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Gross negligence

This Is Your Dad·4/9/2017, 4:00:44 AM·3 votes·412 views

My last game was with a kindred jungler that went 0/7/1. Now if this were a laner, or if this person was invaded I could excuse this, but going 0/7/1 and just having no idea how your champion works at all in a ranked game seems like, as the title says, gross negligence. I wish sometimes that in order to play a champion in ranked you needed to have played a certain number of normal matches so that you could grasp the general concept behind your champion. I know this is never going to happen, but it doesn't stop me from throwing my hands in the air with how ridiculously silly a game gets when someone displays absolutely no intelligence when it comes to champion mechanics. I'm not talking about missing abilities or lack of skill. I'm not talking about getting outplayed or facing a counter. I'm talking strictly about players that without a doubt don't have a clue what their kit does. They become such a detriment that it is literally better if they afk than continue to do what they're doing. The only reason kindred even got the last assist was because you get assists by using a single ability or autoattack. I don't believe this player is bad at the game at all. He was building to counter the heavy ap on the opposing team. But he had absolutely, unequivocally no idea what he was doing the entirety of the game. Edit: Let me know how your views differ from mine. Downvotes are okay, but I'd like to know your thoughts.

30 Comments

Magical Player4/9/2017, 4:13:08 AM1 votes

well lets start did they die in the jungle? did they get invaded? did they get countered jungled? did they get counter ganked? did they gank fail?

OnlyYouCanHearMe4/9/2017, 4:25:33 AM1 votes

A lot of people have brought up a similar idea, regarding players having to play a champion a certain number of times in normal matches prior to playing them in ranked. And for the most part, I agree with you. I really wish there was some way to keep people from playing a champion for the first time in ranked. It is just sooooo inconsiderate to your teammates to play a champion that you as a player know that you don't have the foggiest idea of how to play.

But the main issue that I, and many other people, have with trying to put some sort of limitation or block in champion select that would prevent players from locking a champion they have not played X number of games with, is in the case of trading. I own every champion, but I only play about five of them regularly. If it were just a blanket limit of having to play let's say 10 normal games, that would probably keep me from being able to trade for easily 75% of the champions.

Some people have proposed setting it to where players can simply trade their pick-slots, instead of picking the champions and then trading them. I don't know enough about how the coding for the roles and such is done to know whether something like that is feasible or not. But if you have any other ideas about how something like this could be managed, by all means, toss them out here! We're always looking for more ways to try and address this issue. Maybe if we can come up with a decent potential solution and present it to Riot, they will consider implementing it. It wouldn't be the first time.

MisterSki4/9/2017, 4:18:13 PM1 votes

I love how people immediately defend trash players and don't just call them out for being garbage. This kindred was trash and will always be trash. They won't get punished ever either which sucks because they ruined the game for four other people. They just didn't ruin it in a way that riot cares about.

Icy Hot Shoto4/10/2017, 3:41:29 AM1 votes

Honestly, one of the main reasons why people try a champion for the first time in ranked is because they see YouTuber's doing it, or saying it's their first time on such-and-such champ, so they think they can do it too.

It's rude to do such a thing, and it's rude to assume the person is a first time. However, going 0/7/1 as Kindred seems like more than a bad game to me. Kindred has 2 AOE attacks and an AOE invulnerability/heal. If they're not getting assists then they're trying to do the same thing over and over, which is fighting the enemy by themself and dying too quickly for their team to come clean up.

And THAT is inting/feeding and not just a bad game.