u/ArtStyleMatters

Tips for adjusting to randoms throwing?

Let's preface it all with this: I know I make mistakes too, I don't need elitists telling me how bad I am as it usually boils down to 'cause people gotta flex their rank or I don't know, I need to know how you adjusted in similar cases.

I've been playing support since I started playing league, back when gp support was still a thing and trinity hydra leona wasn't an instant report but one thing I've always struggled with is dumbing myself down to play with randoms. What seems obvious to me like zoning people away to get the lv2 spike, focusing the cc'd squishy enemy in a fight or even not running away as soon as your teammate(me) jumps in to save you from the bad fight you just started seems to elude most of my adcs(and sometimes roaming laners) way too much.

It mostly happens with melee supports, 'cause of course it's basically all in most of the times, but every 2-3 games I get that adc that trades when he shouldn't, pushes with no vision dying 3+ times in a row getting caught in the middle of the lane, breaking freezes, not recalling with 100 hp 'cause the jungler pinged for a gank that should never happen in that situation thus losing tempo and so on. If I ping people to be careful and such I either get straight up ignored or told to shut the f up.

The solutions I've come up thus far are: trying another role, playing duo(haven't found one in a decade, people that add me just play decently -not even that well- for 2-3 games then they stop pinging or communicating in any way, they get cocky from a couple wins and I end up blocking them, since it's no different than playing with 4 randoms) or just quitting league since this new generation seems to be even worse at communicating than us 'old heads'.

And back to the initial point, when I see these people repeating the same mistake in a single game I just crash out an, start tilting and play as poorly as them trying to salvage what little is left of the advantage we had. I don't even care if I lose but damn, I hate wasting 30-40 minutes every time because people take dumb decisions and legit grief the game for no reason.

So, how do you deal with randoms that most of the times clearly lack map awareness, decision making etc.?

p.s. I usually play 50-100 ranked a season, get a feel on how it goes and decide whether to push a bit more or not. As you can gather from the lines above my mental isn't rock hard so that's another thing dragging me down.

When I start having lose streaks of 10+ games I take a loooooong break from ranked games.

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u/ArtStyleMatters — 6 days ago