What's up with this "get carried" Bronze V attitude?

RcGjWO640w··1 votes·283 views

It seems like everytime someone has a decent game or gets a really, really lucky roll on teamcomps, they like to attribute their victory to "skill". I recently played against an extremely toxic Tryndamere who literally said nothing but "get outplayed" the whole game and flame everyone because we couldn't kill him. I'm like, "Uh... do you even understand how your champion works?"

Are there seriously people who play this game who are either too stupid, too stuck up their own asses or a combination of the two to not realize the difference between skill and a champion's inherent kit? Flashing an important skillshot in the middle of a duel is skill. Baiting out abilities and juking stuns is skill. Pressing R because our Fiora just dashed to you and destroyed you for 3/4 of your health with 1 auto attack and then right clicking until she's dead is not skill. That's just how your champion works. You're not good, you just got lucky that the Fiora was stupid enough to engage you with your ulti up.

I see this so much with champions like Teemo too. Champions that have zero outplay potential, but with cheesy win mechanics that the players attribute to them simply being more skilled. I don't get it.

Normally, I would make a parallel to CoD and the "noob tube", but that's not even in the same category. At least the noob tube would require you to aim at your target first. Tons of people play champions with auto-win conditions like Teemo's Q or Tryndamere's R and think with the Bronze V mentality that just because they killed you in a situation where you simply couldn't fight back, that they somehow outplayed you.

What's the source of this kind of toxic behavior and is there any way to get people to see that they're just being egotistical and stupid?

2 Comments

Oleandervine1 votes

Your article was good. Except you are perpetuating this circle jerk idea that Teemo can't be outplayed. He can, very easily, by early MR and a red trinket.

RcGjWO640w1 votes

I mean, yeah, Teemo is relatively easy to outplay by just building against him, but the fact of the matter is that his Q is a point and click ability and not actually something that requires skill to pull off. Against auto attack base carries, it completely prevents him from taking damage for 1.5 seconds and tilts the fight heavily in his favor.

The article wasn't about certain champions being unable to be outplayed or whatever, it was just about how some people take a champion's inherent power and project it onto themselves as if they're the ones actually doing the work, instead of it just being a press-button-to-win condition of the champion's kit.

Not saying that there aren't skilled Tryndamere or Teemo players, just that I don't understand how people don't understand what skill floors are and how some champions are simply more powerful and easier to play than others.

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