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This is why you don't surrender.

Vaelentino·8/29/2016, 3:16:30 AM·3 votes·485 views

At lot of you higher elo players will probably shrug this off as something you could have done in your sleep.... BUT, a 48 minute long game, that was almost surrendered 3 separate times. We lost two inhibitors, multiple times. We nearly lost at least 7-8 times. Defend, ace, push, defend, ace, push...

There was a point after an ace where there were so many super minions trying to overrun the base that I was literally going to the fountain, refreshing the AP elixir, running to a lane, ulting and dumping all my damage skills, back to the fountain, another elixir, to the other lane, rinse and repeat. (I was Lux if you click the link to the game that's further down)

It all came down to a Baron fight that we'd warded after acing them when they tried to push to win... as my team rushed into river giving me vision of everyone, they all stacked up in a line from baron pit that basically pointed at the tri bush for blue side's top lane and I positioned Lux there and hit everyone on their team with an ult as my own team steamrolled in for the ace.

Then FINALLY after 48 minutes of a game that everyone thought was a lost cause, we won.

Moral of the story don't surrender, you can win if you refuse to lose by making careful decisions while playing from behind. When you're defending you don't have to go anywhere for your farm it comes to you, so catch up and feed yourself into your full build.

If anyone's interested the link to that game is here.

I'm still psyched about it, but I'm sure there's something that I can actually improve upon, so I'm wondering if you higher elo players would take a look and tell me how I could improve.)

I'm still psyched about it, but I'm sure there's something that I can actually improve upon, so I'm wondering if you higher elo players would take a look and tell me how I could improve.

8 Comments

WoonStruck8/29/2016, 3:42:39 AM2 votes

Wasting hours and hours of time among many games because you didn't surrender in the hope that you'll get that 1/100 that you turn around...yeah...not worth.

Most of the games where I surrender, its essentially a lost cause with almost no chance of winning due to someone snowballing insanely hard from the start and our team lacking the scaling to make up for it. Its honestly better to start a new game to make up your lost LP/Ego.

OneMustFall8/29/2016, 3:36:09 AM1 votes

There are games I wish I could have surrendered even though I won the game. The cost of my sanity was not worth the victory in the end. Especially if the other team is stomping you but they're trolls and won't end the game until you come back and win.

Vaelentino8/29/2016, 3:40:02 AM1 votes

I do apologize for that, don't know how that happened, I've fixed it. In my opinion, this is the kind of game that comes to mind that brings out what league is meant to be.

zacktootall8/29/2016, 3:26:53 AM1 votes

ok 48 minutes that is fine but if an hour or more passes and im no longer at least having fun then im either trying my damnedist to end (if im winning) or typing /ff (if im losing) and im not high elo but one thing to improve on would be to NOT repeat yourself in a post.

RageQ28/29/2016, 4:03:46 AM1 votes

generally any team can turn things around because of their late game potential, Skarner is okay mid and such, but if you let him do stuff like full build he can get up to 5.5k hp and still do great duel dmg.

Vaelentino8/29/2016, 4:29:54 AM1 votes

But this comeback alone makes trying for it worth it, because you know its possible. You don't have to accept that team cancer just steamrolled you... You can out last by will alone displayed in disciplined conservative actions...

lolipopevelynn8/29/2016, 5:49:20 AM1 votes

games should never last 48 mins, period. both sides are fucking up if game is lasting that long. its a clown fest of a game at that point.