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Draegan_sl said:
You're a grown man playing League of Legends with teenagers. Stop getting excited about it.
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Haha, yea, it is silly isn't it? Oh well, I'll probably be a gamer till I die. Once my reactions are too piss poor I'll have to play Hearthstone or MMOs again. Until then I still try to fit in with the younger crowd.

Funny thing is ESPN wrote an article which presented this graphic:
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eSports is a massive industry -- and it's growing

Watching eSports is certainly different than playing the game, but still, I feel like it's mostly college kids in my games. (which is still a 10+ yr gap).
 
Eidal

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I'm not sure that I agree with this. Hear me out, please.

I've found it's almost impossible, if I'm not trolling, to drop below a 35% win rate for any 20 game period. I take that to mean, 35% of my games I cannot lose. My impact on those games is 0.

For example, there was this one game in Bronze 3 where my team had two AFKers. I mean, that game can't be won, right? I just played the game like I always do and tried to win. But my impact was basically zilch. Meanwhile, what I didn't know at the time was my other two team mates were diamond smurfs. Not fake ass "mid or I feed" diamond smurfs. Legit diamond level players.

I sat in my lane and pushed to tower, kept up pressure all game, while my two teammates 2v5'd the enemy team. I was the most useless bitch ever, and if I had afk'd I still would have won. That game was impossible to lose, unless I fed the enemy team intentionally for 40 minutes. And you know what? Even if I had done that, I still have pretty good odds of walking away with a win.

Conversly, 35% of games I really cannot win. Just the nature of the game. If both of these things are true, then my maximum impact on a game is about 30%. Which is close to what you would expect, given that you are 20% of a team in any given game, and you are competing against another player on an opposing team that's worth about 20% of his team, and maybe you can out perform that person and carry your team an additional 10% or so. That 10% or so is what, over time, increases your mmr.

My take away, is that if I'm playing seriously, my contribution will help determine 1 game in 3. That's statistically significant, but only over time. Each individual game really DOES NOT MATTER. As long as you are consistent and working to improve your mmr will continue to go up the more you play.

That's the way I look at it, for whatever that's worth.
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Agree 100 percent -- that's why the games that people throw away due to trolling is very likely the single largest factor in why they aren't raising rank.
 
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kogmaw>tsm lol

for the most part, they were playing the game correctly... even though they had some misplays, they at least were playing around their strengths.
but when you go into the late game, you remove any leeway for mistakes.
poof, one mistake game over.
 
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Team picks Shen top Soraka support and wonders why we lose team fights. Herp derp.

Next game. First pick's Vayne, I lock in nunu. Then Zed mid Trundle top. Then Nidalee support. No CC, essentially full AD, nid support? TO THE LOSS COLUMN I GO!
 
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No matter what anyone wants to say about attitude my last four games are a clear indicator of what solo queue is:

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#1, zero cc, a support with no lane pressure paired with draven, Shen top and Soraka support for the never win a team fight ever composition
#2 Malphite mid who refused to hold his ult for Kat ult, had half her farm at 12 minutes despite her roaming everywhere, and ended up with way less gold than me despite getting 9 kills(mainly due to ulting right after I ulted, despite it allowing Kat to ult and kill everyone immediately after).
#3 Full AD with a nidalee support, again no CC. Won anyway due to banner of command on me and Zed splitpushing.
#4 Yi top blind, with a warwick support. A warwick support with Teleport heal. A warwick support with teleprot heal who went 2-8-3 his last support game(also warwick) and went 2/9/3 this game.

Good attitude does nothing to help this shit. When one team picks a real composition, with AP and AD damage and CC and a tank, and the other one picks support warwick, you will lose 80% of the time. Yet I can't report these idiots for anything. They are playing within the summoner's code. It's fucking ridiculous.
 
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You posted like a nine win streak a page back or so. Wins and losses are going to balance each other out unless you are playing in a tier decently below your skill level. Some games just aren't winnable and they come in clumps, same with win streaks. It just means you are a gold player skill wise right now.

The thing having a positive attitude both in game and out will do for you is to mitigate your bad patches by not allowing you to negatively effect them. Either by poor play since you are unsettled or bringing down your team's morale.

You also need to get off this proper composition thing. Sure there are really bad team comps but almost every team is good at something. Double ad carry comps are great for tower pushing before the opponents can get online for instance. Just had a game where I was playing support and we had ez mid, sivir, and a gnar top. Won the game in twenty four minutes because we rotated and took turrets before the enemy could get their shit together.
 
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Or just pick a carry jungler. You play Sej, Zac, Grag and Nunu, all 4 that are super tanky and rely 99 out of 100 games on someone on your team doing shit. There's a reason when I play jungle I either go Yi, Shaco or Fiddle because even if you team blows ass you can still carry the game. I know you're trying to play all LCS level jungles but there's a reason those junglers are good in LCS and shitty in yoloqueue (especially lower levels) because they are team fight oriented junglers. If I ever play Jungler in ranked now a day probably 50% of my games I just play master yi, rush devourer + ghostblade + bork and just split push 24/7 with smite/tp. Probably why I"m like 15-4 or something with Yi so far this season.
 
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You need to switch up your masteries for Sejuani. An AP Sejuani with tank items? Ya you might have a 72% win rate, but I bet if you changed it up you would be unstoppable and the team members who can carry (adc) will be able to get fed more and live longer as you CC everyone. Here is what I run and I hope it helps you if you are willing to switch it up a bit. Longer buffs, better defensive stats, and move speed.

I am sitting on a 89% win rate with a KDA of 7.79:1.(10.6/3.4/16.9) The key is staying alive and getting tons of assists and get the people who do the most damage the gold. Also I run 2x 26 health quints, 1x 1.5% movement, 9x .91 armor Marks, 9x 1.33 health per level Seals, and 9x .09 cool down per level Glpths.

I always build Cinderhulk, t1(if enough gold, cooldown boots asap) boots, Warmogs, thornmail as my very first items and focus on top and bot lane. Since botlane wins so quickly due to wreckage, they move to mid and turn it in to a 1v3 match up very quickly so I don't need to worry about MR till 20 mins into the match. And by that time I already have 4.5k hps and AP casters can suck my dick.
Here is the best advice I have ever gotten from league. If you didn't see the video on the other page, you should check it out.
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Eidal

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Rofl, I love Gilgamel posts. He's a twin of a guy I used to work with. "Stuck" in low Gold, guy even leveled up a smurf to break the elo hell curse and he's furious that both his accounts are low Gold. Rages constantly and denies it -- thinks constant snarky critique is helpful not destructive. He'll start blasting people from the first minute because they didn't pick what he thinks they ought to have for composition reasons.

A jungler going 1:9 and blaming team, hahaha. The delusion is strong.
 
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Eidal_sl said:
Rofl, I love Gilgamel posts. He's a twin of a guy I used to work with. "Stuck" in low Gold, guy even leveled up a smurf to break the elo hell curse and he's furious that both his accounts are low Gold. Rages constantly and denies it -- thinks constant snarky critique is helpful not destructive. He'll start blasting people from the first minute because they didn't pick what he thinks they ought to have for composition reasons.

A jungler going 1:9 and blaming team, hahaha. The delusion is strong.
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You have literally no clue what you're talking about. The only people I "rage" at are people who troll, and if I was a rager I would be banned. My rage consists of making sarcastic comments 99.9% of the time and trying to be funny, but your opinion is yours so keep it if you want.

@Rais I use the same masteries and runes as almost all the high elo Sej players and the ones the pros use in competitive. A lot of high elo Sej's even take AP blues. The only difference is I build RoA if I get ahead, because almost all solo queue games last long enough to make it insanely efficient. Going 0 offense gibs her early clear and doesn't allow you to 3:10 gank like every other jungler worth a shit, and since I average 4 deaths a game I don't think tankyness is a problem. The 9 death game was due to a superfed Kat that our malphite literally refused to wait for her ult to ult. When I land a 4 man ult and then she jumps in and kills us all because he's the only point and click CC and he always uses it early there's nothing I can do.

@Sidian my second most played this season is Lee Sin, and I'm carrying a 58% winrate. I find it easier to carry on tanks than Lee. Lee falls off so hard that it doesn't matter if I go 6-0 and get 3 dragons before 20 minutes sometimes. I played a fuckton of Kha last year but he's not great atm, I don't like Fiddle, and I play Yi but only when the composition allows it. I also hate compositions with no tanks and no AP, which is why AP tanks are my primary focus. Plus I am really good at Zac, at least for my ELO. Shaco feels like a worse version of Lee. I may revisit Kha, and Ekko is probably worthwhile atm but he's about to get nerfbatted.
 
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Gilgamel_sl said:
You have literally no clue what you're talking about. The only people I "rage" at are people who troll, and if I was a rager I would be banned. My rage consists of making sarcastic comments 99.9% of the time and trying to be funny, but your opinion is yours so keep it if you want.

@Rais I use the same masteries and runes as almost all the high elo Sej players and the ones the pros use in competitive. A lot of high elo Sej's even take AP blues. The only difference is I build RoA if I get ahead, because almost all solo queue games last long enough to make it insanely efficient. Going 0 offense gibs her early clear and doesn't allow you to 3:10 gank like every other jungler worth a shit, and since I average 4 deaths a game I don't think tankyness is a problem. The 9 death game was due to a superfed Kat that our malphite literally refused to wait for her ult to ult. When I land a 4 man ult and then she jumps in and kills us all because he's the only point and click CC and he always uses it early there's nothing I can do.

@Sidian my second most played this season is Lee Sin, and I'm carrying a 58% winrate. I find it easier to carry on tanks than Lee. Lee falls off so hard that it doesn't matter if I go 6-0 and get 3 dragons before 20 minutes sometimes. I played a fuckton of Kha last year but he's not great atm, I don't like Fiddle, and I play Yi but only when the composition allows it. I also hate compositions with no tanks and no AP, which is why AP tanks are my primary focus. Plus I am really good at Zac, at least for my ELO. Shaco feels like a worse version of Lee. I may revisit Kha, and Ekko is probably worthwhile atm but he's about to get nerfbatted.
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58% win rate on your main is too low. I have a 76% win rate on my main role/char in 100+ games.

Also, kha is really strong atm. Shaco is consistantly one of the strongest solo que chars. There's a reason he's had a very high ban rate in higher diamonds since season 1, especially if they know a shaco player is around. He carries games hard, but there aren't many people who are good at him- the main reason he's pretty much shit on for being useless at lower elos.
 
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Well good luck on your LCS run Gil. It sounds like you have worked everything out and know everything to do. I do think there is more to it than looking up some games some pros run and copying them and translating it into solq wins, but hey I'm not a pro so I don't know. There is a big difference between LCS games and SoloQ. LCS=Team,SoloQ= YOU carry no matter what.

Don't bitch about Kat. Get over it. You have 2 abilities to lock her down and kill her asap. One of them can be on a 4 second cool down, and that turns in to like 2 second 2 second ability after your ult. So you get 3 knock ups/stuns in a span of 7 seconds, and yet still couldn't kill kat. Sounds like poor focusing if you're blaming her ult killing your team. When in fact you should be asking yourself, " Why couldn't lock her down for the 8 seconds to kill her?".
 
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If you have a 76% win rate with a champ you should be Challenger by now. Just dodge the games you don't get with your main.
 
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Wow that CLG game. No way aphro gets to play bard again. Fucking godlike. I was entertained from start to finish and bonus lols for phreak losing his voice.
 
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