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Trolling games, or killing lanes through ridiculous champion "identities".

Calamag·12/14/2016, 5:12:17 PM·1 votes·760 views

By my above statement I want to point out lately in ranked or any game in general that laning can become just god awful. Maybe this is me being a bad player or being whiny but what I can say is that i'm not the only person that goes through this. I just recently left a game where a pantheon was up nine kills with 2 deaths or something and that was only because he was building ap and doing massive damage with his stun. I also had another game where a Brand went support and there was literally nothing my jungler, me or my support and other teammates can do since brands abilities is just a aoe nuke. Or another instance where a ap warwick was just devastating tanks and other players because of his massive regeneration and bite. Everyone knows that league sometimes has a pretty toxic community sometimes which is caused by great players, nice people get frustrated with games where every game just seems like that odds are stacked because situations like this. How can the system work when people are expecting a bot lane or top lane where you can expect champions with a designated role identity to be? Like how is long ranged champion like caitlyn with a braum support win lane with a yasou acting as a carry with supporting Brand? I love the new updates and champions leaning into other role identities as a their move sets get redefined but exactly how can you have a successful game in lets ranked when you're trying to get serious and moving up in provisionals and you have to deal with this and monumental amounts of toxicity, hate, and overall misplaced level of skills?

7 Comments

Dêcoy12/14/2016, 5:31:35 PM5 votes

" just recently left a game where a pantheon was up nine kills with 2 deaths or something and that was only because he was building ap and doing massive damage with his stun. I also had another game where a Brand went support and there was literally nothing my jungler, me or my support and other teammates can do since brands abilities is just a aoe nuke. Or another instance where a ap warwick was just devastating tanks and other players because of his massive regeneration and bite."

It's called cheese. It works sometimes, but more often it will backfire.

Tel Saro12/14/2016, 5:28:07 PM4 votes

At the toxicity, I make it a habit to mute the entire 9 players at the start of any ranked game.

It's not worth getting tilted over the poison in chat. They can still ping to communicate, which is the proper way to do so. Typing just wastes time you could be CSing or roaming or w/e.

As to your usual pick comment, I wholeheartedly disagree. Diversity is important in a game like league where you play the same map over and over and over.

It's on YOU as the player to adapt to an odd enemy playstyle. If you lose to an AP pantheon, review your replays and figure out what YOU did wrong and how YOU can change your strategy to beat it next time. Don't just cookie cutter a mobafire build and expect to win lane.

Sorry, I don't mean to be rude. Too many people externalizations all their faults. If anything, the enemy picking a non meta champ or strategy is in your favor. Things are meta for a good reason.

I do not, however, condone troll picks for the sake of trolling. If your adc picks yasuo and feeds all game, I can understand you being upset.

However, complaining because the enemy picked an off meta champ is just showing your inability to adapt.

Maximum Morde12/14/2016, 5:35:38 PM4 votes

Flexibility is key. If you lose to something nonstandard, that's on you. That's how new metas come into being and there is nothing wrong with it.

Quil Evrything12/14/2016, 6:02:29 PM2 votes

to answer your actual question on how to win: same way you win against any lane with caitlyn. poke them to death. THe key being, you have to have a competant braum that can land Q's. If you dont.. it's not the fault of the champions, it's the fault of the players on your team.

I would think braum building MR, and then going after brand to stun him, would be the win. Nice thing about caitlyn is that you should be far enough away so that worst case, brand can only counter stun ONE of you.