The most annoying thing about ranked.

Environmentalist·Oct 12, 2015·2 votes·179 views

I hate when you're in champ select, and everyone calls what they'd prefer to play, and some genius who has "pick order" picks away someones preference, then completely loses the game with that role. :@ I know pick order is there for a reason but I hate it. I always let people have what they want and try to fill. In this instance I was duoing with a friend who mains ADC, so I wanted to support him. Some genius took support away from me and ended up doing so poorly there was nothing any of us could do. I was getting /msg messages from my buddy saying this support didn't ult during fights, and wouldn't even use his spells properly. Grr >:

6 Comments

SmokedAlmondsOct 12, 20153 votes

He may have been a support main, everyone has bad games even at their best role.

I think a lot of times people view others as worse than they are because they only see the game through their own experiences. When people think of what is good and bad usually what they are thinking about is what has worked for them vs what hasn't, but that is going to be different for different people. Sometimes peoples strategies just don't mesh well. This is going to be especially true for bot lane. If one is aggressive and the other is more passive they are likely going to view each other as bad. The passive one is going to view the aggressive one as reckless and the aggressive one is going to think the passive one isn't doing anything.

EnvironmentalistOct 12, 20151 votes

Welp, you have a good point there. I agree everyone has bad games, I'm not saying I go 10/0 every game I play, and I do completely agree that me looking down on him from top saying "I would have done that / I wouldn't have done that" is far easier than actually doing so. Though, it is still frustrating. It's not even so much that he did poorly, it was more so that it looked as though he wasn't trying. One instance, he was Braum, a 5v5 fight broke out. I tp'd down from top, everyone was there. His ult was available before the fight began. We lost the fight. His ult remained available afterwards, and he had sufficient mana throughout the full fight. Things like that, I can't wrap my head around.

SmokedAlmondsOct 12, 20151 votes

I always be as accommodating as I can. Although I rarely run into any issues with my role. I start every champ select with "top please" and I get it about 90% of the time.

I do understand the annoyance with this but really its pointless. If someone was bad with the role they wanted then they would have been even worse with w/e role they didn't want.

EnvironmentalistOct 12, 20151 votes

Haha good point. Never looked at it that way. I just, he claimed to be a support main, after I said I'd like to support, so I let him, and I filled into top instead. I'd assume a real support main would at least know how to support :/ Buddy told me it's as if he'd never played the role before.

Really weird. Oh well.