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Question: What to do when a teammate is feeding and the game is unwinnable?

Scarlesh·4/18/2019, 9:04:26 AM·2 votes·2,152 views

Let's start with something: I have won my share of 4v5 and yes - even 3v5, when both me and my teammates had exceptional synergy and the enemy team had been too lax about covering their bases against our fed deathsquad. So yes, I will be the first to admit that winning while outnumbered in competitive IS well and possible!

However, this requires a wealth of prerequisites - not to mention, a self reliant small squad, that you might not always have. Or simply, someone among those who are left, simply isn't up to par with the task, or awfully underfed.

Thus I am not speaking of 'winnable' games, but in games where you're 10, 15 kills behind, and a teammate is hard inting and making life hell for you and the rest of the team.

What can you do?

I have recently received a suspension for insulting said inters - but it led me to wonder, that my toxicity had been caused by his behaviour, and I am no longer willing to cope with such people, so my question boils to such:

If someone in your team is intentionally throwing the game to the point that all hopes of victory are lost, are you FORCED to keep playing? Can I just wait it out in base for the inevitable? Why should I work three times as hard to carry an intentional feeder who would then get free LP and likely to go unpunished because of riot's crappy system? (The feeder in my own game still plays to this day, but that's another story)

What if two people went AFK? Would I have to put myself through a hopeless fool's errand in trying to win a game, whose fun had all but been sapped away? Should I really have to carry those who are making it intentionally impossible for me to?

My conundrum is this as such: if I decide to tab and wait the inevitable out, I -WILL- get a suspension for idling. This means that not only the trolls in question are ruining your game, no - they're FORCING you to play a disaster of a trainwreck, and more likely than not deny surrender at every chance to have you suffer up to the very last minute. I realized I simply don't have the patience for these kind of people anymore, and while I will refrain from telling them a piece of my mind in the future (it's a no-no in this SJW era), I really wish at least I could unwind by doing something else until they disappear from my sights, possibly forever.

But then, I'd get punished for that.

What can I do? Am I literally forced to pretend I'm still giving it my best? Does anyone see the hypocrisy of it all if it is so?

9 Comments

insomniacjezz4/18/2019, 9:09:41 AM2 votes

“If someone in your team is intentionally throwing the game to the point that all hopes of victory are lost, are you FORCED to keep playing? Can I just wait it out in base for the inevitable? Why should I work three times as hard to carry an intentional feeder who would then get free LP and likely to go unpunished because of riot's crappy system?”

  1. Yes
  2. Not unless you want to get a leaverbuster penalty
  3. Because you’re always meant to be playing to win, regardless of what other people are doing/not doing. If he’s actually intentionally feeding, it may take a while, but eventually it will catch up to him and he’ll be punished.
Voldymort4/18/2019, 10:37:45 AM2 votes

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Ph03n1xb1rd4/18/2019, 9:54:37 AM1 votes

You HAVE TO play it out without a bad word.

If you do not do this, you risk your acc gettin' banned or at least punished in some way.

Thingamajig4/18/2019, 10:11:53 AM1 votes

the win rates of 4v5 were mentioned at some point i think it was 35% or a bit less a person themselves is worth 20% of the teams chance of winning If they start feeding the chances go lower since it doubles as he is helping the enemy team win and with some strats it practically becomes impossible to win (nunu tahm duo inters strat where they take all resources from their jungle and practically making it a 2v5 which is winnable only if your 2 players are challengers and you are playing in iron

Kei1434/18/2019, 10:53:37 AM1 votes

I typically would practice wave management and how to get the waves to push while spending the least amount of time to have it push out.

If I can get waves to auto push from my inhib tower by clearing 2 minions and leaving 2 at 10% hp, then that's what I'd try to execute, then rotate to other lanes and try that again.

After the lanes are pushing, it gives my team opportunity to play a 4v4 or even 4v3 when the enemy sends their resources tô clear those waves.