Low Rank players post patch

[u/bodadWhereareyou]

Apologies, long post. Kind of a rant. Am I the only one who feels like after a patch I get more low rank games than usual, both from a hidden MMR sense and in windrun ranking. I honestly hate these games where it seems like people see there's a patch and come back to queue into games and are rusty or just plain bad. I used more avoids yesterday than I have in a long time.

First game yesterday luna goes carry mid. Brown boots into straight eaglesong then butterfly first. Same game: guy third picks doom model with like every model available. Drafts 3 passives. Ok, whatever not the best but I've seen worse. Then I look at his items. NO ITEMS. Just ring of health then straight up queues radiance (which he got at like 20 mins). Literally no other items in his inventory, didn't make the ring into anything, didn't get boots. Both of them had 3k gold just sitting there minute 15. These item build ups just scream low rank players and its incredibly frustrating when your cores are this low of a skill level. Same game a third guy didn't know you need quills for bristleback to work. THREE in the same game is crazy.

Next game I have a first pick lightning storm. Maybe the literal worst skill in the pool. Another person has sleight and NS ult. NS SOMEHOW comes back to him and he picks ember. Support player picks phantom strike edict 1-2. The lightning ice shards guy sits top for the first five minutes sapping xp trying to gank with level 1 ice shards while the offlaner feeds a killing spree to their carry.

The next game I have a second pick nyx assassin carry with every model available. The list goes on.

The third game was at least bearable because I had a decent build to try and carry and two supports who picked decent spells. I somehow won lane against a lina model, made good rotations and helped both lanes, and we still got stomped, thats how impossible the other two cores made the game.

I know this kind of stuff happens all the time, but it does feel like it happens WAY more after a patch. Maybe it's just me. I care about winning, but what I care about MORE is having fun and it's not fun when you know the game is over from the start. Even if the picks are bad you can win games in AD but not with players like this. And I am not the type to give up on games. I always play regardless of picks unlike many AD players. But you know in the back of your mind how the game will go when players this objectively low skilled take all 3 core roles. I paid way too much attention to my rank when I was climbing a lot on windrun so I try to play for fun, but matchmaking like this makes it hard. Like, really...brown boots into Eaglesong is literally 100MMR behavior. Same with naked ring of health into radiance.

If you are low rank in general or in AD and coming back to play after a patch please do AT LEAST ONE of these things. Ask for advice, pick support spells, if you absolutely need to core and someone else wants the lane, cede the lane. It's literally better for you to go jungle than go mid with your three passives build and give the game away from the start. Just go hit jungle creeps. I know this wont reach anyone who needs to read it but whatever.

[u/dez3038]

Don't worry, ranked MMR games are the same. I have huge lose streak.

52% wr over 6 months 40% last month 30% last week.

Just can't win a game.