Ivory Tower players make climbing ranked impossible. Another reason to hate the "Solo carry"
I am seeing it more and more and its starting to really piss me off. Is the rise of more and more of the "Ivory Tower" players. An "Ivory Tower" player is the type of player who completely ignores and disregards the rest of the team out of a smug sense of "superiority" This is not to be confused with players who mute thier teams to avoid toxicity, as they still (for the most part) try and help thier team. Ivory towers however seem to hold themselves 'above' thier teammates. They hold themselves as the best player on the game and will spend the entire game either a) Ignoring thier team and acting as if thier teammates dont exist. or B) Spend the entire game talking down and demeaning thier team in an aristocratic "im better than you. You are less than S#!7 on my shoe" attitude.
Its another reason I am starting to really hate this "Solo Carry" attitude that riot is pushing, You get more and more of these players who think they are gods gift to league, so spend the entire game bragging "dont worry, I will carry", and then when they fail at it, they will spend the rest of the match talking about how completely trash/garbage/worthless the team is. Meanwhile these players will intentionally instigate division among teammates flame and degrade, generaly put players down have a sense of superiority among thier team. (again, not to be confused with confidence) Ivory towers generally see thier Teammates as little more than "peasants/Peons" and hold themselves with an attitude of "You should feel honored, YOU have ME on the team" They will call out any mistake, including the SMALLEST ones, and Hold it over a players head for the entire game, using a single death to blame the entire loss on a single player.
This solo carry attitude has created a sickening atmosphere of "Im better than you, Unless you kiss my ass you will lose" With players who see themselves as superior to everyone else on thier team happy to throw elitist temper tantrums and throw the entire match if -another player outshines them -another player gets more kills/cs than them (usually these are the players crying the entire game about "ks") -the team wont play how they (the ivory tower) want -teammates refuse to play the champions they (the ivory tower) want -Teammates refuse to build what they (ivory tower) want -etc
I call them Ivory Towers because thats what they act like, They sit in a tower high above the rest of thier team. they see thier teammates as beneath them., as something vile to be spit on. They see themselves as the "solo carry", the best player on the game ever. And they end up contributing to part of the reason why I mute my teams. I know I need to communicate with my teams, but this "solo carry" attitude is so prevalent its not even worth it to try and communicate anymore. I would rather mute the team and just focus on my game, rather than listen to someone who sees themselves as "above" me talk down thier nose about how garbage I am and more and more I see "I should be X(silver, gold, diamond, etc) ButI am stuck with these trash teams, Omg so useless" Yeah so rather than tell people how they can improve, you contribute to the division by rubbing your teammates nose in thier mistakes again and again like a dog that pissed on the carpet. You take one mistake and hang it over thier head, beating them with it throughout the entire match, and validate it with "I want my teams to not play like the trash they are" Because Flaming, degrading, insulting, and kicking your teammates when they already feel like shit is gonna magically make them play better, instantly making them play at world quality and carry you in your ivory tower to the rank you feel you 'deserve'
I really do hate this pathetic "solo carry" attitude And Ivory tower players are seen in more and more games, So I will keep muting my teams untill the community maybe actually tries to pull it head out of its ass and stop acting like they are perfect (I know I am not, I do suck. But I try and DONT need some entitled kid with a god complex reminding me just how worthless I am each time I fail to last hit a minion)