Are you ever okay with "You can do nothing" scenarios?

darkdill··2 votes·452 views

Picture this, you're Ashe, your support is Bard, and your enemy bot lane is Jayce/Heimer. The others on the enemy team are Zed, Akali, and Elise. If you try to farm bot lane, Jayce and Heimerdinger prevent a laning phase at all by non-stop tower pushing, which you can't stop because Jayce can just dive you. Your jungle Nidalee can't help either because she has to chase through Heimer's turrets, or get counterganked by Elise. Give up your turret? They'll Inhibitor-push you to death. Basically, the laning phase everywhere ends after 8 minutes because their team is too pushy. Lane-swap? Zed and Akali both rape Ashe, and Bard will be roaming so he can't be counted on.

Solution? LOSE OR SURRENDER.

I fucking hate this scenario. You cannot counterplay them, you cannot fight them, you cannot try ANYTHING to turn the tables on them. Even if you're a Master level player, you are set-up from the get-go to lose.

Makes one wish you could legally leave, but that just makes things worse.

12 Comments

3tyson2 votes

Realize its a video game this lose wont mean shit to annyone and wouldnt do shit for you try your best to have fun and eithet play another game or go do something else (It sucks yes) but its the only way

Raptamei1 votes

Just report the Bard for troll picking, and pick a proper adc yourself. If you have a valid bot lane, you can turtle under your tower and outscale them.

darkdill1 votes

Pick a proper ADC, lol. Did it occur to you that I WANTED to practice as Ashe?

Also, you can't even turret-turtle because the enemy team is too busy destroying said turret. Or Jayce can just Shock Blast combo you to death from way outside turret range.

GaleWinUnleashed1 votes

In this case, the other team wins because of a more cohesive team composition. They had a clear goal of being able to reach and obliterate any squishy target, while including Heimerdinger to discourage a similar response.

disregardable1 votes

You weren't able to harass them at all? Also, what's to stop nid from coming in and spearing him once or twice?

darkdill1 votes

Elise counterganks

Besides, Heimerdinger's passive health regen aura makes Ashe's harass useless. And you want a Nidalee to dive into a Heimer/Jayce combo? Tell me what is smart about that.

disregardable1 votes

What if she's too lazy? Also, you're already turtling tower, there's really not much she could do.

darkdill1 votes

They're busy trying to kill my turret within 5 minutes! Of course Elise will be around to stop our Nidalee from interfering!

disregardable1 votes

Nah. Lack of team cooperation is why you lost, not their comp. If you're just going to sit there and do nothing to try to win, of course you're going to lose. "It might get worse" isn't a viable excuse when you're losing horrifically.

darkdill2 votes

So do you want me to blame my teammates instead of the enemy? Because last I checked, that's toxic.

BluePolarizer1 votes

You got counterpicked hard.

Heimer is a very good peeler and very good seiger that doesn't rely on going through minion waves. What I think your problem was is that you had too little waveclear and peel against a team that is great at diving.

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