It's honestly starting to piss me off how little people care about objectives.

AgeOfTheMage··82 votes·3,306 views

So many games i've had where my team keeps going for kills while i'm left alone to try and defend turrets or inhibs. It's kinda difficult to deal with 2-3 waves of cannon minions as leona or braum and watching my teammates just run past me ignoring me and trying to 4v5 is annoying.

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Strawberrycocoa10 votes

What grinds my gears is how pulling off a team kill can yield little progress towards victory if your team has to go back and regroup rather that push ahead on an objective. Meanwhile, one lone wolf AD unit can gib a tower by spit-pushing. And nobody seems to give a fuck that one guy running off to do his own thing can be more impactful than a decisive skirmish victory by the whole group.

I'd RATHER see the bloodsport battles win the games than seeing games won by one dick running off to do his own shit.

Aimléss1 votes

How would we even go about that? Unless maybe an Ace rewards everyone with 25% hp and mana or something. Which would be cool but at the same time... it's already too easy to end games.

I suck at Jhin1 votes

Splitpush works only because your team is so bad, they can't even 4v5 and end the game.

Akenero9 votes

Top laners care about their towers more than most lanes in my opinion, which sucks because top is usually tanks. We care, but we need to be in fights. (Or splitting endlessly)

Tommy PickleNose3 votes

Yeah I am guilty of wasting far too many tps to save first top tower at 20+ minutes.

AFK Push1 votes

Top isn't usually tanks, it is mostly bruisers and melee carries. Jungle is dominated by tanks, which frees top to play carries more. So you're more likely to see Trynds, Jax, and Nasus running down sidelanes nowadays.

DragonShea1 votes

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Top laners care about their towers more than most lanes in my opinion, which sucks because top is usually tanks. We care, but we need to be in fights. (Or splitting endlessly)

Yorick: Did somebody just say towers? Let me get my ult and rift heard up to top lane and steamroll the place.

Revali8 votes

Honestly people are coming off their urf highs and forget what the actually is, give it a bit of time.

AgeOfTheMage21 votes

but the thing is, it's been this way for so long! before ar urf! people consistently ignore objectives and focus more on kills.

OyddAWqJ5r1 votes

Nah man, it's just that after killing all 5 enemies you can't just kill towers cuz your ADC needs to back to buy items. :^)

Hikageya9 votes

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Honestly people are coming off their urf highs and forget what the actually is, give it a bit of time.

Weird, in urf i only see anti fun player splitpushing instead of trying to use thos 80% cooldown

Pierce The Veal2 votes

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Weird, in urf i only see anti fun player splitpushing instead of trying to use thos 80% cooldown

Well that's mainly because the enemy team has something like evelynn or Fizz or zed and your 80% cdr doesn't count for shit in the face of such monstrosities.

Around999People7 votes

As a supp main I cannot agree more. It tilts me so hard when we win a fight and our jg runs past me attacking drag with me pinging for help and they get a blue buff and back with my adc only to have the enemy take it 30 sec later and face roll us with the bonus stats

AgeOfTheMage6 votes

definitley, it's even worse when i'm someone like soraka having to fight cannons D:

Praetor Notorias1 votes

Nami's wave clear is top notch. Unbeatable.

ejsama1 votes

No one plays Zilean support anymore ??

Tommy PickleNose3 votes

I play a fair bit of support but it's honestly not just supports. I mainly play tanks and I feel like tanks and supports have a lot of map awareness when t comes to this stuff and tanks are just as bad as supports most of the time with clearing waves. But the same people who won't help defend an objective will be the same person who takes all your farm just coming under your tower.

ˉˉˉˉˉˉ1 votes

That's why I play Draven as ADC. At least he can safely solo drag in case the jungler, like 90% of the time, ignores objective pings and instead thinks taking red buff is more important than Infernal.

Shinjusuke5 votes

Could be worse.

You could be a jungler.

You could be spamming the "assist" ping on your bot lane after you double killed their lane for them, and every single goddamn time your ADC is far too self-centered or is just plain a moron, so they either sit in bot and farm (if above 75% HP) or recall (if below 75% HP) and lo-and-behold the enemy team comes to stop you from soloing dragon and you either die for no reason or you lose the dragon, all because your ADC thinks they're the most important shit on the planet.

Other frustrating mouth-breather tendencies regarding objectives that make me want to punch people in the throat through their monitor:

  • Top laners who ignore your assist pings for Rift Herald then flame you in chat because they walk up to try to steal the Eye after you solo Herald and you don't let them have it.

  • Laners who sit there farming minion waves while you do all the work killing their tower, resulting in your team losing first tower gold because the enemy laner gets back to lane while your laner is busy being a fucking moron

  • Laners who blame you for not getting a dragon/baron because while you were assist pinging the objective and your team is fucking around like retards farming or something, the enemy team actually has a goddamn brain and rushed the dragon/baron as a group, seeing that your team is too split up and retarded to contest the objective because "muh cs"

God I fucking hate how bad people are at this game, sometimes. Go play TDM in CoD, that's not what League is for.

BlueBilberry1 votes

One of the consequences of the "mute pings" option seems to have been even more of this nonsense, it seems. I remember playing one Sona game in placements on this account where I was pinged drake (after we killed the adc and the botlaner), pinged waves when the waves were big enough to take down the towers, and pinging baron (after we took down 4 team members in a midlane aram) -- only to be told to "stfu" and "muted". (Incidentally I said literally nothing in chat and only used pings that game.) The consequence: we wasted our lead. The other team eventually caught up in gold, they took the baron in late game and won the game. Nuff said.

Shinjusuke1 votes

I mean I say "spam", but realistically I only ping the objective 2-3 times, and it's pretty much the only ping I use besides an "on my way" ping before I head gank and a ping on the target when I'm actually there and about to go in.

I wish it was as simple as a "people muting my pings" but this level of stupid is as old as the game itself, sadly

[zombie-brand-facepalm]

P0IS0N IVY3 votes

It's probably more like they don't know how to play the game and consider kills as more important than objectives.

2Charmnot2Charm3 votes

And then when someone on the team goes to catch a big minion wave about to crash into their tower (normally the carry) for whatever dumb reason your front liners forces a teamfight. It's like people hate winning.

EII 4w5 Enby3 votes

It's atrocious how often I ping "On my Way" [to the minions] and clear the wave of 20+ minions [who are about to kill one of our side-lane inhibitor turrets] only to have our team force a 4v5, lose it, and blame me for "not grouping". It's like the team's a bunch of bulls on the Blood Moon SR.

SweedishGunner3 votes

What's been getting on my tits recently is the fact that people won't build comps, draft tanks or CC. Everyone just wants to play the squishy, CC-less carry.

Mr Vader2 votes

The support life. I feels the pain.

AgeOfTheMage1 votes

mhm, it seems like a large majority of people who actually care about objectives are supports :I

OHminus2 votes

Don't count out junglers!!!

It's so frustrating when I help get a kill bot/mid and I see the enemy jungler at his topside buff/toplane and my team STILL ignores my pings to do dragon, or when we have a huge fight around the dragon (usually ocean/air drake), ace the enemy team, and then my team proceeds to do ocean drake when the inhibs are open or Baron is on the table.

ARGGGGHHH

OMGSoAnnoying1 votes

This. So much this.

I feel your pain.

I suck at Jhin2 votes

No they don't, we ace enemy team and my whole team goes to secure our jungler's red buff, I don't know what you're talking about, they get the objectives all the time.

PePsiLemoNN1 votes

Low gold - mostly ok teams that understand objectives :p

OHminus1 votes

Yea high silver - low gold seemed to be the best elo that I've been in. God low silver was hell...

Flemman1 votes

The worst is the new ornn mission. I saw player forging all game instead of going for the big minion wave hitting the tower

Sandor at top1 votes

What if I care about kills and objectives the same?

BlueBilberry1 votes

What if said player who wants that one kill doesn't realize that an single tower is worth 3 kills worth of gold to enemy and there are two towers in the side lanes that are about to fall because of that kill-chasing...

AFK Push1 votes

As a top laner I find myself raging at the other lanes for not knowing when a tower is free, so I just raidboss it, push mid for them, and take the damn tower.

no to toxic1 votes

Play URF people are suprisingly tower greedy, even me

invisiblecat11 votes

It is the worst feeling being a support, and spotting a wave top or bottom that is overflowing, but being unable to do anything except spam ping your team, and have them completely ignore it

Need Gold 4 Tent1 votes

Big mion wave: +60 Open Nexus: +3

Nasus : Easy choice.

korg0231 votes

This is just annoying since league is so team oriented that your individual skill while matters doesent matter nearly as much as it should. You feel punished for playing good more often than rewarded. Objective control must be team oriented thing and when your team is just plain bad you are stuck in a losing 25 min game feeling like you are wasting your time and brain cells. The problem with league is that its balanced around LCS and competitive so us solo queue players just dont benefit from that balance. Before i remember few seasons ago when i do very good and win my lane i have much higher chance to carry my team and secure objectives by myself. Nowdays it doesent matter if my team is formed of bonobo apes who just suicide into enemy team looking for kills.

BlueBilberry1 votes

Given that most kill-lane supports are out of meta, it's surprisingly hard to get any wave clear as a support. Try doing a wave clear as Janna or Soraka when your runes, masteries and items are optimized for support.

Sadly, I'm starting to suspect that the push towards more supporty supports is making it harder to actually climb in the support role. I've been watching the "bronze to diamond" and "unranked to diamond" streamers this season (after my last 7 out of my 10 placement games featured afks, trolls and other lovelies, and I started my ranked on this account a bit late due to university). And, it's not hard to notice that poke and kill champs (e.g., Zyra, Brand, Zilean, Morgana, Velkoz, Annie) were the main tools the higher tier players elected to use for their climbs when they had to play support. (As a sidebar, it was especially funny watching one master player in a support only run when he chose Janna at bronze tier in one game.)

AR URF1 votes

you mean I shouldn't splitpush top when we have two open inhibs in this weak tower meta?

ZT Xperimentor1 votes

Towers aren't nearly as relevant as they used to be; back in season 2 they were still threatening and durable well into the 20 minute mark, now days people are diving before 10 minutes and a couple minions waves bulldoze them. As for other objectives such as dragon and inhibitors, yeah it's surprising how often people ignore them altogether; yeah it's possible to win without them, but sometimes it's more important to deny the enemy from getting those.

Fütanari1 votes

I thought just happens in bronze?

Soraka is SO HOT1 votes

Just because they are little people, it doesn't mean they don't matter. You should be thanking them for caring about taking objectives.

#MidgetLivesMatter

ejsama1 votes

Ah, i feel you. thats why i play with someone who actually cares with objectives :)

lolibus1 votes

tfw you have waveclear support and people run past the creeps to do random brawl in the jungle with enemy

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Nut on my Butt1 votes

Regarding normals.

Objectives. Aren't. Fun.

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