looking for advice to win. Not to pussy out.

Godhri1 votes

Udyr/Nasus top. Farm yourself. Push top while your teammates hold the fort. Back door like crazy. The only other way to win if you can't carry your team and your team is bad is to back door.

You aren't even doing that badly. I lost like 7 ranked games in a row and I still kicked myself in the ass and re-obtained G2. Won my promos like a pro with 2-0.

AxlStream1 votes

Well my biggest problem is the fact that no matter what tactic I try, I seem to not be able to reach 50% winrate.

Godhri1 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dU4dUSI1eI

Here is a link to a youtube video of a LCS player coaching someone in Diamond (known as Azoh) on how to mid as Orianna. Though mid might not be your role, there is a lot you can learn from the video. It is rather long but well worth the watch.

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