When your team is asking you to group, LISTEN TO THEM!

Karunamon·6/1/2018, 5:06:05 PM·6 votes·2,516 views

Because these calls generally come when your team is way behind and people are getting caught out alone.

>"But I'm split pushing!"

Split pushing implies more than one push happening at the same time. It absolutely does not mean that you screw around in the top lane trying to take a tier 2 tower all by yourself while the rest of the team is dying in mid trying to defend the inhibitor tower. You know what's gonna happen? The fight will be lost 4v5, and you will die as the jungler and/or ADC backs off to go deal with your no-vision-having self.

>"But my team is a bunch of boosted monkeys who don't know how2play!"

And you do? You're silver just like the rest of us. The days of solo carry are over. Get back, listen to your damn team, and try to salvage the game, rather than making your twelve deaths become 13 because you have no idea what the words "vision" and "mia" and "group" mean.

Let me say the critical bit again:

THE DAYS OF SOLO CARRY ARE OVER

Act like it and start playing with the team rather than on your own. You will die, the game will be lost, and it will be your fault.

Sincerely: An annoyed support main

16 Comments

Pika Fox6/1/2018, 7:22:10 PM6 votes

Yeah, lets tell the nasus and the yorick to group. Im sure only good things will happen.

Quinzley6/1/2018, 8:02:29 PM5 votes

No, I'm not going to leave my top lane just because you can't hold a tower.

Making Solo carrying impossible was a mistake.

LetMeCarry19836/1/2018, 11:19:16 PM2 votes

My team: Teemo Talon MasterYi Lucian Soraka

Enemy team: Malphite Galio Amumu Ashe Nautilus

Fuck you, I'm splitting. You have to be legit retarded to think grouping would work in our favor. /mute all and split 24/7 baby.

IcyPepper6/1/2018, 11:19:52 PM2 votes

Grouping does not solve everything.

Melledoneus6/2/2018, 6:04:10 AM1 votes

But what if I'm playing Shen and I have ult?

RookPusher6/1/2018, 5:08:44 PM1 votes

I love you.

DW Diana6/2/2018, 7:59:06 AM1 votes

This is an interesting one. Split pushing is a great when you have a champion that does it well like Yorick, Nasus, Diana. If you've got someone splitting without contention, then you should just look to wave clear. a 4v5 under tower should not be something you lose, and with the three champions I mentioned above, even if they DO take a tower, your split pusher will have taken 2 in that time.

I played a game yesterday where I was Yorick 2/6 but with tri force and steraks built. I took both top towers while the enemy took a dragon, took both bot turrets while they answered my team taking mid, and when they went for a baron after we had a bad teamfight I went bot and pushed straight to their nexus.

Split pushing with a champion that can easily 1v1 most champions means the enemy team need to send at least 2 people to fight you (though do this against illaoi and she'll thank you for the extra kill xD), meaning the numbers advantage is with the rest of your team.

This having been said, I AM a mid lane main, and understand the frustration of the idiot who split pushed 24/7 without a TP while you're trying to contest an objective like Baron or Dragon IS annoying, but sometimes it's worth giving up a dragon (though baron not so much xD)to take towers.

The Space Cowboy6/1/2018, 7:11:18 PM1 votes

As long as you acknowledge that group mid isn’t the only viable voice in every situation. Nothing is worse than being a splitter in a winning game being flames for splitting.

The23rdGamer6/2/2018, 5:08:25 AM1 votes

I mostly get annoyed when someone split pushes when they probably shouldn't be (either in general when my ADC goes alone or at that particular time Nasus is a great split pushing champ but sometimes it is nice for him to group up for a quick fight or something, depending on circumstance)

I do think, though, that split pushing is incredibly nice when done well. Backdoors are also nice when they're done well, but that's probably a topic for another time I suppose.

Sincerely: A fellow support main Sona

3TWarrior6/2/2018, 5:54:37 AM1 votes

"hey guys, i'm at their inhibitor tower..." ping ping ping

yet everyone stayed mid to defend a tier 1 tower

mordekaiser used to be such a beast T.T though I realize that was unhealthy, but it was supposed to balance out with that he could never get to ANYONE to do anything other than minor damage in teamfights

that game was fun, they started sending two and even three people to pry me away from the tower, though I don't remember how the game turned out :(