A team is not as strong as its best player, but it is as weak as its worst

Incognonymous·May 28, 2016·3 votes·424 views

Time to roll back the clock to a time when one bad player couldn't snowball an entire team into a 20 minute stomp.

Reduce damage across the board
Mitigate gold from repeated kills on the same person
Increase passive gold gain
Strengthen turrets

This is not a debate about the merits of a team game. I'm only tired of that one bad person ruining a game for 9 other people.

11 Comments

DreadlocksMay 28, 20162 votes

I've played from bronze 5 all the way up to plat 5 (played in p3 mmr) and i can tell you that this is generally not the case until plat. Even then its not that black and white.

CaítlynMay 28, 20161 votes

You sound mad that you had a baddie on your team last game and you suck too much to carry them.

CrettMay 28, 20161 votes

That's a rude assumption

IncognonymousMay 28, 20163 votes

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You sound mad that you had a baddie on your team last game and you suck too much to carry them.

Carrying is a myth. It may have been true long ago, but it is no more. One person cannot beat an entire fed team. If they did, then they had no business in that game anyway, which is a matchmaking problem.

CaítlynMay 28, 20162 votes

Obviously one person cant beat an entire fed team, but one person can beat an entire "normal" team.

CoronaGulpMay 29, 20161 votes

But he's already mentioned that the team isn't "normal" because the deadweight fed them.

CrettMay 28, 20161 votes

I don't like to characterize people as bad players. It's not really a fair assumption to make most of the time. Many people just have bad games. Truly bad players aren't going to get matched up with you if you aren't in the same place as them. I do agree about the stomping in games recently. I really hate that dynamic.

LARGE THumBS UP.
this is already a thing!
Riot would only do this if gold gained from kills was lessened. This could create less of a focus on farming and be a large buff to the equalization of roles, which would have a controversial effect on the meta. I haven't seen it for myself, but other people might not like that vision. You might see some people argue against this one.
They did buff them recently, but. Not really in the way I think they should have.

ShinkoMinoriMay 29, 20161 votes

Technically it only ruins the game for 4 others the 5 of the enemy team will honor that guy and go laughing all the way to the LP bank

IncognonymousMay 29, 20161 votes

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Technically it only ruins the game for 4 others the 5 of the enemy team will honor that guy and go laughing all the way to the LP bank

Speaking from personal experience, stomps are not fun for other team. I don't want a 30-1, 20:00 minute game. I want it to be like 25-24 at the 35 minute mark. You can't do that with dead weight-- and when I say that, know that I mean someone who is not contributing at all. This is not an indictment of someone with a poor score who is actually making themselves useful through other means.

ShinkoMinoriMay 29, 20161 votes

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Speaking from personal experience, stomps are not fun for other team. I don't want a 30-1, 20:00 minute game. I want it to be like 25-24 at the 35 minute mark. You can't do that with dead weight-- and when I say that, know that I mean someone who is not contributing at all. This is not an indictment of someone with a poor score who is actually making themselves useful through other means.

So you wouldn't be happy for a free win in a ranked game?

IncognonymousMay 29, 20162 votes

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So you wouldn't be happy for a free win in a ranked game?

Of course not.

It's not a test of skill if it's free. That's like asking if I like it when the enemy has an AFK. Of course not. I don't play this game for hollow victories.