This is my single biggest peeve with this game, People blaming thier poor skills on the fact that its a "normal game".
Well my thing is that just because a normal game means lose on purpose to you, doesnt mean that everyone else playing normals is playing to lose. There doesnt have to be 1million dollars on the line or your bronze III promos for you to be enticed to play well, its old and honestly a childish excuse for your bad in game decisions
alasarcher7 votesWell, people bring champions they know how to play in ranked. People try new champions in normal. Its not losing on purpose, its learning...
Professor Ward1 votesWell, people bring champions they know how to play in ranked. People try new champions in normal. Its not losing on purpose, its learning...
That may be the best excuse ive heard, but obviously not whats going on most of the time. A person learning a champ is much different than the peeps who feed and blame it (and the rest of their feeding) on it being a normal game.
alasarcher2 votesThat may be the best excuse ive heard, but obviously not whats going on most of the time. A person learning a champ is much different than the peeps who feed and blame it (and the rest of their feeding) on it being a normal game.
People never say "its normal game" just like that. They say it when their team starts flaming them for their bad performance.
Dragfin4 votesWell, people bring champions they know how to play in ranked. People try new champions in normal. Its not losing on purpose, its learning...
You are playing with real people that may not think like you and they play the game the way that it was intended. They do not play the game the way the sheep say it should be played. You can learn in bots and custom modes playing alone or with friends and not strangers who, like I said, may not think like you and play the game the way it was intended and do not want to deal with the BS sheep way of gaming. It don't matter what argument you want to make. If you are playing the game with people who are playing to win which is how the game was intended and you pull your BS, It's only normals. You are 100% wrong.
alasarcher7 votesYou are playing with real people that may not think like you and they play the game the way that it was intended. They do not play the game the way the sheep say it should be played. You can learn in bots and custom modes playing alone or with friends and not strangers who, like I said, may not think like you and play the game the way it was intended and do not want to deal with the BS sheep way of gaming. It don't matter what argument you want to make. If you are playing the game with people who are playing to win which is how the game was intended and you pull your BS, It's only normals. You are 100% wrong.
You cant learn vs bots, no way. First u get stomped, then u start stomping. Just mute your team when u learn new champions, and dont flame back. Thats what i do when i try new things in normal.
TurquoiseYoshi1 votesI'll have to disagree with you here. You can learn how a champion works on a fundamental level against bots. It's so that you know basically what you're doing. If you have played 1 bot game (2 for Azir, GP, other tough champions), then you can play them at a decent enough level in normals. Playing them for the first time in normals will make you feed, because you don't know the abilities or how they interact with creeps and enemies.
Do you have to play more than one preliminary game in bots? Hell no. You are correct in that they're very easy to beat. But I would rather have a chance in my first game than just make crap up and hope I don't feed.
DJColdCutz4 votesBots are useless. Doesn't matter what champion you're playing, if you are at all decent at the game of League of Legends, you'll destroy bots the first time you play a champ. Only way to learn a champion is against real players that aren't predictable.
My biggest thing is that when people start playing a new champion, it's like all common sense goes out the window and they'll start pushing without wards, invading random places, diving two towers for a kill... stupid shit like that.
EspeciallyWhales1 votesThat happens because they're too focused on getting comfortable with the champ. The thing about maining a champion is you can put their mechanics in the back of your mind and focus on the game itself.
Malix Farwin1 votesWell, people bring champions they know how to play in ranked. People try new champions in normal. Its not losing on purpose, its learning...
kinda contradict your logic when i see people play champions with no masteries or new champions in ranked dont you think?
Shonjl1 votesThere is a difference though. I can see where OP is coming from since I see it often as well. People aren't expecting godly knowledge or skills. Being new also doesn't mean being stupid. I am going to assume that if you play a new champ, you are going to be cautious. You can usually tell when someone is unskilled due to being new to a champ vs someone that basically trolls.
It just is strange that the people that usually say its just normals, who cares? Are often the ones that lose lane horribly, often rage, or basically were trolls the entire game. Like if your opponent is 5/0, they still go in kinda stupid.
fugatotabued914 votesBruh chill out its just normals lol
Sir Yamazuki2 votesIt's just an excuse to justify bad habbits. They would make those mistakes even in rank. I play with friends who like to do the same thing even though they're obviously try harding in normals since I did duo with both of them last season, and oh look the same mistakes they were making in normals they were making in rank.
Beacon 0F Light1 votesUsually when I see this kind of thing it's when someone's playing a champ for the first time or when they make a couple mistakes. Then someone on their team starts being negative or toxic towards said player.
Now I'm not condoning intentional feeding, giving up, or anything of the sort. But why be so serious and harsh? There's a difference between straight-up criticism & advice, and taking it too far with your attitude. I mean, what do you expect? That everyone have perfect mechanics and that they be able to make the right decision every time? Cut them some slack, everyone makes mistakes. You can't learn if you don't screw up sometimes. However it's not your job to hate on them for those mistakes, you should be understanding and honest with your advice and criticism.
Even though I don't think ranked is any more of a place for negativity than normals, it is clear that there is much less on the line, and that normals are (typically) less competitive. Just because people play less competitively than you doesn't mean they're "playing to lose." If it annoys you so much that other players are not as competitive as you then you should either stick solely to ranked or work on that attitude of yours. Because people like you are the people that ruin my casual and fun normal games.
Elbogen1 votesThere's a point to it though. When I play with my friends who are worse than me there are often huge mismatches, and they will majority of the time do poorly just because of how normal matchmaking and mmr matchups are decided. I've played normals where I play bad trying new things, and the last thing I need is someone getting upset at me for it lol. I play normals to dive for that double kill or dive for the 1 for 1, because it's fun and always making smart plays isn't necessarily fun.
Lugg1 votesI love to win games since I'm competitive, but Normals is where you work on improving. If you are actually serious about winning every game, play Ranked.
LOL Spammer1 votesThe thing that pisses me off is when people don't try in normals and than say this. I don't mind if people try new champions or new builds or whatever and it doesn't work out but when they just don't try it's really annoying.
SSJTribe1 votesI mean, I like to do weird stuff sometimes like Nami mid, it isn't great but it's not bad. I wouldn't play it in ranked. But if I have a bad game on it, I don't need to be flamed. It's just normals.
IcyPepper1 votesSome people may suck at certain roles and champions, and turn to normals to practice.
Normals shouldn't be an excuse for losing on purpose or not trying, but you really shouldn't get mad at someone if they just plain suck. The whole "it's normals" excuse in that specific situation just means they're practicing, and your LP isn't on the line.
I mean, I suck ass at top lane but I need to get practice somehow. If I play normals, I have every right not to be flamed if I'm still trying my best.
But that doesn't excuse assholes, tho.