How do you convince your team to engage?

For Carthage··2 votes·806 views

No. Seriously. Every game I have Kat, my team won't engage. I tell them to go do the preliminary engage and damage and I can get my resets off in order to do maximum damage.

They instead get caught out, get engaged upon, try to run and do no damage, and then the rest of my team refuses to follow up until I've jumped in. And this is literally every single goddamn game ever as Kat.

I'd love to be able to, just once, just have a nice, simple game with some fucking teamwork and get out of this hellish ELO, but again, not a single person ever, ever, ever, ever, ever fucking listens, and that wouldn't be so much of an issue if they weren't also fucking everything up. So please. Tell me. I've tried asking politely, I've tried strategizing beforehand, I've tried pinging and poking and just blatantly demanding that they go in. I have attempted every thing, and they still just won't. So how do you get your idiot teammates to finally realize how to play a goddamn team game?

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NIEKUH3 votes

YELL penis!

LilxPaprika2 votes

Go in with zhonias, hope to god they follow up.

For Carthage1 votes

And the backup plan for if they don't?

BoootyButtCheeks1 votes

then you afk.

For Carthage1 votes

In all honesty, I would if Riot wouldn't just sit on their side the entire time.

Something about them saying "This is a game of teamwork" and then doing literally nothing to back up or enforce that claim tends to work into their agenda all the bloody time.

So when there is no teamwork on a team... why play a team game? If it's a team game and you take out the team aspect, you no longer even have rules for a game because that's what it's centered around - teams. And you have no game without a set of defined rules - you then just have a "do what you want" sandbox.

BoootyButtCheeks1 votes

this is a problem in low elos just try to pick a carry champ and get to gold+ where people communicate with eachother.

For Carthage1 votes

You realize it's still a problem in low Plat as well, right?

XxxLumberJackxxX1 votes

[{quoted}](name=For Carthage,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=hXB930hl,comment-id=00030000,timestamp=2015-04-30T12:41:49.313+0000)

And the backup plan for if they don't?

lose

disregardable1 votes

Or you could just ping like crazy then go in first.

For Carthage1 votes

Literally what I've been doing. They won't follow until I'm dead.

disregardable1 votes

Maybe you're being too hard-headed then. If you can't get your team to 5v5, maybe you should try splitting with the ADC to try to get a pick or two.

Sona Ping1 votes

[{quoted}](name=For Carthage,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=hXB930hl,comment-id=,timestamp=2015-04-30T11:49:55.199+0000) "Go! Attack! GO in and die for me already! They need to be softened up so I can get muh resets!"

Oh gee, I wonder why they don't listen... I guess it's just a mystery. But at least I've learned a new definition of "teamwork" today.

For Carthage1 votes

You must be one of those that still doesn't understand how Kat works into a team.

An AoE reset assassin that can demolish entire teams in split seconds if they're squishy or even if it's a bunch of tanks at half health.

It's not about "my" results. It's about being able to do my job in order to ensure victory for the team. Even if I wasn't Kat, the tanks on our team would still, regardless, have the job of initiating anyway. Honestly, being Kat is only more motivation to engage if anything; it literally changes nothing about their jobs.

Ashe Box1 votes

if you want people to decide when your team engages at low elo, be a jg tank with cc and gank lanes for kills( always type gj even if they just last hit the person and you do everything), then when you want to engage in the mid or the late game ping a bunch before you do, if you do good in the early game shot call as much as possible cause people will listen to u if ur doing well

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