Hi humans.

I’m on a terrifying sucking streak on League of Legends right now of about 15 games, both as a fault of my own and as a fault of pathetic allies.

I tend to have streaks where I win about 10-12 games in a row without even trying, and everything just seems to fall into place. For example, on Twisted Treeline, all three enemies face check the middle bush single file, one by one, and my team scores an ace. Or, a Dr. Mundo turns on his Burning Agony and comes to be aggressive to me in top lane when I play Singed, I Fling him over the Dragon wall, he aggravates Dragon with his area of effect, and I get first blood. Or, a melee champion decides that he just will not let me get away with 10 HP and turret dives at level 2, and we play ring around the rosey under my turret until it finishes him off.

So, if I have epic winning streaks like that, it’s no surprise that I also have epic losing streaks. I’m on one right now, and the reasons are either so mystical or so out of my control that I’ve sort of lost all hope for this game.

Some of you might know that I tend to completely dominate on Twisted Treeline with off-tank disruptor bruisers, such as Singed, Volibear, and Cho’Gath. Some of you might also know that I tend to give away first blood in about 30% of all matches I play, but still end up completely rolling my laning opponents. But for the past handful of games, even with off-tank disruptor bruisers, things just strangely haven’t been working out, and I just can’t figure out why. It’s almost as if all my enemies have gotten a hidden attack damage and defense bonus – just enough that in situations where I would normally win, they instead win and get away with about 5 HP.

I decided that I needed to take a break from playing games seriously, and needed to start having some more fun. Something I’ve always wanted to do was play sniper Lux on Twisted Treeline – that is, play Lux with Clairvoyance and snipe kills and steal buffs with her ultimate. I played ten consecutive games with sniper Lux, and lost nine of them because a majority of the time, my allies would be idiots and pick two other squishy champions after they see me already pick Lux, or pick two other ability power champions. But, I put on my “I don’t care” hat and kept going. Even though I only had a 10% win rate, I still had fun.

I decided that after this “fun spree,” it was about time to return to regular games on Twisted Treeline. On my first game back, I played Zyra, allied with a Shen and Renekton. Instead of Renekton going solo top against a Xin Zhao, he chickened out and told me to go top instead. I somehow miraculously defeated Xin Zhao because I got the hang of trying to root him after he already used his Audacious Charge. Unfortunately, bottom lane didn’t work out that well.

Renekton and Shen both got completely destroyed. We lost the bottom turret at about 5 minutes into the game. The enemy Teemo and Diana came up to top lane to try to help Xin Zhao take down top turret, but I managed to hold on pretty well (while Renekton and Shen were busy dying to jungle monsters). Then, one time, I missed my root on Teemo because he Flashed in from an angle, and he was so fed from Renekton and Shen that he killed me in about 4 seconds of basic attacks.

I hit Tab to check the champion stats screen and noticed something strange about the Renekton and Shen. We all know that if you’re having a tough time early game, you should buy Doran’s items because they’re cost-effective. It seems like Renekton took this advice a little bit too literally, as he had six Doran’s Blades (and no boots). Shen, on the other hand, apparently thought he was doing excellent, because he had purchased a Leviathan (which, for those of you who don’t know, is a snowballing item that scales off how many consecutive kills and assists you have). It works on a stacking system, where you gain two stacks for a kill and one for an assist, and lose a third of your stacks upon death. Seeing as Shen never actually achieved any kills throughout the game, he never got any stacks on his Leviathan (which essentially made it a piece of dead weight), and if the item were able to give negative stacks, I’m sure it would’ve done so for that Shen.

Because of issues like this, I’ve essentially reached a breaking point on League of Legends. I think I need more than a “fun spree,” and just need to take a break from League of Legends in general. I’m probably going to play a few more games just in case it gets my hopes back up, but otherwise, I’m going to hold off on League of Legends and focus more on my other priorities. I’m not completely quitting League of Legends all together, and I’ll still be occasionally playing some games on the Public Beta Environment, but I most likely will not be play­ing for a while on my main account on the North American server.