Sportsmanship and Admitting Your Faults

Black Peddler·4/24/2016, 4:51:18 AM·3 votes·463 views

After a recent game as viktor I was assaulted by negative comments such as "Your horrible", "uninstall" etc etc. I understand that if you lose a game, part of the responsibility is yours and I understand that; however, this is no excuse for people to berate you about your skill.

I was perfectly fine until my jg lost all presence, bot and top fed, and team fights started happening. After that point I gave up lane and decided it was better to roam with my team, to keep team fights from being so disastrous. A long story short, we lost, and then came the trash talkers.

There is nothing I hate more, than when people are unsportsmanlike after or during a game. If you playing per say Annie against a yasou. First of all this is a terrible match up and the difference in skill to play is immense. If you are the annie, (champ with less skill) and you dominate, don't say the yasou is bad. The moment you start talking shit is when everyone starts to see you as a 10yr old kid excited that he got a kill. Not only should you realize that players take pride in there skill and by trash talking when you have no right too pisses off everyone in the game. To sum it up, don't do it.

If anything, praise the player at the end of the game for doing so well in such uneven circumstances or at the very least keep your mouth shut and say " GG Wp".

Also, being sportsmanlike applies in all aspects of the game. Just because someone is 0/2/0 doesn't mean there bad. KDA don't mean crap and neither does item standings, because those can change with the circumstance and do not reflect a players skill. It is entirely plausible that the enemy laner is much much better than you, and he's just getting bogged down by the circumstances of his teams performance.

Overal, if you don't have anything positive to say shut your mouth.

I've added a poll to see how many people actually give a crap about this. For my own amusement Ahri

2 Comments

Xelnex4/24/2016, 5:23:56 AM1 votes

i cant vote coz i am both, in a way. I know when a player is bad, and when a player is good. In my personal opinion, if you dont buy the correct item, youre bad, if you do you are okay, (if not good) Its like art, i know who is good when i see one. I can understand the game very well, and know when players do weird mistakes and ruins the game, and that includes me as well. Sometimes i flash at the wrong place, make bad decisions etc, everything is a part of the game. Forget about annie and yasuo, how many times have we seen a lucian and sion ult the opposite direction? lol. Am i a trash talker? i want to do it at times but i dont. But its the thoughts that matter right? Am i a gentleman? Nope, some mistakes makes me mad, and makes me wanna bash my head on a wall. What can i do? Pin point the bad player and support him more than others. or protect him while helping the carry to get kills. I agree that we shouldnt trash talk and make the game worse, rather in my opinion we should help them. But i dont agree with your KDA thing. A player maybe bad and get 2 lucky kills, and 2 more ks. makes him 5-0, and the player maybe good and get 0-17 kda, because he is having a bad day. I dont care how good or bad player you are or if you are in the lcs. I dont care about your past or future, if you're doing bad in the current game you're bad. KDA in my opinion means everything. But if you're bad then its my work/job as a support to assist you harder.
This is a team game, we should each have our backs no matter what.