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Manipulating other team members

Pestering Jester··15 votes·1,636 views

In our game, first pick said other every team member what they should pick. Our jungler was Warvick main player, but when first pick Ashe said that he wanted "better" champion. He picked Vi instead. When it came to my turn he said that I should pick Sona or Leona, but instead I chose Fiddlesticks which I have more skill than Sona.

He raged whole game how I was dumb player for not picking High Priority picks and acted salty over the game for my pick.

Guys, why this is a thing? Why does people get salty if you don't pick "meta" picks in ranked games.

26 Comments

MalzaharAnyLane10 votes

Your team captain got high and didn't understand that he needed to be in 5v5 premade, not solo queue.

Raptamei9 votes

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first pick Ashe said that he wanted "better" champion. (...) He raged whole game how I was dumb player for not picking High Priority picks

WTF.

IMMASCOOPYOU1 votes

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WTF.

As an Ashe main, I concur. First pick Ashe is crazy risky XD.

Biffolo2 votes

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WTF.

Ashe IS the highest win rate champ in platinum and up. And even though win rate is not everything, she is quite far from weak.

Champion Skin1 votes

So basically long ranged engage is OP?

Biffolo1 votes

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So basically long ranged engage is OP?

Kind of. It's also partially that she does have the above average range to work with, and can kite tanks to all fucking hell.

A Tall Joke4 votes

Other than the very poignant point that Ashe isn't exactly a top tier meta champ...

It's almost undeniable that there ARE champions who are almost indisputably better than others. There may be very few niches certain champions better occupy but over the course of the game, the likelihood that the opportunity for those niches to shine is much lower. In this case, though Fiddles has a great great single target shutdown in his Q and an awesome AoE damage ult, the niches that supports fill often involve more than damage and 1 form of CC (ignoring silence). So "meta" picks are helpful because, typically, these are champions the community believes are the best at the series of niches best suited for the game.

That said, your Ashe was an idiot. People play best when they play the characters they know how to play and play well. Suboptimal picks don't matter at most levels of play and at higher levels of play, there's more coordination so typical meta picks don't apply in the same way. Sure, if everyone was an absolutely perfect player, Fiddlesticks might not be the "best" support nor Warwick the "best" jungler but we're not perfect and these characters fulfill their niches well.

Baron of Bread3 votes

It isn't really a thing more than people being jerks is a thing. Which is coincidentally what was going on.

Skunt3 votes

Because some people think everyone should pick the same 10 champs that are being played in the LC$ every game as it's the only way to win.

The Red Warden3 votes

Some people suck the LCS's dick so much that they never look up and see its ugly face.

TheEloGoblin2 votes

Wait Sona is High Priority?

Spacesuit Spiff2 votes

You have to be really deeply stupid to do this... wow.

I remember this Corki raging at me for not going Soraka because he wanted to farm. As Corki. Needless to say he was raging and afk farming bot while we won the game 4v5. Ah silver.

Leti the Yeti1 votes

people are hell bent on winning in ranked so if anyone else isnt picking the most optimal winning champ (warwick is obviously high on the meta tier list, don't question it), it's trolling

TenSlashTen1 votes

Dat asshe

Godhri1 votes

Idk. I think Fiddles is way better than Sona as a support pick. His Fear CC can peel way harder and is available way more often than Sona's Ult CC. Everything about his kit including his ult makes him a better support pick than Sona. Her poke ability is about the only thing better that she has over Fiddles.

HouseCat011 votes

what about shaco support? xD

aaronconlin1 votes

Played against an AP support Shaco once. Worse than Teemo support, that shit was so annoying

HouseCat011 votes

Worse as in he sucked, or that he was really difficult to play against

aaronconlin1 votes

Worse as in more annoying. Engage and he goes invisible. Push lane and his box pops up. Leave via river and his box pops up. Plus endless poke with his shiv

HouseCat011 votes

so, on a scale from 1 to 10, how likely would bot be to go AFK after getting caught by a stack of Shaco's boxes and a Twitch?

aaronconlin1 votes

I just watched some videos on YouTube of AP Support Shaco. Spam boxes in the brush, enemy walks in and you get first blood... lol

Łunacy1 votes

A Warwick player whining about other peoples picks.

That's some irony.

Champion Skin2 votes

Ehh... it was Ashe... Ashe told Warwick main to pick better champion instead and he picked Vi (that's what happened apparently)

Byakuya Kuchiki1 votes

its because you play on the trash server (anything besides NA or korea)

Rueciel1 votes

Because league teams are made up of people. And well... theres a lot of stupid people out there.

Kapppaccino1 votes

I sometimes make suggestions to my teammates on who to pick because there always needs to be someone shot calling. The enemy team was full of assasins and just burst team fighting champs. I told my team to pick a siege comp, and avoid fighting all game. Everyone picked a champ with waveclear ( Gragas, Corki, lissandra, Sona, maokai) vs ( zed, thresh, ezrael, riven, sejuani) , we got every tower except base ones in under 20 minutes, but then my team started fighting under their towers :/ we were really ahead and losing 2 fights put is badly behind. We lost the game cus team stopped caring about towers and just kept trying to fight. Point being, sometimes team comp alone can win you games IF YOU PLAY THE COMP. We could've ended super easily but you know, silver players gotta be silver. Even if your teammate says he's not good with a champ you select, as long as they play the role appropriately you have a higher chance of winning. I know some people say " pick champs your comfortable with" but sometimes that champ just won't help the team as much. If we need waveclear and we tell you to play ziggs, but you're better with fizz.... And we already have a bruiser top or jungle, it hurts the team. Just pick ziggs and spam q and e until you get tower.

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