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Moral, Motivation and when giving up is okay.

Kairya·5/12/2015, 10:50:54 PM·1 votes·621 views

Similar topics have popped up in the last few days, so I wanted to start a little discussion about it.

I always believed that winning isn't only about skill and champion matchup but also about the state of mind a player has. We all know those situations, the kill statistic is on both teams fairly equal, the opponents might have turret more, but nothing is lost yet. Despite this your team starts playing extremly devensive, makes little use of good opportunities, doesn't push, doesn't fight for objectives. Eventually the opponents take more turrets, teamfights are more about running and then the game truly is lost.

The question is how does that happen? How can you build your teams confidence back up, before it is too late?

I also wonder, at what point should players choose to surrender? I think that a lot of people tend to surrender too fast, practically the moment a single teamfight it's lost at least 2 people want to forfeit. It's way too early, and leading back to the original point of this thread, it also gives everyone on the team a sense of defeat. I mean do those 2 players still give their best, if they clearly believe that the game is lost? I don't think so. At the same time dragging things out to a 40 minute match of your team running around like headless chickens (who still manage to get beheaded frequently), isn't really the way to go either. How do you guys decide when to surrender? Do you have a clear mark like " okay they have 20 kills more than we do, lets wrap things up" ?

And one last question: Has anyone succeded to convince a troll to stop trolling? How did you do it?

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64931067_DEL5/12/2015, 11:15:38 PM1 votes

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And one last question: Has anyone succeded to convince a troll to stop trolling? How did you do it?

Just leave him alone. Dont feed the troll. 50% of the time he got bored and voluntarily stop trolling. 50% of the time he quit.

T RexHasTinyArms5/12/2015, 11:41:06 PM1 votes

Best way to bring up morale is to do something to turn the game around. I play champs that control objectives and have almost suicided taking baron bc team wouldn't join me after a team fight when I pinged it. Usually one or two join when they see I'm not leaving it and 90% of the time we can take it and run like fuck back to base and then take 2-3 towers w/ the baron buff. People stop voting for surrenders and cheer up when they realize you can win still. Also not great success w/ people trolling but people who rage you can mute and people who argue back w/ them have been known to mute them too if you ask politely and say you don't want to mute the nice person bc you want team communication, but it's distracting in chat and you would rather mute the distraction than lose focus on your play.