To Those Who Abuse Pings

? - does not mean "Wtf are you doing" It means there is an enemy last seen here and has gone MIA.

Assist me -> Just because you spammed this doesn't automatically grant you the right to blame another lane if you lose yours It means there will be a fight here soon I need someone working on a less important objective to come For example if you are a roaming support and you catch the enemy jungler with your adc/mid/jungler near, but he/she didn't see him on the map, you should use this ping to get them to come close to you. If you choose to go and fight the jungler on your own accord, then spamming this ping doesn't give you any right to complain just because your adc/mid/jungler didn't come in time.

OMW - Does not mean "I want this CS" or "this is my lane gtfo". Firstly you should never leave a lane long enough so that there's a big wave accumulated at your turret and you're still so far away that someone else managed to get there before you. If that happens, it's not your CS, it's theirs for protecting the turret. Secondly, just because your jungler/support attracted the enemy minion aggro which messed up your "freeze lane/ poke leading to denied farm then rebound up to a good recall" equation when you spammed the "OMW" ping when you are right in the lane doesn't mean you get to blame them just because you didn't play around their gank. OMW should be used for when you want your team to wait for you, that you're changing objectives, that you want help with a buff, etc.

! - does not mean "you cannot fight this person leave now!" If I am engaging on a fight that meant I have cased that person to the best of my abilities and even if I fail it's a learning experience for future games, I don't need random pings in the middle of a fight to make me pause my combo and think "what did I miss" just because you thought I might have missed something. The ! ping should be used to signal "ACTUAL" danger, like unseen enemies, or "Look at your map right now there is an enemy there"

My biggest pet peeve is probably the "target this" ping when someone who is dead or not even part of the fight uses it. It is NOT your way to give a teammate commands, no one is stupid. Once I was supporting someone and then we got in a fight between thresh and lucian and we were both attacking lucian but someone pinged "target thresh" and we both thought it was each other so we turned to kill thresh but got killed, turns out it was the top lane who explained that thresh "had more cc" so he should be killed first. Also, there was another time when were were fighting and this yasuo who got him self killed trying to 1v3 started pinging the inhibitor so our support turned to attack the inhibitor instead of peeling for our adc so me, as the top lane fiora I had to turn around and ult the diving camille so that our ADC could heal off her but got deleted by their backlines in the end because yasuo was dead and I didn't have a chance to reach their carries. Also also, there was this other time when the jungler pinged the baron and was like "start it" and we did but he just finished clearing a wave down botlane and this was bronze so no one wanted to leave baron and everyone just kept doing it then their jungler came in and stole it just like that.

Yes, there are people out there who actually respect teammates and their pings so they will trust the pings they see.

Finally, please do not spam your pings at any time, especially during a fight. New years eve has already passed, we don't need anymore fireworks. All I see is blood sweat tears and salt.

Thank you.