"If it's not about kills, what is it about?"
Was jungling
. Top it was
vs.
. Renek fed horribly, finishing 1/9/2. He kept pushing lane, didn't ward (1 ward placed), and was building Ravenous Hydra as his first non-boots item. I had to kindly ask him at one point to please not push lane and just last hit instead. He wasn't being toxic and blaming his team like many would in that situation, though, so I can't get that mad at him. In fact, he didn't even call for assistance at any point during the match. He was completely silent. No comments in chat. No pings. I kept heading that way to help, but either he'd die before I got there or Wu would back off and head elsewhere.
Wu finished 16/3/7, absolutely wrecking us. Not much that any of us could've done once he got fed, especially since it was
vs.
. Anytime I'd try to go in to CC them so my team could follow up I would get hit with all their CC myself and get melted before anyone actually could follow up.
Lost cause or not, though, I noticed at one point that my pink ward at blue buff was the lone ward on the map and I said "just an honest question: why am I the only one with a ward out?" Our
said "I have 6 kills and I haven't warded." I explained that this game isn't about kills ("this isn't COD"), but rather objectives. I was promptly told to "screw off." I feel I should mention that I could ping MIA and then the entire path of someone's roam and it was still never enough for them to run for their lives. So I'm not sure if wards would've changed much of anything, but maybe actually seeing the enemies on the map for themselves would've helped at least a little.
After the match, our MF was still talking, asking me the question you can see in the title. I reiterated that it's about objectives. She asked me, with a heavy dose of sarcasm, if I'd gotten any, to which I replied that I couldn't seeing as, you know, they were crazy fed and it was GG from very early on. I mention that wards could've helped stem the bleeding, making it harder for them to catch us out with their roams, and she tells me "it's not my job to ward. i'm the adc." She then says I should've warded more. I tell her I bought wards every back (well, almost;
on my 2nd,
on my 3rd, 2
on my 4th,
on my 5th, and 2 more
on my 7th). "Clearly it wasn't enough," she says. I, typing in all caps at this point because the stupidity is just too overwhelming, say "IT'S EVERYONE'S JOB TO WARD."
Her next response was "I did well and I didn't ward." She finished 7/5/4. I point out that, in actuality, she didn't do that well because she kept resetting her bounty, giving them more gold (most notably shut down gold), and ask if she even understands how this game works... then leave the post-game chat because I'm fed up. She sends me a friend request soon thereafter, presumably to argue with me some more, but I don't take the bait.
I just... I just can't take people in this game sometimes.