Stop kidding yourself, League a "team game" in NAME ONLY.

HavokDash··2 votes·1,710 views

Yeah stop kidding yourself that this is a team game anymore. There is NO team play in this game. It is every player for themselves. There is no objective focus, there is No working together. Only spoiled little children with overinflated egos who think they are "too good for this team" They spend every game talking about how "trash" their team is because they go 0/1 or throw a mother of all shitfit because someone ELSE got a kill they called "dibs" on. Someone doesnt cater to the child's demands, build what they want, go where they want, etc. Welll obviously that person is "Trolling" or "Inting" and needs to be "9x report"

When You have people who dont want to hear any outside strategy. But they feel like because its a "Team game", that obviously means THEY get to decide who YOU play. They dont need to ask you, they dont need to talk to you. They just get to TELL YOU who to play. And if you dare say No to these spoiled children, they intentionally ban your pick, and demand you play a "proper" or "Real" >insert role here<

I have been on this game sinse season 3. Not that it matters to anyone. Because they can just say "oh you had x bad game so anything you say is dismissed" and yet people completely IGNORE THE TEAM and say "well ok you had a game where you went 1/13. So you Must suck! and anything you say is just you being salty because ur bad" And they will completely dismiss any notion of the fact it may have been a 5v4 with an rogue mid lane who ignored teammates and a jungle who never left the jungle. People only bring up the "team" aspect of the game when its convenient for thier arguement. If you dont do what they say, you arent playing "As a team" when they have no intention of actually discussing, just dictating (I say jump, you say how far off the cliff?) But when they want to dismiss you, suddenly the team aspect disappears and your team played no part in your score despite the fact it is 5 players on a SHARED MAP in 3 lanes.

This is not a team game, and as far as I am concerned Riot has stopped treating it as such. I mean they made it easier for people to go "yolo solo" and so they can screw over their teams for that shutdown gold. SO more teammates will INTENTIONALLY SIT BACK and wait for a teammate ahead of them to die, and THEN they will jump in for easy last hits after the teammate has died so they can claim that shutdown money and keep the kill all for themselves.

So kindly do not give me this "Its a team game" bullshit. I am done trying to delude myself into it. Call it what you will, I think of it as the "death song" of what used to be a team player. Take that "I work for the team" aspect and bury it alive screaming and blubbering. All so spoiled little children with overinflated egos can brag about how "Im too good, I cant carry this trash team" See how good they are when I sit back and let them die so I can take the cs and kills for myself. If we lose? Oh well, at least I can still brag about how I have the "most kills" on the team, right? Because thats all that matters. No one needs to work together anymore, as Long as you have the most artificially inflated Kda, No one needs a silly thing like winning the matches. ESPECIALLY IN RANKED! I hear it all the time. I can suggest pushing towers while the team runs back and forth across the map, waiting for a kill to show up on the mini so they can go chase it. Towers will remain untouched and ignored, meanwile we have 3 towers down, 3 more at half. But when I suggest pushing objectives I get responded with "Look at ur kills, stfu" or "Kills help the team win" Yeah they really help you win, thats why the enemy team focusses towers and drops our nexus uncontested while you are off running after a solo kill, trying to 4v1 a lone top-laner while the enemy takes our base. And at the end of the match, I get to hear "report X for inting" the one who didnt fall for the kill and tried to defend the base solo just to get accused of intentionally feeding. (and lets not kid ourselves, If you defend the base, they call to report you for "Intentionally feeding" But if you stay out of the fight and save your own life, suddenly you are "Report for afk/throwing")

Any teamplay aspect League had is gone. It now caters to arrogant toddlers who think themselves too good for any team. The high point of thier day is going on about just how great they are for thier kills and how they cant carry thier "trash team" every game. Well I am gonna start putting these toddlers in thier place. See how they like it when I hang them out to dry so I can take the kills for myself. Because Its not like this is a team game or anything. Oh I think I can still hear that "Team" side of my brain screaming. League of legends is where teamwork goes to die!

Edit: Keep those downvotes coming, I know you need to get painful truths out of the way. It disrupts your precious echo chamber of telling each other how "challenger tier" you are and how you dont need no team.

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P4ppino2 votes

Well I'm sure it doesn't feel like a team game in bronze. I'm not saying this to insult you, it's just a fact that in low elo you can't expect your team to make macro plays like split pushing, sieging, etc.

So in low elo, your best chance is to solocarry, which is way easier than talk strategy with your team.

HavokDash1 votes

Yet I can suggest playing as a team, and get told to "Stfu" because I have 1 less kill than the rest of the team.

P4ppino1 votes

Sadly, that is correct. But only from that response, you can see that people down there don't care about the team, and that's just the way it is.

So put on your carry pants, mute everyone (if you have to), and start taking over games, because frankly, it's the most efficient way to climb out of bronze/silver.

HavokDash1 votes

Yeah and the one thing I have noticed is that people like to label me a "Troll" because I take Adc with smite. And yet often its that second smite that helps secure dragons (often at the cost of my own life) So I may go down, But I go down knowing I secured the most important thing....OBJECTiVES. And I still get people in my games labelling me a troll/feeder/inter.

I play Kaisa with Smite, packing a Razor skirmisher sabre and just start ripping chunks out. All the while people tell me how I need to be reported/banned for "trolling" because I didnt "switch out the smite" so I am not playing for the team. But when they decide to run off solo and the team needs thier help, well their +1 kill is more important than helping keep the team alive, right? They can die in mid as long as the kids can get that precious kill/shutdown gold :)

I mean dont get me wrong. I KNOW this is a -team- game, like pieces on a chess board. But people are more concerned with chest thumping over who captured more pawns on the board than actually going for checkmate. So they will let teammates die INTENTIONALLY, so they can jump in and clean up any ez last hits. Thats whats so infuriating.

I say it alot. ALot of these games are lost because teams will choose "My Kills" over "Team win".

P4ppino1 votes

What you wrote here is all things people say to you. You have to not listen to these things, because the ppl who tell you these don't know any better. You can try to talk sense into them, but as I said, forget about your teammates. I know it sounds kinda harsh, but if you wanna get better, you have to leave behind this mindset.

Furthermore, the things you state here are exclusive to low elo, which I also said before. Ppl in higher elos know how to play as a team (sorta), that's where you can start having strategy talk.

I want to say one more thing: there is a reason, why you are in low elo, and it's certainly not because of your team's inability to work as a team. I'm sure you've heard this a lot of times. So you telling me how X went for a kill instead of a turret is time you can spend analysing your gameplay.

For example, you don't need smite on Kaisa adc. It's not worth to take over heal, just for one or two objectives that you might not get. Heal is better for lane, and you can just rush rageblade instead of the jungle item. You see, this is not a bronze player saying this, so you know I'm trying to help. ;)

HavokDash1 votes

Downvoted already for disrupting the precious "We 2 gud at dis gam" echo chamber.

Karunamon13 votes

More like downvoted for an ignorant, arrogant, insulting screed, but hey, whatever helps you sleep better at night.

HavokDash1 votes

Ignorant? arrogant nothing. I am sorry I am not sitting here patting your ass telling you how amazing a player you are. Insulting? What pointing out something I see Every single game, that people act like its a team game only when its CONVENIENT FOR THEM. Adcs will sit there and wait for a support to die, wait for a teammate to die. They will take the kill and then in late game when they are about to lose they turn around and retroactively accuse thier team of "inting"

Oh I could help you But me helping YOU survive a teamfight -might- mean ONE LESS KILL for ME. So I will sit there and let you die, then turn around and tell the enemy team to report you for "intentional feeding"

Ignorant nothing, I have been on this game long enough that I see these patterns, I see people so wrapped up in thier kda that they will spend 30 minutes chasing 30+ kills, and not a single enemy tower will be even grazed, But the moment the kids lose because the enemy chooses to focus towers over which one of the 5 players has the most inflated kda, suddenly it becomes "Oh look at me, I cant win because all my teams are trash. I have the most kills on the team and we still lose"

I am sorry I hurt your precious snowflake ego By revealing what the world outside the challenger tier mentality looks like.

VindicatorOFThey5 votes

kids nowadays sure have big imaginacion

HavokDash1 votes

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VindicatorOFThey3 votes

well im deeply sorry , english is not my first language .

Xidphel1 votes

Ha! You said a thing! You totally proved my point!

Sir Prepuzius1 votes

i don't get why so many downvotes. dude speaks the truth.

actually, i would call lol the perfect opposite of a team game, in a certain way How many times do you see ppl fighting with THEIR OWN TEAMMATES compare that number with how many time do you see ppl flaming players of the opposite team

how many times do you see the word NOOB from one of your teammate? if the game is a losing one, there is ALWAYS someone in your team saying noob team. noob this. noob that.

is it a team game when your teammates flames each other 9 games out of 10 ?

HavokDash1 votes

Players spend 30 minutes chasing any kill that shows up on the mini map. Meanwhile Any objective goes ignored and untouched. I calmly suggest "hey we need to take towers, we only win with the nexus" I get responded with "stfu noob, u suk. Look at ur kills" I give little things like "We need to make them come to us. Push their towers and make them come to us instead of us chasing them all over" I get responded with "Dude stfu. You are useless" They then ignore the rest of the team and try and 1v4 repeatedly because they got 2 kills so think they can solo the whole team. when we lose because they run off after kills while the enemy takes down our towers (4 man pushes bot, while whole team decides they ALL want to run off after the solo laner pushing top to fight over kills) Then they blame me for "Feeding" when I am the only one trying to keep the enemy team from dropping bot lane base tower while they fight over who gets the kill top (including alot of cries of "wtf man u ks me")

Yet me taking smite as adc to help secure dragons and objectives is "obvious trolliing, plz report"

jocomotion1 votes

Maybe in Bronze lol. No but seriously this sounds like you're talking about bronze level play. And not only that, but it seems like you're taking your personal experiences as unbridled truth.

I won't lie I have had people who think they're "too good to be on x team" But at that time I was also bronze 3, that was 1 year ago, and that guy was banned. As for people "telling" me who/what to play? That one has literally never happened to me. I've had one guy suggest I play one champion, but that's about as far as it's ever gone. But that's just my personal experience. If anything people have been complaining that League is too team oriented today and that solo carrying games is too difficult. Maybe you should rank up before complaining about the game. You'll find that high silver and up are way more team oriented than low silver and bronze.

Kaioko1 votes

Judging the whole game based on the experience of a bronze V player is a bit idiotic. Ultimately you are right -- at your level players do not know how to play in teams, never coordinate nor help each other. That's why you'll see people with stronger mechanical skills easily carry and destroy games.

That works less and less as you climb up the ladder where you actually have to rely on your team.

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