I’ve titled this the: “My botlane always feeds illusion.”

Why do I say illusion? Because the reality is, your bot lane probably feeds just as much as they carry. This has been well-discussed for years, there is no need for me to say much other than over the course of a long season and enough games, numbers will even themselves out.

But why does this perception still exist? Well in psychology, we tend to notice bad things that occur to us more than we notice good things:

The research actually shows we remember things that are meaningful to us. This is a more apt way to put it but negative events tend to be more meaningful because we are far more likely to attribute negative events that happen to us to external causes while we tend to attribute positive things that happen to us to more internal causes (I did it because I’m great, not because I had a lot of help), and internal attributions tend to be more automatic and below consciousness, so we simply notice them occurring less whereas we are going to notice above conscious situational factors because we will attribute the negative experiences we have as a result of something/someone else.

So what does this mean? We will notice bot lane and mid lane doing poorly far more than we will notice them doing well. What’s the exception? If we carry the game, we won’t really notice or remember how those mid and bot laners did, we will be more likely to attribute that success to ourselves (internal attributes). But if we do really well or really poorly and lose while the rest of our team simultaneously does poorly, we will attribute to them (external attributes - it wasn’t my fault). Rarely will we make internal attributes to other people we don’t know (they carried the game because they’re really good). In fact, this is why you won’t remember most of the games that you were literally the reason your team lost. And it’s not really even a sense of memory at this point (this is a big debate the memory field of psychology), you never interpreted it as being your fault in the first place because you’ll blame your poor performance on something external.

So in short, why do we think our bot lane and other laners always feed while the other bot lane and mid lanes always thrive? Because we fool ourselves, that’s why. And before you low-key baby rage and post your 20 game match history, understand that I’m not saying riots match-making is perfect or even good, I’m only stating that you’re not going even think of times you did poorly when I can probably spectate your last 10 games and find several instances where you did. That said, again, match making is another discussion entirely.