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One trick ponies are BAD for this game's health!!!!!

Mostro Gallo·3/14/2017, 6:03:49 AM·1 votes·1,829 views

Adaptation and retroactive decision making are key to being a successful summoner. Your ability to adapt and respond to any given situation is severely impaired when you force a single champion (and, on top of that, a champion that has zero synergy with the rest of your team) into EVERY SINGLE GAME YOU PLAY.

I take a break from ranked for a season and this problem /mindset seems to be at its worst ever. I just finished a game with a summoner who has achieved full mastery with Nasus. However, his match history shows the last dozen+ games of him playing nothing but Nasus and feeding in about 70% of them( and, yes, his win rate is negative). He is an active liability at gold-platinum level; he is feeding consistently as if he was in the bronze tier--that is not okay!..not that this level of play.

Serious question: is it against the summoner's code to link a summoner's(summoners' tbh) name to show just how much of a detriment this tactic and team builder is to League of Legend's long term health? There's no reputable E Sport where you can just "main" a certain role outside of coordinated play; why would League of Legends be the exception?

Please, for the love of all that is worth loving: leave the one-trick-ponying to Diamond+ players.

4 Comments

Mäster Yí3/14/2017, 6:04:54 AM4 votes

I disagree MasterYi

Magical Player3/14/2017, 6:09:35 AM2 votes

Veigar but playing the master of evil is too hard to give up

Also 1 tricking isnt bad it is one of the best ways to climb in the game as you learn your champ to a far higher degree than if you say picked 15-20 champs to play in ranked

Yes it can suck to be put into a game vs a counter that knows more about the match up but I will perform 99% better on my 1 trick than asking me to play a champ I don't care about

OnlyYouCanHearMe3/14/2017, 11:19:50 PM2 votes

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Adaptation and retroactive decision making are key to being a successful summoner.

If a player is a good one-trick, they will be able to adapt that champion to the various scenarios they encounter. I'm a Sona one-trick. I play other champs when I'm with my friends, because I duo with an adc and he tends to get tired of me only playing her, but if it's just me, I play Sona. I have 6 different rune pages and 3 different mastery pages that I use depending on 1. the enemy bot lane, 2. the overall enemy team comp, and 3. how much I trust my adc. I've mained her off and on since season 3, and have played pretty much every bot lane matchup there is. I know her strengths and weaknesses into each one, and know when I need to adjust what runes/masteries to give my lane the best early levels. Part of being a one-trick is learning your champion and matchups so well, that you can decide things like that instantly, but it also teaches the player how to apply the same logic to champions with similar kits.

As far as linking the summoner's name, it may not be expressly against the summoner's code, but it's against the terms of use of the Boards. It's considered Naming and Shaming to call a player out, and any posts or threads that do so will be deleted. You can post images of their match history, provided that you edit the image by marking out their name.

DrCyanide3/14/2017, 11:33:21 PM1 votes

I'm not sure I agree.

While yes, there comes a point where teams are skilled enough to punish a 1-trick making them a detriment to their team, most of the players don't play at that level. You could actually argue that most Bronze/Silver players would do better by 1-tricking a Champion, rather than trying to play half the roster, since they'd know the mechanics of that champion and could turn their focus to other aspects of the game, such as CSing, wave management, positioning, map awareness, objective control, etc.

Yes, you'll find one tricks with negative win rates, but you'll also find people who play every champion with negative win rates.