I just accept there's little chance my input will register with someone I'll only be spending 15-35 mins of my life with.
Everyone is high strung during games and calling them out often makes things worse.
So i occasionally mute and keep my thoughts to myself, mostly communicating good jobs with emotes
I just hit my first milestone past honor 4 so maybe it's not a bad idea
If you aren't an ass about it, and don't repeat over and over when it's clear the person isn't getting it, it can be useful.__
I get lots of great shotcaller honors, this is mainly due to me giving my teammates feedback on how to improve their gameplay, a small minority of player ignore or refuse my advice. If just 1 person follows my feedback they usually improve their gameplay in that very game.
Why not make a poll, it would answer that question rather fast.
I always welcome helpful information if it can benefit the game for example:
"Xxxx" is building AD. Building "xxx" item will help counter.
Baron spawning soon. Can you ward?
I'm not a strong player so I will tend to follow, but I will ping my intentions if there is not a clear leader....ping the lane if I'm going to help or the wave I'm going to clear.
I give a 1 time tip, if they don't listen, so be it.
Sometimes I have a higher elo friend in call/sitting next to me when I play. It seems to help, as I've managed to get my winrate from 43%~50% to 55%. A lot of it is them yelling at me to keep me awake though, or to look at the minimap which is frankly quite embarrassing. I know I make bronze mistakes, but it still hurts being called out on them. Anyways, if you know what you're doing, coaching or offering tips for team mates who don't turn into rude porcupines from feedback can be quite useful.
If someone asks for advice, or is paying you to coach them, then they're very likely to listen to your advice.
If you're not being paid, you could still say things like, "we should get greivous wounds. I think bot should get it because mid is single target"
Or "they have a lot of armor. I think that getting LW first will give more damage than finishing that zeal item."
Since you specifically used the phrase "calling them out", yeah, anything that could be considered "calling out" is to be avoided. You can give advice.
If you start out with something like "What are you (noobs) building?" or "Is this your first time?" Then your advice will generally not be listened to.
If you want to give advice, give advice. Once. "Bot should lane swap to top to take the tower" "Zhonya's could help against Zed"
All the tiptoeing around "can I ask you a question? Could I give you some advice?" comes off as insulting.
It doesnt most players do not care what you have to say and they dont want to hear how they could improve as it only makes them feel bad about themselves.
