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Snowballing Is a HUGE Problem

Bubblinepower·11/8/2015, 6:21:11 AM·3 votes·660 views

I just got through a 20 minute ranked game. The game crashed and made me get to game 5 minutes late. The enemy top laner got free-farm for 5 minutes. There was no possible way to stop him. He destroyed us because knowledge and skill wasn't powerful enough to stop him. When i sat back and thought to myself "how the heck is that fair?! He was playing so brain-dead that if i had gotten to lane on time, I would be the fed one!" but then i thought, is being fed fair? At first i was thinking, yeah! they outplayed their opponent and got and advantage! Then it hit me, the advantage doesn't go away. It is impossible to stop the snowball unless you outplay super hard or get super lucky early on. Nearly every game i see is one-sided. Every team blames one person for feeding and making the game one sided. You could comeback if you were faker, but none of us are faker. It is ridiculously hard to comeback. Is snowballing a problem? Is there a way for riot to remove snowballing?

9 Comments

Jamaree11/8/2015, 6:28:11 AM4 votes

So you should be able to fight someone while down levels, gold, and items? What? Snowballing will never stop being a thing unless we somehow reward not playing or doing poorly, which would be dumb.

Lugg11/8/2015, 6:39:10 AM2 votes

I have no problem with someone snowballing off of three kills. However, there are a LOT of champs who snowball off of one or two kills and there is literally nothing you can do at that point.

360D3GR3SS11/8/2015, 6:49:38 AM2 votes

Nunu OP

HaIlMonitor11/8/2015, 6:57:23 AM2 votes

Why is snowballing a problem? Honestly if someone kills you 3 or 4 times in lane then yes they should have a large impact on the game.

TeCoolMage11/8/2015, 8:52:51 AM1 votes

DCing is feeding the enemy laner farm. It's as justified as leavebuster, and there's no practical way to solve either.

YambrinZ11/8/2015, 7:57:53 AM1 votes

Wtf? Honestly, they should have never gotten rid of the snowball mechanics of old. If you are going to die 1v1 before your jungler has even cleared his 2nd buff, YOU DESERVE TO LOSE.

MilfHuntUnitXJ911/8/2015, 6:33:51 AM1 votes

5 minutes of solo farm is easily enough for level 4, and you expect to 1v1 a level 4 who has 3 abilities vs. you, a level 1 with 1 ability? this is why it isn't ever good to not have an early game.