10 Signs of When to DODGE in Blind

1. No one responds to you. This is often a sign of a lack of wards and communication.

2. Top laner Autolocks, even though the team is excellent. This one is situational, but it applies DIRECTLY to top laners. Some of them NEVER help push mid until the other team is completely fed, and in no part because they were GANKED several times up to then, or because they let their team 4v5 push players who scale into late game. You'll know exactly who it is because they ALSO won't respond in chat, and if you try to surrender, they'll say no just because they think they can carry a failing team. For some champions, it's possible, but if their status doesn't indicate MASTERY 5 EXCLUSIVELY, don't trust their ability to even carry their own weight.

3. Auto-locking in general: This is the sign of a fool who wants to first-time a champion in the role they DIDN't call, because skilled players always make sure they get the lane they're best in FIRST. To the auto-locker, it doesn't matter.

4: The inexperienced midlaner who decides to play top. This EXCLUSIVELY includes burst assassins who only have medium range. This DOES NOT include Teemo, or Kayle. However, it includes playing talon, Ekko, and most of all, Kog' maw, who is a glass cannon. It's that Anivia who doesn't have mastery 4, and is just trying to keep top lane from being fed, but doesn't know how to get busted by themselves. It's ANY champion who has less power in their kit AT THE START of the game than Darius, Morde, Teemo, Sett, and especially Chogath, who is a hard counter to long range players who think they can pull top laning off with an ap build in a tank meta. Once they die, they'll blame the jungler, and once the jungler has to BABYSIT their lane, then he/she can't secure objectives, so you lose the drake, and can't get the herald to revenge push because NOW the enemy jgl has come up top and killed one of you, so you have to babysit even harder. It's inevitable when someone who doesn't understand the game plays a midlaner top lane, who doesn't scale against tanks, and there IS a difference between scaling late game and scaling against tanks!

5:** Your teammates are already tilted about roles**, or Role calling the heck out of the chat. These people can and WILL harass you with pings for the entire match if you make one mistake, or AFK because they think the team is trash.

6: Your team ignores the Meta: This does not apply to teams with 2-3 tanks and one range support and assassin. It applies to the team with a mid lane bruiser, a bruising jgl, a bruising adc, and a bruising top laner against against the meta itself of needing one tank and assassin. If no one on your team has the ability to INITIATE pushing from long range, or kill without being in 4v1'd, then you set yourself up to fail.

7: They say FILL in a game mode where you DON'T have FILL as an option, And THEN run the clock down so you can't figure out how to synergize with the champion they choose.. If you're someone who enters fill in BLIND mode, then the only position you'll get is support, 90% of the time. However, no one will trust you. Why? Because saying FILL in a mode where you NEED to call roles is like saying RNG in a serious game. If you enter a match with no definite idea of where you're going, what your strategy is, how you'll do it, and how you'll help the team other than FILL, you are not mentally ready to fight a team that potentially has more CC and synergy than 70% of the ranked games people normally play.

8:They afk before the match even starts: You know who they are. They don't respond in chat, they're in a premade group with matching names, and as soon as they call a role, they just lock in the champion they want, as opposed to figuring out the synergy of the team. They NEVER SAY IT, but They'll either disconnect or sit in base just to troll their friends; you included.

9: No one cares about Synergy in BOT lane: This may have never been more true than in THIS meta. You can't take Yuumi with Ashe and win. You can't take Zyra with Lux or your plants will steal cs. You can't DIVE without having a support. You always need a champion who can stun AT LEAST one person on the other team in order to get an advantage, because Morg's stun is broken, Neeko's stun is broken, Pykes's pull is broken, Blitzcrank's q is broken, ZAC is nearly unkillable, Lux's stun is broken, Heimer's early game stun is broken, and don't even get me started about Shaco's stun. If anyone who knows what they're doing on the other team picks any of those players as support, you're in for one of the most frustrating games you'll ever play. This isn't to bash people who play Yuumi or other support champions in general. It's to bash those who don't care about freezing enemy champions in place so the adc can get fed. If you see something like a Varus and Yuumi tag team, you NEED to dodge. Sure, it's OP if it works, but so is EVERYTHING ELSE, and having two champions stun in one stun changes nothing.

10: They're a premade who never says anything, OR spams their roles in chat several times over: NEVER play with a premade who cares more for themselves than they do the team; especially when they're the majority. You're very likely to be blames for their loss by ALL 3-4 players until the match ends. If they exhibit any of the latter signs, DODGE, and don't waste your time giving an excuse. The most toxic thing in this game is having several of your own teammates harass you just because they're friends with each other.

11: They're already on your block list :p