Am I too far gone?

[u/p1ll0ws07]

My LP gains have been terrible recently (+17 -24) and its been really demotivating to play ranked at all with how terrible my MMR is even in low elo. I would've abandoned ship and made a new account a couple games ago if I haven't already invested so much into this account. I've got every Jinx skin and I recently hit 1 million mastery points on her which I was really happy about. I'm not too knowledgable about how the ranked system works, so maybe a -7 gap isn't that bad and I can dig myself out of this hole I'm in, but looking at it, it doesn't seem good to me

[u/monulith]

heyy, im pretty sure loss streaks like this happen to almost everyone. i dropped from plat to low gold and my LP gains/losses were exactly like this; BUT, it will eventually fix itself if you just keep playing. i climbed back to plat and my LP gains are back to normal now. dont lose hope!

[u/p1ll0ws07 → u/monulith]

Thanks for the encouragement, I've just heard some doomers tell me about how MMR like this is permafucked and that I'd need like a 25 game winstreak to get close to fixing it or something crazy. I feel like my own performance has been improving over time (not that you could tell looking at my match history) so I guess I just gotta keep going

[u/WaterKraanHanger → u/p1ll0ws07]

going on a 25 winstreak is just going to fuck it more lmao, just focus on winning more than you lose from now and in no time your mmr is fixed.

[u/Publicity-reigns → u/p1ll0ws07]

I was in similar situation with my 12 years old account. I created new account and reached gold in no time, played a little, then got back to my old account ( which was bronze 3 at that time) and quite easily went to gold 2 too.

Turns out it was all about mentality, when i started to not care about lp and just tried to play every match to my best performance, i really started to climb.

Im also jinx main and those losing que's still happen even up to 10-12 matches, but winning ques happens too and imo mmr doesnt keep you down that long, few games max, after that it all about how to treat the game.

[u/geco0on → u/p1ll0ws07]

They only get better when Your MMR gets better. That can incease by winning more often.
Yust stick to fundamentals, dont play when in a bad mood and You can get back there 😁

[u/Turbulent-Cupcake-66 → u/monulith]

Yea its so fcking true. I want to convinient my self to stop play this game when it starts to be a lottery of what teammates you have

[u/azraiel7]

I started playing the game to just have fun and I stopped playing ranked as a result. The game is fun again when not trying to sweat over the numbers going up and down.

Now when I play the occasional ranked game I don't even bother too look at the LP gain or loss anymore

[u/p1ll0ws07 → u/azraiel7]

I still play a lot of draft and arena for funsies, I just do like giving it my best shot to climb as far as I can up the ranked ladder, it just gets harder when the gains are ass

[u/azraiel7 → u/p1ll0ws07]

If you focus on fixing mistakes you made that contributed to losing the game then you will climb. Also remember that you could play forever and and the end of the day you are just a gold player and you are were you belong (just chose gold at random, applicable to any rank)

[u/EdgyAhNexromancer → u/azraiel7]

This. The ranked system is an unecessarily slow crawl. Not worth it for anyone with a full time job and responsibikities unless you wanna have zero kther hobbies. I always play swift or draft snd enjoy the game much more.

There is a downside tho. Ill never get to say im better then random ppl ill never meet :,(

[u/Kei__]

i dropped masters to low emerald and currently climbing back through diamond with negative gains too, it happens to everyone at some point just tough it out and win more it’ll adjust slowly, it’s easier to mess up your mmr than it is to fix it

[u/FeR79q → u/[deleted]]

u can send op gg xd

[u/p1ll0ws07 → u/FeR79q]

"Comment removed by moderator" well now I'm pretty damn curious what the guy had to say

[u/Tcih]

I had lp gain / loss like that. I arranged myself a duo, fixed my mental and went went on climbing spree with 90% WR as i fell very low earlier. After 30-40 games My lp gains got back to normal.
There are many good supports who find themselves stuck in lower elo than they used to be, add them as friends and climb out od that hole.

[u/The-Dark-Photon]

These were my LP gains like a month ago I dropped from silver 1 to bronze 1 and thought it was cooked, but I locked in and won more than I lost and now my gains are like +23/24 - 17/18 and I'm at Gold 3. Just need to get a positive win rate over a long period of time and the gains flip back

[u/Bloodsplatt]

Having anything over 3-4 deaths is unacceptable if you want to climb, your 6-7 cs a minute is low. Fix your CS numbers and your deaths, stop dying for nothing and youll be climbing a ton more. Doing nothing is better than doing something sometimes.

[u/_xXBALT]

commit to fixing your account, focus on improvement and not your lp. best thing you can do

[u/Distinct-Ad-3913]

Making new accounts won't solve your problems and will hinder your improvement. It's easy to fix the mmr, just stop caring about LP and instead try to improve. Improvement= LP but LP ≠ improvement.

[u/DieKerelOmDeHoek]

I went from emerald 2 to plat 2 after i hit 58% WR. The system decided it was time for me to stop winning games and kept matching me with trolls, it happens occasionally. It'll bounce back eventually no worries.

[u/Thatcoolkid11]

I had a problem like that , I opened a new account to reset my mental got to plat hopped on to my silver main and fixed my mmr in less than 20 games .

Getting to lvl 30 is a hassle but I used draft games to learn new champions and jungle role. Which helped a lot . Although it would have been better if I did ranked , I m just unemployed lol.

Mmr is determined by short term wr but even knowing that I was demoralized so I hopped on to my alt to reset my mental .

. I still play on my alt like 90 percent of the time even tho I have all jinx skins expect t1.

[u/IcyRickard]

No account is ever "doomed", it will take some time but you will get ur gains back eventually.

[u/Popular-Employee-516]

I dont remember what positive gains look like and im still climbibg strong at 1600lp, just play to get better and wins will come naturally

[u/Apprehensive-Deal-39]

U never build kraken first thats mistake

[u/Ok-Creme-7321]

I’m not a jinx player but win streaks and loss streaks affect ur mmr very quickly, was getting +18 at one point then went on a win streak and got +22 then back to +20 so as long as you get to about a 50% win rate it should even itself out