I will keep this post short and relevant just to end this debate once and for all. So - is there any skill difference between EUNE & EUW?

I will talk from my own experience (5 seasons on EUNE, 3 seasons on EUW). My opinions are also influenced in a major way in a point of view of other players who are high elo (Master +).

There is a difference. But not as huge as some people are implying when it comes to lower tiers (no, you can't be gold EUW and diamond EUNE). I am currently diamond 3 player on EUW and was able to peak Master on EUNE relatively easily in this season, so I must admit that west is definitely a lot harder in mid diamond.

Yes, players in mid diamond are definitely better on EUW than on EUNE, mainly when I think of the macro play. EUNE really lacks macro play and also mechanics are slightly worse on EUNE as well (I'm armless support though, so I don't need to care too much).

I used to smurf in lower elo (like gold) on both servers and it seems to me almost the same, maybe some very slight differences, but I would go as far as saying that difference is maybe one max two tiers.

When it comes to mid diamond I can already see a huge gap between EUNE & EUW, not to talk about Master (mainly higher Master, not people who played 2000 games to get there to drop next day) and Challenger players. Population density is higher on EUW and also all pro players play exclusively on EUW for a reason. I would estimate that people who are mid Master on EUW with solid win ratio can get easily top 10 challenger on EUNE, even top 1 if they want to if we want to demonstrate the huge difference in skill in the highest tier.

So in the end - if you want to go pro or to get really better, focus on playing on EUW, because EUNE is the server where you can chill and have fun, but it's nowhere as competitive as EUW (and nowhere as toxic from my experience).

I'm adding my challenger screenshot from s7 EUNE to brag (JK, I play for fun, but it was cool to get challenger anyways) ;)

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Sometimes I really wonder why people underestimate supports and don't see them equal to other roles. I occasionally play mid lane and that's the time when I clearly realize how important is the role of support. Yes, I main support, mainly "protective" supports like Soraka, Janna, Lulu, Karma, Nami, but I never thought about myself as about someone who just got carried to higher division because of that.

But seriously, some people claim that when your main supports like Janna, who can just shield ADC, stay behind are getting carried by their teammates. Is it true? Well, from my experience, no, it's not enough to just do that and get carried. I don't doubt that some people below dia (not all, but just my experiences) think about supports this way because there are not very good players (no offense). But when it comes to higher diamond/Master/Challenger you need to have a really good knowledge about a game if you want to play and main supports. It's not just about shielding on cooldown your ad carry. Claims like "supports like Janna getting carried, no real supps" are literally giving me cancer. 

Role of support, the real support is about having a great map awareness and also control with a well-placed vision across the map (stealth wards, vision wards) and also clearing enemy's vision, it's crucial for winning a game (ambushes, facechecks, objectives). Also, you need to have a knowledge about what you can afford in trades on bot lane, know how to position yourself in team fights to not die and the most important thing is that you need to know how to protect your ad carry.   And it most cases when you are against a team with a lot of assassins or tanks or just fed mages you have a big struggle to do it the right way. Not to mention a win on bot during the laning phase is based mostly on how support performs.

To explain furthermore, in my opinion, it's not easy protecting an ad carry even if you play "an easy" champion like Janna. Honestly, she might have fewer skillshots but the thing is not many people know how to play her in the correct way. First thing is you need to know how to trade on bot lane which is really difficult against aggressive supports like Thresh/Braum/Bard who just take ignite and after they land some skillshot you are usually dead (or your ad carry). Not to mention the importance of Janna's ultimate and Q spell. You need to have a good reaction time in team fights and use the ultimate properly, otherwise, you can fail whole team fight/your ad carry or someone else die.

Main supports, don't get annoyed by people who don't appreciate your role. There's absolutely nothing wrong with gaining supports if you really enjoy that :).

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This is actually a really hot topic in every gaming community, not just when it comes to the League of Legends community. 

People, mostly boys are assuming that grill gamers are just boosted to higher divisions by their friends. Why? Well, the answer is very simple - because they are girls (◣_◢).

I've actually witnessed first-hand multiple times how people react when you have high elo/tier/division/rating in World of Warcraft or League of Legends. It does not matter how you achieved it tbh, your rank will be questioned NO MATTER WHAT based on your gender and I guarantee that boys won't go through the same hassle even if they posted the same screenshot/had exactly same stats as you (because they are boys after all).

So, are we all truly "boosted"? What does it even mean? In competitive gaming, namely League of Legends, a word describing a player who has had a player log into his or her account and raised the rank of the account. I am 100% sure that there are girls who are just getting straight boosted to a higher division from silver to get that fancy gold border, but that's only a small percentage of the cases.

League of Legends community is forgetting something; they accuse only GIRLS for some reason and I think that's a complex of superiority, hiding their inferiority when they see a girl with higher rank and get jealous of that or can be caused also by stereotypes in gaming culture and culture itself. Every time I see girls somewhere posting her achievements in games, to some group on Facebook or on Twitter, boys are spamming "boosted grill", "boosted" or even calling her slut. Why are they doing this, though? I have seen so many times BOYS who even paid for higher division (I mean there is even elo boosting when you search on google) and it's a common thing that they also play with their friends who are smurfing in low elo to boost them for free. 

Let me clarify something - I know it's not fair that some girl/boy is playing with smurfs who are clearly really high division but why the hell does League community always point out this behavior only when girls are included and boys don't get this "special treatment"?

Of course, more boys play League than girls so it's logical, but I don't think a girl would pay for something like that anyway (?).  In general, I am more than certain than boys are more likely to get their higher-ranked friends to play on their accounts (or strangers in case of elo boosting sites) only because they like to brag about it in front of other people and due to their competitiveness. Note: of course we can find exceptions everywhere.

The second case is that people are replacing the real definition of boosted with just "getting carried". Carry is a definition of someone who is a primary carrying the game by killing other players or assisting allies to slay other players and has a great influence on a game. So people refer to girls as "you were just carried to this elo". Arguments for this are associated with Dynamic Queue in League of Legends which allows you to invite other players to your ranked game. The first thing why this argument is kind of invalid is that you can't duo/triple queue with someone who is absolutely out of your elo because League itself doesn't allow you to do that. For example Diamond I: Can only queue with Diamond I, II, III, IV, Challenger, and Master Tier players, while Silver Tier: Can only queue with Bronze, Silver and Gold Tier players. For more information click here.

What is really making me think that the gaming community lost common sense is also that this looks like girls can't even play with friends any more? If I am having fun with my friend while I am playing duo queue, should I stop doing that just because someone thinks that my friend is carrying me to higher elo? Of course no!

I think that most of the players play games because they want to have fun and I see no reason to accuse dumb assumptions like that. I personally love playing supports in League and main Soraka, which is a healer/support champion. I play duo queue often and also triple queue as well because I enjoy it more than playing alone. I don't consider myself boosted. I am trying hard each game to improve and to win a game, I'm trying to be positive and somehow cheer up myself even if I'm losing. In most cases, I win bot lane and I'm still useful in late as well (of course there are exceptions, but not many, everyone has bad games).

My point is that almost all boys I know who play League play with their friends' dynamic queue, so they are getting carried as well? Should we comment every boy who plays with his friend or friends as carried by him/them? That's just stupid! At this point, you should already realize how stupid is commenting on every girl that she is boosted/ carried. It's pointless. I have advice for people who do that: let people live their lives and enjoy their favorite activities because that's what's life about. Being happy. Why spreading hate even in the game which should lead to fun? :)

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So first I would like to provide you a definition of a term tilted: angry, perturbed, specifically caused by a video game.

When you are looking for an answer what causes it you only need to look into a mirror. Yes, it's you who is responsible for this state of mind. And the change to being "untilted" comes with a change of attitude. 

I created this ladder of questions and advices in order to help players to realize what's wrong. Try to answer the following questions yourself honestly: 

1. Why do I play this game? 

The reason you do it-even if you do it competetively-should be because you enjoy the game, whether you play alone because of the game itself or because you play it with friends. The rule is simple, you should enjoy the game most of the time instead of being tilted. Realize why you started to play this game in the first place and why you didn't quit. 

2. What makes me tilted and why?

So typical answers for this are usually: "other teammates", "my own stupid mistakes", "I won but my support was bad af", "I had to carry 1v9", "someome flamed me and was bad himself", "someone was trolling", and "my jungle went afk and I could continue forever". But why do you let them to make you tilted anyways? Your goals in whatever game you play should be to improve yourself, to be close to perfection as much as you can independently of OTHERS (Note: if you play just for fun ignore this part). It's not about other players. Let them be as bad as they can be, let them be as toxic as they can be, it's about you noticing their mistakes and learn from them; you noticing your own mistakes and learning from them, not about noticing others and even playing bad because of that. If you can't really read chat because it ends up with you being tilted, just mute all players and it's fixed.

3.Why shouldn't I play when I feel tilted?

Answer is easy. You will most likely lose. Your emotions are distracting you and you can't focus clearly on game so you can't perform as if you weren't tilted. If you already failed to control yourself and started to feel uneasy you should stop. Change your activity, stereotype isn't good for mind; try to change it to something not related to electronic devices. Grab an interesting book, go out with someone, do some physical activity and you will for sure stop being tilted when you come back to the game. 

4. But ... 

Are you already trying to reject what you just read? Yes, this is how most humans work. They give up easily. Though you don't need to. The change of attitude is very hard, but when you realize how much you can benefit from it, you will for sure try more. Imagine yourself again being able to enjoy every game you play (for example in League of Legends) to its fullest. Imagine yourself being better and better everyday. Isn't that your goal? You are the master of your own mind, prove it! Thoughts don't control you, but you are the one responsible for controlling them. Try to think positive without negating that it doesn't work when you haven't even tried. Quit moping around and try harder!

5. What other things can I do to stop being tilted? Important thing is to realize that attitude is more than 50% of winning. Some games, no matter how unwinnable they seem to be, can be won when you try really HARD and don't give up. Never surrender is actually a good idea when it comes to learning how to improve yourself. DO YOUR BEST in EVERY GAME. Don't comment on others, don't flame them, quietly learn. Even if all players in your team were bad, you can still do your best and at least improve your KDA and improve your individual skill; it wasn't a game in vain in the end, you actually learned a lot. You don't play just for a win. Everyone has bad games sometimes, even you. No one can say that he hasn't had any bad games and he hasn't made any mistakes. You probably did many mistakes in the game too, so try to think about that instead of focusing on how bad someone else played. Try to think about what you can improve, when exactly you made a mistake, and how to not repeat it in the future. Accept this and you will go beyond your own limits. Realize that you can't change how other people play, but you can focus on how you play and how to make yourself better. If you are about to flame, stop yourself. Flaming will only make it worse and can tilt others. Realize that flaming people is your own failure, you can't even manage to control yourself. Take it as a test of self control.

Good luck ^.^

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