Yesterday, I decided that I was going to start playing ranked games on Summoner’s Rift.

If you read the blog post from two days ago, you know that I’m very disappointed with the new Twisted Treeline update, and will be switching over to Summoner’s Rift unless they make drastic changes to the new Twisted Treeline. I decided there wasn’t much of a reason to linger in the past, so I got started with Summoner’s Rift.

I queued up for my first solo queue ranked game of all time, Upon entering the champion select lobby, I announced that I can either play middle lane, top lane, or jungle. Although jungle was my last preference (the other two roles I outright cannot play), I ended up getting jungle. Which was fine.

I picked Nocturne and started the game. I did not smite blue buff and went straight to red to do an early double-buff gank. My allied Lux missed her bind, which wasn’t a huge deal – I just went back into the jungle and continued ganking.

Several minutes into the game, I successfully pulled off a gank in bottom lane where I killed the enemy attack damage carry. Unfortunately, although I got first blood, my two allies in bottom lane overcommitted to the kill and ended up both dying to the enemy support Soraka, who simply hit her Q key and got a double kill.

By the time I made it up to top lane, it was too late – the enemy Nidalee had already reached level 6, and it was near-impossible to kill her. We had a Malphite who was building straight tank, so we didn’t have enough burst damage to kill Nidalee before she ran into the brush for her movement speed buff and leaped away.

Once laning phase was over, my team was terribly underfarmed and underleveled. Every time we would engage in a fight, I was the only one who had enough items to stay alive and deal damage, while the rest of my team would either melt immediately or have to disengage after three seconds of fighting.

My final score? Four kills, 4 deaths, and no assists. The team scores? Five kills for our team (yes, that means I had 80% of my team’s kills), compared to the enemy’s 15. We lost.

I decided that I just got unlucky with my team placement and that my allies were all just really bad. I queued up for another game, and played Swain in middle lane against an Ahri.

I unfortunately gave away first and second blood to Ahri because I was lagging, but once I stopped lagging, I killed her about four times in a row. Then, the enemy team realized that I was starting to get out of control, so people from other positions started coming to middle to gank me. I killed all of them too.

I ended the game with 13 kills, but, surprise, surprise, we still lost the game. Why? Because every other position on my team did terribly and lost their roles.

Except our support.

Our support got 6 kills.

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I decided to keep going. I queued up for another game, and picked Gragas to face Lux. I started with a Doran’s Ring and stayed in lane so long while harassing the enemy Lux that I outleveled her at one point by 3. I was low of mana, of course, so I walked over to blue buff while the jungler was attacking it, assuming he would give it to me.

He took it.

Three times in a row.

I wouldn’t be angry if the jungler was putting his blue buff to good use. But no, he was building complete squishball, not building any defenses whatsoever. He rushed a Bloodthirster, got Berserker’s Greaves, and ended up buying Brutalizer half an hour into the game. He would literally enter a fight and die half a second later because he had so little health, armor, and magic resist.

Our attack damage carry, Graves, was actually doing great. At one point, he had six kills and no deaths. Unfortunately, he was a coward and didn’t really participate in team fights. The instant he took more than about 30% of his health in damage, he would Quick Draw out of the fight, run off to some brush, and recall back to base.

The support wasn’t any better either – she got three gold-per-ten items, then started building Athene’s Unholy Grail. When I asked her why there were no wards on the map except for our allied Jax’s Wriggle’s ward, she said she had no space in her inventory to get wards.

I told one of my friends that I would keep playing tonight until I got a win.

These three games have discouraged me so much and made me so sad that I don’t think I’ll be able to play League of Legends for another month.