Why I hate being in the duo lane queuing solo

Resonance x LFT··1 votes·385 views

I HATE being in the duo lane as a solo player. Every time I do, I am immediately reminded why I don't play either ADC or support anymore. Take my last game for example: I felt like playing ADC, so I got the role and locked Caitlyn. My support, Sona, locks TP Sona and either goes AFK in champion select, or refuses to communicate whatsoever in champion select. So, we get in game. I want to take Krugs, because my jungler is starting Gromp. I ping Sona to do it, and I even physically type it out. No response from Sona, and no movement. At this point, I'm annoyed but I don't say anything, because it's not too important. Then, the first minion wave hits, and I'm farming and Sona is still sitting in the same spot under tower. Then, just out of frustration, I ping her about three times. No response. So, then I type "Sona AFK" in team chat. Sona then gets tilted and angry, then proceeds to run into the enemy ADC and do what seems like intentionally feeding. She even flashed under tower. I then do my best to try to ignore her, but there's only so much I can do. The jungle Graves never ganks my lane, but I can't blame him, as I wouldn't either. Sona, after her second death goes AFK in fountain, causing me to get zoned from CS and whatnot. She rushes item 3512.

We eventually lose, and the team flames bot lane as a whole, when in reality, I tried my best and did all I could, but my support was inting.

It seems like when I want to play in the duo lane and queue with randoms, they progressively get dumber and dumber. Things like this, just make me want to play Overwatch and never look at this game again. At least there, the community either doesn't spend all game in all chat, and you can still win games if your team is trolling and you're good enough.

6 Comments

Flaherty1 votes

This kind of stuff isn't exclusive to the bot lane, it happens in every lane at some point. If you really want to keep doing adc or support just focus on improving yourself because you will never be able to stop someone from acting that way and causing you to lose a game if they are determined to do so.

Resonance x LFT1 votes

The problem is that this stuff is happening. I feel like a Rioter might end up giving the Sona a chat ban or something, but won't give her a two week or a permaban for intentionally feeding. I figure that Riot would have found a way to prevent griefing by now that I have played this game for three years. It's just depressing having a great game, with a community that wants to ruin it, and no progress from Riot with a team dedicated to player behavior.

dakota saturn1 votes

Taking TP by itself as support isn't the worst thing in the world. Especially for Sona who can tele -> flash -> ult and make plays in any lane. Did you harass her b/c she took it?

If you did, it's no wonder she gave up and didn't care about supporting you. Having the sona tilt and int feed because you typed she was afk when she actually was.. doesn't make a lot of sense.

Otherwise it's not uncommon for people to just up and afk for little or no reason in ranked. Usually just to piss people off.

Resonance x LFT1 votes

Please read the thread. As you can see that I stated, I said nothing at all to her during the game aside from "Can you stop typing in all chat and play the game?" I was focused primarily on my own gameplay.

SGT Dingle Berry1 votes

This is why I just ignore it all in SoloQ, see something stupid? Saying something will only make it worse. Supp "accidently" taking too many CS? Saying something will only make it worse. This isn't exclusive to supp as it works in reverse too, ADC keep going ham in the middle of the wave against a better duo? You're a noob.

EndlessSorcerer1 votes

Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of playing non-jungle roles.

While I don't necessarily mind the role itself, I find that my lane is often premade with the jungler and they just camp me mindlessly.

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