What Are Players Supposed to Learn from Getting Curb Stomped?

TIKrunk·1/4/2020, 5:25:56 PM·2 votes·2,868 views

As a side note to start things off, it's kind of amazing to me how often people complain about having bad / low-skilled people on their team, but will hardly ever lift a finger to help people get better. I understand this is a dual-edged sword, and maybe that's why people don't try to help people. On the one hand, if you do help people, it raises the chances you'll get matched with competent players. On the other hand, it lowers the chances you'll get matched against incompetent players. Anyway...

https://youtu.be/0RkapfBYIfc

Who hasn't played a game of League and felt like Justin Wong? Who hasn't played a game of League and felt like the kid? To cut to the chase, what, exactly, is one supposed to be learning when being made to "learn today"? What are you supposed to be learning from getting your ass handed to you? What should players be doing / learning when they find themselves on the receiving end of an absolute stomp?

12 Comments

Ashe mage AD1/4/2020, 6:09:53 PM4 votes

You need to be a fkin psychologist to be able to teach a lot of the plebs roaming around the Rift even if you wanted to rofl xD

Arammus1/4/2020, 5:28:33 PM2 votes

that the wwe banned this move for a long time because it was dangerous. but now seth is allowed to use it again

IP Masquerena1/4/2020, 5:45:15 PM2 votes

I'll be honest with you.

I don't care, I'm here to win and if dumpstering you what it takes, I'll do it.

I'll help anyone who wants to get helped, but most of the time, when I actually try to help someone, they act like they are better, like they know it all, that they don't want help, etc.

A while ago, I played against a Cass on top lane, Cass vs Akali, nothing too special. She said she's new to the champ and just wants to practice it a bit, I'm like "ok, fine, I'll take you easy", which is a thing I normally don't do, but hey, I felt like maybe I should. Her jungler came top 3 times in the first 5 minutes. I told her straight that if she wants me to take her easy, to tell her jungler (they were a 5 man) to stop camping, she's not gonna learn much that way, and she simply tells me "no". What was I supposed to do there? My goal is to win, so letting them have their way was out of the equation, I dealt with her swiftly and simply.

When I played against a Qiyana as Orianna, she was picking only Rock, and since I played that match-up multiple times from both sides, I knew that if the roles were reversed right now, same HP bars, I could kill the Orianna, so I was like "hey, combo like this", what did I get in return? "F U I don't need your help".

If people were more open to dropping their ego and accepting help, maybe more would be more open to help them. The only 2 players who actually accepted what I told them about to do were 2 actually new players, bellow level 30, not smurfs. They only asked why it's better, I explained and they did it.

In rest? Nope. Had a Tryndamere today, he was losing top against Soraka, he kept crying that she heals too much, I tell him to get an Executioner's Calling, he flames me.

So maybe, just maybe, the reason why so many people here don't care is because the other side doesn't care either, and while true, you can't learn much from getting your ass handed to you on a silver plate, you can learn why it happened, be it in general or for your champion, if it's a champ you like playing, but to do that, you need to drop your ego.

To quote the youtuber, "welcome to the real world", where effort doesn't really mean you're guaranteed a reward. Want something, work for it. You want to learn how to combo? Practice tools. Want to learn a match-up? Get a friend and play that match-up. You take your chances and want to learn in an actual game? Accept that you may be in for a ride you don't like.

Want help? Learn to accept it. Just because you got stomped doesn't mean you need to be toxic, maybe the other player actually knows more than you do, so ask. If he flames, mute, but maybe he actually tells you.