My biggest losing streak was a 8 lose streak and recently I had another 3 lose streak.
In ALL of these games, my score was either neutral or positive, but NEVER negative. However, in all of them, there was always at LEAST one person on a ridiculously low score (for example in my most recent game, the adc went 1/11).
I feel that I am a lot more knowledgeable than many of my team mates (I don't mean this in an arrogant way but many of them don't seem to know basics like objectives > kills, taking a drag after killing both in bot lane at level 6, backing off once taking inhibitor and on low HP, not chasing, warding the right places, don't try to duel a Jax, don't try to split push unless the rest of the team is taking another objective simultaneously, etc)
Now I'm aware that I'm not a perfect player, I make mistakes and in every single game, there is ALWAYS something I could have done better. However, I don't often get caught out or say push a lane with no vision etc. The mistakes I usually make are things like forgetting that I have a smite charge to use in a team fight, forgetting to use Face of the Mountain on my adc when duelling their bot lane, forgetting that I have a potion leftover and not using it when that could have saved me.
However, I feel very demotivated at the moment to continue playing ranked games. I don't mind losing a game here and there because of a ridiculously low scoring member of the team, since that just happens sometimes, but when this happens so many times in a row, it does make ranked feel much less enjoyable for me because I feel 'helpless'. My most recent example of something like this was when I was 24/3 and the rest of my team mates were around 3/12, 0/9, 1/11 etc. That game I still lost.
I often see people saying that if I belong in a certain tier, then I'll get there eventually after some number of games, but I'm starting to believe this less and less the more of these kinds of games I play.
Is this normal and do you perhaps have any suggestions? Am I just seeing things the wrong way? I play either top, jungle or support. I am almost always either jungle or support though.
Best Answer
To me it sounds like you're trying to play a team game solo. Who cares if you're 50/0 if you're not helping THE TEAM. Don't put so much focus on the scores, focus on benefiting your team even if it means you go 2/10.
Also follow your team, even if you think they're doing the wrong thing. It's better for everyone to do the same wrong thing then for 1 person to do the wrong thing while the rest do the right thing.
Going 24/3 doesn't really help your team that much, let others get the final hit if you can. Obviously it depends on your champion/role but it's usually better to share the gold around, if you're super fed while the rest of your team isn't then the enemy are just going to focus you in that final team fight then push to win.
Remember if there's at least one person getting an assist on a kill your team gets 150% of the gold than it would've if there wasn't an assist. So with all these kills you're getting are you just hunting down enemies by yourself, or are you going with your teammates to get the kill together?
If you see one of your teammates/lanes are doing badly as you mentioned. Before they get to to 1/11 stage, help them out. Roam around a bit and gank their lane. Sometimes it's impossible to win a lane without outside help. So if you notice someone struggling, go help them out, if you help them get a kill it's unlikely the enemy will continue to snowball, it might even turn it around and let your struggling teammate to snowball instead. Even if you don't get the kill but manage to get the enemy champion out of lane. This will help your teammate tremendously; it will give them time to farm a little bit of gold and XP which may be the difference they need to be able to compete with their lane opponent.