Huh, I kinda like giving insight to others points/logic/etc.
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"it shows a clear lack of teamwork on your part. Come on... the guy obviously wants that role and is probably best at that role"
It also does on the other guy's part too. The guy obviously wants the role, so may the other person. The other guy may be best at that role, what's to say the person taking it isn't either? It's a double standard that sympathizes with one over the other through little else than a complete bias.
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That's a double standard and almost hypocritical even. To paraphrase what you're saying: Sure you may know every role and believe others should be able to play every role while in ranked, therefore you should be fine playing a different role because someone else doesn't know every role, because you should know every role and he shouldn't.
Being a team player you know every role so when you're 'that guy' at the bottom of the pick order you can do what is needed of you. Which is regarding the team prior to even having one.
Someone who joins and says 'adc only main' has no thought, much less regard for anyone else who may main adc and if he doesn't get it, is a liability to his entire team. Yet you're actively encouraging that over the guise of 'lack of communication'.
If you have a preference, that's fine. If someone is willing to give you the role, that's great. But don't think others are obligated to give someone else a role through preference alone.
- It's the only means to actually sort out where you're going in any sort of timely manner. Otherwise you'll have people arguing over who's better at what for essentially the entire champ select. Or people just hard locking at start, copy/paste spamming in chat, etc.
Look at it like this, why can't the other guy do a different role? Why does he get any sort of precedence over the other players? Because he's lower?
I'm very familiar with the pain of lacking communication. I actually still play roam, I've even done it in ranked this season. I actually run revive and clairvoyance at times too.
One time I played roam, someone asked 'why not just jungle?' I know how to jungle, I've ranked in jungle, but that game I felt confident in roaming. So I told him 'I prefer roaming'. No one tried to work with me and instead proceeded to lose lane horribly because they were insulting me rather than playing and then blamed me for it. Here's a screen shot of it, wish I had more, but I was really trying to pull through for the team so I only got the one of the post-game lobby.
What I'm trying to say is, even when someone takes a role you want, or is doing something you may disagree with tactically, try to work with it and not just believe that they're obligated to do anything more than consider your input.
Here's the thing, people in ranked do what they're confident in. If they're picking a role someone else wants, chances are they're very confident in their ability to play that role, and so on.
EDIT: Not sure why, but point 3 is being shown as a second 1, just pretend it's a 3.