Why do some champions tilt people?

PhillipDaGreat·2/2/2020, 12:28:59 PM·3 votes·2,416 views

I just had a nasus on our team tilt hard against teemo. Lane ended up 0-10. I told him to play safe early on but he told me to "stfu" after his first two deaths.

He then cried in chat about how OP teemo was.

I felt bad. Teemo ended up being super fed.

One of my mains, ( ) does the same thing to people, people cry how OP she is but refuse to learn to play against her. I like how Riot includes champs that you have to adapt your playstyle too rather than fight different champs the same way the entire time.

22 Comments

Cind3rkick2/2/2020, 12:33:58 PM3 votes

People get tilted over champions because they refuse to play differently to counter them.

Against teemo, nasus got tilted because he didnt try to outplay t he blind and just unleashed everything ontop of teemo while he was blinded and so did no damage.

Against illaoi people always refuse to kill tentacles and then complain when they get 1k damage from them.

Then they cry for nerfs because it can't possibly be their fault that they are losing right?!?!?!?!

My otp, fiora gets similar reactions with my W. Most recently I had a camille get super tilted because I would always block her R with my parry and just walk away from ganks like nothing ever happened. And the the camille that is op because I just blocked her ultimate with a basic ability.

Pika Fox2/2/2020, 1:41:29 PM2 votes

Pretty much what the first person said.... People get tilted because they refuse to change how they play to deal with something. If they cant put in the least amount of effort for the greatest amount of advantage, its OP. And its easier to say that the enemy is OP instead of admitting theyre trash and unable/unwilling to adapt.

Easiest example is yasuo windwall; its easy to deal with. You either adjust your positioning or not use literally all your skillshots all at once when its off CD. But if an ADC cant just right click spam something or a mage cannot just press QWER and instantly kill something, its busted and a bad mechanic because they need to actively play around it.

DamSonWhUFndThis2/2/2020, 4:05:14 PM2 votes

True [zombie-brand-clap] [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

HideSide2/2/2020, 2:29:21 PM1 votes

What Cind3rkick is accurate but not all. What he said usually goes against champions that are usually just annoying and then beat you by being annoying like teemo, akali, yasuo and so on.

But then there are champions that are unfair, how Knight SoIaire said ( but he gave not really good example), and those are that kind of champion that somehow feels like they break order of power ( like ADC>tank>assassin>ADC ) and feels that there is little to do in order to outplay them ( both strategically and also mechanically) so you have to have special pick to do something and counter them directly and not just by playstyle and good decisions. For me, such champion is Fizz and Kennen with zhonya ( legendary " Its not up to you to decide whether you win or lose" )

And last reason is that they get "tossed from the side to the side" and always just narrowly lost, by that little something they feel like they will never have power to change and things that its just broken and wrongly tuned that way to happen and that they did it perfectly.

King Lego2/2/2020, 6:24:27 PM1 votes

It depends heavily on what champion it is. Some champions tilt people who don't see and work on playing around them. Teemo is an example of that because he's got counterplay even if laning vs a Nasus.

There are other champions that tilt people that literally make you feel useless no matter how much you think and figure out how to play against them and even if you did do the counterplay on them because they have the tools to counter their own counter. A few examples I would say is Akali and Yasuo.