Just had a really enjoyable game

RamboDash15·4/18/2016, 12:53:25 AM·76 votes·3,099 views

So I get into a game and it has all the makings of an awful game: playing into a , our jungle dc'd for a bit due to lag, I gave first blood, we had silvers against a plat player, and we had a poor gank up up that resulted in two kills for them.

I was set to call it quits at this point, and was waiting to watch the chat fill up with rage and salt But it never did; we conversed, no blame was given, and we adapted and worked together.

Afterwards we began winning hard, and it was really nice to see and be a part of a comeback without any rage or salt being thrown around.

tl;dr: if you're not salty, you really do have a better chance at winning

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Wheatloaf4/18/2016, 4:28:45 AM51 votes

It's almost as if this is a team game...

Just Blame Jenny4/18/2016, 4:45:11 AM28 votes

Also had a weird experience recently.

I was playing Sejuani. We didn't have an ADC; we had a Zed and a Yasuo. We didn't have a proper support; we had a Maokai.

Come start of the game, Yasuo was AFK. Maokai ran down mid lane and when questioned about it, replied "ff".

I was refused a leash in the jungle, which given Sejuani's terrible clears, made for an agonizing early game experience. What's more, the enemy Nidalee decided to camp me.

And then to top it all off, when Yasuo came back about 15 mins in, he promptly sat in a bush. When asked what he was doing, he proclaimed, "I am ward."

Then something strange happened.

Maokai, you see, actually did go to his lane -- and he played the 1v2 very safely! My entire team also understood that I was very weak early; not only did I have no leash for my first clear, but Nidalee was camping me hard. Rather than trash talk and blame (e.g. "why no gankz jg??"), they worked with me. Top lane (Fiora) and Zed made habit of chasing Nidalee out of my top-side jungle (which I'd warded with a tracker's knife), which netted them a couple kills and allowed me to farm. With that farm, I was able to support the bot lane Maokai, who did a very good job of setting up successful ganks for us both. The enemy ADC, consequently, struggled to apply pressure.

Yasuo, despite his initially trollish behavior, eventually manned up too. He was way too weak to be of any use in teamfights, so he split pushed constantly to give us pressure in other lanes. By the end of the game, he had enough farm to contribute to team fights as well.

Ultimately, despite a rather dire-looking early game, we pulled through and stomped the enemy team handily. If there's a moral to the story, I guess it's this: teamwork is awesome. When you scrap the tilt and work together, even the most dire situations can be turned into victories.

Who'da thunk?

xxxDogmanxxx4/18/2016, 3:29:12 PM8 votes

Had a similar experience today. I first picked Xin Zhao jungle for a ranked game. Our top laner was a Nasus. The enemy counter-picked Teemo mid and toplane Jax against us. Three and a half minutes into the game, our mid laner Syndra has fed the Teemo SIX kills. Our Nasus starts raging, calling GG, etc. Syndra gets tilted and feeds even more. The enemy Teemo is 12-1-0 by ten minutes. Our Jhin adc is 5-5-1, our Tresh support is 1-5-5, and the enemy Miss Fortune is 10-5-0. Our mid lane lost the inhibitor at 12 minutes. Our nexus turrets were down by 18 minutes.

My teammates were all swearing at each other in chat, and I knew I had to do something. So I told them all to calm down. My exact words were "Guys, we can still win this. This is ranked. We only have five enemies, not nine. Fight them, not each other."

Miraculously, we started getting back into the game. Nasus stopped raging and started actually pushing top lane, occupying Jax's attention. Tresh and Jhin rotated mid and locked down the Teemo for me while I started killing everyone else. The Miss Fortune had no peel (I could one-shot her support and two shot the jungle Rengar), and all that insane damage she had meant nothing when I could wail on her with all the fury of China. The Syndra even stopped feeding and started getting assists on basically every kill.

We won every team fight. We took every dragon. I got so fed that I was triple-killing them while tanking their turret. Only Teemo and Jax could stop me, but Nasus peeled Jax away from me at every opportunity while Jhin and Trash would chunk down Teemo constantly, and though they couldn't kill him, they basically made him a non factor in team fights.

We came back from the brink of defeat. It was awesome.

I hate my ADC4/18/2016, 9:11:00 AM5 votes

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1 800 MID LANE4/18/2016, 9:35:54 AM3 votes

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2161085642/228048306?tab=overview

One of my recent ranked games where everyone but I fed really hard early. Bronze/Silver stereotype, I know, but this is how you change that around for the better.

Everyone raged.

/ignore all

Got myself fed.

Helped Vayne get fed.

Won the game.

And if that Leo reads this for some odd chance, THANK YOU! (She was really good at what she was doing. She left immediately after the game, though, so I couldn't tell her. item 3070 )

If you're fortunate enough to play something with really good waveclear, this will work out even easier. (Note the nearly 400 CS. Overkill, but if you're helping your team to a decent extent, no one will complain. Especially if you use /ignore all.)

On a similar note, I'd like to point out something that very few people keep in mind in low ELO - Kill participation will win you games more than solo kills ever will. Yes, it's really disappointing to solo someone and have a teammate come in and take him out when you did all the work, but your team as a whole got more gold out of it that way. As a mid main/Azir 1-trick, I would rather go 2-0-30 than 30-0-2 with all of the 30 kills being 1v1s or 1v2s or even a 1v5 pentakill. (Okay seriously. Steal my 1v5 penta. I DARE YOU.) The reason is that, while kills do give more gold than assists, assists get your team an extra 150 gold that wouldn't be there without someone getting an assist.

Mäster Yí4/18/2016, 9:46:13 AM2 votes

But muh blame

Taarki4/18/2016, 6:33:34 PM2 votes

I had a game that lasted 64 minutes. It was very enjoyable. We were behind the entire game but we were able to stall the game until our late game champions could shine since we were a late game focused team. Then we won. It was fun, first time ever over 400 CS.

KANYE OBAMA GOD4/18/2016, 11:19:58 PM2 votes

Also, the legends about people expecting you to be toxic by picking a certain champ are true! I was playing some Yisus jungle the other day and had a Sion feeding top. I told him to just build really tanky and keep causing pressure top so we could shove mid, he was just wanting to give up but I threw some encouraging words his way and he literally said, "Wtf a yi was just nice to me when I was feeding? I legit expected you to be a dick lol"

Then we stomped the enemy as a team c: Being positive does work! (ty dst)

PbJMpP4xzk4/18/2016, 3:48:04 PM1 votes

the making of a beautiful false story well done gg

Fovere4/18/2016, 3:53:04 PM1 votes

If you're competent, you really do have a better chance at winning.

McKeifus4/18/2016, 5:45:32 PM1 votes

I had a similar experience last night. Was bot lane as Poppy with Ashe . Got burned by Thresh & KogMaw early on. Top was Soraka and fed hard. Lost mid. Diana in jg started ganking early. It was like 12 and 3 at 15 minutes. First time Poppy for me.

Then all the sudden I dialed in on Poppy and we started making a dent in bot. Khazix started showing up in every lane and ganking hard. Ended up barely winning with a winion hit at 45m. It was a huge comeback and a great example of why you shouldn't always ff@20. But I could see that my team was good and just getting outplayed.

Had a great moment at around 35m when we died on their front door steps and were down 2v3 and I was being chased by a fed Diana and Yas down mid lane. I had Swift boots, green enchant, and Dead Man's. I ran Yas and Di down mid, turned hard right into the river, then circled all the way around down bot lane back to their front bush and recalled. I was somewhat lucky in that Di and Yas didn't have the map intelligence to cut through the jungle and pincer me, but there were some close calls where they took shortcuts and came close. I had to dodge through two minion waves to lose Diana, and drop a couple of clutch E stuns, a hella short, and many many Qs. I managed to stall them out until my whole team respawned. It turned the game over.

If I can tell a team is just not going to win, I prefer to surrender and get a team with a better attitude. But if my team is losing and everyone is working their ass off, I will stay to the bitter end. And I think that's the difference.

Lil Gr33n Ghouls4/18/2016, 9:40:33 PM1 votes

I had a similar game this weekend. Playing A Sol into zed mid, died twice (once solo, once with a gank) and got 1 solo kill but i was up on cs. Our jng and top were even but our bot lost hard, about halfway through we managed to make a comeback by making smarter choices and having better vision.

DarthSpectrum4/19/2016, 4:02:45 AM1 votes

Don't feel bad about losing to Darius.

Darius decimates almost every immobile melee champion in lane. His entire counterplay relies on his opponent being able to dodge his Q. However, with a naturally high MS, phage passive, and slow on his W, it is impossible to dodge Darius's Q without gap closers or other mobility tools.

Sion fares slightly better than other immobile melee champions due to his shield, but being able to turn the game on Darius despite giving some early kills is still impressive.

JesseBear4/18/2016, 1:47:50 AM1 votes

This is so true.

Midder Scray4/19/2016, 5:20:21 AM1 votes

In the approximate 2 years I've been playing this game, I've only had 8 games like this. Yes, I've been counting

Jreyes4564/18/2016, 2:36:16 AM1 votes

Yes exactly... believe it or not but a lot of players iv met dont realize being tilted affects your choice making sooo much and they continue making terrible choices that cost the game and have their trash talk fill chat instead of clicking the mute button.

Troll for Trump4/18/2016, 3:27:45 AM1 votes

BUt basically there's always at least one person who's salty.

These days, I feel like games are only fun when the team is winning, and snowballing.

But a single loss is enough to begin a huge tilt streak..

kaltenashes4/18/2016, 5:15:35 AM1 votes

lately the snowball on hypercarries is enough to make me want to start a surrender poll so many things tilts me... but in some games miraculously my team can do a comeback and win it... still its just 1 out 10 games where we can comeback, my skills and this seasons tilts me a lot

CitadelOfIce4/18/2016, 6:09:50 AM1 votes

I had a similar game tonight actually. Our ADC kept getting bug splat so I had to cover bot as a JG Kindred for the first ten minutes. Top got ganked like three times in a row and mid was getting bullied by an aggressive Yasuo. But our Jhin managed to get into game and we pulled off a win after some really impressive displays of mechanical skill. The Icing on the cake was the enemy Teemo was on all chat flaming us and we just powered through it.

Kivolan4/18/2016, 9:17:44 AM1 votes

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2159123837/51443151?tab=overview

This game had a similar story. I was playing pretty crappily against Heim and getting ganked quite often due to the bug of allied turrets not switching targets until they have killed Heim's ulted turret.

The entire game I was apologizing for my poor performance and my allies were actually very supportive, saying that we all have off games and that it was fine. Their Gragas taunted and harassed pretty much all game, doing the whole "gg ez" thing... Until we aced them several times and came back to win the game.

Bladerunner77774/18/2016, 1:36:03 PM1 votes

Every single (ranked) game I have played with only solo players has been very enjoyable to me.

I have actually started to honor every solo player on my team and enemy team

rtbf2256182414/18/2016, 3:32:26 PM1 votes

Plats are always arrogant, i bet everyone checked your ranks and instantly thought it will be easy. Turns out, it wasn't.