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Biggest issue with League of Legends

IGankLikeGaston··6 votes·856 views

The one thing that can actually be the most fun part about League, is also it's biggest downfall in my opinion, and that's the fact that it's a team game. It's an awesome feeling when your whole team communicates well and you're on the same page. Even when you lose, it softens the blow, and it's like "you know what, yeah we lost, but man we played a great game together and I would definitely play with this team again." But on the flip side of that, there's just too many afks, too many trolls, too many people that refuse to communicate at all, too many flamers and too many people that just can't understand how much better your chances of winning are if they'd just realize that your entire team is in it together and it's not about your k/d/r or being the best on the team. or carrying, and I feel that a lot of people's ranking is decided not by how well they do, but how well their team does, and there's a big issue there. Can't we brainstorm and find a way to make your rank more reflective on yourself instead of the 4 other people that you're forced into games with? There's got to be a way to single out your own performance in the game and reward, or punish, your rank based on how well you actually did in a game. Why should people lose 20 lp and an hour of their life when they focused hard and put everything they had in a game just to suffer a defeat due to an afk or that one guy that gets caught out in jungle for no reason, etc.? I think if you do well and there's a way of the game recognizing that, those people should be the ones losing 20 lp, while the ones trying their hardest and doing well should only lose maybe 5 lp, or however much just based on how well or badly they played. Or even if you lose, if you did everything you could and it was close then maybe they should actually GAIN 5 lp or so. There's been so many times where I've lost a game and thought "man I did so well this game, the problem was that I was on the wrong team." And It just feels really unfair. I'm not saying I'm the best, or that I'm this amazing player, because there are times where I deserve to be the guy who loses 20 lp, everyone has those games, but when your rank is dictated by 4 other people instead of your own skill, it can feel really intimidating to queue up alone. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on the subject.

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1st Movement1 votes

? Get better to carry your whole team I can carry 4 people and I enjoy learning new champions and mechniacs.

Gotta learn how to spread your lead when your other lanes aren't doing so hot.

IGankLikeGaston2 votes

It's not as simple as that, and I know you know that. Sure there are some games where you can obtain a big enough lead to just pull your team through almost all on your own, but 90% of your games rely on the performance of the 4 other people you're teamed up with, especially if your lane opponent is doing well. A lot of times it's not even that you're not doing well, it's that your opponent is just as good as you, which results in a stalemate in your lane. If your other lanes fail and you're 0/0/0, sure you're not feeding, sure you've done well avoiding ganks, sure you may have been csing well, but it doesn't count for anything if your other lanes are losing, especially if you have one lane (or god forbid all of them, which does happen sometimes) that are just feeding like crazy. There's nothing you can do there, the best thing you can hope for is your opponents making a few big mistakes in team fights, which is something you should never just count on.

1st Movement1 votes

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It's not as simple as that, and I know you know that. Sure there are some games where you can obtain a big enough lead to just pull your team through almost all on your own, but 90% of your games rely on the performance of the 4 other people you're teamed up with, especially if your lane opponent is doing well. A lot of times it's not even that you're not doing well, it's that your opponent is just as good as you, which results in a stalemate in your lane. If your other lanes fail and you're 0/0/0, sure you're not feeding, sure you've done well avoiding ganks, sure you may have been csing well, but it doesn't count for anything if your other lanes are losing, especially if you have one lane (or god forbid all of them, which does happen sometimes) that are just feeding like crazy. There's nothing you can do there, the best thing you can hope for is your opponents making a few big mistakes in team fights, which is something you should never just count on.

Is that the kind of attitude you spread when playing that why you lose 90% of the time

jmaishere2 votes

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Is that the kind of attitude you spread when playing that why you lose 90% of the time

I had a game where I was jinx and was 17/4 at one point, pentakill and ace, my team didn't push, and even though I was ridiculously fed, and my jungle and support were doing decently, we still lost, because the other 2 lanes wouldn't work together/not feed

1st Movement1 votes

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I had a game where I was jinx and was 17/4 at one point, pentakill and ace, my team didn't push, and even though I was ridiculously fed, and my jungle and support were doing decently, we still lost, because the other 2 lanes wouldn't work together/not feed

That's low Elo for u I think it easy to solos que your way out but that's me just find a different way to climb out if something not working for you

jmaishere1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Reaver MHX,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=eMeiz4MW,comment-id=00000000000000000000,timestamp=2016-02-01T16:35:15.001+0000)

That's low Elo for u I think it easy to solos que your way out but that's me just find a different way to climb out if something not working for you

except it's not easy to climb out of solo queue as it took me 5 tries to get through my series from bronze into silver last season. It's not like I played badly as shyvana...even if I can 1v3, if my team doesn't back me up or push it gets me nowhere

SantanaTheSlick 1 votes

the game is designed to hate your team mates form what my friends say.

FooDang1 votes

Have you tried...I dunno...making friends?

IGankLikeGaston1 votes

I'm 25 years old, me and my friends can't always be online at the same time because we have shit to do most of the time.

Wickedfates1 votes

ur right in a ton of what u are saying.... but you have to consider more... to simplify in the end this is a company who is needs to make continuously increasing revenue, the system they made years and years ago, has issues but to change/upgrade the infrastructure is a costly project.... you see this in a lot of the choices they make

let me explain it in this way

you know what would be great, feeding and housing the world's populous... it's totally possible you know, we as a human species can do it, it's actually simple, it's not going to happen however anytime soon because of all the difficulties that come from actually implementing it...

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