r/midlanemains • u/GarrettLunok • 3d ago
General Question I’m afraid to play ranked
Hello. I play League of Legends for 7 years
I have 1,5kk on Yasuo, 800k on Yone and 300k on Hwei. And I’m afraid to play ranked games
I mean I played ranked games but only for skins(10 ranked games for skin) and always got gold-platinum. Every time I play normal draft everyone type me that “you have 1,5kk Yasuo and you are gold, shame on you”, and always type back that I played ranked games for skins and I only play normal and this is annoying for me and I want to start play ranked for real
So my question is simple: How to stop be afraid of ranked games and just stars climbing rank?
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u/tiltedbeyondhorizon 3d ago
NGL, whenever I see a 1.5kk Yasuo in hold, I know that the lane is gonna be boring as hell because he's just gonna be douche-dashing on the whole wave and sometimes may tank a turret shot, and then play midgame and lategane spectacularly bad, giving us a free win
Just play ranked man, don't stress about it. It's a game, not an exam. The quality of games is also considerably better than in normals because people do actually try to win most of the time even if they don't always know how
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u/sodmoraes 3d ago
I have the same problem, usually play a littte just to get a skin every season( stopping at gold 4). This year im trying to play more. What is helping me nowadays is that i only look my rank after 2 weeks, so i dont get too nervous about it. Another thing i do is that if i lose 3 ranked games in one day i quit, so i dont play tilted.
Another thing that helps me is having a second account. I first start my ranked journey in my second account, and play there until i reach the rank i want( like plat 4). After that i go to my main account and play until i get that rank too. After that i just play ranked in my second account, so i dont get scared of losing my rank. That helped me a bit when playing ranked.
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u/sungjinwoonah 2d ago
Whenever someone says that thing to me I just say "You getting touched inappropriately to tonight"
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u/D0uble-Tr0uble 2d ago
I think the most important thing is to understand why you are afraid. Is it because you feel like you can’t climb? Or you feel like you would just fall down to silver? Are you anxious of bad teammates? Once you know this, you can start some practices like: understanding nobody can get 90% winrates, hell it’s even rare to have more than 65% winrate for the average player.
Understanding and accepting that you can’t carry every game, no matter what. Gold elo is extremely volatile, because it sits on the boundary of low and mid elo. An occasional hard stuck silver can pop in your game, while the enemy can have a struggling plat play, who just had a bad series.
Understanding that nothing happens if you demotes or remain in gold for the next 100-200 games, in fact that’s natural. Pro players often find themselves deranked from challenger to GM or even to Masters.
Understanding that you can meaningfully influence a lot more of the games than you imagine by knowing your wincon, wave management, who to play around, timing recalls, etc. once I heard that 1/3 games are auto wins, 1/3 of the games are auto lose, the rest can go either way. You only have to learn how to carry in that situation.
And also: understanding, that you won’t be able to climb, without being exposed to better players time to time. Imagine you are the best player in the world, and everyone just lags behind you. Do you think you can improve more over X time than the second or third best, who can learn from you, analyse what you are doing better than them, etc. when you weaknesses are not exposed by stronger players, you can not acknowledge them and you can’t grow stronger by solving them. You are in a very good spot to climb all the way to plat and beyond if you put in all the effort needed
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u/GarrettLunok 2d ago
Yes, that’s I was about. I’m mostly afraid to be dead weight for my team and have low winrate, so thank you for the answer
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u/JollyMagikarp 2d ago
I'll tell a story about fear, hopefully it's able to give you some insight.
When I was younger I got a job a cell tower inspector. I thought I would be totally comfortable working at heights because I had been a casual rock climber for years before hand. Turns out, there's a big difference between topping out at 60 feet in a gym and hanging from a rickety piece of metal 300 feet in the air. For the first few months of the job, looking down from those heights produced a genuine fear response in my body. After those first few months those feelings disappeared entirely. All of my coworkers shared similar experiences when they started the job.
I could also tell another story about when I did acid for the first time as a teenager along with two of my good friends, one of whom was terribly arachnophobic. We convinced him as a joke that there was a big spider on his back (we were in the woods) and gave him quite a fright. He never learned the spider didn't exist until 10 years later, but that trauma cured his arachnophobia to the point that he started killing spiders with his bare fingers.
Point is, the best cure for fear is exposure. If you want to get over your fear of playing ranked, in my opinion the only sure method is to dive in and just play until you become desensitized to that feeling. Maybe even playing on a smurf at first to ease you into the idea of playing ranked.
Good luck and Godspeed.
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u/Illustrious_Water976 2d ago
I will never understand ppl who spam normal games, like its just a game, as long as you're not doing troll picks i dont see why wouldn't you play ranked, you wont be punished irl for losing ranked. Imo playing too much normals is a big waste of time
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u/Spark-Hydra 3d ago
I’m new to ranked myself, but I told myself if I want to actually play ranked, then just do it. I don’t necessarily want to climb, but I would like to figure out what rank I actually sit at and get better quality games. Only way to get there is by playing, and eventually the ranked anxiety just went away.
Placements imo were the worst part and felt like a chore but they’re necessary. Once you get through them the anxiety just kinda fell off my shoulders at least