Cycle of Blame

LeaveNotThyBed··1 votes·743 views

I'm starting to get kind of sick of the blame cycle on League. It works kinda like this: Player having a poor game blames someone else that is having a poor game. That person blames someone else that is doing poorly or not particularly well. Then that person blames the person/people that is/are doing well. The person/people doing well get(s) mad and blame(s) the ones doing poorly.

In the past 10 games or so I've played, I've been blamed for my team losing in three of them. In the past 10 games or so I've played, I've lost 4 matches.

I've been blamed for losing in 3/4 of the lost matches among my recent matches, and I was the one carrying in the 3 matches I lost. In fact the only one where I wasn't blamed was the one I fed in (2-7-3 as Azir). In my most recent match, I was playing Vayne and I finished 15-6-? (forgot assists) and destroyed a decent number of towers, and I tried to backdoor as it was our only chance at winning- every member of my team had just died due to overstaying their welcome after getting an inhibitor. The enemy Orianna realized I was going to backdoor and probably pinged it, so Aatrox backed off as well as I was hitting the Nexus. The Nexus was 10 hp away from dying, and I died. My Q was down since I flashed over the wall to the enemy base to get there then used Q, and I didn't bother hitting a minion to bring it back up. As a result, Aatrox knocked me up which lead to my death. I, the one whom was carrying the team, was then blamed for our loss when we were going to lose because of the poor decisions by my teammates even if I didn't try to backdoor. (If you want to look through my match history, feel free, but the Vayne match isn't showing up at the time of this post). Yes, I screwed up. I saw Aatrox on his way back and instead of auto attacking one minion to get my tumble back up, I kept hitting the Nexus. I also gave us our only chance at a win. And no, I wasn't rude at all during that match. I barely said anything until the post-game chat where I asked the enemy team to report my teammates and was promptly ignored, then flamed again by my teammates.

If you want to blame someone, blame yourself. Don't harass your teammates, believe it or not it actually will make them perform worse. If a teammate makes a mechanical mistake, don't harass them. If they make a mistake in decision making or positioning or something, offer advice. You don't need to be super friendly, but offer advice. If you aren't gonna bother to give them advice, then at least be polite about it. Also, unless you're losing 23-8 against a late game scaling comp with an early game comp at 25 minutes in, you don't know if the game is lost yet, so don't start preemptively blaming others for your loss.

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The Whamboozler2 votes

Guys, blaming yourself isn't something most humans have the psychological ability to do. People are too arrogant. It'll never work.

Do what I do. Blame Rito. Did you get killed while in shop during your recall? Rito's fault. Did you get blitz hooked over a wall while warding and die? Rito's fault. Did you flash in to the pit alone to try and steal dragon as Sona?! Rito's fault!

Sure it doesn't make any sense, but neither do most of the excuses people come up with to blame each other and it keeps you from being a jerk to your team or the enemy team. After all, it wasn't their fault that rito made you try to backdoor as Karthas with their whole team MIA!

AyRe CoNteMpT1 votes

be smart -> drag the chat out of the screen ingame.

LeaveNotThyBed1 votes

And if I want to look at the timer on dragon/baron? if I want to know when the enemy adc's flash is up? Not to mention I have to play with these people for the duration of the match, I'm not sure totally ignoring them is the greatest idea. I mean if I start ignoring them at the start of the match, then maybe they're friendly and they're saying stuff I'm missing and getting mad at me for not communicating. If I have to do it later, the damage has been done- I'm probably already upset and/or on tilt.

AyRe CoNteMpT1 votes

everything some soloQ noobs can tell you that would "help" you, you can see and remember by yourself.

SEKAI1 votes

From the day we arrive on the champ select, And yes, we've step right into the zone. There's more to say that can never be said, More to avoid that can never be known.

There's far too much to take in there, And more when we've finished the load. Hey the team score is blight, followed by a lost teamfight, It begins the great and endless round.

It's the circle of blame, And it kills us all! Feelings are hard to explain, Someone go take the flame!

Til we find our place, The chat unraveling. In the circle, The circle of the blame!!

LIFE!

FatesDefiler1 votes

meh, i really prefer the revolution of delusion, personally.

Outdated1 votes

{quoted} If you want to blame someone, blame yourself.

If you already blame yourself - how do you blame your team mates for blaming you?

Stating "blame yourself" as a philosophy directly after spending 268 words explaining how blameless you are is more than a little hypocritical.

The LoL community has a comprehensively stupid grasp of & reaction to criticism. Someone can be really nice and be wrong. Someone can be "toxic" and be right. Someone can be kind and insipid. Someone can be mean and pointless. From anecdotal experience - the general reaction to any criticism, no matter how politely worded is instant retaliation and denial.

"Blitzcrank, please do not grab Alistar. You're giving him better initiation. Try to grab anything else." Blitzcrank responds "ima mute you." and continues to hook Alistar. This happened in a ranked match once upon a time - did the Blitz player not deserve blame? Is any players' frustration or the unsavory things they might say not, at least, somewhat justified?

Look, I realize the above scenario is just a lone anecdote but it undermines your whole thesis of: "Blame the blame! We shall have a blameless society!" If anything, the level of so-called "toxicity" has risen over time despite the growth of the party-line that 'toxicity' and 'argument' causes lost games. All of you remember the video, right? That any argument or blame results in statistically fewer wins? Except that the premise was disingenuous. At no point have any of those ridiculous statistics "players who swear lose games!" been established as anything other than correlative.

Does blame and argument cause loss or does loss cause blame an argument? Without some legitimate experimentation; published and peer-reviewed results: we'll never know. But I sincerely doubt the supporters of the platitudes "You can't criticize! that makes everything worse!" will ever bother to conduct legitimate research.

In the mean time you could simply assess criticisms to determine whether or not they contain useful information. Like, "Use your dash after they flash." useful - worth considering. "Omg noob." not useful; and commence not being so bothered by useless blame.

That, or feed on negativity. Become a Sith Lord; whatever works for you.

LeaveNotThyBed1 votes
  1. That first sentence doesn't make much sense. I'm not saying them blaming me is why we lost.
  2. I didn't say I was blameless. I admitted to my mistake. However it wasn't my fault alone we lost. Rather, I performed the best. I'm not blaming my teammates though. I understand I could've won the match and I screwed up. That's something I should keep in mind the next time I play. My teammates on the other hand, rather than blaming themselves for their constant poor decisions and focusing on their own gameplay, blamed me for my one mistake at the end. When I play a match, I focus on myself. What could I have done better? Not what could my teammates have done better. The common factor in every match is myself. If my teammates in this match get better, yeah we might win. However if I get better, I'll win more consistently. See where I'm going with this? Your teammate might make a mistake, but that doesn't mean it's his fault alone you lost. Blame yourself for not pushing bottom lane when the entire enemy team showed top side, not your teammate for missing his ult. Sure, that ult could have won you the game, but you know what else might have? Playing the match better yourself. Not trying to contest dragon 1v3. Not trying to dive their Volibear if you don't know whether or not his passive is up. Focus on your own damn play. It's probably not everyone else's fault you lost. You didn't play the match perfectly, did you? I didn't think so.
  3. Did you really count how many words there are?
  4. I'm fully aware that sometimes the "toxic advice" is correct. That's why I said if you're going to say something about someone's mistake, give that person advice. Otherwise be polite about it. No need to say something useless and rude.
  5. Very good point with the Blitzcrank scenario. It is still a team game, but the fact that people talk about how they go 30-2 and the like from unranked to diamond when smurfing bothers me and has influenced my mind a bit. I'm rather confused by it, so I'm going to say that the Blitzcrank alone didn't lose the match. Other decisions could have been made. Did you apply pressure at every chance you had? I'm a low elo scrub- I'm unranked and I play 1400 mmr normals. I refuse to play ranked until I can attain 2000 mmr in normals. Maybe I'm just delusional.
  6. Your final point is a good one too, however I for one find it hard not to be bothered by it. If I'm carrying you, instead of whining and trying to make plays when you're super behind, think about what mistakes you've made, don't make them again, and shut up and let me carry you.

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