Okay, match making is overall balanced.

Düff McWhalen·Sep 14, 2019·2 votes·1,136 views

However.

In the last 6 games, there were so many willfully wasted chances to win the game I can't even fathom it. I even politely reminded everyone that we could win after this push, or that Baron. I reminded people where enemies scaled and when we should group or split etc.

Why don't my teams want to win? The games themselves felt over all even in skill, but my team was more concerned with KDA than the god damned Nexus! GAAAHHH!!!!!!

And yes, my last couple weeks of games have started to feel better, win or lose. I am however frustrated in a whole new way; I can see win conditions better but my teams don't want to work together or listen...

4 Comments

KeiagaSep 14, 20191 votes

It's silver. Don't expect your team to be sensible. Actually, never expect your team to be sensible no matter what your rank is. Just focus on yourself and if you're better than what you're ranked then you'll eventually get there

SaezioSep 14, 20191 votes

Did you perhaps have a god awful score when you made remarks about how to end the game?

If you want to be listened to, be the guy that is carrying. Sorry but that's how it works. You wanna shotcall, you need to make everyone trust you first.

Düff McWhalenSep 14, 20191 votes

{quoted}

Did you perhaps have a god awful score when you made remarks about how to end the game?

If you want to be listened to, be the guy that is carrying. Sorry but that's how it works. You wanna shotcall, you need to make everyone trust you first.

out of the 6 games, I was top one, and bot one.

I made the mistake of playing nerfed Aatrox vs Tryndamere and spent the whole game making sure he couldn't split push while my team refused to stick to a play. I said "We either need to gank Trynda and collapse on a lane, or you guys need to Poke them down and then finish off with WW while I keep Trynda frozen". They spent the game running around getting kills but when it came time to make plays, they'd be walking in 1 at a time and going in 2v4. Just really weird stuff.

The Lucian game we had no tank and I got dived on in every instance. Team was actually trying to play to our insane poke but they had the wombo combo of Shyv and Mundo ults as an engage followed up by Vayne and co.... not pretty. Tried to farm back into the game and team bought me time but by the time I had the damage and I was telling team to play around their ult CD's, they were taking 3v5 fights while Nexus was exposed.

The other 4 games were support role and I feel I was doing well enough to warrant being listened to. I was a cc bot with the goal of making kill lanes or strong team fights, but my teams simply wouldn't end the game when the enemy had exposed Nexus or were on respawn. I could tell immediately if we were overstaying or not and my team would always do the opposite... very frustrating. I made the point in every Pantheon game that "We need to end before this hits 25m or they win" and sure enough, we dicked around despite my protests and the enemy came back unkillable. The power spike at late game was completely obvious and they wouldn't see it.

SaezioSep 14, 20192 votes

Just to be clear, because you are getting kind of defensive.

I am not saying they shouldn't listen to you. I am explaining that in low elo, people won't be like "Let me evaluate this persons opinion with an unbiased POV" . They are more likely to be "Oh you are 17/4, 3 levels ahead of everyone in this match and helped my lane 4 times by roaming and bailing my ass, sure I'll do what you say".

Just an observation