Support Problems, and ff buff
Hi guys, I'm sure everyone's had one of those games where you're over 20k gold behind at 20 mins, those games that you'd have to go above and beyond to win. I've been playing this game for some time, and this is what really gets to me. I am a support main, which to those of you who don't grasp how much work it takes to be a good support, it is a lot. To keep my teams moral up and keep their eye on the prize. Often I find myself in games (at least 80% of the time) where people like to target other players on their team who are doing a little more poorly than themselves and work to make him the enemy of the team. While this is basic psychology, to put others down to lift yourself up.. Would it not be better to see the actual enemies as the enemy team? One solution i have found to this is to simply thumbs down the player who is yelling at someone else on our team, but this is almost never the correct answer at first. Instead I have been working to try and calm everyone down at first, but as it turns out, almost nobody wants peace, and instead you are now the new enemy of your team, where both of the guys fighting instead decide to start calling out what you've done wrong and see you as the enemy... THEN I just thumbs them both down, we play a fourth guy jumps in, enemies on all chat are telling people to calm down, and before you know it, we've lost. So before you go about thinking that you're all that and a bag of chips, pretend that the person you're talking down to is better at this game, if it helps pretend they're on the TSM roster. (Or if you're more of a c9 guy like myself, pretend they're meteos or hai). If we could realize that riot is making us play with each other to take down the other team, rather than try and brag about how we're better than other people, maybe then we could climb out of the bronze/silver ladder and be on our way to gold+. I realize there's probably going to be not one person who's going to claim that they are bronze, and that they are instead a diamond smurf, or something, and that's cool. I am bronze, I have been stuck in ELO hell since early season 3, and I have pretty much given up on ranked solely because I was tired of dealing with drama, as riot parodically paired me with people who were fueled to fight each other.
The other half of this is just to inform the riot staff about something I am tired of seeing in general, the "never surrender" committee I am not saying to throw in the towel at 20 minutes if the enemy team has 10 kills on you, for this is just that, the first 20 minutes, laning is coming to an end and it's possible you have a stronger team comp than them, and could win team fights and pull back into victory. No, I am instead talking when you've gone another 20 minutes and are now 40-60k gold behind, It's not a "fair fight" at that point, and though you should not lose morale, continuing to try to run through a brick wall will shatter your future want to play the game all together. So after x amount of time, or after the enemy team is over 30k gold ahead, could you (riot) buff the FF system to work when the majority want to quit playing? I am tired of getting banned, all because I afk'd after 50 mins into a game, about 15 ff attempts later where 3/5 of us want to quit, but the other 2 are either trolling or just genuinely do not get that we lose. And the enemy team is too full of themselves to end, because when you're 21/0, and everyone on your team has over a 7/1 kill/death ratio finds some sick satisfaction in trying to not end... Well without going on forever, I'm just sick of it, okay? I'm admitting, I have been banned twice, for leaving/afk ONE game, First ban was for 2 weeks, second ban happened on halloween, and lasted 2 days. If you want to see me as "toxic" I can understand that, but I cannot be expected to play out another hour against a team that is 40-60k gold ahead once we get to that 50 minute mark, if it's clear (99.9^% chance) that we're going to lose, and it's not ranked, I don't want to play anymore and lose even more morale, gain stress wrinkles, and overall just have a bad time. I'm not going to make a rant about the Leaver Buster System, for I understand that leaving the game is "toxic", but it should take into account how many 3/5 FF attempts, and how far your team was behind before you left.
That's all I've got to say community, Let's fight the other team, not ourselves, and realize when we've lost in non-ranked. Any feedback is appreciated, if you find yourself on the opposing side of this argument (somehow?) let me know. :) Good luck summoners!