Spamming surrender votes when no one is actively trolling makes no sense

This Is Your Dad··1 votes·427 views

I get it if you want out of a game because someone is trolling (admitting it) and it's psychologically messing up your day. But lately as soon as 15 minutes hits I get to see the surrender vote pop up every 3 minutes for the rest of the game.

What's sad is after I stopped voting yes and just kept playing, I come back from a good 45-50% of those surrender vote spam games. But when we win the one spamming the ff isn't even happy! He's so stuck on showing us "trolls" what's up that the harder we try to win and the better things get the more the guy tries to throw the game to prove some nonexistent point.

Not only does it hurt our morale, it's quite distracting to see the surrender vote pop up in an important teamfight. It's also detrimental because in order to cast the surrender vote, our whiny teammate momentarily afks.

The surrender vote is good for instances where maybe you're being held hostage or whatever, but seriously it's overrated. Every game I get into that we don't stomp in it's on my screen 24/7. And yet it hardly ever passes. When it doesn't pass the first 4 times, you're frankly doing it for attention at this point.

Please consider that while a comeback isn't 100% certain, it happens A LOT more than I ever thought it would. A simple misplay from the fed enemy team resulting in an ace can tilt them. Riot may lack in certain champion balance areas, but they do make it pretty easy to capitalize on enemy mistakes even when behind. Otherwise first blood would literally end the game.

8 Comments

HavokDash1 votes

Far as I have seen it is mainly brought up when ONE player who thinks they are the "best ever" dies in the first few minutes. And so sinse they wont be getting that precious "S" Grading they want so badly, there is no point in playing the full match through because thier overall grade wont reflect how highly they think of themselves.

Whaaa I didnt get the grade I want so I am gonna spam surrender vote and take my toys to go home.

This Is Your Dad1 votes

Mostly I play ranked, so I then norms is best for the grade for chests.

HavokDash1 votes

I have lost so many games because as soon as a player dies ONCE and realises they WONT get an S- or better....they quit the match. They just spend the game going "gg I am done" and looking for something they can use to pass the buck. "I died once and gave up, but its jungles fault we lost for not ganking my lane at lvl 2. Report our troll jungle"

That sort of thing. they want the bragging rights. AS soon as they find out they arent as perfect as they think they are, they give up.

EL HAMSTERO1 votes

its true. those grades are a bad idea.

i was in a game where we had them aced but the adc refused to help us end because 'i need more cs to get an S'. and then later the other team won a big fight and beat us.

HavokDash2 votes

Yeah I have seen people refuse to help thieir teammates because "if I help you I might DIE" They want their S-grade and consider any deaths to be a serious blemish on thier record. They want NOTHING but Wins and S's. So they will actively allow thier teammates to die to achieve it. and these same players will turn around and talk about how many "feeders/inters" they have on their team.

They are "feeders" not because they are inting, but because their request for assistance falls on deaf ears in favor of "If I help You, I -might- die" Not that they Will surely die, not that its highly likely they will die. Just that -slight- 2% chance that in some planetary alignment them helping thier team will blemish their grade and keep them from getting that S- grade.

Players stab their team in the back for their grade and have to beg their teams for honor.

What a wonderful game. amirite?

EL HAMSTERO1 votes

well in a game that uses a matchmaking system like riot's you will always get people who want to lose.

you get easier games when you lose and harder games when you win. so if you are getting crushed and are frustrated it is hard to not want easier games.

QSS wont help1 votes

If a game is like 5-30 and you dont have any towers or like 3 or 4 left, its not winnable and you should accept the lost and dont waste the time of you or of the others. And saying we have l8game is stupid too, cuz you wont reach the l8 if youre so cloe to loose the game. And if its 0-15 in like 10-12 minutes, you wont win either. I dont get the guys who can say we can win when the game is CLEARLY lost.

This Is Your Dad1 votes

I can see you also think QSS doesn't help. Ironic.

Anyway, I agree to a certain extent, but it really depends on how much a teamfight goes in your favor. For instance, I went 21/0/3 in a fluke game and everyone else was like 4/6/3 or close to that ratio with identical cs and I only had a 4k gold advantage on them. That's only 1 big item, and if I got blasted by all 5 the advantage would be lost. Ended up easily winning, but the fear of losing that control was still there. I've also won games where it did start out 2 to 12 or sometimes even worse and we somehow just started picking up kills, and the enemy team would all chat "report x for throwing".

You certainly won't win every game you're behind in, but you won't lose every game you're behind in unless you secretly want to validate your negativity.

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