Feeders or int feeding?

Calypsó·Jan 6, 2017·1 votes·780 views

This is a rant. It's just something I wanted to vent out. Anyways, I started to play rank this season and I got placed in the somewhat lower divisions. I didn't mind that because I could always climb back up. I played several rank games and I main support, but I can fill if it was needed. I noticed that my rank games contained at least 1 or 2 people feeding their lane(s). I'm a support role, so I can't really game change like a hyper carry Vayne can. Anyways, I'm just wondering why I'm getting these "feeders" on my team. If you take a look at my match history, I think I did pretty well on my end. My two recent rank matches were especially infuriating. I played Jhin and had a support Annie. We dominated the lane and went to help mid. Turns out the enemy Lux was like 4/0 before we could even help our mid laner. Long story short, our Vel'Koz was 4/13 by the end of the game. Next game, I decided to play the jungle role so I could help and snowball lanes. We had a "Katarina main" and erm...she fed the other Yasuo many kills before I could help. I was busy helping our Sion deal with the Nasus because we wanted to prevent him from farming. He got so fed that we couldn't even 2v1 him. Again, long story short, Yasuo carried that game. My final score as Shaco was, 19/9/5. I would like some advice and why I'm getting these sort of teammates. Keep in mind that I try to encourage my fellow teammates instead of flaming them. Thanks. [slayer-jinx-catface] -Lost Virtues

6 Comments

SchmidttyGamesJan 6, 20171 votes

It's hard to argue that someone is intentionally feeding unless they're giving up kills every 30 seconds or they are announcing it in chat. But this seems to be a common thing in my rank as well. As a Support Main, I've become a Zyra Main in the current meta. Her ability to defend the bot lane parties and her ability to marginally carry even with support items, she has become a safety net for me with how "flip a coin" the drawing of team mates seems to be right now.

Bear in mind that it is the start of the season, and many higher elo players have been pushed downward. They will typically crush most of us on their way back up to where they belong. As much as that sucks, all I can really recommend is playing sparingly or sticking to normals for a few patches until the rankings normalize.

CalypsóJan 6, 20171 votes

Now that I think about it, you do have a point. It's just that why is it my games only? Every time I get into a game it's either someone feeding and flaming other people about it, or it's just no one talking. It's like I'm talking to a wall. I'm just a little upset, but thanks for the advice bud.

-Lost Virtues

SchmidttyGamesJan 6, 20172 votes

I can't really say. I've had 8-10 game streaks of it entirely on my team, followed by 8-10 games in a row where the enemy team fell apart. It kind of defies logic sometimes. The only thing I can really offer is to trying to play in groups whenever possible to minimize the "effect".

It's by no means a cure to the problem, but it does help lower the odds when they seem to be stacked against you.

I also meant to say "playing ranked sparingly" in the above post.

[slayer-jinx-catface]

CalypsóJan 6, 20171 votes

Just got a game where this Yasuo was int feeding. Quite literally. Like...how do you deal with this kind of bullshit? I don't understand. I can't even play normals without someone ruining the game like this.

SchmidttyGamesJan 6, 20171 votes

All you can really do is report them and forget about them. It's better to not engage people like that. As the saying goes, "Don't Feed The Trolls". During those games, rather than giving up yourself, try new things. Take chances you otherwise wouldn't take to expand your own game.

When someone on my team flames out, I always look at that game as a chance to do something unique. It's actually how I learned to "Flash/Hook" people. Before I had the excuse to try it a few times, I never would have attempted it in a game that wasn't otherwise lost.

There will always be people trying to drag you down to whatever pit of misery they're in. If you can find ways have fun instead, even in a loss, it doesn't seem so bad. You might even pick up new tricks. I sure have. :)

Maximum MordeJan 6, 20171 votes

I'm a feeder, but I don't intentionally feed. I just want to play tdm is all. I play pvp games to fight, not farm minions. If I die, so be it. The mmr will put me where I belong.