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The hypocrisy of RIOT: The community's frustration spoken through another player's words

fizzonyurface·12/3/2016, 7:58:05 AM·2 votes·476 views

BTW, this is about the Braum "Will it jungle" spotlight on the client. We have all heard about the #1 singed main drama and how RIOT has threatened to perma ban him... then they go ahead and post this **** for everyone to see after they log in. Like come on RIOT, why do you have to be like that. I was scrolling through a couple of league pages on facebook and accidentally found this beautiful response that the REAL league community can get behind on. Please take a moment to read some of our frustration RIOT employees and owners.

"it really is disappointing seeing streams like this being supported (not to mention it's a fucking riot "employee" whatever that even means" http://prntscr.com/dero9z (WILL "CHAMPION" JUNGLE?!) being able to proclaim their spots in highlights and recognition in the community. It's inefficient and counter plays the whole "meta" everyone is so riled up into yet a bigger portion of the scene supports it. So why do one tricks that hold their own like that singed get such negativity to the point where they get banned / bad rep from the entire community when they will probably never match up with/against said player. Guess people only listen to hype/highlights instead of efficiency/stability." -He who shall not be named.

2 Comments

Martensitic12/3/2016, 8:51:35 AM4 votes

So why do one tricks that hold their own like that singed get such negativity to the point

Because said one trick abused the queuing system, and trolled his teams to get his way.

If someone queues as Jungle, and gets Jungle, and plays Braum Jungle, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. What I play Is my decision, as long as I play the position I get to the general expectations the rest of my team generally have in that position.

When I queue as support, and then play a 2nd jungle singed, I am not doing that any more.

Supports are not required to stick with their ADC all the time, but they are required not to do something 500% different from the supporting role, essentially forcing their entire tea to completely swap their meta game around it.

When you do that once or twice, okay, I understand that people want to try strategies, and that you don't always find people to do it.

But when you do it in hundreds of games, despite people clearly expressing their disagreement, and still decide to force the entire team to play around your off-meta playstyle....

...then you're just toxic.

Aeszarck12/3/2016, 2:42:37 PM1 votes

Not sure if the game was Blind or Draft, but if it was Blind then he called Jungle, and if it was Draft then he was assigned Jungle or roleswapped for it. He may have also been playing in a full premade - I know Xell and Gweedo were with him. Since he got jungle, he played Jungle.

He wasn't pretending to be a support but playing jungle. He was actually jungling. That is why Riot Dash's behavior is acceptable.