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Player mentality is worse than before. (little bit of a rant)

Agent Ape·3/4/2016, 5:40:40 AM·2 votes·514 views

I have noticed that players don't know how to play from behind anymore. In season 4 and 5 I was able to get into gold but now i'm playing against my team more than ever. They get tilted at a single pick, and they just don't think they can beat it. I have noticed that players(in my elo) have complained about one champ having four kills and then they seem to be at a loss for what to do. Players just avoid them all together.

Players yell at each other for dying ONCE. You still have 40 minutes to play, I don't get it. Why don't players just focus on what they can do to win.

I think this problem is a bigger one than in S4 and S5 is because players think the only way to win is to stomp another team, because that happens to them because of the wide variety of, lets say, dominate champions, and more E-sport game are like that. I think riot should put more effort into changing the player mentality with little videos they did in S4 or S5.

If you actually got this far thank you for indulging me and my rant.

6 Comments

xl Kirito lx3/4/2016, 5:54:07 AM1 votes

There's some truth to the ideal though. If your team falls behind early, it's up to the enemy team to make a mistake. If they play well, and don't leave any openings, you aren't going to be able to come back.

40min is generous. Incredibly generous.

S4 / S5, the games weren't half as snow ball heavy. Especially in S5, where you could come back, since lane phase wasn't as important as it is now. End of S5 also had a balance of power, where laners were kept in check by TP.

I'm not saying this excuses toxic behavior, but this season really feels to lack in meaningful counterplay to certain things.

Quil Evrything3/4/2016, 6:08:42 AM1 votes

I would so pay $20 a month to be in a "no children: grown ups only" server.

AnCa3/4/2016, 6:40:55 AM1 votes

I think this also had to do with shorter game time and more snowbally for S6.

Plus everytime someone ask a pro/streamer how to climb solo Q, you know what the answer usually is? Pick a champion you can carry with, do not rely on your team, carry it yourself. (There is also the blame yourself instead of your teamate part, but everyone seems to forget about that part.)

I am not saying this advice is good or not. Its probably good advice since the pros gave it. But these advice at first glance make it sound like you should always outplay everyone by yourself instead of promoting team centric play. Although it sould, since carrying a game doesn't mean outplay everyone by yourself, but again everyone usually miss this part, too. I don't know if its just for NA, but that is the message I got loud and clear. And from that everyone becomes centred on only themselves in solo Q, and that usually will lead down to the blame everyone else for the lost thing you said.

Just my 2 cents, could be completely wrong though.