What do you do when teammate blames you and you want to avoid tribunal punishment?

hotdogsaregud4ya·9/17/2018, 8:26:27 PM·1 votes·1,792 views

---Story So I just had a game where we were winning and it's really late into the game. It was me fiora and warwick at top, we just took top tower. After taking top fiora gets into a fight while doing golems and she tries to 1v2 but dies. Then me and warwick were already walking away when suddenly, I see warwick walk back in and ults in while 4 of them are visible top. Our ziggs is just about to respawn and jinx is splitting bot lane. The smart thing was to just walk away and that's what I did. I walked away from the fight seeing that 4v2 and warwick ults in is a bad idea. After he dies, he gives me the mass "missing ping" where players spam it when they are mad at you or see you do a bad play. I tell him, it was a 4v2 so hell no im not doing that. He then replies "You could have done something instead of just taking cs that I needed". Basically, me helping shove lanes late game, helping to take towers, and taking some cs while he does as well while we both are shoving is a bad thing? I tell him you went in on 4 people after fiora just died.

---Questions I've been reported and have gotten in trouble before and once I submitted a ticket and was told by a riot employee in the response that I shouldn't be pointing out people's mistakes. I totally understand that always pointing out every tiny mistake won't make someone play better. But what about if they don't know what they are doing is bad like constantly fighting their laner in an all in fight even after being 0/3? What if they yell at you that you aren't helping because you don't choose to suicide with them in an unfavorable fight like a 2v4? Do you just go in and die so that the teammate thinks at least you tried in an unwinnable scenario? Or do you walk away and let them get mad at you and so anytime they see you getting attacked, they just let you die after that? Or they tell the team or all chat to report you and then everyone starts playing where your teammates let you die and the enemy teammates mainly focus you? Because both scenarios seem to be unfavorable. I much prefer talking it out and telling that player who is blaming me and yelling at me that I didn't leave him to die like a troll, he made a mistake and i will tell him his mistake so he can understand and that i wasnt going to go suicide with him in a 2v4 just so he could feel good and not feel like he died alone.

---What do you do in this scenario? a. point out the mistakes and tell that it was a bad idea b. ignore or mute the player yelling at you and continue to play but potentially face teammates leaving u to die on purpose by not helping you when the enemy is engaging on you c. other (input your own idea)

18 Comments

AeroWaffle9/17/2018, 8:29:38 PM5 votes

a) The most important part here is how you explain your decisions. If explaining your actions involves insulting them you're better off doing b)

Not only because there's possibility of being smacked by the punishment system for insulting people, but also because insulting them is not likely to change their mind about anything. They'll likely just dig in their heels and play less like a teammate.

ModThe Djinn9/17/2018, 8:47:08 PM4 votes

What do you do in this scenario?

"I wasn't confident I could assist without just giving up a free kill, and I didn't have time to second-guess myself and still help. Sorry!"

AJStarhiker9/17/2018, 10:20:19 PM3 votes

I don't answer. Too often, it leads to arguments over tactics. Not worth my time or the distraction of splitting my attention between chat and play.

MrFawknSunshine9/17/2018, 8:32:32 PM3 votes

cant get banned for what you dont say

Kei1439/17/2018, 10:20:26 PM3 votes

In the scenario where they keep making mistakes (like missing CS under tower), I ask them for permission to give them a tip.

If they say yes, I'll try to keep it short and concise once. If they don't understand what I'm trying to say, I ask them if they are willing to stick around after the game so we can discuss it when we aren't in the heat of the moment.

If they don't agree to the tip, I just shut up and do my own thing.

In your scenario where they are already blaming you for their mistake (in this case, lack of map awareness), I'll tell them that I saw 4 coming up and fiora died around there, so I'm not going to go into 2v4. For the CS, I'd explain that it was fine to share some CS initially, but my decision immediately changed after I saw them coming top.

Alzon9/17/2018, 8:27:01 PM2 votes

Cool story.

What Tribunal?

Chermorg9/17/2018, 8:47:00 PM1 votes

They didn't ask for you to coach them, especially if it means constantly telling them they're wrong.

CharDeeMcDenniz9/18/2018, 10:14:37 AM1 votes

c) mute everyone, play game, report dbags after game

Eleshakai9/21/2018, 12:48:09 AM1 votes

By this point they've already made it clear that they have no good-will towards you... so just keep quiet, play out the game as best as you can, and move on to the next one.

(reworded post to make it sound less like I'm blaming you, since that was not my intent)