I’ve been spending less time than usual in ranked games since crossing the 1500 marker for the second time. It’s that “second time” part that’s really important, because it took me a while to make my way back up after dropping as low as 1410ish. Prior to that point, I usually jumped into a new game shortly after losing. I had this sense that I could “erase” the last match by winning another. Unfortunately, we all know the game doesn’t work that way, and more often than not the losses pile up along with the frustration.
I’ve taken a different approach lately. When I lose a game I back off, let myself chill out from the loss before I queue again. It keeps the rage down a bit and even better, it gets me new teammates. I often feel like a losing team tends to lose when they get paired together because a demoralizing defeat just carries over into the next game.
Occasionally I’ll play a few in a row, but it’s usually on nights that I know I’ll be okay dropping 40-50 ELO, but for the most part, I’m sticking to a one and done schedule for losing. How do you handle your losses?
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Unless someone was a total fool and lost it for us (or it was me that lost it for us
), I generally just hop back in the queue; I don’t take it too seriously.
I say something witty and then argue with whoever is left in the chat room.
My approach lately has been 1 ranked games a night followed by a normal queue running a teemo or some other champ I’m not comfortable with in ranked. If I win or I have friends on I might run a few more ranked games.
IF i lose i do 1 after another until i cant take it any more and make a “fun” game where my friends and i do a 3v3 normal with a composition like: soraka, eve, kassa. xD The thing is we mostly win this games…
Hm. When I lose I curl up into a fetal position and cry myself to sleep.
I’ve played so many games now, it really doesn’t bother me (got my 1000th win recently). Of course, it’s always frustrating; no one WANTS to lose. But the only thing that makes me upset are rude people in the game. For example, those who call us noobs after winning, even when we were down 2v3. Or people on my team who get upset over petty things like kill stealing. I just don’t see why it’s so hard for people to play a nice respectable game for 30 minutes.
@ MkMiku
What can i say, you hit a point there MkMiku.
Those people really make me angry.
I look for articles of people who are on a losing streak just as I am. It may sound silly but it helps knowing you’re not the only one.