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Early game feed is the 1# reason I lose in Season 6.

FatTaco·2/26/2016, 11:39:30 PM·35 votes·3,133 views

Been playing ranked, trying to get to Gold again and I've noticed that if the team feeds early even like 5 deaths it's like the kiss of death for the rest of the game and people start tilting and raging and blaming junglers. I kid you not I've seen the score at 5 - 7 and it's come up so many times it's unreal, it's like that score is a message to me saying this is going to be a difficult game and your ADC and Support losing lane is the cause of this. That's another thing I've noticed, bot lane is the biggest source of feed from every other lane. Anyway I'll keep playing but not really having fun this Season since come backs really don't come up that often anymore.

Update: I got Gold just now, Silver 3 to Gold didn't take too long but the Silver 2 promos were a nightmare, 4 in a row. Early game feed solo queue is still very difficult especially with the jungle role and playing with premade gives you a bigger edge on game dominance. I do hope we get a real solo queue soon.

22 Comments

Baby Ghoul2/27/2016, 1:50:08 AM9 votes

There's a variety of reasons why bot lane is usually the biggest source of the feeding.

ADCs have really gotten out of hand. They're a lot more powerful than they used to be, so a slight lead is incredibly deadly. If you pair that with a gank or two, the losing bot lane is done for the rest of the game, ESPECIALLY the support. Their scaling is really bad. Unfortunately this isn't the only cause.

Ganking top is so much more commonplace than it was in previous seasons as well. There are junglers who almost exclusively gank top in season 6. This leaves bot lane open to a lot of pressure from the enemy jungler and mid laner.

In this atmosphere, I love playing Soraka because if an ADC is playing poorly or getting pressured hard, I have the ability to save them and even let them out trade the other ADC most of the time. This makes us less reliant on our jungler or mid laner, so I can see why she's banned so much. She's probably the one support that can block a snowbally ADC from murdering bot lane.

Sniperkaj2/27/2016, 1:20:49 AM7 votes

Just had a game where we has 2-14 down at 15 mins. We didn't even have a distinctively better lategame comp - i just played Xerath. Some good pick by our support, a teamfight where i had poked ADC down to 30 %, and suddenly the game was reachable again. I was kept brilliantly safe in teamfight by our supp, and was able to cast so many rotations on them, and suddenly we won the game, with an end score of 30-39, and 1k gold deficit

Sometimes, comebacks do happen. But this year you have to play distinctively better than your opponent, and not just have picked Jinx and hit 30 mins :)

Very Hard Engage2/26/2016, 11:40:29 PM5 votes

89% of LCS games are decided by a 3k gold lead in the first 15minutes of the game. why should regular play be any different?

Snowplosion2/27/2016, 6:51:50 AM3 votes

That is how I have been losing through all seasons....

Only Play Darius2/27/2016, 1:00:29 AM2 votes

The only way to beat feeders is to get fed. I recommend you learn snowbally champs if you want to climb

MunchCrunchLunch2/27/2016, 3:24:34 AM1 votes

yep. its always the bot lane. we can usually overcome top lane feed or not a great jungler. but its hard to comeback from a losing duo lane. or a fed assassin mid lane (zed)

Dengeden2/27/2016, 4:03:18 AM1 votes

Blablabla, I deserve challenjour. Blablabla, I think passive early game is a good thing. Blablabla, I can't look for picks after laning phase.

High52/27/2016, 5:20:11 AM1 votes

Don't play then. I agree, feeding and afks in ranked suck. They make promos especially miserable.

I'll take credit for my losing. Having to win 2 games to make up for an afk or feeder is why I don't play ranked anymore though.

The Blackness2/27/2016, 11:08:25 AM1 votes

It's because this games MMR is awful. You will be paired with people significantly worse than you. It is a fact. You are expected to carry the trash. Riot refuses to balance MMR. When someone says "Lee Sin needs to be 6 to gank" that person needs to be lower than bronze. This season is out of hand with MMR but Riot will do nothing because they don't care about the 90% of the community that keeps the game alive. If you're not a pro player you're trash to riot. Nothing more than a wallet with money.

Unstoppable Monk2/27/2016, 11:37:45 AM1 votes

I once had a game where the ww jungler was in the river and started a fight. I thought it was some sort of cheese premade to trick the enemy team because our team was so horrible at fighting at 1. I was wrong.

4-0 at < 3 minutes their bot lane with a full level lead before first minion wave.

Spoofghoul2/27/2016, 11:43:15 AM1 votes

nr1 issue why im losing games is because my team doen't know what to do next

Simple lack of understanding the game or lack of gameknowledge,

for example yesterday i lost a game whe should have won. Our teamcomp was really bad but we managed to get a lead early on.

eventually we managed to win a teamfight because opponents where out of position, which was a miracle because they had the pinnacle of teamfight comps and we had quite the opposite.

So i pinged mid inner turret then inhib turret then inhib, all good so far enemies havent respawned yet. So i ping baron and tell everyone tow ard their jungle and baron. but nope they dick around in the opponents base all cocky and get murdered.

Then i ping to shove out sidelanes ask if our toplaner would push bottom i sent a banner minion top and had a zzrot pushing midlane where we had supers.Eventually we even got top inhib too and mid inhib again. after i got all 3 lanes setup and baron warded my team decided its better to towerdive them under nexus turrets because random reasons while we had a free baron right then, after which we could have finished.

needless to say we lost our lead because the team was tryharding to rush their nexus whilst at the smae time thinking they were good and acted cocky by spamming taunts in their base.

the opponents outscaled us and we lost eventually.

Silents4292/27/2016, 8:33:11 PM1 votes

I don't know, I have had a lot of comebacks this season, even with a crazy feeding midlaner, bot laner, or top laner against hyper carries.

I find more effort has to be done on the team efficiency part this time, then me saying "Just wait until I get to late game or get X item"

Crett2/27/2016, 9:26:01 PM1 votes

There needs to be some dialing back on the snowball mechanics Early game is pretty dandy until someone gets a kill. Then an endless stream of injustice and oppression follows until the other team surrenders (if they even get the chance to) or loses, with no chance of recourse, even when the other team throws. There are comebacks, but they're rare enough that it doesn't feel like a possibility 90% of the time.

I don't even have fun winning because it's just a complete Stomping, I've been on both ends of this countless times and it's not fun to deal with

Project Riven2/27/2016, 9:57:19 PM1 votes

People don't understand that, if an enemy is up 2 - 3 kills and has been back to base to buy, they should play safe.

When bot lane feeds tremendously, it's usually instant loss due to two people down on your team.

One player feeding is still winnable as long as that player can contribute to other factors in the game, like splitting, warding, watching the map, etc.

MasterPrankster2/27/2016, 2:35:20 AM1 votes

Wait. early feed is the main reason you lose?

isn't that like, the way its always been or like have i been in the matrix playing an alternate version of league, and just now waking up

La Barbotte2/27/2016, 11:21:18 PM1 votes

because turrets arent shit, so once you lose nothing can help you, you cant ward, you cant stay in your turret, and you cant farm