u/Thick_Management

Wie kann es sein, dass die Bahn nichts geschissen bekommt? Man kann denen mit überhaupt nichts vertrauen. Warum soll ich Tickets bezahlen, wenn ich doch sowieso keinen Service bekomme? Jeden Tag muss ich auf anderes ausweichen.

Heute gedacht ja fahr mal lieber wieder Bahn, ist Kalt, leicht gekleidet, muss nicht nochmal 10km laufen. Nö. Der Zug um 23:20 war angeblich zu spät und sollte um 0:10 hier gewesen sein - nichts.

Der um 0:20? Nichts, obwohl er angeblich schon 5 Stationen weiter ist.

Also soll ich jetzt auf den um 1:20 Warten der auch nicht kommen wird?

Die Chancen das mich ein Selbstmordattentäter killt ist größer als das die verfickte Bahn auch nur einmal im Leben ansatzweise pünktlich ist oder überhaupt auftaucht. Dreckiger Verein.

Hey everyone

I’m M26 from Germany and I’ve been thinking about moving to South Korea for a year or two to test the waters. I’ve been learning Korean for a while now (sitting around TOPIK 2 level at the moment), so it’s not just a random impulse, especially because I'll have to think about my work responsibilities.

I originally started talking to some Korean friends through a game (Whiteout Survival) and we became decent friends over time. When talking about our personal lives, I mentioned I’ve been having a hard time finding a long-term partner back home. They suggested I try dating in South Korea, saying that Germans have a really high reputation there, which might make things easier for me and that I'd do pretty well.

Now, obviously, they’re my friends, so they’re going to be supportive and hype me up. But I want a neutral reality check before making any big life decisions based on gaming-chat advice.

A bit about me for context:

• Background: Multiple business owner, financially stable, pretty disciplined, introverted, value family, and ultimately want to marry and have 2-3 children.
• Appearance: 186cm, fit (work out regularly), green eyes, clean-shaven, decent jawline (wouldn’t say I’m ugly, but I’m not a model either).
• Language: Fluent in English, Japanese (JLPT N5), Korean (TOPIK 2).

I have a few honest questions about what to expect:

1. The "German Reputation": Is there actually a positive perception/reputation for Germans in South Korea, or where my friends just being polite? Does being German actually open doors, or does it not matter unless you speak fluent Korean?
2. Dating Culture & Dynamics: How important are looks vs personality/stability in practice? I know physical appearance and plastic surgery are big topics in South Korea, but how much does that strictly dictate the dating scene for a foreign guy?
3. Relationships vs. Marriage: Is the dating scene mostly geared toward serious/marriage relationships, or is casual dating/short-term more common?
4. Gender Roles & Traditional Views: Do most women expect a very traditional provider setup, or are women leaning more independent/feminist these days? My long-term goal is to fully provide so my future wife has the option to focus on raising our kids (or work part-time if she wants). Is that considered a red flag or a green flag to Korean women?

I’d really appreciate some candid answers and feel free to give it to me straight. If the dating scene is not exactly fitting for me, I wouldn't want to throw too much time at it, and the internet only has that many proper answers, so who'd know better than actual Koreans?

Thanks in advance!

In case it matters, I've been looking to either stay around 용산구, 강남 or 성수.

Long post. You can skip the yapping until the bottom half if you want. Some info dump and examples at the end.

Please do bare in mind that all these stats, include all the games I played with IRL friends that werent taken as serious, up until a month ago.

Quick context:

By no means do I have a ton of playtime in this game (in my opinion). I started like 2 years ago and played extremely on-off, play a few times a day for a week and then drop it for months. The last split was my first actual split where I played a lot. I am level 81, currently Bronze 4 (tho I dont believe this is my actual skill rank, I think more Silver 3-4, my gain is 25/15) and sit at 166:200 W/L. I played a lot with friends who dont take Ranked serious, so I went from my Silver promo game, all the way down to Iron 4, +200 games in, I started taking Ranked more serious. Normal isnt fun at all because I either fight gods or NPCs and when I can first-time Jax on Top and go 28-0, that just doesnt feel good at all or have any meaningful say in my opinion.

Disclaimer:

I dont just first-time a champ like that, I do take some time to learn about them, read up on their best and worst matchups, check item builds, runes, what their abilities do and try them out in Practice to get a feel for them - then I queue into a match. For Jax I watched a 3 hour long video from a Challenger level Coach.

(Ranked stats only) I havent really found a lane I am fully maining, I didnt get that scratch with any lane yet. That being said, my most played lane is Support.

178 on Support

77 on Jungle

59 on Bot

50 on Top

6 on Mid

I struggle sticking to just one lane, because my brain will shutdown from burnout and boredom. I also dont just stick to the "golden" rule of focusing on just 2-3 champions to master them. I actually enjoy testing out new champs, a random first-time in Ranked on Neeko was probably the best thing to happen to me so far. Up until 45-50 games with her, I was on a 90% winrate until I hit some loser queues. I have a 61.2% winrate with her now and stopped playing her because games became unfun, mainly ADCs having no target priority and letting low hp kills run off, focusing the wrong one, and crying when I go and secure that kill because they just dont. I am also tired of 'gifting' ADCs kills, that still int the rest of the game just because of skill issue.

I had other Champs I had fun with and where games went really well, with Rammus I never had a loss, until I got fed up with losers queue yesterday and started going back to Jungle playing him, scoring 4 losses on him back to back, I wouldnt even say mainly because of me, my ganking is lacking, but more about that later.

I would love some input on what else I could improve on, to get out of this low elo hell and escape the losers queue. I see some people once a while (sadly only on the enemy team so far), that go +20 kills on less than 4 deaths and I wonder, how. Yes ofcourse, they are simply better at the game, but if its a Champ Im familiar with and I try to replicate it, I fall on my mouth. Knowing the limits, the abilities and how to fight ofcourse adds a lot to how a fight will go, but there is only so much they can do better. I already dont just autopilot in duels, I use my abilities in proper combos that I take from Emerald+ players and dont fight until the death, I try to reset a fight and go again or just disengage.

I also have more deaths than kills (excluding assists) on average KDAs across majority of my Champs. My only K/D positive Champ are Ziggs (6.9 / 6.8), Xerath (12.5 / 8.5), Jax (11 / 8.3), MF (7.5 / 7.2), Morde (6.3 / 5.3). Out of 48 recorded Champs, only 15 are above an KDA of 2.1 but all below 2.7, only Nami is at 4.4. I often try to save others or engage fights, where I die early, having to sacrifice myself a lot, in order for my teams to either win the teamfight or the objective. Most of the time I just get sold and they run off as I die for them. I need to work on being more selfish, to avoid such dumb deaths, I mean I'll get blamed anyway as Jungle, no matter what happens.

Overall:

Im aware that I have at most 8 seconds to recall after killing the enemy laner early game, to match their return to lane.

I know about wave management, how to freeze a lane, when to push or crash a lane, where to freeze a lane so the enemy laner cant get XP without exposing themselves.

I check my minimap atleast once or twice within 30 seconds, repeatedly.

As Support I always keep all 3 wards up and frequently counter-ward. My Jungle warding lacks a little bit. I try to ward Objs 30-60secs before they pop up.

I try to proc items (if I have any applicable) before all-in and generally avoid all-in unless I have some form of advantage.

If the fight turns out for my worst, I dont just run away and die being chased down. I try to do as much damage as I can, for incoming teammates to secure kills easier. I only run if I can actually make it in time to friendlies.

As Jungle I behave according to the Champ. If its a fast-farm 6, I do that and only gank if its a guaranteed kill. I try to not waste too much time, in a <10 seconds timeframe. I try to keep my camps on an aligned respawn timer as best as I can. Generally I dont just go gank lanes, I only gank if that enemy laner is down on health (so they dont just run off into their tower and I wasted my time) or if my laner needs help getting CS up. I dont gank losing lanes. I always clear my quadrant before I go to help a fight or for an objective. I always ping my intentions and also teammates asking for help, sadly in this elo they simply do not care in majority of games. With Neeko I gained 5 divisions in a week, before my winrate started dropping.

What I would love some help with:

How can I improve my duels?

If I play on a lane, so in this case mostly just Top, I tend to lose a lot of them, not necessarily ending in deaths but recalls and such too. Even on Matchups in my favor, they usually tend to go bad for me after the first 1-2 attacks, even tho I already try to stick to my combos, use them at the right time and not immediately full-panic and spam them all and I try to use bushes and wave management to my favor. My 10 recent Top games, I score a 3.1 / 7.1 / 3.5 KDA. I have the feeling I play too passively, because I know from Support that, when I play aggressively (within reason) and show confidence and poke them out, I can keep them stuck under their tower. I cant do this on Top.

How can I improve my ganks?

I feel I gank way too little. As said before, I only gank when I see that it is worth the time, either guaranteeing a kill or if they need help pushing tower or farm CS to catch up. I dont gank when the enemy is full hp and I cant guarantee they wont just run back under their tower. Depending on my Champ, I do tower dive low hp enemies. Generally, following that pattern, my most ganks happen past level 6.

How can I improve my invading?

I barely ever invade, I have only done so under 5 times total, with Yi and Talon. Talon went decent but a little time wasted waiting, Yi was a catastrophe. I avoid it because I dont want to int a death and feed the enemy Jungle.

How can I guarantee more success on Objectives?

If I have a Champ that can solo Drake, I will try that, making sure the enemy Jungle isnt around so he cant steal, warding across the wall and if Im red side, I pull the drake out. I abort if any enemies come up to me. With Champs that cant handle them on their own, I always ask teammates 1min ahead of spawn and ping+ask again once they spawned. I remind them to get priority on their lane by pushing up (If my clear lines up, I also gank their lane first to help push it up). Unfortunately vast majority of the time, bot lane never comes to help with Drakes and those games turn into us having only 1 Drake at most, while they get soul. I do try to take another Objective, while they fight one, so I dont waste opportunities.

How can I improve my success on teamfights?

Yes ofcourse, there are a ton of factors, but I generally play according to my Champ. If its an assassin I try to damage from afar and jump in when there is a kill to secure that I can burst. If Im a tank or frontliner, I try to do that etc. Sadly players in this elo hardly ever follow up, so I either die because I engaged and nobody came with me, or have to waste my time and disengage because they are too afraid to pick a fight. Again, according to my Champ, I set my target priority. If I can burst well, I aim for their ADC or squishiest Champ. If I have max hp% damage etc, I aim for tanks. Generally I aim for the weakest enemy in current health. I already do my best in terms of positioning, flanking if its an option, going behind them to burst their backline, etc. I often see my teammates get hung up on chasing down low hp enemies, even if that loses us the entire fight, because for some reason 3 players need to chase that 1200hp Mundo on R running off, not even killing him but hey low hp, gotta death chase.

TL:DR

I know much more than my teammates (in this elo) and in vast majority of matches, my fault that we lose is small, I typically have 1-2 laners completely feeding the enemy team, not care about objectives and just run down their lanes. I get very frustrated a lot with how autopiloted they are, and that extremely consistently. I try guiding them, but they dont care about that either. That being said, I acknowledge the mistakes and fuckups I do, review them and try to improve on that.

I probably forgot a bunch of things I wanted to mention, perhaps I edit them in later.

Some examples of recent Jungle games I have lost on my current loser's queue:

Team asked and needed a tank. I went Rammus Jungle. Didnt really see opportunities to gank. Ended 3/6/4 with 35%kp. I would say I didnt gank enough, but Top lane was mad diff (my side : enemy side) Teemo 3/11/5 vs Sion 6/3/6. My Mid lane was mad diff, Tristana 6/12 vs Naafiri 23/3/4. My bot lane refused to help with objectives, costing us every single Drake because it was always just me alone, despite them having prio.

Talon Jungle. Tried to gank from level 3 and pick off solo people or flanking teamfights and bursting squishy Champs. 6/10/4 with 40%kp. I died a few times trying to secure Drakes, sadly teammates either didnt come at all or too late and it erupted into losing teamfights and deaths. Once again an ADC that never bothered to help with Drakes even with prio (my friend was their Supp). MF 4/10/7 vs Cait 24/4/1. Our Mid lane was also soft-inting by never helping and refusing to join any Objectives or Teamfights. Their Fiddle also diff'd me pretty well, simply being much stronger since he got some kills fed by Yasuo just running it down.

Jax Jungle, to try and have fun. 1/5/1, 66%kp (really sad). Morde 0/6 vs Tahm 6/0/2. 0/3/2 MF that refused to come to Objectives, vs 3/1/1 Twitch. 0/3/1 Cass vs 2/0/2 Ekko. Another Fiddle diff, 7/2/5 that had 63%kp.

Rammus Jungle. 1/6/8 43%kp. Another ADC that never helped with Objectives, even with prio. Jinx 4/10/8 vs 5/1/9 Zeri. Pyke 10/8/6 vs Sett 9/7/4 Support. ADC didnt build antitank. Brand 2/7/5 vs Ziggs 10/5/6. Brand actually cared to attempt Objectives with me and ward a lot, sadly it was 2v4 every single Obj and we kept losing. Enemy Jungle was Vi 7/4/12 with 54%kp.

Jax Jungle. 6/6/7 38%kp. Match went generally well, except Tryn 5/14/4 vs 20/7/3 Morde, he kept running it down, misused his godmode non stop and hyperfed, never leaving his lane. Morde was the sole reason we lost.

Rammus Jungle. 5/8/9 66%kp. Yet another ADC that never helped with any Objective or even tried to, just running down their lane. Jinx 5/7/9 with his brother Support Nami 1/5/11 vs Cait 12/5/4 and Nauti 1/6/22. Our Mid lane also went 3/7/9 vs Swain 13/2/12.

Rammus Jungle. 10/12/13 52%kp. Pretty decent match, only mentions are their ADC diff with 18/8/19, Lux Supp diff with 10/4/25 and their Yi Jungle with 15/12/21. Our Malph was feeding, 9/14. The rest tried to contest Objectives and teamfight.

Voli Jungle. 2/4/3 56%kp. Top and Mid lane inted hard. Pyke 0/7 vs Malph 6/0/7 and Pyke didnt go lethality build. Lux 2/7/1 Mid vs Veigar 13/3/6. Still feel like I could have ganked more, but I didnt find the time between clearing and chasing Objectives, Mobalytics tagged me "superior jungler" in this one.

On Support lane I mainly play Neeko and Leona. 48.3% winrate.

In Jungle I enjoy Rammus, Jax, Voli, Talon, Hecarim, Viego and Shyvana. Play amount in order. I try to play into the Team comp. 40.3% winrate.

On Bot lane I play Ziggs, Neeko, MF or Cait. 44.1% winrate.

On Top lane I mainly play Ornn or Kayle, the occasional Jax or Garen too. 46% winrate.