Why say 'why?' in-game?

Rakvir··2 votes·404 views

Whether someone makes a misplay or they get caught out or anything happens that results in a less favourable situation for your team, and you honestly could not possibly care any less than you do at that moment as to the specifics, the mindset/reasoning: why do you even BOTHER to type: "why?"

It's unproductive. You don't care WHAT the answer is and have quite clearly already made up your mind that you're going to have a seething hatred for that person anyway.

You don't expect an answer and even if they do say why, you will immediately dismiss it no matter how reasonable it is because in all likelyhood you weren't even paying that close attention to the inner workings or simply don't know how some champions function .

For a quick example: In the past, I've had games where people expected me to ult as Nunu with next to no AP built -needed a fully committed tank- Nasus and Sejuani were both going full damage and threats of AFKing all-around pushed me into stacking as much armor/health/magic resist as humanly possibly, enemy team was 5 super mobile champs and 3 of them had a stun they were smart enough to hold onto SPECIFICALLY to cancel my channel as soon as I cast it). No, the AoE slow would not have helped anyone escape.

Team dies, as expected, they ask that one-word line which is infuriatingly stupid and pointless.

"Why?"

6 Comments

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

I think you're getting upset over nothing. Simply asking "why?" is better than them wasting time typing out everything they thought you did wrong. If you make a poor decision, don't take it out on your team when they question it.

Rakvir1 votes

It's one thing if they actually want to know why.

It's a whole other matter when it's clear they are being malicious about it and don't even want any sort of answer to the question. If you don't want an answer, why ask the question?

Pucking Purrfect2 votes

WHY?

BECAUSE I CAN. Katarina

Vistha Kai2 votes

Mandatory response is mandatory.

insaiyanbacca1 votes

why?

Akeydel1 votes

I appreciate seeing "why?" in chat after a really dumb mistake. Ideally, it is supposed to make the person who made the mistake think about why they did it, and how they can avoid it in the future. Ideally. I do know people use it maliciously, but if you interpret it as helpful, then their malice is less harmful.

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