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Today I Learned to Never Surrender in Ranked

Komatose·7/18/2016, 1:57:30 AM·11 votes·778 views

A couple hours ago I played the craziest ranked game ever. We were losing horribly, down by at least 20 kills, we had no enemy turrets down. I'm playing .

18 minutes in they have our Nexus turrets down. Everyone wanted to surrender but then I noticed the enemy team kept rushing our base and dying to us. That's when I figured they might throw this. So I told my team to just defend and pick off stragglers. I was outlaned in bot, but by 25 minutes I caught up in CS and kills. 30 minutes in I get two triple kills, we take Baron, then we take their inhib, we stop a backdoor attempt, then rush mid and end. They rushed our base 4 or 5 times without taking Baron or Dragon and just died every time.

I learned what it really meant to be an AD Carry today. I also learned that Bronze players really don't know how to end a game and that I should exploit that more often. I climbed a division today because of this game. Anyways I thought I'd share this cool story with y'all.

Don't surrender a ranked game.

6 Comments

mr me3seeks7/18/2016, 3:07:31 AM4 votes

Since low Elo games go on so long, my roommate and I usually pick 2 late game hyper carries so that no matter how trash our team is, if the game goes on to long we can carry it if we can just stall out long enough, which like I said in low Elo is easy, he was twitch and I was Azir and we had no towers except 1 nexus tower, we had 1 tower down of there's maybe, but they didn't end soon enough, and they couldn't deal with both of us, aced them twice in a row for the win

Dukues7/18/2016, 6:20:35 PM2 votes

That's what I have been telling you!!!!!

Jk I doubt we have ever spoken. Happy you had the revelation. Never forget it, and see your rank rise.

rtbf2216514127/18/2016, 3:58:35 AM1 votes

Well I think your team failed to realize ADC's are late game.

Shaaolin7/18/2016, 5:06:15 AM1 votes

I had same thing http://matchhistory.eune.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/EUN1/1463331046/218673937?tab=overview 8 k lead,fed diana,... everyone was tilted WE WON :D

ForeverLaxx7/18/2016, 2:52:16 PM1 votes

There's a reason people like that stay in Bronze.

Sire Hippington7/18/2016, 3:37:50 PM1 votes

yea, never surrender, ther is always the possibility that your opponents are idiots or get overconfident and throw it(love those 10/3 guys that try to 1vs3 under a tower because they think they are so fed that they can do anything). One might not be able to comeback on ones own strength, but you can always trust in your opponents stupiddity and hope for that throw.

And while this is probably more common in bronze, it still hapens often enough in higher elos aswell. Hell, even in lcs you see how the weaker teams often struggle to close out games when they have a lead.