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SoloQ Struggles - I just don't get it..

FatefulOne·11/29/2014, 7:14:35 AM·2 votes·934 views

To start, I feel it best to state that I have tried several times to play this game "correctly" - I use quotations to put emphasis behind what the community states are golden rules for success. Don't insult your teammates, don't troll, just take it a game at a time and learn what you can.

Maybe I am not alone, but I simply feel that I do not have enough patience for this game. I do not enjoy sitting down for just one game, and having forty-five minutes of my life wasted by the pollution of this community. For every three games I play, two are destroyed by the people we all unanimously cannot tolerate.

How do you all do it? How do you all climb from one tier of elo to the next and still manage to digest the same bullshit antics? Why do you do it?

League of Legends is a game that I enjoy, simply because of the competition. I admit, I am in Bronze II for a reason - I have barely over 200 wins and have definitely not dedicated enough time to this game to expect any legitimate stature in this community amongst fellow players. But literally, every 2 out of 3 games that I give a good solid effort in, mind you, I feel as if I am climbing a mountain with my teeth. Maybe it is just MOBAs? Maybe I am focusing to hard on a genre that is not for me.. idk.

I just wanted to reach out, see if anyone had some inspiring words here. Have you been in my place before? What did you do to get past the immature filth that throw you into games that simply can't be won (afk,dc,feed,etc). Do I just care too much?

I have removed this game from my hard drive more times than I can count since its release due to the community, I swore I would give it a full effort this time around and see where it could take me (play a full season). I have yet to make it through a quarter of a season w/o wanting to just be done with it. Some aspiring motivational speaker, enlighten me.

Thanks folks, Merry Christmas and gl hf.

**EDIT: Let us go ahead and acknowledge now, that though the Mute option is wonderful for silencing your average abuser of chat - it should not be necessary. A raging player can still make calls in chat, or acknowledge certain pings etc. I don't feel muting my entire team would help me in anyway.

5 Comments

soylent shipment11/29/2014, 3:09:16 PM2 votes

At the beginning of this season I was placed in Bronze IIII, I am now in Gold V. This means I have first-hand experience of what you're talking about because I've plowed right through it and gone on my merry way. For someone like you Bronze II the only way to actually advance is to completely revolutionize your play. Rework your masteries and runes with a clear objective in mind for each change, visualize the game during champ select an on the loading scree, pay attention to every detail that will influence the outcome of the game, minimize mistakes by learning from other league players and watching youtubers play, and last but not least always ALWAYS take note of the events of every game; things you did right, things you did wrong, mistakes that lost you the game etc. The Bronze elo isn't going to get any less toxic, you just have to rise above the filth.

Leti the Yeti11/29/2014, 7:32:29 AM1 votes

the lower tier you are, the more openly dickheaded the players are i say openly because people are still dickheads in diamond.... they just show it less often

Alljoy11/29/2014, 2:39:39 PM1 votes

Nothing motivational here but you could try muting everyone from the very beginning and pretend it's a game with some rather questionable bots.

a wandering path11/29/2014, 11:33:02 PM1 votes

I've been stuck in bronze II since the beginning of the season. I've gotten about 4 promotions throughout the season and have lost all of them to trolls and asssssssssssssssholes... I pretty much stopped ranking because I couldn't take the trolls and intentional feeders anymore.

But my advice to you would be to not take it so seriously. I get mad as hell at the dumb things people tend to do, (like troll or intentionally feed) but at the end of the day I remember it's a game. Getting mad at them wouldn't solve anything and would only feed the trolls.

Minrog12/2/2014, 12:12:55 PM1 votes

The first thing I'd say is that there has to be a reason. Everyone seems to want to be a Challenger even though practically nobody could survive 5 minutes in the laning phase against one. It puts you against people it thinks are about as capable as you are. If it bothers you to be in games with the people you are in with, you have to improve on things that make a difference in winning the game. Not arguing or raging is an ok start but it's not enough without mechanics and decision making.

How many times did you die? You don't ever have to die, so you're choosing to do that and usually it's for a bad reason. Sometimes it's okay to die to secure an objective, but most of the time it's just bad. I watched an old All Stars 2014 game between Cloud 9 and OMG last night, and Sneaky/Meteos chased a guy all the way up to the bot inhib turret before giving up a double kill (Sneaky did get his one...). If they are pulling out Bronze tactics in LCS games it shouldn't be a surprise when actual Bronze players are doing that stuff all the time. Just remember that you're choosing to do that, and it's fun sometimes but it won't help you win games.

Look at the CS totals in the games at 10/20/30 and see if yours are higher than the guys in the game. If you're one of the 3 CS'ers you could have had 300-350 by the 30 minute mark. xPeke and Doubelift do it all the time - you could learn to do it too. You will spiral out of control with your massive item spikes.

If you want to play to win and take the game seriously then you have to do serious work to make it happen. It takes a ton of concentration to get every CS and harass and make low risk/high result plays and always be in the right position to exploit your opponent's fails. It also takes patience to wait for the right moment to act, which most of the players I see don't have a good handle on.

As for chat, just don't pay attention to people who are raging? It's extremely obvious what's going to happen next in the game, most of the time, so you hardly need chat anyway. And if you don't see anyone on the mini-map they are all sitting in that bush next to you...