Playing with people vastly lower their your skill level

MorgManBasher··4 votes·546 views

When someone is super bad at League and it just makes it so painful and awful to play with them, but you don't want to be mean so you torture yourself playing with them while you try to 1 vs 2.

Like this girl is super sweet and nice, but watching her play soraka and murdering herself level 1 following the jungle around to heal him, coming to lane with 1 bar of health while I try to 1 vs 2 the lane...

I think what makes it even worse is I am a support main so it's painfully clear everything she is doing wrong and I wouldn't even know where to start to help her improve.

I have a few friends like this though where I try my best to teach them but I feel like even when people listen they don't really listen and I'm wasting my time a lot even when they ask for the help.

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Desolas Arterius3 votes

I know this feeling. It's tough because when they're your friend, you want to still spend time with them and maybe help them, but you also want to win haha.

There's a couple I play with (husband and wife) who just aren't the best at the game. They're fun to talk to, but they can get tilted pretty quickly, and don't understand a lot of the basics when it comes to the game (like positioning, when to get objectives, roaming, matchups, etc).

The husband is the worst when it comes to getting tilted. He played GP top once and was getting trashed by the enemy top laner. I tried helping him but he was already tilted at that point to where he quit the game and locked himself in the bathroom haha... They both also get angry at people who play "off-meta" champions and complain even more when they get beat by them with phrases like; "Oh guess this person can't play a real champion to go against me." or "wah look at me I can't play real champions in lane wah!" (whatever the hell that means...) Even got angry at me for playing off-meta too o_o; (Blitzcrank jungle is quite a lot of fun! Or building tanky ADC champs haha :) )

I do try to help them and give them advice when I can, but it's tough when they don't want to listen or even acknowledge it. Especially when you try to help them with their "mains". That's like walking into a mine field wearing a dynamite suit x_x

All I can say is to just play games on your own every now and then. Play with them just to enjoy their company, but don't forget to have "you" time and play by yourself or with other higher skilled friends :) Really does help even out the losses and frustrating aspects of playing with lower skilled friends.

Russian Doll2 votes

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I know this feeling. It's tough because when they're your friend, you want to still spend time with them and maybe help them, but you also want to win haha.

There's a couple I play with (husband and wife) who just aren't the best at the game. They're fun to talk to, but they can get tilted pretty quickly, and don't understand a lot of the basics when it comes to the game (like positioning, when to get objectives, roaming, matchups, etc).

The husband is the worst when it comes to getting tilted. He played GP top once and was getting trashed by the enemy top laner. I tried helping him but he was already tilted at that point to where he quit the game and locked himself in the bathroom haha... They both also get angry at people who play "off-meta" champions and complain even more when they get beat by them with phrases like; "Oh guess this person can't play a real champion to go against me." or "wah look at me I can't play real champions in lane wah!" (whatever the hell that means...) Even got angry at me for playing off-meta too o_o; (Blitzcrank jungle is quite a lot of fun! Or building tanky ADC champs haha :) )

I do try to help them and give them advice when I can, but it's tough when they don't want to listen or even acknowledge it. Especially when you try to help them with their "mains". That's like walking into a mine field wearing a dynamite suit x_x

All I can say is to just play games on your own every now and then. Play with them just to enjoy their company, but don't forget to have "you" time and play by yourself or with other higher skilled friends :) Really does help even out the losses and frustrating aspects of playing with lower skilled friends.

Lol it looks like you're talking about my boyfriend, I'm not really playing with him anymore cause he's always raging and there's nothing that I hate most than a effing toxic player. And he is bad. I'm not challenger i'm not saying i'm good, but when i'm playing with his bronze friends i just stomp my lanes cause they have poor mechanics. There's nothing I can learn when I am 26-0 as Orianna jungle. And of course non meta picks make le bf mad, so cant have fun either. Now i'm just playing with friends at my elo or friends that have a lower elo but are receptive to calls like rotations baron etc. Funnier and easier for me to play with positive and fun ppl.

Desolas Arterius1 votes

Oh yeah for sure. Playing with positive people is way more fun haha. Especially people who want to have fun or like making jokes. My fiance, I, and our best friend usually play as a trio whenever we can. We like doing silly picks (Morde Yorick bot or theme teams) or just focusing on our own skill when we can. Way more fun playing with similar skill-level players, or more positive-receptive players. I'm not challenger or the best at this game either, but I understand it well enough to know that you shouldn't keep 1v1ing a fed Nunu as Tryn after you gave him first blood and he's beating you in CS...

At least you did nip the toxicity in the butt. Though I'm assuming his rude behavior only comes out in video games? D: if not I might suggest avoiding him if he's that rude/controlling/raging... Just my opinion though :3

Great Muta2 votes

I'm legitimately and I checked according to na.op.gg, getting paired with people with 9% and 16% winrates. How the fuck am I supposed to carry that shit?

S0kaX1 votes
MorgManBasher2 votes

Sleepy tbh *lower than your

Celebrimborr1 votes

Tell them to hit me up I don't mind helping someone and making a new friend

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