Kill Stealing Truths

Azitu MuerteLuna·11/13/2016, 3:23:11 PM·6 votes·2,194 views

Listen, read, comprehend. Kill stealing is a real term used to describe real events. This is a team based game. If you steal kills from your adc and you're the support that's not good. If you go to aid your adc in killing someone and the adc dies, you are not kill stealing. In fact they might not have been able to get the kill or the assist at all if it weren't for you. Kill Stealing is a bad thing when you go out of your way to do it. It causes the adc or carry to lose money and consequently lose the match for the team even if you are a carry of sorts.

However if you are helping a lane who got ganked and would be dying otherwise or does and then that person wants to get rageful just tell em Kill Secured and watch them get so mad they start dying and lose the game for the team.

Seriously. Get a better attitude about teamwork fundamentals and maybe LoL will have a community worth playing with.

28 Comments

Der Lindwurm2/8/2018, 7:01:40 AM3 votes

Kills belong to the team. No, you shouldn't go out of your way to snatch a kill for yourself, especially on an enemy who's clearly about to die anyway and you could be using your abilities to engage and contain more enemies. But, if things get really crazy and no one can afford to hold anything back, there's no sense getting upset about the fact that someone other than you got the kill.

Zelorxon11/13/2016, 3:49:29 PM3 votes

PSA: LEAGUE OF LEGENDS IS NOT CALL OF DUTY, KILL STEAL IS NOT A CONCEPT THAT APPLIES IN LEAGUE OF LEGENDS.

woodvsmurph11/13/2016, 6:49:05 PM2 votes

You should probably be more specific about how it was "going out of their way" to ks. Ex: you had 1 auto left on enemy and were clearly going to land it, but your support flash ignite autos to steal it. That would be ks of the bad kind. Or, you were dueling lvl 3 in your bot lane 2v2 and both adc's were about to die. You probably could have landed killing auto on enemy adc, but your support landed a stun/flay/hook and auto to finish off the adc before you landed your final spell/auto. This is not ks. Similarly, enemy bot is fleeing to tower with 1 hit from dead. You are in range to flash auto and your support is too. You both flash auto, but support lands auto first and gets the kill. This is not ks. You should actually be happy with the support in those situations -- they were trying to save your life in "ks scenario 2" and they were trying to secure the kill while saving you from having to burn flash (which you may need to escape a gank later) by flashing to get the kill so you could still keep flash up. Thus in the 2nd and 3rd scenarios, the support is actually being a good support. Also, you have to realize depending on your elo/rank that most supports are treated like shit or at best ignored and unrecognized (when they play amazing and get their teammates fed or save their asses at cost of the support's life) most games. And if they are not ignored for that, they are flamed. Ex: jungler or mid makes stupid invade... support sacrifices him/herself to save them; support called noob/idiot feeder. Support expertly harasses enemy bot and sets up nice engage onto them 2v2 and lands his adc a kill where all adc had to do was land a point-n-click spell and a few autos. Support does this a few times and adc starts thinking they are a god while never thanking their support. Support pings fed enemy mid or jungle is coming to gank after they are both half hp pushing enemy tower due to winning said 2v2. Either: support backs off while adc ignores and dies, then flames support; or support stays, saves stupid adc who refused to back to safety in time and support dies to save stupid adc and support gets flamed. When supports get games like that all the time, yeah many of them will ks even when they wouldn't have to. Put yourself in their tier 2 mobi boots for a bit and try to imagine life from their perspective.

DemothHymside11/13/2016, 4:52:52 PM1 votes

I once got super fed as Sona, mainly because my ADC couldn't follow up on anything I was doing, and would allow super low health enemies to retreat, so eventually I would flash Q for the kills he wouldn't get.

By mid game, I killed a mid lane Kat with an AA, Q, power chord AA, and helped our top lane get super fed. We won by a landslide despite our ADC bitching that I didn't get him fed.

ph1234k11/13/2016, 3:47:37 PM1 votes

As an ADC main (although I am trying to switch to a Mid main for this upcoming season), I rarely ever see actual kill steals. That is not to say my supports don't end up getting kills, but I don't see them going out of their way to do it. It is usually just necessity or accident which I expect in my elo anyways.

Stealing all the kills from the ADC can definitely make the game a bit harder however the vast majority of the time this doesn't happen and the kills that I don't get do not hinder me in performing my duties.

I have had the odd game where we have a Braum who got 8 kills in lane while I got 1 but again, this is not common

Kei14311/13/2016, 8:13:10 PM1 votes

if my adc can't CA well, and positions horribly most the time, I'm more inclined to take the kill as support. Esp when I'm playing a kill support like zyra.

LetsGoJoeMyBro11/14/2016, 3:05:34 AM1 votes

I mean if they're just standing right next to you waiting to last hit every single time, then you should report them for feeding. But if they don't mean to like on accident then let it slide.

ZenDaDemon2/8/2018, 6:53:12 AM1 votes

I see this is an old thread but to be fair if someone intentionally takes the kills and then trolls the team by not split pushing team fighting or in general being useful u cannot say that the assist gold helps its the equivalent of giving someone a sandwich on a single slice of bread when they havent eaten all day and you yourself Hiding all the rest of the food in the house even though ur not hungry

oSEXYPLATYPUSo11/13/2016, 3:52:09 PM1 votes

people want to be able to 1 vs 1 everything regardless of their champ/build they all are worried about their personal KDA and how it PROVES THEY CARRIED (not) and THEY WANT TO GET THEIR S+ cuz they feel that if they dont they are getting cheated