My Terrible Week in Ranked Games
Alright, so picture this: I set aside last weekend just to grind ranked, aiming for that Gold promo. Fired up the game Friday night, feeling good. First match? Smooth as butter. Coordination felt great, team rotated well, we won by 15 minutes. Okay, awesome start! Second match? Boom. Bam. Crash. Teammates actively fighting each other, no map awareness whatsoever, just… feeding constantly. Insta-loss. Felt jarring, like hitting a brick wall after coasting.
Thought it was a fluke. Saturday morning, jumped back in. Won two decent games back-to-back. Then it started… the losing streak from hell. Six straight losses. SIX. Each one felt worse than the last. Players picking weird roles with zero experience. Jungler ignoring objectives completely. People AFK’ing after one death. I’m trying to focus, making calls (“Hey, drag in 30 sec?”), and it’s just silence or insults thrown my way. Frustration level? Through the roof. Why am I suddenly stuck with people who seem brand new?
Started digging around online forums late Saturday night, coffee in hand. Kept seeing this term: “loser’s queue.” Initially dismissed it as whining, but hey, my weekend was imploding. Found others saying similar things. Didn’t feel like bad luck anymore; it felt like a pattern. So, Sunday, I decided to test it. Played only ranked.
Here’s the pattern I swear I saw unfold over a dozen matches:
- Win a couple games solidly, feeling hopeful.
- Suddenly get matched with teammates with way lower win rates than me.
- Enemy team suddenly looks way more coordinated, like they actually queued together.
- My good plays feel meaningless – one guy throws hard enough for the entire team.
- Ranked points tank fast after wins barely move the needle.
Monday rolled around. Took a break, figured maybe tilt was the issue. Reset Tuesday. Won one fairly easily. Then IMMEDIATELY slammed back into a lobby where two people argued champ select and one insta-locked support Jayce saying “just ff at 15.” We did. Lost. This kept happening!
What finally clicked for me?
The matchmaking ain’t just looking for “fair” matches based purely on MMR. It seems desperate to shove you towards a 50% win rate by any means necessary. Win too much? Bam – here’s a crew designed mathematically to lose, so we can “fix” your stats. Doesn’t matter how well you play; the system has decided it’s your turn to carry dead weight or get stomped by a premade. Why? Because it thinks forcing everyone towards the middle keeps us grinding longer, chasing the win streak illusion.
After realizing this, I stopped caring about Ranked points for the week. Seriously. Dropped back to Silver III from almost Gold promos. Feels like garbage, honestly. Now, I just try to relax, focus on my own mechanics, and if I sense the “queue” shifting against me after 2 bad games? I log off. Won’t give them the satisfaction of grinding into frustration oblivion. The system wants losers to queue? Fine. Sometimes, I just refuse to be one of the players it picks for that role.
