Would You Risk Crushing Your Ego?

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[quote=Pølsemanden]You talk about inflated ego as if it's a good thing. That's like a country talking about inflation as a good thing, "but our GDP looks soo pretteh with it". You don't want your ego to be inflated, you want to be realistic about your skill-level. I had a 80% winrate on shaco at the start of the season up till around 25 games, then i started losing, then i started playing support shaco and now my winrate is at 65% with him. WHo the fuck gives a fuck about your stats, anything above 70% is unrealistic to be able to keep up with.[/quote]

[quote=Foo18]I had the highest win rate in the world with [[vladimir]] (ranked), and I threw it away trying to get elo.[/quote]

[quote=GrandmasterD][quote=Pølsemanden] You talk about inflated ego as if it's a good thing. That's like a country talking about inflation as a good thing, "but our GDP looks soo pretteh with it". You don't want your ego to be inflated, you want to be realistic about your skill-level. I had a 80% winrate on shaco at the start of the season up till around 25 games, then i started losing, then i started playing support shaco and now my winrate is at 65% with him. WHo the fuck gives a fuck about your stats, anything above 70% is unrealistic to be able to keep up with. [/quote] Ofc ego is a good thing :P[/quote]

[quote=Pølsemanden]Not if it's inflated.[/quote]

[quote=Shuru][quote=DemonSovereign] [quote=GrandmasterD] [quote=DemonSovereign] [quote=GrandmasterD] In that case I advise you to play some Draven. Not sure if it works but maybe it does. ;P [/quote] Tempting... [quote=OTGBionicArm] I'm currently afraid to lose with Cho'Gath... The 100% WR looks nice on him... [/quote] ^This is main reason! High win rates always look so nice :c [/quote] Win rates mean nothing without a lot of games. My Xerath in season two had 60% win rate which isn't amazing but I did play 320 ranked games. That says a lot more than Xerath won: 100% games played: 5 [/quote] True [quote=DillButt64] if youre good with a champion in normals to the point that you get win streaks whenever you play it you should feel ok about playing ranked with him/her even if you lose [/quote] I just have a super inflated ego that is as fragile as glass atm. Maybe if I wait a while it will go away. [quote=Shuru] I haven't lost a single game with Jayce and every time I lose a game after switching picks from jayce I say "glad I didn't play Jayce." But that's not because I have Ego, it's because I like having that win ratio with a champion, it'll eventually go down because I'm not the best player and there is always room for improvement, I can't have 100% win rating with jayce forever. :3 I won't let losing as Jayce ruin my life. I lost lane as jayce to SINGED of all things. I still think my jayce is good for my skill level, I just have room for improvement. [/quote] What if you get counter-picked and cannot avoid the Match Up? [quote=H4xDefender] gotta go YOLO [/quote] Words of wisdom! My fear is going away. My inflated fragile ego sadly isn't :( [/quote] then I get countered, I do my best to passively play and not make risks, and get jungle ganks, or even ask for a lane switch. If I can't avoid it I can't avoid it. I have something like 20 games with Jayce, won every game of them, but I lost my lane at least 7 times in those games. My point is, you have to still maintain confidence in your champion when you DO get countered and lose your lane. I got shit on a few times by counters as Jayce but He's still my top pick right now. Not a single pro player has a 100% win rating with their best champion I'm sure, but they still use them. When your Ego pops (and it will) minimize the damage by remembering that there is always room to improve and you just got outplayed and will learn and do better next time.[/quote]

[quote=YayaFTW]It's not about ego, it's about always trying to get better and better with the favourite champ. I'll play ranked with my favourite champ any day, even if i fall to 500 elo. The important thing is that you master 100% that champ, because people learn from mistakes. In other words, not even counters can stop you. Then you'll find yourself climbing elo very easily.[/quote]

[quote=Lugignaf]Dude, if you play a champ well, just play them in ranked. Simple as that.[/quote]

[quote=PsiGuard][quote=Lugignaf] Dude, if you play a champ well, just play them in ranked. Simple as that. [/quote] That's what I was thinking. If you won't even play a champion in ranked after a huge normal win spree, when on earth are you going to play them? You have to start some time. There's always a first ranked game with every champion.[/quote]

[quote=OTGBionicArm]Yea, I think my problem is ranked has been trying to counterpick instead of just using champions i truly like.[/quote]