This Game Badly Needs An Intermediate "Pre Rank" Tutorial
So often people, myself included, have said the tutorial for LoL is bad for new players, but the longer I've played, the more I realizes that might have impacted players that aren't new, and how they miss very simple and basic concepts in Ranked, because I think they just don't know better. I truly believe a little help like "before you hop into ranked, check out this guide" or something, to point them in some helpful directions.
People THINK they understand basic concepts, but more often than not I see people doing a thing, but not understanding why, doing a thing, but in the completely bassackwards circumstances, and so on. You can't convince them in game it is wrong, because usually people are so ready to be on tilt they don't want to hear anything you have to say, so it is hard to convince someone they are doing something that isn't the right thing.
- An example of this would come from my last game (and no this isn't a rant thread, nor the reason I'm making this specifically, as I actually believe people don't know any better): I had a Poppy who built full tank, good start. But they kept trying to 1v1 people, with no damage, then getting mad. They didn't understand. Okay...that part is...on them, not the game. Then they refused to fight, they would flat out flash over walls if someone next to them was engaged on, even in 2v1 advantages. Then they began to split push with no tp, telling our team how stupid we were because "split pushing wins games", while they didn't even have a sunfire, and zero actual damage (full tank).
I think a big part of this wasn't them trying to be a jerk, they just actually believed that they were doing the correct thing, despite how obvious it is that as the main initiator in a team, with no damage, no tp, no Shen or Panth type abilities, and not even a sunfire cape, split pushing on the opposite side of the map as objectives like Dragon just isn't the right call.
I see this stuff a lot, and I think it is simply a HUGE instance of misunderstanding the why, where, and when. Someone might think "we could split push here" but ignore the circumstance, itemization, and even champion they are currently playing as or against. I think even minimal explanations from Riot (because otherwise players are too proud to take advice from other players) would go a long way in helping them. It would also go a long way from keeping me from going bald from yanking my hair out at my no tp/sunfire cape/damage Poppy split pushing with infernal Dragon up, and no wards.
