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How do you protect your KDA *AND* not violate summoner's code in this situation?

WalterSobchek·8/9/2016, 11:51:24 AM·4 votes·929 views

Here's the situation. It's 8 minutes into the match and you are 4/0 in lane. The other lanes are starting to lose and the Zed mid decides he's had enough and ragequits, disconnecting. The Hecarim jungle, seeing what Zed has done, decides he's done too and will walk around on the fountain platform until the game resolves. This is all by 8 minutes. By 14 minutes the ADC decides she's had enuff and will mimic the jungler's behavior.

How do you continue from this point trying to protect your stats for your champion but -ALSO- not violate summoner's code.

Here are the options:

  1. Play as normal tryharding in a 2v5. This is both not fun and won't end with anything but your stats being rekt. If the enemy team decides to run up the score instead of ending fast you can get really ruined as you are waiting for at least the 20 minute mark to forfeit, and if you are being trolled by intentional AFK who vote no on the surrenders you could be in for as much as another 10 minutes or so.
  2. Follow suit and AFK like the others. This one is a summoner's code violation and a potential punishment.
  3. Build tank and try to ride out the storm. This one could get you flagged for building troll items and ultimately result in punishment for griefing.
  4. Ask other team to end plz. I heard this is against the rules too and could get you flagged for assisting enemy team.

I was in this kind of game today and honestly didn't know what to do. It's not just the players here, it's a toxic game system design that leads to situations like this.

21 Comments

Oleandervine8/9/2016, 12:46:59 PM5 votes

Your stats are meaningless. If you do terrible in one game, it's not going to absolutely ruin your averages. Being so concerned about stats is only going to stress you out too much, and clearly you are concerned with being reported. If you walk on eggshells too much, you're going to burst under pressure in a bad game where you do get wrecked, and most likely say things you'll regret. So improve your performance each game, but don't stress over your KDA. KDA doesn't actually show skill, and even a death can contribute to the team and might even be a good play late game if your death leads to your team scoring an ace.

Randomonium8/9/2016, 11:58:31 AM2 votes

Wave clear to the best of your ability, don't push up without vision, and if the enemy team moves to contest an objective you have to give it to them. Its just like if there are 5 people bot lane and your team isn't there to help. Get away from the tower, staying will only guarantee your death. It may feel like you aren't doing much but it is literally all you can do in a 2v5.

Kei1438/9/2016, 1:34:23 PM2 votes

point # 3 isn't punishable.h

and why the heck do you need to protect your KDA?

Pew Pew Lasers8/9/2016, 1:24:21 PM1 votes

Just farm and passively assist the enemy win by not stopping them to avoid pointless deaths. They are going to win anyways in a 2v5. 4v5s are hard enough to win. Not a whole lot a top/support can do against a whole team. The usual problem is trying to surrender with fountain campers as they will not vote or vote against surrender trapping you in the game. So just letting the enemy team take towers and win is your only real choice to avoid being trapped in a losing game.

The enemy will notice the mia's and may report them. Dont say/imply to report them cause thats harassment.

I usually ask when on the enemy team where X is if I havent seen them for 5+ minutes because even a farm jungler pokes their head out once in a while after lvl 6. Even if its an easy win I dont like afks ruining a game by making it easy. I'd go play against bots if I wanted easy mode.

D3m37r18/9/2016, 12:06:42 PM1 votes

You explain the situation to the enemy team in all chat then declare an open mid. After this you can either chill in the fountain or just go farm a sidelane while you wait. If it's a ranked game then there is no way the enemy won't push down mid

venomous frost8/9/2016, 11:58:53 AM1 votes

Tell the enemy team mid is open and try farming the jungle while running away from any potential fights. Just let them end the game and dont kill any minions

Maximum Morde8/9/2016, 12:03:02 PM1 votes

The first step is banning Zed so Zed can't afk in the first place. After that you need to chat with the support about how much you think they are an awesome person and try to find out more details of their life. If they live in your area you should consider meeting up for a beer at the pub, and maybe a game of cards.

P.S. As long as you are not a straight white male or solo queueing the summoners code doesn't actually apply to you.