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People are allowed to be bad.

Xanderhall··7 votes·752 views
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Foreward: I just came out of a normal, draft pick game where I got flamed from start to finish because I didn't give up the ADC role to someone who wanted it, and because I built incorrectly.

Excuse me for not following every ebb and flow of the meta and who's building what. Sorry that I miss some CS. I apologize when I make a misplay and end up getting ganked and die.

But that's my point. People are allowed to be bad. The only way to get better is to play the game. So telling someone to uninstall makes no sense to me from a logical standpoint.

And yet, in my last match, I got flamed for:

  • Not giving up the role I'd picked, and gotten placed in.
  • Taking the "wrong" keystone.
  • Not following up with "enough damage" when the Yi Jungle ran face first into the Leona/Ezreal botlane and lost 90% of his health in less than 2 seconds.
  • "Frontlining" when I'm at the edge of the fight, and "being useless" when I'm any further back.
  • Rushing IE. In all fairness, I haven't kept up with the meta builds, but another player nicely suggested a different build path in the end game chat. No need for flaming. (Betcha if I'd asked my team, I woulda been flamed for "Not knowing how to play my champ")

I've got to get better, and there's few ways to do that. I'm not playing bots, because it's not good for practice. I'm not playing blinds, because I want to play a certain position. I want to get better before I play ranked. I'm not uninstalling, because I want to play this game.

I'm going to keep playing and keep trying to get better, and if you've got a problem with that... well, in all seriousness, post something constructive. Or go play ranked and have a better chance at getting matched with people at your supposedly much higher skill level. Find something better to do than flame people who are trying to improve themselves.

10 Comments

KORGtuners3 votes

So telling someone to uninstall makes no sense to me from a logical standpoint.

Anger is an emotion. Angry people are not overly logical. Angry people tend to act illogically.

Stop taking the words of angry people so seriously. It will benefit everyone involved.

Xanderhall1 votes

That's not the point here. It's not about what angry people say. It's what they get angry over.

Why get angry over someone else not doing well? Why talk down to them and make them feel bad for trying to improve? No one goes into champ select angry. From the start, when the Lucian said "I got auto-filled but I'm going adc anyways" and I refused to roll over and give it to him, that might have made him angry. After the first time I messed something up, that might have made the others angry. But that's the whole point of this post.

Stop being angry at people who are trying to get better.

KORGtuners1 votes

Stop trying to understand angry people. Angry people are crazy.

Xanderhall1 votes

I am an angry person. I don't get angry for no reason. Even if it's something minor that makes me blow up, there's still something.

KORGtuners1 votes

Maybe you are getting angry because you try to figure out why a crazy person got angry?

If you can't prevent anger; try defusing anger.

Rákãñ2 votes

Eh? I see no problem with warlords on Caitlyn. Dunno why getting harassed by that though. Because this guide here uses that same mastery. http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/7-5-caitlyn-adc-in-depth-back-line-carry-470947

Your first back at 5 got yourself B.F. Sword and boots. Which is not bad for laning phase. So not doing enough damage statement from the player feels like he never played Caitlyn much to know how much damage she does at each stage of the game to well.

Most Caitlyn guides builds item 3085 or item 3031 first. Though, the more recent ones is item 3085. http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/caitlyn-guide

Your CS at 26 minutes is 85, is pretty bad. Don't forget to get your farm up, which should happen naturally when you push the waves into their towers. And you can always take a few jg camps mid to late game for some extra gold and exp to help out.

~ The only problems I see from that match history is that you need to Ward more often, get more CS in general, and also roam more often. I see all your kills and deaths is all along your base and bot lane. After 10-15 minutes try help pushing mid or top lane for a bit while keeping the bot lane minions pushed up into the towers when roaming.

Other problems from getting kills and deaths is mostly positioning, which you should naturally improve on as you play more. As a Ranged AD Carry, you want to stand behind your front liners/tanks. So they can soak up most of the skill shots or both of you kite it if is a skill shot from a Varus for an example. As it will go through the tank and hit you as well.

Rákãñ2 votes

Adding on, You did pretty well for having a feeding Ryze support.

AdeBug1 votes

I disagree that playing with bots for practice is useless. If you think they're too easy, try having beginner allies (no keystone) vs intermediate enemies (yes keystone), I had fun trying to win from 5v5 to 1v5 actually, with diff champs.

Xanderhall1 votes

And what does that teach you? How to win in an unrealistic situation against scripted opponents? I want to play the actual game, with actual people. Not learn the best way to game the AI.

AdeBug1 votes

I actually learned quite a few things myself, and you can never know what you get out of it, until you try it. I don't wanna spoil it for you, but in case you never do try it, here:

  • you practice certain champs, builds and summs in depth with no stress; not just the stress of doing badly or losing, while getting flamed, in your case; but the stress of being reported for trolling even in norms :|
  • once you get fed, you get used to it and going in on lower level enemies, not just cus you can, but cus you need to; in the rare cases I do get fed against human players, I often forget to do a level check and end up playing way too safe, not using the advantage I worked for
  • you practice carrying a lot, and it gets harder once you reduce the size of your team, reaching that 1v5, because that's what you need to do in order to climb - hard carry; you have to prioritize in various situations, saving your allies, or saving a turret etc
  • very few champs can solo baron; i tried it and failed miserably lol
  • vision is always important, even with bots; if a level 2 turret and beyond is low, they will switch lanes and group to get it, and you cannot count on allies to ping missing... yes, this happens with humans too, so, check minimap often and ward, the blue trinket is pretty neat, as you can place it infinitely

for that 1v5:

  • you cannot afford to die, maybe twice, idk the affordable limit yet
  • I learned that in order to hard carry, kills alone won't do, to defend all lanes you need high mobility champs like yasuo and trynda that can traverse the jg easily, cus tp is just on a too high cd, and ignite might work better to rack up kills
  • you also need to push a lane very fast and melt towers by your lonesome self, very few champs can do that; but again, it's easier if you're fed and you just aced them
  • underlining the word fast, the longer the game gets, the fewer chances of winning; preferably the game needs to end way before you hit 18, after that, you're capped but the enemies are catching up to you

there's prolly more :P

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