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So what if I don't blame myself for losses...

Beerstein··3 votes·716 views

under the following criteria

-Most damage dealt to enemy champions -Most damage taken from enemy champions -Least deaths -Void if I have more than 5 kills with more than 5 deaths (I understand that when I get a significant number of kills with too many deaths I make it a lot harder on the rest of my team)

and adding a new one to that criteria today -More wards placed than any non support on my team

Only when I meet 100% of those things do I not blame myself and just say "Oh well I'll get em next time." Is there any criteria you have? I've seen a lot on this forum blame their team without even close to meeting that criteria. Having a lot of kills and a lot of deaths just isn't good enough.

I quit for a long period and am just getting back into things so I can easily see a lot of the mistakes I'm making (for now anyways) as well as a lot of the mistakes my allies are making. In normals I'm currently sitting at an MMR where people give up when they're winning and don't know it. In fact it's not at all uncommon for people to just throw away their lives like they don't matter because they respawn (especially when they think they're losing). Another massive issue I'm seeing is a lack of understanding of objectives, or prioritizing proper objectives. Still I'm enjoying it down here just working on my mechanical skills for now without tryharding.

Still, IMO there's only yourself to blame unless you meet all the following criteria, and instead of blaming others you should just be happy with your performance knowing that it will bring you higher if you maintain that performance level and just clickeh the next match.

14 Comments

The Chin3 votes

Ignore whether you win or lose, just focus on playing well.

Beerstein1 votes

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Ignore whether you win or lose, just focus on playing well.

I disagree, if you ignore that then you're ignoring flaws in your play that you should be directly addressing.

Angry Monster2 votes

Pot calling kettle.

The Chin1 votes

{quoted}

I disagree, if you ignore that then you're ignoring flaws in your play that you should be directly addressing.

I said focus on playing well, meaning you still take note of the things you do wrong or could be doing better.

As an example, you can play like garbage and still win, and you can play amazingly but still lose - so whether your team wins or loses, it's more productive to focus on how you're playing since that's the only thing you can directly control anyways.

Truly Prideful1 votes

Except he's right. If you just focus on playing well you'll catch your own mistakes and fix them. You can win a game and still make a ton of mistakes, you can also lose while making very few. If you just focus on playing well then you're doing everything you can to win, if you don't win then you take that into the next game and try to make good calls.

It Hertz When IP2 votes

I always blame the jungler.

Angry Monster2 votes

Who cares if you did not cause the lose. What did u do to enable a win? Refusing to group and your team mates getting slaughtered defending towers is going to keep you deaths low. Never jumping into a fight first(top laner) and only going for clean up will inflate your KDA.

These behaviors can cause the conditions that you are mentioning. So you can play badly and throw the blame off if u want.

I win games with low KDA cause i make plays. I start most fights and die cause of this. But i enable my team to move forward. You should look what you are doing for your team or win, instead of looking for ways not to blame your self.

Railios2 votes

{quoted}

Who cares if you did not cause the lose. What did u do to enable a win? Refusing to group and your team mates getting slaughtered defending towers is going to keep you deaths low. Never jumping into a fight first(top laner) and only going for clean up will inflate your KDA.

These behaviors can cause the conditions that you are mentioning. So you can play badly and throw the blame off if u want.

I win games with low KDA cause i make plays. I start most fights and die cause of this. But i enable my team to move forward. You should look what you are doing for your team or win, instead of looking for ways not to blame your self.

Was this thread so long that you didn't read?

Angry Monster1 votes

I read the point is the OP is looking for justification to say they are not responsible. With bad in game behavior you can make reverse some numbers. Numbers are not what the game is about.

The OP should be looking at what they did to be winning. Not trying to get out of the blame game.

Beerstein1 votes

{quoted}

Who cares if you did not cause the lose. What did u do to enable a win? Refusing to group and your team mates getting slaughtered defending towers is going to keep you deaths low. Never jumping into a fight first(top laner) and only going for clean up will inflate your KDA.

These behaviors can cause the conditions that you are mentioning. So you can play badly and throw the blame off if u want.

I win games with low KDA cause i make plays. I start most fights and die cause of this. But i enable my team to move forward. You should look what you are doing for your team or win, instead of looking for ways not to blame your self.

You can't meet all the criteria in the OP by playing selfish. If you can then it's probably a strong indication that you're smurfing.

Angry Monster1 votes

Actually you can. It easy to play selfishly and screw your team mates.

redniwediS1 votes

If you play the blame game you will always lose. Focus only on what you can do to improve and everything else will eventually fall in line.

Beerstein1 votes

{quoted}

If you play the blame game you will always lose. Focus only on what you can do to improve and everything else will eventually fall in line.

No reason to beat yourself up if you meet the following criteria IMO, because as mentioned if you keep pulling all that criteria you WILL move up, so best bet is just to keep trucking. The thing is most the "all my teams fault" threads highlight someones best game in their recent 10 games and also generally involves them having a high number of kills and deaths which doesn't do ANY favors for their team, especially as assassins.

People say "ALWAYS" blame yourself, but in rare instances sometimes you should just move to the next game. Not everything is absolute.

redniwediS1 votes

I find it better to not blame anyone. Everyone on both sides plays a part in the games outcome, yet the only thing you can change is what you did and what you could do better. Focusing on that is far more productive than applying blame to someone, whether it was earned or not.

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