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PSA: If you're not doing well in game, listen to your teammates when they try to give you advice.

Tentacle Advisor··7 votes·793 views

I can't stress enough how much it irritates me when players are behind in lane, but choose to ignore teammates who offer up innocent advice/tips to help them out.

If you're playing Top Lane and losing to that Jax, when your team suggests that you play more passively or build more defensively, just do it.

If you're playing Jungle and your laner(s) suggests that you stop ganking and just farm up, because your ganks aren't helping them (but are rather doing the opposite), then stop ganking and farm up.

If you're playing first time ADC and you're trying to build Lethality on, say Ashe, or are building crit on, say Ezreal, and your team is suggesting that you build something else, just do it.

If what you're already doing isn't getting you the results you need, then it's not going to hurt you to try some of the tips/advice given to you by your teammates. And, if their idea doesn't work either, then you can start looking into other possibilities for success.

It seriously frustrates me when people always jump to the conclusion that their teammates are trying to flame them, solely because they gave out a simple "sentence of advice". Your team is trying to help you help them. They are trying to make sure you contribute to the game as much as you possibly can with the highest amount of success possible.

I was guilty of this back in Season 4, back when I didn't know much about the game. It was only during Season 5 that I stopped ignoring my teammates and tried some of the things they suggested to me. In the end, it made me a way better player than I was back. So much so, that I laugh at how amazingly stupid and bad I was back then, compared to now.

TL;DR - Your teammates are trying to help you contribute something to the game. If what you're doing isn't getting decent results (or good results, in general), then it's probably time to listen to them. They aren't flaming you (ALL THE TIME) and their advice/tips COULD make you a better player.

14 Comments

Archlord Pie8 votes

Considering how often people get told to kill themselves for having a bad game, I'm not entirely sure this is the best advice to follow.

FDS Desperado2 votes

Literally clicked on the title with the intent of coming here to make a joke about this lol.

IPERFECTO4 votes

Well,when i get some kind of advice "put ward and stay safe" 5 sec after i got dove by 3-4 peoples,i'd rather instamute this person...

ReySolomon3 votes

I'm not saying i'm a God but it's rare when I am behind BUT it happened when I got autofilled as JGL so I ganked top but it failed and then my top laner told me to just farm he doesn't need ganks and I listened then my support suggests items to buy and I did.

In the end we won the game but if somebody suggests Gunblade on Nasus don't listen to them lol.

RocketRelm1 votes

Yeah, just because you're doing poor in a game doesn't make all criticism of you right.

If in a game I'm doing badly, I get four different pieces of advice, and one of the four is good and the others are dumb, then it doesn't really count.

hhaavviikk3 votes

FUCKIN UNINSTALL GAME MORON

10/10 advice, would listen again

JohnnyFallDown2 votes

Aside from the 'advice' that is really flame, so much this! The number of games lost cuz of the 'I need to carry' mentality is staggering.

My anecdotal story. I am playing Shen top. Lee Sin is in the Jungle. Ahri is mid and MF and Taric are bot. They have a Draven and a Veigar. I am facing a Yas top. In the first 10 minutes of the game, lee sin ganks top 3 times. Lee Sin who can exert so much early game pressure puts all of his focus on a Shen top. I keep telling him to go bot or mid to snowball our carries. Nope he spends all of his time top. BTW, I wasn't having any problems with Yasuo and wasn't calling for any ganks or assistance.

I mean our win condition is getting Ahri or MF fed so we can delete their carries. What is a fed Shen going to do against a viegar and a draven late game.... Nothing. Yet Lee keeps on acoming top. Tried to ping him off... nope. In chat, I tell him this isn't a good use of his time... nope.

I don't think we would of won that game anyway but our chances were way less with the poor choices made by our JG.

So Yeah, people giving advice in game can be helpful, they really are trying to win the game and listening may just elevate your own.

Barcid1 votes

The TL;DR is a lie like 80-90% of the time.

I can't find the advice through the field of death threats, uninstall requests, and demands to "stop feeding".

Tentacle Advisor1 votes

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The TL;DR is a lie like 80-90% of the time.

I can't find the advice through the field of death threats, uninstall requests, and demands to "stop feeding".

It may be possible that this is all personal opinion, then. Because not once, in any of my games since I've been a League player, has any other player wished death upon me through the chat system. The most I've ever gotten (flame-wise) was constant "?" pings. Other times, it was just people suggesting me items, pathing tips and stuff.

CrisisEchoes1 votes

Tbh even when im behind Im not gonna listen to some support try to tell me to build executioners calling before I have any damage at all. That 40% healing reduction doesnt mean shit if im doing 20 damage per auto. If its that important to you, you build executioners, your build matters alot less.

Tentacle Advisor1 votes

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Tbh even when im behind Im not gonna listen to some support try to tell me to build executioners calling before I have any damage at all. That 40% healing reduction doesnt mean shit if im doing 20 damage per auto. If its that important to you, you build executioners, your build matters alot less.

Honestly, I can agree to you on this point. I hate supports that refuse to build EC because "Oh my god, I need Redemption to be relevant!" Coming from a Support main, myself, I prefer building EC as soon as possible if against a Janna/Soraka. As far as I'm concerned, the support having it is not only more gold efficient than the adc having it, but it is also better for engaging fights against Soraka/Janna, even if playing a Support tank like Thresh or Leona. (Especially since they want to be "in your face" anyway)

It Hertz When IP1 votes

Gonna have to do a hard pass on this. If I've been autofilled into a role, sure; I'll take jungling advice all day any day. But if I'm in my requested role, playing a champion I've played before, I'll usually ignore most "advice" (unless it's something I already know but somehow didn't think of). Why? Because I'm generally playing with people of the same skill level as me, in a role that I likely know better than they do (just like they know their role better than I do), with a champion that I likely know better than they do (vice versa etc.). The odds that they will have some masterful insight into improving my performance, ergo, is pretty damn low.

In practice? Hey, guess what, the overwhelming majority of allied negative feedback in game ends up being either really vague, no shit stuff ("stop feeding"; "build armor"); flaming ("wtf Nami OMG support sucks"); specific stuff I already know ("their ADC is fed build Thornmail" Me:looks at two cloth armors and <100g on hand "What did you think I was building") or have ALREADY DONE (literally had an ally COMMAND me to build Ardent when I'd already built it). Over the last 20 or so games, I can count the number of times someone's made a "helpful" comment to me in game that was actually helpful on one hand.

Sun Wu Ryuumoku1 votes

If you're playing Top Lane and losing to that Jax, when your team suggests that you play more passively or build more defensively, just do it.

In this case... i think the laner is already aware of this... but Jax can engage when he want.

If you're playing first time ADC and you're trying to build Lethality on, say Ashe, or are building crit on, say Ezreal, and your team is suggesting that you build something else, just do it.

Even at plat level... Some time u are forced to say to lethality adc to not build lethality.

TL;DR - Your teammates are trying to help you contribute something to the game. If what you're doing isn't getting decent results (or good results, in general), then it's probably time to listen to them. They aren't flaming you (ALL THE TIME) and their advice/tips COULD make you a better player.

mainly when u are in 0/x its time to listen and stoping doing sh*t... maybe.

StairCasexd1 votes

This, I tell so many mfs (including ones on the enemy team) do go lethality because crit isn't great on her. Or convincing teammate ashe that runaans is better than shiv on ashe. Or trying to convince ashe that mortal reminder is very useful against their comp. Or trying to convince the adc to get executioners in that soraka laner I even explain that mf has low base ads or that ashe can apply her passive and the on hit from Bork to multiple people. Or telling your first time Kat teammate to start Dorans sheild in that pokey Lane match up. Nobody really cares about what I tell them tbh, I kinda just going to stop trying to help soon. Only people really taking my advice are the really new players with no keystone who dont know what they're doing.

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