Boards›Player Behavior

I constantly feel guilty for my teammates actions.

Peppercorns·4/26/2016, 4:33:05 PM·1 votes·405 views

Being a support main, there is a lot on our shoulders. I can secure kills, save my carries and defend objectives. However, we are all human, and we all mess up sometimes. That's natural. However, I feel extreme guilt when ever something wrong happens in the game, even if it's out of my control. For example, I miss a few thresh hooks in a row. ADC starts calling me trash. I'm used to that. I land a hook on the fed Darius in a teamfight and pull him directly into my carry. Ooops. That's 100% my fault, and I start to feel more guilt for that, rightfully so. However, when the ADC and jungler try to 3v5 with me to secure a dragon when i'm just a measly bard, what can I do in that situation? My ult was on CD, I can only stun 2 people (which I did) and have a decent single target heal. Needless to say, both the JG and ADC die in dragon pit and I'm sitting in our blue buff pit bawling my eyes out because I thought that the reason we lost that was my fault alone, despite the fact that up until that point I was making decent stuns and ults. It often gets to the point where my intense feelings of guilt and self blame often cause me to leave games out of pure shame or self induced humiliation. TLDR: People do stupid stuff out of my control and I blame myself for it. Don't know how to stop this.

2 Comments

MercRydias4/26/2016, 4:43:17 PM2 votes

Fellow Support main here. I know exactly what you mean. Supports are a pretty easy target to blame. My best advice is to just not give a shit. Literally, just analyze your gameplay afterwards, if you have some kind of lol replay system. If you can point out your own mistakes, or what you can improve on, you can then discern whether or not it was justified. If you can recognize your own mistakes, and actually WANT to improve, you won't feel guilty for making "mistakes", because you now realize what actually IS A MISTAKE, and what isn't. Landing an Ult on "only" 2 people might not even be an issue. Sometimes that's all you can safely and reasonably do. I literally don't even respond or care if my ADC flames me for a "mistake" I didn't actually make. It just takes getting used to and a proper mindset.

Astôlfo4/26/2016, 7:07:35 PM2 votes

You don't need to beat yourself up over their shittalking. Literally just ignore them. If you did the best you could, that's all one could ask for. Just evaluate your own mistakes yourself calmly later and then consider whether there's anything to improve on. You don't need people shitting on you to get better.