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Making yourself carriable

YuumiSoThicc·7/27/2019, 1:28:36 AM·87 votes·16,455 views

The reason I'm making this post is because I feel like 90% of players put too much emphasis on "I have to carry, I have to carry the game" and they make it too hard on themselves to make a play, get a kill, try to get back into the game. Often times players forget to make themselves carriable.

People, listen, you dont have to carry your game all the time. If someone else is fed, then make it easier for them to carry you. Its not all about you, its about how either you carry the game, or if your losing, how you can make it easier for the person kicking ass, to keep kicking ass and carry you. Its about supporting that person thats carrying you, so you can win the game. Quit thinking you need to get back in the game, you are always in the game. Quit thinking that you need to be flashy all the time. Think to yourself "is this going to help me win the game?" If the answer is anything but yes, then dont do it.

You can carry a game, by making yourself as light of an anchor as possible to the boat thats trying to carry you to victory.

38 Comments

Hemulen Magi7/27/2019, 1:43:23 AM46 votes

If you're 1/8 but but your team is 15/8, do yourself a favor and stop trying to ff at every opportunity. Let your ego take the hit and try your best to support your allies, even if that means sacrificing yourself in situations so that the enemy team gets a trivial amount of gold from you instead of a shutdown bounty from your better performing allies. At least splitpush and try to catch up on xp and gold instead of sitting in the base and demanding a surrender...

~ A support & jungle player who rarely surrenders

Baby Ghoul7/27/2019, 4:28:42 AM4 votes

The amount of times I've read "GG open mid/top" in this game is ridiculous.

Half the time we got a BS champion fed and the rest of the team is doing great, but because they didn't win lane, it's over and they gotta throw a diva fit while playing mind gymnastics to make the fact that they lost lane everyone else's fault but their own.

Go get yourself a snickers and just show up to fights for your free LP, like how hard is that? I'm so tired of people throwing games because they're not the carry for that match.

flamingknight8887/27/2019, 6:43:02 AM4 votes

Or you could just become an adc main, afk under tower every game, and get into plat automatically via not inting lol.

Troll for Trump7/27/2019, 2:44:35 PM2 votes

If only the game didn't feel like unplayable garbage when you're behind. Died once? Lane's over unless jgl saves your ass, and their jgl doesn't come. Jgl doesn't gank losing lanes? You literally can't even lane anymore and won't scale for jack.

TailsDoll 7/27/2019, 3:15:48 PM2 votes

Thats very true. A well timed split push with your 1/10 Trist can carry harder than you trying to kill the 15/1 vayne. Let the assasins do their jobs.

The biggest thing people should think is "Is this helping me win the game?"

Is trying to save the 100 hp mid turrent against 3 people going help you win the game? Was it worth it to lose flash and turrent for nothing? Knowing when to give up objectives and when to take the best case scenario its more important than getting kills.

If you blow the enemys flash even if you dont get a kill its better than killing the opponent for your flash in most cases.

Ryusaether7/27/2019, 6:10:04 AM2 votes

Take my upvote man.

I'm the first in line on this topic, being a toplaner mainly I know when I can do shit to make plays and when I just have to be there to peel for my adc so he can carry my ass. It's not a bad thing, it's just to consider the winning condition.

If I'm not fed with Darius, I stick to my adc to provide peeling for him, in exchange I'll most likely at least get a ult reset so I can deal a good amount of damage in the rest of the fight, and he'll clean up the rest.

Put away your pride and just make yourself carryable sometimes.

Akali Prime7/27/2019, 3:01:05 AM2 votes

"if someone else is fed" haahhahahahahahahah

BigSquirrell7/27/2019, 10:45:01 PM2 votes

Sometimes you're Goku. Sometimes you're Krillin. Without Goku, Krillin would be dead and everyone would be doomed. Without Krillin, Goku wouldn't have the time he needs to come Goku and everyone would be doomed. There's nothing wrong with being either one. Except that it makes you a weeb, and no one likes that.

Kai Guy7/27/2019, 2:12:37 AM2 votes

MMR represents an average. You can increase an average not just by adding a higher value to the upper end but also by removing lower values. Consistency! Basic mathematics!

How the fuck people don't understand this principle is beyond me. Like the same way people think 1 lane loses = gg? The fuck? You think all 4 teammates are magically always gonna be better players then their counterparts?

I Just don't get league players expectations for the game sometimes.

The Bad Touch7/27/2019, 2:49:02 AM2 votes

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The reason I'm making this post is because I feel like 90% of players put too much emphasis on "I have to carry, I have to carry the game" and they make it too hard on themselves to make a play, get a kill, try to get back into the game. Often times players forget to make themselves carriable.

People, listen, you dont have to carry your game all the time. If someone else is fed, then make it easier for them to carry you. Its not all about you, its about how either you carry the game, or if your losing, how you can make it easier for the person kicking ass, to keep kicking ass and carry you. Its about supporting that person thats carrying you, so you can win the game. Quit thinking you need to get back in the game, you are always in the game. Quit thinking that you need to be flashy all the time. Think to yourself "is this going to help me win the game?" If the answer is anything but yes, then dont do it.

You can carry a game, by making yourself as light of an anchor as possible to the boat thats trying to carry you to victory.

There is no carrying in this game as long as Mordekaiser exists.

24/11/19 Kass. Mord sells items, goes full MR and just clicks R on me every single team fight.

GG.

LaceUpXX7/27/2019, 1:23:31 PM2 votes

The people that play this game would literally rather lose than get carried.

NovaP7/27/2019, 1:56:57 PM2 votes

Another smaller point. There are champions that are easier to be carried. I had a hard stuck silver friend who only played yi and tryn in the jungle. His mentality was he had to carry because everyone else was bad. These champions are a hindrance to the team when you're behind. The don't provide any real utility. I'm quite convinced he coulda got to gold if he played more carriable champions like gragas or j4 who can both hard carry and be carried.

TeodorusofNoxus7/28/2019, 12:50:56 AM1 votes

I agree and when I see a fed bot + good mid and decent jg I hug the tower and try to comeback in the rare instanced when I am behind in top. However, as cliche as this sounds- I really don't get any decent allies lately. You know how there are streaks where you can play with your hands shoved in your ass and still be carried and then there are streaks where you are not tilted, you go 10 0 and your allies are all trash. One of my best highlights was a solo quadra as Darius where I tped, got ambushed and killed em all.... well the 2 8 syndra stole my penta but the other 4 I got alone. We still lost that game as no lane was winning exept me. Other times I have been 3 8 8 as Talon and still get carried because my team is that good. And I still try to be useful-get 2 or ever 3 of the enmeis to chase me, blow a flash or ult on the useless talon. Unfortunately if I am ahead my team is behind-we have had comebacks thans to a good jg or something where I am not alone. And if my team is also ahead game is over in 18 minutes. Rarely do I find myself being behind and my team carrying me. If I am behind I am to blame for my loss, but also I rarely have a team that can carry me feeding. If I am not super ahead and I don't have at least one decent ally it's over. The days where 1 person can carry are done(unfortunately)

ÈvilMorty7/27/2019, 5:30:16 AM1 votes

Play safe, stick with the team, try your best, play around objectives not for kills, land your skills on opportune targets or peel for your fed allies.

I play a lot of unpopular never meta champions as such i always feel like im playing on a handicap on top of all the broken shit in this game. Example, I play Anivia worst early game, needs 2 items to compete with champions with one item but i digress. Even if i give up an early kill or 2 and can no longer deal with the opponent, ya dont fuckin need to fight them every chance you get, farming safely, letting your team know when they are roaming, not giving up more kill/tower gold and being there when it matters is all it takes to get back into it.

Example: Last week playing Anivia against a Fizz, I despise fizz not just his e but because you dont get to decide when to fight him in lane. I give up an early kill at 6 to a gank and 2 ults from fizz and jg. So know I can only farm and push tower when he roams. Game goes on he gets 2 kills on bot lane but my top and jg got fed off of their top and bot but i dont give any more kills to fizz or their jg however, the game turns around when i land a stun on their adc and jg and we collapse on them, take baron and eventually win.

So what made that win possible? I was carriABLE by playing safe, not giving up any more kills, I took objectives and landed my spells when it counted so that my fed top and jg could carry us.

V Str4to V7/27/2019, 7:57:25 AM1 votes

Problem is, even if I win lane I feel like I don't have impact because the rest of my team already decided the game by that point...

If I win lane 2/0 with 30 cs advantage, my jungler is 5/2 and has drake, my mid is 7/1 and has 2 towers already and my bot is fed af. It doesn't matter whether I win or lose.
Top feels like you have no impact at all.

Paravozikchoocho7/27/2019, 11:04:07 AM1 votes

I can relate, won most of my games and climbed by simply assisting my team and not doing risky moves. And I play mid mostly.

Ionian Vulpix7/27/2019, 11:08:40 AM1 votes

Biggest piece of advice is a simple one: Play safe and don't die. You're worth a lot more alive than dead.

Kendren17/27/2019, 12:09:12 PM1 votes

This is true, however I have a problem with playing safe because the rest of my team is winning in low elo, due to the fact that if the lead is on players who don't know how to close a game, you still lose.

PurpleKingCrazy7/27/2019, 12:42:21 PM1 votes

That's most of my games in general.

Taliyah

1337azn7/27/2019, 4:51:35 PM1 votes

The game is a team game. In soloQ you cannot determine the reliability of your teammates. It is pure toss-up. Sometimes someone will have a bad day and start inting. That's why there is an emphasis on carrying. However, only certain roles can accomplish that easily, namely mid and jungle. I play adc main and while I can get fed, if the rest of my team sucks it doesn't matter.

tl;dr: Mid and jungle are critically important and you can make yourself carriable or carry best in those positions. Otherwise you're at the mercy of your team and how well you guys can gel together.

GGMATCHMAKINGLOL7/27/2019, 9:37:57 PM1 votes

LMFAO! I would be thrilled if any of my teammates had a positive k/d let alone "carry" me LOL

Cowseed7/27/2019, 9:57:10 PM1 votes

On the other side of the coin. If someone dies and you unleash hell's fury on them immediately their failings for the rest of the game are now on YOUR shoulders more-so than if you had just shut the fuck up.

ChaosReyn7/28/2019, 12:01:48 AM1 votes

I think the biggest factor is in how little people actually think about it. And I don't mean that in a demeaning way: if I am getting bent in lane, it's not always as simple as thinking "damn, I'm getting bent...what can I do from here?" Most times, that horrible early game is accompanied by tilt, and more often than not, at least one teammate running their mouth and rubbing my nose in the mess I am WELL FUCKING AWARE OF at every possible moment. More often it's the tilt, and not the person themselves, that dictates the response you're talking about.

So, naturally, the first thing to do about it is realize you're tilted, and try to fix that. You can't think when you're mad - your brain literally turns like 2/3 of itself off. Mute the cretin flaming you in chat, try and find a different place to go than the place you've been dying, and slowly bring yourself back into the game - as in, bring your head back to actively thinking about the game, don't fight-or-flight your way into a bigger mess. I will say though that in most cases (remember, you can't think when you're tilted) you may need some outside encouragement to calm your shit.

I'm horrible about it, personally. If I'm 0/5 in lane, and tilted, I will hit that ff button, and I will be the guy everyone gets annoyed by and makes fun of. I'm not a saint. And at that point in the game, I'm likely not thinking properly. What people need to do when a person like me, 0/5, tilted, but still trying to play the game, is having it rough is to be as passive about saying "play it out" as possible. There is no harsher judge than oneself when one isn't doing well. Trust me: I'm aware that I'm 0/5, and causing issues. No need for the aggressive "fck off 0/5, we'll carry you" stuff. No need for the dismissive "just sit under tower and stop feeding, we'll be ok" stuff. It's as simple as your tone: just "We got this. Play it out" solves about 80% of the issue. It's not hostile, it's encouraging without being over-promising, and it's a vote of confidence that the game is still winnable.

PaladinNO7/28/2019, 12:04:18 AM1 votes

#"I got this!"

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"With wards, heals and positive attitude!"