Despite your decent skill and game experience, the reason why you hard still in any elo is because of your teammates.
It sucks that, sometimes, Solo Q in League of Legends is more about which team has fewer players with “mental issues”.
It is true that s video game’s main purpose is to entertain the players. However, it is quite unfair while some players chose to troll, made the game harder, and more stressed for others to enjoy.
Don’t you hate it when you are in your promo, you gave up your favorite role to one of your teammates, and then that person decided to test a champion that he/she never played before. Or when someone said that they main Yasuo a specific champion, they ended up feeding again and over again, finally, /all chat “ff20”, then rage quit. How would you feel?
Terrible isn’t it? So what is the best thing you can do to avoid this situation? What should you do to help your losing streak and your sad LP? We are going to show you right now:
Check Your Teammates’ Recent History Matches Online.
Make sure that you use your time in Ban/Pick wisely. As soon as possible, once you found a match. Have your internet browser ready. You can look up OP.GG, choose your region and then put in your teammates’ summoner name into the search box. Look up each of them one after another.
Make sure that you take a look at their KDA, golds and cs points, Rank points in current and the last season, Top selected champions, their win rate on those champions, maybe their builds and summoner spells as well.
Once you done doing researching your teammates, you can either decide to dodge the game or not. Sometimes, dodging a ranked game would lose you 3 to 7 LP. If you are lucky enough you would not lose any point.
Remember that dodging impossible game would save you at least more than 20+ minutes of your life, so as your LP. Instead of losing 17+ LP, you would likely to lose from 0 to 7 LP and 3-10 minutes of wait time before finding a new match.
So what if you already got into a match and found out your teammates are not that … smart?
Mute Both Chats, Try to Encouraging Your Teammates, But not Too Much
Many players find it’s annoying when someone talks too much or talks like they know what they are doing, but they don’t. Therefore, it’s best to say something only if it would help your team/ the game, or just don’t say anything at all and focus on yourself.
In Higher elo like Diamond 2 and ups, players tend to “/mute all” at the beginning of the match, or when someone started talking too much/talking nonsense. Do not worry about “So what if they try to communicate with me?” If they need to, the can use pings. That’s what pinging there for.
Reading and replying to the chat not only distract you from your lane, but might also cause you missing a cs or more, or even cost you a life.
Just Pray Your God Do Your Best!
According to all the High Elo Players who used to hard stuck in Platinum, the best way to climb rank is to mute all the players at the beginning of the match and focus on yourself. Pretend like all of your teammates’ mental is stable. Whoever dies a lot would probably bad at the game.
Remember that you cannot win every game. In most of the games, your team will somehow listen to your calls and win, sometimes you will start loosing but the enemy team will throw, and sometimes, no matter what you do, your team will just run it down.
Therefore, the best way to enjoy the game and climb to higher ranks is to focus on yourself only. What you can do? What call should you make? What correct items should you get based on the situation?
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