Do selfless players really exist in league?
Most of the posts I put on the boards are critiques of poor play by teammates, or complaints about how something (champ, rune, item, matchmaking, or punishment/discipline system is flawed) along with suggestions for how it should/needs to be improved. While there's nothing wrong with arguing for how something needs to be fixed or how to improve an aspect of league, the sum of it all tends to be a heavy weight. So today I wanted to share a happy story.
While I had two selfish teammates in the game above that made it more than 2x as difficult as it should have been to win, I had two great teammates who mostly played smart and one was super selfless. So I was fighting singed top and I knew he was baiting me by the way he was playing. Malz was spam pinging that akali was coming too. But I knew I could kill singed and probably escape. So I stayed and pretended to take the bait. I got singed before akali also ignited and jumped me. I probably could have walked out alive and been okay, but malz tp'd top in order to save me because he thought she'd kill me. Never once in all my years of playing league has a teammate done that for me without having been given a very good incentive to go out of their way to help me like that before. Not once. So akali ends up just barely escaping due to her w and flash. I split cs with malz, and we come out with a 1 for 0 in a 2v2 and get first tower of the game. We had a few other great combo's that game - like a 2 for 1 in a 2v3 tower dive mid onto a fed bot duo and his akali - but that moment just really stuck with me. I see so many boosted players, trolls, and mindlessly toxic people in almost every match... with much of their hate and troll directed at me. Seeing someone do something really nice (tp is a long cd and he gave up some cs mid to help) for me was a great reminder that TRULY nice and selfless players exist... or at least that we can have our positive moments.
Share your best moment of teammate(s) being extra positive/nice below if you have one and let me know what you think.
