Trash teams and report button for low-skilled players

Blåbæret·Apr 30, 2017·4 votes·634 views

Just got flamed by this Varus blaming me for a loss against a solo carry Vayne. First of all: our blitzcrank could not hit a single hook during the entirety of the game. So I thought alright, we don't have a support, lackluster CC and we're not going to win team fights since this Vayne outskilled them all and got babysit by the Naut. I pushed all game and on occassion they were 3+ people top chasing me. What do I see my team doing? Farming jungle and backing instead of taking free towers. I realized around the 20min mark that this was a guaranteed loss (I was right), and I was also expecting to get the blame even though I took pressure of all lanes so they could do whatever they wanted.

The Varus wanted me to go along with them into team fights. At the end he got his wish and we lost.

When will there be a report button for low-skilled players?

6 Comments

nocturnaliaMay 3, 20171 votes

There won't be. Low skill players have a right to play too, especially if we're paying customers. And we get sandboxed into unranked games to help protect people like you. If low-skill players are not getting sandboxed at your level, that's something to address with Riot, but it's only tangentially related to us being low skill.

tl;dr I'm sympathetic and that's why I'll keep playing against bots until I feel like I know what I'm doing, but Riot can't force people like me to do that if it wants to stay in business.

nocturnaliaMay 3, 20171 votes

(My last game against bots was unusually tough because all three lanes drove to the final lane turret around the same time, so all five bots were concenrated in their own base and able rapidly to mass at whichever turret was in danger. Plus I noticed that the bots were synchronizing abilities with each other better than in previous games. has there been a patch for that?)

just OK junglerMay 3, 20171 votes

There won't be, this subject is subjective to opinion of what skill is, bad games dont mean somebody is bad

AptestMay 3, 20171 votes

When will there be a report button for low-skilled players?

There used to be one...

P.S. it did nothing.

The Fuzzy 0neMay 3, 20171 votes

There used to be... it was called "unskilled". They got rid of it because there's no use reporting someone for having a bad game or not being matchmade correctly

HallbusterMay 3, 20171 votes

Ignore your team and focus on you. CS is underrated in low Elo's. Get about 150 cs in 10 minutes and I can guarantee you'll stomp the other team regardless of how fed they are.

18 cs = 1 kill if not more

In a game where people can't even get 100 cs in 20 minutes, you can say CS wins games not kills.