Do you report top laners that never use their Teleport to join team fights?

Horrow·Jul 27, 2015·1 votes·1,129 views

Reporting for Unskilled, of course.

Personally, I do. Regardless of its my top laner or the enemy top laner. Currently I have to admit that its one of my biggest pet peeves in this game. A top laner going into a game with Teleport/Flash, but then NEVER uses their teleport to gank or even join team fights. Even when the opposing top laner uses their teleport to do so.

This isn't to be an ass or anything. Seriously, why take a summoner spell as game changing as that then not use it? I report them for unskilled in hopes that I never get bunched together with them again. Even after I ask to use teleport to participate in teamfights, they'll either say nothing and continue trying to CS or start going off the handle with profanities.

9 Comments

TheFameAnimalJul 27, 20151 votes

You can get reported for stuff like this by the players, but I doubt that you would EVER get a ban for being 'unskilled' in this regard :/

HorrowJul 27, 20151 votes

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You can get reported for stuff like this by the players, but I doubt that you would EVER get a ban for being 'unskilled' in this regard :/

This goes with out saying because you know, if you read the description of ' Unskilled' it specifically says it won't ban the person. But it also implies it will do something with the player's matchmaking. Which is what I hope will happen when the report goes through.

SH AzykanJul 27, 20151 votes

Unskilled is a Placebo report option. It doesn't actually do anything lol.

Granted some people who go top, just take tp so they can go back to lane and keep farming/pushing (I'm guilty of this on some split pushers). But if they are playing a champ like Maokai...that tp can win you a game .-.

EliteGunm4nJul 27, 20151 votes

If you don't want to get paired with them again that's fine. But it is their summoner spell. If you ping for them to tele bot and they die does that make it your fault? If they tell you to flash for something are you unskilled for not listening? Tele is a powerful spell on a lot of champions and there are definitely game changing plays that can be made with it, or you can tele into the middle of the enemy team and watch your teammates run away instead of joining in the teamfight.

HorrowJul 27, 20151 votes

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If you don't want to get paired with them again that's fine. But it is their summoner spell. If you ping for them to tele bot and they die does that make it your fault? If they tell you to flash for something are you unskilled for not listening? Tele is a powerful spell on a lot of champions and there are definitely game changing plays that can be made with it, or you can tele into the middle of the enemy team and watch your teammates run away instead of joining in the teamfight.

That's the thing though. You shouldn't take such a game changing summoner spell such as teleport then NOT use it to benefit your team such as providing a presence over the map. Do you honest think that my teammates or I didn't ping and ward for the top laner to teleport down? Because we did. This isn't every top laner thankfully, but there are those they will CHOOSE to not do it despite the rest of the team wanting them to and being ready to engage a team fight in our favor. THOSE are the kind of top laners I'm talking about.

Also nice stretch there with your flash analogy. Except Flash and Teleport are VASTLY different to the point that you're just grasping at straws to form an analogy of any sort to bring to the table. And believe it or not, there are instances when it is a good idea to listen to a call like that. Such as when you're an amumu and someone with great experience is requesting you to flash in and ult. But champs of that example are few and far between.

My point still stands. Teleport didn't become the meta summoner spell for top lane because it allowed top laners to get back to lane so quickly. It was taken because it grants the top laner a global presence, which they have to reinforce by participating in dragons, team fights and the occasional tele-gank. Choosing to do NONE of those things literally defeats the purpose of taking it. If you want to use teleport selfishly, take a more 'selfish' summoner spell such as ignite or barrier.

EliteGunm4nJul 30, 20151 votes

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Also nice stretch there with your flash analogy. Except Flash and Teleport are VASTLY different to the point that you're just grasping at straws to form an analogy of any sort to bring to the table. And believe it or not, there are instances when it is a good idea to listen to a call like that. Such as when you're an amumu and someone with great experience is requesting you to flash in and ult. But champs of that example are few and far between.

My point still stands. Teleport didn't become the meta summoner spell for top lane because it allowed top laners to get back to lane so quickly. It was taken because it grants the top laner a global presence, which they have to reinforce by participating in dragons, team fights and the occasional tele-gank. Choosing to do NONE of those things literally defeats the purpose of taking it. If you want to use teleport selfishly, take a more 'selfish' summoner spell such as ignite or barrier.

Well no need to attack my argument, seems a little aggressive there man. Besides you didn't respond to my other questions. No good answers for them?

Anyways, besides my point and others' that it requires good teamwork on the part of your teammates to follow up on a teleport and with good ward placements in the first place. It can potentially set back the top laner in a way that using other summoner spells don't. If your top laner teles to bot for a fight like you ask and no one gets a kill or they don't get an assist that means they are now on the completely wrong side of the map, have left their lane allowing the enemy top laner to free farm/take tower. And have to walk all the way back to their lane.

Their are other lanes that matter than bot lane. And my whole point is that is not your spell in the first place. It isn't a 3rd summoner spell for you to summon your top lane wherever and whenever you want. They have their own lane to take into account as well. If they are skilled and see an opportunity they should take it, and if they aren't using it in that way then change your plans accordingly.

EndlessSorcererJul 27, 20151 votes

I rarely use my teleport later in the game, but it can be difficult to make use of it in solo-queue, especially in lower ELOs.

Most teleport ganks bot rely on your ADC or support warding the lane bush behind the enemy bot-lane. This will often not happen in solo-queue, even after the support has Sightstone.

Many solo-queue junglers will start dragon fights without any nearby wards (not even a pink ward to make sure no one can see them killing Dragon) and nearby wards depend on your support and mid-laner (and are often non-existant).

Teleporting into teamfights typically relies on there being a ward or minions nearby. Considering how many people don't even bother upgrading their warding trinket or buying wards, it can be difficult to find something to teleport to that's close enough for you to quickly join a fight.

Many people don't know how to play with a split-pusher. I find that many teams will just force a 4v5 in the enemy jungle before I even have a chance to push the minions away from our tower and long before the enemy team has to send someone to deal with me, which pretty much invalidates the practice.

Honestly, at this point I will typically just group with my team after a certain point and use my teleport to go stop an enemy split-pusher as necessary. Unless my team proves they are competent, it's often not worth trusting them to give you a ward to teleport to or to not get caught out prematurely when you try to splitpush.

searchman15Jul 27, 20151 votes

In one of my first ranked games, i was new to using teleport and it was made harder by the fact that there was no where to teleport to. I adapted to it in game and would teleport somewhere in the general area. say bot lane tower or random ward in the jungle and just walk up like a normal gank from the side. TP is useful but only if your team helps make it useful