"Are You Passive or Aggressive?"

Woodakoodashooda··3 votes·3,187 views

Why is this a question? I've begun wondering this as of late because I honestly don't think playing aggressively from the start is a good idea. Having tried it myself and finding that it fails more than 6 times out of 10, which makes it a very, very, very unreliable plan of attack.

This isn't so much "kills don't win games" so much as it relates to the fact that it utterly boggles my mind that after so many games, players still seem to lack the foresight of what's to come if they don't start out passive and work their way up towards aggressive and only when and where the opportunity to do so presents itself.

And those moments will come as long as players are patient enough. The key is to have patience, in my opinion. It may not make for that exciting flash bulb big plays games you remember fondly (of which they are generally few and far in between), but I find that it does increase the success rate of teams who, as a whole, simply choose to wait and use cunning and planning and coordination to bait, lure, and trap their opponents as opposed to a flash ignite turret dive with ult that almost always lands the enemy a kill or more.

17 Comments

wilosonmeat3 votes

I play aggressive to decide games faster, why waste time when i can win or lose in the first 10 minutes

ChaddyFantome1 votes

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I play aggressive to decide games faster, why waste time when i can win or lose in the first 10 minutes

Most guys wouldn't tell that to the wife.

wilosonmeat3 votes

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Most guys wouldn't tell that to the wife.

Most guys have more than the 2 inch punisher im wielding

ChaddyFantome1 votes

[sg-lulu]

Thingamajig2 votes

blind aggression is always bad controlled aggression is always good this is how g2 won msi

Woodakoodashooda2 votes

Thing is, I don't know who my opponents are or how they play. And the same applies to my allies. I'm in a room full of strangers. I personally need time to observe the situation, mingle with the people present, and get a feel for their behavior and habits so as to come up with a plan that helps me and my team succeed.

This is why I always try to start passive and work my way up toward aggressive play. It's then that I've my opponents' tactics committed to memory and use what I've learned against them.

Thingamajig1 votes

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Thing is, I don't know who my opponents are or how they play. And the same applies to my allies. I'm in a room full of strangers. I personally need time to observe the situation, mingle with the people present, and get a feel for their behavior and habits so as to come up with a plan that helps me and my team succeed.

This is why I always try to start passive and work my way up toward aggressive play. It's then that I've my opponents' tactics committed to memory and use what I've learned against them.

or you can learn how jungle works watch the map at 1:30 and make assumptions of when you can be aggressive and when you should start prepping your lane to be passive not an easy thing to learn or be consistent in but it surely will help you to not int to the jungler every time he is near your lane

church arson2 votes

you probably did something wrong.

if you're in the right matchup, aggressive play can earn you the game.

Nanuk Pihoqahiak1 votes

You can read people's movements and make decisions on how to approach them. Sometimes the only way to win is to be aggressive, especially against poke comps. You obviously don't dive in every moment you get, but if the opportunity arises? Go for it.

The Ecdysiast1 votes

You've completely missed the two factors that actually decide whether or not it's a good idea.

Your pick and the matchup.

If you're trying to flash + dive ignite at level 2 in a situation like Ahri into Morgana, you're gonna have a bad time. But doing it as Pantheon into Akali? Totally fine.

When you're trying to make a statement like, "I tested it myself, " you need to actually provide the details of the test so we can pick it apart and see if there were any flaws in the design. Flaws such as your champion pick and the matchup you tried it in.

Handy Sandy 1 votes

ya but if you are passive you can easily get taken advantage of. This is how the roaming Zed Leblanc always goes 4/0 by 5 minutes and you lose because they're too far ahead. Aggression has a much higher reward than just playing passively, and if you know what you're doing then you can do it relatively safely as well. There's also champions that are pressured more into doing so because they scale poorly or get outscaled by their opponent.

Leonidaź1 votes

I am Plat and I had both passive and aggressive playstyles during my time. It can go both ways, sometimes Plats or Golds play too safe and you can abuse them playing aggressively by hitting your skillshots etc and making them have a choice of losing CS or losing the trade if they don't trade back.

I've been there myself, I've got to Plat mainly playing passive but then realized hey I'm playing way too passive and opponent can capitalize with roams etc.

So I've started playing more aggressive like alot more aggressive but still calculated aggression (still taking care that their jungler doesn't gank me and sometimes keeping my wave to myself)

And this way I realize I can smurf alot better with aggressive playstyle. Even Challengers use a fairly aggressive playstyle. It all depends on your champ too. But you can make alot more happen playing aggressively than playing passive, so I would recommend aggressive.

If you want to be consistent tho and are unsure and just want to win the game with teamfights or your head, like: doing the opposite, countering overagressive play then passive is good. You gotta use both to win.

But you gotta find a balance. Too much aggression is bad. Too passive is bad too. It's all the same, it depends on your mind how you handle the aggressive path or the more passive path. Every player and opponent is different


In Silver playing aggressive is good because you have to solocarry anyways.

In Gold strangely, playing passive and teamfight oriented champs is good because everybody else is passive and even if you can get an aggressive advantage from laning, you still have your passive team and games can get extended for no reason.

In Plat you have to play aggressive again. Because strangely here the teamwork from Gold went extinct and everybody is a shotcaller, shotcalling all the wrong things. But passive works too, you have to keep in mind tho that Plat games are very Clown fiesta. So when you play a passive champ, you have to play it to your best aggressive abbility.

Z3Sleeper1 votes

I'm passive aggressive.

Jokes aside depends on the champion. As a top player we all had to learn to be passive players that wait for that moment...

Unless you abuse ranged champions not designed for top and harass 24/7.

WalkingInACircle1 votes

Depends on matchup and jungler.

Velzard of Koz1 votes

Have you heard about early level powerspikes? About early lane bullies?

ModKnightsKemplar1 votes

Having tried it myself and finding that it fails more than 6 times out of 10, which makes it a very, very, very unreliable plan of attack.

Simply put, this means you're a passive player :D

I'm only half-kidding. People have different preferences. That's why people ask. If you're gonna go ham at the first available opportunity, it helps to know that. So, when people ask you, just say you're a passive player.

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