User blog comment:ObsidianLazarus/Feeling Trapped in Ranked./@comment-6000413-20130909132834

I'm having the same problem: I have seen I'm unable to carry a game, meaning that if my teammates fail, I will fail with them. Moreover, I rarely get to play the same roles every match, so I have to change champions and adapt to different match-ups, builds and styles of play every freaking game.

I think I can play decently any role, but I don't know EVERY counter for EVERY role. For example I finally got to play nasus top and found myself for the first time against trynda: he simply outdamaged me so hard I practically lost the game to my team. I had a nice comeback late in the game, but it was simply too late. Same story with anni vs zed in mid. I'm usually good with her, but at some point he simply dodget my point-and click stun by swapping with the shadow, using final and killing me. I understood what happened only when he repeated the feat, but at that point he was so fed I had to play very defensive, loose farm and let him roam to other lanes effectively winning the game.

The fact that every game I have to play different roles and champions makes the game more interesting, but I cannot keep up being competitive.

And sometimes I forget wards, as well, saying to myself things like: I have a stun and a shield, nobody can gank me. When their first gank fails I become so sure of myself that I die for the following 3 ganks and call them luck (so lucky he was passing by while we were fighting, so lucky he dodge my skillshot and so on), when I would be the one to blame, but when I play my mind races differently...