Why do people always go straight to "Oh it's X main talking"

Marshbouy··22 votes·1,809 views

There have been so many times where I have been accused of maining a champion that I rarely play. I've been accused of being a Yasuo main every time I try to dispel some shitty nerf idea or tell someone to get better at playing the game. If I remember correctly the last time I remember playing Yasuo was over a month ago, at 12 am, in a bot game.

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Big Lincoln23 votes

because being a main of that champion somehow deflates your argument completely and in every single situation.

Sahn Uzal10 votes

Reading comments on Malicious Metal's threads is pretty entertaining.

Big Lincoln5 votes

MM's issue is that instead of bumping one of his existing threads he makes an entire new one, and a lot of them just say the same stuff

Sahn Uzal5 votes

I'll stay neutral on that statement, because it ain't really relevant to the point I'm making. I just find it entertaining when I see comments like ''Mordekaiser is broken freelo and he doesn't want Rylais to get nerfed so he can keep abusing it'' Using a winningspree the guy had on his main champion as an ''argument''

That's just pretty entertaining imo.

Tormentula3 votes

Cause MM doesn't say the same stuff, he usually makes the threads for a specific topic about the same issue.

Example: He made a rylais+morde discussion thread for more specific replies, rather than bumping a general morde thread in which the points of concern are quickly drowned by shit post. He made another thread about riot's standards on reverting reworks since they did it for kog'maw but morde who's been questionable since his first rework doesn't get the same treatment.


I hate the concept of "you main so you don't know what you're talking about", its either treated as biased because everybody wants their mains to be good, or if you never played the champion then you're treated like you don't even know much about the champion itself to give an opinion.

Melledoneus4 votes

Fucking Shen mains.

Puts finger on earpiece

Oh, they don't exist? Well, then.

Spicy Rice2 votes

They do, it's just that can't see them

ninja paranoia intensifies

Melledoneus1 votes

Damn. So that's why I can't see my own reflection...

Bhagswag3 votes

I'm kind of a Shen top main. I'm too scared to take anything else top.

Melledoneus1 votes

Psh. Meta sheep. We all know Shen is broken since the buffs to his Q AD ratio.

Zelorxon5 votes

I was accused of being a trump supporter. And a liberal. And a polish. And a bad player too.

Valeckserai1 votes

Do you at least play Azir?

Zelorxon1 votes

Besides the fact that i don't play mid lane and suck at it to the point i wish i was the mid laner on the opposite team, azir is one of the few champions where i suck at, along with nidalee, reksai, jayce, riven, gp, xerath and yasuo.

50000000000000001 votes

Technically you can be all of those But really, we've all been accused of being bad at some point.

Zelorxon1 votes

Yeah but at least i wish i was called bad when i'm feeding/getting dumpstered, not when i write a handy guide for retards to get plat ez/i'm fed and carrying/i'm the only one who isn't saying retarded things just because i made people feel like a dipshit.

MissingKayo5 votes

They have nothing else to support their claims.

Valeckserai5 votes

Never played Yasuo in my life. But since I thought random idiots on the boards had stupid ideas on how to "balance" the game I'm apparently a Yasuo one trick.

drakuIa4213 votes

rule #1 of the boards: logic isnt allowed rule #2 of the boards: yasuo is broken

notice how well these two rules work together?

50000000000000001 votes

"Yasuo is broken" is rule #1

macromite3 votes

Fucing yasuo mains and their not maining yasuo amirite

Cowseed3 votes

This is a complete lie. I've never once heard anyone accusing other people of being 'X main'. The only champ we have from the alphabet is Zed.

50000000000000001 votes

Found a Z main

Kingnewgameplus3 votes

Oh look at this, another AWP main complaining about the balance of sonic generations, and think they can balance better than the entire company of rockstar, scroll on.

warpenguin5552 votes

Because people REALLY dont like to use facts (i don't either) and instead of trying to explain/backup their points it's easier to try to dismiss the other people.

venomous frost6 votes

"facts" on this board are always biased anyways, they are just subjective opinions presented like facts

50000000000000001 votes

Presenting facts selectively that supports your arguments while ignoring facts that hurt your arguments is basically lying

1M Gold Udyr XD1 votes

Statistics is a tangible fact.

Risk of Fate1 votes

Also the fact that if you're below Diamond/Challenger, you obviously don't know what your talking about and they make you play in the sandbox while the big boys play baseball.

I still get a kick out of these "OMG, Yas OP" threads when I personally make them scared to lane against me because I well harass the hell out of their range and I don't take kindly to their windwall bs.

Spaceman5pff1 votes

Had some idiot say I was a graves main to try to shut me up once. Said I was "abusing graves jungle to climb the ranked ladder"

I played him 12 ranked games, and totalled a 75% winrate. I played him toplane, not jungle, and barely climbed at all. For comparison, in the same season I had 30 Gragas games and only slightly fewer Poppy games. If anything I mained Gragas last season, and my real main was normal games.

Some people just really have no idea about anything.

Jet Sett1 votes

Well "get better" is always a poor argument and makes people think you're just salty someone is insulting your main, or "defending your freelo" Other than that I just see it as people think that because they're opinion is backed by the majority (or seems to be) that anyone who disagrees has a specific bias.

For example, Say a Malzahar main resurfaces from the dark recesses of the underground and says Yas is totally balanced and may even be weak. His specific bias would be that he mains a counter to Yasuo and thusly does not care/worry about Yasuo because he himself can deal with Yasuo just fine.

HazyCloud71 votes

People inherently have bias towards their champions. I avoid pointing this out when people use sound logic and back up their argument with facts & statistics, but then then there's lee sin mains that say something silly like "Lee Sin doesn't need any nerfs" and they're just asking for it.

R181 votes

Because MOST Yasuo mains have big egos.

Catastrop1 votes

The opposite also happens, saying you don't main X when you disagree about something regarding X. After the assassin update, giving my two cents on why new LB and new Kat were broken/fine respectively, meant I apparently I didn't main them because I didn't mindlessly jump on the "Riot sucks at reworks" bandwagon.

Leetri1 votes

I was called a Teemo main because I liked playing Abathur in Heroes of the Storm. The last time I played Teemo was on the 26th of January in an ARAM, and I only have 7 games in total as him since 2010. Some people really like grasping at straws to try and make their opinion valid.

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