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SecondChanceHero·11/11/2014, 2:35:13 AM·30 votes·4,690 views

It's your fault. It doesn't matter what just happened. It's your fault.

Hear me out doubters.

Support is hitting creeps and pushing lane when you don't have vision or wards to put up? It's your fault. Doesn't matter if you're the adc or the top laner. You didn't tell the support to let the adc control the tempo and aggressiveness of the lane by controlling the minion wave, and to let the support control the positioning of the opponents in lane with harass while providing ample vision control.

Bot lane overextends and dies to a gank? It's your fault for not warding, not pinging them danger, not being there for the counter gank.

Jungler gets invaded at second buff by enemy kha or lee? It's your fault for not warding it at 1:50 or 1:55.

Top lane gets dove under tower for an easy kill? It's your fault for not being there to support him against the dive.

Some one gets picked after lane phase in your own jungle? It's your fault for not warding properly and buying a pink on first back and replacements for it when destroyed, and for not even considering the option of stealth wards cuz "I have muh trinket!" (And let's be honest NO ONE should have a yellow trinket post lane phase)

4v4 fight at dragon when your top laner is pushed hard and has teleport while enemy top laner has ignite? Your fault for not communicating the need for back up.

Game degenerates into an aram style "everyone group and team fight mid non stop for the next 20 minutes"? Your fault for not stressing the need to apply pressure in every lane and warding properly to allow for intelligent strategic rotations.

Team loses fight at baron when the situation isn't right to try to take it? Your fault for letting them start it instead of informing them of the situation.

Team wins a team fight trade 4 to 1 but stalls and doesn't take a tower? Your fault for not getting the team organized to take an objective, be it dragon, baron, or a tower.

Teammate raging at another team member? Your fault for not accepting the blame for the situation regardless of what events occurred or whether you actually had any physical impact on the circumstances. You have the ability to communicate, do so properly.

Troll picks in champ select? Your fault for not accomadating other players or dodging outright.

You guys starting to get the picture yet? It's YOUR fault 100% of the time. Start playing with this attitude, accept all the blame, pass around all the credit, and rack up the wins by realizing one simple truth.

It's your fault. Don't let the reason you lose be because you allowed any one else to accept even a portion of the blame. If you are that good, if you deserve to rank up, you'll be everyone's eyes, ears, brains, and heart. YOU either will them to victory, for which you will give them all the credit, or you fail, for which you must accept all the accountability. It doesn't matter if that lux missed all her skill shots in that team fight and you're not but the lowly top lane shyvanna. It's your fault for even letting the team pick that fight.

Moral of the story: if you want to win, everything, everything is your fault. Play with this attitude and eliminate 90% of the problems holding you back. Promise.

76 Comments

52426480_DEL11/11/2014, 10:23:45 AM10 votes

The only thing that will happen from taking this advice is the person will end up quitting the game. Fact is sometimes things are out of your control. You can talk and ping till you're blue in the face, if they don't want to listen, there's not much you can do. And you can't always be all over the map either, you can say "Oh it's your fault cause you weren't there" but if you went there the other guy you should have helped will die now.

You can make yourself the scapegoat and sure that might help the team respect you/not flame each other/etc OR it might have the complete opposite effect. And they may then not listen to a thing you say because they think that you suck.

The healthy attitude is not blame others for your mistakes and try to improve yourself every game. Remember you won't win every game and some games are going to be unwinnable. Set yourself for success by squashing negativity and promoting good teamwork and you'll win more than you lose. That's all there is to it.

The First Law11/11/2014, 10:33:51 PM5 votes

I disagree entirely. Many things are out of your control. You ping Mia on the mid tf, bot lane overextends and begins a tower dive. You ping danger, they dont listen, get ganked, give tf a double. Was that your fault? Try as you might some people WILL NOT listen to their teammates in ranked. Their choices are entirely out of your hands.

youngjake9311/12/2014, 7:24:14 AM4 votes

You can't make people listen lmao. Literally 90% of league players think they are the person that should tell everyone else what to do. I have seen 0-3 people trying to tell other people how to play and I have seen 0-8 people convinced that they know their champion better than everyone else. You try to give either of these people directions and they WILL ignore you and may even do the opposite of what you said in spite. You can't recommend that everyone be a leader because then you will have 5 leaders on every team. It is much better to just focus on carrying the game. Maybe your strat works in diamond where people recognize what good advice is, but in Silver people will ping me away from the baron when we just 4-0ed the enemy because 20 minutes is too early for them and it isn't safe as if all 4 of them are running revive teleport...... Almost every game that I put even the smallest bit of reliance on other players that aren't smurfs/my duo partner, I regret it. Things work so much more smoothly when you assume everyone on your team is playing with guitar hero controllers and will feed on purpose if you talk to them.

Here is a pro saying you should never talk to your team lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-VE5Nc8DAg

Wreckless11/11/2014, 10:25:35 PM3 votes

No offence but as a Silver IV, what would you know about climbing the ranked ladder?

You CANNOT climb the ladder the way you just described. Yes, its important to recognize mistakes and work on them, but its more important to play your own game, without concerning yourself with how well/poorly your other lanes are doing.

Solo Q is not about playing the team game. You wanna play the team game? Find a 5's team. Succeeding in Solo Q is about performing well on your own terms. Work on winning (dominating) your lane 80-90% of your games and THEN you will start to climb.

Doing what you've described in this post won't get you to Diamond, it'll just give you a headache.

Drunk Rummate11/11/2014, 4:21:54 PM3 votes

advice like this is enough to send someone into depression

just accept that people make mistakes and you can't win every game. improve what you can personally but don't assume that your bot lane dying to a level 2 gank is anywhere in the realm of "your fault"

just assess the situation and capitalize on it any way that you can. don't take blame for stuff that's out of your realm of control.

AtroposOne11/11/2014, 10:17:02 PM3 votes

That's a good mind-set to have I guess. An even better mind-set would be to not argue about petty happenings and swallow your pride. Help your team regardless of your thoughts on their champion selection, runes, masteries, play-style, etc. Be respectful in chat as much as possible and try to uplift your team with positive encouragement.

A team is not YOU, a team is a TEAM. (Duh)

Flaming, afking, raging, general trolling will NOT win you games. It will put not only you, but everyone on your team in a bad mood, resulting in a loss for all 5 of you. Try to be a beacon of positive energy for your teams and be helpful in champion select as well, and you'll see a major improvement.

Or /ff

jade harley BARK11/11/2014, 4:07:22 AM3 votes

Out of curiosity, what do you do when you've eliminated every possible issue you can? You can never speak for another player, so just because you may have done your best it wont stop them from messing up ):

youngjake9311/11/2014, 9:10:24 PM3 votes

So what if the ADC keeps pushing the lane and getting ganked or blitz pulled into their tower? Your logic is it is your fault for not telling them to stop pushing the lane, but I have had this happen to me tons and every time tell the ADC SEVERAL TIMES to not push the lane. I even stop to give detailed explanations on how auto attacking minions pushes the lane and they still do it. I even roam bot to counter gank or ward sometimes and I'll see the ADC 1v2 diving against healthy champs instead of waiting as I ping him.

Also literally every time you accept fault in league people tell you how bad you are. It doesn't matter if you are carrying the game as best you can with the best score on the team, if you say "sorry, my bad" people tell you to kill yourself and uninstall.

I have been in positions where playing top lane, their mid, jg and top will 3v1 push me to tower and I hold as long as possible pinging for help. Meanwhile the jungler is afk farming ON TOP SIDE JUNGLE and our TF refuses to use his ult because "your bad, why should I help someone who can't hold their own tower?" I have been jungling or mid and went to dragon while bot has their lane pushed and their opponents back. I would ping them several times, wait, start it on my own and they never show up, then their jungler comes and kills me while I'm soloing it at 20%. It's not like I didn't communicate that I needed help to secure the dragon and it isn't like I couldn't have gotten it on my own if their jungler didn't show up.

I'm not sure how I can accept blame in these situations... I mean I would love to have done so well in lane that I can 1v5 with ease mid-game and my team can AFK, but that's impossible.

jimmylism11/12/2014, 12:37:19 AM3 votes

Well aren't you a fucking ray of sunshine.

SecondChanceHero11/11/2014, 3:18:51 AM2 votes

Also, upvoting without a bump is a crime! Thanks for your support 2 random up voters.

Renegen11/12/2014, 3:11:42 PM2 votes

As another plat chiming in on this thread to prove the OP wrong, you should only focus on what is within your control. You need to always have a positive mindset and forget about the past. Bot lane dies early? Well you'll have to get an early tower or dragon or else the situation will get out of hand, THAT'S what you need to think about instead of "omg I suck, I take full responsibility".

Focus on things you can improve and only on them, you want to find consistency in ranked, that's how you get better.

ModKnightsKemplar11/11/2014, 6:42:19 AM2 votes

Haha I love your can-do attitude. But I don't know that always thinking "It's my fault" is completely necessary. As for me, I concentrate on what I could do better, no matter what. It definitely ISN'T my fault that my Taric mid thought building a jungle item was okay, but that doesn't mean I need to flame him. That won't accomplish anything. I can still learn what to do better in my lane even if someone else is ruining the game.

TapWaterRulez11/11/2014, 6:56:49 AM2 votes

I don't like looking at it exactly like that. There are some games where you would have to play many, many divisions higher skill-wise to get the win. But that also means you can get games where you could basically afk farm and still get a free win.

Your approach sounds like I should be telling myself what is technically a lie in order to improve. I'm not a fan of 'the end justifies the means' mentality. I want 100% truth about a situation. This shouldn't be about convincing people that it's ALWAYS their fault, but rather a few separate points:

  1. You can always improve something about your play in every game.
  2. If you can't appreciate the low-effort wins you got because someone on your team easily carried, then griping about those losses you got because someone fed a lane will make you look even worse.
  3. Delete any expectation of winning every game, it does not happen

I've failed hard in my lane enough times to know I need to be lenient to my teammates assuming they have good intentions in the game.

MrGoldTech11/11/2014, 12:05:48 PM2 votes

Its your fault... is that why you're silver 4?

Also, how can you blame ME if I get 4 afk's on my team? Its my fault for not winning a 1v5?

BastionKross11/11/2014, 3:34:42 PM2 votes

The secret to soloq success is simple: Go into every game assuming you're going to have to be the one to carry your team.

I don't care if you're actually playing a carry champion, or if you're Sona Nautilus Shen. Assume no one else is going to save you, and that you will be the one to carry your team. This doesn't mean just getting pentas every teamfight, but also being a leader and calling for objectives, putting wards down and encouraging others to do so, and knowing what lanes to push and when.

This is similar to the OP, but with one crucial difference: You don't blame yourself for your team's screwups, you blame yourself for not carrying despite those screwups. A small, but important, distinction.

weihe12311/11/2014, 4:35:31 PM2 votes

Ehh, i play support and mid. I'm actually one of the few hundred of people who plays a good support. Anyways, that is true. most of the time only the jg has wards when a supports job is also to ward. just you don't have to go that hard on supports. only the bad ones. And i always blame myself in chat...

ShardWintreswolf11/11/2014, 6:02:17 PM2 votes

The one argument I have on this is the choice of words you have used to present the point, it it's very blunt and to the point which it's very good for catching attention and making a point. The problem is that they are not the correct words based on the discussions you seem to have below alongside the position you seem to have. While many things in a game can indeed be connected to something someone on the other side of the map had failed to do, there are indeed situations where it is literally impossible to be attentive enough to decisively call it that person's fault. (While most still apply, it is not 100%). It's more of a matter of everything being everyone's problem as opposed to their fault. It only becomes their fault should they ignore it.

Tl;dr I think it'd be more accurate to initially describe it as their problem than as their fault. Should a person not take action when they can, then it's their fault.

Konidias11/11/2014, 6:05:20 PM2 votes

While the thought is nice, you can't exactly react to everything your team is doing wrong... You can only place so many wards... you can only type so fast...

It's kind of not possible to ward all over the map, monitor everyone playing at the same time... type out stuff to your team whenever they are making mistakes and then also actually play the game yourself and lane/trade with your opponent.

You can't be typing up strategy and correcting people's play when you're in the middle of a team fight.

It's like the classic Superman dilemma. Sure you are fast and strong, but you can't be in two places at once. You either save your lane, or you save someone else's lane. (pun intended)

a call beyond11/12/2014, 12:57:56 AM2 votes

keeping a leash on your support is an important skill for solo queue ADCs if you cant control your support, that just means you're incompetent