For me personally, the way I've gone from B1 at the start of the season to S2 as of tonight, is making sure I'm not the problem.
Getting out of Bronze was as simple as not losing my lane, and not dying enough to feed. Going through silver I've been focusing on not being toxic, and playing to mitigate the poor play of those around me.
To measure my own success and improve personally I've been watching my kill participation, checking where I died when I did, and making sure that I'm always placing more wards than my opposite member. I tend to play support so I try to out ward the enemy support, but when I'm ADC or another position I still try to buy more pinks and use my trinkets more often than the enemy ADC.
Being in promotion games is still a zero sum effect on your chance of winning, as the try-hards and feeders are going to be on both sides randomly. I got carried one of my latest promo games, and tried to be as helpful as I could to expedite the carry (an insane Anivia mid who crushed lane and roamed hard). The next game all my lanes lost and I wasn't able to find a way to win late game. Both things happen, but as long as I'm not the problem the system works in my favor.
This is pretty much my experience in Silver too. Whatever happens, I've been a pleasant, mature voice in chat and it seems to create a positive snowball. People seems to take words a lot less offensively if there's a 'please' somewhere and it's not worded as an absolute command.
For that matter, I spent the game that won me my promo's as a sub-170 cs top lane Shen (a bit over 30 minute game), because it was more important that I was in mid-lane to place my body between my incredibly fat adc and Kha'Zix or AP-mumu skill-shots than it was for me to go split pushing. At 15 minutes they had a 5/0 Zed. At 23 we had a 15/x Jinx, who rolled their entire team if the rest of us kept her safe.
Keeping people focused on objectives in Silver is a game winning strategy. Just pinging a tower or dragon after a teamfight can get everyone on the same page.
If you can herd them to baron after getting 3 down mid, well, you're ahead of the game.
I wonder how people would feel about the Shurima and Sion lore if they hadn't announced they were doing big things like removing summoners and the league.
I think all of the lore they've put forth in the last month is utterly fine, if a bit trite, but acting as though it's any worse than the writing they used to have is taxed to contain you. It's also the most work in the shortest amount of time I've seen from them and I'm willing to believe there's a lot of stuff the lore team has worked on that's just waiting for other people to finish models and balance and the like.
I think the Shurima stuff is really, really clunky. I could deal with the writing style I guess if the story there were worth telling.
I have absolutely no problems with what I've seen of the Sion stuff. If the worst thing about it is that a guy is named "Darkwill" then they're actually doing really well. Plus I like hearing things from the Noxian side of the story. "Sion the Hero" is a story I could get behind. I just hope I'm not utterly disappointed when he becomes blandly evil from the transition to undeath.
Also LeBlanc is probably the most interesting character in League so the more of her the better. If they ever do a lore pass on her I hope that "LeBlanc" is just a title fought over by the leading illusionists of Noxus, and whoever comes out on top assumes LB's image.
Didn't this actually come out in her League Judgement thingie?
Some people don't seem to get that if I ult and blow three flashes it's not really a miss. If the enemy stops out of range for one second to avoid it, I might as well have hit them. Zoning is a thing hehe.
I may have ult-flashed instead of flash-ulting once though. Too hyped for the engage. Staying calm in a skill.
Some people don't seem to get that if I ult and blow three flashes it's not really a miss. If the enemy stops out of range for one second to avoid it, I might as well have hit them. Zoning is a thing hehe.
I may have ult-flashed instead of flash-ulting once though. Too hyped for the engage. Staying calm in a skill.
It's not a statistical sample, but my current league has 5 people in promos out of 80. That's 1/16... that might be enough to derail matchmaking some.
And remember that there are several different titled divisions. There's more than one Silver 2, more than one Bronze 4, more than one Gold 1. There are different champion-titled divisions, and that makes for a lot of different places to match up people for division promos. My words fail me, and I don't know how else to classify the champion-themed divisions, but I was meaning to have all people of a numbered metal (regardless of champion divide) in a promo series be matched with other players also in promos in either the same numbered metal, one above, or one below.
I think his point was that only 1/16 of the people in his division are up for promos. If that were representational, that would mean the potential pool of people you could be playing against is somewhere around 6% what it was before. Even less actually, since you only want it to be people within a division of you. This might not be a huge problem in the high pop divisions (Bronze through low Gold) but above that (and in non-peak hours) you would have, like, high-level-Dominion-ish queue times. And nobody deserves that.
Besides a queue full of people on edge because they're all in promos is exactly the last thing I would have any interest in playing through.
On the flip side, I don't want to be queued up with somebody not in promos who doesn't care about trying to win because they aren't in promos and will just regain any lost LP in their next match while I get put in a tighter vice to win the rest of my series. You're guaranteed one of these people every other game, and when a person is in promos, that's frequent enough to keep them from progressing to where their skill should be truly valued.
It's one thing to learn from your mistakes, but after placements, Riot is going to make you continue playing with people who are making the mistakes you learned not to make, and your skill assessment (elo) won't truly reflect your advancement because the rest of your team is holding you back.
It doesn't always happen, but it's a problem enough to make the current system not work as well as it could if they used proper resources to make their own system. Riot put less time into creating a ranked system than they did for everything Dominion-related.
Promos don't actually matter that much, people will still give up or try to surrender. Weak player mentality is way too common for your fix to actually solve your problem while probably screwing up matchmaking a lot. And we've been through this with a bunch of posts, but you are valued where you should be truly valued (assuming you've played at least 10-15 games). True MMR is a useful concept if you're programming a matchmaking service, it's useless to gauge yourself as a player.
Their team holds them back just as often as your team holds you back. Assuming you don't tilt/afk/DC the other team has to deal with that shit more often than your team in promo series, so according to your train of thought you're actually being overvalued as a result of non-promo players being allowed in your promo matches.
And I've no idea what you mean about their matchmaking being bad, Riot probably has the best ranked matchmaking in gaming. It literally works by not making you play with players worse than yourself on average. If your win rate is 50% right now you really belong where you are, so maybe you should start looking at replays to find your own issues instead of those of your teammates. The only thing I don't like is that there's no tribunal because that thing was genius.
I can't watch the video right this second, but since Astaroth's being thrown around, my pants tight in anticipation of watching it later.
Who?
This dude from Soul Calibur. Also happens to be one of my favorite characters from those games. And Sion was one of my early favorites for League, so it's a huge win/win for me.
Swain approaches LeBlanc to use J4's blood, which I imagine was needed for her disguise during the Kalamanda incident (which begs the question what the hell happened there now that there is no league to drop a stasis bubble there) which is then used by Vlad along with what looks like several other sacrifices to once again reanimate Sion... perhaps this time as a monster that specifically targets the Demacians instead of being a completely uncontrollable force of slaughter, which he will use in a war he will probably instigate with Demacia in order to maintain his position in High Command.
Swain approaches LeBlanc to use J4's blood, which I imagine was needed for her disguise during the Kalamanda incident (which begs the question what the hell happened there now that there is no league to drop a stasis bubble there) which is then used by Vlad along with what looks like several other sacrifices to once again reanimate Sion... perhaps this time as a monster that specifically targets the Demacians instead of being a completely uncontrollable force of slaughter, which he will use in a war he will probably instigate with Demacia in order to maintain his position in High Command.
Here's something I found in the comments of the original leak's post.
THIS IS TRANSLATED FROM KOREAN, THIS IS NOT THE FINAL TEXT.
here's a translated version: (WARNING MASSIVE SPOILERS)
Fall
Darkwill: What have you done?
LeBlanc: Only what you wished us to.
Darkwill: This is not what I wanted!
LeBlanc: You wanted to revive that corpse and send him to battle once more. And we did that for you.
Darkwill: Look at that thing! I cannot let this... monster, lead an army.
LeBlanc: Indeed, it can't be a general any more. But you and I both know that he used to be more weapon of mass slaughter than general. Now it can be more effective in its true purpose. It knows no fear, harbors no suspicion, and can't even die!
Darkwill: Curses... you leave me with no choice.
Dissension
To the great general,
The undead is doubtless a great weapon. It conquered Fort Andras nearly by itself. It has caused many Demacian casualties, but also allied ones as well. This monster seems to enjoy slaughter for the sake of slaughter. We required one infantry company to recapture it this time, but the problem is that it keeps getting stronger. Breaking its body into pieces didn't help.
Overall morale is at a low, General. Our soldiers fear that a hero returned as a monster. They seem to be worried that if they give their lives and loyalty for Noxus, their corpses will be treated the same as this thing. Thus far, we had to "take care" of three regiments that refused to march along the thing. I fear that the situation will only get worse.
Respected Great General, some things should stay in their graves.
Burial
Image
GENERAL ORDERS
DO NOT APPROACH THE MEMORIAL
without explicit permission from the Great General.
Violation of this order will be punished with
public execution.
Reborn
Traces of the past
From the logs of the Chief Commander Swan
It is a pity that Keiran could not live as long as his father did, but even if he didn't caught in my plot, he couldn't have become Head of High Command. The Great General's quarters house many secrets. Which, of course, are mine now.
The late General Darkwill was skilled in necromancy. Though it would take many decades to read all of his spellbooks, I believe that one day I will be able to command time itself as he did.
I found something profitable today. It was one of Boram Darkwill's research logs from his early days of necromancy. He seemed to have tried to revive someone. But who?
The previous government tampered with its records. However, even the few remaining ones, and the deleted ones, tell much about what was swept under the rug.
I have finally found it. There is a memorial in the outskirts of Old Noxus that tells a story of past honor and its sad fall. Inside that memorial, the man whom Darkwill tried to bring back from eternal slumber lies.
It is still scratching the wall and struggling to get out. Pitiable thing. At least it cannot feel pain.
Thorn
LeBlanc: It's been a while, Chief Commander.
Swain: Being allied is enough. I need not always be visiting.
LeBlanc: But the mere fact that you're here tells us that you need the help of the Black Rose.
Swain: How much of the Demacian Prince's blood is left?
LeBlanc: After the charade that one time? There's enough left, assuming you be careful. Whatever you want to do, it must be quick.
Swain: This time, it's not about a deception. I am tiring of staying afloat using cheap trickery. It is now time to protect this position through war. And I need the right tools for that.
LeBlanc: I see you have something special in mind.
Swain: Let me show you.
Reborn
History has repeated itself. The Great General requires a hero, the Black Rose wants more influence over High Command, and the fallen warrior craves battle. But it's different this time. While Boram did resuscitate a corpse, the revived thing was an uncontrollable monster that only knew slaughter. I cannot fix something this flawed, but I can provide it purpose. And that is sufficient for my plans. The preparations for the ritual are done, and the monster still wants blood.
Drink the blood of those who killed you, son of Noxus. And be reborn.
-Swain-*
I'm actually genuinely glad they kept the Swain/J4/Darius/LeBlanc lore, it was some of the best stuff
Although the removal of the League makes it super confusing
Considering that Vlad exists and the super cloak and daggers nature of the Rose I'm sure they've had plenty of opportunities to get a sample of J4's blood, especially with all his big game hunting, since apparently that is all they really need.
I'm pretty sure Leblanc posing as J4 was just the one time thing. It's implied in that leaked dialogue too:
Swain: How much of the Demacian Prince's blood is left?
LeBlanc: After the charade that one time? There's enough left, assuming you be careful. Whatever you want to do, it must be quick.
Ah, another ranked game in which everything, including every misplay, is my fault because I'm the support and I'm not spending 100% of my income being everyone else's bitch.
The best part is, against a team whose CC is almost all short duration, Mikael's is somehow an appropriate buy. In gold. It would be one thing if they had long CC, but when tenacity will bring everything <1 sec, Mikaels is going to be a waste of gold. But apparently the Ezreal adc (who never really poked at all, despite that being the sole fucking reason to take Ezreal to lane, and resulted in me dying because my entire income was predicated on him playing like an Ezreal instead of passive farming from max range to where even if I landed a bubble it broke before he could do anything) thinks it's a must buy in every team comp ever.
I'm sorry, but you are not an LCS player and you are not going to slip out with Arcane Shift (which, FYI, has a fucking cast time and you will eat another CC and come out of it stunned) off a clutch Mikaels in between a 5-stun combo from half the enemy team.
You are not god's gift to the game, and the sooner you stop acting like it the sooner you might realize that there is more to laning adc than last hitting, and that there is more to support than being your personal bitch.
Rozz's guide to truly badass supporting aka Hyper Carrying without gold.
Some people don't seem to get that if I ult and blow three flashes it's not really a miss. If the enemy stops out of range for one second to avoid it, I might as well have hit them. Zoning is a thing hehe.
I may have ult-flashed instead of flash-ulting once though. Too hyped for the engage. Staying calm in a skill.
So here's a mega pet peeve of mine and it drives me up the wall. I hope someone came to your defense that game.
I hate it when people tell anyone on any team "you're bad" and/or alternatives like, "you're trash, etc"
1) They're matched in the same game as you, which means they're roughly at your level of play
2) People have bad games, one game doesn't tell you jack shit about anyone as a player.
3) It's much easier to be "good" when you're ahead and much easier to be "bad" when you're behind.
4) People don't always get their primary role/champion and a player not performing well on a particular champion doesn't mean they aren't incredible on others.
and lastly
5) If you're having a shit game, the last thing you should be doing is blaming someone else for your poor play.
Wait.. Harg, are you arguing that your teams are holding you back and stopping you from winning?
That's a very, very bad attitude to take, and it's holding you back, not your teammates. You need to play better and earn a better division, it isn't owed to you because you think you are better than everyone else in the game. Go prove it.
It is a false assumption that the skill of one player is equal to that of another they are paired with.
I'm not saying that a team is holding me back; I'm saying that it is possible for a player to perform poorly enough to hold the rest of the team back.
To play a role and then not perform as that role is intended, like going for a sunfire cape on Graves, it is fair to say that the enemy team has less pressure to eliminate damage being put on them in team fights, and it forces Graves' other 4 allies to find a way to carry without him. If they win, Graves may have the wrong idea that sunfire cape led him to a win.
It would be a silly belief to say that a team of 5 that understand what they're doing and doing mostly right will be crushed by a team of 4 doing things right with their fifth teammate doing things the wrong way (or not fully understanding the mechanics of the champ they should be using).
Some people don't seem to get that if I ult and blow three flashes it's not really a miss. If the enemy stops out of range for one second to avoid it, I might as well have hit them. Zoning is a thing hehe.
I may have ult-flashed instead of flash-ulting once though. Too hyped for the engage. Staying calm in a skill.
So here's a mega pet peeve of mine and it drives me up the wall. I hope someone came to your defense that game.
I hate it when people tell anyone on any team "you're bad" and/or alternatives like, "you're trash, etc"
1) They're matched in the same game as you, which means they're roughly at your level of play
2) People have bad games, one game doesn't tell you jack shit about anyone as a player.
3) It's much easier to be "good" when you're ahead and much easier to be "bad" when you're behind.
4) People don't always get their primary role/champion and a player not performing well on a particular champion doesn't mean they aren't incredible on others.
and lastly
5) If you're having a shit game, the last thing you should be doing is blaming someone else for your poor play.
Don't forget that saying "you're bad" doesn't actually help fix the problem
Like at all.
It literally doesn't help. It doesn't make people play better, and it wont stop you from losing a game.
I care about winning games, if you aren't helping win the game, then what are you doing.
And yelling at people on your team doesn't win games, or if you do win, it was incidental to the yelling.
Better to either shut up, or help.
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Their team holds them back just as often as your team holds you back."
"Their team has just as many feeders/trolls as your team does."
All arguments similar to this are of a gambler's fallacy. Flipping a coin 20 times doesn't guarantee 10 heads; flipping that coin 20 more times doesn't mean that it will balance out to 50/50, but the trend will converge if you do it a massive amount of times, and if you perform it an absurd amount of times (law of large numbers), it would be an absurd task to partake in. Just because a statistical analysis can be made and proven with the law of large numbers doesn't mean it is reflected in a small sample (such as taking 9 other players from a pool of several hundreds of thousands).
Don't think in terms of one game where you have Graves on your team with a sunfire cape. Think in terms of the fact that over the course of dozens, then hundreds of games, if you are better than the division you're in, you'll climb out of it.
I spent a couple seasons in silver. Took a long break. Came back, applied a lot of stuff I'd learned from watching pros play to my own game and focused only on myself, never even considering that a loss was anything other than a chance for me to do better. Surprise, I got gold in a week. Now I'm stuck in gold because it's where I belong now. I may never climb higher because I lose motivation to keep playing ranked or I get on other games and go months at a time without really playing, but in the end, I am where i belong, just like everybody else who plays this game.
You're thinking of being stuck in terms of "In this one game my teammate made it too hard for me to win." But if you're say in silver and belong in gold, then in the vast majority of games you will be the one carrying the game and winning. If you're not winning more than you're losing over 50 or 100 games, then you are where you belong, period.
Don't forget that saying "you're bad" doesn't actually help fix the problem
Like at all.
It doesn't matter what the kill count is. It doesn't matter how many turrets or dragons each team has taken. It doesn't matter what the gold difference is.
As soon as a single player starts typing "My [X] is so bad" or "This [X]" in allchat, the chances of that player's team winning take a huge fucking dive.
Don't think in terms of one game where you have Graves on your team with a sunfire cape. Think in terms of the fact that over the course of dozens, then hundreds of games, if you are better than the division you're in, you'll climb out of it.
I spent a couple seasons in silver. Took a long break. Came back, applied a lot of stuff I'd learned from watching pros play to my own game and focused only on myself, never even considering that a loss was anything other than a chance for me to do better. Surprise, I got gold in a week. Now I'm stuck in gold because it's where I belong now. I may never climb higher because I lose motivation to keep playing ranked or I get on other games and go months at a time without really playing, but in the end, I am where i belong, just like everybody else who plays this game.
You're thinking of being stuck in terms of "In this one game my teammate made it too hard for me to win." But if you're say in silver and belong in gold, then in the vast majority of games you will be the one carrying the game and winning. If you're not winning more than you're losing over 50 or 100 games, then you are where you belong, period.
Much agreed, but the weight of individual games is placed heavily on a player when in a best-of series for promotion.
It's gambler's fallacy piggybacking on gambler's fallacy to say that winning the series is easy because the other team is just as likely to throw the game.
Eventually, if you pound your head on a brick wall long enough, you'll break through that wall.
It would also be silly to say that people who rotate roles perform the exact same. Not every skilled adc is familiar with playing an apc or top, and not every jungler is adept at playing support, etc etc. It isn't that a person won't find their true mmr over a large amount of games, but that there is so much more than just the linear "you are where you are because of who you are".
Don't forget that saying "you're bad" doesn't actually help fix the problem
Like at all.
It doesn't matter what the kill count is. It doesn't matter how many turrets or dragons each team has taken. It doesn't matter what the gold difference is.
As soon as a single player starts typing "My [X] is so bad" or "This [X]" in allchat, the chances of that player's team winning take a huge fucking dive.
"Players who verbally abuse their team lose 16% more games."
The rarity of a player verbally abusing their team while winning is just about a non-factor; this is telling me that, between losing teams that lose and losing teams that make a comeback, of 100 games, comebacks happen in 46 of those games while the other 54 still lose.
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This is pretty much my experience in Silver too. Whatever happens, I've been a pleasant, mature voice in chat and it seems to create a positive snowball. People seems to take words a lot less offensively if there's a 'please' somewhere and it's not worded as an absolute command.
For that matter, I spent the game that won me my promo's as a sub-170 cs top lane Shen (a bit over 30 minute game), because it was more important that I was in mid-lane to place my body between my incredibly fat adc and Kha'Zix or AP-mumu skill-shots than it was for me to go split pushing. At 15 minutes they had a 5/0 Zed. At 23 we had a 15/x Jinx, who rolled their entire team if the rest of us kept her safe.
If you can herd them to baron after getting 3 down mid, well, you're ahead of the game.
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"You know braum(me), you're not very good
My response, "Carry me?"
"K."
We won.
Some people don't seem to get that if I ult and blow three flashes it's not really a miss. If the enemy stops out of range for one second to avoid it, I might as well have hit them. Zoning is a thing hehe.
I may have ult-flashed instead of flash-ulting once though. Too hyped for the engage. Staying calm in a skill.
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Get carried.
Forever upwards.
I am not good with sky how did this get here
Promos don't actually matter that much, people will still give up or try to surrender. Weak player mentality is way too common for your fix to actually solve your problem while probably screwing up matchmaking a lot. And we've been through this with a bunch of posts, but you are valued where you should be truly valued (assuming you've played at least 10-15 games). True MMR is a useful concept if you're programming a matchmaking service, it's useless to gauge yourself as a player.
Their team holds them back just as often as your team holds you back. Assuming you don't tilt/afk/DC the other team has to deal with that shit more often than your team in promo series, so according to your train of thought you're actually being overvalued as a result of non-promo players being allowed in your promo matches.
And I've no idea what you mean about their matchmaking being bad, Riot probably has the best ranked matchmaking in gaming. It literally works by not making you play with players worse than yourself on average. If your win rate is 50% right now you really belong where you are, so maybe you should start looking at replays to find your own issues instead of those of your teammates. The only thing I don't like is that there's no tribunal because that thing was genius.
It feels silly to put something from League behind spoilers but this technically is so here we go:
http://i1.ruliweb.daumcdn.net/uf/image/U01/ruliweb/5421297E4A3A26002A
Yaaaaay
Swain approaches LeBlanc to use J4's blood, which I imagine was needed for her disguise during the Kalamanda incident (which begs the question what the hell happened there now that there is no league to drop a stasis bubble there) which is then used by Vlad along with what looks like several other sacrifices to once again reanimate Sion... perhaps this time as a monster that specifically targets the Demacians instead of being a completely uncontrollable force of slaughter, which he will use in a war he will probably instigate with Demacia in order to maintain his position in High Command.
Is this speculation or is there a new update
THIS IS TRANSLATED FROM KOREAN, THIS IS NOT THE FINAL TEXT.
Although the removal of the League makes it super confusing
I'm waiting for the arrival of "Darth Evildark". And we're pretty much already there.
Godspeed, Ironsides.
if j4 was locked in a basement it wouldn't be a problem
Swain: How much of the Demacian Prince's blood is left?
LeBlanc: After the charade that one time? There's enough left, assuming you be careful. Whatever you want to do, it must be quick.
Rozz's guide to truly badass supporting aka Hyper Carrying without gold.
1) Pick Leona
2) Build Triforce
3) Fuck up dudes.
So here's a mega pet peeve of mine and it drives me up the wall. I hope someone came to your defense that game.
I hate it when people tell anyone on any team "you're bad" and/or alternatives like, "you're trash, etc"
1) They're matched in the same game as you, which means they're roughly at your level of play
2) People have bad games, one game doesn't tell you jack shit about anyone as a player.
3) It's much easier to be "good" when you're ahead and much easier to be "bad" when you're behind.
4) People don't always get their primary role/champion and a player not performing well on a particular champion doesn't mean they aren't incredible on others.
and lastly
5) If you're having a shit game, the last thing you should be doing is blaming someone else for your poor play.
It is a false assumption that the skill of one player is equal to that of another they are paired with.
I'm not saying that a team is holding me back; I'm saying that it is possible for a player to perform poorly enough to hold the rest of the team back.
To play a role and then not perform as that role is intended, like going for a sunfire cape on Graves, it is fair to say that the enemy team has less pressure to eliminate damage being put on them in team fights, and it forces Graves' other 4 allies to find a way to carry without him. If they win, Graves may have the wrong idea that sunfire cape led him to a win.
It would be a silly belief to say that a team of 5 that understand what they're doing and doing mostly right will be crushed by a team of 4 doing things right with their fifth teammate doing things the wrong way (or not fully understanding the mechanics of the champ they should be using).
Yelling at butts will never NOT be funny. Thanks, Psy!
Also, Abby is awesome. Keep up with TLH because it's the tits!
I love League of Legends, but seriously...screw you, Teemo.
Mainly those are the days where I take on the role of team therapist and play like it's Conflict Resolution Simulator 2014.
I have "Let's not do this. Let's just focus on winning." bound to a macro
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Don't forget that saying "you're bad" doesn't actually help fix the problem
Like at all.
It literally doesn't help. It doesn't make people play better, and it wont stop you from losing a game.
I care about winning games, if you aren't helping win the game, then what are you doing.
And yelling at people on your team doesn't win games, or if you do win, it was incidental to the yelling.
Better to either shut up, or help.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Their team has just as many feeders/trolls as your team does."
All arguments similar to this are of a gambler's fallacy. Flipping a coin 20 times doesn't guarantee 10 heads; flipping that coin 20 more times doesn't mean that it will balance out to 50/50, but the trend will converge if you do it a massive amount of times, and if you perform it an absurd amount of times (law of large numbers), it would be an absurd task to partake in. Just because a statistical analysis can be made and proven with the law of large numbers doesn't mean it is reflected in a small sample (such as taking 9 other players from a pool of several hundreds of thousands).
Yelling at butts will never NOT be funny. Thanks, Psy!
Also, Abby is awesome. Keep up with TLH because it's the tits!
I love League of Legends, but seriously...screw you, Teemo.
I spent a couple seasons in silver. Took a long break. Came back, applied a lot of stuff I'd learned from watching pros play to my own game and focused only on myself, never even considering that a loss was anything other than a chance for me to do better. Surprise, I got gold in a week. Now I'm stuck in gold because it's where I belong now. I may never climb higher because I lose motivation to keep playing ranked or I get on other games and go months at a time without really playing, but in the end, I am where i belong, just like everybody else who plays this game.
You're thinking of being stuck in terms of "In this one game my teammate made it too hard for me to win." But if you're say in silver and belong in gold, then in the vast majority of games you will be the one carrying the game and winning. If you're not winning more than you're losing over 50 or 100 games, then you are where you belong, period.
It doesn't matter what the kill count is. It doesn't matter how many turrets or dragons each team has taken. It doesn't matter what the gold difference is.
As soon as a single player starts typing "My [X] is so bad" or "This [X]" in allchat, the chances of that player's team winning take a huge fucking dive.
Much agreed, but the weight of individual games is placed heavily on a player when in a best-of series for promotion.
It's gambler's fallacy piggybacking on gambler's fallacy to say that winning the series is easy because the other team is just as likely to throw the game.
Eventually, if you pound your head on a brick wall long enough, you'll break through that wall.
It would also be silly to say that people who rotate roles perform the exact same. Not every skilled adc is familiar with playing an apc or top, and not every jungler is adept at playing support, etc etc. It isn't that a person won't find their true mmr over a large amount of games, but that there is so much more than just the linear "you are where you are because of who you are".
Yelling at butts will never NOT be funny. Thanks, Psy!
Also, Abby is awesome. Keep up with TLH because it's the tits!
I love League of Legends, but seriously...screw you, Teemo.
"Players who verbally abuse their team lose 16% more games."
The rarity of a player verbally abusing their team while winning is just about a non-factor; this is telling me that, between losing teams that lose and losing teams that make a comeback, of 100 games, comebacks happen in 46 of those games while the other 54 still lose.
Yelling at butts will never NOT be funny. Thanks, Psy!
Also, Abby is awesome. Keep up with TLH because it's the tits!
I love League of Legends, but seriously...screw you, Teemo.
My streak of being ignored on these boards continues....
Anyone else been having massive Lag issues when in a game? I can't even play a full BOT game because of the lag.
Godspeed, Ironsides.