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Probably the two most cringy things people can say in league.

Silly Neeko·11/18/2018, 11:20:03 AM·18 votes·9,138 views

"Soft int" and "your useless so you dont need farm anyway."

"Soft int" is cringy because people use it anywhere that they cant say "they inted" due to the fact that they did not, in fact, int at all. Often this can be said about someone like... perhaps a Yasuo vs Leblanc for example. The Leblanc farms and pokes and out trades the Yasuo enough that he is pushed off farm and eventually dies. The yasuo then poked down once while trying to get farm and then gets tower dived by leblanc and then dies to leblanc again and dies. The yasuo tries to play safe under tower but still farm and is 1hko comboed. The yasuo stays far enough away from Leblanc to not be in reach, but is not able to farm due to the short range. Yasuo falls behind 50-100 cs and then Leblanc roams to bott or top and kills them. Yasuo takes this time to try and farm. Team says Yasuo sucks and is "soft inting" the leblanc. Team goes and takes CS from Yasuo when Leblanc is not there. Yasuo is stuck with little CS and is unable to do anything about it.

Leading to "your useless so you dont need farm" cringe: You want them to do damage and catch up so it does not feel like 4v5. You take farm from under their nose, following them to ensure they get no farm, and then complain that they are useless and do no damage/etc. You blame them for when you lose when you are taking the farm from them even after you are full build and they are on item 3 or 4 (maybe).

Can people really be this naive and dense that they do not understand that acting this way is YOU making it a 4v5, while they are just trying to catch up? Oh but you "have to show them whos boss" or whatever the heck it is that people insist on trying to prove by doing this.

Honestly, i plan on reporting people who act like that in game.

(Random rant brought to mind after someone said the cringy words "soft int" to describe what "smart trolls" do.)

29 Comments

OurLestrade11/18/2018, 12:30:00 PM6 votes

Throwing ranks around in general always makes me giggle a little bit.

Saezio11/18/2018, 1:26:10 PM5 votes

"Lol you win because your champ is easy/broken" "My team too heavy" "MY MMR IS HIGHER" "I do this build all the time and it works" "GG ff @ 15" "Better <<Insert role>> wins" "Reported" Wait I was trying to give examples but now it looks like another actual game chat. xD

FenjaminBranklen11/18/2018, 5:14:09 PM3 votes

Yeah, my team takes my farm all the time when I'm behind. This is in silver. They're like "you gotta be good enough to last hit it". And i'm like, "You're fed and can kill a minion that has 2/3 hp, while i need to wait for it to be under a quarter hp" and they just say "git gud"

Umio11/18/2018, 1:03:34 PM3 votes

"it's just a game" in ranked

Kei14311/18/2018, 1:10:06 PM2 votes

"But I wasn't even toxic!!!"

AggressiveWolf11/18/2018, 1:08:53 PM2 votes

Oh oh, heres one.

'Irelia and Akali are balanced l2p'

Dorans Pants11/18/2018, 6:54:34 PM2 votes

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Yasuo falls behind 50-100 cs and then Leblanc roams to bott or top and kills them. Yasuo takes this time to try and farm. Team says Yasuo sucks and is "soft inting" the leblanc. Team goes and takes CS from Yasuo when Leblanc is not there. Yasuo is stuck with little CS and is unable to do anything about it.

Leading to "your useless so you dont need farm" cringe: You want them to do damage and catch up so it does not feel like 4v5. You take farm from under their nose, following them to ensure they get no farm, and then complain that they are useless and do no damage/etc. You blame them for when you lose when you are taking the farm from them even after you are full build and they are on item 3 or 4 (maybe).

Here I disagree.

Playing mainly support I had to witness countless times how a player can get all the recourses in the world pumped into him and still manage to throw the game. And it´s not hard to differentiate between "this guy is underfed" and "this guy sucks beyond comprehension". So it makes perfect sense trying to funnel more resources into the player that can carry instead of wasting it on a player that is a dead loss regardless of what champ/roles he is playing.

In the end, you want to focus on winning the game and not giving everyone equal carrying opportunities.

Prozzak11/18/2018, 3:40:04 PM2 votes

Calling people tryhards will forever be my number 1 cringe thing to say. If you aren't going to try when you play what is the point of playing.

Thefrostyviking11/18/2018, 6:50:57 PM2 votes

......I sorta feel bad now.

Recently played Zyra support and had a Yas ADC into a vayne+bard botlane.

I somehow took over the lane entirely because the bard couldnt manage to land any stuns on me and Vayne got her face full of plants repeatedly until she got buried, repeatedly....aliong with the bard.

Then enemy team tilts right over and starts flaming the two of them calling them straight up inters because me and Yas got extremely fed of our early cheese.

Like serious, Zyra root+combo with plants into Yas tornado actually proved to be super dirty, reversely works as well with Yas knockup+ult into full zyra combo was deadly as well, Vayne would have needed twice the healthbars to survive it.

But for Vayne it wasnt really an option to never farm but they couldnt win in a fight either after we surprised them, so as mentioned things went bad and they got flamed relentlessly.

And, i mean, they were both 0,5,1 and 0,4,1 i think but they were really trying for some time.......but with this said i could also see why the rest of their team would be so extremely tilted by having their botlane feed so hard.

Verorr11/18/2018, 7:47:34 PM2 votes

My personal favorite, and most common, situation is when my support doesn't know when to disengage so they overcommit and die two or three times. I'm just like whatever, I'll farm up and avenge you in the team fights. My support instead starts throwing all of his abilities on my minion waves trying his darndest to take my cs. They start saying things like I'm too passive and they need the farm to carry me since I'm obviously incapable.

Like, these guys aren't even botlane/support mains and they're acting like I don't understand matchups or when a fight is shifting to their favor. It always follows into the nonsense OP describes with me fighting my own team and the enemy to stay relevant.

XL Beef 11/19/2018, 6:53:42 AM1 votes

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(Random rant brought to mind after someone said the cringy words "soft int" to describe what "smart trolls" do.)

That's literally what we do when we want to troll but keep the account as long as possible. I already made a thread about how I've been doing this for years. I promise you there are many players who soft int games, purposely make bad plays to bait the team, and otherwise tilt allies to ensure a loss. I am admittedly one of these players.

Ozzie Storm11/18/2018, 1:42:39 PM1 votes

Yasuo was picked vs Leblanc, soft inting confirmed

jk jk, Real talk people who throw comments out of their arses without context is the worst. Was told by the toplaner "stop feeding" in which i replied with "you didn't see what happened, did you?" and explained that my sacrifice and cc saved 3 other teammates.

He simply replied with "oh"or sth and didn't say another word for the rest of the game.

Basically either say sth intelligent and usefull or shut up.

Fullmetallic11/18/2018, 4:09:36 PM1 votes

"no skill champ" After I outplay them as rengar by smashing bush jumps at 200 hp

AsTheSunSets11/18/2018, 7:01:27 PM1 votes

"Inting" is cringey because it's almost always used in situations that don't apply. It's embarrassing to use a term so far removed from it's literal meaning just to fit in with the community. I've almost never seen the term applied to someone intentionally feeding. It's usually used when someone misplays or misjudged a play.

Frantic childe11/18/2018, 7:50:31 PM1 votes

"you hardstuck ....." whatever the rank you are

Sorin Alucard11/18/2018, 8:00:30 PM1 votes

Soft inting is real and is a reaction to the supposed "increase" in banning of more obvious inting

Its easy AF to soft int. Here are the steps

1.) Don't talk unless its positive 2.) Don't group---- AFK split push whilst ignoring pings or the game state-----When close to grouping leave 4.) Build normally even if super behind

If you die its excusable from an automated standpoint You didn't trigger the IFS for chat You can start playing normally and then say "fuck it" at any time to apply this strategy I see this as the most common reaction to flame

"Oh you talked shit guess you get to lose now while I pretend to play"

NA/EU in a nutshell

Stróc Dúnmharú11/19/2018, 12:06:19 AM1 votes

People don't like thinking about cause and effect. It makes their brains hurt.

DuskDaUmbreon11/18/2018, 11:53:04 AM1 votes

Can we also add "Winrate doesn't matter" and "This champion is broken because they have a high banrate" to that list?