Are there any 1v1 etiquette rules?

Kovah··1 votes·1,759 views

This guy challenges me to 1v1, fine. He picks fizz, lol ok fine. Then he has ignite/heal.... okay lawl fine. Then he also buys a flask, and rushes 3 dorans rings... I mean come on. Is that even an attempt to see if you are better than someone? or a desperate move to try to win by brute force... By the way it ended with me getting him down to about 20 hp because of course heal saved him. I was playing Viktor with ignite/flash. Bought a dorans ring to start, one more on my first back and upgraded my passive item once.

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RavenKouhai2 votes

if you play yasuo/fizz while 1v1ing you don't deserve a win tbh

disregardable1 votes

So what if he made choices you wouldn't make in game? If you're playing first to kill, then pick items and spells that reflect it. -_-

Kovah1 votes

Honestly that just makes you a huge pussy in my book. But I have a sense of honor, I can see how other people would do something like that because they have low self esteem/aren't confident in their ability to play/think that build and items is applicable in a real game. Either way, its obviously an attempt to compensate.

Jeddite1 votes

Go back to dueling outside Orgrimmar, nerd.

Missed My Burst1 votes

I like to play Zyra during a lot of my 1v1s and I usually bring flask pots to a lane I think will be difficult.

OhBoyItsaMegaman1 votes

There are no unspoken rules. If you say "how cheap, he broke a rule that I just made up and didn't say out loud," you're the one who's being dishonorable.

Kovah1 votes

Well I guess that is the difference between people who have common sense and decency and people who do not. There are just some things you should know, like, don't take a shit on the dinner table, it goes without saying.

OhBoyItsaMegaman1 votes

Two counters to this. First, look at the comments. If what you were saying was a "thing you should know" or "common sense", I'd be the only person here saying otherwise.

Second, this is a video game. The rules are enforced by the game's logic. People don't sneak into the enemy base to kill the Nexus without killing any towers. Why not? Because it's dishonorable or indecent? No, because the game logic prevents you from doing so. If you're playing football and you get tackled, you can get right back up and keep running with the ball. The game's rules disallow it, but nothing physically prevents you from doing it. The written rules have to be interpreted and enforced by someone with the authority to do so.

That is the advantage that video games have over RL games. There is no human interpretation involved. What the game logic allows is allowed; what the game logic doesn't allow is forbidden. In Season 4 when teams started playing by sending 4 to a lane and pushing down the first two towers uncontested in the first few minutes, fans complained but no one said that the teams should stop doing that or that they were using a cheap strategy because they weren't good enough to win "the right way". Instead we wanted Riot to change the game logic to prevent or at least disincentivize that tactic. We want the teams to do as well as they possibly can within the parameters of the game, and we want the parameters to be set up in such a way that the result is an interesting game to play and watch.

When you 1v1, you're deviating from what the game logic explicitly allows. In addition to the game's rules, you're establishing a few more: 1 person to a team instead of 5, win by killing the other player/tower instead of the nexus. It is up to each player to clarify what extra rules are in place, because the two of you are the only ones who are going to enforce them. And in doing so, they MUST be clear. Sports rules leave little to be subjectively interpreted. In basketball, the rulebook doesn't say "You can't go for too long without shooting"; it establishes a 24-second shot clock. It also clearly defines what a "shot" is (technically a "field goal"). The rule you're suggesting, even if it were stated beforehand, is too vague to be objectively enforced. Can everyone agree on what normal summoner spells are, or what a normal build is? You cannot enforce it, and you didn't even say it, therefore there is no problem with Fizz breaking it.

SexyTaylorSwift1 votes

You're getting mad he did something he wouldn't do in a normal game? Well, you kind of aren't playing a normal game. I am not sure what your complaint here is, but it is stupid.

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