Griefing with Tahm Kench

Thelostcup··3 votes·829 views

The pickup and carry mechanic with this champ has a massive potential for abuse as I unfortunately found out last night.

I was playing Lux mid against a Kassadin with no jungler and 3 bot (TahmKench Anivia Vayne ) the latter called adc and the former two spammed chat constantly and refused to take alternate lanes. Around 10 minutes or so into the match, TahmKench comes running through the river into my lane with barely any health, being tailed by the enemy adc and jungler. I tried to help him and caught them with my q, but Kassadin swooped in and took the kill.

In chat Tahm Kench said "trash lux u wnt 2 see troal i wshow u trol" (ad verbatim) then abandoned his lane after he revived and came with his butt (cloaca?) buddy Anivia to my lane.

He proceeded to use his W on me and carried me right in front of the entire enemy team, spat me out, then hightailed it out of there while Anivia used her ice wall behind me (presumably to try to block my escape or something).

He did this multiple times and I was unable to safely engage or escape each time. After that the enemy team called him out, to which he responded with more broken English, decided to play seriously after we lost an inhibitor turret, and eventually just threw the match.

People throwing games by purposely feeding or refusing to help their team is one thing. A mechanic that can potentially hinder allies from being able to play their own champion needs to be aggressively addressed before this sort of thing becomes more widespread and gives griefers a brand new powerful tool to ruin games.

4 Comments

Nameless Voice2 votes

To be fair, trolls don't need such mechanics to troll. If someone decides they're going to troll, they can do it with any champion.

Thelostcup2 votes

True, but if someone decides to feed or play shitty, I can just focus on my own gameplay. It's the having no control when he uses his W on you that made this so annoying.

Dragonlord71372 votes

What if riot added that you could choose to be spat out as soon as he eats you? I admit this wouldn't fix it completely but it could help considerably if you could exit as soon as he eats you rather then after a few seconds.

Trebbi1 votes

Bard is still the master alongside trundle stopping recalls

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