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Why the disproportionately Huge Egos

DorkunedAuras·5/5/2016, 4:26:33 AM·2 votes·556 views

This occurred to me the other day while I was thinking about people, specifically low Elo LoL players, who have disproportionately huge egos, and I think I stumbled upon something.

We've all had THAT game. You know that one. The game where you are immaculate, do no wrong, end 27/0/4 and carry your team hard to an easy win. That's where the problem lies. Once a player has that game on the belt, they have it in their head that THAT is what they are capable of, "Perfection" (in their head anyway).

From there, if you think you are capable of perfect play, then whenever something goes wrong, whose fault is it? Clearly not yours, you're capable of amazing things. Because of your amazing capabilities that are clearly better than your allies, they must be stopping you from having another of THOSE games.

As soon as that attitude gets in place, everything goes to hell. I don't need to explain further, as you know the story from there.

This is just my theory as to why people get like this. Any thoughts?

3 Comments

Electric Buyers5/5/2016, 4:29:34 AM2 votes

And then on the other hand, you have the games where you are doing terribly, (which happens to everyone) and your team flames you all game long. Completely forgetting that they too have lost lane before, or fed from time to time. Shit pisses me off.

Dispelle5/5/2016, 9:01:07 AM2 votes

Or certain ones of my fellow bronze players who, when they're told to stop flaming/bossing/commanding all game, says "I'm not flaming! I'm just giving advice to you guys on how not to be bad!" Yeah, you're Bronze with the rest of us, big guy. He's got that ego polished to an LCS glow.

xReadyPlayerOnex5/5/2016, 4:48:53 AM1 votes

Good thought, poor logic, failed in practice.

People have ego because they believe they're important when they're not. Nothing more, nothing less, unjustifiable, unexaminable. It's a trait that doesn't need explanation.

I don't think the logic adds up either. Everyone can accept they aren't as great as the best. But this game specifically has a matchmaking mechanic that punishes players who do try to get better and actually ARE better than their mmr suggests but the team mates they're consistently matched with create a mathematical impossibility for advancement. I rage a bit about this near every ranked game I play and it's why I queue mostly normals. At least then it doesn't count, it's just fun. If my team goes 2/9 in 7 minutes (and I have the 2 kills) it's not exactly a great game but I know I did well and can queue up and no harm done. When I blow promos and lose rank because of it... well... maybe that's where my ego gets into play. I think I'm important enough that my time in a ranked competition shouldn't be wasted by a bunch of chimps banging on their keyboards with no hope of helping me effectively making every game I play a 2v5 at best.