This is an announcement post regarding League of Legends, a game many of you probably know that I stream quite frequently on my Twitch.TV channel.

First, before we begin, I want to clarify that I did not come to this conclusion out of emotion as a result of a few bad games or a losing streak. I’ve considered doing this for quite a while, now, and felt like this was the right time to follow through with my thoughts.

I am officially retiring from competitive League of Legends in the sense of solo/duo queue on Summoner’s Rift.

If you happened to have read my post from mid-to-late October regarding my first solo queue experiences, you know that it’s been pretty negative. I am a very competitive person and consider statistics and records to be very important. One thing that frustrates me most in life is if something outside of my control degrades my reputation or anything related to me in general. Clearly, these two things are playing a huge role in solo queue – my match results in no way reflect my capabilities as an individual player, and this is caused by other players who are playing in such a way that harms my ability to perform my best.

Overall, this is causing a severely detrimental effect on my mental well-being. Even when I win, I still become frustrated because of how the game ended up, and all the things that went wrong while we were playing.

I feel it is completely unnecessary for me to voluntarily put myself through this as a result of a game, so I have decided that ranked solo and duo queue on Summoner’s Rift is not for me.

Does this mean I’m quitting ranked play in general? Of course not. I am still willing to play team ranked games where I am able to select who my allies are, and I know that they are going to try their best.

In the mean time, to basically “cool off” from this, I am going to orient myself towards more single-player style games until I am able to find enough people with whom I can make ranked teams. As demonstrated by my blog post from late October, I already started playing and streaming Pokémon White 2; I am also looking into trying out RuneScape again (which I haven’t played for several months) because there is about to be a massive update released on RuneScape that is supposed to revolutionize combat, and I’m interested in trying it out.

There will inevitably be more information regarding this coming up in the future, so be sure to check my blog in the future for some updates.