Anybody else suck as much as me?

Flaagrah·2/13/2015, 7:03:03 AM·1 votes·985 views

I started playing LoL in Season 3. I finished season 3 in bronze 5. This is understandable since I started playing ranked immediately after I reached 30. I was so ignorant of the game that I didn't even know that an adc had to be a ranged character and there was one ranked match where I chose Yi because I thought he counted as an adc. In season 4, I managed to finish in bronze 3. In Season 5, I was placed in B5 after going 5-5 in placements. I thought it would be easy for me to climb back to bronze 3-2 but I appear to be stuck in bronze 5 again. I have played league for about 1000 hours total (including normals) and I'm still a bronze 5 player. I'm starting to feel like I should just give up at this point. Is anybody else doing as badly as me in ranked play?

9 Comments

Sona Ping2/13/2015, 7:14:58 AM3 votes

I'm going to say that was a rhetorical question XD. Also Master Yi is an ADC; people just frequently pick Ranged AD champs because they are safer to CS with in the farm fest that is bot lane.

"and I'm still a bronze 5 player." So what?

"I'm starting to feel like I should just give up at this point." Why? No really. Why?

Ask yourself this question: "Why do I play League of Legends?" Do you play because you got to get to a certain rank? Or do you play League of Legends because you have fun?

If it's the second one, then NONE of this stuff matters. If you're having fun, then just play. Enjoy yourself and have fun with League.

Flaagrah2/13/2015, 7:18:56 AM1 votes

It's not satisfying if you're not making any progress

Flaagrah2/13/2015, 7:36:45 AM1 votes

In total I have played around 1000 ranked games.

MrPerson102/13/2015, 7:48:10 AM1 votes

If you're genuinely looking for improvement and don't mind potentially harsh criticism, try having some people inspect you while gaming.

Also, here's a link to some basic concepts covered by a couple mid-high S4 diamond players, Seiqooq and Harlequin. It's a 20-video series and will severely help if you can master these concepts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA51vGD89xs

this, in particular, is my absolute favorite video and covers the importance of level 2 specifically in a solo lane as this is exactly where over 90% of lanes are won or lost in my experience. you have to be able to identify who the rightful lvl1 aggressor is and work off that. You can either read up on champs and when/with what items their first powerspike comes or you can identify this by finding an experienced player with x champion and having them go toe to toe in a solo lane against you.

No, learning powerspikes won't help with your teamfight phase but it can seriously help you not only get ahead on CS but get fed off your enemies' lifeless heads.

Edit: this video series took me from a bronze 3 to capping off at plat 2 in Season 4 on 2 separate accounts.

ReaverCamera2/13/2015, 9:21:40 AM1 votes

Don't worry about it now, Riot "fixed" the prelims by just sticking everyone in b5, no matter how well they did. (P.S. Not cool, not a fix). I went 7-3 thinking I was so lucky and so well off. Then B5 came. Getting out of b5 and into the b3 range is mostly dumb luck on what team you get. Around that elo, it's the people holding on, actually trying to advance to silver. b4 and 5, nobody (but you) gives a shit.

Flaagrah2/17/2015, 12:22:04 AM1 votes

I just made it to bronze 4 and I've won 8 of the past 9 games :D