Where is the Patience? Is it a lost virtue in SoloQ?

UpDownLeftRightAB·8/10/2017, 6:00:07 PM·4 votes·556 views

So, I have started to see what causes many of the frustrations with the current game. In a sense, it is the players, in another it is the balance. Now the thing that connects these two is the ability to have patience. Many of the people who feed, throw games, rage at their teammates, lack this virtue. For them, this is something only they can work on. For the balance, we have to be patient, since Riot really does balance a lot around LCS and they are very patient players, so that's why a bad play leads to crushing defeat. You just wouldn't see an impatient play happen often enough at LCS levels to warrant a change to a champ to help the more bull headed have an easier time, since pro players wait till the opportune time. Thought on my musing? I'm patient, I'll reply.

7 Comments

bàn8/10/2017, 6:07:45 PM1 votes

I think it's because games are decided literally in first opening minutes of laning phase. Your mid get's solo'd, bot lane gets doubled killed and you're already down 3-0. You tell the team it's okay while your top laner dies to a jungle gank. 4-0 . From that point some players think the game is unwinnable because once a team has a lead, it'll be a complete stomp in most cases. No one likes playing from behind and League offers very few opportunities for a comeback unless the enemy team does something really stupid. Some players would play it out but most just want to get out and que up again.

MFTORANK18/10/2017, 8:14:22 PM1 votes

You can pretty much tell from the get go who on your team is gonna have impact and who is gonna be deadweight. In my last game I had a 0/4 vayne but she was nice and you could tell she was trying, I was patient didn't rage at her and we won.

In the game before that I had a classic soloQ Yasuo, you already know I pressed that FF button when he was 0/6 and blaming our jungler lol !

Narzal8/12/2017, 5:14:31 AM1 votes

Hmm, yeah patience is pretty much borderline tough now in league, they made it so you can snowball and end the game faster, it's never about never surrender anymore(yet fools still hit no even though its 2 to 20 4v5)it's become league of delete, and capitalizing on their mistakes, with game sense, like if it was their adc that's fed but your team have champs that can just dumpster them into the ground like item 3193 Chogath or a hyper carry that goes 0/17Yasuo , but gets 300 cs, by all means never surrender.

ZT Xperimentor8/21/2017, 7:10:31 PM1 votes

Snowballing and removal/nerfing of defensive tactics has stilted player preference; why bother picking someone late game when an early game bully will win the game? Why bother protecting towers when they can't hold off a few waves of normal minions? Ext.