Stop blaming your teammates for the defeat

YumaS2Astral·Sep 2, 2015·29 votes·1,073 views

I just had a battle where I was top (AP, not AD). I was against a .

I killed him 2 times during the first 5 minutes of game, then I started to freeze the lane. By the time I was level 9, Cho'Gath was still level 4. Then I roamed and snowballed.

However, since the enemy Akali was fed, it was very hard to win, although I still managed to win.

The enemy team started to put all the blame on Cho'Gath for the lost, forgetting that Cho'Gath was actually the biggest danger to me during the teamfights, due to his silence and his knockup. If he managed to hit one of them, I was dead. I had to play very carefully.

If they just coordinated as a team instead of fighting with each other, I am sure that they would won.

Even if one of your teammates supposedly "feed" during the lane phase, don't insult him. Just play, try to encourage him, he can be better than what you would expect.

12 Comments

KotexSep 2, 20154 votes

It's not your team, it's your teamwork. When your team is off dying alone not paying attention, or not working together in any way shape or form, how can that honestly be your fault--any one person's fault? You can say "Hey guys [x] the [x whatever x] and they don't listen, thats it. Thats all you can do. You need your team to be working on the same page. If nobody wants to work together in a team game, everyone is to blame.

YormaughmSep 2, 20153 votes

This is super true, but I dunno how many times there's the self-appointed "shot caller" in your game who just has the worst ideas ever, and then rages cause "nobody knows what teamwork is." It's like "bro, we know what teamwork is but YOU don't know how to prioritize objectives at all based on the state of the game RIGHT NOW."

My favorite examples of this:

Losing a game that you were ahead by like 20 kills to 10 @ 25 minutes because all your lanes are pushed in and you've lost 4 turrets already despite having all the kills. Then getting yelled at for going to farm CS in a pushed-in lane because "we need to group" despite the fact that us being in 1 place all the time is the only reason they're pushing lanes at all. Then, in this same situation, your jungler gets raged at for dying trying to take his own red buff because the fact that your lanes are so pushed in and all 5 people are together all the time has allowed them to get vision literally everywhere.
Ace the enemy team @45 minutes and then decide to do Baron/Dragon with 3 people alive when they have 1 Nexus turret left. (Literally had a 52 minute game the other day which was very back-and-forth where we had a huge teamfight and our team won but only I (the support) and like our top laner survived. We immediately ran up mid to WIN THE GAME cause they had 60 second death timers and only 1 Nexus turret and our dead jungler pinged for us to do Dragon the entire time...)
Getting yelled at by your dead mid-laner/ADC for running away from a 3 v 3 when you're the Support + Jungler + Top laner and they're like the Mid + ADC + Support.
The Nasus/Cho'Gath/Sated Devourer user on your team who decides that you can start winning whenever he's good and ready to carry the rest of you and not one moment before that.
95% of Baron fights that your team starts. Seriously, if most of the enemy team isn't dead, just don't do Baron.

I only play normals so maybe that explains some of it, but I've spectated a fair bit of games in my time and it seems like most of these problems exists through at least gold.

PhrelixSep 2, 20153 votes

No matter how much you feed it is not all your fault it is your team's for also not helping you, and anyways it is just a game have fun

KingopantsSep 2, 20153 votes

How the hell do you prevent Cho'gath from leveling for so long? All 3 of his main abilities break freezes and he could at least just sit nearby as minions die to get the xp.

[Level 9 NA] Oh.... okay nvm.

YumaS2AstralSep 2, 20151 votes

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How the hell do you prevent Cho'gath from leveling for so long? All 3 of his main abilities break freezes and he could at least just sit nearby as minions die to get the xp.

[Level 9 NA] Oh.... okay nvm.

I am a level 30 gold I on BR. I am actually on promos for Platinum V.

Look at the battle in question: http://matchhistory.br.leagueoflegends.com/pt/#match-details/BR1/596891269/201721804?tab=overview

PennsSep 2, 20152 votes

Looking at it objectively... 1 player = you + 9 totally random players in a game. If you do well enough to win 1v1, 1v2 and maybe even 1v3 depending on your champ, but the other 4 members of your team fail horribly... Who is the one to blame (u dont need to blame in chat tho kek)?

PiVoRxSep 2, 20152 votes

LoL is pure dice roll, i had a games where even faker wouldnt stop me but my team decide to go yolo and die, and other games where i could smoke a cigar and drink whiskey as supp and just wait for my lp.

There should be some kind of a way to calculate lp gain depending on your own performance cause losing 20 lp cause one of your teammates gets caught in enemy jungle right before baron spawns is so fucking frustrating.

TurquoiseYoshiSep 2, 20152 votes

That's why I main Amumu and Gnar. Because even if they feed early, their CC is extremely powerful late.

xReadyPlayerOnexSep 2, 20152 votes

I blame the people that cause the defeat. Nuff said.

Bottom LanerSep 3, 20152 votes

I had the exact opposite happen to me. Late game enemy Yasuo mid almost carries his whole team, they've pushed to our inhib towers (imo it was my fault since I was in mid with Veigar and accidently gave Riven 2 turrets.) and we start grouping and winning team fights and late game he blames his entire team in /all chat. They surrender afterward. I don't even know if I should call it a victory. :/

GodarenSep 2, 20151 votes

This is kind of a dumb post, I have games where i go like 9-8 don't do much and get carried then I have others where i go 14-4 but my team is uncarryable. Do I deserve to win more when i go 9-8? no my team was just better that game.