Why do people quit trying after 1 death?

This Is Your Dad··1 votes·415 views

Is it tilt from previous losses? I seriously question, when playing a jungler, why people have to quit over a gank. It seems like, to win games, you need to play a jungler that ganks at level 2, like kha, who does a lot of damage and secures the kill himself. Playing a tankier jungler that takes a little time to get going is a risk in and of itself. The moment someone gets ganked because they overextended or whatever, they basically TRY to lose the game. Between farming my blue buff on the other side of the map to complaining about how I don't gank only to run away from me when I do and spam ping me danger signs saying gtfo and then complaining that I still don't gank, it just doesn't seem like they WANT a solution. They just seem to like wallowing in their own misery, blaming someone else for everything while actively trying to lose the game. Teleporting to your nexus tower from base, split pushing a wave way out in the distance while our nexus is going down, farming my blue buff during a teamfight we almost won. And the worst part is, when the game seems to be picking up and we start snowballing in teamfights, instead of riding the momentum of the snowball, the guy actually tries HARDER to lose the game. Like he literally cannot win the game for fear of what? Being happy? I mean, what does it take to get someone to play a game that turns out okay? I never pressured him, never used words against him. I just said alright dude, you do you. He WOULD NOT accept that the match was winnable. Is there really that much pride to be had in losing a game? "GG FF at 15 shit jungler" Jungler starts picking up kills and has a bigger presence later. "Guess I gotta troll cuz they won't ff!"

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HavokDash2 votes

As an observation from a season 3 veteran, it basically comes down to EGO. In the earlier seasons people were willing to tough it out a bit more "died once or twice, No biggie" But as soon as Riot started pushing towards the E-sport movement, and especially after they added the player rating, Everyone started getting a swelled head and everyone thinks they are "the next FAKER" Everyone thinks they are "Gods gift to league" and so as soon as its shown they arent gonna solo hard carry their "noob" team, they give up. As I posted in another thread, I had a lux on my team who died once and said "Well I wont be getting an S, I'm done!" She gave up because she WASNT gonna get a perfect game. And why play the game if you arent gonna get a perfect game, EVERY GAME, Every time!. The team wont shower thier praise on you and tell you how "omg I luv u lux, ur so OP" and tell you how amazing you are" As I said, its about ego. "Player: I'm the best player on this team, watch me solo carry this trash team" "Reality: Nope, Guess again" "Player: "Screw you, Reality. I'm Taking my toys and going HOME"

They think they are the "best player evah" and lose their minds when reality proves otherwise.

Kei1431 votes

heh, you need to tell her that she can get an S grade through CSing, damage to champions and vision score.

I got and S grade before with a 7/4/11 support zyra with 110 CS or so.

Mordius2 votes

lack of game knowledge.

The only way they know how to win is to snowball after first 5 minutes. They never learned, or cared to learn, how to come back after a 2 death handicap.

HavokDash1 votes

Exactly, add into that the eagerness of this community to label ANY death as "intentional feeding" You go 0/1 and the first thing the team will jump to is "/all: report X for intentional feeding"

So What point is there to keep trying when the perfectionist teammates will burn you alive at the stake for daring to fall to the enemy even ONCE and ruin the "perfect game" they were invisioning

Mordius1 votes

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Exactly, add into that the eagerness of this community to label ANY death as "intentional feeding" You go 0/1 and the first thing the team will jump to is "/all: report X for intentional feeding"

So What point is there to keep trying when the perfectionist teammates will burn you alive at the stake for daring to fall to the enemy even ONCE and ruin the "perfect game" they were invisioning

honestly, just mute them and keep playing.

Kei1431 votes

cos they bad and don't know how to play macro.

Can't remember which YouTube video it was, but someone did say that the difference between the plats and bronze were mainly laning and team fighting mechanics. The macro strategy level is around the same.

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